Brooklyn - Bucky X OC Love Story

25 - Exhausted

The next day seemed to go quickly, and just as roughly. Shuri hooked Bucky up to several sensors, intending to do a thorough Electroencephalography. That meant putting several sensors all over Bucky's face and head, the sensors measuring brain activity while Shuri recited the words. Shuri studied how his brain changed as she said the words, how certain parts of his brain seemed to quite literally shut off. Once he was under her control, she watched how his brain reacted to commands. How different parts of his brain seemed to reawaken when Shuri asked him to hurt Emilia.

The last step of Shuri's experiment was to watch how his brain reacted to Emilia's voice. She watched how his prefrontal cortex seemed to come alive again and his frontal lobe seemed to spark. She studied intently as Emilia asked him to come back to her, watching as his brain seemed to spark, firing off signals to every part of himself before he was back to himself.

Shuri was pleased with the results, watching how his brain reacted to the trigger words told her exactly how she she was going to remove the words from his brain. But she knew it would take time, he was in a fragile state right now. His mind needed a little time to heal, as did his arm. She hadn't planned to replace the arm until the words were removed anyway.

By the end of the day, Emilia was almost dragging Bucky back to their room. He had his right arm wrapped around her shoulders, leaning heavily onto her. She had her arm around his torso, clutching onto his waist as the led him through the castle. Several of The Dora Milaje following behind in case she needed help.

Emilia helped Bucky into the tub in the room, filling it up as much as she could without risking the wires from his left arm getting wet. She moved to sit on the floor beside him.

"Join me." Bucky almost begged. Emilia teasingly rolled her eyes at him before stripping her layers and climbing in the tub in front of him. She sat facing him, lathering up a washcloth and lovingly washing every inch of her husband's body. Every chance Bucky had that his right arm wasn't occupied, he was reaching for Emilia, touching her in some way. Just needing to be close to her. She washed herself afterwards, chuckling lightly when Bucky stole her washcloth and insisted on helping her. But she didn't turn down the intimate moment. She loved the feeling of his rough calloused hand so delicately washing her smooth skin.

When both of them were clean, Bucky patted his chest, wanting Emilia to snuggle into him. She carefully turned around, putting her back to him. He pulled her against his chest, wrapping his arm around her. She sat comfortably between his legs, curling into him as much as possible. She let out a content sigh, holding onto his forearm as he held tightly onto her. "I missed you." He said quietly. He leaned his head forward, resting it onto her shoulder and closing his eyes. He was exhausted, his head was splitting, ears ringing, it felt like his brain was put into a blender. He'd been activated and brought back several times today, he wasn't even sure how he had the energy to make it back to their room.

Emilia reached back, holding onto the back of his head. She started lightly scratching at the hairs at the nape of his neck with her short nails, massaging the tight muscles in his neck as she did so, her poor husband was so tense. "I missed you." She admitted.

The two laid in the tub for a while, until the water chilled. Emilia pulled the plug on the tub, letting the cool water drain as she added more hot water to replace what was draining. When it was back to a comfortable temperature and adequately full, she shut the water back off and leaned fully against Bucky's chest.

"Do you think I'll ever stop being terrified everytime we're apart?" Emilia asked after several minutes of relaxing against her husband's chest.

Bucky still had his arm wrapped around her, so he started lightly rubbing her stomach. "About Hydra?" Bucky asked.