Taken. (A Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes story)

Chapter 12

Three months later

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Every morning at exactly 2:00 AM Lily would wake up crying from either a full diaper or hunger. For three months Steve and Bucky would take turns changing her diaper or feeding her then putting her back to bed. The crying from the baby monitor was impossible to ignore. 

"Your turn, Bucky." Steve groaned, half awake into his pillow. He rolled over and shoved Bucky's shoulder. "Come on, wake up."

Bucky groaned and sat up, he threw the covers off and shuffled across the hall to Lily's room "Hey baby girl, what's wrong this time." He lifted her up from the crib and held her in front of his face trying to smell anything. "Well, you don't need a diaper change this time. How about we go make you something to eat." Bucky propped Lily on his left hip and walked to the kitchen. She still hadn't started eating solid food yet so he had grabbed the formula and started mixing. Both Steve and Bucky had become experts at doing stuff with only one hand, Lily was always wanting to be held so one of them was almost always holding her. While Bucky was mixing he sang an old Russian lullaby to Lily.

"Tilli tilli bom, close your eyes now, someone's walking outside the house, and knocks on the door. Tilli tilli bom, the night birds are chirping, he is inside the house, to visit those who can't sleep. He walks. He is coming. Closer." He looked down and saw her asleep against his chest, he grabbed the bottle and went to sit down, he knew she didn't understand any Russian, she hardly understood English, but she liked the song and went to sleep every time Bucky sang it to her. He laid back on the sofa with her asleep on his chest and fell asleep.

Bucky woke up to Daisy licking a giggling baby. He sat up, still holding Lily, and scratched Daisy behind her ears. Bucky leaned forward, gaining momentum to stand, and got a whiff of something unpleasant coming from Lily. "I guess it's time for that diaper change." He walked back to her room and set her on the changing table, undoing her onesie and then her diaper. "Ugh, this is so gross." Bucky wrapped up the soiled diaper and tossed it in the bin. He turned around to grab some wipes and saw Steve leaning in the doorway smiling at him.

"That was really cute what you did last night." Steve walked up and stood next to Bucky as he cleaned Lily and put her new diaper on. "The way you sing to her, she loves it." Steve wrapped his arms around Bucky's waist as Bucky put a new outfit on Lily and picked her up.

"When she's older I'll tell her the translation, she won't love it so much then." Bucky smiled down at her and started swaying back and forth, Steve swaying with him.

"Will you sing it in English for me?" Steve said against Bucky's neck.

"Tilli tilli bom, close your eyes now, someone's walking outside the house, and knocks on the door. Tilli tilli bom, the night birds are chirping, he is inside the house, to visit those who can't sleep. He walks. He is coming. Closer." Bucky turned around in Steve's hold and looked at his shocked boyfriend. "Pretty dark huh?"

"Yeah, that's a lullaby? Who thought that was a good idea?" Steve looked confused and horrified. He looked down at Lily who was smiling up at him. "At least she likes it. I personally think it's terrifying."

Bucky laughed and laid his head against Steve's shoulder and kissed his neck, eliciting a moan from him. "You think Lily will be okay by herself for a while?" Steve asked, panting.

Bucky looked down and saw her asleep. "She'll be fine." Bucky gently set her down in the crib and drug Steve to the bedroom.

"It's been to long." Steve said, his lips moving deftly from Bucky's lips to his chin and then down to his neck, nipping the skin then running over it with his tongue. Bucky moaned in response and started untying the draw string on Steve's pants. Steve took the hem of Bucky's shirt slipped his hands up his chest, taking the shirt with them.