WinterIron one shots

Secretly Dating

Word count: 694

Summery: apart from pepper and Steve ( because they know everything about their friends) know about Tony and Bucky's relationship. When Tony is kidnapped, Bucky gets impatient with the search team and gets his boyfriend back himself.

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"I might have already told Pepper."

Bucky snorted. "Pepper doesn't count. Pepper knows how many nose hairs you've got, of course she knows who you're sleeping with."

"First: ew. Second: probably. And third: are you sure? I don't want you to think I'm ashamed of us. I'd shout it from the rooftops right this second if you wanted. Put on the suit and sky-write it. ...Huh, I wonder if I could actually—"

"Do not sky-write anything, Tony," Bucky sighed. Tony's fingers were twitching as if they were already calculating the best way to attach sky-writing aparatus to the armor, so Bucky laced their fingers together to stop him. "It's just... gonna be a circus when people start figuring it out. Barton alone will have a million smart-ass comments."

"Steve will make him be nice to us."

"You really don't know Steve that well, do you?"

"No?"

"No. Just... I want to have you to myself in peace and quiet for a little while."

"Okay," Tony agreed, snuggling closer, resting his head against Bucky's metal shoulder.

***

Bucky ran into the situation room, still fastening the new armor Tony had made him. "What's up?" he demanded.

Steve and Natasha and Bruce were already there. Bruce made sense, but how Steve and Nat got into their skin-tight uniforms so quickly, Bucky had no idea. It was beyond— "Wait," he said, as Bruce's answer finally registered. "Say that again?"

"Tony's been kidnapped," Bruce repeated. He wasn't looking at Bucky, his hands already fast at work on the three screens in front of him. One of them appeared to be security footage from the fundraising event Tony had been at.

When Clint came in and Natasha filled him in, Steve took advantage of their distraction to give Bucky a sympathetic look. "We're gathering our intel as fast as we can," Steve said. "As soon as we have something definite—"

"Screw definite," Bucky snapped. He snatched the screen away from Bruce, ignoring the scientist's protest, and narrowed his eyes at it. The constant low simmer of knowledge and skills he'd never wanted came to a sudden hot boil as Bucky scanned the footage, absorbing layout, cover, faces, shapes... His vision flared white for an instant when he saw what he was looking for, and then he was gone, unheeding of Steve and Natasha calling after him.

***

"You're sure this is the worst of it?" Bucky demanded, pushing Tony's hand aside so he could clean and bandage the minor wound on Tony's temple.

"Yeah," Tony said. "You were in the compound before they even had a chance to get started. All I had to do was sit and watch the show." He ran his hand down the front of Bucky's chest. "The very sexy show."

Bucky snorted and closed the first aid kit before tossing it onto the far side of the couch. "You're not going to any more of those things without me there to protect you," he said.

"Is that so?" Tony asked with a proprietary smile. "What if I just don't go to any more of those things, period, and you and I stay here and do something more fun?"

Bucky laughed and pulled Tony into his lap. "What did you have in mind?"

"Well..." Tony leaned down to whisper in Bucky's ear, except he wasn't whispering anything, just nibbling and licking, and oh, that was nice right there—

"Where the hell did you— Oh. Oh. Well, that explains a lot," Natasha said from the doorway.

Bucky startled, but Tony just hummed and started sucking at Bucky's neck.

"We, uh—" Bucky started. Bruce was right behind Natasha, his eyebrows climbing toward his hairline.

"Oh god, my eyes!" Clint groaned from somewhere in the ceiling.

Well. It was out now. Might as well take advantage. "Fuck you, Barton," Bucky said, and captured Tony's chin in his metal fingers, lifting his face for a kiss