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While Sylvie has given up trying to find a source of power for the TemPad, she hasn't given up trying to get out of this place. Everyone tells her it's impossible, but she has to believe they just aren't smart enough to manage it, that they've become complacent, comfortable, and don't bother trying. She isn't going to stop, though. She can't stop. The rest of these people don't understand just how important it is that she get back to the TVA.

Her current plan, besides anything she might be able to manage with Walter's help, is to find a thin spot in Darrow. They have to exist. If she can find one, she'll be able to leave, slip between worlds, find herself a proper source of power for the TemPad she has tucked in her jacket, and make the bloody thing work again so she can have some hope of undoing what she's done in the first place.

Although, no multiversal war has come to Darrow just yet, which she has to assume is a good thing.

Still, she's trying. Dressed in a pair of stretchy black jeans, black boots, and a deep green shirt beneath her black jacket, Sylvie has traced a source of power to downtown Darrow and realized a little too late that she's sensing some other powered person in this place rather than something that can actually help her get out of here.

Too late because she's inside a dance club. Too late because she's already in the crowd, the music pumping, bass pounding, drunken idiots stumbling around, feeling each other up in dark corners and on the dance floor. Some big guy is nearly humping some poor girl who looks like she's barely able to stand and Sylvie steps hard on his foot and puts herself between them, then shuffles the girl back off toward her friends. This isn't why she's here. She isn't some do-gooder hero like Loki tries to believe himself to be. She needs to get out.

The big guy looks confused, but simply turns to find someone else to dance with. Which is when he sidles up next to Sylvie. He's smaller than the other man, his hair is dark, pushed back from his face, which is pale, with sharp angles, hollowed cheekbones, and for just a second Sylvie's heart skips in her chest.

But then the features resolve. Become someone else. Attractive enough, but not the man she was hoping for in that moment. Her gaze flicks over him, unimpressed, and then she pushes past.

"Hey, wait," he says, grabbing her wrist. "That was really cool of you, helping that girl."

"Let go of me," Sylvie says, wrenching her wrist from his grasp. He backs off a few steps, holding his hands up, then disappears into the crowd. And that's when someone grabs her from behind. Big hands on her hips, a warm body pressed against her back. It's all under the guise of dancing, but Sylvie's not an idiot, and she can feel every bit of the intention in the move. Without thinking, she throws an elbow back and it slams hard into a man's nose. Then she turns and a green blast of energy flies from her hand to his chest, plowing him back through the crowd on the dance floor.

A few people protest, but even then, almost no one has even noticed what's happened.

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By the time they reach the sofa, she's nearly entirely undressed and Bucky, as far as she's concerned, is still wearing far too much. It may only be his trousers, but she wants to see him, wants to touch him, wants to banish all thoughts of anyone else and lose herself in the simplicity of this moment, something shared between two people who know exactly what they're getting from this experience.

It isn't quite fucking at the end of the world, frantic and terrified, waiting for death, but it's exciting in its own way.

A strangled sort of groan slips out of Sylvie when he presses his fingers up inside of her and her thighs fall further apart, wanting more, wanting to feel him. One leg hooks around his thigh, trying to pull him closer, all the while her fingers dragging down his chest toward the waist of his pants.

This could be dangerous, letting him come to her place again, letting him inside, letting him put her in this vulnerable position, but Sylvie's of the mind she can probably kill him if she has to. Right now, his fingers pumping into her, her hands undoing his belt, his zipper, reaching for the hard outline of his cock through his underwear, she hopes it doesn't come to that.

They pull at each other with the sort of frantic desperation that Bucky has only encountered in his dalliances with men. There, the desperation was to quell a thirst without being caught, without acknowledging out loud what they were doing, to get it over with and go on their way.

This is desperation, but it isn’t like that. There is so shame here, no fear. Just two people who need to be touched, to spend some time feeling something other than everything else, and while Bucky knows that he can’t completely let his guard down with Sylvie, not with how mercurial she is, he hopes that this can just be good for both of them.

He kneels over her and kisses at her neck, biting like she had done to him, and places his cool metal hand over her breast, squeezing gently without thinking much about it. Once he realizes what he’s done, he pulls his hand away wordlessly, a little awkwardly, and works the fingers inside of her a little harder as if in apology.

He hasn’t had sex since he lost his arm, and he finds that he doesn’t really know what to do with it. He assumes that most people wouldn’t want to be touched intimately with a cold hand that could easily crush bone.

When her hand slides into his open jeans to grab at him through his underwear, he can’t help the strangled groan that he lets out. It’s been so long, and he’s so hard that he’s aching, so he reaches back with his prosthetic to shove his jeans and underwear down over his hips, feeling his cock spring free and brush against the soft inside of her thigh.

"Don't be an idiot," Sylvie says in a rough voice, reaching for Bucky's hand, the one made of cool metal, and replacing it where it had been. It had felt rather wonderful on her breast and she arches into it, into him and the fingers he has inside of her without another word.

He has two hands. That one is made of metal is of no consequence to her in this moment beyond whether or not it works, which is does. The contrast between the cool metal on her breast and the warm fingers inside of her is something rather spectacular and she whimpers in pleasure, grinding herself against him.

As he yanks down his pants, his underwear, Sylvie tilts her head so she can properly see, wanting to take it all in. His cock, like the rest of him, is rather gorgeous and she bites her lower lip, gaze flicking up to meet Bucky's as she gives him a little smirk, then takes him in the circle of her hand. His skin is hot, a little fire in the circle of her fist, and his cock is heavy, a delicious weight she hasn't felt in too long.

Her reaction makes Bucky huff out a breath that he hadn't realized he'd been holding, and when she grabs his metal hand to return it where it had been, his breath hitches and his arousal only grows. He doesn't mean anything to her, and he knows that. But she has done him a kindness, whether she knows it or not.

Bucky kisses her again, deep and messy as his cool thumb glides over her stiff nipple. He can't feel much with this hand, but he can sense the heat of her skin, how soft it is, and most importantly: how she twitches with pleasure when he pinches her nipple and gives it a little tug.

Sylvie grabs at his cock without a moment's hesitation, without acting prim or demure or clueless. She knows what she wants and she takes it in her fist, and Bucky finds that he likes that very much. It saves him a world of trouble.

He kisses his way down her neck, dragging his beard along her skin and over her breast, over her nipple, and he pulls it into his mouth, between his teeth, grunting with it held between them as she strokes at his cock.

Suddenly, he pulls his fingers free and uses his hand to press her thighs open wider, staring down at her wet, pink cunt as he pushes her hand away to take hold of his cock, feeling slightly crazed as he positions the head at her entrance and rolls his hips, gasping as he presses into her, burying himself to the hilt with one smooth thrust.

She has to keep her eyes open, she has to look at Bucky, remind herself who she's with, focus on the fact that he's here, he's strong and willing and what she needs in this moment. There is no one else right now, nothing else to allow herself to be distracted by, and when he takes her nipple between his teeth, Sylvie arches into his mouth with a gasp.

When Bucky pushes her hand aside, presses her thighs wider, Sylvie only tilts her head back and watches, eyes dark, waiting. He hadn't stuck her as a particularly mild man, but all the same, she isn't used to anyone feeling confident to push her around. A part of her wants to push back, just for the sake of it, but then his cock is sinking into her and Sylvie's lips part in another moan as she wraps both her legs around him again, pressing her heels into the backs of his thighs to press him deeper.

"Like that," she breathes, staring up at him. One hand winds into his hair, fingers pulling, not hard enough to hurt, but enough that he still knows she's calling the shots. At least, she likes to think she is.

Bucky hasn't been inside of another person since he was given the serum, and he has to take a moment to just breathe in deep and process the effect that it has on his heightened senses. It's nearly overwhelming, but he swallows hard and stares down at her, baring his teeth as she pulls on his hair.

He isn't used to feeling such adrenaline not during a fight, and he's once again relieved that this first time is with her, someone who can handle him when he feels a little out of control.

Swallowing hard, he reaches up with his good hand to brace it against the arm of the sofa, leaning in to give her another hard kiss as he starts to fuck her with deep, rolling thrusts, pulling nearly all the way out and pushing back in fast just to appreciate how it feels to sink into her, and how it sends his nerves alight.

She feels so good, but he doesn't tell her because she knows already. He's just glad that he settles into a rhythm quickly, panting against her mouth and biting at her bottom lip. If he were bad in bed, he's not sure that Sylvie would ever let him live it down.

At the end of the world comes a certain level of frantic desperation, people who want to feel one last thing before everything ends for them, and this is what Sylvie is used to. It's all she's ever had, men and women on the cusp of their own annihilation, most of them entirely aware of what's to come. The only kiss she's ever had that didn't come with an edge of death was the only she shared with Loki.

Until now.

It's a relief that she can feel Bucky's teeth, that his tongue is eager, meeting hers, because she doesn't think she would know what to do with something sweet. She meets the kiss in a clash of lips and tongues, gasping into his mouth, hips rolling in time with his thrusts, her legs locked around him in a powerful grip.

Then she's shoving at him, pulling him back by his hair, slipping away so she can push him into a seated position on the sofa. His cock slides free of her, but only for a moment as she climbs into his lap, getting on top with another grin, both her hands buried in his hair now so she can tilt his head back and he can watch her sink back onto his cock with a low moan.

When she pushes at him and yanks at his hair, there's a very brief moment where Bucky wonders if she's changed her mind somehow, in the middle of everything, but that isn't the case. She pushes and pulls and he goes where she puts him, because he has no reason not to, not when what he gets in return is the sight of her sinking down onto his cock.

They moan together, his hands tight on her hips as she pulls at his hair, and he puts his prosthetic hand at the small of her back to brace her as they move together, letting the other slide up to cup one of her breasts, squeezing and tugging at her nipple.

The sound that their bodies make as they meet is obscene, a wet slapping that sounds like a fist meeting skin only better, so much better, and Bucky lets out a low groan as he reaches up to push her hair back from her face, cupping the back of her neck to drag her in for a kiss that's as filthy as the sounds they're making, tongues meeting slickly as he thrusts up into her hard enough to jolt her body in his grip.

There is no soft touch, no delicate caress, and again, Sylvie is grateful. None of that is something she could deal with, not now, perhaps not ever. Softness has never existed for her, not for a very long time, and she would rather have something she can take understand than something she knows she would only shy away from. Were Bucky to show her something soft, she would kick him out.

It's the only way she knows how to be.

When he kisses her again, when he drags her into another kiss, she moans and then reaches for his hand again. It doesn't occur to her which one she's grabbing for, it's only that it's nearest, the one on her back, and she guides his fingers between their bodies to her clit again.

She doesn't care which hand it is, she only wants him touching her.

"Fuck," he pants out against her mouth, toes curling against the carpet as she bounces in his lap with a wild sort of abandon. There is no tenderness here, no affection or warmth, but that's okay. Better than okay, actually. Bucky would not know how to handle tenderness, he doesn't think. He doesn't deserve it.

But this, the two of them moving together like animals, with no purpose other than to satisfy an urge? That he can handle.

She grabs his prosthetic hand and Bucky is once again struck by how she isn't wary of it at all, even knowing what it can do, and that's before she shoves it down between her legs. Bucky groans, able to feel slick wet heat against his metal fingertips, sliding down until he can feel where his cock is pressing into her over and over.

When she breaks away from the kiss, Bucky makes his way along her jaw instead, biting and licking as he holds her by the back of her neck and rubs at her clit with quick, hard little circles. His grip of the back of her neck eases and he presses his hand between her shoulder blades instead, not wanting her to feel like she's being pinned down.

"I wanna feel you come," he says against her ear, low and raspy and ending with a gasp. He kisses her neck and then bites harder than he's dared before, dragging his tongue over the spot to soothe the sting, tilting his hips and thrusting up hard as he drags her down onto his thick cock, over and over again, like they've gone wild.

“That’s the idea,” she answers in a hoarse voice, a rough laugh tumbling out of her. The cool metal of his fingers on her clit is unusual, something new, and Sylvie hasn’t had many new things in her life, not after being alive for so long.

It helps that he knows what he’s doing. If Bucky were unimpressive, she wouldn’t have been overly surprised, because not many men know what they’re doing, despite what they seem to think. Bucky, though, seems to have taken getting her off as a personal challenge, one she’s grateful for, and she pushes herself against his fingers, his cock filling her, heat building in her pelvis, coursing through her.

She squeezes her muscles around him, making him feel even bigger inside of her, and she moans, head tipped to the side as he bites at her skin, as her nails curl under and press into his shoulder blades, leaving behind long red marks.

She laughs but it seems to be a satisfied sound, and Bucky is glad for that. If he can please even her, he must be doing something right.

He switches from his fingertips to the pad of his thumb, rubbing in quick little circles, more quickly than any human could. His other hand clutches at her hip, and he watches her breasts bounce as she works herself on his cock. It’s intoxicating and he thinks if it weren’t for the serum, he would have come by now.

But now he has stamina in all things, including this, so he just moans as she scratches him and thrusts up into her, trying to get just the right angle to hit that little spot inside of her.

Eventually he curls his arms around her and lifts her easily, as if she were weightless, and twists until she’s underneath him again, on her back as he shoves his cock back into her, snapping his hips hard against her, angling then up to try and find that spot that will drive her wild.

His metal fingertips return to her clit and he rubs in time with his quick, deep thrusts, groaning as he drops his face to the juncture of her neck and shoulder and bites down.

The metal hand on her was the right idea, she thinks, her head tipping back with pleasure, Bucky doing things she knows any human man likely wouldn't be able to do and she has to wonder how she's meant to find anything else quite this pleasurable in a place filled with humans.

Her grip on him tightens when he lifts her and she almost resists, almost pushes back not just with her true strength, but with her magic, too, and then she doesn't. She simply gives in, allows him to move her, knowing if she wanted to prevent it, she could. That's enough. That's everything. That knowledge is all she needs.

"Yes," she exhales as he fucks into her, his fingers still moving on her clit, that heat building and pooling and spreading through her. She uses her muscles, tightening around him before she relaxes and then Bucky does something, some thrust of his cock, some gesture with his fingers, and she's coming against him, clutching at Bucky's back with a cry of pleasure.

When Sylvie comes, Bucky feels a surge of pride and an unexpected wave of relief. It takes him a moment, but he thinks he gets it. He's still good at this, good at something from before, and it feels a little like he's gotten some tiny piece of himself back. It's something that was only his, something those assholes couldn't take from him, and it feels good.

Bucky works her through it, tipping his head down to open his mouth against hers because he wants to feel the sounds that she makes, swallow them whole. Once she seems to relax, Bucky slows his thrusts a little and slides his fingers away from her clit, gripping her hip instead.

"Do you like to be fucked after you come?" Bucky asks in a low, breathless voice, kissing along her jaw. He asks because he's curious, and he figures that she won't mind him being blunt. She isn't a girl that he has to drive home at the end of the night, naïve and easily scandalized. It's wonderfully refreshing compared to what he's used to.

In response, Sylvie hooks her leg around Bucky's hip, her heel digging into the meat of his ass, pressing into hard, warm muscle. She grins, another flash of teeth even as she tries to catch her breath.

"Make me come again," she all but orders.

He seems up to the task and even if he comes first before she does a second time, which she won't mind at all, she thinks the rest of him is perfectly capable. His stamina is impressive, probably linked to whatever life he's led that's given him such long life, the metal arm, turning him into the intriguing person he's become.

Her hands slide down his back, over more strong muscle, over the curve of his ass where she grips him impatiently, dragging him deeper inside her body again. "If you can," she challenges.

She challenges him, and Bucky feels an easy, almost cocky grin spread across his face, an echo of the confidence he had before everything went to shit. He just nods and then leans in for another kiss. When his dog tags slip down and fall against her chest, he reaches up to smoothly flip them over onto his back before turning that same hand to cover her breast, squeezing a little before pinching hard at her nipple, biting at her jaw as he gives it a tug.

It's only after she lets out another moan that Bucky lets go of her and sits up a little, planting one foot on the floor and grabbing onto her hips, pulling her down hard onto his cock. He lifts her hips from the sofa a little, holding her up so he can fuck into her at just the right angle. He can feel the heat growing low in his belly, licking up his spine as he stares down at her, watching her breasts bounce with each hard thrust of his hips.

"I think that I'm up for the job," he growls out, gripping her hips to keep himself buried inside of her, pressed in just right.

He really is good at this, more confident than any human as a right to be, and somehow that makes Sylvie like him a little more. When he lifts her hips, the angle of his thrusts changes, stroking against that perfect spot inside of her and Sylvie moans, head back against the cushion, sweat sheening her skin, grateful for every moment of this that empties her mind of the thing she can't stop thinking about otherwise.

This is how she's always used sex. The end of the world is a stressful time in which to live and it's all she's known for most of her life. Fucking is distracting. There has been long periods where she hasn't bothered, hasn't had the time or wherewithal for it, but now in Darrow, it seems like all she has is time.

She could come again just like this, she thinks, tilting her head to get a good look at Bucky. His muscles flex under his skin, almost glowing in the low light of the room, and she lifts her hand to run her palm over his abdomen, over the strong, tense muscles beneath. She grabs his hip, glides her hand back, over the curve of his ass, then between his cheeks, grinning another challenge as her fingers ghost between.

Her hand looks small against his stomach, but Bucky does not for a second thinks that she’s fragile or delicate. She’s lived in the trenches like he did, seen and done the worst of it all, and it’s a strange sort of comfort to know that they can distract each other like this.

Already, he’s hoping that this isn’t the last time. Not because of any feelings, but because this is so damn good. It’d be senseless not to do it again.

Her hand curves around his ass, down between his cheeks, and she grins up at him like she’s waiting to see how he’ll respond, and Bucky just gives her a wry grin in return. He’s never had a woman touch him there, but it’s happened. He’s been with men, had fingers pressed inside of him while a man was on his knees for him, but that’s it.

He’s fucked other men, but he’s never been on the receiving end. He wonders if perhaps he was subconsciously waiting for one man in particular, but that’s out the question now. That man made his choice very clear, and he was out of Bucky’s life before he ever came to Darrow.

Now, Bucky just gives Sylvie a smile that’s almost feral, leaning over her to brace one hand against the arm of the sofa, making it easier for her to touch him there rather than dissuade her. He kisses her again, another messy meeting of mouths, and groans as he fucks her harder, gripping her hip in his prosthetic hand hard enough that it may bruise.

“It’s been a long time but I’m no wilting flower,” he tells her breathlessly, nipping sharply at her bottom lip.

"No, you aren't that," Sylvie agrees, liking the growl in his voice, the hoarseness of it, the way something in his eye glints when he smiles at her. It has an edge of danger to it, or might if she were a regular woman, and while she's certainly not threatened by him, has no doubt of her ability to end him if things were to go wrong, she still appreciates it.

It's more interesting than most of what she'd find here, after all.

Her fingers aren't slick enough for this and Sylvie may be a great many things, she may have hurt any number of people, but she doesn't do something if there's no sense to it. She isn't going to hurt Bucky just for the sake of it, not when he's proving himself so completely here. Instead of pushing a finger inside of him, she just presses the pad of one finger against the tight ring of muscle, circling and teasing, pressing and then easing off before she moves to that place just between his asshole and his balls, the place she knows can undo a man if touched just right.

The nails of her other hand bite into his arm where she's holding onto him, arching her hips up into every thrust. Their mouths keep meeting, although it's hardly a kiss anymore, mostly teeth and tongue, gasping harshly, sharing air.

All of this is new in some way or another, but the press of narrow, feminine fingers between is legs is entirely foreign to him. Not in a bad way, however. In fact, he quite likes it, as evidenced by the groan he lets out against her mouth as she presses hard against that little spot behind his balls.

His hips jerk forward erratically and he lifts his head, swallowing hard as he drags his prosthetic hand from her hip to between her legs again, rubbing at her clit in quick little circles, thrusting into her in a way that he’d be hard-pressed to describe as anything but rough.

“Come again,” he growls out, somewhere between a demand and a plea, because he wants her to come first and he’s so close, so much so that he has to hold himself back. His fingers work a little faster, and he angles his hips to thrust in hard at just the right angle, nipping at her jaw with another strangled groan.

She almost refuses. Just being told to do something goes against everything she is and she almost stops everything right there, puts a hand against Bucky's chest and shoves him back.

But she realizes she's only being contrary. This is what she wanted, after all, she wanted this man to make her forget there's another one. She wanted to look at him, see him and only him, forget anything else and this is exactly what he's giving her.

He's being rough with her, enough that she may even bruise, though the marks will never last long. She likes that, too, likes that he's not playing, he isn't being the gentleman, and he isn't pretending not to like it when her fingers press into him. Sylvie has a certain amount of respect for that.

She's shined with sweat, gasping for air, and then he touches her clit again, still sensitive from before, and the orgasm almost explodes out of her. A green shimmer courses down her body, magic uncontrolled, and it rolls over her, over them both, adding to the pleasure she feels as she comes, everything rocking through her over and over.

That casual display of power should frighten Bucky, warn him off, but he finds himself wrapped up in it. It's like for the briefest moment, he feels her pleasure overlapping with his own and he cries out in shock and pleasure, too overwhelmed to hold off his own orgasm any longer.

Just barely, he manages to pull out of her before he comes, sending the splash of it across her inner thigh before sagging on top of her, gasping against her throat as he rides the wave of that pleasure and blinks the stars out of his eyes. He hasn't come like that since-- well, he's not sure that he ever has. This was something entirely new.

Bucky knows that there won't be any snuggling, no pillow talk or anything like that, and that's fine by him. Still, he rests on top of her for a moment, sliding his metal fingers from her clit to her hip, tapping them twice against her skin like he's tapping out of a fight.

Soon, he'll get up and leave, but right now he just takes a moment to enjoy the feeling of a warm body against his, both of them shivering with pleasure and breathing hard against each other's skin.

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It should concern her, she thinks, that she invites the collapse of his body against hers, the weight of him pressing her into the cushions at her back. Her hair is a mess, waves tangled, body damp, and she can feel where Bucky has come on her thigh, quickly cooling and so terribly human.

It makes her chest ache for a moment. The most human she's ever felt was with Loki.

Briefly, she lets her eyes close, lets her hand glide up and then down Bucky's back. His body isn't familiar to her at all, near a stranger, and she's grateful for that, too. It's better than allowing herself to grow attached to anyone, better than risking her heart in such a way. She'd be an idiot to let it happen again.

"Well, you really haven't forgotten how to dance," she says after a moment, voice still rough, but sounding sated.

Sylvie doesn’t immediately push him away, and Bucky finds himself grateful for that. This is good, too. Being close to someone, being touched with affection and not violence. Feeling hot breath against his shoulder and sweat against his skin.

He presses a lazy kiss to her neck, another to her jaw, and then lets out a rough chuckle at the comment. Pushing himself up, he kisses the corner of her mouth and then pulls away, sitting up on the sofa and looking over at Sylvie. His eyes travel the length of her, taking in her hair and her round breasts and her cunt, pink and puffy from how rough they were. She looks content and he’s sure that he does, too. It won’t last for either of them, he’s sure, but it’s nice to have a break from it.

“It helps to have a good partner,” he says in a rough, lazy voice of his own, smirking a bit as he reaches out to wipe his come from her thigh with his palm. He looks at the shiny mess of it and then grabs a tissue from the table next to the sofa and wipes it away.

“Feel free to call me if you ever want to dance again,” Bucky offers casually, leaning back against the sofa and pulling her legs across his lap, letting the thumb of his prosthetic glide along the inside of her knee as his eyes fall shut. There are scratches on his back, stinging from sweat, but he can already feel his body starting to heal them. “I’m sure I could find a spot for you on my dance card.”

She probably will, she realizes. Not that she can't go without, because she has in the past, longer than even Bucky, but then she'd had a mission. She'd had glorious purpose and now she has nothing. No chance of proper revenge, no chance of getting back to the TVA if the way her luck has been going so far is anything to go by, and no Loki.

She thinks she can be forgiven for needing a bloody distraction.

In response, she kicks him. Not hard, just a nudge of her heel against the muscle of his thigh before she lets her leg relax again. The sweat on her body is drying, cooling, and she can feel the pleasant ache of muscles that haven't been used like this in some time. Sylvie has a feeling she'll sleep well tonight, something that's been rare for her.

"I hate these stupid telephones," she answers instead of telling him she may well call. She thinks he's well aware of it already.