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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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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.

The kick makes Bucky let out an amused huff and lift his head, eyes opening as he curls his prosthetic hand around the top of Sylvie’s foot where it meets her ankle, rubbing there as he lets out a soft sigh, one born from contentment.

He keeps touching her with this hand, perhaps solely because she’s allowed it. She’s never shied away from it, not once, and Bucky isn’t quite over the novelty of using it to touch another person.

“They do come in handy,” he murmurs, twisting a bit to spot a stack of sticky notes and a pen on the table next to the sofa. They might have come with the apartment, because he can’t really imagine Sylvie doing something as mundane as buying sticky notes. Bucky grabs at them and scrawls his phone number and initials on the little yellow paper. After peeling it off from the pad, Bucky reaches over to stick it to her stomach.

It leaves the ball in her court, but that’s fine. Bucky isn’t the most secure person these days, but what they just did was good. Very good, even, and there’s no reason to not do it again.

Bucky slides his good hand along Sylvie’s thigh and then gently lifts her legs to slide out from beneath them, standing up and stretching his arms over his head as he looks down at her as she lounges on the sofa.

“Careful, someone might think you’re capable of relaxing,” he teases, smirking at her before turning to scoop up his jeans and underwear.

"Good thing there isn't anyone here but you," Sylvie retorts, making no effort to get up from the sofa. Bucky is collecting his things to leave, which is the right move for him to make and Sylvie is glad she doesn't have to kick him out on her own. There will be no canoodling, nothing of the sort, that isn't her style, especially not with someone with whom there's nothing more than a physical attraction.

Not much more anyway.

She has a rather firm suspicion they've both used one another for something tonight, something besides sex, and she's perfectly comfortable with that. Bucky owes her nothing and she hopes, whatever he needed from her, he got it. She certainly did.

With her head tipped against a cushion, she watches him get dressed, appreciating the view. The note with his number stays where he's left it, stuck to the still slightly damp skin of her abdomen. To put it elsewhere would indicate too much one way or the other. It would make her seem either too eager or too disinterested and Sylvie doesn't want to leave either impression.

The entire time that he's getting dressed, Bucky can feel Sylvie's eyes on him, lingering and appreciative. Turnabout is fair play, so he turns to look at her as he buttons his jeans and pulls his shirt over his head, letting his gaze sweep over her body. She's so comfortable in her nakedness, more than any woman he's been with.

Grabbing his boots, he sits down at the edge of the sofa just next to her hip, leaning over to pull on his socks and shoes, turning to look at her as he does up the laces. None of this is awkward at all, and Bucky is glad for that.

He stands up and looks down at her with a small smile, deciding not to tell her to call him, because that's probably the quickest way to do the opposite. Instead he just leans down to give her a quick peck on the mouth, dragging the tip of his metal index finger down the center of her chest, between her breasts and down to the post it note on her stomach, tapping twice before letting his hand fall away.

"Thanks for the dance," he tells her with a smirk, stepping away from her to pick up his leather jacket and pull it on. It's amazing how much lighter he feels, even if it is only temporary. It's a few hours of relief, and for that he's grateful. "I'll see you around."

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