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His eyes immediately dart up to her face, and not far behind, his cheeks flush red the same as the tips of his ears. His gaze had slipped for a second, but it was a second too long and she was quick to call him out. Her . . . figure . . . was there in his periphery, contrast of skin against the darker clothes she wore making it relatively easy for him to know how much was exposed, in case his first glance upon arrival slipped his memory. 

      Bucky’s at the shop. Where else would he be ? Occasionally, he makes himself useful. He’s good for heavy lifting. He’s not bad with the machines either, if David talks him through it. He knows how moving parts work and he’s had to be resourceful over the years. Today, he’s got his custom Škorpion with him, in need of a clean and lubrication. He keeps to the back of the shop because he knows David doesn’t deal anymore and probably doesn’t need the kind of attention a guy messing around with restricted use guns in broad daylight would bring. 

      When he wanders out front to grab himself a bottle of water from the fridge is the first time he notices David. Sun looks good on him. Dirt and sweat and hard work looks good on him. Bucky pushes the fridge door closed slowly, then leans against it, still taking in the scene of David working steadily beneath the hood of an 80s Ford. Attraction wasn’t the first thing that happened between them, but it sure as hell had crept up on him over the months, starting pretty early on without rhyme or reason. Before the first time they’d fallen asleep next to each other, before the first time they’d made it to a bed. Not like that. He sighs. It’s never like that, is it ?    

Kai thinks himself a genius setting her loose upon those pitiful men. He had an inkling they wouldn’t know what to do against a woman like her, respect or not that he hadn’t deigned them the interest of meeting them himself; it was the more diplomatic move to have her handle the affair. His ego would get the better of him -- they both knew that. This arrangement allowed him to spend more time in his lab, something he ultimately preferred. 

“I take it you’re having plenty of fun with them.”