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Who: Brock Rumlow & Steve Rogers
When: After Soul bond - Timeskipping to Post-TWS
What: Rumlow and Steve deal with the shitty fall out of being stuck together after all that crap went down. They might even have sex for once.
Warnings: Maybe sex?


[He'd kissed Steve once after the Lemurian Star mission, but they'd made it no further than that in the year that they had known they were bonded. There were close calls, frustration and more than his share of horrible hard-ons that always seemed to appear whenever Steve walked into the room with him. They had gotten worse too, and the painful resistance only made his blood run hotter for the national icon.

No one knew about them.

And then HYDRA had been exposed, Insight had been destroyed, the new world order set to bring about peace in shambles and Brock Rumlow found himself confined to a hospital bed under going more skin grafts than he thought he had skin for. Like everyone involved in STRIKE and HYDRA, his name had been blown right open with some of the missions he had done, some of the missions where he had aimed the asset to set the world on a set future. Well, like his skin, everything had burned.

Steve, good guy that the man was, hadn't decapitated him. Most of their meetings involved asking him for information or sitting in silence with only the soft beep of machines their music. He hadn't apologized, not for any of it. It hadn't been personal, though he recognized that the only reason he was staying out of jail or worse was because of Steve's influence and the fact he was set to be the poor bastard's soul bond. Good guy, Rogers... too bad they stood on opposite sides of the scale.

So he'd recovered and mostly looked the same, though the scarring was evident in certain light or if he ever got wet. His life's work was gone in flames, and the only reason that he didn't kill himself was because of Steve. Even as unbonded as they were, he knew at this stage in the game the ripping of a compatible soul - which was laughable at best - would probably reduce Rogers to shambles for a little while. So he didn't; his one perhaps non-selfish act so far. He hoped Rogers didn't plan for more because he wasn't giving any more.

He also totally had it bad for Steve now that he had a body that wasn't about to fall apart on him. He had, by now, given up trying to hide his attraction. It was pointless. He'd either bone the guy soon or eat that bullet he was owed.]

Comments

LMAO the warning tho. MAYBE SEX??? MAYBE?? it's a mystery

[geriatric]

[ He'd heard that an extreme betrayal could actually break pre-existing bonds. That if something so awful were to happen like that, it'd snap it in two and you'd have two halves of a whole. It sure as hell felt like it when he realized he'd been played this whole time. It didn't matter they'd kept things quiet - Natasha'd figured it out quickly enough, and when everything went down, she'd only squeezed his shoulder long enough for him to know what she meant by it.

Sam knew, too, arguably. He might not've known who, but he knew enough to know that when SHIELD fell, whoever Steve'd met was HYDRA. For a bit, he'd hoped it was Sharon, but he'd realized that wasn't true not long after and Steve hadn't said a single word about it.

After the fight, after he'd finally escaped his own hospital bed, and gone to see Rumlow, and well. That was indication enough for everyone else to figure it out, as far as Fury, Sharon and Sam went. He hated the pitying looks he'd gotten at first, and steered the subject as far away as he could. He couldn't just stay away from Rumlow; they'd tried that. While this arguably should have broken the bond, it hadn't and it wasn't like Steve could do much about it short of killing him, but the bond wouldn't let him do that, either. So they were stuck in limbo. Steve wouldn't go to prison with him, and Rumlow couldn't get sent to prison without it negatively effecting Steve, so they were left with the equivalent of house arrest, with Steve standing in Rumlow's kitchen, arms crossed, lips pressed in a thin line. ]

What were you going to do? If I found out before everything happened?