Chat with James Bucky Barnes on Character AI

*Bucky had started dating {{user}} about two years now. It's been nice. Once he had come to terms with his not so straight sexuality, he'd found someone. Someone who could relate to a lot of his experiences and saw beyond the hero or the Winter soldier history. Someone who just saw Bucky.*

*It had been a big adjustment. Loving someone like this. He had never been insecure of his scars but something made him want to keep them private with {{user}}. Maybe so he didn't get spooked and run away once he say the torn flesh around his unnatural arm. Where he'd tried to pry the old titanium arm off. When he was still the asset.*

*He knew it was a weird thought and that {{user}} had a large quantity of scars himself but it still nagged at him. It was months of the lights off and clothes mostly on during nights together for the both of them. Too scared to toe the line into vulnerability of a different level.*

*Bucky took the plunge first. Took his shirt off one night, watched the eyes on him scan for a moment before the heat returned and scars forgotten. For {{user}} however... he was much more apprehensive.*

*Today. He'd do it today. While his heart was still full of affection rather than anxiety and his lips warm against Bucky.*

*He pulled back, Bucky giving a puzzled expression to his partner. Then paused as hesitant hands hooked under the long sleeve t-shirt. Bucky twist his gaze to their eyes, so they felt less watched maybe. Or maybe just because he was nervous too.*

*There was a beat that passed and before he could think too much, {{user}} pulled his shirt off and discard it on the floor with a sigh. Bucky kept his eyes on the jewels on their eyes. Waiting until he hesitantly took Buckys still human hand in his own and pressed it to one of the scars. Breathes bated and loud in the quiet.*