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Bucky let out a low whistle. “Lookin’ nice over there, Wilson,” he said, unabashedly checking Sam out from top to bottom. Sam was wearing a black tuxedo with shiny black loafers and Bucky apparently liked what he saw.
“Will you quit checking me out?” Sam warned the other man but there was no heat behind his words.
“What? Can’t a husband check out his husband?” Bucky asked with a wink, as he moved to stand beside Sam.
“He can if the marriage is real,” Sam replied. “Now stop playing and get serious.”
“I am very serious about this marriage, my love,” Bucky told him. “Now come on, let’s exchange our rings.” He took out a ring from his pocket and held out his hand for Sam’s, but Sam rolled his eyes and took the ring from him and popped it on his finger. He then gave his ring to Bucky.
“Not that we needed to do that,” Sam grumbled under his breath.
“You break my heart, Wilson,” Bucky commented, putting a hand on his chest.
“So Seth Wyndham….” Sam ignored him. “We just need to keep an eye on him. Get any information we can. This is just an observation mission.”
“Why are you repeating yourself?” Bucky asked.
“I have to because you seem to always go off tangent and get us in trouble,” Sam replied.
“When did I ever do that?” Bucky asked, clearly taking offense to Sam’s statement.
“Too many times for me to count,” Sam replied. “Now come on. Let’s go inside.” He linked his arm with Bucky’s and smiled as he led his “husband” into the hotel. They went up to the ballroom, and Sam spotted their target pretty quickly.
“There,” Bucky gave a subtle towards the target.
“Yep. Saw him,” Sam replied under his breath.
Sam and Bucky mingled with the crowd. They laughed, they talked, all the while collecting intel on their target and the host of the party, Seth Wyndham. Seth was a high-level arms dealer who started dabbling in alien tech. That’s what got SWORD’s attention, and they sent Sam and Bucky to look into it.
As they were talking to one of the guests, Sam felt something poke against his waist and he threw a glare at Bucky. Bucky cautiously nodded towards their target and said, “I can’t tell if he’s suspicious or if he’s just checking you out. Not that I blame him. You look fine tonight.”
Seth moved from his spot and come towards them, to which Sam mumbled a “shit” under his breath.
“I couldn’t help but notice the pair of you,” Seth said smoothly as he stopped in front of them. “You make a beautiful couple,” he added. “And by the looks of it, I would say you’re a newlywed.”
Sam’s eyes widened slightly. “How did you know?” He asked.
“Not that hard to figure out,” Seth replied. “I am somewhat of a newlywed myself. My lovely wife Priscilla, who is over there.” He pointed at a tall brunette talking to some women just a couple of feet away. “She actually organized the newlyweds' game tonight and I am hoping you will participate.”
“Oh, we couldn’t,” Sam replied.
“Why not? Seth asked.
Bucky quickly chimed in, “Of course, we’ll participate!” He wrapped his arm around Sam’s waist and smiled at him. “Won’t we, sweetheart?”
Sam threw him the fakest smile ever and nodded. “Of course, darling.”
“Awesome!” Seth replied. “We’ll let you know when the game is about to begin.”
Sam pulled Bucky aside once Seth was out of sight. “Are you insane?!” He asked. “What the hell were you thinking agreeing to that game?!”
“I was thinking, I didn’t want the man to get suspicious of us,” Bucky replied.
“We’re not actually newlyweds. We’re gonna be terrible at that game!” Sam said throwing his hands up in the air.
“We’ll be fine, darling ,” Bucky smirked at him and pat him on the back.
Priscilla announced the game and asked all newlyweds to come up on the stage.
Sam hesitated, but then went with Bucky, anyway.
“Alright! So let’s begin!” Priscilla said. “So couples…. Where did you first meet your spouse?”
Sam thought about it and wrote, “On the freeway,” as his answer.
When they showed their answers, it turned out Bucky had the same answer too.
“Okay, question two… where did you go on your first date?”
Sam again decided to go with the “truth” and answered, “On a boat.”
Again, Bucky seemed to read his mind and wrote “Boat,” for his answer.
The third question threw Sam off a little.
“When did you know they were the one?” Priscilla asked.
Sam thought hard about it and looked over at Bucky before answering. “The day he came to my cookout.”
Much to his surprise, Bucky had answered. “The day I went to his cookout.”
It turned out that they were the only couple with matching answers for this question.
Sam couldn’t help but smile to himself and do a little victory dance on the inside. He really wanted to win this game.
“Who is their celebrity crush?” Priscilla asked.
Sam knew this one for sure. “Doris Day,” he wrote.
When Bucky showed his board, it read, “Halle Berry,” and Priscilla asked Sam who his celebrity crush was, and Sam named Halle Berry while Bucky named Doris Day.
“Who is the tidiest?” Priscilla asked next.
“Both of us,” Sam answered. It was the truth, since they both had been in the military.
Bucky had answered the same.
They kept answering the questions with accuracy as the game went on.
“Okay, so next question, when and where was your first kiss?” Priscilla asked.
That question threw Sam off. They had never kissed, so how was he supposed to answer that?
“Third time we attended a party together,” Sam wrote in his answer. This was their third time at a party together.
Again, to his surprise, Bucky answered, “Our third party.”
So… looks like they were gonna kiss tonight.
This time too, they were one of the few couples to answer the question correctly.
“Final question….” said Priscila. “Who said ‘I love you’ first?”
Sam remembered the time Bucky got him the suit by asking a favor from the Wakandans. That counted as “I love you” he figured. So he wrote “Him.”
Bucky wrote “me”.
Once they tallied the scores, it turned out that Sam and Bucky had the most correct answers. And they won.
“We won?” Bucky asked, surprised.
“Yeah!” Sam replied and without even thinking about it, he hugged him.
The pair of them jumped up and down while hugging each other and when they pulled apart, Priscilla gave them their prize. It was a hamper with two fluffy white robes and expensive skincare products.
The rest of the night went well and people kept congratulating them. They did not forget their mission, though. They gathered all the intel on Seth and his wife and were soon out of there.
When they got into the car, Bucky turned to Sam and asked, “So…. we kissed at our third party together?”
“Yes, we did. It turns out,” Sam replied.
“ This was our third party,” Bucky pointed out.
Sam smirked and grabbed Bucky by the lapels of his jacket, and pulled him closer before kissing him. “Nothing gets past you, does it?” He teased and kissed him again.