When they knock on Buchanan's suite, they hear exuberant laughter and Barnes calling out: “Come in, it's open!” So the two tinkerers walk into the apartment, where Steve is romping around the sofa with Bucks, just to be caught and pulled onto the seat by his boyfriend, where they kiss tenderly. Bruce has to look away, and Tony sucks in the air between his teeth: “Ou. Listen boys, can you take a break from displaying your affection for each other a moment?” Bucky wants to provoke him: “What's the matter Stark, jealous?”, and starts French kissing Steve in a particularly lascivious manner. But tense as he is, Tony lashes out: “Guys cut the crap, this is serious! Stop it!” The two thus look at the scientists in alarm.
Finally, Iron Man goes to sit on the coffee table before the two and enlightens them. At first, Steve denys it: “Say Tony, have you no shame? That's not funny!” Bucks just frowns bewildered as his sweetheart turns to Banner: “And you're going along with this kind of prank, Bruce? I'm very disappointed in you!” But the good doctor replies in a hoarse voice: “Cap, it's true! I ran the test myself.”, and he shows them the printout. While the two supersoldiers look at the lab results in shock, the professor adds rueful: “I shouldn't have done that, especially not without your consent. If only I hadn't! But the sequences all looked so similar, I wanted to understand what was going on!”
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Steve finally breaks down crying: “This can't be true! Please, it can't be true!!” Meanwhile, Bucky stares at his feet with his mouth open in shock. At some point he remarks: “You know, I sometimes wondered. Me and my siblings. We're all one year apart, except for my sister and me. I always found it weird that Steve's birth year was the only one where my parents didn't have a kid, while it usually went on and on.”
At last, Tony tries to calm them down, and leaning forward, putting his hands on their knees, explains: “Look guys! Nobody knows about it but us. See, as you two... can't... make babies together, there would be no victims! We can just forget about it and that's it.” But Steve replies desperate: “How are we supposed to forget about it? Do you have any idea, what this means for us?” Bucks wants to argue: “But honey, he's right, it doesn't really change anything between us!”, but Steve exclaims: “Doesn't change anything? It changes everything!” And when his lover reaches out for him, he jumps up and runs out of the room.