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“I… I love him Bucky.” Steve admits quietly
“You love Tony?” Bucky clarifies.
“I do, but I also love you. And I don’t know if I can choose.” Steve says honestly
“Well, I won’t make you.” Bucky says
“No, don’t break up with me so I can date him. That’s not what I want.” Steve says strongly.
“I wasn’t.” Bucky says with a smile “I was gonna say we can date him.”
“We?” Steve asks
“Yeah, we. I love him too, Steve. He’s a lovable loser, what can I say.” Bucky admits
“So you want all three of us to date?”
“Yes.” Bucky says confidently
“Okay.” Steve says hesitantly and then nods “Okay.” He says confidently “how do we do this?”
“We’re calling it Operation: Date Tony Stark. Step one is simple.” Bucky and Steve come up with a plan
“Sir, Mr. Barnes is at the door.” JARVIS tells Tony
“Let him in.” Tony says continuing his work. After a few moments Tony stands up “JARIVS, did you let him in?”
“He is currently on the couch.”
“What?” Tony says turning around to see Bucky lying on the couch with a smile “What are you doing here?”
“Making sure you don’t blow yourself up.”
“Dummy's on fire extinguisher.”
“Keeping you company then. Don’t worry I won’t talk.”
“Okay… sure.” Tony turns back to his work.
“Sir, Captain Rogers is at the door.”
“Let him in.”
“Here you are.” Steve says looking at Bucky “I’ve been looking everywhere for you!” He give Bucky a quick wink. “What are you doing?”
“Reading.” Bucky answers as Tony watches the interaction.
“Well, it’s date night. Come on.”
“Oh yeah.” Bucky nods getting up “Hey Tony, you want to join?” Bucky asks with a smile
“No.” Tony says shortly turning around. “I’m not hungry.” I don’t want to intrude is not said.
“Suit yourself.” Bucky says with a shrug and they leave. Tony sighs and gets to his work.
“Sir, Captain Rogers is at the door.”
“Is it date night again?” Tony asks Bucky who is on his couch again but makes a motion with his hand indicating that he can come in
“No.” Bucky says nonchalantly
“Steve?” Tony asks as Steve takes seat next to Bucky
“Tony.”
“What are you doing here?”
“Spending time with the love of my life.” Steve says looking at Tony.
“Mhmm… why in here?” Tony asks
“Because that’s where he always seems to be.” Tony shakes his head not getting what Steve is saying
“Whatever. No kissing or sex on my couch. Got it?” They nod and turn back to their reading, drawing and work.
“Tony. I baked cookies you want some?” Steve asks as Tony comes to get coffee a few days later.
“What kind?”
“White chocolate chip.” Steve says with a smile
“Most people just do chocolate chip.” Tony says skeptically. Only Tony doesn’t like regular chocolate chip which is why he’s skeptical.
“Well, I like white chocolate better. Why, do you not?” Steve says like he doesn’t know better.
“No… white chocolate chip is good. Thanks.” He takes one off the counter. “They’re good.” Tony says after a bite
“Ooo Cookies!” Clint says running into the room
“Not for you!” Steve says pushing his hands away
“What? Why not?”
“Because I made them for Bucky and Tony.” Steve says with a smile Tony looking shocked and confused.
“That’s not fair. It’s a rule, you bake you share.”
“I am sharing. Just not with you.” Steve says
“It’s fine. He can have some of mine.” Tony says hoping off the stool. Clint grins and grabs one off the counter as Steve and Tony give each other confused looks wondering why the other did that.
“I have to get back to work.” Tony says leaving his half eaten cookie and without coffee.
Steve just frowns and watches him leave
“You got it bad.” Clint says with a laugh and Steve sends him a glare.
“Dinner is ready.” Steve says half a week later
“You haven’t been cooking.” Tony says without turning around to look at the pair on his couch. Again.
“I figured out how to use a crockpot.” Steve beams “It’s a lot easier than I thought.”
“What’d you make?”
“Chicken and stuffing.” Steve says looking at Tony.
“Stuffing…?” Tony asks quietly And Steve and Bucky grin knowing its Tony’s favorite side.
“Yeah. Do you not like stuffing?” Steve asks innocently.
“No, I do.” Tony says quietly
“You want to join us?” Bucky says smiling.
“Uh… yeah. Maybe just this once. For the stuffing.” Tony says putting his work down. “It’s my favorite side dish.” Tony admits and Steve and Bucky smile
“Really?” Steve asks “I didn’t know that.”
“Yeah, especially when you put it in the turkey… I went to thanksgiving with Rhodey a few times and that’s how his mom made it. It was orgasmic.” Tony remembers and Chuckles “Rhodey didn’t appreciate me using those words, but his mom laughed and said thank you. I basically ate all the stuffing by myself.”
“Well, I hope this is good.” Steve says with a smile
Tony actually moans when he takes a bite making Steve and Bucky smile and laugh.
“Sorry.” Tony says a mouth full of food. “This, Steve, this is orgasmic.” He takes another bite and sighs in delight.
“No need to apologize.” Steve says with a laugh. “It is very good.”
“You have to make this more often.” Tony chuckles “This is just. Ugh. I need more.” Tony says standing up
“You haven’t even finished what you have.” Tony looks over at Steve.
“I’ll eat it don’t worry.” Tony says with a smile
Tony groans rubbing his stomach “You should have stopped me!”
“Why? You never eat so you piling it in is a good thing.” Steve says as they lay on the couch Bucky on one side Steve on the other, tony laying across both of them. His head in Bucky’s lap and his feet in Steve’s.
“Contrary to popular belief, I eat all the time. You just don’t see me.” Tony says sighing as Bucky plays with his hair and Steve rubs his feet.
“What do you eat?”
“Smoothies. Dummy makes em all the time. Well, I can only eat some of them, because he tries to poison me with motor oil.” Steve and Bucky snap their eyes to him “What? JARVIS makes sure that I don’t die. It’s fine.”
“You should eat stuff that isn’t liquefied.” Steve says
“Ugh, you’re not my boyfriend’s so you can’t nag me.”
“We could be.” Bucky says looking down at him
“What?” Tony asks sitting up missing the comfy position. “Did I hear you correct?”
“Yes. You did.”
“Well no.” Tony says standing up and running out of their
“Wait Tony!” Bucky and Steve call but he’s already gone.
“We should have waited.” Bucky mumbles “I should have waited.”
“It’s not your fault. The operation is still a go.” Bucky nods and Steve pulls him into his lap. “He’s not going anywhere.”
“I’m leaving.” Tony says to himself “A sudden vacation in Malibu sounds perfect this time of year.” Tony looks outside to the spring weather.
“Why are you leaving?” Natasha asks scaring the wits out of him.
“No reason.” Tony says once he’s recovered.
“Mhmm. Could it have to do with Bucky and Steve’s Operation: Date Tony Stark?” Natasha asks
“What?” Tony asks “No, that wasn’t a real thing. They just want to sleep with me. They don’t want to date me.” Tony says confidently
“You really think that?” Natasha asks “All the time they’ve been spending in the lab, cooking for you baking for you, watching you, drawing you.”
“They draw me?” Tony asks
“Steve does.”
“No, it’s not real.” Tony says then mumble “they wouldn’t want someone like me.”
“Oh, Tony.” Natasha says with a soft smile “Don’t run away. Hear them out.” Without another word she’s gone Tony walking to the confines of his lab.
“Black out mode, 767492.”
“Sir, if a may-“
“You may not.” Tony says stiffly
“Of course, Sir.” Black out mode is for 72 hours or until tony changes it.
“Sir, Mr. Barnes and Captain Rogers are at the door.”
“Too bad we’re in black out mode.”
“They asked me to relay this message to you.” Steve’s voice rings through the lab. “tony, we’re sorry if we brought it up too quickly. But we do, we really do want to date you. Not just sex, like you’re probably thinking. But like dates and romantic-y things together. All 3 of us. We just… want to talk about it. Don’t do anything rash. And don’t shut us out. We care, Okay?” His voice dies down
“I’m going to sleep.” Tony says to himself and lays on the couch that Steve and Bucky are constantly on. It even smells like them. Tony groans and goes and lays on the floor.
“Sir, Captain Rogers is at the door.”
“Again?” Tony asks rubbing his eyes and groaning from the floor.
“I’m afraid he never left.” Tony sighs
“Seriously?” tony mumbles to himself “Is Bucky there?”
“Afraid so.” JARVIS says
“How long do you think they plan on staying?”
“All night, as they have repeatedly told me when I have told them you enacted protocol 767492.”
Tony cringes “I can wait them out.”
“Undoubtedly, Sir.” Tony nods and gets to work.
“Are they still there?” Tony asks after a few hours of work
“About half an hour ago, Mr. Barnes went to use the restroom. He has since returned with blankets and pillows.”
“Are they sleeping?”
“No, Bucky is reading and Steve is drawing.”
“Let them in.” Tony sighs reluctantly.
“The door unlocked.” He hears Bucky say to Steve.
“He let us in?”
“Or JARVIS did.” Bucky says soflty standing up
“You think Tony’s hurt?” Steve says perking up
“I’m fine.” Tony calls sitting on the bench. The come in the room with blankets draped around them. “You guys are going to be the death of me.” Tony rolls his eyes
“What changed your mind?” Steve asks settling on the couch.
“JARIVS informed me you were camping out. Stairs[ are shit on your back.” Tony shrugs “I don’t want to talk.” Tony informs
“Okay.” Bucky says putting his feet up “We don’t have to talk. Go back to work.” Bucky says snuggling next to Steve who is also content just drawing.
Tony looks at the shocked but nods and starts working… for about 10 minutes
“Okay, Stop it.” Tony says turning around.
“We’re not doing anything.” Steve says looking up “Well, nothing we haven’t done a 100 times before.”
“No, you just sitting here. Like… like nothing’s wrong. Stop it.” Tony demands
“Nothing is wrong.” Bucky says looking at him “This is where we want to be.”
“No. You can’t just say you want to date me and then live on my couch again.”
“You said you didn’t want to talk.” Bucky says sitting up. “We’re respecting that.”
“If you want sex, I won’t do it.” Tony says outright.
“We don’t want sex.” Steve says and Bucky nudges him “Okay, yes we want sex, but not right now. We want to date you. Like date, date.” Tony sighs
“See, that’s not how things work.” Tony says sitting on the stool
“On what planet does date not have to equal sex?” Steve ask “We don’t have to have sex if you don’t want it.” Steve says “We care about you, not your body.”
“Clearly.” Tony mumbles “Who would?”
“What was that?” Bucky asks not quite as good hearing.
“Tony…” Steve says frowning as he heard what Tony has said
“Shut up, you weren’t supposed to her that.”
“Why wouldn’t we want your body?” Steve asks
“You’re sexy as hell.” Bucky adds now understanding the problem
“I’m not talking about this with you.” Tony says crossing his arms.
“But you’ve always been so confident with your sex life and your body. I don’t understand.”
“Look, if my body really doesn’t matter to you, then you’ll let the topic drop.” Tony says pointedly
“Okay. We won’t push. But that doesn’t mean we don’t want to date you.”
“Tasha said something about Operation: Date Tony Stark?” Tony says with a raised eyebrow
“How does she know about that?” Bucky asks Steve
“I don’t know. She seems to know everything though.”
“Well anyway, yes. We, as in my and Bucky want to date you. Both of us.”
“Like a threesome?” Tony asks
“Not exactly.” Bucky says “Have you heard of polyamorous relationship?”
“Well… yeah. It’s not a real though.” Tony pauses “is it?” Tony asks
“It can be. And it is in rare occasion. Like hopefully this one.” Steve informs
“But…” Tony doesn’t finish
“Okay let me ask you this.” Bucky starts “If Steve right now, asked you to date him and only him would you say yes?” Bucky asks confidently
“Yes.” Tony answers easily. Steve smiles
“Now, If I asked you right now to date me and only me, would you say yes?” Bucky asks slightly more nervous
“Probably.” Tony says hesitantly, then thinks “Yes i definitly would.” Bucky smiles
“Okay, so, Steve. If I asked you right now, ignoring our relationship for a moment, if you would date Tony and only Tony, would you say yes.”
Steve nods “Yep, definitely.”
“Okay now of course me and Steve are dating so we can cancel that part of the equation out. So now, Bucky?” Bucky asks himself “Yes, self?” He answers “Ignoring your relationship with Steve, if I were to ask you if you would date Tony would you say yes? Yes self, I would date Tony.” Bucky says slowly letting Tony understand he’s having a conversation with himself “Got it?” Tony nods “okay, so now that we’ve established I would you would date Steve and me, Steve would date me and you and I would date you and Steve isn’t the obvious conclusion is for all of us to date? We make everyone happy. It’s a win, win, win” Bucky says with a shrug and Tony gapes at him
“Well, I can’t fault your logic.” Tony finally says “but I don’t see how we’ll all be equals in this. You and Steve are definitely closer and will always have that bond and I won’t.”
“That’s not true Tony. I love Bucky as much as I love you.” Steve says easily but Tony freezes and Steve realize what he said. “Umm.” Steve looks at Bucky
“We love you.” Bucky says confidently “You don’t have to say it back, but I mean Steve let the cat out of the bag so… but yeah, Tony. We love you. We are in love with you and we don’t want to lose you.” Tony doesn’t say anything letting it sink in for a moment and bucky and Steve share a nervous look.
“So.” Tony finally says “Who do I kiss first?” Tony asks his lips pulling into a smile. And Steve and bucky smile simultaneously
“I’ll let Bucky have that honor because he did all the talking.” Steve says smiling,
Without another word Tony and Bucky makes their way to each other and Tony pulls him in for a long passionate kiss.
“Okay, Steve, your turn.” Tony pulls Steve in and kisses him just as long as Bucky. When Tony pulls back Steve can’t help smile at Tony’s swollen pink lips and his glazed over eyes.
“Okay. I can dig it.” Tony says smiling. The three of them laugh “You have to kiss now.” Tony says to them.
Bucky smirks and pulls Steve in and starts making out with Steve right on the spot.
“Oh god that’s hot.” Tony whispers Bucky and Steve laugh into the kiss.
Once Bucky pulls back he pulls in Tony.
And starts kissing down his jaw making Tony moan when he reaches his neck.
“Oh God.” Tony moans when he hits the sweet spot. “Bucky.”
“Can we move this upstairs.” Steve whispers dazed.
“I don’t think I can make it upstairs.” Bucky whispers
“Couch?” Steve asks and Bucky nods
“Is that okay, Tony?” Steve asks when Tony doesn’t respond.
Tony just makes a noise of protest as Bucky tries to move away
“I’ll take that as a yes.” Bucky basically passes Tony to Steve who starts kissing hot and heavy again as Bucky takes off his shirt. Steve breaks the kiss for as little as possible to take off his. Tony runs his hands over Steve’s body and Steve moans.
When Steve reaches for them hem of Tony’s shirt he pushes Steve’s hands away and backs up.
“Tony?” Steve asks looking at Tony questioningly.
“I don’t.... I’d rather keep my shirt on.” Tony whispers
“Tony, we don’t care about the arc reactor. We actually like it since it’s keeping you alive.” Steve says taking a step closer which Tony takes a small one back.
“It’s not… it’s not the arc reactor.” Tony sighs “It’s not… there’s a lot of scars from Afghanistan… And it’s not pretty.” Tony says looking down
“Hey.” Bucky says quietly “We don’t care about your scars. Like I know you guys don’t care about my arm.”
“Your arm is fucking awesome.” Tony says “My scars are not.”
“Who told you that?” Bucky asks tilting his head. Tony shrugs. “Do you trust me?” Bucky asks and Tony nods a little hesitantly
“Okay.” Bucky walks over and reaches for the hem of his shirt. Tony takes deep breath and nods. Slowly bucky lifts of his shirt and looks at his chest. Tony shrinks away but Bucky stops him.
“You’re beautiful.” Bucky whispers “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.” Bucky pulls him in for a kiss
“I love you.” Tony whispers And Bucky smiles he pulls apart “I love both of you.” he says looking to Steve who grins.