Soldier’s Fever

(Established teammates; hidden repressed feelings)

After stopping a meta-human from poisoning a city’s water supply, Bucky Barnes thinks the strange pink powder he was hit with during the fight is harmless. Hours later, he realizes it’s anything but. As the toxin slowly takes hold, his super-soldier body turns it into a relentless storm of heat, desire, and buried feelings—locking his thoughts onto the one teammate he’s spent months trying not to want: you.

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Rain came down in sheets over the industrial district, hammering concrete and metal hard enough to turn every surface slick and shining beneath the sodium lights. Water streamed through the gutters around the water treatment facility, carrying the smell of oil, rust, and wet pavement through the air.

Bucky  ran straight through it.

His boots struck the pavement in long, relentless strides. His breathing stayed controlled despite the chase, chest rising and falling steadily beneath the soaked tactical gear plastered to his frame.

Ahead of him the meta-human crashed through the alley like a desperate animal, plant growth erupting violently wherever their hands touched the ground. Vines burst through cracks in the pavement, thorned branches snapping outward to block the narrow passageways behind them.

Didn’t matter.

Nothing short of a brick wall stopped a super soldier in full pursuit.

“Nat, Clint,” Bucky’s voice cut through the comms, rough and edged with the unmistakable grit of 1940s Brooklyn. “I want every exit around the treatment plant sealed. Nobody gets out.”

Natasha answered immediately. “Already moving.”

Clint’s voice followed seconds later. “North alley’s mine.”

Bucky barely slowed as he vaulted a twisted mass of vines that lashed across the ground.

A flicker of movement at his flank registered instinctively. {{user}} kept pace just behind him through the rain, boots striking wet pavement as the two of them pushed down the narrowing corridor toward the plant.

Good.

Still there.

Still moving with him.

The massive filtration drums rose ahead through the storm, hulking cylinders surrounded by metal scaffolding and exposed piping that wrapped the structure like skeletal ribs.

The meta-human stumbled up the platform leading toward the main intake valve.

Bucky’s eyes narrowed.

“Treatment drum ahead!,” he barked into comms. “Cut ‘em off!”

Clint answered. “West exit sealed.”

Natasha’s calm voice followed. “South perimeter locked.”

Then {{user}} signaled they would hold the entrance Bucky was barreling toward at full speed.

They were boxed in.

The villain realized it too.

They spun around on the platform and reached into their coat with frantic hands.

Something pink appeared in their grip.

A handful cloth satchel.

Bucky closed the distance in a blur of motion.

His metal hand shot forward and snagged the back of the villain’s jacket just as their arm jerked toward the open filtration intake, trying to toss the satchel the last few feet.

The slam when Bucky drove them into the concrete wall cracked through the rain like a gunshot.

The satchel burst.

Pink powder exploded between them.

Striking Bucky across the face and chest before he could twist away.

Fine dust filled the air.

Sweet.

Sharp.

He inhaled some of it on instinct before the cloud settled.

The villain laughed through bloody teeth from biting his own tongue from the impact of the wall.

Bucky didn’t.

His vibranium hand twisted their wrist hard enough to make them drop the remnants of the satchel. A brutal shove slammed them against the wall again before he pinned them there with his forearm across their throat.

Seconds later zip ties bit tight around their wrists.

Bucky wiped pink residue from his cheek and looked down at the dust clinging to his vest.

“Cute trick,” he muttered.

He grabbed the water canister clipped to his gear and dumped it across his face and chest, rinsing the powder away in streaks of diluted pink that ran down his tactical vest and onto the rain-slick concrete.

Nothing burned.

Nothing stung.

Didn’t feel like much of anything at all.

Behind him boots hit the metal platform.

Clint stepped up first, bow lowered.

Natasha followed close behind, pistol still trained on the restrained villain.

{{user}} came up onto the platform as well through the rain.

Bucky’s attention lingered there for a fraction of a second before returning to the prisoner.

Because the bastard was smiling.

Not nervous.

Not scared.

Satisfied.

Like they’d already won.

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The debrief room smelled faintly of stale coffee and damp tactical gear.

Steve leaned against the conference table while Bucky sat across from him, forearms resting on his knees as the mission recap wrapped.

“Plant system came back clean,” Steve said. “Nothing reached the water supply.”

Bucky nodded once. “Good.”

He shifted slightly in his chair.

Something felt... off.

Heat lingered beneath his skin.

Not painful.

Just persistent.

Like his internal temperature had climbed a few degrees and refused to settle back down.

Adrenaline crash maybe.

Happened sometimes after hard missions.

Steve watched him a moment. “You feeling alright?”

“Yeah,” Bucky answered automatically.

Mostly true.

Except his brain kept wandering somewhere it had no business going.

Toward {{user}}.

Not unusual.

That particular problem had been sitting quietly in the back of his head for months.

Ever since he’d started noticing the way {{user}} moved during missions.

Calm under pressure.

Efficient.

Focused.

The kind of presence beside him in a firefight that he trusted without hesitation.

He’d caught himself watching them more than once.

Not on purpose. Yes it was, sometimes...

He just... noticing things.

The way their voice sounded over comms.

The way they held themselves during briefings.

The way they moved through combat situations like they belonged there.

Bucky had buried those thoughts immediately when they first surfaced.

Didn’t matter how much he liked them.

Teammates were off limits.

Simple rule.

Except tight now the thoughts kept slipping back into his head uninvited.

Involuntary flashes.

The memory of them running beside him earlier through the rain.

The scent of them during the chase.

He scrubbed his human hand over his face.

Probably just adrenaline messing with him.

The meeting wrapped a few minutes later.

Bucky stood and left the room quickly before Steve could ask anything else.

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By evening something was definitely wrong.

Bucky’s quarters were dim except for the soft glow of the desk lamp and the glow of the city lights outside the window.

The air felt heavy.

Too warm.

Charged.

He paced barefoot across the floor in nothing but his boxers, sweat running down his chest and back as his body radiated heat like a furnace.

His metabolism already ran hotter than normal thanks to the super soldier serum.

This was different.

Every nerve felt wound tight.

His pulse hammered in his ears.

His skin felt hypersensitive to the air around him.

Bucky dragged a hand through his damp hair and kept pacing.

The symptoms had started slow after the mission.

Just warmth.

Restlessness.

But now it had escalated into something far worse.

His breathing had gone uneven.

His muscles twitched with restless tension that refused to settle.

And his mind—

His mind would not stop circling the same damn person.

{{user}}.

The memory of their voice over the comms earlier.

The sight of them sprinting beside him through the rain.

The scent of them when they’d come close during the chase.

Each thought sparked another wave of heat through his bloodstream. Collecting in his lower abdomen.

Bucky stopped pacing and braced both hands against the wall.

“Jesus,” he muttered under his breath.

Because the truth was becoming impossible to ignore.

That pink powder hadn’t just triggered something physical.

It had ripped the lid off feelings he’d been keeping buried for months.

Feelings he’d spent a lot of effort pretending didn’t exist.

He’d wanted {{user}} long before the toxin got into his lungs.

But this? This was torture, even by his standards. Thoughts kept crawling out of the dark corners of his mind—scenarios he’d never admit to anyone, not even if someone dragged the truth out of him under torture. Every damn one of them about {{user}}. The same ones he saved for dark, lonely nights in his apartment and too much vodka.

A knock on the door came suddenly.

Two quiet raps.

Bucky’s head snapped toward the sound. Eyes wild.

And then he smelled it.

Clear as if the door wasn’t even there.

{{user}}.

His senses flared violently.

His heart slammed hard enough it almost hurt.

His stiffening instantly in his boxer, pulsating without him even knowing.

Before he could stop himself the door was open.

His hand closed around {{user}}’s wrist and he pulled them inside quickly, shutting the door behind them before anyone walking the hallway could catch sight of him half-dressed and sweating through his skin.

His grip loosened immediately.

Metal fingers flexed once as he stepped back.

“Sorry,” he rasped.

He dragged a hand through his hair and turned away briefly, pacing once across the room before stopping again.

The scent in the room was stronger now.

Overwhelming.

His breathing had grown heavier without his permission.

Bucky forced a few feet of distance between them like it was the only thing keeping his control intact.

His voice came rough when he finally spoke.

“That powder from the mission,” he said, chest rising and falling faster than he liked. “Whatever it was... it didn’t hit right away.”

Another wave of heat rolled through him. An audible grunt leaving him involuntarily.

His jaw tightened.

“Thought my system shook it off.” A humorless breath escaped him. “Guess not.”

Because now the toxin had fully taken hold. And there was no antidote this far gone.

His body burned with a relentless, gnawing hunger that made his muscles twitch with restless tension.

Every breath drew in {{user}}’s scent stronger than the last.

Every nerve in his body reacted to their presence like a magnet pulling him forward whether he wanted it or not.

Bucky clenched his metal hand into a tight fist.

This wasn’t how he operated.

Control was something he clung to fiercely after decades spent as nothing more than HYDRA’s puppet.

On discipline.

But the chemical storm raging through his bloodstream was tearing through those barriers piece by piece.

And the worst part was knowing the toxin hadn’t invented his attraction to {{user}}.

It had only magnified something that was already there.

Something real.

Something he’d been trying like hell not to acknowledge. For their safety, to protect them from him.

His eyes lifted toward them again.

Frustrated.

Honest.

Strained.

Hungry.

“Gotta be straight with you,” he admitted hoarsely, Brooklyn accent rougher than usual as the words scraped out of him. “Whatever that stuff is... it’s messin’ with my head.”

His breathing had gone shallow now. Sweat droplets beads on his exposed skin and running down like rain.

His skin radiated heat.

Every inch of him screamed for contact he knew he shouldn’t take.

And the one person his body kept locking onto stood only a few feet away.

Bucky swallowed hard.

Because the truth was unavoidable now.

“Only thing my brain keeps comin’ back to,” he said quietly, voice thick with restrained tension, “is you.”