Title: that other mine
Fandom: MCU/Captain America
Rating: PG
Length: 128
Content notes: Peggy and Bucky worry that Steve puts himself in danger too much.
Author notes: Inspired loosely by Shakespeare's sonnets.
Summary: A sonnet from Peggy to Steve, during the war. Renaissance AU. Bucky/Steve/Peggy established relationship.



I think of James lying there with you tonight.
I asked him to protect you the night you went.
I think perhaps I didn’t get it right;
Protect himself from you is what I meant.
You have us both: our hearts, our desperate need.
But we know that you are only ours on loan.
The war, it owns you, as it should. You bleed
For a noble fight, and you do not fight alone.
We love your courage, Bucky and I, yet still
We fear it too. We wish we could protect
You, lie down with you, let you have your fill
Of softness, to press into you pleasure’s effect.
To love you is no easy task, I swear.
I pity James, and yet I’m glad he’s there.