[He leaned into the kiss, needing the assurance that he wasn't disappointing Rumlow again. Whatever he had had with Natalia had long lasting and trouble effects on him even now, but the fact that he had such limitations were highly bothersome when he knew Rumlow needed to hear it.

Action might speak louder than words, but the exchange of those words was important. It reminded him how broken he was, how he might never be whole.]

You deserve to feel this strongly for someone after so long not. Everyone should experience it.

[They were still a right mess of come, sweat and blood, but he shifted to lay over Rumlow anyway. He tangled his fingers in his lover's hair and kissed all over Rumlow's face and then neck, sucking a hickey in just behind one of his lover's ears and blanketing them both with his wings.]

I'll be whatever you need.