Loving someone had never been easy for T'challa and he knew without a doubt he wasn't an easy person to love either, even outside of the whole titles and royal background. He just held so many walls around himself and all the failed romance of the past only deepened his resolve to not go there again.

Then Sam happened. Stubborn, beautiful Sam Wilson. He had been in trouble from the first hello.

Throughout the coming years they grew closer together after discovering the whole soulmate business and little by little he let go and opened up to Sam, loving him and being loved in return. It nearly made up for losing everything and he started to believe he could make an actual home there for himself. That he could handle being human, after all.

Waiting for Sam to wake up, T'challa eventually lost patience and moved to straddle his waist, looking down with a huff of his breath. "Wake up, Samuel."