“You should try it some time.” Mouse’s voice had gone soft and low, and it felt only right and natural when his hand dropped to Brian’s thigh and rested there, big and warm. “You never know. You might like it.”
Adult. Because I agree with the author – there’s no way Brian and Mouse didn’t hook up at least once…
“Because, Bucky! Because—you really wanna know? It’s because we’re fucking. We’re fucking and I can’t fuck you and live with you and hang out with you all the time because then it’s too much like a relationship and I just—I can’t right now, okay? I need a relationship like a need a hole in the head and we’ll just both be miserable.”
Adult, AU, trans!Steve/Jewish!Bucky. In which Steve & Bucky are childhood best-friends-with-benefits – but Bucky would like it to be so much more… Unfortunately, Steve isn’t cooperating. This is emotionally satisfying and sexy as hell – and I love how it deals with Steve’s trans identity (i.e. carefully, without making it an Issue). My only criticism is that Steve’s a bit of an ass to poor Bucky.
When Gomez and Morticia meet for the first time she is nineteen and he is twenty-six; she has just returned home from finishing school in Romania, and he has come to the Frump house for a family lunch with his fiancée, her older sister.
Teen, back story. Gomez & Morticia are possibly the best married couple to ever grace the screen, and this tale of how they met is simply perfect!
“That’s Frances Houseman,” the girls in her dormitory whispered. “She has that older boyfriend who lives down in Springfield and teaches dancing! He comes to get her on the weekends wearing that leather jacket. She knows things. Things about the real world.”
Post-movie. Dirty Dancing is one of my all-time favourite movies, it just never gets old – and I’ve decided that this story is how it continues. *nods*
“You remember that pub in London?” Steve went on, and Tony thought that someone should have made a note in the SSR records on Captain America. Something like, ‘Subject is a brawler. Do not, under any circumstances, take him to a bar unless you’re carrying brass knuckles and possibly an RPG.’
Teen, humour. Tony takes Steve and Bucky to a biker bar. Things don’t go quite as he expected.
Aww, Jack… While I wish they’d stuck closer to the Bible’s Jonathan (and didn’t like the “gay villain” trope), I couldn’t help but feel heartbroken for him. Music: Everybody Wants to Rule the World, by Lorde.
After stumbling across it somewhere, I wanted to vid this quote from Dawson’s Creek myself, but this one’s so much better than anything I could do… Goosebumps! Background music by Enchantinqs.
She remembered dying: being cradled in William’s arms while Eric had tried to find something, anything that would save her. She wondered if together they would manage the thing.
Teen, post-movie. I find the movie only so-so, but I like the way it handles its (apparently obligatory) love triangle, i.e. in a way that makes it easy for me to imagine an OT3. This story is pretty much my headcanon now.
Vid: Go Home, by Change Name
I enjoy a good Steve/Bucky AU vid, and this one is refreshingly different – funny and sweet and just all-around awesome.
“I was in a hospital,” Bucky said slowly. “I couldn’t move. My arms and legs were—broken.” He looked at Steve with real fear in his eyes. “I’m not really here, am I.“
"No, I don’t think so,” Steve agreed, swallowing back his own terror. Bucky wasn’t alive, Bucky couldn’t still be alive; Steve would have known if he was. He remembered clinging to the outside of the train and having the radio in his mind go silent: that sudden, terrible dead air. The loneliness, the internal emptiness, was unbearable.
“I’m in the hospital or I’m dead, but I’m not here,” Bucky said. “And you’re…" They both looked down at the hole in the ice.
"I’m down there,” Steve said. “I’m still under the ice.”
Adult, canon-divergent, telepathy. One of the side-effects of the serum is that those injected with it are telepathically connected – which changes Steve and Bucky’s relationship considerably… But this epic story only starts there, what’s most amazing is what happens after they both fall… I can’t believe I hadn’t read this before, it’s simply breathtaking!
