“Don’t you fucking give up,” he snarls, and she can see his furious face in the lightning. He shakes her, as much as he’s able to in the weight of the ocean.
I’m not doing that, she thinks. Am I?
Adult, angst, adultery. Olivia and Elliot have to swim for their lives, and somewhere in between the cold and the ocean and the fear the barriers they’ve so carefully built fall.
Before Bucky was born, the Moon never appeared above their city. All the scientists in the world couldn’t figure out why. There was no explanation, except for what the church had. The Moon didn’t want to be seen here, by them.
When Bucky was born, for the first time in their city’s history, they had a full moon.
Teen, pagan gods!AU. This is probably one of the strangest premises for an AU ever, but it works – and it’s wonderful in its simplicity.
I think maybe you’re chasing him in the wrong direction, Sam had said, and Steve reaches for the pull, the faintest wisp of feeling even though they’re this close, breathing the same air; it feels like it will slip from his grasp but Steve holds tight and reaches in and down, down, down.
Teen, post-Winter Soldier. The magical realism in this is an undercurrent, the connection between Steve and Bucky, and Steve needing Bucky to come back to him so bad, he bends reality to do so.
He had known, right away. Dean was alive and breathing, but the world was not, not in the ways he was used to.
Adult, post-season 2 AU. This is a wonderfully lengthy and beautifully intriguing apocafic, in which the boys are the two last people on Earth. We (and they) never learn why, but the descriptions on how they cope (together, of course) are awesome.
He was stubborn and arrogant and had no idea how kind he really was, and Clarke loved him so much she thought she might die of it.
In another universe, she did. Bellamy stayed dead when he fell and Clarke stayed dead when she crashed, and the world went on without them and they became nothing more than an old story, two war heroes with a romantic story and some old newsreels and comic strips.
Some days, she thinks she’d rather be in that one anyway. At least then, she’d know how it ended.
Teen, Steve/Bucky!AU. Locked for AO3 users. This is probably my favourite of all the MCU AUs I’ve read – it all fits brilliantly, all the ways that are the same and all the ways that are different.
Bucky was going to give Steve a place to raise the family he wanted, whether Steve realized it or not.
Steve stared down at the papers for long, long moments before he set his coffee aside and reached for them. He looked up at Bucky. Something in his eyes made Bucky’s heart crawl into his throat.
Adult, h/c, spoilers for “Castaway in Dimension Z” & “Black Widow Hunt”. Steve is broken, and Bucky, quite a mess himself, just wants to do everything he can to fix him again. Somehow, on the way there, they stumble across happiness. This is the comics!Steve/Bucky of my heart, seriously. *flails*
The streetlights catch Steve’s hair, his eyes; he’s the brightest thing on the planet, the brightest thing Bucky’s ever seen.
Adult, some internalised homophobia. Bucky and Steve, before we meet them in the movie. This is so perfect it hurts.
This is seriously atmospheric and captures the dark world the brothers live in incredibly well, as well as the bond they share. Music: apparently a mash-up of 2 instrumentals, one from BDS, the other from Lovely Bones?
“Do you think he wants to ride her?” Capable had no gentler word in her vocabulary for it than “ride.” All the other words were much worse. “He’s taking his time about it, if he does.“
Cheedo nodded. "You think he’d try it while she’s still weak."
"I bet he’d ask her first.” But Dag’s voice sounded doubtful.
Adult, post-MM:FR, voyeurism. Honestly, I’m glad the movie didn’t push a romantic angle, but that’s what fic is for, right? And I have a thing for outside POVs, and this one’s lovely, as the Wives see what sex can be for the first time.
She doesn’t realize the War Boys have stopped calling him “Blood Bag” and started calling him “First Husband,” not until she overhears one of them ask Capable where First Husband is.
Adult, post-MM:FR, polyamory (but ultimately not). This is somewhat OOC, but I liked it anyway – funny and sweet (also, sexy).
