“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.
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.
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!
Thor sighed. “He is building a house in the land of the dead, and once built it will be too late: we will see him no more. I went into my mother’s realm, the place beyond death, to try and persuade him.” He looked sadly at each of them in turn. “I know that you would have done the same, for Steve is our leader and our heart. There is not one of us who would not walk into hell for him. But we must face the fact that—"
“—it’s not us he wants,” Natasha said, sucking her lip. “It’s Barnes. We’ve got to send Barnes.”
Teen, not-CW compliant. This is so different, and all the more beautiful for it.
“We’re alive! We’re all alive!” Peggy sobbed. “We’re all going to live,” Peggy sobbed, and suddenly it was all Bucky could do not to break into tears himself, because—because— He was knocked back by a great wall of Steve, and he was going to pull away, give them a minute to hug and kiss while he pulled himself together, except Steve’s arms were coming around them both, he was holding them both together.
Adult, AU. This is amazing – the best “what if Bucky hadn’t fallen” fic I’ve read. Also, I so did not see that plot twist coming. 🙂
He’s never going to stop looking for him, Natasha thought, and averted her eyes; their intimacy had somehow become terrible and painful to watch. “We’ve really got to hope he’s not here for Barnes,” she told Tony, “because if he is: I’m not sure we’re going to be able to stop him.”
Adult, time travel, not-CW compliant. Because when there’s a portal, of course Steve wants to use it to rescue Bucky – only Natasha & Tony absolutely have to stop him. This combines outside POV, first time and post-WS feels in the most beautiful way.
They decided it was okay–only okay–if Steve sketched Bucky like it was one of the fancy art school classes, Steve perched on the very end of his own bed, body turned back in Bucky’s direction. If Steve was just using this for his drawing, studying the sharp lines of Bucky’s joints and limbs and softer ones of his belly and ass, how he moved when he …
Adult, pre-serum, internalised homophobia, voyeurism. Steve watches Bucky masturbate… This is sexy and bittersweet, it makes me want to hug those boys while also wishing I could see for myself. 🙂
Steve Rogers knows from day one that Bucky Barnes is not his soulmate.
The asset knows from the first glimpse that the man on the roof is his.
Soulmark!AU. This is beautiful, a different take on Bucky and Steve as soulmates.
What if instead of Bucky Barnes, it was Steve Rogers who was taken by Hydra, and Bucky had to take up his shield and become the symbol of America.
I wouldn’t have done this video without Mucduffprod, as constant angsty headcanoning with had kept me wanting to finish this as soon as possible, and as well as possible.
I love well-done AUs like this, and this one is seriously excellent! Music: A cover of “Paint It Black”.
