This isn’t something that happens to Steve. Sure, he sees people he finds attractive, and sometimes he happens to find people attractive that make him angry, but never has he met someone and just felt the overwhelming urge to shut him up. With his cock.
Adult, modern-day military AU. Bucky is an insolent little shit, and Steve knows just how to deal with that. Oh holy fuck, this is just the hottest thing ever!
Bucky finds the other costume not long after they get back from Europe. He’s joking around – “Where the hell did you get my costume in that size, anyway? I’ve grown like a foot since I was sixteen, I know that wasn’t the old one. What else are you hiding?”
Adult, comic!verse, uniform kink. I have a secret love for comic!Bucky/Steve, and this is funny as well as hot like burning, a winning combo!
“Bucky,” He says again, still sounding dazed as you stop and stare at the scars from bullets you drove into him. You look up and he puts a hand on eight days growth on your chin. He’s trembling slightly. You both sit there, before his nostrils flare in a tell tale way. He might cry. Christ, you’re going to make him cry. That’s almost worse than shooting him. “You’re here.”
Of course you’re here. Who does he think has been making the place secure, making his meals and executing HYDRA agents? He must be impressively concussed.
Mature, post-WS trauma. This Bucky makes my heart cry. He’s fumbling his way through the dark, Steve his only constant, even when he doesn’t understand anything else.
It took her a second to understand what she was seeing, to draw the right conclusion from it, and then she felt both angry and ashamed. Small wonder he didn’t like her.
She was the competition.
Adult, polyamory. Peggy realises some things – and because she’s Peggy, she then does something about it. Totally in character, this could easily be outtakes. Even the modern-day epilogue warmed my heart.
“I would raze the planet before I allowed anyone to lay a hand on you. If I have to personally kill every Hydra agent with my bare hands or shoot anyone who tries to bring you in, even a friend, so be it.”
Adult, NOT fluff. I came for the title and stayed for the characterisations. Steve and Bucky are both creatures of violence.
This is why Steve/Bucky is such a wonderful fandom: one line in a sneak peek most people didn’t see just about broke thousands of fangirl hearts… and caused this beautiful gem of a vidlet to be made. Right in the FEELS. (Also features a heartbreaking line from Winter Soldier: Bitter March.)
Where will you be waking up tomorrow morning?
MCU – Steve/Bucky
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Very fast-paced, brilliantly edited – love it! Music by Panic! At the Disco.
James had been undecided, even as he formulated different plans to approach the Captain. The man thought James was someone else, was James Buchanan Barnes, his ‘Bucky’, and James wasn’t.
Adult, post-WS, angst, slow burn. I’m starting to develop a taste for fic where the Winter Soldier never returns to being Bucky Barnes, as well as fic where Steve and Bucky were never lovers but Steve and James turn out to be.
This story is both, as well as an incredibly satisfying (if necessarily angst-laden and at times heartbreaking) look at the long, slow road of recovery from trauma as horrific as James’. And of course Steve himself is far from undamaged himself and has to deal with everything he lost. Plus there are the other people in their lives and the different kinds of relationships that develop in very believable ways.
But through it all, the connection between them is constant, a thing of beauty, and when they’re finally ready to fall in love, it’s well worth the wait..
“In which Steve Rogers loses God and finds God and loses God, and also: Bucky.” Not only is this inspired by the fantastic fic this quote comes from (All The Angels And the Saints by Speranza), it’s an utterly heartbreaking, gorgeous vid in and of itself. Music: Various Storms and Saints, by Florence & the Machine.
Steve wakes to a world terrorised by kaiju and steps up to pilot a jaeger. Natasha assists. Bucky wakes as the Winter Soldier and struggles to find a new identity. Steve is entirely unhelpful. And while Steve comes to terms, someone else saves the world.
Mature, AU. I’m a total sucker for Pacific Rim/MCU crossovers – this is unique in that it actually merges the two worlds, and does a very good job, too. This allows the story to focus on Steve learning how to deal with this new Bucky, who is both his old friend and someone very much different.
