They looked similar enough to be siblings. All of them were small, skinny, with blond hair and narrow faces. They looked… familiar, looked like… like… Steve Rogers, he thought, but that was absurd. Rogers – Captain America – had been 200 pounds of deadly muscle, nothing at all like these frail little kids.
His head spun dizzily.
Adult, post-WS, kid!fic. The Winter Soldier herding a whole bunch of little Steve clones – this should be utterly ridiculous, instead it hits you right in the feels.
Steve stops and doesn’t know what to do, to say. He wraps his arms around himself like he’s cold. He ignores the lady beside him cursing him for stopping in the middle of the walk. He makes himself move towards Bucky and he stops five feet away. He says, “Hey, Buck.“
Bucky says, "Why didn’t you ever send anyone after me?"
Steve doesn’t say it’s because he was afraid he was going crazy. He tells another truth. "Because you deserve not to be hunted.”
Mature, post-WS, non-AoU-compliant. In which both Steve and Bucky are damaged and made me want to hug them forever, but which still managed to have me laughing out loud several times because of the awesome Avengers characterisations and snappy dialogue. My favourite combination.
Even when he shouldn’t, Bucky remembers that man on the bridge. Great POV vid. Music: “hz_t_afchase_endinglongversion” by Hans Zimmer, from the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Soundtrack.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith AU – how so perfect? 🙂 Music: Can’t Pretend, by Tom Odell.
He doesn’t say Before I saw you again, I used to wonder if I hadn’t died after all, and this was hell. It crosses his mind often, when things don’t seem quite real. It could be hell, or some other kind of punishment for killing without any reason except vengeance. But he always knows he’d do it again if he had the chance.
Adult, post-Winter Soldier, warnings for PTSD and some mild D/s.
Bucky might be the one who has to remember and then learn to live with the memories, but Steve needs him just as much. “Rain and Darkness Too” is wonderfully long, delving deep into these two and the immense, life-defining love they share. The follow-up fics are great as well – also, insanely hot.
Captain America 3: The Fallen Son is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Meta!fic, RPS. I absolutely adore this, it’s brilliant and had me laughing out loud in delight at how true it all rang (esp. the fan reactions, omg). The crossover into RPS made it even better – meta heaven! 🙂
With Steve touching him, Bucky doesn’t feel like a cold corpse that HYDRA pulled out of a ravine and turned into their murderous doll. He feels like something else—maybe, just maybe, like he’s alive.
Adult, post-WS PWP (with feels). Bucky might not remember doing this with Steve before, but he trusts him with everything. Including hot loving sex.
(They slept and not even together. They slept and read and Cap sketched and Barnes practised tai chi. Stark is disgusted.)
G, canon divergence. 5 tropes that didn’t make them get together, and 1 that did. Made me smile like a loon. Mutual respect.
“Captain America, what’s your stance on gay marriage?”
Everyone knows that, by now. Everyone but Bucky.
Teen, canon divergence. Steve becomes a gay idol – and then Bucky comes back. This should be crack, but instead is heartrendingly touching.
Steve’s journey in less than 3 minutes. Music by Imagine Dragons.
