Last Updated: 3-31-19
Masterlist of Marvel Verse; Categories: Steve/Bucky
__________________________________________________________________Will include Steve/Peggy and Bucky/Natasha backgrounds
__________________________________________________________________Medvezhonok by lanyon
- The Winter Soldier is on the run and no one is more surprised than he is by the fact that he is accompanied by a little boy who seems convinced that he is his father.
baby baby baby come back by gyzym
- You and me? We’re not the war.
Once you've fallen from classical virtue by lanyon
- And, yes, there, leaning against the kitchen table, cradling a mug of coffee between two massive hands, is his blonde mystery man.//“I know this is going to sound strange,” he says, immediately. “But I don’t suppose you know who I am?”//The blonde man blinks and the corners of his mouth turn down. “Damn. I was hoping you could tell me who I am.”
When I feel down, I want you above me by lanyon
- In the twenty-first century, Steve Rogers still has inordinate difficult talking to women, or men, or anyone with a pretty face. Tony Stark suggests that he try calling a phone sex line. Under the influence of severe exhaustion, he does just that. He has no explanation for why he keeps calling, though.
but hey, you're all right by beardsley
- 'This is not my fault,' Tony lies. 'It was supposed to be a joke! Christ.' 'Thanks to your joke,' says Coulson, 'we now have a code three-four-delta, with the variable being a Russian immigrant. We're checking his background right now, but it might take a while. Meanwhile, I suggest you civilian-proof the Tower. If any SHIELD intelligence is compromised, I will hurt you.' Yes, this is the story where the Winter Soldier is a Russian mail-order bride. Everything goes about as well as you'd expect.
Little Shots Who Keep Shooting by sinuous_curve
- It takes Howard Stark three days to knock together Steve’s uniform, which is a testament to his manufacturing abilities that he cobbles together what he needs so fast and so well. Steve steps out with his hands spread, shoulders shifting beneath the unfamiliar weight of the new duds and says, “Not too shabby, you think?”
It Wakes The Seeds by Sharksdontsleep
- They still call him a sharpshooter, even if they let Bucky bring his own rifle, not a Sharp, a nine-pound breech-loader that feels like certainty when he slings it across his back.
Beneath a Blue Umbrella Sky by victoria_p (musesfool)
- Steve's been to Coney Island before.
you've been acting awful tough lately by postcardmystery
- “So you’re not dead,” says Steve, as they make their slow way through a muddy forest, and Bucky grins likes a light clicking on, says, “Nope. Let’s drink to that.”
I’ve been in your body and it was a carnival ride by postcardmystery
- "Name, rank, and serial number," they tell Bucky Barnes, in Basic, and he doesn't nod, just repeats it every night before he goes to sleep, remembers.
Friday Night Is Date Night by sparklyfiend [a03]
- Steve and Bucky have longstanding plans on Thursdays that have no name and are most certainly not dates, because Friday night is date night, and Thursdays are just Thursdays.
Counting Backwards by sparrow (honeypuffed)
- "I won it," Bucky clarifies. He tucks his arm through Steve's, linking them tightly and rests his head against the wall. "Nobody knows how to fight around here. They're all such babies."
Super Detka by Petronia
- "Give me worthwhile intel, not hypotheses," said the Winter Soldier. "The floor plan of another HYDRA plant. OK. A SHIELD medical facility. OK. But taking blood from Captain America is not like taking it from a refrigerator."
- part 1 WIP as of linking here (ch5)
Slow Work by lorata
- It's 2011, men are allowed to marry, and Bucky is dead./// The future isn't all that's strange. Together in peacetime for the first time since before Steve took the serum, Steve and Bucky struggle to find their place -- and each other -- in the middle of a new millennium, new bodies, and new dynamics./// Or, just because you wake up in a century where everything you've repressed is magically okay, that doesn't make it easy.
getting the old band back together by lanyon
- "No. I," Banner ducks his head. "I walked in on Steve and James in my lab-" // "Oh god," says Stark. "They've had lab sex. They're not even scientists and they've had lab sex."
tell me i'm your national anthem by lanyon
- Alternate Universe: Steve Rogers falls from a speeding train and Bucky Barnes is left to carry the mantle and the shield. In the twenty-first century, the Winter Soldier is brought in from the cold and there can be no redemption. [Steve/Natasha, Bucky/Tony]
Resurgam and the sequel Ricochet by lanyon
- Steve’s not done any research into cellists in Portland. Tony says that wasn’t very forward-thinking of him. // Steve clutches the brown paper parcel, that’s thicker than it was when he wrapped it first. He says that it’s about the journey. [Clint/Phil, Winter Soldier/Natasha]
In winter I get up at night and dress by yellow candle light by laylee
- Steve and Bucky spend the day naked and in bed.
People and Things by quigonejinn
- Steve, Natasha, the past. The smell in the room is indescribable; the way it looks is indescribable, too.
Five Times Steve and Bucky Protected Each Other During the War by storiesfortravellers
- For a prompt at comment-fic on livejournal: "Steve/Bucky, if Steve had been deployed at the same time as Bucky and never injected with the serum." Includes: their first time together, their experiences in the same army unit, etc. References to sad canon events, bullying.
The Finish Line by quigonejinn
- Your best friend comes back from the factory camp, walks thirty-five miles next to you, and you aren't sure what is wrong with him.
Ghosts by Mici (noharlembeat)
- Steve dreamed in ice and wakes up in light; now he has ghosts to face.
Pure as the driven slush by Odsbodkins
- He should have worked it out sooner. But then, Steve always was a sneaky little bastard—had to have been, just to survive this long. (For the SteveBucky Fest prompt, "Steve is quite experienced while Bucky's never gone beyond second base with anyone".)
Our Broken Parts (Smashed on the Floor) by This Girl Is (non_sequential) & the remix I'm just the man on the balcony (singing 'nobody will ever remember me') by megyal --- danger is an allure - mr. rogers & mr. barnes undercover [sc] by manueluv
- Steve is sent undercover to catch an elusive Russian assassin. He didn’t want to do it in the first place; he’s damn certain he won’t be asked again.
We Spread Our Bones Across the Table At Night by This Girl Is (non_sequential)
- Ain’t no one ever called Bucky Barnes a genius, and ain’t no one ever going to. But he isn’t stupid. Getting shipped out is a one way trip.Deep as a secret nobody knows by This Girl Is (non_sequential)
- To be fair, Steve is moderately drunk the first time. Not smashed, but drunk enough to make Tony and Clint’s ideas sound brilliant and hilarious. Or: “the story where steve gets dared to call a phone sex line and of course bucky is on the other end. and then feelings happen.”
just a lucky so-and-so by troublesteady
- The one where Captain America and the Winter Soldier play tag on the Helicarrier, to the horror of respectable SHIELD agents.
All things are well by quigonejinn
- You want to test out what this is, what he is willing to spend, so you make it a nice place. [Steve/OMC, Steve/Bucky]The World Is On Fire (Since You've Come Near) by flash0flight
- Steve feels a chuckle reverberating through Bucky’s chest, deep and warm and safe, and it’s so familiar to him that it pulls Steve’s smile wider, makes him shift and shuffle a little to settle a little closer to Bucky, tilting his head up and leaning just a little, and Bucky takes the hint with ease, tilting his head down for his lips to meet Steve’s in a soft, gentle kiss that sends sparks to the very tips of Steve’s fingers and toes, that makes him a little light-headed, fills his heart with a warmth that stays for hours.
In This New World by grimcognito
- Bucky wakes up in the modern day and when he finds out that he wasn't the only one to survive, he's not going to stop until he finds his way back to Steve.
Fortunate Son by troublesteady
- Bucky wakes up in the future to a world that needs Captain America; meanwhile, a Cold War-era supersoldier assassin emerges.
i will take your bones and with them build a home by meios
- A series of kisses.
you can be the outcast or- by haipollai
- They're supposed to be discreet, give him the illusion of privacy and freedom but everyone knows it's a lie. They're just waiting for this all to turn out to be a lie, some Department X con. // He should turn around and go back inside, because if they're right, he might shove Steve over the side. But he doesn't want them to be right. He's desperate to be Bucky Barnes again. //So he makes his way over to the edge and sits down beside Steve.
Show Us The Maps by northatlantic (breakthecitysky)
- Not a lot makes sense to Bucky any more after the rescue of the 107th, least of all Steve. Apparently, miracles don't come with explanations and they don't have to be earned but Bucky tries to deserve his anyway. More a series of vignettes than a plot.
My Heart Belongs To Brooklyn by KiiKitsune
- Things change. Steve focuses on what stays the same. Bucky keeps getting caught up on what's different.
Innermost and Underlying by quigonejinn
- Genderswap-ish version of Captain America. Stephanie steps into the injection chamber, and Steve Rogers goes to war against Hydra.
only living boy in new york by beardsley
- Steve wakes up in a VA hospital in Manhattan, and nothing is the same.
The frontiers are my prison by lanyon
- In 1950, the Winter Soldier is part of the retrieval detail that finds a crashed plane in the Arctic. The sight of Steve Rogers’ body, still breathing, breaks the Winter Soldier’s programming and he is swiftly deactivated. /// In 1951, the Winter Soldier is reactivated. He is treated with the respect befitting his current rank. He tours the facility and is pleased with progress that has been made.
The Ties That Bind by Odsbodkins
- In the eyes of God, Steve Rogers was dead. He was still breathing, still walking around, but he was dead. [a/b/o verse]
Don't Ask by AnnaFugazzi
- Captain America and Bucky Barnes were like brothers. Everyone knew that.
Uncharted by DisappointMe
- Steve gets curious and it's Bucky's civic duty to help him out. There's a chart.
In Love and War, Don't Seek Counsel by sinuous_curve
- Most of being Steve’s -- or Captain America’s, really -- right hand man entails busting into Hydra weapons factories and blowing them to hell with stolen Hydra weapons, making sure that Cap has room to use his superpowers to the greatest effect while no one on their side gets killed in the process.
Third Party by theladyingrey42
- "Your friend seems to have gotten a little less shy." /// "Stevie?" Bucky waved his hand dismissively. "Ain't shy. Just can't talk to women." /// "Wonder why," she said, and there was irony there. Like she knew. Steve looked up and met her eyes, and went cold. Yeah. She knew.
the world will be alright by siehn
- They always did live in each other's pockets, and it's so familiar it hurts.
For Sentimental Reasons by haku23
- Everyone has a soulmate - someone made for them, who with a single touch can hold a place in a person's heart through life, death, and everything in between. Steve is 10 when he meets James Buchanan Barnes.
- Abandoned WIP (ch14)
(Why Couldn't It Last) Last Night by 51stCenturyFox
- “Do you even know how to kiss a girl? I already know you can’t make time with one, but baby steps.”
Captain America and the Howling Commandos: 1943-1945 by AgeOfAlejandro
- "Subtle about what?" Bucky asked, peering sleepily at the cover: Captain America and the Howling Commandos: 1943-1945 by Fredick Williams. "Us? And why're you reading that? You were there."
We've Been Here Before by kehinki
- He’s either going mad (finally), or he’s being haunted, which isn’t all that surprising. If Steve doesn't have the decency to stay dead, it'd be silly to expect anything else would.
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow by cjmarlowe
- Bucky turned it over and over in his head that Steve had never been with a girl. It had honestly just never occurred to him, because it was Steve and Bucky thought Steve was just about the greatest guy in town. Everyone else should have thought that too.
If you see me down the street Spylace
- Clint calls them disturbingly Twilight, minus the pro-life message and the hot moms. Bruce makes a more erudite observation that they’re more like Apuleius’s Cupid and Psyche but he’s wrong too because that would make the Avengers his jealous sisters and Nick Fury his mother-in-law.
i heard love is blind by girl0nfire
- Steve keeps bringing home guys that look like Bucky; Bucky keeps bringing home guys that look like Steve. Sam just wants to drink his coffee in peace. (Guest appearances by nearly every character Sebastian Stan and Chris Evans have ever played. Really.)
eye of the beholder by attice
- Bucky doesn’t like Steve’s drawings. Not the way everyone else does, at least.
Learning How to Appreciate New Patterns by zarabithia
- Steve has every intention of baking a pie to take to Thanksgiving dinner. It's not his fault that a bad case of nostalgia and sexual frustration interrupts his efforts and causes him to end up making eight batches of fudge instead. (Sam/Sharon/Natasha)
Let the Only Sound by caughtinanocean
- Bucky sells his soul to protect Steve. /// “I can save him,” the man says. “In exchange for—” /// “Yes,” Bucky tells him. /// The man laughs. “You don't know my terms.” /// Bucky says, “I don't care.”
the dark horse keeps on fighting by haipollai
- James, he goes by James now, is nervous and Steve feels bad making him wait. He stops the bag's swinging. “Can I help you?” /// “You know me.” /// Steve takes a shaky breath and nods, staring down at his feet because he doesn't want to face whatever look is on James's face. “I did.” /// “You know they say I'll never remember anything.”
we are the children of great empires by haipollai
- James Barnes stares at himself in the mirror. His mouth forms the shape of his name. Repeats it over and over, tries to remember what it was like when it was his. Before being Yakov. (He was born in Indiana. He was born to parents in Leningrad. His family is all dead either way.) They all tell him he's safe here. The Soviet Union can no longer touch him, all safeguards and kill switches have been removed. He's American just like he used to be, they say.
Heart Shaped Balloons (And Other Swiss Miracles) by misura
- Bucky Barnes changes history as the Western world would never know it by waking up in a Swiss hospital. (post-train raid AU)
Garden State by attice
- The thing is, Steve’s the kind of guy who tells people to be quiet in movie theaters not because he can’t hear the movie, but because somebody can’t hear the movie; he’s the kind of guy that sticks up for mothers in clothing stores not because they’re his mother, but because they’re somebody’s mother. He’s the kind of guy that— (It takes seven shots.)
you swallow my heart and flee by paregmenon
- Captain America loves Peggy, this much is true. Steve can relate to Peggy, but both of them know the truth. This is the deepest secret that nobody knows, this is the deepest secret that nobody can know.
Noone Here to Save by toujours_nigel
- For whitmans_kiss, to her prompt: Bucky managed to hang on long enough for Steve to pull him back onto the train. Later that night, Steve is still trying to get drunk (now for entirely different reasons) - only it's Bucky who comes to talk to him instead of Peggy.
he was dead anyway by endquestionmark
- “Some girls like that, you know,” he confided. /// “The Mother Superior?” Steve said, confusion writ large across his face. /// “Nah,” Bucky said, emphatically not thinking about that. “Choking. Just like they like hair-pulling.”
Five Tries by nimmieamee
- Four times Steve Rogers tried to find his best friend a family, and one time a family found him. Or, alternately, five times Steve and Bucky were nearly separated by adoption.
Pictograph by cjmarlowe
- War is dirty, in more ways than Bucky could've imagined.
The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine (Part 1 of
The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine) by Wynn
- Bucky returns from a Valentine's Day date to the apartment he shares with Steve to find the window wide open and Steve shivering on the bathroom floor. Exasperated snark and irritated concern ensue.
Off by a Thousand Miles by lanyon
- Bucky, a Brooklyn-based cop, has his head turned by Steve Rogers, who's just opened up a flower shop in his neighbourhood. It all goes horribly wrong when a string of murders leads to Steve being the prime suspect
Take Me Home by anoneknewmoose
- Steve is Bucky's center; Bucky can do anything with Steve's help.
listen to your heart (but don't say goodbye to me) by CinnamonCake
- There is a Hades, and there is a Persephone. /// They’re just not the ones you’d expect.
Source Decay by psikeval
- Slowly, and never quite the way Steve imagined, Bucky comes home.
this is a back alley by Febricant
- Steve is looking for it, waiting, and there- fear, something in Bucky’s eyes he’d seen so rarely before the war, and so often during, early in the morning, late at night when he thought Steve was asleep next to him.
you got blood on your hands (and i know it's mine) by nighimpossible
- Bucky refuses to see Steve after his deprogramming. (Sam/Natasha)
Under Ice by fmo
- 'Steve goes to find Fury, who also says no before Steve can get a word out. “It’s not gonna work, Cap,” Fury says. “I know you like rescuing people, but he’s a Soviet assassin with a worm in his brain and he’s in the safest place he can be.” / “I just want to talk to him,” Steve says. “Clint says he might even be close to my age. I think it would be healthy for me to talk to someone who shared an experience like mine,” he adds, deploying his best 2014 talk with almost total sincerity.
Take this pulse with you by honeypuffed
- Bucky develops a fixation with Steve's heartbeat, over the years.
i revive, see it when i come alive by biggrstaffbunch
- He falls. You follow after. When you drag him from the water, he is water-logged and heavy. He lies on the ground, broken and bloody. Even that feels more like a memory than it should. So you leave him by the water, and you run. /// Bucky, in the aftermath.
miles to go before i sleep by Avelera
- Steve finds Bucky outside of the Smithsonian and invites him home.
Parachute by RemoCon
- Sam would follow Steve anywhere. But he didn't expect Barnes to follow him into Starbucks.
but the fires are coming by stitchingatthecircuitboard
- He does not remember, except that is better than being made to forget, again, and again, and again. He does not go to Brooklyn.
1943 in film &
we share our mother's health by tigrrmilk
- Bucky hated Captain America. // “I didn’t ask for you to do this,” Steve says, as he cleans Bucky’s back, a few minutes before Steve’s mother will come in and take over. And no, this, this is the most offended Bucky has ever been, because he knows, and nobody needs to tell him what he should or shouldn’t do because he knows, he’s always known.
Gravitation by Odsbodkins
- He couldn't remember when he first started feeling the pull. Perhaps it was too long ago, or perhaps it had been gradual, something that crept up on him. But by the time he was sixteen, Bucky knew that the axis of his world spun around Steve Rogers in the worst possible way.
A Bullet in the Barrel (of your best guy's gun) by lc2l
- You return to the concrete hole in the ground where the mission is not dead and not in the sewers and is looking at you. "Bucky," says Rogers, Steve (deceased).
we did not make ourselves by M_Leigh
- It is like steel, the determination inside of you that tells you you will achieve this, that you will find him. Nothing will stop you. You are two sides of the same coin, you and he: he cannot escape you forever. // Bucky runs. Steve follows.
young hearts, out our minds by junko (principessa)
- Bucky posts a selfie of the two of them in bed to his instagram. He hashtags it #goodmorningamerica. Sam Wilson and Pepper Potts retweet it to their twitter accounts.
Soft Spot for the Hell Raisin' Boy by ifeelbetter
- The Winter Soldier takes an interest in Sam Wilson. Bucky Barnes wants to tell him how to be Steve Rogers's best friend.
hold me tight by hollimichele
- In the old days, before the war, Steve got cold at night. That was all it was, at first.
Reconstruction Site by EmilianaDarling
- He is the Winter Soldier. He is James Buchanan Barnes. He’s not one and he’s not the other, and he’s not sure if that makes him anything worth saving. // In which the Winter Soldier leads Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson on a wild goose chase through Eastern Europe so that he can learn more about the man who actually thinks he can be saved.
I was dreaming while you sat dying by Spylace
- Steve suffers from a recurring nightmare.
you wanted a taste of it by haipollai
- Steve feels it clawing at his mind, hazy and blue and insidious. He pushes back with everything he has but the haze makes it harder. He can't find the edges of himself in it and he feels himself slipping. So with one last effort, he forces the haze away and flees, seeking out his one old place of safety. And everything goes black. (Bodyswap)
Wooden Horse For Two (There are Worse Things in This World) by jannika
- ...Maybe he doesn't need to remember everything, maybe he just needs to remember enough. Bucky does a lot of research and a lot of observing, Steve is persistent and Sam is patient.
it's been a long, long time by junko (principessa)
- Stephanie Rogers realizes that she doesn't want to die. Stephanie Rogers kicks to the surface, and she was never a good swimmer, but she pulls herself up onto a slab of ice, scrabbling for land, spitting out water anyway. (Or, in which Stephanie doesn't die in the plane crash, and she and Private Lorraine rescue Bucky Barnes, take down HYDRA from the inside, and have Friday Girl's Nights.)
Captain Hot Perfect Teacher by captainrum
- Steve is a fifth grade teacher. Bucky is a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, whose son is in Steve's class. They meet at a parent-teacher conference. There's blood involved.
yourself (or someone like you) by biggrstaffbunch
- "Here is the root of the truth, the crawling dark thing that lives under the earth, hidden from eye: Bucky does remember. He just wishes he didn't." /// It's not the Winter Soldier's memories that Bucky fears the most.
The Steven G. Rogers Guide to What You Missed the Last Few Years by what_alchemy
- Steve's got the hang of this 21st century thing.
Past Tense by Ark
- Steve Rogers is falling from the sky.
four dreams in a row (Part 1 of burned, about to burn, still on fire) by ataxophilia
- But Bucky is in your head. You're not sure if he's real, or if he was put there, or if you've created him, like some kind of coping mechanism born of an empty mind and one man's reaction to your face, but he's there.
Run Until the Road Runs Out by ignipes
- Sam's along for this ride because he's not about to let Steve Rogers go it alone, but Steve's not the only one who needs a friend.
You are sure to find (If you walk long enough) by Spylace
- Bucky is healed through the power of kittens.
Ghost and Machine by cynassa
- Six ways things could turn out after the end of 'The Winter Soldier'
Greetings by StringTheori
- "It’s not that Bucky wants to be a draft dodger. He’s no coward. Sure, he doesn’t go out looking for fights like a certain someone seems to love but it doesn’t make him some cowering child hiding in the dark stairwells. Steve is the one of them that wants to serve in the military - his patriotic duty or something equally high ended and moral."
Promises Murder Us Backwards by Febricant
- It's not really starting over if you've never let go in the first place.
words that became hard to say by defcontwo
- Here's the thing about growing up like they have, though. You get pretty used to the line between wanting and having; you get pretty used to how wide and vast and unsurmountable it is.
it's a love story, baby just say yes by KiaraSayre
- "Eyes on the prize, Widow: we're getting Captain America and Bucky laid, with each other. That's the op. Got it?"
the cold calculus of war by occamstireiron
- The mathematics of it don't make sense. You do not continue to sink costs into retrieving and repairing an irreparably broken asset. Not when more viable options are open to you.
build the walls (tear them down) by valeriestahl
- He wishes Steve’s fingers would leave hard bruises and his teeth would leave scars.
you were my greatest downfall by balthazar
- Steve Rogers wields a shield that represents America and all her prestigious forces. But there's nothing glorious about selling your soul to an infrastructure that doesn't give a damn whether you're alive or dead. Bucky knows this for a fact. The shield isn't a coat of arms— it's a goddamn death sentence. (But then again, death is considered glory where you come from.)
testament by paxlux
- His memory runs backwards in crooked bright flashes, hard as the noise flare of an assault rifle.
Find My Way by Brenda
- Well, someone had to write the post-Winter Soldier fic where Bucky gets a decent meal and some homemade apple pie, right?
Swap by biggrstaffbunch
- Steve and Bucky switch bodies. Nothing of substance happens from that moment on. (bodyswap)
Permission by derekstilinski
- After Bucky’s captured by SHIELD, they put him in a holding cell, and strip him of everything but his clothes. He’s dirty, damaged, and Steve can’t just watch him like that, protocol or not.
have you ever thought just maybe by Desdemon
- “JARVIS,” Tony called thoughtfully. // “Yes, sir?” // “Those young people are in love,” he said.
Out of the Dead Land by emilyenrose (earlier version on LJ)
- Someone is building machines that look and act like people. Meanwhile, the Winter Soldier tries to be Bucky Barnes.
Drawn From Life by littlerhymes
- "I remember," Bucky says, but that's not entirely true.
your favorite ghost by augustbird
- It's harder than Steve ever expected to bring Bucky home.
like a robot from nineteen-eighty-four by junko (principessa)
- “Everyone is conspiring against me,” Steve laments, and Bucky pats his cheek. // “Poor baby,” he mocks. “Do you need me to protect you from the mean people on the internet?” // Steve sniffs self-righteously. “Yes.”
my love, he laughs like the flowers (alternatively: how everyone living in Avengers Tower ended up wearing flower crowns) by janie_tangerine
- ...Or: where Sam hadn't thought that buying Steve a flower crown would have escalated into what Tony dubs the great flower crown stint during which my tower turned into a hippie commune, Steve finds creative ways to confess his feelings and Bucky is entirely too happy to be at the receiving end of it. Also, Clint is regretting that he doesn't have SHIELD insurance anymore - his teeth might start to rot at some point soon.
Mistake on the Part of Nature by idiopathicsmile
- Steve takes in Bucky's betrayed look and Sam's confusion, follows Sam's gaze to the pile of mangled fruit in the trash can. Sudden comprehension fills his face. "Oh," he says. "Bucky found out about bananas." // In which an American icon is mourned. But probably not the one you're thinking of.
Slowly But Surely by Deminos
- Steve's asthma makes embracing intimacy between him and Bucky difficult in the small apartment they share in a Brooklyn that's crumbling and cold around them, but that doesn't stop them both from trying. It's the little comforts that make surviving the times so much more bearable, knowing that they have each other.
I've Been Funny, I've Been Cool With The Lines by nerdwegian
- Steve's not jealous.
Norman Rockwell, Eat Your Heart Out by dancingloki
- Steve wouldn't have believed that Bucky could even light a stove, much less bake like a champ.
stars go waltzing out by FreshBrains
- Who am I? Who are you? Where am I? It scared him when he asked himself those questions. It scared him shitless, because sometimes he didn’t know how to answer.
Nightcall by thegrimshapeofyoursmile
- ..."You have a strange taste in men," James replies without thinking and when he realizes what he is doing he hands over the sketch pad as quickly as possible. He does not flirt with people nor does he try to find out more about their tastes that easily. Not anymore. // Little guy just smiles, looks at him with blue, blue eyes and says, "Well, what are your tastes, then?"
Count the Rings Around My Eyes by caughtinanocean
- In the wake of his time with Arnim Zola, Bucky doesn't trust anyone to tend his wounds—Steve, however, is not just anyone.
Scratched Ragged and Rubbed Raw and This Lonely Hour Before Daybreak by TheOnlyCheeseLeft
- “How are you gonna sleep tonight,” Bucky asked, letting his head fall back against the wall and closing his eyes, “knowing that a guy who tried to kill you is sleeping in the next room?” // “Like a baby,” Steve said.
Through the notches in your spine by caughtinanocean
- Bucky Barnes has been broken down to nothing, and he has been pulled back together again, and this—this is the part where he lives. /// “Are you sure you're ready for this?” Steve asks, stroking the point of Bucky's hipbone with the pad of his thumb. He is naked and he is perfect and sometimes Bucky isn't sure that he knows how to want things anymore, but Bucky wants him.
no heart to recall by KiaraSayre
- He's been in Steve Rogers's company for less than twenty-four hours and he's already losing sight of his mission.
i was found and now i don't roam these streets by hipsterchrist
- They’ve decided to start producing Bucky Bears again, now that he’s all shiny and redeemed and fighting for good on this big Avengers misfits team. "He has a little shiny gray arm," Bucky says, wiggling the stuffed arm in question, one of the tweaks made in the new model. It takes Steve a second to realize that Bucky’s got a small smile on his face, actually looks a little bit proud around the eyes. // Or, Bucky relearns himself and how to be on a team, the rest of the Avengers try to get answers, and everyone watches too much Criminal Minds.
Apple Cake (and other remedies for an ailing soul) by Mici (noharlembeat)
- It is something that’s mentioned in the Smithsonian exhibit, for reasons that Steve cannot actually parse. He is an American Hero (so they say) who saved New York (more than once), and under all that information on one of the see-through plastic descriptions of his heroic deeds is, for some unintelligible reason, the sentence, “he currently resides in the D.C. Metro area, and his favorite food is apple cake.”
the inaccuracy of historical wartime dramas by Mici (noharlembeat)
- There was nothing wrong with Howling Commandos, not really. It was new and shiny, made only six months before Steve woke up and on the brink of cancellation until it was announced that Captain America was found, at which point ratings skyrocketed. Steve would have heard of the series, except that he was too busy figuring out his phone, handling alien invasions, and battling crippling depression (that he would not admit to anyone, even himself). The result was that 25 episodes later, Howling Commandos was the most popular television shows about the war on the planet, with a loyal following, and Steve was almost totally oblivious. (or: Steve has feelings, and shouldn't ever watch television)
Escape by Sholio
- Missing scene for Captain America: The First Avenger -- freeing the prisoners was just the start of getting away.
Let's Be Exposed and Unprotected by torakowalski
- Bucky’s pretty sure he should be into getting fucked through the floor while walls explode around him like in that Mr and Mrs Smith movie that Clint loves. But he likes it like this. He likes being on his back with Steve looming above him, big and naked, blocking out the rest of the world.
You Would Never Call Me Baby (If You Knew Me Truly) by th_esaurus
- When a fella asked him what he did, he replied that he was a boxer. "You win a lotta fights?" / "Yeah," Bucky spat. "All of 'em."
this is not a drive by spocktrek
- "God, he can’t stop smiling, and it must be infectious because a slow grin is stretching across Steve’s face, and now he’s the one looking at Bucky from up under his eyelashes and asking, “How have we not met before?” / And, really, that’s the question isn’t it." // Otherwise known as: The Bucky Barnes Hot Dad AU or The One Where Steve Crashes All Of Bucky's Dates Without Really Trying
Come To Morning by emilyenrose
- He figured it was natural, kind of—well, not natural, but he and Steve spent a lot of time together, and Steve didn’t get so much attention from girls, which was a crying shame because he was a good guy and a girl could do a lot worse. But it meant maybe Steve got a bit confused, because sometimes he would look at Bucky with this look. This bright, astonished look, like he was seeing something so good he couldn’t quite believe it was real. It made Bucky squirm inside, a little.
though i know the river is dry by defcontwo
- This is what he knows of the man he used to be, all that remains when you strip him down to his disparate parts and leave him with nothing but skin, bones and kevlar: Bucky Barnes had a protective streak a mile long and the Winter Soldier thinks -- the Winter Soldier thinks, all right, let's start with that.
Save All Your Kisses by johnnystorm
- There’s a knock on the door. There’s no wondering who it is. Steve hesitates for the slightest moment before he opens it, though – Bucky’s been at Basic three months, and it’s silly – and selfish – but he can’t help wondering if Bucky had changed. Had filled out a bit more, even though he didn’t need to, or if he’d just become like one of those regular Army types Steve saw on the newsreels.
Take a Deep Breath by enjambament
- Steve and Sam chase the Winter Soldier's trail of cold cases across Europe. Meanwhile, Bucky keeps an eye on their progress. As his memories return, he begins to find it harder and harder to sleep and there's only one person he can think to turn to. A lot of emotionally repressed bed-sharing ensues.
One Day We Won’t Have to Be Scared by Paraxdisepink
- Written for this prompt: Steve and Bucky are at a gay bar in the 30s, and some guy offers them money to take pictures of them as they fuck. They need the money, they say yes, and pretty much forget about it afterwards. The pictures come out years later.
our golden age by augustbird
- Wherein Bucky is the crown prince and Steve still becomes a hero.
Have you no idea that you're in deep? by theladyingrey42
- Bucky wanted Steve to understand. The future could feel fucking awesome. At least when it was vibrating in your ass. [PWP]
A Good Fight by togina
- “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.'
The Words that Were by OddityBoddity
- Bucky is starting to remember the things he'd really rather keep forgetting.
Reaching For What We Can't See by WhatTheBodyGraspsNot
- ...The depression that has resulted from being The Winter Soldier has left Bucky with little to no interest in sex. Seeing as he was more than interested in it before the war, Bucky is rightfully perturbed, even setting out to try to get that spark back . And Steve, well Steve is his rock through it all--always is, really.
You Were Standing There by thebrotherswinchester
- Bucky accidentally breaks into the wrong house while drunk. The wrong house happens to belong to Steve Rogers. [Natasha/Sam]
held between heaven and hell by featherxxdreams
- While there is something wolfish about Barnes, Rogers is incredibly, irrevocably human. He’s sick six days out of seven, twenty hours out of twenty-four, and the fact that he’s still alive and kicking is rooted more in human stubbornness than supernatural biology.
The Way Up by dirtybinary
- It's a long road to recovery, but Bucky's got this. Breaking into Steve's apartment sounds like a good start.
give me your answer do (Part 1 of a bicycle built for two) by lazulisong
- Bucky knows it's going to be a bad one when Steve wakes up again, lifts his head up from the side of Bucky's fancy electric hospital bed, and says, "Now don't get mad until I explain." // His voice has the tone that had meant he'd got into another fight and had two black eyes, or found a HYDRA nest and accidentally forgotten to tell Bucky or the other Howlies that he was going in to clear it out, or that he'd met a stray dog on the way home from the store and given it his share of meat for supper and was planning to eat boiled potatoes and stale bread, while expecting Bucky to eat his own share of the meat as if it didn't choke him.
Most Of All by thebrotherswinchester
- Five times Bucky dances with Steve.
The Supersoldiers’ Amnesiac Groom by casspeach
- Steve Rogers has always known that the supersoldier serum was a gift, and he’s never been afraid to do what’s right. // When Uncle Sam asks him to unite the two sides of the Cold War by taking part in a symbolic union with a fabled Russian assassin, Captain America doesn’t hesitate to do his duty. // Little does he know how thoroughly his world is going to be turned upside down.
The Dud by nimmieamee
- When he was eight or nine, Bucky Barnes was the secret sworn enemy of the dud newsie. [gen]
Ran to the Devil, He was Waitin' by Mojanna
- Bucky is the mirror man, an urban legend whispered to kids to make them go to bed nice and quiet.
i'm a fool with a curse and a crush by spocktrek
- "He is, of course, slightly confused as to why Steve has been so willing to hang out with him, considering Steve wears khaki pants and tucks his shirt into his belt, but figures if Steve is weird for hanging out with a kid who wears smudged eyeliner and metal studded leather around his wrists, then Bucky is also weird for voluntarily spending time with a skinny as fuck asthmatic who shines his shoes and combs his hair into place every morning." aka skinny!steve and punk!bucky, who are really just two teenagers in love
home is a feeling i buried in you by chokingontheirhalos
- Bucky's always gotta be so careful, and so careful not to look like he's being careful. [PWP]
happy is what happens when your dreams come true by KiaraSayre
- Steve just wanted his best friend back. He gets it, and it's not easier. [gen]
Impasto by typefortydeductions
- Steve gets lost in art, and Bucky finds himself again.
Cheap Night by autoschediastic
- Steve thinks his night might be better off spent getting decked behind the diner again. [PWP-ish]
I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend by MonstrousRegiment
- Bucky (the appallingly punk kid) gets drunk and accidentally breaks into Steve's (the outrageously hipster kid) apartment. / Honest mistake! He was trying to break into Natasha's next door. / Romance happens. (Somehow.)
I Didn't Know What Time It Was by MoreThanSlightly (cadignan)
- It’s been two days now. He knows it would be logical to get out of the city, but he’s waiting for something. Against everything he knows about hiding, he went to the exhibit on Captain America at the Smithsonian and looked at a photo of a stranger who might have been his twin from seventy years ago. He’s not sure what he wanted. An epiphany of some kind, a feeling of doors opening and light flooding in; whatever it was, it never came.
the lucky ones by defcontwo
- "Is it permanent?" When it happens, he’s not surprised.
Memories are Made of This by eleveninches
- Nearly a year after turning himself into SHIELD and the Avengers, Bucky struggles to find himself in the 21st century. Unfortunately, no one told him about the aliens.
Drawing by nothingwrongwiththerain
- Bucky wouldn’t be the only one dealing with memories, painful reminders of what has been taken away, what could be lost.
heavy metal love of mine (Part 1 of the you make me happy series) by junko (principessa)
- Jamie looks at her strangely. “I've literally been home for five minutes,” she says. “Didn't you hear me coming in?” / Stella blushes red and curls up, defensive. “I'm not wearing my hearing aids,” she mumbles. Jamie curls an arm around the smaller woman and drags her closer. / “Yeah, sure,” she says, easy-going in a lazy drawl. “Or, there's the real reason you didn't hear me coming in, which is that I'm a Soviet cyborg assassin come to kill you.”
Run (Part 1 of the Run/Walk/Crawl series) by nothingwrongwiththerain
- 1940s. Steve is no stranger to starting a fight he can't finish - but Bucky is always there to back him up. No matter the cost.
we'll always get to choose by carnies
- You know what happens next: there is never really a happy ending, but there never is an ending anyway, so you can hardly be blamed. And, look here – here are different ways it plays out, but it is always the same, isn't it: Steve is in Bucky’s arms, and Bucky is on the bridge, no, Steve is on the bridge, and they are both falling.
The Happiness You Bring To Me by robokittens
- It was easier before he knew, when he thought Bucky was just … going out and being queer, then coming home and being normal.
An End Weight by hannathing
- He wears his pain like a tattoo on his body. Bucky has chronic pain. He think it isn't a big deal until it is.
Learn How To Bend by nerdwegian
- "Okay, let's say you see someone, a stranger, but you decide that you maybe want to get to know them better, how would you--how would you go about doing that?" / In which there's terrible dating advice, terrible Starbucks drinks, and a whole lot of denial.
Nothing But Death by radialarch
- Steve can't escape the war. [Time loop AU.]
To the One I've Sinned Against by Dira Sudis (dsudis)
- He knelt, touched his fingers to forehead, chest, left shoulder, right, and said more words than the soldier could ever remember speaking together. // They came in a well-worn fluent rush, easier than any post-mission report: "Bless me Father, for I have sinned. It has been a long time since my last confession."
Guns Not Butter by reserve
- It's 1941. Bucky Barnes lives with his best friend Steve Rogers, and all Bucky wants is to do right by him. That means he'll do anything.
Put Walk Among Us On and Turn it Up (Part 1 of the No Finer Mess To Be Found series) by essieincinci
- When Bucky was sixteen and drunk for the first time (on schnapps, dear god, not that he ever admits that part) he let his friend’s greaseball older brother talk him into a homemade stab-n-stick that is just… awful. He walks into the shop from the business card late at night, and a little guy in a too-big hoodie and skinny jeans looks up from the counter. The Chubby!Punk!Bucky meets Tiny!TattooArtist!Steve AU.
History Painting by M_Leigh
- “We’ll go there one day,” Bucky adds a moment later, back to his bright self again, grinning, cocky. “All those fucking places with all that fucking art. You can tell me all about it. Paintings and sculptures and all that crap.” A chronicle of looking at art across the decades, and two birthdays.
the body adrift by Febricant
- Steve has no drawings of Bucky from before. Those are all gone, destroyed in the war or by his own hand; it wouldn’t do for anyone to see how easily the details came from memory, how often Bucky was in his thoughts.
It Still Moves by kvikindi
- Bucky, cut loose, is an object in motion.
Unusual Weather by novembersmith
- Bucky’s been at the Avengers Tower for three weeks before he finally gives in to Steve’s gentle coaxing and Stark’s cheerful waving of fistfuls of circuits, and lets them scan the arm. It doesn’t go well. [PWP-ish]
but I am hell bound by SerpaSas
- Steve is like the goddamn sun, and you aren't even anything as important as the moon; maybe once you were something but now all you are is the mudcaked boots and blood stained uniforms, the bodies you have made, the lead in the bullets in your rifle.
Gravity by scribblemetimbers
- Bucky Barnes was just walking along the park and minding his own damn business when a bundle of blonde hair and skinny elbows slammed into him from above. // In which Steve is being all noble and rescuing shit from trees of questionable stability and Bucky is the unsuspecting schmuck who happens to be passing under him. // There’s a pick-up line for this. Right?
the irresistible sea is to separate us by Ark
- Bucky is angrier at Steve than he’s ever been in his whole life. // Steve has made a lot of damn punk fool decisions before, and Bucky’s tried to head off as many at the pass; but there is no accounting for this Captain America horseshit. None. [PWP-ish]
Haunted by biblionerd07
- Steve never forgets that Bucky's gone. Bucky's ghost won't let him.
Eagle by idek_idic
- So, to hear Steve tell it, he'd done the only reasonable thing available to him in the situation presented. / 'I was taking your advice, Buck!' he said, with a strong emphasis on the your, as if Bucky had sat him down and told him, explicitly, that he better not come home until he'd done something utterly insane and reckless. / 'I told you not to get into any fights!' Bucky replied, throwing his hands up into the air. 'I just said to go and get pick up some dinner from the automat! Not go and steal-- goddammit, Steve! Should I have been more specific, or less?'
Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Speranza
- Natasha wanted to tell him the whole story of wartime London and the pub and seeing who Steve Rogers was before he lost everything, and meeting The Winter Soldier only to find out that he was just a young charmer named Bucky Barnes.
darling, you've left your mark by defcontwo
- They know what they are to each other. Jealousy is a waste of time. [others]
The Portfolio of Pining by so_shhy
- Bucky is a fashion photographer and pines over Steve for approximately four years. [Steve/Sam, Bucky/Tony, end: Stucky]
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen by Laura JV (jacquez)
- Bucky Barnes and the Great Sexuality Crisis of 1938.
Who Cares What the Good Book Says by queuedepoisson
- ... Steve has a particular habit that drives Bucky to distraction. So much so that one day he finally does something about it. // Setting: 1932 Brooklyn. Steve and Bucky are 14 and in the 8th grade at Holy Trinity Catholic School for Boys, where they board as well.
And Love, that sleepeth there, will keep thee warm by die_traumerei
- A short moment between Steve and Bucky, wherein Bucky takes a break from debauching Captain America to worry about what Steve thinks of the whole metal arm thing. [PWP]
Parallel Constructions by freshbakedlady
- In the absence of orders, the man wearing the face of Bucky Barnes must figure out who he will be. The answer, mostly, is "somebody Steve Rogers can love." Nothing so easy should ever take this much work.
Living in Your Letters by biblionerd07
- Bucky finds one of Steve's notepads that he uses to write his lists about the future, but this one's different. It's full of letters--to Bucky.
You Stand Alone to Every Record I Own by thatdamneddame
- Bucky Barnes is eighteen, a senior in highschool, and totally in love with his best friend. It's okay. He'll either get over it or sleep with every hipster twink in college who's in a band. At least, that's what Natasha says.
ampersand by kaydeefalls
- They've been steveandbucky since they were kids, but that ignores the parts of their lives that don't wrap around each other, that never did. (Bucky needs to figure out who he is, just him, with or without Steve.)
tin soldiers by idrilka
- In his 2009 book on Captain America comic books, war photography, and American propaganda, Everett claims: “There is nothing to suggest that either the graphic novels issued during the war or the photographs taken during Rogers’ stay with the Howling Commandos can serve as a basis for a queer reading of Rogers and Barnes’ relationship. But even more importantly, there is nothing to suggest that such a relationship ever existed in the first place, and as such, those queer readings are not only misguided, but also libelous” (197). [from: Lynn E. Anderson, Captain America: Behind the Mask. Steve Rogers and the Contemporary Hero Narrative (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), p. 242.] /// In the aftermath of Steve's return to the world of the living and the battle of New York, the academia and the Internet react.
On The Cusp by thebrotherswinchester
- Bucky is a rich kid. Steve is his butler. It doesn't stop them from being best friends.
war: a sketchbook by tomato_greens
- Bucky's never had more leisure time than fighting the goddamn Nazis.
i've been living in bed by everybodylies
- The year is 1943. Captain America dies while in enemy territory, and Bucky Barnes becomes the Winter Soldier. // A different kind of AU.
We'll Cross That Bridge by ilien
- The man who used to be Bucky Barnes is struggling to regain his memories. It's slow, but sometimes the important parts come back.
A Century of Sleep, Vexed to Nightmare by Firefly_Ca
- Once, when they’re talking about his work with the V.A., Sam mentions that bad memories have a way of burrowing themselves deep down inside a person’s mind, waiting for an unguarded moment to push their way back to the surface. At the time, Steve couldn't help but think it was unfair, that the worst moments of your life are the ones that never leave you. But memories are apparently complicated, especially when they get tangled together with emotion. Sometimes the memories that cause the most pain come hand-in-hand with the key to putting yourself back together. // (A.K.A. AU where Steve and Bucky meet in a reform school, bad things happen, things get better, then worse, time passes, angst again, and finally violence of the intensely satisfying variety.)
sharing beds like little kids by tesselated
- Steve and Bucky are childhood best friends who get separated when they're thirteen and Steve moves away. Five year later, they see each other at a party. /// It seemed to Bucky that there had to be a certain all-encompassing awkwardness in going up to the guy you loved best when you were twelve and saying “Hey buddy, remember me?”
No Gods, No Masters, Just Me by OddityBoddity
- Bucky Barnes is free. No gods, no masters. It's going to be a god damned shit show.
Sebomai by Teabiscuit
- Sebomai: to worship, to show reverence and respect. Etymology for the name Sebastian. // Bucky is in love with Steve and with the saints. He cannot tell where the two separate.
when the sun goes down by castiel_has_the_tardis
- The thing is, Steve knows this is a bad idea.
if ever I feel better by lazulisong
- For once in his life, Steve has managed to time the day where he's still too weak to object to being spoiled but not so weak and sick that he's scaring the devil out of Bucky to line up with a day that Bucky can stay home and spoil him.
Karma's a Bitch by KiaraSayre
- Steve and Sam get Bucky a dog. The regrets begin almost immediately.
Adoring by Dira Sudis (dsudis) & Stevedore [song] by stereokem
- "You don't, Buck, adoring's for saints. I ain't a saint." // "Sure you are." Bucky got back to kissing his way down, licking along the slightly sweaty line of Steve's sharp collarbone, and then remembered he'd been in the middle of saying something. "Patron saint of Barnes. Barneses. Me." [PWP]
Let's Fall in Love by Desdemon
- “I really am sorry, dollface,” Bucky said, his eyes huge and stupid. “I’m just flapping my gums, you know what a chucklehead I am.”
All Over Again by fmo
- Steve wakes up in 1944, where everyone is still alive. Where Bucky is still alive. // It's not as simple as it seems.
Wanderings by sariane
- With their names at the top of SHIELD's Most Wanted lists, Steve takes Bucky - the Winter Soldier - and runs to save him. Bucky isn't sure why he goes with Steve, especially after everything he's done, or why Steve is giving him a second chance. He only knows that he owes it to Steve to try.
A History of Birds by OddityBoddity
- "You look like him," Bucky says. No prompting, no nothing. He just speaks, like this is a thing he does. // "What?" Steve asks. He didn’t really hear it, too stunned by the fact that words were coming out of Bucky’s mouth to understand their meaning. // "You look like him. So did Pierce." His voice is soft, gravelly from disuse. "Is that why they picked you?" // Steve’s heart plunges like an elevator with the cables cut. “Buck, it is me.” // The hard line of Bucky’s mouth softens just a little. “Sure,” he says.
Thief by biblionerd07
- Bucky always did have sticky fingers, but he'd never been an actual thief until Steve came along. Five times Bucky stole for Steve, but kind of more for himself.
The Pugilists by ipoiledi
- There’s only one way Steve wants it when he gets like this, and nice ain’t the word for it, that’s for damn sure. [PWP]
With a Short Temper and a Loooong Arm by sandwichtree
- Bucky's life flashes before his eyes on several occasions, none more relevant than the day he lets Sam and Steve find him in Canada.
Matinee Idol by fmo
- Bucky Barnes is known for breaking absolutely anyone’s fingers when paid well to do it, but Steve definitely doesn’t exactly know that. “You sure are popular, Buck,” Steve says. // Bucky slings his arm around Steve’s shoulders. “I meet a lot of people,” he says.
Just You by biblionerd07
- 5 times Bucky left the crowd behind to be with Steve, +1 time Steve returned the favor.
so i go (but we know i'll see you down the line) by idekman
- Wow, drunk-Bucky is an asshole. ...(In which Bucky Barnes accidentally falls in love on a train.)
Horizontal Asymmetry by Strange_radio
- They trade gear for emergency disguise purposes; Bucky digs it. (PWP)
Unfreeze by storiesfortravellers
- Five times Bucky worried about Steve. // Future fic set several years after CA:TWS, when Bucky and Steve are living together and in an established relationship.
Impossible Measurements by nimmieamee
- "Steve, pal," said Bucky. Then every cell in his body swelled with the impossibility of this statement: "I love you."
your bones are mine to save (my bones are yours to break) by biggrstaffbunch
- "Come get me if you're gonna fight, Stevie," he says. You try to remember.
Baby You Should Stick Around by Febricant, neenya
- If somebody had told Steve he and Bucky would end up raising Bucky's clone as their son, he'd probably have- wait, no, he wouldn't have done anything, because nobody would ever have said that. And yet. Here they are.
Poltergeists by dirtybinary
- When the helicarriers blow up and the Winter Soldier goes on the run, he takes Steve with him. He's got a name written in Morse code on the inside of his arm, a ton of questions he doesn't know how to ask, and now, a new handler with absolutely zero sense of self-preservation to contend with. Life is hard. // In which Bucky tries to figure out whether he's a human being, Steve does everything he can to keep from losing him again, they go on a HYDRA killing spree across the country, and there are lots of explosions. [background Natasha/Sam]
Whatever Still Shines by rhenia_ra
- A few moments later, Steve clears his throat. “You make a habit of punching out rich guys?” / “Why?” Bucky says, “you lookin for a partner in crime or something?”
Embers, Not Ashes by BewareTheIdes15
- “You okay?” // The outline of Steve’s hands, balled into fists inside his pockets, looks too sharp despite the wool barrier. His nice pants. Standing there in his fucking church clothes and all it makes Bucky want is to walk over there and rub him through them until he’s in just as much of a state as Bucky is. // The laugh that catapults out of Bucky’s mouth tastes like bile. “Nope.”
When I Put Away Childish Things by hansbekhart
- Bucky gets on a Manhattan bound train around 2:30, heading to 8th St. He watches the Lady far off on Liberty Island as they roll over the East River. The train is crowded and people smile at him, pleased to see a handsome young man in uniform. He smiles back, pleased with the world and everything in it. He wonders where Steve might want to go for lunch. What he'd say if Bucky asked him if he’d ever thought about treating this thing between them as real. // He comes out of the subway a little before 3 o'clock, and the world has changed.
I thought I caught your scent on the edge of the breeze just now (Part 1 of the If I weren't miles away series) by surgicalstainless
- It is a tenet central to rescue work that you help yourself before you attempt to help others. You can't help anyone, the logic goes, if you need rescuing yourself. // Steve is lost and lonely, swamped by his own depression, grief and PTSD. He should be going after Bucky, but... // (Steve writes Bucky letters.)
When the Season Comes Around by theheartischill
- The other problem is that Steve loves him, and Bucky isn't sure he remembers how to love.
Ricochet by melannen
- The Famous National Mall Frisbee Game of 2014
Higher Ground by EmilianaDarling
- “S’okay,” Bucky murmurs quietly, and Steve sucks in a sharp breath at the brush of Bucky’s lips against his ear, his breath hot against the side of Steve’s neck. There’s a hint of a grin in Bucky’s voice; amused affection and confidence and something heated beneath it all, a familiar tone from so long ago that makes Steve’s heart clench and his cock twitch helplessly in his jeans. // “S’okay, Stevie,” he says again, and Steve can feel the curl of Bucky’s lips against his throat when he smiles. His metal thumb is rubbing circles on Steve’s shoulder. “M’gonna take care of you.” [PWP]
perfectly right wrong number by melonbutterfly
- It all starts because Steve is too dumb to handle his smartphone. // A wrong number AU in which Bucky Barnes doesn't enter Steve's life (meaning: Bucky wasn't born until the eighties, but Steve is still Captain America) until Steve accidentally dials the wrong number. Wherein there is a lot of texting, some advice via Natasha and Darcy, a bit of pining, and a first date in an amusement park. Oh, and on top of being a disabled veteran, Bucky is a professional catwalker. Literally.
the horses are coming (so you better run) by oatrevolution
- Your Carter makes me want to break things, but I think she knows you too. It’s no wonder she likes you so much. She met you before the serum, didn’t she? Some people only see you the way you are now. But I remember how you used to be and I love him, too. I wanted you long before you could bench-press cars. Not that I object to you being strong and healthy and admired far and wide, of course. But if I’m going to be honest, perfectly honest, you as you were would have been more than enough for me. /// Letters sent: one. Letters unsent: two. Letters unwritten: sixteen.
The Merciless Hours by togina
- Nobody ever noticed Bucky, in Lehigh. Nobody but Steve. No one else would bring a boy into the war - nobody else would try so hard to carry a broken man home. [minor Steve/Sam, Bucky/Natasha, Bucky/other]
Of Many by Asidian
- He tries it the easy way, the first time, like the coward Steve's never believed he is. // It's 1943, and Bucky's still waking clammy with night sweats, phantom restraints pinning him down and Zola's voice in his head. He's still talking big to cover how he jerks away whenever anyone puts a hand on him. He’s pretending he doesn't see the way Steve looks at him, the way they all look at him, like he's in danger of coming apart. Only this time – this time when they try to give him a discharge, he takes it, crams what little owns in his duffel, and ships off for the states. [time loop AU]
historically, the uncertainty principle has been confused by anomalousity
- “How many Heisenbergs does it take to screw in a light bulb?” // Sex Hair shrugs and raises his eyebrows. “How many?” // “If you know the number, you don’t know where the light bulb is.”
Tony Stark's Guide to Altruism by keire_ke
- In which Bucky gets dolphin assisted therapy, Tony muses on the nature of altruism and Steve breaks a great many things.
No Spirit Standing in the Sun by what_alchemy
- Bucky is a disabled veteran having difficulty adjusting to civilian life. Steve is the artist the VA has hired to paint a mural for the clinic. Last time they saw each other, the cops were dragging them away from the only stable home they’d ever known. [background Nick/Natasha]
Nice Work if You Can Get It by reserve
- Bucky Barnes and his best pal Steve Rogers stumble into a situation that leaves Bucky feeling tongue-tied, out of his element, and convinced that Steve—Steve!—has more experience with the ladies than he previously let on. It's terrible. (Pre-serum Steve, pre-war Brooklyn, befuddled Bucky, and showgirls, for your pleasure.)
the prosecution rests by dirtybinary
- The Asset has to admit, ending a mission with Captain America crying into his lap is pretty unexpected. Even for him, and he is trained to anticipate all contingencies. // The Asset runs into his ex-mission halfway across the world. Surprisingly, very little fighting ensues.
warm me up and breathe me by caelestys
- Bucky is part of a SafelyHome program where pairs of students walk people home to their dorms late at night. Steve generally hates being looked after... but doesn't really mind when Bucky does it.
A Piece of Silly Affection by Reccea
- Steve looked good, He looked hale and hearty and uninjured in his leather jacket, too-tight shirt, and jeans. He got off the motorcycle and his movements were graceful and fluid - no obvious signs of injury. He took off his helmet and -- // Oh. // Steve had a beard. // Bucky’s mechanical hand spasmed oddly.
A Dream to Keep You Smiling by ameonna
- "Open the door," Steve demanded, laughing into Bucky’s neck. (PWP)
a long way from the playground by tesselated
- “Actually, I am dating someone.” He says. // What ends up happening is, he says the first name that comes to mind. // What ends up happening is, he blurts out, “Steve Rogers.” // Without thinking, obviously. Because if he had been thinking, he would have thought of something better than this. And that's how Bucky ends up bringing Steve as a date to his sister's wedding.
a shoebox of photographs with sepia-toned loving by fireblazie
- Steve, and Bucky— It’s kind of complicated. (A modern AU in which Steve and Bucky are nurses who share an apartment, and nothing has changed.)
the ghost and the machine by beardsley
- Retelling of CA:TWS with Steve Rogers as the Winter Soldier. // There is an empty grave at Arlington with Steve's name on it. It's been there for almost seventy years. Bucky would do anything, give anything, give back every second of his borrowed time, to make things right. It should be his name on that grave; it should have been him.
The Thirteen Letters (Pt 2) by dropdeaddream, WhatAreFears
- Womb to tomb, sweetheart.
4 Minute Window (Part 1 of the 4 Minute Window series) by Speranza
- "Look, if they catch me," Bucky muttered, "they're either going to kill me or they're going to put me in a box with a little window and—Steve, I can't."
Sparked Up Like a Book of Matches by Sena
- Steve lives in Stark Tower and doesn't have much to do when he's not going after Hydra strongholds. He attends charity events to make Pepper happy. He goes hiking with Sam. He hangs out with Clint in Bed-Stuy and watches Dog Cops. Sometimes Tony gives him super alcohol in a sippy cup. Sometimes he sees Bucky out of the corner of his eye and wonders if it's real or if he's starting to lose his mind. // Alternately, the one with terrible jokes, a foot chase through the Lower East Side, and a tiny little robot named Shitcan.
A Little Honey & A Little Sun by kvikindi
- me: "I kind of want to write a fic where Bucky doesn't decide to become a superhero." // me: "Like a fic where he becomes a pacifist beekeeper in upstate New York." // aka: The Emotionally Repressed Bee Farm Love Story
through smoke, solid ground by magdaliny
- You take the arm off four days later.
Concerning Dairy by schweinsty
- Jacques tells a story about cows around the campfire. The Howlies come to an unspoken agreement about livestock (it's not about livestock). Steve and Bucky are oblivious idiots who excel at metaphorical mooing.
Your Lack Of An Answer Is Kind Of An Answer: Four Questions Natasha Asked Steve Rogers, And One Time Bucky Barnes Answered by Speranza
- "All right, I have a question for you. Oh, but you don’t have to answer it. I feel like if you don't answer it though, you're kind of answering it, you know…"
Bucky Barnes Has His Shit Together (and Other Lies He Tells Himself) by betty days (sadrobots)
- You’d think a guy who owns one of the most successful bakeries in Brooklyn, has a million-dollar smile and that antiquated good ol’ boy charm, blond hair and blue eyes and biceps for days, would know what’s what. But don’t let that fool you: Steve Rogers is a mess.
Swollen Knuckles and Skinned Knees: the Love Story by togina
- Sure, they had been inseparable. But Steve didn't think it had been in quite the way that the Smithsonian meant.
Sun to Sun by togina
- It's hard, Sarah knows, to love a son who demands your heart entire. She forgives Winifred for not having enough heart to spare, even as she wonders how she can love both boys so much that it aches.
How the Light Gets In by theheartischill
- Steve doesn't want to think: you're supposed to be the one that's good at this. But he was.
Kiss the Cook by mambo
- Former Top Chef contestant Steve Rogers opens a restaurant with his best friend, Sam Wilson. And everything is great, except for Steve's giant crush on their new bartender.
Too Long We Have Tarried by kototyph
- Bucky picks up the ring and holds it between them. “Steven Grant Rogers,” he says solemnly. “Will you marry me?”
(760): I literally cut myself out of my pants. Waste. Of. Money. by relenafanel
- Hey friend of Sam’s can I get an opinion on this outfit? Bucky texted, attaching the selfie taken in Sam’s bathroom mirror. // He received an answer almost immediately. Bucky was almost expecting a lecture, or at least a concerned question about who had stolen Sam’s phone. // He got neither. // New text from Steve: What do you want it to say? /// Or: Bucky strikes up a flirtation with a stranger over text message in the month leading up to Valentine's Day.
Love Stories for Tedious People by kristophine
- The emergency departments of hospitals are all alike. Some are small, just a couple of rooms, a bathroom, a harried nurse who greets the frequent fliers by name, and some are huge, with dozens of rooms and a team of people who don’t even know each other’s names, let alone the patients.
Some Kind of Future by syllic
- People always pity Steve for the wrong reasons (or, Steve is a big fat drama queen who couldn’t give people space if they showed him how with a restraining order). Soulmate-mark AU with a twist. For all the emotional smotherers out there—we all mean well—and especially for B, who asked the universe for (something like) this story. Smother on, sister.
- wip 1/2
What They Asked For by kristophine
- Bucky raises his eyebrows at that, leers. “What, you don’t think I could be convincing?”
pull the curtains and blinds to let the light in by defcontwo
- This is the first, hardest lesson: his mind and body may be a battleground but it’s his fucking battleground and no one else’s.
brand new day by irnan
- Ten things that are different about Bucky and Steve, and one that’s still the same. [gen; background pre-Bucky/Natasha]
20th Century Limited by Speranza
- "Where am I? Where is this?" and he was in Brooklyn, he was on a beach, the train was shaking around him. He was in the plane, ice splintering up onto the windshield. He was in a tank, tubes trailing from his face, from his groin. Christ, he was cold. There was still ice on his fingers. He was in the Grand Canyon. He was in Times Square. This couldn't be Times Square. Where the hell was this? "Tell me! Where am I, who are you, where's—" —Bucky?
Rockefeller Christmas by toli-a (togina)
- It's the very first Rockefeller Christmas tree, and Sarah's chivvying two adolescent boys and three Barnes girls into Manhattan to see if it's as magical as the paper says. It's not the tree, that makes her smile.
Cat's Eyes and Broken Hearts by toli-a (togina)
- Being Steve's friend meant blood on your teeth and boots kicking into your ribs. Sometimes it meant looking up and seeing Steve's split knuckles landing the blow. [gen]
Ever I Saw Your Face by hansbekhart
- “S’too bad,” Steve says thoughtfully. He puts his hands back into the bucket, plucks Bucky’s underwear out of the sudsy wad of fabric down at the bottom. “If you’d gotten some of Erskine’s juice, maybe you’d still be taller than me.” // It does the trick: Bucky’s eyes flash. “I am still taller than you,” he says, threatening. Steve shrugs. “I am,” Bucky says, louder, and stands up, dripping water and soap.
the Steve Rogers problem by relenafanel
- Bucky doesn't consider his Steve Rogers problem as a problem so much as the solution he hadn't realized he was hoping for to help him through the transition from the Bucky Barnes he'd been before his accident to the new, shiny version of himself. // No, the problem isn't with Captain America and The Howling Commandos fandom. // The problem is the amount of porn Bucky managed to write and draw about Captain America before finding out that he's less than one degree of separation away from Steve Rogers. 'Less than' as in he's sitting across the table from him.
o holy. by orange_crushed
- “Go away,” Steve says, imperiously, from behind the drape. “This room’s for performers only.” // “Jesus Christ.” // “Him too, sure,” says Steve. “Performers and Jesus Christ only. So get out, Buck.” [gen]
the light of our armistice day by dirtybinary
- Bucky isn’t all that suave nowadays, which explains why the first thing he says to his new—and incredibly hot and lethal-looking—teammate is, “Oh.” // Followed by, “Um." // And then, “I didn’t realise we were going to a masquerade. I would’ve brought my domino mask.” // Bucky isn't quite sure who the Winter Soldier is, or how they wound up working a mission together, or how to get him to talk, but he has to admit the guy is ridiculously attractive. // This fic features clones of uncertain provenance, a slightly ditzy BuckyCap, ill-advised flirtation attempts, and an infestation of Jameses. Tongue very much in cheek. [Bucky/Steve, Bucky/Bucky, Bucky/Steve/Bucky]
rate of recidivism by alcibiades
- So here you are, in the future. The rest is more complicated. // OR: Bucky Barnes learns how to be angry again.
the blood in my veins by greenbergsays
- Bucky doesn’t know a lot but he knows this: if there’s a world out there where he doesn’t have Steve, he hopes it’s a world he isn’t long for. That version of Bucky Barnes would be a sad sonuvabitch to see. That Bucky Barnes is better off dead.
The Blind Leading by SkyisGray
- Steve is specifically told not to fraternize with the independently contracted Winter Soldier.
Targeting & the sequel Strong Safety by queenmab_scherzo
- Steve and Bucky end up playing for rival college football teams.
All Indiscreet Hearts Seemed Romantic Fools by zetsubonna
- prompt: "Do you think Bucky and/or Steve ever said "I hate you" in anger to the other? And if so, what would you say caused it & how did they both react?"
cascades. by orange_crushed
- “Holy shit,” Howard says, crackling through the speakers. “You alive in there?” Lying is a sin, of course, but Steve’s not sure what else he can do. He’s already lied to the government and Bucky and God Almighty; and himself, himself most of all. He ought to tell the truth. That he’s not quite what they hoped for. That perhaps they should put him back into the ocean. // “Probably,” he says, instead, listening to Howard’s tinny laughter; and waits for the blast doors to unlock.
- Steve had gone fully red-faced with pedantic altar-boy fury. “Did your computer forget how to Google translate?” he bellowed, sticking his head up and over. Bucky yanked him down again. “What are you even trying to say?” Bucky tried to shake the sparkles off the grenade he had been planning on lobbing over the divider. “It sounded like Latin to me,” he said reasonably, pursing his lips and frowning at the explosive. It dripped a sparkle, and a puff of purple smoke curled up where it hit the concrete. “That’s because you spent Sunday school flirting with Sarah Cunningham,” Steve accused, bobbing back up to throw his shield and ducking back down to dodge a shining ball of blue light. “You wouldn’t know Latin if it came up and kissed you on your ugly mug.” “I’d sure know it if Sarah Cunningham did, though.” Bucky grinned, struck by the memory. “That gal really knew what she was doing.” [Stucky]
Scents and Sensibility: The Working Assassin's Guide to Supersoldier Seduction by galwednesday, silentwalrus, skellerbvvt
- Captain America wakes up from the ice in 2013. The Winter Soldier wakes up in 2009, or rather defects from HYDRA, for a value of defect that’s closer to decimate. He ends up working for SHIELD. In April 2014, he’s assigned to Captain America’s mission as a sniper. Steve’s just trying to get some kind of life together. Bucky is too, or at least he was until tall, blond and Captain shows up and starts just - being there, all the time. It’s terrible. It’s the worst. He has to do something about it.
Bucky Barnes Gets His Groove Back & Other International Incidents series [2 parts] +
les voleurs de mariage by silentwalrus
- Steve gets out of the hospital in two days, but just barely. “I’m fine,” he tells Sam, Nurse Eunjung and the phalanx of doctors assigned to make sure Captain America didn’t bleed out and die and get bad PR all over their nice clean hospital. “I have an advanced healing factor. It’s fine. See? I’m standing.” “That is not standing,” Sam tells him. “You’re bending the IV stand,” Nurse Eunjung adds pointedly. “Let go and sit down, they don’t grow on trees.” aka Steve and Bucky's Global Honeymoon Revenge World Tour. [gen; Stucky, Peggy/Steve/Bucky in Pt1]
quiet americans series [9 parts] by magdaliny
- there must have been a moment where we could have said no and the associated post-credits fic.
not a language but a map by magdaliny
- Bucky darts forward suddenly, shaking his head. He puts his hand on her shoulder, then lays his palm flat on his chest—and then makes a fist and pounds it hard, twice, right over his heart. The look on his face is stern but fond, an expression Steve hasn't seen since 1943, directed at one or more of his sisters when they thought the world was ending over baseball scores, or their homework, or a boy; Bucky hadn't ever let anyone get away with self-pity. That look would usually be followed up by
C'mon, pipsqueak, let's go for a walk, but what Steve guesses Bucky's saying now is more along the lines of:
You didn't let me down.
A Home Game &
Come On-A My House &
Traffic on Crown Street by 743ish
- “You go to a lot of games?” Barnes asks. “Whenever I’m in town.” “How often is that?” Steve looks at him. It moves him, somehow. Just looking. === In 1952, Captain America takes a day off to catch a Dodgers game.
Eat Rotten Fruit series [4 parts] by birdbrains
- Steve is putting a crimp in Bucky's plan to pretend everything is normal post-WS, and he tests Steve's patience by turning it all into a joke. But Steve can take a joke.
[Stupid Fucking] Brooklyn Hipster Bros by relenafanel
- Abandoned WIP 7/?
- Bucky's mother gives him an ultimatum. Bucky doesn't respond well. All Barneses are stubborn assholes, Steve observes, as though he doesn't see the irony of calling someone else stubborn. Or an asshole. And Bucky can't even deny he is a total asshole for lying to his mother about dating Steve just so he doesn't have to bring someone else to her wedding, but damn if he's not going to give the lie everything he has. (OR: Bucky and Steve reach an understanding that sometimes it's easier to just pretend they're dating. They hide behind 'pretend' for far longer than they should)
Keep Making Trouble 'Till You Find What You Love by Rena
- “We should date,” Bucky blurts out, inspiration suddenly striking. That gets him Steve’s attention, at least. “Excuse me?” he asks. “No no no, hear me out,” Bucky says. “You wanna get back at them, right? Imagine the following: We date, fall madly in love, then have the most horrendous breakup in history and make them deal with that. They’ll feel terrible because they set us up, and we get to eat free ice cream and see their faces when we eventually tell them we pulled one over them,” Bucky finishes with a smug grin. “That’s a terrible plan,” Steve says.
After, Therefore Because of It by alby_mangroves, noncorporealform
- “If you move back to Brooklyn, we can pick up where we left off,” Bucky said. “Where did we leave off?” Steve asked. Bucky had an image in his head that had never dimmed in intensity. It was a closed door. The door in his childhood apartment, and Steve was on the other side of it, walking away down the hall. Confusion grabbed at his seventeen year-old heart. He had wanted Steve back as soon as he walked away, even though he understood the reasons for him leaving. Where Bucky wanted to pick up was to figure out that strain in his heart that came after the door shut, the one he hadn’t understood, and still didn’t. “I don’t know,” Bucky admitted. Steve wants Bucky’s help to solve the murder of Dr. Abraham Erskine. Meanwhile, Bucky wants to find out what happened to Steve after his mysterious disappearance at seventeen.
Gweilo Gongfu by PR Zed (przed)
- "I can look after myself." Steve bristled. "And how about you? You go around taking on three fighters from the Hip Sing Tong on a regular basis?" "Sure," the guy said, and then he gave Steve a big grin. "I don't like bullies either." "Jeez, we're two of a kind, ain't we?" Steve laughed and stuck out his hand. "Steve Rogers." The guy took his hand in a firm grip. "Bucky Dyun." "Bucky?" "Yeah, unless you want to call me Pok Chi like my ma does." "Bucky it is." Steve Rogers doesn't know much about Chinese culture when he makes a wrong turn in Chinatown. But a chance meeting gives him not only a new friend, but an entry into a whole new world. The more he learns from Bucky, the closer they get, until Bucky is so much more than a friend. But when a Chinese gang goes after Bucky and his family, Steve knows he needs to stand up and make sure the man he loves doesn't lose everything.
only one my arms will ever hold by wearing_tearing
- Like most stories about Bucky Barnes and his questionable and sometimes terrible life choices, this one starts because he decides not to listen to Natasha’s cryptic and mostly annoying advice. He decides not to listen, and he hunts down and kills a deer during that month’s full moon run with his pack and leaves its dead body on Steve Rogers’s front step. Steve, the man Bucky kind-of-possibly-maybe-absolutely is in love with. Bucky would try to smother himself after that one, but he’s learned that werewolves are hard to kill. * Or: the four stages of courting Steve Rogers.
Carbs and Conversations by machine_dove, Sproings
- Bucky was just looking for a chance. A chance to get on the ice and play. A chance to escape from Hydra. A chance to redeem himself. He didn't include 'A chance to be friends with Steve Rogers' on the list. That would be ridiculous. Lucky for him, Steve seemed determined to be ridiculous.
Welcome to New York by K_R_Closson
- Tony Stark, designer of Stark Tech hockey equipment decides to buy the struggling Brooklyn hockey team, because he thinks it’s high time women were allowed in the NHL and if no one else will do it then he will. Or, the first season of the Brooklyn Avengers.
Chase This Light by leveragehunters (Monkeygreen)
- In the modern world, where the creatures of myth live side-by-secret-side with mundane humanity, Steve Rogers is one of the gifted humans who straddles the line between mythfolk and mundane, and he's never told anyone about the day he healed a dragon. Living in the city in human form, Bucky's managed to shed most of dragon-kind's more unpleasant tendencies, but he's never quite managed to shake the tendency to get attached, especially not when it comes to the healer who saved his life. When healers start going missing, Bucky will do anything to make sure Steve isn't one of them, something that would be a hell of a lot easier if Steve could stand the sight of him. Of course, Steve might feel differently if he knew Bucky was the dragon he'd saved all those years ago.
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