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miles to go before i sleep by Avelera (complete | 11,911 | T )
Steve finds Bucky outside of the Smithsonian and invites him home.
A hurt/comfort, wish-fulfillment sequel to “The Winter Soldier”. Also contains angst because, really, how could it not?
winter wheat, sunflower peat by newsbypostcard (complete | 25,285 | M )
In the dead of the night, a man pulls over for a hitchhiker.
All the First Times by Vera (Vera_DragonMuse) (complete | 9,694 | M )
Bucky starts over and finds new ways to survive.
(can you save my) heavydirtysoul by cherishiskisa (complete | 4,984 | T )
“what i want from cap 3 is sam and steve busting their asses going across the world looking for bucky and endangering their lives every 20 minutes and it cuts to bucky who is still safely in new york eating frozen yogurt”
Well, here you go.
To Stop My Mind From Wandering by Lynchy8 (complete | 13,825 | T )
“Leaving the man – the mission – the mission who was a man who was also important, so important, more important than this mission… which was terrifying because nothing had ever been more important than a mission before… leaving That Man on the banks of the river, had been almost impossible.”
After the fall of Hydra, Steve goes in search of Bucky in the hope of bringing him home. Meanwhile someone has broken into Steve’s D.C. apartment, but what kind of burglar or assassin buys paint and drywall mud?
And here are two other fics with somewhat related premises:
Ghost Stories by hitlikehammers for caughtinanocean (complete | 13,143 | T )
Steve doesn’t like bullies, on principle. It’s less about justice, or decency, or righteous indignation; more about the look in the eyes of the people getting stepped on, the people getting trampled, the people getting lost.
So it cuts all the deeper, when Steve recognizes strength, precision, endurance, capacity: sees the pieces of himself not born but made, reflected in this body, this person, this weapon: the Winter Soldier.
It slices through Steve’s soul when he returns the Soldier’s gaze, and reads the only thing that lives in the deadness that pervades behind those irises in the night.
It’s not You can’t beat me.
It’s more You can’t stop them.
For the prompt: The AU where Steve Rogers sees the best in everyone, and it is that quality that brings him back the person he loves most in the world; where Steve reaches out to help the Winter Soldier on principle, but when the muzzle-mask comes off, he finds Bucky Barnes.
Even Underneath The Waves by leveragehunters (Monkeygreen) (complete | 20,431 | T )
When the siren came to the merfolk clan in search of a temporary mate she knew she’d bear a daughter, a full-blooded siren, powerful and deadly. Instead she bore a son.
It was hard to be the son of a siren, a creature of suspicion in the eyes of his father’s people, and Steve soon left his father’s clan to wander the oceans alone. Alone, that is, until he found a human like he’d never seen. A human dressed all in black, surrounded by blood and death. A human whose heart’s desire, buried deep beneath an inhuman shell, was crying out not to kill.
Avelera 