Can't Read That In A Museum: The Whole Story of Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes
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In the Beginning... by LoveMeSomeRafael
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America
11 Sep 2022
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This ambitious project is intended to be a several-part series. Each part will cover an era in Steve and Bucky's lives. (There's an outline, even.) It's meant to be a fairly long story, built around sticking as close to MCU canon as possible. The intention is to create a framework by including canon scenes and dialogue to anchor your place in the MCU movies, while building out the backstory - what happened before, after, and between those scenes. And then to carry the story forward as though Steve's nonsensical decision in Endgame didn't happen (because it didn't - I have spoken) to show Steve and Bucky living happily after after.
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You know the story: you can expect sweetness and fluff, (hopefully) humor, coming of age, romance and sex, pain, adventure, war and horror, Nazis and Hydra, creepy asshole "scientists", and all the usual Avengers suspects. It'll be the story of an inevitable friendship born of mutual admiration when Steve and Bucky are so young they afterwards don't remember ever not being best friends. It will follow that friendship as it deepens through shared history and trauma and grows into the love of a lifetime.Series
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The Miserable Hero, The Guy In The Tank, And Me by LoveMeSomeRafael
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
30 Oct 2022
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This is part two of a series. Part 1 is called "In the Beginning" and you can link to it by clicking on "Previous Work" above if you'd like to read it first.
In this part of the series:
Brock Rumlow always wanted to be a good guy like his hero, Bucky Barnes. By the time he finds himself working with recently-returned Captain America, it's way too late. But then he starts to suspect that the viciously effective assassin so dangerous Hydra has to keep him on ice might actually have once been Bucky Barnes. He goes looking for answers. What he learns about both men - and himself - hurts like almighty hell.Series
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The Road Home by LoveMeSomeRafael
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
11 Jul 2023
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This is Part 3 of a 4-part series. You can read the first two parts by clicking on "Previous Work" above. The first part is called "In The Beginning" and covers the period from Steve and Bucky's meeting at ages 6 and 7, through Bucky's fall from the train. The second part is called "The Miserable Hero, The Guy In The Tank, And Me." It's told from Brock Rumlow's point of view (because Steve is in the ice when it begins, and it covers the period when Bucky is still the Asset). It looks at Brock Rumlow from an entirely new perspective.
In this part of the series:
Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes have each learned that the other is alive in 2014. Impossibly, they're both only a few years older than when they were separated in 1945.
Finding their way back to one another, however, is going to be a long, long road.
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'Til The End Of The Line by LoveMeSomeRafael
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
04 Mar 2025
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This is Part Four of a four-part series. Like the name implies, it's the whole story of Steve and Bucky, from beginning to the end of the line. This part begins when Steve and Bucky are in Wakanda after the events of The Winter Soldier. Bucky is in cryostasis, and Steve is trying his best to be patient while Shuri figures out how to free Bucky from the Hydra triggers. The story progresses through Infinity War and Endgame, but trust me when I tell you that Steve will NOT be making the inexplicable, asinine decision to leave the man he loves to go back in time. No. This time, the boys will get the happily ever after ending they deserve.
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