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    27 Nov 2022

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    “He said he didn’t want to be alone in the world anymore, and T’Challa could do this for him, or he could shoot himself in the head. Those were his only two choices.” She laughs softly, sadly, her voice wrecked. “He felt guilty because he knew you’d feel guilty. You’d think you’re supposed to be angry with yourself for going back in the ice in the first place. He said it wasn’t you. It was him. He wasn’t meant to ever come out of the ice. Some things are better left buried.”

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    He loves you. He’s in love with you. And he’s scared.” She looks back at Steve, and Bucky knows she’s watching his fingers trace the curve of Steve’s cheekbone. “Scared you won’t love him back. Scared that he can’t fix everything. Scared of never being enough.”

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    “Because the world needs people like you. People who are good. Strong in so many ways. People who fight for the right reasons. People who are honest and not afraid to stand up for what they believe in.”

    “People need Captain America.”

    “I wasn’t describing Captain America.” Bucky shakes his head. “Erskine picked you for that serum because of the man you were. You know what would have happened if you weren’t. We saw it. And don’t think I didn’t try to pull your face off when you were sleeping. Just to make sure.”

    Steve huffs a rough laugh, and Bucky thinks it’s the proudest moment of his life. “That explains all those pinch marks.”

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    “Right. I didn’t say don’t use it. I said don’t lift a fucking building.”

    “It’s a wall.”

    Bucky looks upwards. “Mrs. Rogers, I do my best, but your son is the type that tries men’s souls, and we all know what sort of state mine’s already in.”

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    Steve learns about sex and love, from his first less-than-satisfactory attempts to get laid to figuring out what he wants most in the world (one guess who that is). This started off as a simple five-times fic. I tend to write Steve as virginal (though eager) when he gets together with Bucky, but I wanted to force myself out of that and give poor Steve some experience. It makes sense that he’d want to take that amazing new body out for few test drives, right? But it kind of mutated and grew, and the fifth time turned into multiple times. Then the “plus one” turned into a story of its own rather than just a little scene… I couldn’t help it!

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    25 Aug 2023

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    really good intimate character study of steve

  3. Public Bookmark 34

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    He wanted to believe that his wedding day would be the happiest day of his life. But if he’s being honest with himself, he’s much giddier the day he signs his divorce papers.

    “Not many people can say they were Captain America’s first wife,” Sharon says, sliding the documents across the tabletop to him.

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    29 Aug 2023

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    “Come with me.”

    Bucky freezes like he did almost eighty-two years ago when Steve had first kissed him.

    “Please come with me,” Steve begs, pushing himself up on his knees. “Please don’t run again. I can’t…I couldn’t live with myself if I had to watch you slip through my fingers again.”

    Bucky and Steve go on the run. Then, they stop running and put down roots.

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    10 Sep 2022

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    The older man worries his bottom lip with his teeth for almost a minute before he sighs again. “If it all ended and you had to walk away from it: your shield, the Avengers, being Captain America…” His hands clench into fists on his knees again and he looks across at Steve. “Would I be enough for you?”

    “What are you saying?”

    Bucky shrugs and offers a hopeful, “What if we didn’t leave? What if we just stayed here and finally left the war behind?” He stands, coming around the table to sit between Steve’s legs, kissing each bare knee with care. Steve has to catch his breath when Bucky looks up at him with more love than he could ever deserve and asks, “Would that be such a bad ending?”

    He shakes his head because, no, it wouldn’t be a bad ending.

  5. Public Bookmark 89

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    They’re seven years in when everything goes to shit.

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    29 Jul 2022

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    moving therapy fic that for once is not about post-catws bucky recovering