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Heart of Winter by ker0ppik00
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
19 Dec 2025
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After the fall of HYDRA, Bucky Barnes is a man untethered —haunted, hunted, and held together by the thinnest thread of will. When he’s brought to the Avengers compound to heal, he expects clinical detachment and judgment. What he finds instead is Lily, a sweet, stubborn doctor with warm eyes, floral dresses, and a quiet determination to see the person behind the weapon.
Lily Bloom thought she left SHIELD behind for good. But when she’s asked to help rehabilitate the infamous Winter Soldier, she agrees on her terms. No lab coats. No walls. No treating him like a project.
As trauma surfaces and trust slowly blooms, the lines between healer and patient begin to blur. But their past isn’t done with them and when the ghosts come calling, they might be the only thing keeping each other from falling apart again.
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And Far Too Late Came Far Too Soon by ThatStargazingAquarius
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
19 Dec 2025
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Bob and Bucky are alone in the Thunderbolts Tower, until suddenly they’re not. Back in 2012, Bob appears in Avengers Tower, while Bucky is back in Hydra.
They need to find a way back to 2028, and maybe set these Avengers on a better track than their own timeline.
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Monachopsis by Emily_Erasteon_107th
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America - All Media Types
19 Dec 2025
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Lucille "Lucy" Opal Baker might be the unluckiest person on the planet, alongside James "Bucky" Barnes. Knowing nothing but her base programming and conditioning, Lucy- who is more Verfall than herself- wakes from cryostasis in the hands of SHIELD. Verfall doesn't understand anything until she starts to.
And it chills her entire soul.
After a few months attempting to be a person with the help of SHIELD that isn't actually SHIELD, an extraterrestrial known as Loki of Asgard touches down on Earth and takes Schmidt's prior power source- the tesseract. Threatening to trample over humans like a boot to an ant, Verfall reluctantly joins a team of enhanced- the Avengers.
Which poses a problem- Steve Rogers is set on integrating her back into society.
When Verfall realizes Steve is alive, she wonders if he might be the key to unlock James from the cage of Winter. With the help of Loki, she finds herself learning the true extent of her abilities and, well-
Verfall finally formulates a plan, and it is a glorious one.
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- Part 2 of Orphic Series
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 237,260
- Chapters:
- 71/71
- Hits:
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Zeitgeist by Emily_Erasteon_107th
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America - All Media Types
19 Dec 2025
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Of 32 women captured by HYDRA in 1939, Lucille “Lucy” Opal Baker is chosen to become a weapon labeled “Decay '', used to aid the Wehrmacht in World War II. After she receives a serum allowing her to see and change molecules, HYDRA deems Lucy ready to fight on the frontlines.
But she refuses to kill.
After a year of captivity, Agent Elizabeth “Peggy” Carter, undercover as Nurse Elizabeth, rescues both Lucy and Dr. Erskine from Schmidt’s clutches. They travel to Camp McCoy, where Lucy strikes up a friendship with James “Bucky” Buchanan Barnes while making a name for herself as an SSR agent.
When Project: Rebirth produces Captain America, HYDRA is suddenly at her heels and Lucy realizes their spotlight is not only pointed at her, but also on James Barnes.
Suddenly, Lucy is very susceptible to compromise.
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- Part 1 of Orphic Series
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Persephone by Emily_Erasteon_107th
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
18 Dec 2025
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Persephone Iodannis was raised in a house of glass; brilliant, suffocating, and always watched. Her mind was a puzzle to be solved; her body a vessel to be measured. Now Persephone finds herself under scrutiny again-this time by HYDRA. She's been taken, relocated, tested. Again. But something is different now. The world around her is starting to bend. And Persephone wakes with gaps in her memory, blood beneath her nails. She tries to be optimistic, upbeat and joyful- but something in her is changing-something powerful and terrifying.
The Winter Soldier was silent, quiet, deadly. He did not speak unless he was told, he did not breath until they told him to breathe. The Soldier lived for HYDRA and would die for HYDRA. Perhaps that's why they placed him here, to guard the one they called "Persephone". They told him she was highly volatile, dangerous, a serial murderer. But she spoke to him like he was human. That was their first mistake- putting him here.
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The Weight of Ghosts by Edgar_Allan_Doh
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America - All Media Types, Winter Soldier (Marvel Comics)
16 Dec 2025
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James "Bucky" Barnes has escaped the control of his previous Hydra handlers. He is free and completing missions with the Avengers.
Elle (ofc) is pulled from her reality and dropped into a world with superheroes and magic. Hydra has brought her to this reality to unlock her latent powers and break her to turn her into their monster.
Bucky and Elle will go on separate and then combined journeys that test their powers, their mental stability, their abilities to protect those they love, and ultimately their bond with each other.
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Natalia was never supposed to meet the Winter Soldier.
The Winter Soldier was never supposed to notice her.
But when S.H.I.E.L.D. sends Natalia undercover into HYDRA, she’s assigned to monitor their most dangerous asset. They are both in too deep when the cracks start to show, and escape is a dangerous thing.
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The Promise by wilkwo
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (MCU)
16 Dec 2025
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Set between The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and CA:BNW/Thunderbolts, this story explores an ever expanding series of mishaps and shenanigans resulting from Sam asking Bucky out on a first date.
Is Bucky ready for said date?
No.
Is the Winter Soldier invited?
No.
Does he show up anyway?
Hell, yes!I'm many chapters ahead, pondering the mysteries of Bucky's mind, and the love a newly reawakened part of him has for Sam, who's struggling to maintain his optimism in the face of multiple kidnappings, abrupt protocol amendments, and unexpected interior decorating. Enjoy!
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Reader has been enhanced through experimentation, she has blood control abilities, and is part of British S.H.E.I.L.D. She and a group of others are sent to the US as a part of an integration program between the sister agencies.
Reader befriends Bucky Barnes (the winter soldier), their relationship grows until Bucky relapses into the winter soldier and attacks her, straining their already odd relationship.Reader is characterised as odd/weird and has slight obsessive tendencies.
I decided to write this cuz I really like Bucky fics when he relapses into the WS however I can never find any where he doesn't immediately turn back without there being much damage done (I love the angst lol); so TW lots of violence and gore as he almost kills her ;p
The timeline isn't canonical although it's set sometime before infinity war when Bucky is still battling with the winter soldier. reader is also covered in scars because of the circumstances surrounded how she got her abilities. -
i will not ask where you came from (and neither should you) by icedshakenespresso214
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
10 Dec 2025
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Milada Cermak works under the thumb of HYDRA’s research branch in Slovakia. Holly Adamson is a kindergarten teacher in Queens. They have nothing in common— other than a connection to James Buchanan Barnes.
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Midas' Touch — (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) by loveraging
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe
07 Dec 2025
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Born a weapon, you were Fury's most powerful secret. In order to save the world, you must face the one man you can't affect: the ghost with a metal arm and a hollow heart.
When S.H.I.E.L.D. collapses, you—an empathetic weapon who can manipluate emotions—are thrust from Fury's shadow into Captain America's fight for survival. Your powers work on everyone, except him: the Winter Soldier. He feels nothing.
As Steve Rogers fights to save his best friend, you find yourself caught in the pull of the void of the Winter Soldier. It's only the beginning.
(This is part one in a long MCU retelling starting with Captain America: The Winter Soldier , following the films and canon. Features the reader as a pivotal character with emphatic abilities, with the focus on your relationship with Bucky Barnes.)
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- Part 1 of Midas' Touch: An MCU Retelling
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“I didn’t know anyone else I could ask,” Steve commented finally without turning away from the window.
“I take it it’s not professional then.”
“I- no. It’s personal.”
“Never thought you’d want my opinion on anything personal after the way things ended.”
After Project Insight fell, Steve put everything he had into finding Bucky. And he did. He brought him home. And once he wasn't being tortured into forgetting on a nearly daily basis, his memories and personality came back to him astonishingly quickly. Everything should be perfect.
And it is. It is.
Except in the bedroom.
Completely out of his depth, Steve turns to the man he'd ran from for help. Triple Agent Brock Rumlow.
Hot Bucky Summer Week 6: "I need help." | Sex Pollen | Erectile Dysfunction | Fuck or Die
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"Mom is coming..." Yelena stammered.
“Mom?” Bucky raised an eyebrow.
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"You have beautiful blue eyes, James. But your brain... after you got that serum. That's an absolute work of art!" Chirped Melina.Series
- Part 7 of Winter stories
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My Dearest by ughmissparker
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel (Comics)
05 Dec 2025
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When Bucky Barnes is rescued from Hydra, his fate intertwines with a feisty nurse from whom he can't stay away. After all, the greatest sin is forbidden love.
∘₊✧─────────────✧₊∘
UNSENT LETTER FROM
Sergeant James Buchanan Barnes
Brooklyn, New york
USATO
Darlene Fearchild
Inverness, ScotlandMy Dearest, Darlene.
You asked me if I considered shedding blood a sin. I told you it was a condemnation, not a sentence. Only we can condemn ourselves to eternal madness after doing something so heinous. My greatest sin is believing that one day you would forgive me for what I doomed you to. I was supposed to be a safe pair of hands, but how could I when they are covered in your golden blood?∘₊✧─────────────✧₊∘
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Pararescue Sam Wilson comes across a severely wounded man on mission and has his eyes opened to the world of Hydra and the atrocities they commit.
The man now under his care, who only responds to "Soldier" causes a deep dread to creep up in Sam's soul.Is this even someone Sam can help?
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Sam Wilson becomes the first person to earn the protection of the Winter Soldier
Alternate Universe - No powers, no avengers
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The Swan & The Soldier by pandbarnes
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Winter Soldier (Comics), Captain America - All Media Types
29 Nov 2025
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Winter Soldier (HYDRA) x Reader (HYDRA), Forced Proximity, Bodyguard/Protectee Relationship
You are the daughter of a high-ranking HYDRA officer, raised between gala halls and steel corridors, trained to maintain perfect poise in any scenario. But when an attack at the Bolshoi Theatre turns into a warzone, your only mission is survival. The Council activated the Winter Soldier to protect you. Elegance is your armor. The Winter Soldier is your shadow. But in HYDRA's game, even salvation comes with a body count.
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i can see you (make me want you even more) by icedshakenespresso214
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel
28 Nov 2025
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Savannah Huffman was not his first choice of a public relations specialist. James Buchanan Barnes was not an easy client to work with. They could make do without the other, live without the other's respective baggage— easily. Without cost, without complaint.
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red room by Kkharrin
Fandoms: Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Anthony Mackie Movies)
25 Nov 2025
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'I have a plan. Little roadtrip, find a facility, kill some nazis maybe, just like old times.’
Representative Barnes is slowly drowning under the weight of hostile politics and the 9-5 workday. Yelena thinks she has a great idea for raising his spirits, namely one involving finding a lost European Hydra base and maybe getting to kill some Nazis. Unfortunately, they may have bitten off more than even they can chew.
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- Part 2 of red room
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Ashes Beneath the Obelisk by Queen_Calanthe
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
20 Nov 2025
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James Barnes woke in a strangled cry, chest heaving, ragged gasps.
“Zemo,” James choked. “It’s not been me. The Soldier - he’s been here. He’s been living as me. He’s tapped your phone, email, everything. Get help - Sam, Wakanda, anybody - he wants to raise Hydra from the ashes!”
Zemo stroked his shoulder, soothing. “It is only a night terror, darling. You are safe. Here, with me.”
But James only clung harder, eyes wild. “No, no. It’s him. I'm not strong enough, he might hurt you.."
Zemo soothed him back to sleep, dismissing the echoes of old trauma. He would notice if the Winter Soldier had taken his husband’s place. Wouldn’t he?
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Blood, Toil, Tears & Sweat by lazyastronomer
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies)
20 Nov 2025
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The year is 1945. You are Mrs. James Barnes, one of the countless 'gold star wives' who lost a husband in the war. V-E Day in Europe brings an end to the European theatre; though to you, the victory is hollow without Bucky by your side. You didn't even have a body to bury.
As focus shifts to the fighting continuing in the Pacific, you are facing the frightening prospect of raising your unborn child alone. That is, until Steve Rogers comes to your door, determined to make good on the last request that Bucky ever made of him.
The year is 1955. He is the Winter Soldier, and has been for the past decade, living a half-life in the ice at the whims of others. When he is roused for a mission, he executes it without question. He doesn't wonder why the target calls him 'Barnes'. He doesn't hesitate to kill. And once he stages the scene to look like an accident, all he needs to do is walk away.
But he can't. Because in a fleeting photograph on a newspaper front page, he sees the face of a stranger he doesn't remember, but who he knows. And he can't get you out of his head.
[AU Sequel fic to LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS — Ongoing serialization being cross-posted from my Tumblr!]
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- Part 2 of MCU: Loose Lips Sink Ships