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The loud, sickening crack of his bones breaking drowned out the wet thud of the other man's body hitting the ground beside him. Pain, hot and crackling, consumed his lower body in a burning rush. His visor shattered with a burst of sparks when his head slammed against the dirty floor, his vision blinking out and leaving him completely blind, the communicator crushed and hissing before it to gave out with a dying whine. His lungs didn't even give him air enough to scream. Blood filled his mouth, gurgling as he tried in vain to force words past his lips. Gabe, Gabe I'm down here, please don't—
The other man started to scream.
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- Part 3 of Golden Grain and Bird Bone
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Even if the sky must fall, even if they take us all;
There's no pain that I won't go through, even if I have to die for you—Scrimshaw, whalers carving the bones of the very leviathans they had slaughtered. Just why such an antiquated word bubbled into his mind at that moment was lost on him but he couldn't help but find it ironic, or at least morbidly fitting. If anything remained of him after Reyes was done with him, he supposed his final act would be carved into his bones like the great whales, a last act of defiance from a dying creature scrawled across glistening bone, as he plunged his knife into his own chest.
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Several smoky tendrils reached up towards him, waving gently as though they were grain in a breeze. The red core leaned near, close enough that Reaper could easily grab at him but instead he kept reaching, waiting for Jack to make the first move. The visor had trouble reading him in his current form, and when he extended his left hand toward the fuzzy, glitchy mass the lack of depth perception caused him to bump into his root-like reaches instead of just closing the gap. The tendrils wrapped gently around his fingers and slipped under the sleeve to slither up his arm. He could feel his cold touch spreading under his jacket, slick against his skin where he pooled and rippled around his torso. His core settled over his chest, nestled beneath his clothes and his heartbeat pulse steady and calm, the hundreds of tendrils wrapped around and burrowed into his body affixing him there. Jack knew he should have been in pain but he wasn't, aware only of the persisting star-like points of cold where the nanites passed through his skin, forming strange and unearthly constellations in his flesh. The way he rooted into him, wound through and around his bones like a gnarled, ancient tree, bound them together.
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- Part 2 of Golden Grain and Bird Bone
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"I'm tempted to just eat you, be rid of you once and for all." Gabe broke the silence as he leaned in close, his voice barely above a whisper as he grinned into Jack's neck. The edges of the heavy black cloak draped over the both of them like a burial shroud, blocking out what little light there was in the enclosed space. Jack swallowed hard, trying to control the trembling of his limbs that had only gotten worse as more of his blood stained the floor beneath him. The bodies he'd seen, drained of life and desolate, jumped to the forefront of his awareness. "It'd be a kindness, really, sparing Overwatch's golden boy from dying in the dirt like a stray dog. Can't have that pretty reputation of yours getting sullied, can we Jack?"
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- Part 1 of Golden Grain and Bird Bone
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The Decay of All Things by metalwurm, steverogerswiener
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
29 Apr 2016
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Steve had tried to find Bucky as soon as he'd healed from the Insight disaster and it had lead him into a trap, and into the clutches of a horror the likes of which he'd never encountered before. He tried to convince himself that the creature had been a product of delirium, a nightmare made flesh only by his imagination. There was no way it could have actually existed.
But then his health begins to deteriorate, and he is faced with the impossible truth that it was very real.
Now HYDRA wants to take back what he has been unknowingly nurturing within his body by any means necessary, and as Steve slowly becomes aware of the circumstances surrounding his capture, his whole world begins to crumble around him.
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A collection of self-contained but sequential oneshots on the evolving and tumultuous emotional landscape of Jack Morrison and Gabriel Reyes, Soldier 76 and Reaper, before and after the Recall to Watchpoint.
"Why did all the pretty beasts flock to the tar, only to slowly die? They knew no better, as to the parched and trusting the tar appeared as welcoming water, not seeing it for the predator it was until it swallowed them whole."
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Life carries on, and on, and on.
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30 May 2018
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The vigilante known as Soldier: 76 sends messages to a number he thinks belongs to a dead man, and it does, technically, except Reaper reads them, every last one, and he can only stay a ghost for so long.
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- Part 1 of Coalesce
Bookmarked by WedoMorrison (metalwurm)
01 May 2018
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A failed strike against a Talon outpost finds Soldier 76 and Reaper facing off once again in in a forgotten remnant of the Blackwatch network. Yet when Reaper spares the injured mercenary's life, the action casts doubt on the paths they both have chosen to tread. How much of Gabriel Reyes remains in the wraith known as Reaper? And does the Reaper have what it takes to finish the job and end Jack Morrison's life once and for all?
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- Part 2 of The House We Built
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01 May 2018
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the old familiar sting by Nonymos for starmaki (themirrordarkly)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, The Avengers - Ambiguous Fandom, Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types
18 Dec 2017
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There's something a little off with Bucky, but Steve's loved him since he was a six-year-old scrap of nothing in Brooklyn, and he ain't the type to back down so easy.
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01 May 2018
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In My Beginning is My End by Anonymous
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
30 Dec 2018
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If Bucky had trouble recognizing Steve in Azzano, it was understandable. His bearing, the timbre of his voice, his vitality, and hell- even his height was wrong. But the eyes, the ambition, the look on his face when he pulled him from the table-- These things, they let Bucky know who he was in a matter of moments.
If Steve had trouble recognizing Bucky after breaking him free from Azzano, it was only after careful scrutiny and a few days' worth of observation. The eyes, the sly remarks, the look on his face when he pulled him from the table-- These things, they let Steve know he was still the Bucky he'd grown up with... But something was wrong. Seriously wrong. His bearing, the hoarseness of his voice, his increasing weakness, and hell- even his posture was strangely subdued. Bucky was hurting. He figured it was just shell shock, right?
It was only a matter of time before Steve would find out. And maybe, Bucky thinks, he should never have broken him free in the first place. Maybe he should have left him to die, again, strapped down like the animal he's fairly sure he has become.
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01 May 2018