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    It all started with a drink ticket. Or was it with a letter?

    No, probably it all started the day Steve Rogers decided to move into an apartment-share with a guy he's never laid eyes on. And since their agreement is that Steve has the place at night and the other fella takes it over during the day, there's no reason they ever even need to meet.

    Unless there are a whole lot of reasons why they absolutely should.

    Or: Steve pines for Bucky without even knowing he's pining for Bucky thanks to a series of letters and an unusual roommate arrangement in 1930's Brooklyn.

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    14 Nov 2025

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    “Here’s to many more years as Cap, if you want ‘em,” said Sarah.

    “Don’t want as many as my predecessor,” said Sam wryly, thinking of Steve’s frozen decades. “But I think I can do a lot of good with at least a few more years.”

    Sarah hummed and smiled, but it was a thin smile. Sam narrowed his eyes at her. “What?” he asked. “What’s that look for?”

    “Just wondering if there’s anything you want, just for yourself. Being Captain America’s a tough job, what’ve you got going on apart from that, what’re you doing just for Sam?”

    Sam was doing plenty of things for himself, thank you very much, including but not limited to treating himself to a style makeover that had nothing to do with Bucky's own summer glow up. But as Sam and Bucky grew closer, Sam found it increasingly hard to deny that Bucky was something—someone—Sam wanted just for himself too. Even if Steve's return to their lives made Sam think that maybe Bucky wasn't Sam's to have.

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    09 Oct 2025

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    “Bucky’s not my—“ my anything, Sarah almost said, before she swallowed the automatic denial.

    Dina was going to be here until the new year. Sarah knew from experience that her mother-in-law could fit a lot of introductions, and blind dates masquerading as friendly dinners, and just plain set-ups into those weeks. The woman was more relentless than a Match.com subscription. But here was an easy way to avoid all of that, and all it would take was one harmless little white lie.

    “It’s new and we haven’t really put a label on it yet,” she said. “Just seeing how things go, taking it slow, you know?”

    Bucky and Sarah have busy holiday seasons ahead of them: Bucky's reconnecting with his family, and Sarah's former mother-in-law has come to stay for her annual holiday visit. As if that wasn't enough, Sarah and Bucky both have to deal with well-meaning relatives trying to set them up with other people when that's the last thing they want or need. There's a simple solution to that problem though, in the form of one little white lie to get them through the stressful holiday season. They can claim to be dating each other.

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    22 Aug 2025

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    Steve comes out of the ice. It takes him a bit longer to figure out how to come back to life.

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    03 Aug 2025

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    “What’s the plural for a group of Steves?” asks Natasha, and it’s weirdly comforting that the question has a hint of whimsical hysteria to it. Good, Bucky’s not the only one who’s not dealing well with all of this.

    “A clusterfuck,” he says. “A clusterfuck of Steves.”

    Despite how little sense his life has made since he got on a battlefield to fight a bunch of aliens, Bucky's pretty sure he knows exactly what's happened when a much older Steve appears after the mission to return the Infinity Stones: he left Bucky behind to get his much deserved happily ever after in the past. Only then another Steve shows up, and another. And Bucky realizes he still hasn't got any idea what's going on.

    What he does have is a whole lot of Steves, a fraught relationship with his own Steve, and tentative plans to leave. But the more Bucky talks to all these different versions of Steve, the more he begins to wonder if leaving really is what's best for him and his Steve, or if there's a way to make something new out of their long friendship.

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    24 Jul 2025