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Sing Me the Alphabet by thesardine
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
26 Sep 2015
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There wasn’t anything left to salvage. That’s what Fury believed. It would have been a kindness to put him down.
When SHIELD finally releases Bucky from custody, he is not the man anyone expects him to be. Steve struggles to reconcile the stranger with the man who was once his best friend, but with Hydra regrouping after the events at Triskelion, Steve is dragged back into battle when Bucky needs him the most. Meanwhile, Hydra is itching to have its prize weapon back under their control, and a devastating betrayal pits Bucky against a terrible piece of ex-SHIELD tech that threatens to destroy everything he's struggled to rebuild. In order to survive, he must decide who he is going to be: the vulnerable Bucky Barnes or the indomitable Winter Soldier? It turns out there might not be as big a difference as everyone seems to think.
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- Part 1 of Alphabet
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06 Feb 2025
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They circle to touch down outside a big field filled with windmills. Bucky forgets the mission for a split second, but nobody notices. He’s looking at the big windmills spinning around. They’re huge! They’re smooth and white, the blades are probably about a hundred and forty eight feet, and with the way the wind is going - Bucky watches the blades - the tips are moving at least a hundred fourteen miles per hour and can probably go a lot faster, but he doesn’t know how fast. His heart lurches in his chest, he hasn’t seen something so neat in so long. He hopes he remembers this. He hopes some day he gets to see what they’re for. Maybe if they kill all of Hydra they can come back here one day to see what the windmills are for, if he behaves and doesn’t need a procedure. There’s so many windmills, like a garden for giants.
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This is the Ghost Story by Taste_is_Sweet
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Captain America (Movies)
13 Sep 2017
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You can't have amnesia if you're not supposed to remember.
("I don't want to forget you," Bucky says wistfully.
Steve looks half-asleep, but he blinks and lifts his head. "What do you mean?" he asks. His smile is puzzled. "Why would you forget me?"
"After maintenance, when they'll wipe me and put me in Cryo," Bucky explains. "I'll forget you again, and I don't want to. You're the best handler I've ever had.")
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- Part 17 of You Make Me Feel Like I Am Home Again
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30 Jan 2025
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"All I can remember is the fear. I would've done anything, so they didn't hurt me. I did do anything, so they wouldn't hurt me."
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There's no SSR anymore. It's SHIELD, now. The worst part is, it's named after him in some way, Peggy's idea of a memorial to honor his sacrifice. He hates the thought of it, because it makes him feel like a hypocrite. His shield was only ever a prop, not something to base an agency around.
But he's been mythologized differently. They give him files to read on this thing that Peggy and Howard built, and his story is a part of it—or anyway, the story that Peggy and Howard chose to tell about him.
It shouldn't matter; they thought he was dead. They never thought he would see what they turned him into.
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In which Steve and Bucky never met, and Steve was always a USO performer instead of an actual supersoldier. The serum keeps Steve alive in the ice, but he wakes up the size he used to be in the 1930s, albeit healthier. Hydra sends the Soldier to kill Captain America, but somehow the Soldier can't make himself do it.
Suddenly Steve is stuck with an assassin who can't quite kill him but refuses to leave him alone and the knowledge that Hydra is still out there somewhere.
If you can't beat them, subvert them.
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01 Oct 2025
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Something New, Something Gold by alby_mangroves, Nonymos
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
01 Apr 2019
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Bucky Barnes, retired black-ops operative and Archeology professor, spends a long weekend in the Brazilian rainforest toying with his own mortality and puzzling over the mystery of Steve Rogers. (Also, like, the lost city of El Dorado. But seriously, Steve Rogers.)
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30 Sep 2025
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Let Them Eat Cake by Deisderium, kelsey_fantasy
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types
21 Feb 2019
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Steve picked up the piping bag and returned to the ramekins. Bucky left, though not without shooting one last look at Steve's wide back. Bucky could already tell Steve Rogers was trouble, not even counting the near-religious experiences he inspired among the staff. It wasn’t that Bucky didn’t appreciate him as well; he did. He just tended to appreciate people he found attractive from afar, because explaining the metal arm was hard, and because he didn’t really know how to handle letting someone in close.
But that wasn’t why Steve was trouble, not really.
Bucky wanted to know why their new pastry chef had gun calluses on his right hand.
******Or the one where Bucky has settled in to his life as a sommelier, until Steve Rogers shows up at his restaurant.
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- Part 1 of have your cake and eat it too
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25 Sep 2025