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2018-09-08
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2021-03-19
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Better Love || A Bucky Barnes Fic

Summary:

"Come back to me."

Several months after the events of CA:TWS, Bucky finds himself in the city of Seattle. He is alone, with only fragmented memories and haunting ghosts from his past keeping him company. He decides that- in order to start his new life that will benefit his future- he must go back into the past in the only way he knows how: books. And the Seattle Public Library seems like the best place for this to occur.
Cue Elena Burroughs; a kind-hearted librarian with a secret. Against both their wishes the pair can't help but feel drawn to one another, something they both know to be dangerous for different reasons. As time goes on tensions will rise, secrets will be revealed, and enemies will make themselves known. Will the pair make it out alive? Or will one person's secret become the death of the other?

POST CA:TWS → AVENGERS: ENDGAME

Chapter 1: [BETTER LOVE]

Chapter Text

["I have never loved a darker blue // Than the darkness I have known in you."]

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite."
~Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

 

[CAST]

[NATALIE DORMER as ELENA BURROUGHS]
"Come back to me."

[SEBASTIAN STAN as BUCKY BARNES]
"They turned me into the Winter Soldier. I was their weapon. They stole my life and - and they stole my mind."

[OPRAH WINFREY as DELILAH SIMPSON]
"Lord knows he's a boy that's worth being saved."

[HUGH LAURIE as THOMAS BYRON]
"I'd steal the world for you. Would you like that?"

[ALEXANDER SKARSGARD as GIDEON JONES]
"Strange how love works, isn't it?"

[MARVEL CINEMATIC ACTORS as THEIR RESPECTIVE CHARACTERS]

 

 

[PLAYLIST]


i. Better Love // Hozier ii. Poison in your Mind // Powderfinger iii. Run // Daughter iv. Shadow // Birdy v. Drawn to the Blood // Sufjan Stevens vi. The World Ender // Lord Huron vii. I Need My Girl // The National viii. Till The End // Jessie Ware ix. Never Let Me Go // Florence + The Machine x. I Found // Amber Run xi. Work Song // Hozier xii. Shelter // Lyves xiii. Sugar // Wanderhouse xiv. Bronte // Gotye xv. Casimir Pulaski Day // Sufjan Stevens xvi. I'm Kissing You // Des'ree xvii. Find My Way Back // Eric Arjes xviii. Winter Is All Over You // First Aid Kit xix. You Were Never Gone // Hannah Ellis

 

 

[DISCLAIMER]

I do not own Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier, or any other Marvel characters/plot lines that might pop up. They belong to the MCU, the Marvel Comics, and those creators who came up with them. All I own is Elena Burroughs, other original characters, and some plot lines, which are my own creation. This fic will only be found on Wattpad or AO3, so if it pops up somewhere else know that A) Somebody's stolen it and B) I will be spewing anger if that happens (So don't).
Now that that's all sorted, I hope that you lovely readers will enjoy my fic. It's been in the works for years now so I'm hoping that my writing can bring it the justice it deserves in regards to how I imagine it in my head. Please leave a vote and comment and tell me how you're finding it!
xoxo
~DM


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