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1. Friction by AlienSeas

   Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   20 Jun 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • James "Bucky" Barnes/Reader
   • James "Bucky" Barnes & Reader
   • Sam Wilson (Marvel)
   • James "Bucky" Barnes
   • Reader
   • Slow Burn
   • slowest of burns
   • Love/Hate
   • Reluctant Attraction
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Idiots in Love
   • Protective Bucky Barnes
   • Hired to Protect
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Close Quarters
   • Forced Proximity
   • I would kill for you (and also die for you)
   • (but I also kind of want to kill you sometimes)
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Nightmares
   • Verbal Sparring
   • snarky flirting
   • Snarky Bucky Barnes
   • Denial of Feelings
   • angry confessions
   • bickering like an old married couple
   • Eventual Smut
   • Maybe - Freeform
   • probably
   • It'll be lightly kinky
   • Look me in the eye and tell me Bucky is vanilla
   • exactly
   • Kinky
   • reassurance
   • protective cuddling
   • Soft Words in the Dark
   • eventual love
   • Cute
   • cursing
   • like so much cursing
   • K not that much
   • Some Cursing
   • Non-Graphic Violence
   • light gun mention
   • Slow to Update

   Summary

   When you're targeted by a violent stalker, your friend-of-a-friend Sam Wilson hires Bucky Barnes to guard you in an isolated safe house. This causes tension as you both get on each others nerves in an increasingly dangerous situation. But, you slowly come to realize you're more alike than you thought. Will it be too late when you finally let yourself trust him?

   Language:

   English

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   Chapters:

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