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1. Breaking the Ice by kittymills

   Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, What If...? (Cartoon 2021)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   21 Jun 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • James "Bucky" Barnes/Alexei Shostakov
   • James "Bucky" Barnes
   • Alexei Shostakov
   • The Winter Soldier
   • Red Guardian - Character
   • Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes
   • Episode: s03e03 What If... The Red Guardian Stopped The Winter Soldier?
   • Post-Episode: s03e03 What If... The Red Guardian Stopped The Winter Soldier?
   • the winter soldier/red guardian - Freeform
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Alternate Universe
   • On the Run
   • Set in the 90s
   • Slow Burn
   • nickname for bucky
   • Snowed In
   • Stoic Winter Soldier
   • Red Guardian
   • cabin in the woods
   • Protective Alexei Shostakov
   • alexei shostakov - Freeform
   • romantic feelings
   • us against the world
   • Gentle Dom Alexei (kinda)
   • Brainwashed Bucky Barnes
   • memory loss bucky barnes
   • Demisexual Bucky Barnes
   • canon divergence - 1991
   • Alexei playing the long game

   Summary

   Alexei continues his attempts to thaw the Winter.

   (Yes, the rating has gone up. Things are gonna get spicy... eventually)

   Series

   • Part 3 of Zimlis

   Language:

   English

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