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1. Minos' Bull and the Moonlight Thread by Dreamer_Wisher_Liar

   Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen, M/M
   • Complete Work

   10 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
   • James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers
   • James "Bucky" Barnes&The Winter Soldier
   • Aleksey Lebedev/James "Bucky" Barnes
   • Daniil Volkov (OC)&James "Bucky" Barnes
   • James "Bucky" Barnes
   • Steve Rogers
   • Original Therapist character
   • Aleksey Lebedev
   • The Winter Soldier
   • Slow Burn
   • Post-Canon
   • introspective
   • Hopeful Ending
   • (but pretty brutal beginning and middle)
   • everything is a metaphor!
   • Trauma Recovery
   • Survivor’s Guilt
   • complex PTSD
   • Protective Alter (Winter Soldier)
   • Emotional Self-Reclamation
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Slow Emotional Healing
   • Existential Nazi Dream Castle as a site of Trauma Integration and Healing
   • established stucky
   • Rebuilding Intimacy
   • Consent Issues
   • Oral Sex
   • Sex After Trauma
   • Medical Abuse
   • Medical Trauma
   • Medical Torture
   • Medical Horror
   • look—medical stuff was not great for Bucky
   • awake intubation
   • Rape/Non-con - Freeform
   • Choking
   • Sounding
   • self harm (non-graphic and non-injurious)
   • Minor Character Death
   • Drug Use
   • Forced Drug Use
   • psychological abuse
   • Sexual Abuse
   • Power Imbalance
   • Coercion
   • Manipulation
   • PTSD
   • Post-trauma healing
   • Memory Integration
   • Therapy
   • couples therapy
   • Moral injury
   • Religious Guilt
   • Disassociation
   • Internalized Guilt
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Assassination
   • SO MUCH THERAPY
   • Asexual Character
   • Asexual Bucky Barnes
   • Angst with a Happy Ending

   Summary

   There is a fortress inside of Bucky, and its guardian doesn’t want him to see what’s hidden inside. When life’s storm forces him to examine the hidden memories, Bucky discovers a past and a past self that haunts him.

   This is a slow-burn journey to self-reclamation and healing against the backdrop of a struggling relationship with Steve as they both reckon with the emotional fallout of trauma and internalized violence. Therapy is no quick fix, and love is no cure—can there be hope when nothing can “solve” so much brokenness?

   (Yeah. Like, yes. Not trying to be all spoiler-y, but very much yes. I would not be writing this if I wasn’t going to deliver a hopeful ending. You can call me Jimmy John’s, boys, because I fucking deliver.)

   Series

   • Part 3 of Plagiarism 'O Clock
   • Part 1 of Bucky Healing Fics

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   English

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   54,480

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