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1. Just give me your affection (don't care about effect) by gigitooo

   Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe  

   • Not Rated
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M, Multi
   • Work in Progress

   08 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • James "Bucky" Barnes/Helmut Zemo
   • James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers
   • James "Bucky" Barnes & Natasha Romanov
   • James "Bucky" Barnes
   • Helmut Zemo
   • Steve Rogers
   • Natasha Romanov (Marvel)
   • Original Siblings of James "Bucky" Barnes
   • Sam Wilson (Marvel)
   • Avengers Team Members (Marvel)
   • Alternate Universe - High School
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Slow Burn
   • POV Bucky Barnes
   • Miscommunication
   • Attempt at Humor
   • Internalized Insecurities
   • introspective
   • Enemies to Friends to Lovers
   • Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug
   • Helmut Zemo Needs a Hug Too
   • Zemo being very European about things
   • Insecure Bucky Barnes
   • English Is Not The Author's First Language
   • this fic is part of a series
   • alpine is here
   • and Heike too
   • Every fandom needs its school fanfic
   • this is my contribution
   • I do not promise a happy ending
   • At least not in this one
   • The beta forbade me to publish before finishing everything
   • ups.
   • when I write this fic I think that the right song is
   • Wait a Minute! - WILLOW
   • Bad Parent Heinrich Zemo
   • ??? - Freeform
   • Slice of Life
   • Soft Bucky Barnes
   • Soft Helmut Zemo

   Summary

   “We’ll be working together for a while, so we might as well try to get along.” He turned back toward him with a polite, maybe too-polite smile “Let me reintroduce myself properly.” He stood up, set his notebook aside, and smoothed his sweater before extending a hand “Nice to meet you. My name is Helmut Zemo.”

   Bucky just wanted to pass history. Zemo was just fulfilling his role. Neither was looking for anything else...
   But some connections aren't planned. They're built. Slowly. Through what's said... and what's not.

   Or the angsty WB school alternative universe that no one asked me to and yet I still wrote.

   Series

   • Part 2 of The (e̶f̶f̶e̶c̶t̶) affection we deserve

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   10,538

   Chapters:

   4/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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