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What Holds Us Together by C0smic_Kitten
Fandoms: Marvel, Marvel (Comics), Winter Soldier (Marvel Comics), Falcon (Marvel Comics), Falcon & Winter Solider (Marvel Comics), His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, Captain America - All Media Types
19 Sep 2026
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Summary
When old Department X money starts moving again, Sam Wilson expects to spend one miserable night keeping Bucky Barnes from getting himself killed. Instead, they find an abandoned facility, three severed dæmons still breathing in cages, and proof that whatever made the Winter Soldier has started up again.
Bucky knows more than he’s willing to say.
Sam knows enough to realize he can’t walk away.So they follow the trail together, from one Department X site to the next, while Sam slowly discovers just how much was done to Bucky and Alpine, how the many rules of human-dæmon bond they were forced to break, and why the two of them never seem willing to let each other out of reach.
The problem is that the closer Sam gets to the truth, the closer he gets to Bucky and Department X has already learned exactly where to cut when it wants to hurt him.