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#canon-adjacent [category - ongoing]

Updated: Dec 14, 2023

if it’s relating to canon, it’s here (Shrunkyclunks is no longer included in this category and will have its own soon)

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Summary: When Barnes stumbles into a small town in Maine at summer's end, he's been running a long time and doesn't expect to stay. But as weeks pass, he starts wondering whether all this time he hasn't been running away from, but towards something - the kindness of strangers, quiet fields, and a curious, yellow-eyed goshawk.

 

Summary: In the dead of the night, a man pulls over for a hitchhiker.

 

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Summary: “Hey Steve, this is Jack Murphy, our other neighbor. Jack, this is Steve.” Steve looked at Sam a little wildly, expecting to see—he didn’t even know, but some reaction other than Sam’s usual easy friendliness. And there was something there, but it was just the twitch of Sam’s mouth that said he found something hilarious and he was trying not to show it. Was this Sam’s idea of a joke, or a prank? Because this guy—behind the glasses and mustache, Steve could have sworn—well, he looked like Bucky.

 

Summary: A small moment in the lives of two men, two friends, two brothers. A glimpse of true love—framed against the harsh realities of war, and the world in the 1940s.

 

Summary: After freeing himself from the Russians' mind control, Bucky is left at loose ends, drifting through the decades. Still, he's in no hurry to take up Nick Fury's offer to once again fight the good fight -- especially not when Fury has the nerve to put some imposter in his best friend's old suit and send him out to fight against Chitauri.

 

Summary: Natasha stops by on a Tuesday, early enough in the morning that it would have been late by Steve’s old standards. Now, though, it takes him nearly three minutes just to limp to the door, yawning, and when he opens it he has to lean heavily on the doorframe. “Hi,” Natasha says, over the beginnings of birdsong. She’s not alone. “Can we come in?”

 

Summary: Steve’s left staring at the kid- Peter, his brain helpfully reminds him. The kid is staring back. “So, you’re, like, Captain America, huh?” Peter asks, and he looks a little starstruck but less so than he did when he’d stared at Tony Stark’s jet taking off. “Uh, yeah.” Steve says, staring hard at a spot just past the kid’s shoulder as he shoves his hands as deep as they can go into the pockets of his jeans. “Call me Steve.” “Cool.” Parker breathes, and Steve tries not to think about just how badly this is going to go. Aka Steve Rogers' American Tour Of Waiting For His Brainwashed Boyfriend To Come Back And Blowing Up Hydra is interrupted when Tony Stark dumps Peter Parker into his lap.

 

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Summary: In 1945, Steve Rogers trades himself to the Red Room in exchange for the Winter Soldier. They accept his offer, but don't let Bucky go. After all, their supersoldiers come as a matched set. (Featuring crafty Steve, pining Bucky, and a very noisy metal arm.)

 

Summary: Written for the Mash-up Game prompt 'Proposal Fic & Accidental Eavesdropping' on Tumblr, and for day 6 of the @stucky-week on Tumblr, for the prompt 'Marriage'.

 

Summary: Idiots in love. That's it. That's the fic. Enjoy ❤️

 

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Summary: AU wherein Bucky Barnes and Steve Rogers never met, Steve somehow manages to rescue the Winter Soldier anyway, and Avengers Tower ends up with the world’s angriest duckling and a whole new brand of entertainment. - (“He was dragging him out of the river,” Natasha argues later. “Nat, be honest, he was going for the Full Monty.” Says Clint. “I’m pretty sure we interrupted him in the middle of giving ‘emergency CPR’,” Tony agrees, “Or the stage after emergency CPR. Emergency Dick? Is that a thing?” “That’s not a thing,” Natasha and Clint reply.)

 

Summary: “Are you goddamn kidding me?” Fury asks when Steve shows up to the rendezvous point in Fredericksberg with the Winter Soldier.

 

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Summary: Post-movie AU in which Bucky didn’t just leave Steve on a river bank...he took him.

 

Summary: When S.H.I.E.L.D. finally locates the plane Captain America drove into the ocean, Colonel James Barnes drops everything to go bring Steve's body home at long last. He finds more than he was expecting.

 

Summary: Steve doesn’t like bullies, on principle. It's less about justice, or decency, or righteous indignation; more about the look in the eyes of the people getting stepped on, the people getting trampled, the people getting lost. So it cuts all the deeper, when Steve recognizes strength, precision, endurance, capacity: sees the pieces of himself not born but made, reflected in this body, this person, this weapon: the Winter Soldier. It slices through Steve’s soul when he returns the Soldier's gaze, and reads the only thing that lives in the deadness that pervades behind those irises in the night. It’s not You can’t beat me. It’s more You can’t stop them. For the prompt: The AU where Steve Rogers sees the best in everyone, and it is that quality that brings him back the person he loves most in the world; where Steve reaches out to help the Winter Soldier on principle, but when the muzzle-mask comes off, he finds Bucky Barnes.

 

Summary: Wherein Bucky loves to cuddle Steve Rogers, Steve comes out on national television for the sole purpose of spiting conservative politicians, Tony sees things he wishes he hadn't, and Pepper doesn't know why she even bothers.

 

Summary: “I watched a documentary on the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima a while ago. In the blast radius, sometimes a… a person blocked the bleaching effect of the radiation. So the person was vaporized, but a shadow was left behind, on a bridge or a wall – their shape, their outline, when they were completely gone," Steve said. "It’s called a nuclear shadow.” “If you’re implying the Soldier is like a nuclear shadow, then that is seriously fucking dark, man,” Sam said dryly. OR Before the fall of the Soviet Union, the Winter Soldier was sent to the American arm of Hydra - only there was a malfunction in the cryo-unit that meant it couldn't be opened, and it was left, powered but abandoned, in an underground base. 25 years later, the Avengers find it.

 

Summary: “I’m Captain Rogers,” Steve said, once the Winter Soldier had joined them and took off his motorcycle helmet, shaking his mane of hair free. “You must be the Winter Soldier.” “That’s what they call me,” the Winter Soldier replied. His mask took up three quarters of his face and his eyes were hidden behind a pair of goggles, but Steve could still hear the hostility in his voice. Steve pasted on a smile and stuck out a hand for him to shake. “Welcome to the Avengers.”

 

Summary: In which Bucky doesn't fall from the train, Steve has company when he wakes up in the twenty-first century, and neither of them knows how to talk about their feelings unless they're about to die.

 

Summary: Bucky Barnes, world's biggest troll. OR Five times Bucky traumatized the future with overshare about Steve's ass and the one time someone wasn't phased.

 

Summary: Steve is working undercover for Hydra when he gets an unexpected promotion. To the Winter Soldier Project.

 

Summary: James Buchanan Barnes lay in a glass pod in the middle of the table, frozen since he fell. Steve’s hands were on the glass before he realized he’d moved. “Wait, Captain!” “Get him out,” Steve whispered, his hands searching for a clasp, a keypad, something. “Captain, we need to keep him in stasis—“ “I said get him out!” In which Bucky Barnes lay frozen in the Alps for seventy years only to be woken up a year after Steve Rogers was uncovered from the Arctic.

 

Summary: “C’mon, Buck,” Steve coaxes, tugging at Bucky’s hands to let him turn around. Reluctantly, Bucky lets him, lets Steve bring his hands to Bucky’s face and cup it tenderly between his palms. Steve’s thumbs stroke the stubble on Bucky’s jaw as he ducks his head to smile at him. “See?” he says. “I’m absolutely fine. Nothin’ wrong with me.” Bucky snorts. “Nothing wrong with you physically,” he mutters, and Steve can’t even rise to the bait because he’s too relieved that Bucky’s back to cracking jokes again. There’s still a shadow in his eyes, though, and Steve knows it’ll take more than words to take it away.

 

Summary: This is my contribution for the BBF2019, @hellyeabottombucky. Written for prompt #71 by Blu Skadoo: 'Someone walks in on Steve topping the fuck out of Bucky. Can be more than one person walking in on them. Things that are up to you: canonverse/winter!Bucky&cap!Steve (or not), if the boys notice (or not), if they stop (or not), if the person (or people) leave immediately or stick around and watch until they're noticed, what kind of sex/if there's dirty talk, etc. Go nuts.'

 

Summary: When Steve gets a sext from an unknown number, he politely corrects the mistake, assuming that will be the last of it. Only when Mr Unknown Number still wants to play, Steve can't quite resist the temptation to play along. After all, it's not as if this stranger ever needs to know who he really is and suddenly, for the first time in years, Steve realises he doesn't have to be Captain America. He can just be him, just Steve, and who knew that could be such a turn on...?

 

Summary: Bucky doesn't have a job. Steve assures Bucky that there's no pressure for him to do anything; Steve's army back pay and his avenging days mean they're taken care of. Bucky's a kept man, and whilst he loves that, he isn't much of a house husband. So he goes out, and that's how it happens. He's sitting on the subway when he sees the magazine, garishly pink with a woman flashing big pearly white teeth on the front cover. He can't help himself. Letting himself do things he wants to do is one of the things the Wakandan healers had taught him, so maybe it's a step in the right direction. The magazine turns out to be a little less factual than Bucky’s usual reading material, but he loves it. He reads an interview with some actress he's never seen before, then an article on how to get the perfect brows (and he looks up at his reflection in the subway window then to find that his brows are-- what does the magazine say? on fleek already), and then he gets to something interesting. Sexting 101: What your man really wants to hear Now that is something Bucky wants to know more about.

 

Summary: “They really didn’t want the mask to come off.” Hill thumbed through the scans, and pulled out a film that she then handed over to Sam, face mostly expressionless but for the flat line of her pursed lips. Sam accepted the film and held it up to the light, angling so both he and Steve could see it, squinting at the outline of the Winter Soldier’s skull, and the blips of unnatural white that showed up, God, in his brain, not to mention about half his teeth, plus the mask, with its thin protrusions— “Those are pins,” Steve realized. He looked over at Hill. “The mask—it’s nailed to his face.” Hill’s face was as unmoved as ever. “Like I said. They really didn’t want it coming off.”

 

Summary: I’m pretty low on funds and need to make ends meet this month, Barnes types slowly into a new post three days later. I’m taking commissions for hits in the New York City area. Will Not Kill: Captain America or other Avengers. Will partially refund payment if target turns out to be HYDRA. Will not go to Jersey. No dismemberment or killing children. Message for negotiations and payment details.

 

Summary: Captain America trashes his motorcycle a lot. Tony says he'll fix it, then never gets around to it and just buys him a new one. Steve, the Depression-era kid, can't stand the waste and goes looking for somewhere near him in Brooklyn where he can get his bike fixed. That's how he finds Red Star Bike Repair, and the hot Russian-immigrant bike racer who runs it: all long hair and muscles and tattoos. And for the first time since he woke from the ice, Steve feels a connection to someone; a comfort in the other man's silences and his space, an attraction in his sheer skill at racing. But James Barnes isn't exactly who he seems...

 

Summary: Barnes is now glaring at him for some reason. It's somewhat terrifying but also, oddly, a little reassuring— because that's emotion right there, which means there's still somebody behind those eyes. Somebody who seems to think Sam is being a bit slow on the uptake. "Time parameters exceeded. Mission failed." "Wait." Sam narrows his eyes. "Is this some kind of... report? Debriefing?" "Mission report," confirms Barnes, looking pleased. Well, looking slightly less murderous than before. In which various people deal with things they never signed up for, but at the end of the day no one's particularly surprised.

 

Summary: "You should marry me, Bucky." "What?" "You should marry me." Steve said again. "Sister Eustace said that marriage is the purest form of love, and I love you more than anybody. So we should get married." Steve and Bucky. Five marriage proposals (and one time they didn't have to ask).

 

Summary: Steve and the Commandos somehow get caught by Hydra and Red Skull sex-pollens Bucky to within an inch of his life and makes Steve fuck him. From a prompt at Livejournal's capkink community.

 

Summary: Nick went over the papers on the clipboard and walked over to Steve. "It says that there was a bond bite found on his shoulder when they cleaned him up. Is it yours?" Steve felt all the air in his lungs leave him. "No, it's not. "

 

Summary: “I’m gonna ask you to leave,” Bucky began easily. “I don’t appreciate random Alphas breaking into my room uninvited.” Steve cocked an eyebrow, holding up his key that Bucky snapped his gaze towards it. “I didn’t break in, and you know damn well I’m not some random Alpha.” “Could’ve fooled me,” Bucky said, looking back at him. “What’re you supposed to be? Some imposter badly impersonating Steve Rogers? Because as far as I know, he didn’t have a beard and his Captain America suit doesn’t usually look like someone’s been walkin’ all over it.”

 

Summary: The money he'd stolen from Hydra has almost run out when he finds a black piece of card stock with blocky capital letters stapled to a telephone pole: FUNNEL NO. 9 DO YOU HAVE KNIFE SKILLS? WE NEED YOUAnd then below, there's a phone number.Knife skills? I have knife skills, he thinks. That part is pretty self-explanatory, though he has no idea what Funnel No. 9 could mean. He doesn't really want to get back into the hitman business, but needs must, and Bucky Barnes is a practical man.

 

Summary: When Bucky wakes up in a London hotel room, mostly convinced he's still strapped to a table in Austria, even the soothing presence of his best friend isn't quite enough to make him believe he's safe. Not when Steve suddenly looks like this, only he's so warm and he feels so good and he's right there, letting Bucky cling and touch and... kiss?

 

Summary: When all the troops Steve rescued from the Kreischberg facility finally get back to camp, Steve and Bucky get some much needed alone time.

 

Summary: It only takes seventy some years, but Bucky finally gets to the Grand Canyon.

 

Summary: Bucky Barnes' recovery after decades of Hydra control was never going to be an easy journey, but Steve Rogers vowed to be there every step of the way. And with Bucky an Avenger, finally back on the same team once again, Steve began to notice a shift in Bucky's demeanour, in the way he interacted with people, his confidence growing; and it all somehow connected to Bucky’s…clothing? Of all the ways for Bucky to heal - fashion was not what Steve expected. And he had never expected to find it so... appealing. It was probably not the normal way for someone to feel about their best friend. Unless - oh - he happened to be in love with them?

 

Summary: After the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Bucky finds himself helping the Avengers in a battle, and he's soon in need of a weapon

 

Summary: Steve goes back to 1945, saves Bucky from HYDRA, and builds a life with him and Peggy. It's supposed to be everything he wanted. In 2024, Sam and Bucky do their mourning, leaning on each other, and begin trying to face a world without Steve in it. Until a different Steve Rogers materializes in the middle of New York, very confused, having just crashed the Valkyrie.

 

Summary: “Oh God… Oh… Buck…” Steve says his name differently the moment Bucky gets his mouth on him. Breathless… Desperate… Bucky’s heard his name by moaned, be gasped, be screamed - in a number of different voices, by a number of different people. But none of them say his name the way Steve does. Steve whimpers. He’s always been that way. Maybe it’s due to the fear of getting caught, or maybe that’s just how he is in general... If they could truly be alone, if there was no one around to risk hearing them, or catching them, or outing them… If Steve had the freedom to be as loud or as quiet as he wanted to be; could choose it… How would he say Bucky’s name? Would it come out like a sob, or a prayer, or maybe still a secret? Would it awaken the Heavens with its volume, or be whispered just for Bucky’s ears? Would Steve look him in the eyes while his lips formed around the syllables? Or would they roll up into his head without control? Bucky wishes he knew. That he could know. But since it’s not an option, he’ll always just be grateful for being able to hear Steve say his name like this in general – and when Steve whimpers it, that’s the way Bucky likes best.

 

Summary: In 1944, Steve marches into Azzano to find his Bucky. Against all odds, he find him, alive and unharmed. The two of them manage to carve out their own moments of happiness, despite the fighting raging on around them. It doesn't last thought. Nothing does. Less than a year later, the war rips them apart. Bucky falls off the train, and half of Steve's heart goes with him. In 2014, Steve finds himself half a world and nearly a century away from everything that he’s lost. And for all the good that the future holds, Steve still misses Bucky like a lost limb. He’s a little lost, and a lot lonely, but he makes do. And then comes the night of Pierce's party, and suddenly everything that Steve thought he'd lost is right in front of him. The connection to his past. The chance at a life he never had. His mate. It's everything Steve ever wanted and everything he never dreamed he could have. It's perfect. Now if only Bucky felt the same.

 

Summary: There are certain unspoken rules when it comes to alpha and omega behavior. Once bonded, an alpha is driven to do whatever it takes to make his omega happy, as well as keep them safe. It can be a complicated dance at times, especially when it comes to ex-assassins who have been brainwashed for decades, but Steve is more than up to the challenge. But the Avengers’ lives are never easy, and when Bucky asks for something Steve’s not sure he can give, it puts his omega in unprecedented danger. The team has to figure out how to live with the changes Bucky has decided to undergo, all while keeping him safe and allowing him his own decisions. This is a story about hilariously incompetent mad scientists, unexpected STDs, and finding out way more than you wanted to know about Steve and Bucky’s sex life. Written for the Captain America Big Bang 2018!

 

Summary: It wasn't meant to be... Steve has heard those words repeated over and over his entire life. But perhaps the person it hurt most to hear those words from was James "Bucky" Barnes. After all, Alpha/Alpha relationships don't work out. Everyone knows that. So Steve sets out to change his mind, because sometimes "meant to be" is something you're meant to fight for... Fest Prompt: Non Traditional

 

Summary: “Dr. Foster, this is a tower full of highly trained soldiers, spies, and geniuses. If we can’t track down and subdue a frith—um, small Asgardian mammal, then nobody can,” Steve says. He tries to look reassuring. It must not be working. She’s still looking around like it might pop out at any moment. “Frithrkottr,” she says. She takes a deep breath and tucks some errant strands of hair behind her ear. “It’s furry. Kitten-sized.” “A real cause for panic,” he says, trying to make her smile. She doesn’t look calmed.

 

Summary:

“It starts with bananas. Of course, it's not really about the bananas. Just like a camel isn't bothered by one single straw, just like a dam doesn't break because of one extra drop. Obviously, Steve's mental breakdown isn't about bananas.”

Steve is overwhelmed and hanging by a thread, doing his best to take care of Bucky while still deeply traumatized himself. He finally has a breakdown over the stupidest of things: bananas. So Bucky takes care of him.

In which Steve learns to surf, Bucky becomes a gardener, and they both begin to heal.

 


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