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#fake dating [category - ongoing]

Updated: Mar 31

Where one of the boys pretends to date someone

Summary: Bucky stares at his best friend as though he’s absolutely lost what’s left of his dumbass mind. “Excuse me?” he asks dumbly. Steve sighs and sags back onto the couch, covering his face dramatically with one large, well-manicured hand. “Dean Coulson thinks we’re dating. And gay. But like, for each other. And now I need you to fake date me so I can convince the Chancellor to fund my research.” or; Steve and Bucky are a pair of professors who have to fake date for academic purposes and are real dumb along the way. It's not so much a forest of pine as a whole landscape of it. It turns out fine, probably.

 

Summary: “We should date,” Bucky blurts out, inspiration suddenly striking. That gets him Steve’s attention, at least. “Excuse me?” he asks. “No no no, hear me out,” Bucky says. “You wanna get back at them, right? Imagine the following: We date, fall madly in love, then have the most horrendous breakup in history and make them deal with that. They’ll feel terrible because they set us up, and we get to eat free ice cream and see their faces when we eventually tell them we pulled one over them,” Bucky finishes with a smug grin. “That’s a terrible plan,” Steve says.

 

Summary: Steve Rogers has been on more failed blind dates than anyone he's ever even heard of - but he just can't say no to his boss when he's set up on yet another. However, when his date arrives, Steve just knows it isn't going to work out - and they hatch a plan to stop their well meaning friends from interfering in their love lives!

 

Summary: Written for the Mash-up Game prompt 'Awful First Meeting & Fake Dating' on Tumblr.

 

Summary: Bucky looks like he’s had a difficult month, what with the eviction notice and all, but that’s not the reason Steve gives for allowing him to stay on his couch. “You have somewhere to go?” Steve questioned, crossing his arms and attempting to look casual, not like he was worried for Bucky. He stepped into the apartment, ignoring how bare it was. Bucky paused and gave him an exasperated look. “I’m not completely hopeless.” A fic spanning from mid-November to early-February.

 

Summary: “Actually, I am dating someone.” He says. What ends up happening is, he says the first name that comes to mind. What ends up happening is, he blurts out, “Steve Rogers.” Without thinking, obviously. Because if he had been thinking, he would have thought of something better than this. And that's how Bucky ends up bringing Steve as a date to his sister's wedding.

 

Summary: Shit. She hadn't noticed him yet. Maybe he could turn and leave without them noticing – Sam would understand. Sam was the most empathetic person he knew. He wouldn’t scold Steve for coming home spice-less to avoid an awkward encounter with an ex. Surely. They drew closer. Fuck. Please don't notice me, please don't notice me, please don't notice me... "Steve?" Fuck. In which Steve is saved from his ex in a grocery store, Bucky Barnes is Way Too Chill about absolutely everything, and Sam has had enough of all of these goddamn pineapples in his fucking house. Or: The five times Steve received a pineapple (and one Piña Colada) and the one time he didn't

 

Summary: Based on prompt: Pretend Boyfriends AU where one of their families is always wondering why they're never in a relationship, so the other offers to pretend to be their boyfriend for some family event" Basic Steps to Getting Yourself In a Pickle With Both Your Family and The Guy You've Secretly Crushed On For Five Years (A Guide): STEP 1: After being perpetually single and constantly making up excuses to your family, give in and lie about having a boyfriend. STEP 2: Agree to bring said boyfriend to the family cottage for a week so he can be your date to your parents' wedding anniversary party. STEP 3: Panic. STEP 4: Say 'yes' when your best friend and closet crush - who you're convinced isn't interested in you that way in the least - offers to be your pretend boyfriend. STEP 5: Try your best not to fall in love with them during the trip. STEP 6: Fail miserably.

 

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Summary: Ex-agent Bucky Barnes loves his life as a singer-songwriter, and has just returned from a six month tour supporting his latest album. So when Phil Coulson shows up asking him to provide cover for an operative to get into the music festival hosted by an eco-terrorist about to unleash a mutagen on the world, he’s less than pleased. Even less pleased when he finds out the operative is a blond Adonis who just stole his grail comic book out from under his nose. And he’s supposed to be fake dating the guy to give him cover to get close to the mark. And just because he’s completely infatuated with this Steve guy is no reason for being unprofessional. Right? Written for FinnFreak7 for Fandom Trumps Hate 2019, in support of The Trevor Project.

 

Summary: It didn’t escape him that Steve shared his assumed last name. “Are you gonna be my cousin?” Bucky asked dully. Steve frowned. “Husband, actually,” he said easily, holding up his left hand to show a typical golden band. Bucky scowled and closed the door. AKA An AU in which Bucky is put in the witness protection program and Steve is the agent hired to protect him/pretend to be his husband.

 

Summary: Steve, Sarah, and Bucky are headed down to Florida to visit the Barnes family for Thanksgiving. Bucky's tired of the interrogation about his love life from his Ma, and Sarah suggests the simplest solution would be for he and Steve to fake it for a few days. How hard can it be, right? After all, they've shared a bed before. After all, it's only pretend. ...Right?

 

Summary: "You don't have to worry about not having good health insurance," Bucky says. "I'll pay. Whatever your treatments cost, I'll pay it." He'd pay anything to save Steve. "I can't let you do that," Steve says. "I can't let you drain your savings when we both know I'm going to die eventually anyway." "Don't say that," Bucky says. This is a problem. He can solve problems. He solves problems at work all day. That's what he does. And then it comes to him. The wonderful, horrible solution to this catastrophe. "Let's get married," Bucky blurts out. When Steve's heart starts failing, Bucky's gold standard Stark Industries health insurance gets Steve the treatment he needs. But Bucky finds that when you're secretly in love with your (maybe dying) best friend, things get a lot complicated, fast.

 

Summary: Ned,” Peter said, like a drowning man sighting land. “Ned. Captain America and the Winter Soldier are fake dating right now and it is the most painfully awkward and obvious thing I have ever seen, all of us want to die, Ned.”

 

Summary: Edit: Title Change, inspired by 'All the Pretty Faces', The Killers And also some changes have been made to chapter 5, hope it's much better! (^_^) I am totally basing this on prompts from Tumblr (Rp Memes and Prompts). I got inspired! “I got into some trouble today. I sort of punched an Alpha in the face when he touched me. Long story short, there’s a couple of officers at the door who would like to talk to you about getting control of your omega,” he says the words so fast he’s not sure Steve’s even heard him. Unfortunately, he doesn’t get a chance to repeat himself when they hear knocking on the door. “Shit,” Steve whispers. “Language,” Bucky says. Or The fic where Steve and Bucky move in together as platonic alpha and omega and come to regret their decision almost immediately.

 

Summary: "It's lucky we met tonight," the guy says, sleazy and in Bucky's space in a way that has all of Bucky's defenses climbing up. "You know, after you finish that drink —" "I am so sorry I'm late, babe," a deep voice it takes Bucky a second to recognize says from behind him. The voice comes with a hand placed firmly on Bucky's shoulder. Bucky blinks and looks up to find hot-Steve-from-work smiling at him, one eyebrow raised conspiratorially. Bucky bites the inside of his cheek to keep from grinning as he catches on. "Boss trying to talk you into working overtime again?" Bucky asks, putting as much fake worry into his tone as possible and leaning into Steve. (Or: Work friends Bucky and Steve get into the habit of helping each other escape uncomfortable, awkward, or bad situations. Their escape plans get increasingly elaborate as their friendship gets increasingly close. That's probably why their whole office thinks they're actually dating.)

 

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Summary: Bucky is having a bad day. He's late for his first day working for SI, he's pretty sure Tony Stark is going to fire him, and he's having a terrible hair day. Things start to change once he meets Steve Rogers in an elevator. AKA the Fake Dating A/B/O that nobody asked for.

 

Summary: Steve Rogers: I couldn’t say no to this little guy, so I guess he’s coming home with me! The picture below it is an overexcited looking dog, barely older than six months, shoving its nose through the bars of a shelter gate. The tweet already has twenty thousand retweets, a few thousand more likes, and nearly three thousand comments. Bucky can’t help himself, leads in hand, and he leans a shoulder against the doorjamb and taps the comment field. bbarnes: if you’re ever in need of a walker I’d be happy to take the lil guy on, nyc based and rescues are my thing! -- Steve Rogers is a bonafide superhero, followed by nearly a million people on Twitter, not that he’s all too active considering saving the world usually comes first. When he takes on a rescue dog, dog walker Bucky can’t help but leave a message in Steve’s twitter thread, never expecting the DM that comes his way. With that one tweet, Steve and his new fuzzball Duke tip Bucky’s life upside down, but Bucky’s not sure he’d have it any other way - especially if he can do something about the shadows lurking behind Steve’s smile.

 

Summary: “So let me see if I got this right,” Bucky says, gaze focused on Steve. “You want to fake date me.” “No,” Steve shakes his head, and then corrects him, “I want us to pretend to be engaged.”

 

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Summary: Bucky stands alone in a room full of Steve’s coworkers wearing a light-up Hanukkah sweater and holding a plate of terrible spinach puffs. It’s Christmas Eve, and they’ve been snowed-in, stuck with Steve’s coworkers for nearly a week at their company retreat. Steve is flirting with an asshole across the room while Bucky watches one of Steve’s overly-familiar coworkers making his way over to him, probably to ask Bucky about his sex life for the fiftieth time since this week began. Why does everyone keep asking about Bucky’s sex life? Because everyone at this terrible party thinks that he and Steve are not only a couple, but the cutest couple at this whole shindig. And that apparently makes them feel entitled to all of the information about Bucky's private life that they can get. They aren’t entitled, and he and Steve aren't a couple. But that doesn’t mean that Steve isn’t the love of Bucky’s life. Bucky nibbles on the edge of the nasty spinach puff and nearly gags. Worst. Christmas. Ever.

 

Summary: Bucky lies to his mom about having a boyfriend so when his mom surprises him by coming to New York, Bucky panics and asks Steve to pose as his boyfriend. The only thing is that Bucky barely knows Steve. Steve's just the guy at the pizza parlor that Bucky's teased a few times. He's just as likely to let Bucky crash and burn for a little bit of payback.

 

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Summary: The one where Steve and Bucky pose as a happily married couple while on a mission for SHIELD, to catch an international arms dealer hiding in a suburban neighbourhood.

 

Summary: “Can you fake it?” Bucky echoes with emphasis. “Stark needs to think he’s won in order to leave you alone, right? So what if we just pretend to go along with this plan of his for a while, and then Tony gets his victory and you get your peace. One week of indulging him with a little fake sexcation, and then we amicably part ways. You prove to him that you’re capable of being in a relationship but just not interested, and he leaves you alone. Problem solved.” ..................... Steve is one big ball of sexual frustration and mediocre social skills, so Tony, being the nice friend that he is, goes to a matchmaking service to find him a partner. There he finds Bucky, a former Black Ops vet with a mysterious metal arm and a charming smile, and brings him home to Steve. Steve is too busy being hung up on his own insecurities to actually be in a real relationship right now, but he and Bucky hatch a plan to fake date for a week so that Tony will get off his back. What could possibly go wrong with a plan like that?

 

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Summary:

There’s another abandoned mug, festering with mould in the living room — Steve offically has the world's worst roommates. And complains about them. Often. Bucky, tired of his lack of action, decides it’s time to avenge Steve's sleepless nights and unsanitary conditions once and for all. They’ll pretend to be the world’s most annoying couple: excessive PDA, loud fake sex, and general repugnance.

The plan sounds easy enough; it will be strictly platonic. Or will it?

*Abandoned

 


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