Ok, I caved, because while I’m still not convinced that these wouldn’t fit into other categories, this is for the ones that really don’t
Summary: After recovering from his time in the army, Bucky is a successful photographer who is trying to forget his past. Two weeks after Steve's return, he accidentally spills his champagne on Bucky at a charity event. It brings them together at a time when the two of them need each other the most.
Summary: On the day aliens fall to earth through a hole ripped in the sky, Bucky Barnes is pulled from the rubble of the Battle of New York by a mysterious man wearing a costume and a cowl. The next day, he wakes up in the hospital and makes a new friend named Steve Rogers - a certified weirdo with a deck of cards and plenty of time on his hands. A postcard, a text, and a thousand miles of asphalt later, Bucky's still trying to understand the man who came from the stars. Steve, meanwhile, is finally putting the journey ahead of the destination.
Summary: Never Talk to Strangers: or; How a Forgotten Childhood Lesson Led Bucky Barnes to Appreciate Charlie Chaplin, Befriend an A.I., Slip on Soap Bubbles, Be Mistaken for a Succubus, and Try to Woo a Superhero.
Summary: Hot damn, is his first thought. Threat assessment follows close on its heels because Bucky’s a goddamn professional. Military, definitely. Male, built like a goddamn mountain. Bucky stares helplessly because shoulders that broad should be illegal. It’s the face that really fucks him up though. Hair as silver as the star on his chest, swept back from a face that’s all hard angles and deep lines. There’s a beard too, covering a jaw that looks strong enough to sit on, and its white is peppered with bits of dark blond, which should look ridiculous but doesn’t. “You seem to know my name,” Bucky says, plastering on a charming smile. “Only polite to return the favor.” “If you’re banking on politeness, you might be in the wrong business, son.” Jesus, Mary, and motherfucking Joseph. This is how wet dreams and porn clips should start, not a goddamn interrogation. Or; S.H.I.E.L.D Agent Bucky Barnes is captured on a mission and meets Commander Steve Rogers, the erstwhile Captain America.
Summary: Steve Rogers doesn’t meet Bucky Barnes in the 1930’s. Instead, Steve meets him April 17th, 2012. Well…sort of meets him. In actuality, Bucky had almost hit him with his truck. Or: The fic where millennial Bucky Barnes nearly runs over a freshly thawed national treasure, and what Steve Rogers did to adjust to modern NYC during those two weeks before the events of The Avengers.
Summary: In which Steven G. Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America, gets a roommate. Who rapidly turns into his "roommate"—in the euphemistic sense of the word. It takes SHIELD and the rest of the Avengers an absurd amount of time to notice.
Summary: When S.H.I.E.L.D discovers Captain America in the ice in 2011, Pierce re-activates his identity and discovers that he has an Omega soulmate, a graduating James ‘Bucky’ Barnes. Fast forward to 2013 and Steve Rogers now knows that the organisation Peggy founded isn’t the one it is today. Pierce, sensing that the good Captain might be intractable around Project Insight, decides to distract him. The two meet. There’s an instant connection. And as the two of them try to forge a relationship, to see if they can make this work, Steve realises that Pierce is using Bucky as a pawn in his chess game. But who will ultimately call check-mate? --- Created for the ShrunkyClunks Big Bang 2021. [Art is embedded in the fic]
Summary: Steve’s spent an hour along Portobello Road before he sees the paparazzi on the left side of the street, trying to be inconspicuous by a street lamp. He crosses the street and ducks into the first store he sees, tucked behind a screaming red door and under a blue and white striped awning. He listens, feet planted in front of the door, shoulders tense, as he looks around the shop. Row upon row of books are on the shelves in front of him, the wood creaking under their weight. Behind the counter is a dark haired man wearing a jacket, elbow on the table, stubbled chin on one hand, gloved left hand flipping the pages of a book. No one follows Steve in. Or, the one where Captain America travels the world, learns how to be Steve Rogers again, and meets Bucky Barnes along the way. Also: the one where two old souls fall in love over young adult books, long distance calls, and texting at strange hours of the day.
Summary: After the Chitauri invasion, Steve parts ways with SHIELD, unsure if he can trust an agency that tried to deceive him and built weapons from the Tesseract. He finds himself alone in an unfamiliar future, penniless, not even legally alive. Fortunately, he knows how to survive. Steve Rogers is used to getting by on his own. The thing is, he doesn't have to.
Summary: “Hello?” Steve asks, hiding his gun behind him as he steps out into the snow and down the few stairs to the ground level. It is already snowing hard, but it will continue well into the next few days, building up several feet. It’s already five or six inches high, and a light layer of it is dusting the person crumpled up in his alley. “Excuse me, but this is private property,” Steve says to them, feeling adrenaline start to pump through him at the lack of response. He scents the air and only finds that indescribable smell of cold. “Sir, the individual appears to be unconscious,” JARVIS informs him. ❅❅❅Commander Rogers is getting ready to hunker down for what is expected to be the worst blizzard that New York has ever seen when JARVIS alerts him of an intruder on his doorstep.He figures he’s going to find someone looking for trouble, but instead finds an omega in trouble, and they’re running from more than just the cold.
Summary: When Commander Rogers gets an unexpected call from the Smithsonian, he’s not sure what he’s expecting. It isn’t that his WWII belongings are being stolen from his exhibit by an art thief attractive enough to make him want to take personal ownership of the case. A trap is set, house arrest looms, tension simmers—but can the Commander ever convince a bratty Bucky to tell the truth without taking him over his knee?
Summary: Bucky’s not going home for Christmas. But it’s fine. He’s spending Christmas alone in his apartment, but it’s cool. He’s not feeling up to seeing his family after his accident anyway, plus he has to work. He’s totally fine with it. But then he runs into Steve, literally, and suddenly his Christmas isn’t looking so empty after all. ----- Hurrying was a bad idea. Bucky’s foot hits a patch of ice and slides out from under him in what would have been a comical cartoon banana-peel-like trip, if it wasn’t happening to him, and he braces himself to hit the ground. This is going to hurt. “Fuck,” Bucky screeches, but as he lands on his back, it’s not the cold hard concrete he expected, but a solid mass beneath him. Oh god, Bucky thinks as he realises he smacked into the person behind him and took them down with him.
Summary: One minute he had stopped to talk to Barnes, complimenting him on his form and performance during the mission, and in the next the words they were exchanging were charged by the adrenaline still coursing through their veins, until it led to the current moment, when sultry steel eyes were gazing up at Steve from where Barnes was situated on his knees, precise hands making quick work of his belt.
Summary: Bucky gestured to the empty street with outstretched arms. The soft skin on the inside of his bicep ignited a powerful emotion inside Steve. "Out here in public? In this role, carrying that shield? You're so hard on yourself, trying to be something else. Trying to fit into a certain mold." Bucky's hand touched Steve's cheek, thumb stroking the rough beard that had grown. Touch he hadn't felt in so long. "But when you're with me, you're just you. Steve Rogers. Full of joy and empathy, free to do and say and feel normal human emotions. If you can't see that for yourself, why were you given a second chance at life?" A second chance. The serum had pulled him back from the dead, preserving him for the future. For this moment. Ethics Professor!Bucky is barely holding it together, taking over an equine-assisted rehabilitation facility after his partner died, while working on a second doctorate. Steve, suffering from PTSD and flashbacks, is considering retirement, especially after the latest mission that left him temporarily paralyzed with a spinal injury. It doesn't take long for the two men, affection starved and hurting, to find love in spite of both harboring a huge secret.
Summary: When Steve wakes up in a body that isn’t his and in a city he does not know, he finds refuge in the role of Captain America and the endless grind of missions. He spends nearly every night on the rooftop of the tower, smoking useless cigarettes and wanting to go home. Enter Bucky Barnes, a garden witch with a quiet life tasked with creating a rooftop garden for Stark Industries. As long as he ignores the yearning for something unnamed, he’s content. Steve is just another stranger until he shows up one afternoon, covered in blood and bruises, and Bucky can’t help but magick his wounds away. Sometimes, fate has a funny habit of drawing the right people together. Or, how two people discover how real homes are built.
Summary: After going AWOL and leaving SHIELD under cover of darkness, Steve Rogers has been on the run for the last year. He lives by a strict routine and has rules in place to ensure he’s kept off of SHIELD’s radar. In Homer, Alaska, Steve meets a shopkeeper named Bucky. Sparks fly between them from the start, and every ounce of self-preservation that Steve has learned in the past year is thrown out the window as he is taken by the desire to learn more about the Omega from the souvenir shop. Their romance blooms quickly, but they are both keeping a piece of themselves hidden. Bucky has a daughter that he’s fiercely protective of, and Steve can’t bring himself to disclose his true identity while SHIELD is still after him. When the past eventually comes knocking, Steve and Bucky find out that their lives are far more intertwined than they could have possibly known.
Summary: If asked, Bucky Barnes would say he was a modern day adventurer; roaming the world collecting and cataloguing relics for a living, his only help, his enigmatic assistant, Natasha. Sure, it was a lonely life, but it was hard to meet people in his line of work, so he survived on random hook-ups, not needing any more than that. But when he meets the handsome stranger Steven in Puerto Rico, everything changes. How on earth could a man like Steven exist, and not only that, want Bucky? One scorching hot encounter later, it all went to hell. Earlier that day, Bucky had discovered an alien artifact, unwittingly becoming a target to a rival collector. A rival who wanted Bucky's find and wasn't asking for it nicely. In fact, Bucky was suddenly running for his life, without even the chance to say goodbye to Steven. And just when Bucky had given up hope of survival, it's an Avenger who comes to his rescue. Captain America himself. Yet, why was the hero acting funny and stand-offish with Bucky? Why wouldn’t he take off his mask, and why did he seem so damn familiar? Cue a bunch of misunderstandings, alien technology that won’t quit and two stupid boys who can’t see what’s right in front of their noses.
Summary: In the wake of the Battle of New York, Bucky Barnes bade his old life, or what was left of it, farewell. He bought a deserted cabin in the Catskills, exchanged orthopedic surgery for woodworking, and built a new life for himself as a carpenter. Six years on, Bucky still leads a peaceful, if solitary, existence. Maybe it gets a little lonely sometimes, but that’s why he got himself a dog. And a cat. And a goat. In 2018, Steve Rogers finally hangs up his shield. He trades Avenging and New York City for the peace and quiet of the Catskills, grows a beard, and isolates himself in an attempt to salvage what’s left of his sanity and identity. After living his life in the public eye for so long, Steve believes that calm and solitude are exactly what he needs. Of course, he didn’t count on meeting Bucky Barnes.
Summary: Bucky knew. He knew, and he still wanted Steve. “I want to,” Steve said, because that was why he was there, wasn’t it? To stop trying to die? To find out how to live? To be more than the monster in his head? Story and chapter titles from "Hymn to Her", by The Pretenders. Lyrics by Meg Keene.
Summary: So maybe sending out a text saying, “In the hospital, talk to you later” is not the best thing to send to someone out of context. But, to be fair, Bucky hadn’t had his coffee for the day so there isn’t a lot of higher brain function going on until that happens. This also explains why, when Captain America comes busting into his hospital room with wild eyes all Bucky says is, “What the hell do you want?”
Summary: “I made soda bread.” Steve lets out the 6’2” supersoldier equivalent of a squeak. “Oh, I love soda bread,” he says eagerly, rolling forward on the balls of his feet like he does when he gets excited. “My Ma used to make it all the time when I was growing up.” The tips of Barnes’s ears turn red, and he mutters something that sounds suspiciously like, “I know.”
Summary: Steve had been vehement for months on the subject; he did not want an Omega. He’d argued with the rest of the team about it, getting to the stage now where he simply walks away every time someone so much as says the word in his presence. It’s not what he wants, not what he needs, and most certainly not what he deserves. He’s fine. He’s totally fine the way that he is. He can live the bachelor Alpha life and not worry about an Omega. It’s not something he ever wants to worry about. He was never going to get an Omega when he was a small, frail, pissed off Alpha, so he doesn’t need one now. Not after agreeing to being a science experiment.
This is a Filthy Stucky Book Club Recommended Fic
Summary: “He specifies what he wants you know. Male Omega. Big, male Omega. I heard from Cassie that there are agencies who can’t supply him any more.” “Can’t, or won’t?” Bucky asks absently, still reading…the menu looks amazing, four options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with tick boxes and instructions to make two choices in each category. Plus options for snacks, and Bucky can tick as many as he likes in that category. “Both. Either. You know there’s only so many male Omega, and then to find the beefy ones on top of that? Clive says he’s not gonna go back.” “Yeah well, Clive’s a-” “Do not finish that sentence Barnes.”
Summary: It’s 1994 and Bucky Barnes is stuck in a dead-end job at Blockbuster trying to figure his life out. Until a recently unfrozen Steve Rogers walks through the door and asks him for film recommendations.
Summary: Steve and Bucky meet at a bar- Thanks to Sam Wilson's habit in meddling with Steve's love life. That and the fact that he's fucking done with staring at Steve staring (and drooling) at that guy on the other side of the bar. So he makes sure they have a good time. Possibly the best time either of them have ever had because of the way they seem to perfectly /fill out/ each other. Or: Steve shows Bucky that his dick's size doesn't have to hinder his sex life.
Summary: There is a nefarious plot brewing in the White House against the president. After an attempt on his life, President Barnes’ detail can’t be trusted and he’s not sure who he can turn to other than his friend Natasha Romanov. Five years retired, Steve Rogers is asked to pick up his shield one last time to protect the president while S.H.I.E.L.D. works on finding the mastermind behind the plot. It’s unconventional, but the safest, while Steve and the president hide away in a secluded cabin in the middle of the mountains of New York. Attraction sparks. Tension rises. Steve vows to keep his distance and remain professional but his attraction grows by the minute, until he can’t deny it any longer.
Summary: A year ago, Steve wouldn't have dared step foot in this loud, overcrowded nightclub. He nurses his drink while skimming the dance floor, seated at the far end of the bar. The crowd radiates with raw energy as they shake to the beat, music drumming through the air, a song Steve doesn't recognize. Steve's eyes lose their focus, a hint of a smile twisting his lips. He starts to look away, not having the courage to join them, until his gaze lands on a figure near the front. A head of long, brown hair sways with the man's movements, slightly obscured by the strobe lights. The man practically glows as he struts to the beat, skin-tight jeans clinging to those massive thighs, hips snapping with each thump and rumble. His muscles are on full display, too, with abs and biceps visible through his sheer crop top. Steve nearly chokes on the sip of his drink. He is so undeniably fucked.
Summary: The second Bucky sits down, he’s overcome with the need to bolt at the same time as the want to never leave this chair if it means he gets to look at the man across from him. The man – the big, blond, beautiful man – is looking at him a little timidly through his eyelashes, his head angled down slightly. It looks way more adorable than it should. “I’m Bucky.” If someone asked him how he managed to get those two words out without stumbling all over his words, he wouldn’t know how to explain it. “Steve,” the other man says, reaching across the table with one big hand, offering it to Bucky to shake. That too, is way more endearing than it has any right to be. “Nice to meet you.” Bucky manages to shake the man’s hand without doing something stupid, like spill his drink or let out a whimper or something. Because, honestly, Steve ‘Nice-To-Meet-You’ Rogers is even more breathtaking in person than he is on paper or on TV – which is something, because Bucky is pretty sure the Captain was part of his big sexual awakening a couple decades ago.
Summary: Sworn to silence by the Air Force after a friendly fire accident in Afghanistan, former aid workers James and Sam have come home to take over Sam’s family’s vacation rental business to escape the bad memories. Losing an arm and working maintenance wasn’t how James pictured his life turning out, but his life is good: He likes fixing things, he gets to work for his best friend, and he loves surfing every morning. Fresh out of the ice, all Steve wants is for SHIELD to announce his return and let him get back to work so he won't have time to think about all he's lost. But when his psychiatrist refuses to clear him for duty until he's dealt with his trauma, he reluctantly accepts Tony's offer of a beach house for the summer to settle his mind. Armed with a false identity and a stack of sketchbooks, his only goal is to get back into the field. He's got no intention of letting his heart defrost along with the rest of his body. That is, until a handsome maintenance man with a secret of his own shows up with a gallon of ice cream and a smile that could light up half of New York. (Written for the 2021 Shrunkyclunks Big Bang)
Summary: “Oh. Yes. Uh, see you around… Soldier?” The man chuckled again as Steve left the elevator. “See ya ’round. And Captain?” Steve turned around to look at the man again. The Soldier shrugged with the shoulder that appeared to be mostly made of metal. “’S nice to finally work with you.” Steve barely had time to nod his response before the doors closed again and the Soldier was off to the parking lot a few storeys below. He’s alright, Steve decided. ... Loosely following the canon timeline and events, Steve meets a modern Bucky Barnes while working with S.H.I.E.L.D. They grow from being strangers and sometimes coworkers, to friends and fellow Avengers, to lovers. Eventually, of course. I don't own these characters, they belong to Marvel Studios. Anyways, enjoy!
Summary: “Jesus, Sharon, I’ve never seen this much paperwork with any client.” Bucky thumbs through the folder that she’d handed him when he came in. It’s thicker than any client packet he’s ever been handed and it doesn’t even contain so much as a location. There’s no name, no preference list, no requests. Just page after page of disclaimers and clauses. “You’ve never had a client that was this high priority,” Sharon shrugs. “Some folks like anonymity in these dealings.” As a rut specialist, Bucky's never been given an emergency placement before. Until a high-priority alpha in need picks his scent out and he suddenly finds himself in the position to be helping Captain America through his rut. It's no big deal. Just another placement. Except he doesn't anticipate finding a broken alpha needing more TLC than anything else. And Bucky can't help feeling like this isn't going to be just any other client.
*WIP/possible abandon
Summary: The wonderful but awful thing about having Steve here is that it's perfect. Right this minute, Bucky is lying in his bed and curled into Steve. Everything smells like sex, Bucky's favorite shampoo, and that citrusy soap he keeps in his shower just for Steve. His whole body still feels incredible — unwound and remade — and there are places Steve's touch feels burned to his skin. They're pressed close together, and Steve's smiling one of those smiles that always seem like they're just for Bucky. Bucky would be unbelievably happy about it all if it hadn't been sixty-four days since the last time Steve was here. (Or: Bucky enthusiastically welcomes Steve back after a long absence, and they have a very overdue conversation about their relationship — and their feelings.)
Summary: Steve Rogers is a man out of time, in a city that used to be his home, a city he no longer recognizes. Through charming radio host, Bucky Barnes, he relearns his city, adopts a dog, and falls in love.
Summary: When Steve Rogers emerged from the ice, he wound up not only in a whole new century, but also with a brand-new soul mark. Knowing that the person he was destined to be with might be just around the corner made it easier for him to settle into a future where happily ever after was a sure thing. Until the Romanian drummer of a 'popular in Europe' heavy metal band, and freight car of personal baggage, come crashing into his life...
Summary: Steve Rogers doesn’t know how to retire from his role as Captain America, but it’s time he does. Anxious, stressed, and suffering from PTSD, he relinquishes his mantle to Sam Wilson and sets out to find himself after being everything to everyone. When he drives into the wilds of the Pacific northwest, he doesn’t expect to find his salvation, but that’s where Bucky Barnes enters his life and stubbornly refuses to be rushed.
Are you wild like me?
Summary: A few minutes later, Rogers declares an end to the debrief and dismisses the team. Bucky stands up, hugs Wanda, nods to Sam and Nat, and looks at the Captain with raised eyebrows before heading off to the deserted men’s locker room in the basement near one of the lesser-used gyms. He’s only gotten as far as taking off his boots and socks and stripping off his upper tac armor and compression shirt when the attack occurs. Before he knows what’s happening, his wrist is seized in a strong grip and he’s shoved face-first against the tile wall, his metal arm trapped in a hammer lock. There’s only one person in the world strong enough to immobilize him like this. OK, Nat can do it too, but she’s not six-two and furnace-warm with a beard that’s tickling Bucky’s neck as heaving breaths fall hot on his cheek. “Sergeant.” Nat also doesn’t have a rumbly voice that cuts through Bucky’s core like a hot knife through butter. “We gotta problem.”
Summary: After being frozen in ice for decades, Steve Rogers finds himself in a completely different time period. One that is more accepting of omegas, but not familiar. He goes to a hole in the wall dive bar, the last place anyone would think to look for a national icon, to blend in and avoid being recognized since he knows that his presence in the world could cause chaos. While he’s there, and after the start of a brawl, he meets the owner, Bucky Barnes, an older alpha, who makes that one word flash in Steve’s mind. Daddy. With his piercing blue eyes and scruffy beard, Bucky exudes an air of confidence and danger that is hard to resist. As they begin talking, he realizes that Bucky is not just a biker, but something much greater. Steve can't help himself from falling for the alpha, or falling to his knees for him.
Summary: Bucky is a civil rights attorney and Steve is Captain America and they both are busy with their important careers and they are also both VERY HANDSOME and competent and should definitely kiss. But will they kiss? May contain: Jokes. Slow burn, like, for real (I need y’all to understand I really mean it this time). Extremely petty sibling fights. Very tired attorneys. Acknowledgement of the existence of scorpions. Extensive discussion of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. The Avengers all live in the tower and the exact timing in the MCU world being *hand waves* Warnings for: canon typical superhero violence, period typical (the period being present day) transphobia and homophobia. The existence of transphobia and homophobia are central to the plot, but there is no gratuitous detail of people being shitty. Extensive discussion of legislation against gender-affirming care (specifically: the characters are trying to stop such legislation). I have marked this M but a few chapters may be borderline E due to smutty times so I will do notes at the top of those.
Summary: It's 1969 Woodstock. Bucky's there to get high, listen to some music, and get his dick wet.
Summary:
It's 2015, and Steve is living in a post-publicly coming out world. His every move is scrutinized in the tabloids and on social media, he's still wrestling with life in the 21st century, and the paparazzi never give him any peace. Making friends who aren't co-workers is practically impossible, let along dating. His solution? Have a regular, no-strings 'arrangement' with one of Natasha's honeypots. Bucky is a former spy and adventurer who used to work for S.H.I.E.L.D., but left for reasons. Having just gotten his heart ripped to shreds by a traitorous ex, he finds the idea of a discreet, 'with benefits' arrangement with his teenage-years crush very, very appealing. But you know what they say about what happens the minute you stop looking for love...
Summary:
"Bidding will start at $5,000, ladies and gentlemen. $5,000 for an evening spent in the charming company of one of the most eligible bachelors in all of New York. The winning bidder will be chauffeured to Mr. Barnes' private yacht, where you'll both share a meal exquisitely prepared by his own personal chef, and a sunset cruise around the harbor. Who says romance is dead." The MC smiled, looking like nothing so much as a very hungry shark.
"$50,000!" Steve called, shocking everyone in the room – and himself – into silence. The MC blinked. His perfect, plastic smile melted right off his face. "Uh...could you...I'm sorry, what was that?"
Summary:
Bucky is given the assignment (punishment) of being the agent whose job it is to integrate the newly-thawed Captain America into life in a new century. Only maybe it's not so bad. Because Bucky ends up dealing with Steve Rogers, who is nothing like the Captain America in Bucky's history books.
From coming out of the ice through AoU.
Summary:
To support his family financially, omega Bucky signs up at the Bonding Registration Agency, which matches compatible pairs for a year and reimburses the omegas for their contributions. Bucky can't believe it when Captain America is announced as Bucky's match, the picture-perfect alpha. Right off the bat, Bucky is sure to have found his future bondmate, contrary to Steve, who seems more distant than Bucky can handle but willingly signs the contract either way.
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