A Love Like A River

[sandy79]

A Love Like A River

Author: d_claiborne
Artist/s: Huntress79 | sandy79
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Rating: E
Relationships: Steve/Bucky, mentions of past Steve/Peggy, mention of Peggy/Natasha
Wordcount: 30,000
Tags: Soulmate AU, bisexual!Steve, slow burn, pining, friends to lovers/enemies to lovers

Summary: Rogers Corp. has developed a test that - with the help of a serum - determines your perfect match. The only thing they need to pass the bill recognizing this procedure as legal is a volunteer; someone to try it out and prove that it works. Steve, the son of the CEO, decides to undergo the experiment and vows to marry whoever the system picks out as his soulmate.
On his wedding day, he walks to the altar nervous but excited, only to see that his husband-to-be is James Barnes, better known to Steve as Bucky - a childhood best friend with whom he was inseparable, until Bucky disappeared without a trace. Bound in a marriage, Steve has to prove that the test works while navigating the complicated renewed friendship and their even more complicated past and feelings.

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drown me in your water

[maggneto]

Author: maggneto
Artist: KittyandMulder
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Rating: E
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Wordcount: 51,163
Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Alternate Universe - Lifeguards, Slow Burn, Friends to Lovers, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Pining, Internalized Homophobia, Minor Maria Hill/Natasha Romanov, Pining, Swim Team, Fluff, Light Angst, Explicit Sexual Content, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Blow Jobs, Rimming, Happy Ending

Summary: Summer can be frustrating, stifling, and relentlessly suffocating. Or maybe that's just when you're stuck with your incredibly hot, ex-best friend for the summer. Summer can also be invigorating, freeing, and absolutely exhilarating. Or maybe that's just what happens when you get a little too close to your supposed ex-best friend.
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A summertime, slow burn, lifeguard AU about growing up and falling in love with your best friend

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Fully Formed, in Armor

[bythedamned]

 

Title: Fully Formed, in Armor
Author: bythedamned
Artist: verbalatte
Warnings: Author Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings
Rating: M
Relationships: Female Steve Rogers/Female Bucky Barnes, past Female Steve Rogers/Peggy Carter
Wordcount: 51,100
Tags: Captain America Big Bang 2019 | Stucky, Stella Rogers/Becky Barnes, Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes, Past Stella Rogers/Peggy Carter, Female Steve Rogers, Female Bucky Barnes, Cap!Stella Rogers, Winter Soldier!Becky Barnes, Modern Bucky Barnes, Modern Era, AU, Not MCU Compliant, Feminism, Identity politics, Actual politics, lesbian hair styles, the world wide web, Pepper is a good bro, Coulson is a good bro, internalized homophobia, period-typical homophobia, coming out, slow burn, fluff, twitter

Summary: Captain Stella Rogers is remembered as a symbol of American victory and as the founder of modern-day feminism. That leaves big shoes to fill when she wakes up alone, ill at ease in her own skin, and missing a love she can’t tell anyone about. 
Becky Barnes has gone through too much of her own shit to have any time for Stella’s. But she knows how hard it is to rebuild a life in New York City and, besides, she’s got a type. 
Alternate working title: Butch Steve grows a heart

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I Believe In Something More

[capbbmods]

 

I Believe in Something More

Author: cydonic
Artists: Lorien
Warnings: No archive warnings apply
Rating: M
Relationships: Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers
Wordcount: 74k
Tags: Shrinkyclinks, Post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Canon Divergence, College!AU, Recovering Bucky Barnes, POV Steve Rogers, Touch-starved, Slow Burn, Grief/Mourning, Cuddling, Hurt/Comfort, Hopeful Ending, Soft

Summary: "In April of 2014, two very important things happen: The Winter Soldier is prepped for a mission as part of Project Insight which never ends up happening, and Steve Rogers finds out his mother is dying.

 

In October of 2018, Bucky Barnes and Steve Rogers meet in the Sculpture Garden at UCLA. Bucky has spent the ensuing years building a life for himself, learning that he likes to study in the sunshine and build friendships with people who just think of him as ‘that nice guy who’s really smart’, not what he used to be. Steve has tried to make it in Brooklyn, but everything reminds him of Sarah. He needs a change of scenery, and following his childhood best friend Sam Wilson over to California seems to be the way to do it."

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So This Is Love

[amethystkrystal]

 

So This Is Love
Author: amethystkrystal
Artists: IreneADonovan; xPixelx
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Rating: T
Relationships: Steve/Bucky, Steve/Peggy, Peggy/Bucky, Steve/Bucky/Peggy
Wordcount: 17,000
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-World War II, 1950s, Pre-Serum Steve Rogers, Artist Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes Recovering, SHIELD Director Peggy Carter, POV Multiple, Canon-Typical Violence, Angst with a Happy Ending, Polyamory

Summary:
After Bucky was presumed killed in action, Steve left Brooklyn and became an animator at Stark Pictures in Los Angeles. There, he fell in love with and married Peggy Carter, founder of SHIELD.

They've built a happy life together, but things suddenly become complicated after an attempt is made on Peggy's life and the would-be assassin has a very familiar face.


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