Slow and Splendored

[alby_mangroves]

Slow and Splendored
Author: eyres
Artist: alby_mangroves / psifiend
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Rating: M
Relationships: Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers
Wordcount: 65,500+
Tags: Past Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers, offscreen Bucky/OCs, Slow Burn, Old Steve Rogers, Post-Avengers: Endgame (Movie), Avengers: Endgame (Movie) Compliant, Friends to Lovers, Romance, Mutual Pining, Age Difference, Old Age, the geopolitical consequences of Endgame, Riots, domestic terrorism, Time Travel, Infinity Gems, Captain America Sam Wilson, Families of Choice, Domestic Avengers, Protective Bucky Barnes, Protective Steve Rogers, Hurt/Comfort, Drama, Ensemble Cast, THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED, less like a slow burn and more like two idiots standing around on fire

Summary: In the chaotic years after Steve Rogers arrives back in 2023 as an old man, he helps rebuild the world, falls in love with his best friend, adopts a stray cat, and saves the entire timeline. Not necessarily in that order.

“Now you’re slow enough for me to catch you the next time you try to do something stupid.” Bucky leans close and jostles their arms together. “That’s the best part.”
Steve presses a wrinkled hand to his chest. “I’ve matured, James Barnes. I would never do something stupid.”
Bucky rolls his eyes and drops an arm over Steve’s stooped shoulders. “Yeah, you’re still a punk, old man.”

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Everything Rekindled

[stellahibernis]

Everything Rekindled

Author: stellahibernis
Artist: auntiesuze

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Rating: E
Relationship: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Wordcount: ~42,400
Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Divergence - Post-Avengers (2012), Complicated Relationships, fear of commitment, Pining, Explicit Sexual Content, getting to know each other again, Road Trips, Grand Canyon, Winter Soldier as a benevolent mob boss, Artist Steve Rogers

Summary: The Winter Soldier escaped from Hydra in the early eighties, and since then he's helped SHIELD to get rid of their parasite, taken over the Russian and Irish mobs in Brooklyn, used his influence to make the borough safer, and reclaimed the name James (albeit not Barnes, and definitely not Bucky). By 2012 he was leading a very comfortable and content life, if not exactly happy one.

 

Everything changed when Captain America was found in ice, and suddenly there was a possibility for James to find happiness again. For once, the biggest obstacle on his path was himself.

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I Can Lose Myself, You I Can't Live Without

[sandy79]

I Can Lose Myself, You I Can't Live Without
Author: bennettmp339
Artist/s: Huntress79 | sandy79
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Rating: E
Relationships: Steve/Neal, minor or background relationships
Wordcount: 37,000
Tags: A/B/O dynamics, Omega Steve, Alpha Neal, MCU/White Collar crossover, Established Relationship, Secret Relationship, Canon Divergence
Summary: Omega Steve Rogers is Mated to Alpha Neal Caffrey. The Avengers don't know about it, or Neal's backstory. Until they do. Then all hell, or rather, HYDRA, breaks loose.

“So who was the hottie Alpha you were scenting on the street, huh?” Bucky asks out of the blue one day, and Steve’s heart plummets.


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Legacy

[dazzledfirestar]

Title: Legacy

Author: dazzledfirestar

Artist: littenstinymittens

Fic: (AO3)

Art: (AO3)

Archive Warnings: Major Character Death, Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Rating: M

Relationship(s): Sinthea Schmidt/Brock Rumlow
Wordcount: 21,607

Tags: child abuse, torture, kidnapping, sexual situations, brainwashing, de-programming, the Snap

Summary: From the moment Hydra infiltrated SHIELD, there were always events going on behind the scenes to promote their agenda of fear. In an effort to preserve the history of the organization, Arnim Zola created an heir to Hydra’s founder, Johann Schmidt. His daughter was raised in his image, trained and conditioned to be the perfect heir and the perfect operative for Hydra. Sinthea Schmidt knows she is the future of Hydra, whether the powers that be like it or not. But power is never easy to get, and it’s not easy to hold onto. Especially when there are so few people to trust.

She has one person that fills that role, though. He saved her from capture and from his superiors. She saved him from prison and Captain America. He was the only one she trusted and loved. Brock Rumlow was her partner in everything, and the two of them wreaked havoc all over the world. When that world falls into shambles, will she still have the support she’s gotten used to, or will her tenuous grip on her own humanity blow away like so much dust in the wind?

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[musette22]

Rare Is This Love (Keep It Covered)

Author: Musette22 (Musette22 on Tumblr)

Artists: LiquidLightz, Histoires Éternelles

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Rating: E

Relationships: Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers

Word count: 67k

TAGS: Shrunkyclunks, Post-Captain America: The First Avenger; Not Canon Compliant; Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence; Modern Bucky Barnes; War Veteran Bucky Barnes; Post-Serum Steve Rogers; Bisexual Steve Rogers; Gay Bucky Barnes; Steve Rogers Feels; Bucky Barnes Feels; Coming Out; Virgin Steve Rogers; Canonical Character Death; Slow Burn; Top Steve Rogers; Bottom Bucky Barnes; Blow Jobs; Frottage; Anal Sex; Fluff; Humor; Angst with a Happy Ending; Sam Wilson Is a Good Bro; Clint Barton Is a Good Bro; Thor is not an Avenger or a God; Mechanic Bucky Barnes; Grief/Mourning; Steve blushes so prettily; THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED

SUMMARY: 

It's 2014. Captain America has been out of the ice for three years and is trudging along, saving the world and trying to get used to living in the future. Steve thinks he knows how the rest of his life is going to pan out – a life of duty, which he chose when he signed up to be Erskine’s science experiment. But then, he meets Bucky Barnes: the out-of-this-world-gorgeous mechanic and war vet, who turns Steve’s life upside down and makes him question everything he thought he knew. Slowly, Steve comes to realize there is more to life than duty and punching Nazis. Just one problem though: how on earth does a 96-year-old virgin who only just realized he may not be entirely straight make the transition from crush to relationship? Cue healthy amounts of self-doubt, awkward flirting, pretty blushing, existential crises, emotional growth, and maybe, possibly, a sexual awakening.

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AO3 Art Posts: LiquidLightz artwork 1 / artwork 2 & Histoires Éternelles

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A collaboration for the Captain America Big Bang 2019  capbb