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• There Are Moments That The Words Don't Reach by CharlieBILlions

  Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  05 May 2021

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
  • Winifred Barnes
  • Steve Rogers
  • James "Bucky" Barnes
  • Rebecca Barnes Proctor
  • this is a bit sad
  • Bucky's 'death'
  • 1940s
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • not much
  • but enough to mention it
  • Winnie had two sons
  • I also firmly believe Steve would have written to the Barnes' about Bucky
  • so this is the letter
  • and a bit of Winnie's reaction

  Summary

  Winnie Barnes had always known there were only two possible outcomes to this war: either both her boys came home, or neither did. There was no Bucky without Steve and no Steve without Bucky. So when that tear-stained, blotched letter came, she knew both her sons were gone.

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