TouchOfBlue



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    Maria Elena Popescu’s apartment building might be a faceless grey dump, but it’s her faceless grey dump, and she’s proud of it. It’s small – three floors, and three very poky flats to a floor, except for the bottom floor that was the entrance hall and her own quarters – but that just meant she knew everybody who lived here, and liked them. Nobody was allowed to come in here and make it worse, or disreputable, not even tall dark and good-looking foreigners who reacted with an appropriate amount of fear when Maria eyeballed them.

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    The Stark family farm has four cows with calves, some chickens and some pigs, a vegetable garden, a crumbling farmhouse, and a cybernetically enhanced Russian caretaker named James. And now Steve, who is on medical leave.

    It's a good summer.

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    24 Feb 2026

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    I’m pretty low on funds and need to make ends meet this month, Barnes types slowly into a new post three days later. I’m taking commissions for hits in the New York City area.

    Will Not Kill: Captain America or other Avengers.
    Will partially refund payment if target turns out to be HYDRA.
    Will not go to Jersey. No dismemberment or killing children.
    Message for negotiations and payment details.

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    24 Feb 2026

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    “Now, correct me if I’m wrong,” Bucky said, tapping his chin thoughtfully, “but I believe I was promised a mocha.”

    When he turned to look at Steve there was laughter in his eyes and a touch of heat in his smile.

    Dating a civilian was always risky. Luckily, Bucky seemed like a nice, genuine guy and Steve knew he could gently reject him with the smallest shrug and that Bucky would accept his decision easily. It was the smart thing to do.

    “Don’t forget the croissant.”

    Steve meets a beautiful man with a bright laugh on a sunny day in Italy. Captain America meets the elusive Winter Soldier moments later.

    Date Bucky Barnes. Defeat the Winter Soldier. Bring down Hydra. How hard could it be?

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    24 Feb 2026

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    Captain America wakes up from the ice in 2013. The Winter Soldier wakes up in 2009, or rather defects from HYDRA, for a value of defect that’s closer to decimate. He ends up working for SHIELD. In April 2014, he’s assigned to Captain America’s mission as a sniper.

    Steve’s just trying to get some kind of life together. Bucky is too, or at least he was until tall, blond and Captain shows up and starts just - being there, all the time. It’s terrible. It’s the worst. He has to do something about it.

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