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    There wasn’t anything left to salvage. That’s what Fury believed. It would have been a kindness to put him down.

     

     

    When SHIELD finally releases Bucky from custody, he is not the man anyone expects him to be. Steve struggles to reconcile the stranger with the man who was once his best friend, but with Hydra regrouping after the events at Triskelion, Steve is dragged back into battle when Bucky needs him the most. Meanwhile, Hydra is itching to have its prize weapon back under their control, and a devastating betrayal pits Bucky against a terrible piece of ex-SHIELD tech that threatens to destroy everything he's struggled to rebuild. In order to survive, he must decide who he is going to be: the vulnerable Bucky Barnes or the indomitable Winter Soldier? It turns out there might not be as big a difference as everyone seems to think.

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    30 Jan 2026

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    Bucky has this thing inside him. Sometimes he is Bucky Barnes—sergeant, charmer, and Steve’s best friend. Sometimes he is the Winter Soldier—assassin, machine, and humanity’s worst enemy. Except when Steve found him, he didn’t become one or the other; he didn’t become a mix of the two. He’s just…both. Either-or. A two for one deal, all wrapped up in the same pounding head.

    Bucky doesn’t trust the asset. The asset doesn’t understand Bucky. The only thing they can both agree on a hundred percent of the time is this: They both would go to the ends of the earth for Steve Rogers.

    And whatever he is—whoever he is—Steve loves him too.

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    10 Jan 2026

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    College AU. May contain exchange students, a Starbucks addiction, daddy issues, anger issues, closets and how to get out of them, the ever-ominous influence of social networks, various levels of betrayal, awfully poor life choices, but also, ultimately, real chunks of love.

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    04 Jan 2026

  4. Rec 73

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    Sam finds a scar on Bucky's hip.

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    16 Dec 2025

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    Steve's rarely been touched in a way that didn't equate to some kind of hurt. The cold metal of a stethoscope against his frail chest or the sting of a needle drawing yet another blood sample, when he was a sickly child. The bone-shattering punches thrown by the neighborhood bullies on the playground, or by his own father at home, drunk and wild. His mother, weak and clutching at him as she grew more incoherent with the drugs as the cancer ate away at her insides. Touch was something he shied away from, something he told himself he just didn't want.

    Except...he did. He just didn't know how.

    Until he finds a flyer for a local "affection and intimacy services" program.

    In which Steve learns how to become comfortable with touch, and there is one very good dog, and a slow-burn romance.

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    11 Dec 2025