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See the beauty in the spark by Bittersweet_in_Boston

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
22 Dec 2024
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Steve Rogers is the COO of Shield Corp, one of SI’s biggest clients.
Bucky likes Steve. As a friend.
OK, Bucky might have a crush on Steve.
Just a tiny crush.

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We can call it paradise by Bittersweet_in_Boston

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
24 Nov 2024
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At Bucky’s hi, the man’s crooked smile gets a little more crooked and Bucky catches a glimpse of pearly white teeth behind those lips.
Bucky’s smile gets bigger too, and he knows his eyes are dilating, out of his control. He waits half a second before going on.
“What can I get you?” He cocks his head, raises his eyebrows just a bit.
Tall, Blond, and Gorgeous (TBG) waits his own half a second before replying.
“An old-fashioned, please.” He stops, raises his own eyebrows. “You…do know how to make an old-fashioned, don’t you?”

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4/4

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Cock it and pull it by Bittersweet_in_Boston

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
31 Jul 2024
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“Yer not alone, Stevie,” says Bucky, gruff in his ear. “I’m here.”
“Are you?” Steve demands, in a strident tone, surprising even himself. “I mean, I guess you’re here, but I don’t know you at all. You’re a mob boss who doesn’t traffic in people or drugs, with a handful of lieutenants who are all almost as beautiful and terrifying as you are. And for some reason you saved me in Vegas and you’re helping me now. That’s about all I know.”
The bitterness in the last sentence is palpable, and now Steve is tense in Bucky’s arms.

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- Part 4 of Number One with a Bullet
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Give that love today by Bittersweet_in_Boston for dontcallmebree

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
10 Jul 2024
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“Steve,” Peggy interrupts, gentle but firm. “Pardon my French, but fuck your schedule. Fuck it all the way off into the sun.”
This forces a semi-shocked snort out of Steve’s throat. His ex only ever swears when she’s furious. Or drunk.
“Oh my god, Peggy,” he blurts out with an uncomfortable laugh.
“I fucking mean it.” She clutches his hands close to her chest, breathing heavily. “I know you’re very big on duty and service and all that bullshit, but you need to get your fucking priorities straight, and right the fuck now.”

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- Part 11 of Hail to the Chief
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Stay in my arms by Bittersweet_in_Boston

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
16 Jun 2024
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Now that he’s passed the mantle of the presidency to someone else, especially a beloved friend and colleague, Steve feels a weight lifted from his shoulders. It’s almost a physical sensation — his spine feels longer and the ever-present tension in his chest seems to drain away.
Steve takes a deep breath and lets it out on an audible exhale. Out of the corner of his eye he sees Okoye, standing among the Secret Service cohort at the end of Former President Row and smiling at him.
“It’s better now, isn’t it,” murmurs Obama in the seat next to Steve. “You feel the relief.”
Steve nods, looks intently at the ground to hold back the tears that are welling up in his eyes.
“Yeah,” he sighs out, and then again. “Yeah, it really is.”

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- Part 10 of Hail to the Chief
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Strangers in the Street by crinklefries

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
26 Jun 2020
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Bucky is eighteen, not stupid, so he shakes his head.
“No thanks, fella,” he says.
“I didn’t know you smoked,” the man says.
It’s such a funny thing to say that Bucky pauses, frowning. In between his fingers is the thin white cylinder, its ends neatly trimmed.
“You don’t know me,” he says.
“Maybe,” the man says. His voice is deep in a way that Bucky can’t catch, but can swallow. It rattles into him, a tenor so low it makes his jaw ache, warms him in the chilled night air. “I thought I did, once.”

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(Every five years, Bucky meets the same tall, blond stranger.)

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23 Dec 2024
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Follower of Two by giraffeswearpantyhose

Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
31 Aug 2024
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Steve lives in a brownstone in Brooklyn, does his best to talk to his therapist, and is quietly in love with his two best friends.

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15 Nov 2024
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lay me down (tell me i've been found) by coffeeinallcaps

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
24 Nov 2018
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The collar is a little on the heavy side, and incredibly soft against Bucky's skin. Even softer than he thought it would be. It seems to fit snugly, and for a second he feels like he can't breathe. Then, Steve slides two fingers under the collar and runs them along the inside, almost all the way around. Bucky shivers. Goose bumps spread down his back, his arms.

"How does it feel?" Steve murmurs, hooking his fingers into the ring and giving a gentle tug on it.

Bucky swallows. Nods.

(In which billionaire businessman Steve shows up and turns Bucky's life into an improbable fantasy.)

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Bookmarked by Bittersweet_in_Boston

17 Sep 2024
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listen to your heart (but don't say goodbye to me) by CinnamonCake

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
16 Mar 2014
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There is a Hades, and there is a Persephone.
They’re just not the ones you’d expect.

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21 Aug 2024
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tomorrow never knows by RecoveringTheSatellites for booksandabeer, Bittersweet_in_Boston

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)
13 Dec 2024
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In East Berlin around the late 60s /early 70s, KGB Asset 3B-1 is tasked with surveilling a subject that has raised some low grade red flags.
Nothing too serious. The original order is to just eliminate the subject - kind of like you would swat a fly before it becomes a nuisance - but Asset 3B-1's personal equipment malfunctions and the whole thing gets switched to recon and this is how Asset 3B-1 finds himself watching a hapless artist sleep, mostly.
But this is the heyday of spies and corruption and nothing ever being what it seems, and so Things Happen. Plot and action and secrets and lies Happen.
Until of course the truth comes out, the way it always does.
Because at the core of this are Bucky and Steve, as always---idiots who are being the most idiotic idiots about everything, especially each other.

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Bookmarked by Bittersweet_in_Boston

28 Jun 2024

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