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52k, Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, rated E.

Summary:

The Boston Raiders are making decent time heading up into Michigan when one of the horses almost breaks an ankle on what’s left of the road. Or: The world ends. Shane Hollander starts playing for Boston. Yes, in that order.

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Missing Scene by cyclogenesis (23k, Explicit, Angst with a Happy Ending, Canon Compliant, Missing Scenes, Happily Ever After, POV Sam Wilson, Anal Sex, Blowjobs, Jokes)

In which Sam finds Bucky before the events of Civil War, and what they do in Paris has a profound effect on how the next several years of their lives go. Written as a companion story to the films and the series, canon compliant with a whole lot of secret feelings.

we could jump the state lines (we only get the one life) by notcaycepollard (33.5k Explicit, Slow Burn, Pining, Mutual Pining, Angst, Recovery, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD)

It starts in Paris. “You can’t steal things just because you like them,” Sam tells Bucky, feeling innately that this is a losing battle, and Bucky cocks his head to the side, considers Sam very thoughtfully. “Really,” he says. “I’m stealing you, aren’t I?”

to be alive by napricot (113.7k Explicit, Recreational Drug Use, Secret Relationship, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Tender Railing, Bucky Barnes Recovering, Sam Wilson Recovering, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, POV Sam Wilson)

A year after the helicarriers go down, Sam finds not the Winter Soldier, but Bucky Barnes, who's trying his best to live and not just survive while on the run. Sam finds him and keeps finding him, and eventually, Sam finds himself too. An alternate take on canon where Sam and Bucky have been secretly meeting up since after CATWS.

would you come out and die for me by anthemofourlives (28.6k Mature, POV Sam Wilson, Hurt/Comfort, Sharing a Bed (eventually), On the Run)

“What were you thinking?” Reluctantly, Sam opened his eyes again, seeing that Bucky was sitting still as anything by his side, looking at his face as if he was searching for something. “That’s a damn good question.”

I swear to god that I was thinking about the summer by suzukiblu (3.9k Explicit, Awkward Sexual Situations, Healing, Touch-Starved, Hand Jobs, Frotting, PWP)

“Goddammit,” Barnes says, grimacing. “You were supposed to be the easy target.” “Yeah, no, he’s three doors down,” Sam replies wryly, jerking his head towards the door. “But it’s not a trick question, man, I’m just asking what you want.” “Sex,” Barnes says. “Yes,” Sam says, expression dry. “I was here for that part of the conversation.”

take me to your river, i wanna go🔒by atlantablack (4k Teen And Up Audiences, Canon-Typical Violence, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Trauma, Healing, Bucky Barnes-centric, Getting Together)

Bucky Barnes is a dead man’s shadow that comes back to him in waves. In the weeks that follow D.C. and the first wave breaking across the shore, he thinks to himself that he should run as far from the ocean as he can get. He doesn’t want to drown, is only just beginning to surface, but it’s been so long since he was allowed to want anything at all. He thinks, I should run, but instead, he lets the rip currents drag him where they will and finds his feet haunting Brooklyn cobblestones once again.

Seek Out the Hidden Places by Dira Sudis (dsudis) (31k Explicit, Polyamory, Bucky Barnes Has Issues, Dating, secondary trauma)

Today, on this morning, while Sam stood here in his PJs, his boyfriend Captain America was in his kitchen eating yogurt, and Sam had to figure out how to tell him that he'd kind of arguably cheated on him with the Winter Soldier who was also, incidentally, Bucky Barnes, the other half of the thus-far-tragic love story of Steve Rogers' epic life.

I decided they both get to be Juliet

Casablanca Games by @jenyakeefe

Ilya looks up from the chessboard and catches Shane staring. Ilya winks. Shane averts his eyes. Ilya moves his bishop and says, “Check.” Three moves later and he’s won. “Good game,” Shane says stiffly. His face feels hot. His heart is pounding. “Hah! Very good game! Yes!” Ilya bounces in his chair, his smile as wide and triumphant as if he’d just won the War. “What do I get?”

it's a casablanca (1942) au... it's a wwii spy thriller... it's a chess match... it's love!!!

The Apartment by allapologies

“You are acting like no one has ever done this to you before.” “Not true,” Shane mumbles. “No,” Ilya agrees. “You do this with Butler. In my house.” He leans in, whispers right into Shane’s ear: “But he is bad at it, I think. Or you would not be acting like this, just from a little touch.” Ilya reluctantly lends his apartment to the captain of the Boston Raiders, who uses it to conduct an extramarital affair. Unfortunately, his captain's mistress turns out to be Shane Hollander.

okay yes it's another classic film au (the apartment 1960). i like what i like! this time the shape of the plot is modernized and mapped onto hockey, with gasp-inducing results!

A Side Door Into the Dark by magnetica

Amundsen-Scott Station, Antarctica In grad school the only flirting he had mastered was the strategic deployment of phrases like ‘oh, really?’ and ‘is that so?’ It was brought to his attention by one of his more regular hookups in the kitchen of his apartment while they were cooking dinner, and he had said whenever Shane wanted to fuck he started talking like a coastal elite college girl who’d never had to ask for it outright. Now, in this strange point of contact with Ilya where it was obvious something vaguely carnal had passed between them, he thought about emulating his particular brand of assured charm. Whatever ideas he’d concocted devolved rather quickly into his own unintentional directness, and he said, “Does it scare you?” “Does climatology scare you?” Ilya’s face was measured and calm, his foot still pressed against the curved joint above Shane’s heel. “Yeah,” the word came out like a laugh, “it does, actually. A lot.”

what if they were researchers wintering together in the isolation of antarctica... what if they got to connect far, far away from the outside world... and then what if the outside world suddenly appeared on the horizon?

Leave Your Life Open by @sexcromancy

It doesn’t take Ilya long; he was worked up already. And the knowledge that this is the bot that so often bested him on the ice, about whom a commentator once said “matches Rozanov in everything and beats him with the cool head advantage,” makes everything hotter. His supplication for Ilya. Taking orders. Ilya always thought sex with a robot would feel like that in a cold, abject way. He likes push and pull with girls especially, he likes when they obviously want it. But the bot – Shane – does suck dick like he wants it; like he needs it, really.

i thought i knew what this was going to be, and i have never been more delighted to be 1) pretty much right, and 2) completely wrong, both at once. it is so, so much more than the premise. must-read! shanebot my best friend shanebot!

Language Acquisition by @space-bakery

Ilya was nineteen when he moved to the US. Nineteen years of Russia. Over half a decade of Russian summers after that to re-up. His brain, Shane knew, operated in Russian.

it's about language... it's about communication... it's about love!!!

North American Sentimentalities by courierstruck

Over the course of the three days, there are plenty of opportunities to tell Shane about Moscow. There’s dinner the first night. They’re having pasta and salmon and Ilya’s whining about the amount of chicken and beef they’ll have to eat now that bulking season is approaching. Shane says well, they’re high protein foods. Like Ilya isn’t also a professional athlete who’s been doing this for just as long as he has. That’s not what he shoots back, though. He says, lamb is a great source of protein but we never have lamb. Okay, good lamb’s hard to find. You know what has lamb? Pelmeni! We should get Russian take out sometime soon, Shane says. I’ve always wanted to try. And always means nothing in this sentence, because always is only as long as they’ve known each other for. Forget about take out, Ilya could say then. The best pelmeni can only be found in the motherland. Russia, Moscow! I am going there in ten days for a box of my dead-dad’s things and maybe, my dead-mother’s suicide note. But of course, he doesn’t.

home... the things you leave behind when you leave it... the things you carry with you... the people who help you carry it!

Casablanca Games by @jenyakeefe

Ilya looks up from the chessboard and catches Shane staring. Ilya winks. Shane averts his eyes. Ilya moves his bishop and says, “Check.” Three moves later and he’s won. “Good game,” Shane says stiffly. His face feels hot. His heart is pounding. “Hah! Very good game! Yes!” Ilya bounces in his chair, his smile as wide and triumphant as if he’d just won the War. “What do I get?”

it's a casablanca (1942) au... it's a wwii spy thriller... it's a chess match... it's love!!!

The Apartment by allapologies

“You are acting like no one has ever done this to you before.” “Not true,” Shane mumbles. “No,” Ilya agrees. “You do this with Butler. In my house.” He leans in, whispers right into Shane’s ear: “But he is bad at it, I think. Or you would not be acting like this, just from a little touch.” Ilya reluctantly lends his apartment to the captain of the Boston Raiders, who uses it to conduct an extramarital affair. Unfortunately, his captain's mistress turns out to be Shane Hollander.

okay yes it's another classic film au (the apartment 1960). i like what i like! this time the shape of the plot is modernized and mapped onto hockey, with gasp-inducing results!

A Side Door Into the Dark by magnetica

Amundsen-Scott Station, Antarctica In grad school the only flirting he had mastered was the strategic deployment of phrases like ‘oh, really?’ and ‘is that so?’ It was brought to his attention by one of his more regular hookups in the kitchen of his apartment while they were cooking dinner, and he had said whenever Shane wanted to fuck he started talking like a coastal elite college girl who’d never had to ask for it outright. Now, in this strange point of contact with Ilya where it was obvious something vaguely carnal had passed between them, he thought about emulating his particular brand of assured charm. Whatever ideas he’d concocted devolved rather quickly into his own unintentional directness, and he said, “Does it scare you?” “Does climatology scare you?” Ilya’s face was measured and calm, his foot still pressed against the curved joint above Shane’s heel. “Yeah,” the word came out like a laugh, “it does, actually. A lot.”

what if they were researchers wintering together in the isolation of antarctica... what if they got to connect far, far away from the outside world... and then what if the outside world suddenly appeared on the horizon?

Leave Your Life Open by @sexcromancy

It doesn’t take Ilya long; he was worked up already. And the knowledge that this is the bot that so often bested him on the ice, about whom a commentator once said “matches Rozanov in everything and beats him with the cool head advantage,” makes everything hotter. His supplication for Ilya. Taking orders. Ilya always thought sex with a robot would feel like that in a cold, abject way. He likes push and pull with girls especially, he likes when they obviously want it. But the bot – Shane – does suck dick like he wants it; like he needs it, really.

i thought i knew what this was going to be, and i have never been more delighted to be 1) pretty much right, and 2) completely wrong, both at once. it is so, so much more than the premise. must-read! shanebot my best friend shanebot!

Language Acquisition by @space-bakery

Ilya was nineteen when he moved to the US. Nineteen years of Russia. Over half a decade of Russian summers after that to re-up. His brain, Shane knew, operated in Russian.

it's about language... it's about communication... it's about love!!!

North American Sentimentalities by courierstruck

Over the course of the three days, there are plenty of opportunities to tell Shane about Moscow. There’s dinner the first night. They’re having pasta and salmon and Ilya’s whining about the amount of chicken and beef they’ll have to eat now that bulking season is approaching. Shane says well, they’re high protein foods. Like Ilya isn’t also a professional athlete who’s been doing this for just as long as he has. That’s not what he shoots back, though. He says, lamb is a great source of protein but we never have lamb. Okay, good lamb’s hard to find. You know what has lamb? Pelmeni! We should get Russian take out sometime soon, Shane says. I’ve always wanted to try. And always means nothing in this sentence, because always is only as long as they’ve known each other for. Forget about take out, Ilya could say then. The best pelmeni can only be found in the motherland. Russia, Moscow! I am going there in ten days for a box of my dead-dad’s things and maybe, my dead-mother’s suicide note. But of course, he doesn’t.

home... the things you leave behind when you leave it... the things you carry with you... the people who help you carry it!

6k in this chapter, 52k total, Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov.

Rated E for explicit scenes in later chapters

Summary:

The Boston Raiders are making decent time heading up into Michigan when one of the horses almost breaks an ankle on what’s left of the road. A highly lethal—and highly contagious—virus has swept across the planet, taking down the power grid, toppling society, and leaving behind only a tiny fraction of the population. For a while, it seems like everything is over. This is not the case. Or: The world ends. Shane Hollander starts playing for Boston. Yes, in that order.

So as I mentioned I'm somehow back with a full MCU hyperfixation that came out of nowhere after... six years? seven? How long ago that clusterfuck that was Endgame came out? Holy shit, the world was different back then.

Anyway. I'm not a shipper, never have been, never will be, but I still love these two for what they are, however you wanna call it. "Till the end of the line" has been my WhatsApp status for close to ten years, the football team I've loved since I was ten has the same motto. Unearthly loyalty is my love language.

Anyway. Long hair for the Winter Soldier is @sharewithmeyourpoem's fault, but it's not like I tried fighting it at all. The Hydra arm is the coolest ever, sorry Shuri. The stealth suit is a work of art and I loved finding out details I had never noticed before.

Detail shots below the cut to show off the somewhat achieved resemblance to the actors and the tiny things I'm proud of. I had an unhealthy dose of fun painting leather and metal.

Also on my instagram.

NEW: Chapter 2!

aka Shane Hollander screams silently into the void

Yuna Hollander (Mom)

Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write:

Shane, do you have any idea how Rozanov got my cell number?

David Hollander (Dad)

ROZANOV?!

Read on Ao3.

A Helping Hand or Two (ao3) - PinkAvidReader N/R, 3k

Summary: A still-on-the-run Bucky stumbles across an injured Spider-Man - AKA Peter Parker - and decides to help him escape the HYDRA agents that’ve got them surrounded on all sides in a dingy alley somewhere in New York.

OR

Spider-Man, the Winter Soldier, and a HYDRA squad walk into an alley. Only two come out.

And the truth came out… (ao3) - Whaatimidoing31 T, 4k

Summary: Peter’s classmates don’t believe that he has an internship at SI, and when they go there for a field trip, they realize that there’s so much more that they don’t know.

Or, the overused Field Trip Trope that we all love.

Body Swap (ao3) - cybdmtitisrtslofy G, 6k

Summary: When Peter wakes up, the first thing he notices is that everything is so quiet. The sirens and shouting of the city were much quieter than usual. Confused, Peter reaches up to rub his eyes, assuming it’s some sort of sleep induced confusion, but is suddenly bewildered to feel cold metal against his eyelids. Looking down at his hands, he finds… a metal arm? And he is ripped.

“What the hell?” he mutters to himself, then pauses as he realizes his voice is also significantly deeper than normal. He jolts out of bed, running to the bathroom to stare at himself in the mirror. Well, not exactly himself. He gasps as his hypothesis is confirmed, finding Bucky Barnes looking back at him.

career day (ao3) - pomegranateboy G, 2k

Summary: peter parker has no one to come for career day… or does he?

“Code Mauve” (ao3) - dragonsarmors T, 8k

Summary: After the events of Endgame, Tony finally got his husband and son back, it was something worth losing an arm over. While he has healed physically, mentally he can’t stop seeing himself dying. So FRIDAY, Bucky, and Peter have a system in place to help Tony through the darkness in his mind, the system is named “Code Mauve”. It can be activated at any time, even during, say a field trip to Stark Tower by the Midtown Decathlon team.

everything, all at once (ao3) - turtle_bean T, 2k

Summary: With a barely audible groan, Peter pulls the softest sweater he owns over his head and lets it swamp his skinny arms. It had been Ben’s, but Peter doesn’t need to think about that right now.  

Peter also doesn’t need to think about how goddamn bright the bathroom is and does Rufus four floors down always bark this loudly?

–

or, peter has a sensory overload. that’s something bucky can help with.

gone and going (ao3) - lostintheclouds321 G, 6k

Summary: The Asset wakes up in a cold room. There’s a ringing in his ear. He doesn’t know who Peter Parker is or why he keeps calling him Bucky but he doesn’t exactly care to find out. All he knows is there is no escape from Hydra, he simply has to wait for his next mission.

Gone in a Second (ao3) - Avengers_Whore T, 14k

Summary: “I’m gonna show daddy my new wood chip collection,” Peter said, digging into one of his pockets and pulling out a handful of chips.

“I’m sure he’ll love it, baby. We’ll find you a jar to put them in,” Tony purred, ruffling his pup’s hair. He opened his mouth to talk again-

Boom.

And then there was an explosion and everything went black.

Join the Club (ao3) - HashtagLEH T, 143k

Summary: Homeless and mute after everything Peter has been through, he somehow makes friends with Deadpool, as Spiderman. And then he meets the Avengers, as Peter.

Or, alternatively: “Spidey and Deadpool: the Mute and the Motormouth” (a title by Deadpool).

Just Add an Adorable Child and an Ex-Assassin and Everything Will be Fine (ao3) - Whoops_my_hand_sLIPPED 23k

Summary: A man with breathtaking anger issues, two assassins/spies, a Norse god, a star-spangled man out of time, and a genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist are already an odd team, but throw in an ex-HYDRA assassin and an adorable little kid? Well that team just got a whole lot more interesting.

Basically a rewrite of The Avengers if Bucky and Peter were in it.

Peter Parker Meets The Avengers (ao3) - arabellagaleotti G, 9k

Summary: “Hey Mister Stark, so I’ve got some homework and I was hop-” I cut off abruptly. Sitting in the middle of the polished granite kitchen of Tony Stark is the runaway Avengers. Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Bucky Barnes, Clint Barton, and Sam Wilson. Strewn about, they look familiar with the space, but still slightly unused to it. I suppose months away does that. “You’re not Mister Stark?” I say, slightly awe-struck.

“No. We’re not.” Natasha says dryly, eyeing me up and down from her place perched on top of the counter.

OR,

Peter meets the Avengers, and they all love him, because how can you not?

Place in Your Heart (ao3) - Potrix T, 3k

Summary: They try to hide it, Bucky can see the effort they all put into making him more comfortable, but Bucky isn’t stupid, he knows they’d rather have him somewhere else, somewhere far away from their home, the place where they’re supposed to feel happy and safe.

Second times the charm (ao3) - ShadowsintheClouds E, 23k

Summary: Tony never thought he’d ever see his mate again. Not after that one heat they shared. Hell, he hardly remembered what the guy looked like. He only really had a name. James. Tony certainly wasn’t expecting to meet the man again while the world seemed to be collapsing around him.

And he certainly wasn’t expecting him to be a 100-year-old brainwashed assassin.

Stalker (ao3) - MetalPhoenix G, 962

Summary: Bucky Barnes decides to “guard” Peter after Pete fixes his arm in the middle of the night.

Standing Steady (ao3) - YouAreTheBrightest234 (TransLucas) N/R, 15k

Summary: Peter just reminds Bucky so much of Steve and God knows how Steve turned out

the barnes-romanoff babysitting service (ao3) - tempestaurora T, 3k

Summary: Bucky volunteers to look after Peter for the weekend and Natasha just wants to hang out with her favourite spider.

The sticky situation (ao3) - Self_conscious_mess T, 8k

Summary: Tony and Bucky have a bit of a scare when they realise that their son’s hands are inexplicably sticky.

Three times Peter Parker met Bucky Barnes (ao3) - orphan_account T, 2k

Summary: Peter Parker meets Bucky Barnes three times. Each three times, they have a connection.

Unexpected (ao3) - tiredRobin G, 948

Summary: Peter Parker meets James “Bucky” Barnes on accident.

What a Coincidence (ao3) - notyoursherlock G, 4k

Summary: Peter was having a relatively good day when it was announced to his AcaDec team that they were going on a field trip.

To Romania, of all places.

He could only hope that nothing would happen.

Must Be Kismet, So Kiss Me | Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes | Explict | 26,942 words | 2 chapters (both posted at once) | Complete | No warnings

Summary: “It’s clearly something,” Natasha says, because she's always been able to read Steve far too well. “If you’re making that face over a simple text.”

(or: Steve is just looking for a way to get a box of things back to its rightful owner when he sends the email. He's not expecting to get anything beyond a forwarding address in return. He's definitely not expecting to fall for the man who responds. An AU featuring Steve, Bucky, one terrible ex-boyfriend, so many text messages, a shameless amount of flirting, a little bit of sexting, some slightly concerned friends, plenty of kisses, and a lot of feelings.)