#74days

“A Song You Might Hear At A Wedding” (E, 9k) by ellievolia and lanyon

Steve Rogers is the good-looking lead singer of a struggling band, while James Barnes is half of a dynamic duo, on the verge of the big-time. When Stark Industries is reduced to playing at a wedding in order to raise funds and profile, Steve tells himself that this is the very last time he's going to sleep with Bucky.

(Or, the one in which Tony rants, Bruce mediates and Clint has fantastic eye-sex with the best man.)

+ Modern AU. Rockstar Bucky and Singer Steve, both incredibly thirsty for each other. Making out everywhere, hotel sex, DTR, and a wonderful ending

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“i know that you're scared (because hearts get broken)” (T, 22k) by rachelsdl 

“Steve, what are you doing?”

“I’m sorry,” Steve sighs. He runs a hand through his beautiful blonde hair, but he doesn’t stop what he’s doing. The panic falls deep into Bucky’s stomach. “I meant to be gone by the time you got back.”

“Where are you going?”

“Nat’s, maybe, I think.”

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Bucky's the singer in a band and comes home to his boyfriend of four years leaving him. Bucky's years in a band where he's been heavily closeted puts a wedge in their relationship and they'll have to figure out how to mend what's been broken. It's not easy, or fast, but they'll make it work. They have to because Bucky's never known a life without Steve Rogers by his side.

+ Modern AU. Exes to friends to lovers. Bucky finds himself again and gets Steve back (Baby, you’re the end of June.)

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“Heart on the Trigger” (M, 39k) by djchika and Stucky1980

Bucky is a rockstar, one year sober, his sober chips shaped into guitar picks. Steve is an army vet wrangled by a friend who needed an additional bodyguard for the tour. Their time together is made up of small moments, quiet stretches where the whirlwind of the tour and Bucky’s thorny past fades into the background. But nothing stays in the past for long and Bucky will need to face up to it sooner or later.

+ Modern AU. Rockstar Bucky and bodyguard Steve. On tour, rebuilding trust with the band, avoiding Pierce, and falling in love

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“Brooklyn Boys” (T, 5k) by 74days

Bucky Barnes is a rock-star with an expiry date - all he wants is to get out of his contract without being sued.

It's not until he does that he realises that it's not the end for him, but a second chance.

+ Modern AU. After Bucky leaves his old record label, he goes sober and reconnects with his friend Steve. Mutual pining

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“Sam's Music Taste is Ruined Forever” (G, 1k) by Hand_of_the_Alex

Sam had finally gotten Steve to agree to go and see The Howling Commandos with him. Oh how he would regret it.

+ Modern AU. Rockstar Bucky, secretly dating. Fanboy Sam is unimpressed by how unimpressed Steve is. 

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“jamais vu” (E, 13k) by Claudia_flies

They’re all gathered in the top floor private conference room because Tony wants to set up a Strike team, and he’s making some really excellent points. The Avengers aren’t a stealth operation, Steve has to admit.

He just doesn’t like it.

+ Shrunkyclunks. Sex pollen, exhibitionism, voyeurism, and heat sex. This is one of my absolute favorites

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“Sergeant Hot Pants” (E, 11k) by cleo4u2

When Sergeant Bucky Barnes is assigned to temporarily take over for Maria Hill, Steve can't quite keep his shit together. Not around Bucky, who is the hottest Alpha Steve's ever seen.

+ Shrunkyclunks. Steve has a crush and the Avengers ship them

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"Season of all things” (E, 26k) by Claudia_Flies

Steve really isn’t sure about sharing with an Alpha but he is starting to run out of options. There are only six Omega boarding houses in the city and Steve has been kicked out of four of them.

+ Modern AU. Steve needs a place to stay and Bucky has an empty room. Domestic AF

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“Blossom like sunshine, nectar sweet as sin, the devil’s drink has me pulled in” (E, 24k) by moonythejedi394

“Your son was said to be as beautiful as Brooklyn’s sweet apple blossoms,” Barnes said, and his lips lifted in another smile, then his eyes moved and Steve was startled by the intensity of his gaze.

Barnes gave pause, long enough that Steve’s heartbeat picked up again. Then he spoke again.

“But no blossom could compare,” he said. “Not even the most perfect of untouched flowers.”

Steve felt his cheeks heat up; he blushed right to the roots of his hair, pulled back from his face by Wanda’s best braids. Barnes’s gaze somehow intensified even more as his gaze just shifted enough that Steve was sure he saw him blush that far. Barnes’s lip lifted at one corner by a hair.

“I’ve never been gladder to have my expectations so far exceeded,” he concluded.

+ Fantasy AU. Excellent worldbuilding with arranged marriage and wedding customs

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“A Good Provider” (T, 5k) by 74days

Bucky is an alpha with no hope of ever having an opportunity to court an Omega. Or maybe he's just been looking for the wrong type of Omega!

+ Modern AU. Steve thinks Bucky is absolutely wonderful

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“A Tin of Brylcreem, A Coke, and A Coat Cut In The Omega Style” (E, 6k) by April_Blooms

"Go.” Bucky had said, shoving the bigger part of his last paycheck into Steve’s hand. Steve’s brows furrowed and his scent flared with indignation and anger.

“Buck, I told you, I’m not your omega, you can't-”

“Don’t you dare fight me on this, Steve.” Bucky’s alpha timbre rose. “I won’t have it. I won’t have you shivering yourself into an early grave.

Wrapping the omega up tightly in his own oversized coat, Bucky practically shoved Steve out the door. “Now, you go down to Campton’s Department store and buy yourself a coat. And a Coke. And any other treat you want. I mean it."

"Buck," Steve said. "I’m not going to spend your hard earned money to buy-” Bucky interrupted.

“You, Steve Rogers, will not be allowed back in our den until you come back without a red cent on you and a brand new coat cut in the latest omega style.”

Or

Steve is a sickly, scentless, barren omega bitch that no alpha would ever want, least of all, Bucky. At least, that is what everyone thinks.

+ Pre-WW2. Mutual pining, exhibitionism, and wonderful worldbuilding

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“The Silver Answer” (T, 22k) by dirtybinary

On May 7, 2013, the sixty-eighth anniversary of Steve Rogers’s death, the war record of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops was declassified. Overnight, their work in World War II became public knowledge: a “Ghost Army” that deceived and terrorised Axis forces with phantom troops, decoy inflatables, spoofed radio signals, professionally recorded sound effects—and the myth of Captain America himself.

Steve Rogers never got the serum. He doesn't have superhuman abilities. What he has is a paintbrush, some stage props, a stomach full of spite, and a Bucky Barnes.

It's enough.

+ WW2 to modern. Mixed media: interviews, letters, and photos. Steve doesn’t have the serum but punches the Red Skull anyway. Steve and Bucky get to grow old together

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“Like the Tide” (E, 53k) by Deisderium

There's no SSR anymore. It's SHIELD, now. The worst part is, it's named after him in some way, Peggy's idea of a memorial to honor his sacrifice. He hates the thought of it, because it makes him feel like a hypocrite. His shield was only ever a prop, not something to base an agency around.

But he's been mythologized differently. They give him files to read on this thing that Peggy and Howard built, and his story is a part of it—or anyway, the story that Peggy and Howard chose to tell about him.

It shouldn't matter; they thought he was dead. They never thought he would see what they turned him into.

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In which Steve and Bucky never met, and Steve was always a USO performer instead of an actual supersoldier. The serum keeps Steve alive in the ice, but he wakes up the size he used to be in the 1930s, albeit healthier. Hydra sends the Soldier to kill Captain America, but somehow the Soldier can't make himself do it.

Suddenly Steve is stuck with an assassin who can't quite kill him but refuses to leave him alone and the knowledge that Hydra is still out there somewhere.

If you can't beat them, subvert them.

+ WW2 to Modern. Instead of murdering smol Steve, the Asset moves in and adopts two kids with him

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“The Role We Are Cast In” (T, 6k) by 74days

Bucky Barnes loves his daughter just as much as any man ever did. He expected to be the most important man in her life for a lot longer than 5 years old, when she comes home to tell him that her teacher is Captain America, shrunk down in a Nazi plot.

But the war is over, and Bucky's got a bum arm and a job working in the office of the docks he worked as a lad, and he really doesn't give it too much thought.

+ Post WW2. Steve is the voice actor for the Captain America radio show

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“A Contest of Stories” (NR, 70k) by alby_mangroves, hansbekhard, and Scappodaqui

All actions in war take place in an atmosphere of uncertainty, or the "fog of war." Uncertainty pervades battle in the form of unknowns about the enemy, about the environment, and even about the friendly situation. While we try to reduce these unknowns by gathering information, we must realize that we cannot eliminate them—or even come close. The very nature of war makes certainty impossible; all actions in war will be based on incomplete, inaccurate, or even contradictory information. Having said this, we realize that it is precisely those actions that seem improbable that often have the greatest impact on the outcome of war.

(Warfighting, Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 1)

+ Azzano and WW2. Steve joins the Ghost Army, foils Hydra, and disappears with Bucky

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"Of ghosts and inflatable tanks” (T, 4k) by liionne

They were part of the 603rd Camouflage Engineers and The Signal Company Special respectively, divisions of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops.

They were the Ghost Army.

+ WW2. They’re scared and scared for each other, but they’re doing their best together

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