Three Hearts ♥ ♥ ♥
by Oopsynini a Stucky WIP
Chapters: 48/? Fandom: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Captain America - All Media Types
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Howling Commandos Members (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Thor (Marvel), Clint Barton, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Brock Rumlow, Alexander Pierce, Jasper Sitwell Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Blood and Violence, Gun Violence, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Major Character Injury, Avengers Feels, Team Bonding, Team Dynamics, Hydra (Marvel), Good Friend Sam Wilson (Marvel), Battle Scenes, Steve Rogers Needs a Hug, Hurt Steve Rogers, Gay Sex, Anal Sex, Smut, Mpreg | Male Pregnancy, Unplanned Pregnancy, Creepy Brock Rumlow, Brock Rumlow Being an Asshole, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, not between our boys, Hydra Experiments (Marvel), POV Steve Rogers, POV Bucky Barnes, POV Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes, Canon Divergence - Post-Movie: The Avengers (2012), Possible Child Endangerment - if you count the fact that Steve's going on missions while pregnant, Explicit Sexual Content, Explicit Language, Mission Fic, Missions Gone Wrong, Rescue Missions, Torture, Dubious Consent, Birth, Survival, Wilderness Survival, Drug Use, Drug Addiction, Slow Burn, Self-Harm, Dream Sex, Non-Consensual Bucky Barnes/Brock Rumlow Relationship, Touch-Starved Bucky Barnes, Abduction, Kidnapping, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Murder, Blood and Gore, Panic Attacks, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, graphic birth, Slow Build, Emotional Manipulation, Threats of Violence, Threats of Rape/Non-Con.
Summary:
What if Steve was pregnant when he went into the ice?
Chased by grief over the loss of Bucky. Steve takes the Valkyrie into the ice in an attempt to stop Hydra.
70 years later, Steve wakes up in a new time, with new enemies and new friends, but the mission is the same. Bring down the enemy, no matter what. When a mysterious figure known as San Dapth makes his way onto the scene, Steve and the Avengers step forward and heed the call to arms. Together, they have to face down San Dapth and bring him to justice.
It is in their fight against San Dapth that Steve discovers something terrifying. He's pregnant with Bucky Barnes' baby. Now he must learn to live this new life without the man he loves.
Hydra learns of Steve's pregnancy. And they'll do whatever it takes to get to his unborn child, including unleashing their greatest asset from the ice—the Winter Soldier.
When Steve discovers the Winter Soldier and Bucky Barnes are one and the same, he must fight to bring back the man he loves.
Chapter 48: Memories
Snippet:
But he hadn’t thought, had he?Â
Not when he’d pressed his palm to Rogers’ chest and rubbed it in what could have only been a sign of comfort. Not when he’d whispered those words out loud. Any one of those actions could have sent him right back to the chair. If Rumlow had been paying closer attention. If the cameras had been working. If Rogers had said something. He’d be as good as wiped.Â
He scolds himself now. He can’t act like that, like a human; he’s not one of them. He is an Asset. He is above such things. Sympathy. Empathy. Caring. Those aren’t words in his handbook. They’re negatives, and if he keeps letting himself experience them, he’s going to be as good as gone.
He couldn’t help it, though, seeing Rogers like that, gasping for breath, his lips the same shade of blue as his eyes. He’d been certain the other man was going to die. It had been…terrifying. He couldn’t think of a world without Rogers. He wasn’t sure when or how, but Rogers had weaseled his way through the cracks and crevices of the Assets' armor and had come out the other side as something important, something special.
“He’ll be alright, love.” A voice flashes through his mind's eye, and a moment later, he catches sight of a woman, no, not a woman, but the woman, the one who comes with the scent of baking vanilla and the crush of arms holding him tight. The one who feels like something important, therefore, must be something important.
Within the memories/not memories, she steps into his line of sight and offers up a battered and dingy teacup; her hands are long-fingered, like his. When the him that isn’t him looks up, her features are like his, only better. More kind. She smiles a gentle, reassuring smile and places the mug in his palm. Her smile is nothing like his, but maybe he could imagine that it had once looked like hers.Â
The person he was not lifts the cup to drink it; it tastes of a light sweetness, warmth, and a taste he knows but can’t place. He wills himself to look back up at the ghost of her, to examine her face, so he can understand what she means to him. Who she is. He doesn’t know her, though. He doesn’t know her. She’s gone like that, a fleeting thing, the lingering flavor of the tea at the back of his throat the only thing left to recall her by.
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