I am lost, I canât even remember my name. Iâve been (for sometime) looking for someone, please tell me who I am. Amnesia! Below are my Top 5 Favorite fics:Â
âOnce youâve fallen from classical virtueâ (M, 4k) by lanyon
And, yes, there, leaning against the kitchen table, cradling a mug of coffee between two massive hands, is his blonde mystery man.
âI know this is going to sound strange,â he says, immediately. âBut I donât suppose you know who I am?â
The blonde man blinks and the corners of his mouth turn down. âDamn. I was hoping you could tell me who I am.â
+Â Â Post WS. They both have amnesia and think they must be lovers. Theyâre wrong.Â
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âWaking Up Slowâ (M, 44k) by odetteandodile
In 1945 Steve Rogers crashed the Valkyrie into the Arctic Ocean and was never recovered.
In 2019 Bucky Barnes is walking along the beach below the decommissioned lighthouse where he lives with his sixteen month old daughter when he finds the body of a man washed up in the surf, half frozen but miraculously alive.
Bucky manages to revive him, but finds that the stranger has no memory of who he is or how he got here aside from a name: Steve. Snowed in by a blizzard soon after and unable to get Steve a medevac, Bucky discovers that the funny, good-hearted man slips into the fabric of his and Aliceâs life faster than he would have thought possible. The two are undeniably drawn to each other, but as their feelings grow so does the looming possibility that the answer to the question âwho is Steve?â might be much more complicated than either of them realized.
+ Shrunkyclunks. Domestic life, falling in love, and figuring out what you want in life Â
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âsome grief, some joyâ (T, 11k) by layersofsilence
"Well, how are you feeling, whatâre you thinking? Letâs get going, you know the debrief drill ââ
âUh,â says Steve, who does not know anything of the sort. âI do?â The other man squints.
âWhat do you mean, uh? You should,â he says severely, tapping at a tablet in his hand. Steve frowns, trying to remember, but as soon as he does a bright flare of pain goes off in his temples, flooding sharply though his head and not letting up until heâs stopped trying to think about what he should know.
Something on the other side of his bed starts to beep, and the other man looks up from his tablet. âHang on a sec, then,â he says slowly. âMaybe you shouldnât. Who are you?â
+ Post WS. Amnesiac Steve falls in love with Bucky all over again and pines when he sees a wedding ringÂ
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"i will remember youâ (T, 15k) by obsessivereader
Bucky is James now, and it takes Steve losing his memory to bring them back together
He stares at the man, curious and wondering. âWho are you?â âJames Barnes.â The manâs voice, and the way he shapes his consonantsâsoft and smooth and just a touch foreignâis almost, but not quite, familiar. âAre we friends too?â he asks. âYeah.â Huh. The way his bodyâs responding to James doesnât seem very friend-like.
+ Post WS. After Steve recovers from amnesia, the boys have an overdue heart-to-heart conversation
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âMission Objectiveâ (E, 8k) by debwalsh
Steve wakes up to the luxurious sensation of a warm body and a hard dick pressed against his back.
Which would be great if he knew who the guy was, or if, in fact, Steve was actually you know, gay.
In which the voyage of discovery holds greater rewards than either of them could have guessed. Plus naked cuddling. And sex. Lots of sex.
+ Post WS. The boys get their minds temporarily wiped in an attempt to save their marriage
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âClosed Bookâ (E, 38k) by AggressiveWhenStartled
Bucky woke up with a headache, a mouth that tasted like something had died in it, and hands-down, swear-to-god, the most beautiful man he had ever seen asleep in his lap.
Bucky was also, he realized after a moment, strapped down to a hospital bed with about six different monitors making unsynced, equally piercing, beeps. Beyond that he couldnât quite seeâthere was a hideous floral curtain pulled around the bed, and while he could just make out figures moving in the room beyond it, the pattern made his head pound even worse the longer he looked at it.
So. That was concerning.
+ Post WS. Bucky is rescued halfway through another Hydra abduction. An exploration into memories, identity, relationships, and friendships.
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*More amnesia stories in the Winter Soldier Steve, Handler Steve, and 21st Century/Defrosting listÂ
