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Title: The Sirens and the Thunder

Author: legete

Rating: Teen

Fandom: The Avengers (MCU), Captain America (MCU)

Characters: James “Bucky” Barnes, Steve Rogers

Relationship: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

Warnings: None

Other tags: Alternate Universe, Mystical Beings and Creatures, Selkies, Pinning, Period-Typical Homophobia,

Length: 15K,

Summary: Bucky is a young selkie who is accidentally called to Steve and ends up staying around to help this poor, wretched kid not die

Personal notes on fic: Since it is sort of a period piece, the fic touches on some bigotry of that era. BUT the fic weaves in some really A+ selkie lore that I appreciate, so this fic has always stuck with me.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Captain America (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Howling Commandos Additional Tags: World War II, 1940s, Brooklyn, Introspection, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Prisoner of War, Implied Torture, Bucky Barnes Feels Summary:

Rating: Explicit Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: F/M Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel (Movies) Relationship: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes

Additional Tags: Genderswap, Alternate Universe - Always a Different Sex, Female Bucky Barnes, Body Image, Awkward Sexual Situations, Cunnilingus, World War II

He meets Bucky Barnes on a miserable-cold day in November, on the losing end of a fight that he’s too stupid and too stubborn to walk away from. One minute he’s getting his teeth rattled in his skull; the next, somebody else is doing some rattling of their own. It ends in screaming and cussing and the fella who’d been roughing Steve up running off with a dislocated shoulder. Bucky spits blood and grins while pulling Steve to his feet.

It takes him three weeks to discover Bucky’s a girl.

He meets Bucky Barnes on a miserable-cold day in November, on the losing end of a fight that he’s too stupid and too stubborn to walk away from. One minute he’s getting his teeth rattled in his skull; the next, somebody else is doing some rattling of their own. It ends in screaming and cussing and the fella who’d been roughing Steve up running off with a dislocated shoulder. Bucky spits blood and grins while pulling Steve to his feet.

Everybody—including Steve himself—had been surprised when he’d turned out to be an alpha. The other boys had pegged him for an omega, and a bad one at that; one of the many jokes at his expense was that Barnes only liked him because Steve was even lower on the food chain than an omega with delusions of beta-status. Steve can still remember the feral grin Bucky’d given him after they’d heard that one for the first time, blood on his teeth from his split lip, and the way his voice had cracked when he’d said “I like you for a lot more’n that, Rogers.”

Three times he nearly escapes. Two of them are critical-thinking tests. The third is legitimate--he shakes off whatever drugs they’ve put in his food, breaks a guard’s nose, and makes it to another floor before they shoot him full of enough tranquilizers to drop a horse. The last thing he sees is boots running across carpet toward him.

They’re more careful after that.