#please clap

✧ promise without ceremony → bucky gave up on marriage a long time ago. but one day, when he pulls a bullet from your leg, he accidentally proposes. + secret deleted scene!

✧ tactical comfort → when your period hits early during a mission, you try to power through it. but, bucky notices everything, and he refuses to let you suffer in silence. + secret deleted scene!

golden hour → bucky asks you to move in after coming home from a mission.

somatic memories → bucky wakes from a nightmare about you and finds the apartment empty, convinced the worst has already happened.

half-light → 18+ you end up using your safeword with bucky for the first time.

night shift → you’re a nurse living below bucky, and when he shows up bleeding in the middle of the night, you’re the only person he trusts to stitch him back together.

shelter → bucky comes home late from a storm with groceries, a guilt complex, and a kitten in his jacket.

dress rehearsal → 18+ minutes before a gala, bucky finds you spiraling in front of the mirror and decides there are better ways to remind you you’re worth every second of the spotlight.

interim measures → (thunderbolts/bucky x reader) after officially moving into tower, the team is still figuring out how to coexist. game night helps!

pressure points → bucky never misses a tell and hiding an unexpected injury during a mission debrief forces both of you to confront what the two of you are really doing.

something worth holding → you bring bucky flowers for his birthday, and what starts as a simple gesture turns into something far more significant.

under the snowfall → snowed in at a safe house, you start a snowball fight with bucky, sam, and joaquin, and chaos quickly follows.

five times he almost did → five times bucky didn’t say "i love you", and one time he did.

˗ˏˋ long reads ˎˊ˗

✧ hold fast → a mission goes sideways, forcing you to cross a frozen lake. the ice doesn’t hold, and when you go under, Bucky is the only thing between you and the dark.

✧ comms interference → the team knew something was off about you, the one who kept hijacking their comms and saving their asses with pop music. what they don’t know is that you’re bucky’s secret wife.

✧ blood upon the snow → you’re bleeding out alone in the snow and your brain does the only mercy it has left: runs every version of bucky barnes you’ve ever known in hopes that the real one makes it in time.

✧ proof of return → you die and come back every time. But when a mission pushes your limits and you don’t return right away, Bucky’s worst fear threatens to finally be true.

habits of the heart → you and bucky both know what it means to wake up haunted after a nightmare. over time, taking care of each other through it becomes second nature.

✧ a place to land → after a night out goes violently wrong, you call bucky—without knowing what you’re even asking for. he shows up anyway, until you finally start to believe you’re safe.

high water → you’ve stopped keeping track of the bruises. bucky hasn’t—and he doesn’t say anything, not until the patterns start looking too much like his own.

sound check → bucky’s never been one for live music or crowded bars, but the first time he hears you sing, he’s ruined for anything else.

into the void → inside the void, nothing is real, but the trauma is. as memory turns to ruin, bucky is found by the only person who ever made him believe he could survive what was done to him.

what stays → after disappearing for days, you didn’t expect bucky to show up at your door again, let alone help you through the spiral without judgment.

fault lines → after getting laid off from your job, you're doing everything you can to keep it together. bucky refuses to let you go through the unraveling alone.

the shape of a life → you didn’t plan to become a guardian overnight—and you never planned to ask bucky for help. he wants a future you’re not sure you believe in.

no way but through → a snowstorm swallows the world whole, leaving you and bucky stranded in the middle of nowhere during a mission with no way out.

a love letter to stone → you were bucky’s fiancée in the 40s, spending decades at his grave, never moving on. when he finally comes home, you’re already gone.

salt in the blood → you live in a fishing town far from the mess of global conflicts, until a stranger with a metal arm shows up at your dock asking for a boat.

˗ˏˋ double features ˎˊ˗

✧ aftershock | new avengers!bucky x pregnant!reader

you find out you’re pregnant days before a mission and decide not to tell bucky. but when everything goes wrong in the field, he’s left putting together the pieces until you wake up. part 1 | part 2 | secret deleted scene!

˗ˏˋ series ˎˊ˗

a seat at the table | congressman!bucky x journalist!reader (ON HIATUS)

journalism was supposed to be about the truth. politics was supposed to be about power. when bucky barnes—former assassin, reluctant congressman—leaves you with more questions than answers, you find yourself caught in a different kind of story. leads into thunderbolts* part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5

✧ point of impact | civil war!avengers/bucky x transported!reader

in your world, the avengers are fiction—comics, movies, nothing more. when a lab experiment goes wrong, you wake up mid-civil war with no way out and no script to follow. part 1 | part 2 | part 3

bob reynolds ˏˋ°•*⁀➷

˗ˏˋ short reads ˎˊ˗

the quiet that follows → (thunderbolts/bob x reader) you can dampen emotions, and you do it to keep the team steady. they try to show up in their own clumsy ways, bob just does it the quietest.

better than before → you’re head over heels for your boss, congressman bucky barnes, but when you move to assist the new avengers, you meet bob.

steve rogers ˏˋ°•*⁀➷

˗ˏˋ long reads ˎˊ˗

a place to burn → you and steve were lovers until the accords split the team. now three years after the snap, a failed mission forces you back into his orbit, where five years of silence finally demands an answer.