#seapigeon

“To Believe in Tomorrow” (T, 3k) by seapigeon

Bucky's mornings at the community garden get a little more interesting when the new guy shows up.

+ Shrunkyclunks. Bucky gets a crush and helps Steve with his vegetables

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“Into the Sky” (T, 3k) by Ellessey

"Maybe they were just duds," Steve says, his thumb moving gently over Bucky's hand. "We can get some more."

They were magic beans, that's what the package called them. They were supposed to sprout within a week. They were intended for ages five to ninety-five.

Maybe Bucky's just too goddamn old.

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Bucky has precious little patience with himself (and even less for his horticultural endeavors), but Steve has more than enough to go around.

+ Post CW. Bucky grows a bean plant. A soft story about love 

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"A Seed Once Sown Never Dies” (T, 2k) by attackofthezee (noxlunate)

“Do you need backup?”

“No, I need my aunt’s superhero war boyfriend to stop calling me in the middle of missions.” Sharon says, but it’s a little more fond than when Nat says similar things so Steve thinks he can get away with it. “I don’t know what to tell you Steve. Get a pet? Wait, no, don’t get a pet. God no, please don’t do that. Get a plant. A couple plants.”

“A plant?” Steve says, feeling strangely confused by the suggestion.

“Yeah, it’ll be good for you. Start a garden or something. Just, do anything that isn’t calling me at 3 in the goddamn morning while I’m on an op. Call me at like 11 on a Sunday when it’s my day off. That’s a normal time to call Steve. If you catch me in a good mood we can even do brunch.”

Aka Steve Rogers starts a garden and it goes better than anyone expected.

+ Post WS. Bucky returns, secretly waters Steve’s plants, and then helps Steve at the farmers market.

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“All of Your Love is Sunlight” (E, 22k) by canistakahari and WarlockInTraining

Sometimes the path to happiness involves bad timing turned good, a butt plant, and a little everyday magic. For Steve and Bucky, it's all that and more.

+ Shrunkyclunks. Steve breaks a door, buys a succulent, and gets a date

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“It’s Fertilizer” (G, 1k) by daisymondays

“It’s fertilizer,” Steve says, far too primly for someone whose house smells like shit.

“That’s just a fancy word for shit.”

“No, it’s the correct word for plant nutrients.”

It’s becoming more and more evident that Steve is not going to admit that his house does in fact smell like shit, and he’s got that stubborn set to his jaw that tells Sam exactly who is behind the cause of the smell. Barnes.

+ Post WS. People are willing to go to great lengths to make Bucky happy

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"where can i put it down?” (T, 6k) by layersofsilence

The beach is deserted, and the waves loud. Today the very sea chatters, buzzing with the news: there’s going to be a mating. There are only four days between the announcements and the ceremony - and then Steve sees his mate's face, and his heart sinks. He knows that face. He loves - he’d loved that face. Right up until he’d seen it again, and wasn’t that a laugh?

+ Fantasy AU. Arranged marriage with Mer Steve and Selkie Bucky. Ex-lovers, both thought the other was human

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“Yours is the Only Ocean” (E, 6k) by seapigeon

"Sirens aren’t monogamous. She’s free to mate with whoever she wants.” Steve turns his head, and for the first time, he looks tentative. “So am I.”

It takes Bucky almost a full minute to understand.

“Oh,” he says, going warm down to his tailfin.

+ Fantasy AU. Siren Steve only eats invasive species and Mer Bucky thinks he's neat

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“Even Underneath the Waves” (E, 20k) by leveragehunters (Monkeygreen)

When the siren came to the merfolk clan in search of a temporary mate she knew she'd bear a daughter, a full-blooded siren, powerful and deadly. Instead she bore a son.

It was hard to be the son of a siren, a creature of suspicion in the eyes of his father's people, and Steve soon left his father's clan to wander the oceans alone. Alone, that is, until he found a human like he'd never seen. A human dressed all in black, surrounded by blood and death. A human whose heart's desire, buried deep beneath an inhuman shell, was crying out not to kill.

+ Shrinkyclinks. Mer Steve saves the Winter Soldier and keeps him away from Hydra

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“Eleven-Foot-Six” (T, 13k) by dappledplatypus (shut_the_jongup)

The world doesn't know much about the merpeople, other than the fact that they exist. So, when Steve and the other staff at the New England Aquarium's rehabilitation center find themselves with a badly injured mer on their hands, they aren't sure what to do.

+ Modern AU. Injured thresher shark Buck ends up at Steve’s rehab center and forms a crush

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“Blue Scales” (E, 52k) by chaya

Bucky and merSteve met as kids in Brooklyn. When Bucky goes off to war, Steve gets the help of Merskine to get some human legs and extra muscle to go save his POW boyfriend. Together they form the Howling Commandos and fight the good fight before going down in a plane together and getting frozen for decades. When they wake up, canon is more or less restored, minus the part where Bucky was never kidnapped a second time and Steve shapeshifts back and forth from scaley to fleshy. (All very minor details.)

+ Pre-War to Post Defrosting. Mermaid Steve and human Bucky with the Avengers. The one where the Avengers babysit merchildren

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“Follow Me Home” (M, 4k) by seapigeon

The Brooklyn SPCA has a running program for their high energy shelter dogs. Steve quickly becomes their #1 volunteer. Every time he's out with a dog, he thinks about stopping to talk to the cute guy in the park, and every time he chickens out. But today, someone else is making that decision for him. That someone is Engelbert the 80 pound boxer mix.

+ Shrunkyclunks. Bucky and Steve arrange playdates for the dogs, and dates for themselves

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“The Dog Likes Him Better...” (T, 3k) by 74days

Steve manages to find a dog walker in New York for his Husky 'Cap' only to become aware that his dog loves the new walker more than he loves Steve.

+ Modern AU. Steve’s dog loves Bucky, and maybe Steve does too

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“total eclipse of the bark” (T, 2k) by Deisderium

Steve's first day at the flower shop, he walks into the break room to find an extremely large and muscular man having a breakdown because his dog is sick. Only an asshole wouldn't try to comfort that large and muscular man.

+ Modern AU. Real men cry

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“The Twilight Bark (And Other Things Bucky Has To Deal With On A Daily Basis)” (E, 36k) by spacebuck

Steve Rogers is a bonafide superhero, followed by nearly a million people on Twitter, not that he’s all too active considering saving the world usually comes first. When he takes on a rescue dog, dog walker Bucky can’t help but leave a message in Steve’s twitter thread, never expecting the DM that comes his way.

With that one tweet, Steve and his new fuzzball Duke tip Bucky’s life upside down, but Bucky’s not sure he’d have it any other way - especially if he can do something about the shadows lurking behind Steve’s smile.

+ Shrunkyclunks. Bucky walks many, many dogs

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“New Tricks” (M, 18k) by OddityBoddity

The one where Bucky busts up a dog-fighting ring.

+ Post WS. Sometimes when you heal something else, you heal yourself

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“Clint Barton and the Howling Commandogs” (T, 4k) by galwednesday

All five of the dogs were in the backyard, bounding enthusiastically through an obstacle course assembled from the kind of junk that accumulated in rich people’s attics. There were platforms made of legless chairs, tents of old tablecloths to run through, and a pile of sofa cushions the dogs took great delight in plowing into. The dogs were being directed by a one-armed man with long brown hair and a serious case of resting murderface.

"You guys," Clint hissed. "That's the Winter Soldier."

"Oh, word?" America said. She looked idly at her nails.

"You knew?"

Kate rolled her eyes. "Of course we knew. How many one-armed amnesiacs do you think are running around these days? It's fine, I shot at him a little when he first turned up to make sure he wouldn't go berserk."

"He was real polite about it," America said. "Didn't return fire or anything."

+ Post WS. Who better to look after serum-enhanced dogs than a serum-enhanced soldier?

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