#stuckysituation

“the long game” (M, 6k) by dirtybinary

In 1945, Steve Rogers trades himself to the Red Room in exchange for the Winter Soldier. They accept his offer, but don't let Bucky go. After all, their supersoldiers come as a matched set.

(Featuring crafty Steve, pining Bucky, and a very noisy metal arm.)

+ Fall to WS. Steve and Bucky take turns remembering and play the long con. The one with the Fact Game

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“Falling Back on Forever” (E, 24k) by ftmsteverogers

Bucky falls from the train in 1945. Steve jumps right after him.

The Winter Soldier and the Midnight Patriot are the world's most feared duo, serving HYDRA and leaving a trail of bodies a mile wide behind them. But then they remember.

+ Fall to Avengers. They remember each other, break out, and go on the run

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“Steve Rogers’s epic failures meeting the expectations” (T, 5k) by StuckySituation

Steve Rogers’s patriotic eyebrows jump up. “Holy cow.”

That was not what Tony would have expected from Captain America. “‘Holy cow’? Did the history books mess up? Was your family actually from India and not Ireland?”

“Fuck off, Stark. I ain’t shitting on what comes out of your mouth, so you better leave my goddamn cows alone as well.”

Tony doesn’t know whether to feel awestruck or betrayed. “You,” he says and points at Rogers, “are nothing like I expected.”

“Sorry to be a fucking disappointment,” Rogers says with a scowl and pulls his ridiculous helmet on, covering the sleekly styled brown hair. It was astonishing how even Rogers’s golden hair had been false propaganda -- but of coursethe great America had wanted to present its figurehead as Aryan perfection in the time of eugenics. “Suit up, everyone. Let’s get this shit done.”

+ Defrosting to WS. A series where defrosted Bucky tries his best without Steve, and then doesn’t have to anymore

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“Winter’s Heart” (NR, 5k) by Speranza

"Good morning, Soldier," and Steve opened his eyes and said, automatically, "Ready to comply."

+ Endgame. Steve uses the time stone to jump after Bucky in the Alps

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“Sleeping With Ghosts” (M, 33k) by rohkeutta

The first two years after Bucky gets out of the ice are-- surprisingly easy. Serve his country, learn to use his charmed robot hand, make friends, don’t think about the spark of magic in him that’s gone out, see the world, try to live with the grief (try to live with the grief, try to--)

Maybe they’re not that easy, in the end, but he’s settling - until he gets reluctantly pulled out of the Army and has Steve’s shield (Steve’s shield, its magic wary and curious and half-dormant) thrust onto him again, even though he’s already turned it down once before. The world has changed and so has he, but as he tries to immerse himself into a new life, he meets a ghost he could never leave behind.

+ Fall to WS. Magic, bonding, blood binding, and finally coming home to each other. 

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“Make Way For Ducklings” (E, 28k) by hetrez

Bucky says, "Do you know, after you leave -- every time you leave, after the doctors have taken my mask off, I walk around this place and try to find everywhere you've been. Was your hand on the toaster? Did you lean against the doorway? Where were you on the couch? I haven't seen your face in seventy-five years, not really."

+ Post Avengers (2012) to Post -WS. Steve hires new agents, bonds with the Avengers, and gets his Bucky back

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“How To Train Your Superheroes” (T, 3k) by StuckySituation

“But of course, no matter how much we practice on schedule, we will need to learn constant vigilance and manage to get our reaction times down to the minimum,” Steve continues and takes the last burger beef from the grill and puts it onto the table next to him.

Natasha has a brief millisecond to frown and think “Constant vigilance?”, before Steve kicks the grill so hard that the coals rain on top of the flammable carpet feets away.

“What the hell-!?”

“STEVE!?”

Steve is already sprinting towards the ledge. “First training session started! Wanda, Sam, Tony - someone CATCH ME!”

Then he jumps off the Tower.

+ Post WS. Steve has learned from the best. His high stress and high intensity trainings may be unconventional/extreme, but they get the job done. Featuring stuffed animal team mascots

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“The Ding Dong War” (T, 6k) by icewhisper

The year Hostess releases their limited edition Star Spangled Ding Dongs, they all suffer. (AKA no one should let Tony Stark have a credit card and history books never covered just how much of an asshole Steve Rogers really is.)

+ Post WS. Pranks gone astray and domestic life in the Avenger Tower

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“@sgtbarnes1917 and @cptrogers1918″ (G, 114k) by BayleyWinchester

Bucky Barnes broke Twitter with one photo

+ Post WS. Mixed media of tweets, interviews, photos, transcriptions, and news articles. Chapter 5 & 6 is a tv documentary of domestic daily life in the tower, and Chapter 75 is the marriage record reveal

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“The S. Rogers Memorial (it’s NOT a shrine) to J. B. Barnes” (T, 18k) by SkyisGray

When the Avengers realize that Steve doesn’t have anything to remind him of Bucky Barnes, they embark on a project to track down Bucky memorabilia. But it seems that Steve isn’t the only visitor to the (unofficial) J. B. Barnes memorial (which is totally NOT a shrine, Tony).

+ Post Avengers (2012). Reposted from the Starter Pack list. Nothing like friendly competition and personalized gifts to show your teammate you Care

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“Rivers and Roads” (M, 30k) by AustinB

Steve is working undercover for Hydra when he gets an unexpected promotion.

To the Winter Soldier Project.

+ Shrinkyclinks. Steve sabotages the chair wipes and the Asset pays attention

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“Captain Sugar Baby” (E, 18k) by Whendoestheshipsail

He's waiting in line for coffee with Natasha at the downstairs kiosk in Stark Tower when he overhears two young women talking about needing sugar daddies.

It goes downhill from there.

+ Shrunkyclunks. Reposted from the Writer Spotlight because I love this story! Steve is so eager to be spoiled, and he’s adorably petulant when denied.

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“A Darkness Upon Me, Flooded in Light” (T, 7k) by Anonymous

“We’re retired,” said Steve.

“Right, I know, same here! Just—could you look into this one tiny thing. Please. It’ll be super quick, low profile. Heck, consider it a vacation! If you and Barnes could just—”

When recovering a mysterious, dangerous artifact requires two people with a "bond deeper than death," Steve and Bucky are the only ones who might fit the bill. Retired or not, maybe it wouldn't be so bad going on one last mission with Bucky if that mission involved pretending to be married to him.

+ Post IW. They may be fake-married, but their lifetime devotion is real.

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“The Front Desk Soldier” (G, 8k) by StuckySituation

HYDRA is a big, evil organization, and one thing that all big, evil organizations love?

Free, unpaid workers. No better way to keep the costs down.

So, for the last seventy years, the Asset has had a secondary purpose between its missions: work 20/7 in whichever base it was located at the time in the most nightmarish, unwanted, and demanding jobs: the Customer Service.

+ Shrinkyclinks. Incomplete but still worth reading. The Asset gets a crush on Terrible Spy Steve

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“Follow My Lead” (T, 10k) by amsch (calendulae)

Bucky really imagined his first undercover operation as a detective would be something gritty and hardboiled. Teaching fellow detective (and office crush) Steve Rogers how to dance so they can enter a ballroom competition? Not part of the plan.

+ Modern AU. Mission prep requires long hours alone together in close physical contact... what a hardship!

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“Bait and Switch” (T, 2k) by galwednesday

"Post-action tacos?” Tony suggested. “I’m thinking that place by Fordham. BattleBot, you in?”

“Can’t,” the Soldier said, typing something into his phone. “I have a date.”

Tony stopped talking for an entire three seconds. “You. Have a date.”

The Soldier looked up and blinked, clearly nonplussed to find Sam and Tony both staring at him. “Yes.”

“With who?”

“My boyfriend.”

“You have a boyfriend. You have a boyfriend?” Tony looked like he’d just walked into a lamppost, and then the lamppost had handed him a birthday present.

+ The Winter Soldier introduces his boyfriend to the team. This entire series is spectacular

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“In defense of the second chance” (T, 8k) by StuckySituation

“-rnes? Wake up. We’ll be back in HQ in ten minutes.”

Steve is still half-asleep, and not ready to let go of his dream. It was a nice dream.

The details are already slipping away from him, though, no matter how much he tries to resist forgetting the dream. There were other kids? He was in school? Steve groans, and mutters, “Fuck off.”

“I hate to wake you, but dude, you need to shake this off,” the stranger continues, his voice gentle and laced with worry. “You’ll need to go prepare for your trial as soon as we land.”

+ Bodyswap, Steve doesn’t think the Winter Soldier should have to testify... and it looks like he won’t have to

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“Press Play to Start” (M, 31k) by layersofsilence

Steve still doesn’t understand; and then he does, or he thinks he does, in a burst of clarity that he immediately wishes he hadn’t gotten.

The thing is that it’s not possible. James shifts his position ever so slightly; his shoulders shift smoothly under his tac gear, and it’s not possible that Steve could be programming another human.

CA:TWS AU - in which Steve Rogers, SHIELD agent, finds out that HYDRA is not so old and defeated a foe, and that the Winter Soldier is more than a whispered rumour.

+ Steve is assigned to an experimental department where he’s tasked with programming the Soldier Simulation 

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“Lunch” (T, 5k) by cleo4u2 and xantissa

Bucky Barnes, the feared Winter Soldier, is working hard at becoming a person again. He doesn't understand a lot of the modern world, yet, but he Avengers help him with that when they can. They don't always get it right.

+ Bucky gets a text from an unknown number and goes out of his way to help. 

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“Stitch Me Up Right” (G, 5k) by sirsable

The Avengers have a new fashion designer and suddenly Bucky has a lot of problems with his suit.

+ The Winter Soldier gets a crush

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“United States v Barnes, 617 F. Supp. 2d 143 (D.D.C. 2015)”  (T, 20k) by fallingvoices and radialarch

The Associated Press @AP Winter Soldier set to stand trial for Washington D.C. massacre and treason apne.ws/1og6SWE

+ Post WS. The Big One. You’ve probably read this, and for good reason! Grand declarations of love and a dramatic reunion. 

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“cross this river to the other side” (T, 14k) by defcontwo

In 1943, the Howling Commandos wrote goodbye letters to be given to their loved ones in the event of their deaths.

In 2014, Sharon Carter finds those letters in a tin can in an abandoned HYDRA base.

+ Post WS. Both trial *and* epistolary. “I love you. That’s the important part, I guess. That’s all I really needed to say. I’m so fucking in love with you”

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“In defense of the second chance” (T, 8k) by StuckySituation

“-rnes? Wake up. We’ll be back in HQ in ten minutes.”

Steve is still half-asleep, and not ready to let go of his dream. It was a nice dream.

The details are already slipping away from him, though, no matter how much he tries to resist forgetting the dream. There were other kids? He was in school? Steve groans, and mutters, “Fuck off.”

“I hate to wake you, but dude, you need to shake this off,” the stranger continues, his voice gentle and laced with worry. “You’ll need to go prepare for your trial as soon as we land.”

+ Shrinkyclinks. Reposted from the Shrinkyclinks list. Bucky switches bodies with his most outspoken defender 

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“Tint & Shade” (T, 25k) by forestofbabel

The man blinked, slow and heavy. His pale blue eyes didn’t seem to be seeing the world around him. “Joe?” Steve took the peroxide out of the man’s hands and shook his head. “I’m not –” "How’d you make it out?” Steve stilled for a moment before putting the peroxide aside and peeling back the man’s hoodie. The guy was delirious. “I thought Hydra killed you,” he murmured. Steve got one arm out of the hoodie, relaxing a bit at the man’s words. Whatever he’d been through, he wasn’t on Hydra’s side. “Fearless Captain Rogers. Course you made it out. Bet you kicked those Nazis right in the head.” Steve pulled back. Captain Joe Rogers? Joseph Rogers. That was his grandfather’s name. He’d died in World War II. This guy couldn’t possibly be talking about him.

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Somewhere between the fall of Shield due to a long running Hydra infiltration, finding out that his land lord is an Avenger, and being commissioned for some truly gaudy paintings, Steve finds himself harboring the worlds most wanted.

+ Shrinkyclinks. Artist Steve helps humanize Bucky to the public

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“Guilty on All Counts” (G, 100 words) by Dira Sudis 

(no summary, this is only 100 words)

+ Post WS. A fun little “What If” based on the title :D 

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