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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers Characters: James “Bucky” Barnes, Steve Rogers Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Fairytale, Alternate Universe - Vampire, Beauty and the Beast Elements, Canon Divergence - Captain America: Civil War (Movie), Blood Drinking, creature feature, Established Relationship, Manipulation, Paranormal Romance, Sexual Content, Vampires, vampire fiction, Snow Soldiers, WinterKiller, Bottom Bucky Barnes, Top Steve Rogers, Top Steve Rogers/Bottom Bucky Barnes, Halcyonian Love, Those Boys of Winter and Summer Series: Part 2 of they were spellbound in the night (dancing shadows and firelight) Summary:

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers Characters: James “Bucky” Barnes, Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Sam Wilson, Tony Stark, Wanda Maximoff Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fairytale, Beauty and the Beast Elements, Blood and Gore, Blood Drinking, Canon Divergence - Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Canon Divergence - Post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Canon Divergence - Captain America: Civil War (Movie), Canon-Typical Violence, creature fiction, Dark Magic, Death, Dubious Consent, Manipulation, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Paranormal Romance, Sexual Content, Snow Soldiers, WinterKiller, Bottom Bucky Barnes, Top Steve Rogers, Top Steve Rogers/Bottom Bucky Barnes, Halcyonian Love, Those Boys of Winter and Summer Series: Part 1 of they were spellbound in the night (dancing shadows and firelight) Summary:

Lava burns like an inferno that never ceases. It scalds the flesh, transforming it into a chalky, stone, husk before it ultimately gets blown into the atmosphere by the winds. Nothing could have prepared the Asset for the experience being replicated in its mind when it finally wakes up. - In a world where organizations bend governments like a telepath bends minds, a ghost, that some would call a malevolent spirit, rises from the ashes of his own torment to become something new.

There is a beauty and there is a beast in this story. The tale is as old as time.

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: The Gray Man (2022), Fresh (2022) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Lloyd Hansen (The Gray Man)/Steve Kemp Characters: Lloyd Hansen (The Gray Man), Steve Kemp Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Lunatics in Love, Serial Killers, serial killers in love, Kidnapping, Explicit Sexual Content, Explicit Language, Soulmates, Murder Husbands, Alternate Universe, stucky au, Cannibalism, Villains, Functional dysfunction, Torture, Implied/Referenced Torture Series: Part 8 of Married to Chaos Summary:

“I mean, you’re calling an emergency Zoom meeting,” Tony said. “You’re not gonna get Lloyd to take that seriously.” “Well, whose fault is that, Tony?” Sean snapped. “You’ve been saying you’ll fix your janky-ass app for the last few days and it’s still busted. I was forced to use Zoom! I don’t even know how secure this is!” “We’re literally all together on vacation! Well...besides you. I thought I’d work on it in January, okay? Not my fault you wound up having an emergency five days before Christmas. I couldn’t predict that.” “I feel like, by definition, emergencies are unpredictable, Tony,” Coral murmured sleepily. “Words mean things.”

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers Additional Tags: Canon Divergence - Post-Movie: Captain America: Civil War (2016), Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Beta Bucky Barnes, Alpha Steve Rogers, Minor courting, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Feelings, Ruts, Bucky Barnes Has a Vagina, Vaginal Fingering, Squirting, Multiple Orgasms, Wet & Messy, Minor Predator/Prey, Happy Ending Summary:

He doesn’t notice the way hands reach out and grab him and Bucky is screaming, squirming in his grasp.

He squeezes his eyes shut—until he feels Steve press his nose into his neck and inhale.

author: aspen_blackwood

Series: there is a decadence in visions of black and red

Part 1

They meet in battle, on opposing sides of a war instigated by their fathers. One long dead and the other using a cold, iron, fist to drive the war on until only one immortal species is left.

They meet in battle, on opposing sides of a war as the blood of a beloved sister flows like a river until there is no more. Yet as a lightening bolt strikes hallowed ground, they are both struck by something ancient, primal, that ties them together.

author: katie_delaney

Series: He Ate My Heart

Part 2

author: Read_My_Mind

series: Married to Chaos

Part 7

“What’s there to feel weird about, anyway?” Nat asked, popping her bubblegum. “Steve issued the invitation months ago. I knew he’d call us on it eventually.” “Yeah, but he was on the verge of death inside a helicopter. People say all sorts of shit when they’re about to die,” Todd said.

“He was probably delirious. He promised us shawarma? Who does that?” “Apparently he does,” Nat said. “Seems like Baby Bird keeps his promises.”

* Steve celebrates his 40th birthday with some special guests.

author: aspen blackwood

series: bleak are the heavens, darker the gods

Part 2

Tendrils of crimson and white fabric twined together protruded from the ball and landed in the hands of the witches. The energy brimming in the air seemed to boil over as the witches began enchanting the warlocks with their enthralling dance. - A retelling of Proserpina and Dis Pater.

author: vesperlucien

Bucky Barnes, self defense instructor for the widows, thinks it's about to be an ordinary visit when the head widow walks into his dojo. Imagine his surprise when Natasha offers him a mission he's never done before.

author: vesperlucien

Bucky Barnes, an unmated omega at 29 and fresh out of grad school, is considered a spinster and way past his prime. When he receives a mysterious package, his luck seems to begin to change.

“My soul bleeds… and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Complete Letters

author: voxofthevoid

“Steve,” Bucky says, long past when Steve thinks he’s dozed off, “tell me a story.”

“Hmm? What kind of story?”

“A ghost story,” he says and laughs again, that strange laugh that doesn’t quite ring right. There’s no humor in Bucky’s expression when he detaches himself from Steve’s arm to look at his face. “About him. Bucky.”

“He—it’s you, Buck.” Steve tries not to let his voice waver. It’s not easy. “He’s you.”

“I know,” Bucky says, but somehow, his easy acquiescence is the opposite of reassuring.

“Then—”

“But I don’t remember it. And that matters. Memories matter, Steve.”

author: Read_My_Mind

series: Married to Chaos

Part 6

Lloyd had insisted it was going to be a simple job, simple enough that just the two of them could wrap this up in less than 72 hours, and they didn’t need their full team. After all, Luka Popovic was just one man. So, they’d flown into Belgrade by themselves. Sean had said that this had been obvious bait from the start, and they should have brought more men on this mission. Nothing was ever as easy as it looked, and something was off about this entire thing.

* Lloyd and Sean's last-minute mission in Serbia goes very wrong.

Yet another prequel! Set 4 years before the events of Married to Chaos.

author: adarkforestwitch

It's been awhile since Bucky came in from the cold. He lives with his best friend, Steve, now. Despite coming to grips with what Hydra did to him, Bucky still yearns for more from his old flame. Steve is so careful with him, treating him like he's made of glass. He just needs to figure out how to ask for what he wants, what he craves.

Steve knows Bucky wants more, he can see the boy he used to love haunting him from the tired blue-grey irises of the man he saved. He wants Bucky too, so bad, but he can’t have him. Night after night he’s plagued with nightmares that terrify him. What’s worse? He wants what’s in them. He wants the darkness that’s brimming within him to be unleashed, he wants to take and take and take. How could he allow Bucky to experience that? No, no way. He can’t do it, he won’t.

He does.

author: grandmacore & Metalbvcky

Steve, founder of Grant & Co, is invited to a wedding. He tears the letter open while nursing a glass of scotch, skimming through the details with a scowl. It would be a shame to show up without a pretty little thing, but despite being made of money, Steve's dating pool is virtually dead. He'll have to reject the invitation after he pours himself another drink.

Meanwhile, Bucky is living the life of luxury. Courtesy of his best friend's dating app, Bucky found success in pleasing rich, and much older, men. He missed focusing on his actual career but earning a fat tip was better than chasing after dead-end modeling gigs. He'll occasionally receive strange messages, however, tonight's stuck out from the rest.

The text is a little risque, and friendly, but neither of those things holds Bucky's attention for long. The profile had been created less than an hour ago, yet that doesn't deter Bucky from scouring through it like an encyclopedia. It had to be a catfish. Why else would a famous fashion designer sign up for a publicly accessible app? And why is Bucky's brain screaming at him to send a message back?

This may be the biggest mistake of Bucky's life, or possibly the best client he's ever had.

author: Baybee00

Bucky Barnes is a man out of time, out of place, and out of sync with the body Hydra left him in. Steve Rogers will do anything to bring him back, but some scars cut too deep, and some truths can break what’s already fragile.

author: Bittersweet_in_Boston

James Buchanan Barnes, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seems to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and has lived nearly thirty-six years in the the world with very little to distress or vex him.

Just kidding! Professor James Barnes, known as “Bucky” to his family and closest friends, tenured associate professor of English at NYU and recognized expert on Jane Austen and late 18-century/Regency literature, may be handsome and clever, but he’s certainly not rich. He has a comfortable home, that’s true - a bijou two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn Heights with a long-term lease - and he’d love to live there by himself, but even tenured NYU professors can’t afford that luxury.

So he needs a roommate, and this is where life is distressing and vexing him.