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You Couldn't See It (coming from me) by starkivist (helioark)
Fandoms: Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
08 May 2025
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“How’s he doing?”
Caught. Steve swallows, though the rush of rising feeling in his stomach isn’t guilt—it’s nervousness, excitement. Awareness bordering on hope. He can tell it shows on his face; he can tell his smile burns something earnest, tell that he walks taller, nowadays. Ever since Bucky’d agreed to stay in the Tower.
Bucky. Waiting for him upstairs. Safe, where Steve can find him. Where Steve can keep him close, shield him from the pain and darkness he’d found the strength to crawl out of. To start crawling out of.
God, but Steve’s proud of his Bucky.
“Rogers?” Natasha’s voice curls upwards in question, bemused.
He can’t help it if his face flames even more; he’s a blusher. “Uh,” he starts, “Bucky? He’s…” and he trails off. Well, shit. How was Bucky?
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After being so sure that he'd never know Bucky Barnes again, even in this new life he'd been afforded, Steve Rogers is suddenly faced with the miracle of having him again--safe, in Avenger's Tower, where he can recover from HYDRA's conditioning. Still, it's clear that both of them have a long, long way to go to escape what haunts them.
OR Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes re-learn how to care for each other.
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When Ilya Rozanov goes down on the ice, the Boston Bears are already moving to defend their captain. No one expects Shane Hollander, captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, to be the one who throws the first punch.
Or: the Boston Bears figure out Ilya and Shane's relationship first-and decide that instead of letting their captain move to Ottawa, they'll just kidnap his boyfriend instead. Shane Hollander would make a better Bear anyway.
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- Part 1 of (We Could Be) Something Great
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28 Apr 2026
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( i am done ) trying for beauty. by hcneymooners (romqntics)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
09 Jan 2026
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Ilya glances at Shane, at the way the dying light is catching in his hair, refracting. At that spiderlily mouth, slightly open and curling coyly, two teeth peeked through the dark gap like an American Girl doll. At that shoulder, bare and pale and close enough to touch if Ilya just leaned forward, if he just reached out and took another liberty.
To touch another person is to say: I know you will die, and I am doing this anyway.
His mother used to say something like this. About painting.
Every portrait is an act of faith, Ilyushenka. Faith and futility both.
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contrary to personal preference, ilya gets a roommate.
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11 Jan 2026
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The Pull of You by unicornpoe
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types
24 Oct 2019
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When Bucky Barnes moves into his Brooklyn apartment, he does three things: puts his chair on the fire escape, buys a cactus, and avoids talking to the neighbors.
But he can't seem to avoid Steve Rogers from next door and his adorable three-year-old daughter, Sarah—and as Bucky gets to know them, and begins to let them know him, too, he starts to think that he might not want to.
They've all been alone for so long. Maybe they don't have to be anymore.
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30 Jul 2025
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Love Me Now by hitlikehammers
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
30 Dec 2021
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A few years out of the ice, now, and Steve’s adjusting to the modern world. He likes Thai food. He hates discrimination and inequality and also the subway at rush hour. He’s learned to live his life, generally, and is fairly content with what he expects tomorrow will bring.
He does not, by any means, expect James Buchanan Barnes.
Because James Buchanan Barnes is an Army Major sitting in Tony’s lab for a fitting of a Stark prosthetics prototype, and he is the most beautiful man, no: the most beautiful human being Steve has ever seen. And suddenly, Steve has to square with falling in love, hard and fast and all-consuming, with a person who fits into Steve’s life, who curls around Steve’s soul like he was made for it, and who might break Steve’s heart without ever meaning to, just because he’s a normal, precious, mortal man—and the serum quite likely made Steve something else.
Or: Steve Rogers never thought he’d live past 25. Now, he has to make peace with quite possibly living a hell of a lot longer, and losing the love of his life in the process.
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10 Jun 2025
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Eight Paws, Two Tails, One Heart by BlueSimplicity
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Comics), Marvel Cinematic Universe
13 Sep 2024
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The biggest lies are usually the ones we tell ourselves, and Steve has been telling lots of lies, especially lately. That in spite of how he can’t stop chewing his fingernails bloody, the never ending nightmares chasing him out of bed, and the way merely seeing ice sends him into a panic, he’s fine.
But when his latest mission with The Avengers goes horribly wrong, Steve can no longer keep lying, not even to himself.
Diagnosed with PTSD and placed on medical leave, initially Steve is resentful, stubbornly refusing the idea there’s anything that can make it better. Until Sam suggests a Service Dog, and introduces him to James Buchanan Barnes, a fellow vet and trainer who swears one of his dogs can help, if only Steve can summon enough bravery to take a leap of faith and accept a four-legged companion in his life.
What follows is a long and winding journey of fear, doubt and self-recrimination. But also hope, acceptance and redefining what it means to be a hero, as Steve finally faces the issues that have been haunting him his entire life.
There is also a lot of fur, conversations with dogs, and a cross-country road trip, as Steve rebuilds his life and maybe, just maybe, falls in love along the way.
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26 May 2025