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    Bucky Barnes does not fall from the train in the Alps. Steve Rogers does not go missing in the crash-landing of the Valkyrie. Instead, they go back to Brooklyn, they get a new apartment, and they try to start over.

    In 1946, Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter get married.

    In 1952, Bucky Barnes marries, too.

    They have children, they go to work, they struggle with domestic life after their years at war. And throughout it all, despite it all, Bucky Barnes is irrevocably in love with Steve Rogers.

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    01 May 2026

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    Bucky's dog tags were folded in the crease of the paper he'd torn from his journal, reading: "Steve, here. You have them, if you want them. You have me, if you want me. I’ve never tried loving a man before but for you I’ve run headfirst into wars and Death’s wide, gaping jaws, so this is easy in comparison. This is like breathing."

     


    It was so dark when Bucky handed him the note, the fire just burning out, and he glanced back only once to see Steve watching him as he walked away.

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    30 Apr 2026

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    There are some mistakes that could be made by anybody. Anybody. Bucky taught high school pretty much his whole life, and that was fine, those were kids, and he knew all of them anyway, which meant there was very little chance of him accidentally fucking any of his students during an impulsive post-marital-breakdown Grindr hook-up. Which is exactly what he had done with Steve.

    or: bucky has not let steve rogers fuck him since his sophomore year

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    07 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 88

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    Steve comes home after returning the stones but he wouldn't say why, only:

    "Got my dance."

    Now Bucky has to figure out if he's the one Steve wants or just what's left.

    Real slow burn, like Nat Shermans.

    (Post-Endgame and Flag-Smasher rewrite.)

    Update: I've been doing another round of proofreading and editing, currently up to chapter 24.

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    17 Mar 2026

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    Bucky Barnes, weary soldier, illegal immigrant, sarcastic sex worker. Steve Rogers, miracle of science, lonely man, disillusioned cop. Both of them on a collision course in this brave new world, like that's not gonna end in sex and explosions.

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    14 Mar 2026