#bucky barnes highschool sweetheart au

[enchantedbarnes]

Recommendations 💖

I've been wanting to do something with recommendations for ages now, but there's just too many to even know where to begin! Here's a chaos list of past and present faves 🥰

Completed fics

Undisclosed by @pellucid-constellations

Pairing: Lumberjack!Bucky x Reader

Summary: Desperate to outrun a secret that could cost you your life, you seek refuge in a small mountain town. Its deep forests and small cabins make it the perfect place to hide, but the travel website hadn’t mentioned anything about the quiet, burly lumberjack that wouldn’t leave your thoughts. No one had warned Bucky about you either. 

Lumpy and Bunny masterlist by @sweetdreamsbuck

Pairing: beefy lumberjack!bucky x f!reader

Summary: Bucky's never been so scared of a feeling in his life. there are too many what if's– too many fears bubbling deep within the parts of him left broken and hollow, untouched for far too long. but he never envisioned finding you– and he's entirely too impatient; entirely too certain no one's ever been more infatuated with something than how he feels for you.

Sweet and Sour by @sashaisready

Pairing: Bucky Barnes Mob AU x Femme Reader

Summary: You're hard at work in Pepper's Bakery when notorious mob boss James 'Bucky' Barnes darkens your doorway one typical afternoon, and life is never the same again.

While you're over there you might as well check out ...

Under the Radar by @sashaisready

Pairing: Nick Fowler x reader

Summary: Reader is a brilliant but shy and awkward CIA employee whose work is often overlooked by her colleagues…she’s blended into the background for so long that she doesn’t think there’s any other way - even if she does have secret aspirations for another life. Unbeknownst to her - a certain blue eyed agent is very aware of her talents, even if nobody else is.

The Lookout by @mymoonagedaydream

Pairing: ParkRanger!Bucky x y/n

Summary: It was amazing, really, how quickly one person managed to turn your dream job into a living nightmare.

Operation get Mr Bucky and Momma together by @golden-barnes

Paring: Beefy and Teacher! Bucky x milf! reader Summary: Bucky doesn't play favorites but Amaya is definitely his favorite, especially because her mom is hot.. Cue a 6-year-old trying to get Bucky to be her dad.

Worst Idea Ever by @firefly-in-darkness

Pairing: Y/N & Bucky Barnes, Other Marvel Characters.

Summary: Wedding Season is brutal as it is but throw in two friends that decide to be each other’s plus ones and a mixed bag of feelings, what's the worst that could happen?

Classylo's masterlist

home for the holidays by @classylo

When your family begs you to come home for the holidays and to bring the new guy you’ve been seeing, you don’t have the heart to tell them your good-for-nothing-ex cheated on you… good thing your roommate is available and will do absolutely anything you ask.

should've been you by @classylo

He was supposed to meet you at the game. He was supposed to be the one you went on a date with. He was the one you were supposed to fall in love with. Yet, here you are three years into a relationship with another… it should’ve been him, not his best friend.

Moral of the Story by @justkending

Summary: From childhood friends, to highschool sweethearts, the two naive, young, and lovestruck teens decided the best way to keep a strong relationship during college would be to marry right out of highschool. No one batted an eye at the idea as everyone knew they were soulmates. However, college is a big step in a person’s life. You learn new things about yourself, you make new friends, find new hobbies… And maybe being newly weds and going to different colleges across the states wasn’t the best plan… After a falling out, a tragic and heartbreaking divorce, the two now despise the other for how the whole thing was handled. Neither not really knowing both sides of the story. 10 years later, and they both get a call from the lawyers office that settled their divorce. Somehow the papers never went through and the divorce was never completed. So now, the exes, or should we say husband and wife, have to meet back up after all these years to settle their failed marriage once and for all.

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Reader

Everest by @justkending

Summary: She was done and retired. After Thanos and the battle of a lifetime, she called it quits and distanced herself from the Avenger lifestyle. But word finds her that someone from her past is in danger. What the journey entails was never one she wanted to face nor one she saw becoming her reality again. The rollercoaster that comes with fighting evil odds arrives on her doorstep, not leaving much room for a no… Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Reader

Coming in Hot by @nexusnyx

When your best friend Sarah recommends you a mechanic of her brother’s trust, all you can think about and pray to is that he doesn’t rip you off. Your car is your prized possession and amidst all the worry and concern of your medical studies, drowning in even more debt sounds as suffocating as it would be. Of course, you never thought of the possibility of the mechanic being the problem. A hot, polite, gentle, and silent-type of problem. Drowning in debt would be easier to navigate than the blue of Bucky Barnes’s eyes.

Pairing: Mechanic Bucky x Reader

Though I Have Never Read by @tuiccim

Pairing: Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes x Female!Reader Summary: You had run away from all of your problems and found solitude in a cabin in the middle of nowhere. When a storm blows in, it drags a man with a metal arm through your door. Offering shelter, you spend one night together before he disappears. Years later, you find yourselves together again but does he remember that night or you at all?

Blink Twice by @simmerandwrite

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x reader

Summary: It was just an undetermined amount of time in a safehouse with a stranger: Bucky “I didn’t come here to make friends” Barnes himself. Would it really be all that different from your lonely life with your cat in the city? Bucky was basically a cat, anyway. He was quiet on his feet, only really made noise when it was dinner time, and you both seemed to just coexist without acknowledging each other. His mandate was to keep you safe. What could go wrong?

teach me how to love by @buckyismybicycle

Pairing: DAD!BUCKY X TEACHER!READER

Natasha leaves behind her precious daughter, Yelena, and with her dying breath asks Bucky to look after her.

Sweet by @noceurous

summary: it was something cliche but your fuck buddy fell for you nonetheless, even though you swore you would never do relationships again. But rules are meant to be broken.

call me when you want by @bonky-n-steeb

summary: when you call a sex hotline with a need to be dominated you don’t expect to meet (or hear) someone as wonderful as James. but your life becomes a complicated mess as you already love your coworker, Bucky Barnes. however, you are unaware that they are actually the same person.

Grow Old With Me by @sonderosa

Part 1 & Part 2

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x F!Reader

...you could wait fifty years if he asked it of you. You’d promised him that, and he’d smiled and kissed you, told you that in fifty years he wanted to be old with you, sitting on a porch in rocking chairs and watching the sunset. You wanted that, too; it was a beautiful dream.

Sweeter Than Honey by @foreverindreamlandd

Pairing: Mechanic!Bucky x Fem!Personal Assistant!Reader Summary: It's your first international trip working for bestselling author Tony Stark as his new personal assistant, and you're desperate to prove yourself worthy of such an incredible opportunity. But when things start to go wrong whilst staying in Dublin, and suddenly you're stuck in the middle of the Wicklow Mountains with a flat tire, you're convinced that you'll be fired before the day is over. Luckily, a handsome, blue-eyed mechanic with an accent that makes your insides melt comes just in time to save the day.

Their other series are also *chefs kiss* -> go read the rest of @foreverindreamlandd's series

Love at First Grade by @buckysimp101

Pairing: Single Dad!Bucky Barnes x Single Mom!Reader;  Teacher!Bucky x CEO!Reader

Summary: When father and first grade teacher Bucky Barnes ends up with Avery L/N in his class, the daughter of the “ruthless” CEO of L/N Enterprises, he's in for a surprise that's sure to change his life.

Teacher's Favorite AU by @suitk0via

Pairing: Dad!Bucky x Teacher!Reader

Summary: You are first grade teacher and Bucky is a single dad who wants to be involved with everything his little girl - Elaine - does. He’s the dad all the parent’s and faculty drool over. You quickly become Elaine's favorite teacher and Bucky's just gotta meet you.

The Heart is a Deep Ocean by @dreamlessinparis

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x F!Reader

Summary: Titanic was known as the ship of dreams. For you, it was the dream of getting home, or so you thought. From the moment you locked eyes with James Buchanan Barnes, all those dreams changed and your life was never the same.

Something Domestic by @fandoms-writings

Pairing: ex-military amputee!Bucky Barnes x fem!Reader

Summary: Needing an escape from the loud and busy city life, Bucky comes to stay with you on your little farm. He didn’t expect you, a hardworking and beautiful woman with struggles of your own, to take his breath away and make life a little less dreary.

Labyrinth by @frostironfudge

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Female!Reader, (Modern AU)

Summary: labyrinth (noun), a complicated set of paths and passages, through which it is difficult to find your way. Bucky and You would do anything for Steve and Wanda, your respective best friends. In an attempt to avoid a tradition Steve and Wanda come up with a lie involving their best friends.  A lie, that involves building a labyrinth. Bucky and You begin to build but will you two find your way out or be caught in it?

nostalgia for the new by @real-jane

pairing: bucky barnes x female!reader shield agent

summary: bucky meets you because of your exquisite taste in music, and he finds in you a solace he didn't realize was possible. you create for bucky something he's never found before: nostalgia for a time that hasn't happened yet, and hope for a future where he might be loved.

The Thrill of the Hunt by @rookthorne

Pairing: Scare Actor!Bucky Barnes x F!Reader

The ancient game of cat and mouse, a fight for survival between a predator and their prey, wasn’t a new phenomenon – it had been practised for centuries and it was an art that very, very few perfected. For years you had chased the craving to find someone that had mastered the art of the hunt, and for Halloween, you had gone all out and visited a haven unlike any other.  It was there that you found your match.  Cloaked in nothing but black and shrouded in a sense of lethality, you would have to run from this shadow in an adrenaline fuel haze unlike any other. A chase for the ages, the very one you desired.  And if he caught you, your world would end as you knew it.

Ongoing fics

Honey Girl by @violentdelightsandviolentends

Pairing: Dad'sBestFriend!Bucky Barnes x Female Reader - soulmate au

Summary: The Universe shows you your soulmate when it feels like you need them most. When you least expect it, you're given yours - Bucky Barnes. Your Dad's best friend. You can try to refuse it all you like; but the universe wants what it wants. There's no denying fate.

After all those years by @ziawbarnes

Pairing: AU Bucky Barnes x Female Reader

Summary: Peggy and Steve's wedding in Mexico takes an unexpected turn when you and Bucky, who initially couldn't attend, end up joining the celebration. With no available rooms, Bucky becomes your roommate for ten days, leading to unexpected adventures and new connections.

Fresh Start by @nicoline1998enilocin (on hiatus but I love)

Pairing: Teacher!Bucky Barnes x Female!Reader

Summary: In this universe you can explore the story between Bucky Barnes as a middle school teacher, and Y/N with her son Luca. They just moved to the other side of the country, and have decided to completely start over their lives. On the first day at his new school, Luca quickly befriends his new teacher, and Y/N can't help but take a liking to him as well.

A Past Encounter by @majesty-madness

Summary: Being in a relationship with Bucky, Y/N prided herself on knowing him quite well but when she’s accidentally teleported back to the 1940's, Y/N discovers that there is a whole other Bucky that she has yet to meet. The sweet flirt that had everything going for him before his unfortunate capture by HYDRA.

Neighbors by @writerlyhabits

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x female reader

Summary: You get to know your neighbor across the hall, James.

Unexpected by @repressedqueen

Paring: SexWorker!Bucky x reader

Summary: After a crazy night out celebrating your birthday, somehow you ended up outside a brothel debating on whether it was time for you to finally have sex or not.

My Little Love by @crazyunsexycool

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Enhanced Fem! Reader

Dr. Feelgood by @endless-summer-soldier

pairing: Surgeon!Bucky x SurgicalIntern!Reader

summary: Y/N has a one night stand with a handsome stranger the night before starting her new job as a surgical intern. Little does she know, the handsome stranger also happens to be her new boss

Untitled Single Dad!Bucky Fic by @angie-likes-to-art

Pairing: Teacher!Reader x Single Dad!Bucky

Summary: You made a promise to yourself to not sleep with any parents before starting teaching, little did you know the guy you slept with two days before is the dad of your cutest student.

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Happy Reading!

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(Dividers by saradika)

RECOMMENDATION LIST #2 CAN BE FOUND -> **HERE**

[justkending]

Moral of the Story. Chapter 13.

Series Summary: Marrying too young out of highschool leads to a naive and failed marriage. Now 10 years later, word comes that the divorce was never actually completed. Bucky and Y/N have to come back together after all these years to settle what wasn’t all those years back. Passive attitudes, miscommunicated endings, and reminiscing of old loves and lives all comes back for the two.

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Y/N

Word Count: 3300+

A/N: OK! So we are caught up on their history:) I was really nervous about that last chapter, but thank you so much for the kind words and love!! Anyway, things are going to keep getting interesting, so let me know what you think;)

Chapter Thirteen:

“Wait.” There was silence on the other end of the phone while Nat processed the story. “You guys made up?”

“Yes, Nat. We made up,” Y/N laughed. 

“Never in a million years did I think- I mean, I thought, but the journey was going to be so much longer in my head,” the red head rambled. 

“I don’t know,” Y/N jumped in. “We had a good talk the day he came over for brunch. Which believe me, my dad got a stern talking to for his little set up he planned.”

“Love Thomas. What a guy,” Nat pointed out. 

“Turns out Bucky and I can have a civil conversation if we try, and well… Even though hearing the story again hurt, my ego finally took a side step, and I now understand what happened.”

“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you. If you just heard him out, I was sure you guys would-”

“I know. I know. It’s just- It’s hard to want to think back on such a shitty situation in our life,” Y/N cut her off, not ready for the same lecture she had received all these years. “Then you add in the shit he accused me of that same night… Now, I’m not saying it was right of him to make the accusations he did, but I was kinda in the wrong on that turn. He tried telling me multiple times that Reed made him uncomfortable and everytime I brushed it off as Bucky trying to be the alpha male. Little did I know, he was actually insecure about the whole situation.”

“Did he tell you that?”

“After our little make up session, we got into detail about why everything unfolded the way it did and he confessed with the distance, he thought another guy who was sweet and always around would give me other thoughts. He said he knew deep down I would never do that, but after being together since freshman year of highschool to freshman year of college, maybe I would want something different,” she answered. 

“Young insecurities. A normal thing,” Nat nodded on the other end. “So does this mean you guys are besties now? I mean I heard you call him Bucky and I don’t know the last time I heard that name come out of your mouth.”

Y/N was sitting on the back porch swinging in the midday breeze and looked out to the swing that was attached to the tree in the backyard. Memories coming to the forefront of her mind. 

________________

Senior Year

“Hey, Everest?” Bucky asked. He was leaning back on the giant root of the tree, book in hand, and watching her swing lightly as she read multiple pamphlets of different colleges.

It was close to the end of their first semester of senior year, and the choice of colleges were around the corner of being answered. They weren’t married or engaged yet, but they had discussed such ideas. 

“Hmm?” She hummed, switching from one pamphlet to another.

“What happens if you do choose an out of state school?” he asked, forgetting the book in his hand that he’s read at least 10x now. 

“What do you mean?” she asked, never looking away from the trifolded papers. 

He tilted his head watching her but didn’t answer. Honestly, he wasn’t sure what he meant. He just knew he had been thinking a lot about what would happen if they did end up going to colleges far from each other. 

Y/N could practically hear the gears turning in his brain and put the folded pamphlets in her lap. 

“Buck, what’re you thinking about?” she asked, sending him a soft questioning look. 

“Huh?” he asked, coming out of his thoughts. When he saw her worried eyes, he sent her a soft smile before standing, leaving the book on the ground, and moving in front of the swing. “Just tell me. What are your top choices for schools right now? At this very second.” He placed his hands on both ropes on either side of the swing, leaning slightly over Y/N with a gentle, yet curious look on his face. 

“I don’t know. I mean Queens College is close. Dad would like that…” She thought out loud looking down at the pamphlet. Then she sifted through them as Bucky lightly pushed the swing as they talked. “Then there’s Purdue. I mean my GPA and ACT scores are high enough, but getting in won’t be easy.”

“That’s a lie. You could get in just by smiling at the admissions people and giving them a plate of homemade brownies,” Bucky winked at her. “That and I guess if you showed them your test scores, they may lean a little more your way,” he joked. 

She slightly pushed him with a laugh, causing her to swing some more, but Bucky held the seat from going too far.

“Very funny.”

“What other one’s are you thinking about?” Bucky pushed on.

“Um, well… Saint Peter’s is in New Jersey,” she shrugged, looking back down at her lap. 

“Y/N,” Bucky mumbled. It took her a second, but she looked back up at him. “You know when I said out of state I wasn’t talking about surrounding states.”

“Yeah, but-”

“Just say it. I already know what your dream place is, but I haven’t heard you bring it up since senior year started,” he sighed, squatting down and looking up at her now on the swing. 

“I haven’t applied yet. I’m not sure I’d even make it,” she shook her head.

“We both know you’ll make it. Don’t even try using that as an excuse,” he chuckled lightly. “Now come on. Why haven’t you brought it up yet? Why haven’t we talked about it?”

He placed his thumb on her chin while his index finger lifted her eyes from looking down, to him. 

“If I say it, I don’t know what to do about it,” she scrunched her nose. A hint of sadness in those big Y/E/C eyes. 

“Can’t figure it out if you don’t talk about it, Everest,” he said, sending her the same look. 

She let out a big sigh knowing he was right and nodded.

“I did the mapping. University of Denver is close to 1800 miles away,” she started. “And I know, you aren’t budging from Columbia. Nor do I want you to. You’ve been dreaming of that place since freshman year practically.”

“And you’ve been dreaming of a place where you can really dive into the environmental things. New York’s not bad for that, but it’s also not the best for it,” Bucky shrugged. 

“Are you saying you want me to go to Denver? I mean, you’re ok with that?” she asked with a tilt of her head.

“The distance won’t be fun, but I don’t think it’s impossible,” he shrugged again before standing and moving behind her. He started to push her softly on the tree branch as they continued to talk. “Besides, what kind of person would I be if you let me pursue my dreams, but I won’t let you go for yours?”

“A person I would fight,” Y/N teased. 

“And that’s a fight I know I could never win,” he laughed, poking her side and getting another fit of giggles from her. 

They stayed in silence for a little, both in their thoughts before Y/N stopped the swing and stood up and faced Bucky again. 

“Do think we could manage it?” she asked genuinely as she stepped to him. 

He grabbed her arm lovingly, pulling her closer to him. Her hands came up and rested on his chest and his twined around her waist. 

“When have you ever known me to not keep up with my best friend?”

“Well, there was that one year where Steve went to live with his grandma for a few months in the summer and you didn’t talk for like 2 of those months, and-”

“Hey, he had bad service out in the middle of nowhere and he took forever to send me back letters. Plus, that was middle school,” he squeezed her side again, the tickle spot of hers making her laugh once more. 

“Uh uh,” she tisked. “You sir, were the one who took forever to write him back! I remember because you hated sitting down to write out letters saying you wish you could just call instead.”

“I was 12. I was lazy and not as heartfelt as I am now,” he exaggerated. “Besides that, I was talking about my OTHER best friend. The one who I happen to be talking to right now,” he rolled his eyes playfully. 

“Oh, that one?” she played along. “Hmmm,” she tapped her chin. 

“Oh, don’t act like you even have to think of a time. Even those damn summer camps you go off to for sometimes months with only a week back home in between, I never lost contact with you!”

“Fine, fine! You’re right. You’ve always been a very persistent person in my life,” she chuckled before laying her head on his chest and he rested his cheek on the top of her. 

“I don’t plan on losing that quality even if it’s close to 2,000 miles out,” he said softly. “We’ve been best friends since diapers and it's even harder to keep myself away from someone I love as much as you, doll.”

Y/N nodded and he held her a little tighter as they sat in the embrace of the other for a little. The backyard under that tree was creating the ambience of peace for the two even if their minds were in conflicting areas. 

“So, you’re ok with it? I should apply?” she asked, pulling back enough to look up at him.

“Honestly, it doesn’t matter what I think or if I’m ok with it, Y/n. It’s your life and your future. I have no say.”

“Everyone has a say. It just depends if the other person listens or not. And I’ll always keep your thoughts and feelings in mind Bucky,” Y/N said back. 

He grinned down at her before placing a kiss to her forehead. “Well in that case, I say you start filling out that application, Everest. Senior year is going to be over before we know it.”

Y/N laughed and threw her arms around Bucky's neck pulling him in for a crushing hug. The anxiety she had on her heart had been calmed and the support from her boyfriend was overwhelmingly reassuring. 

“Best friends till forever, huh? Still not planning on giving up on me?” she asked once she pulled back. A mischievous smirk on her face. 

“Till forever, darling. It’s going to take a lot to keep me away from you. And even if the worst case happens,” he pointed out. “I’ll find a way to sneak back into your heart and make sure I never stop annoying you.”

“What happens if I’m the one that causes the worst case scenario though-” she started, but he didn’t even let her finish.

“Can’t and won’t happen, beautiful. You’re stuck with me unfortunately,” he winked. 

“Unfortunately,” she sighed before sashaying away, but he caught her and threw her over his shoulder before she could get too far. 

“Careful there, Everest. That sass is going to get the best of you one of these days.”

______________

“Y/N?” She heard on the other line. Her name snapping her out of her memory.

“What? Oh, sorry…” she shook her head. “What did you ask?”

“I asked if you guys were besties,” she laughed. “I’m only playing though. I know it’s going to be a second before you’re back to 100% with the other.”

“Right, right,” Y/N rubbed her eyes. “I um, I think the chances of us being good friends though again, are up there. Now, with our past romance…”

“What about your past romance?” The interest in Nat’s voice was hard to miss.

“I’m just saying. Now that we’re back to being just friends… I don’t know how that will affect our friendship. I’ve never been friends with an ex. Every single one either moved on with their life or I moved on with mine. Then of course you have the one that lasted 10 years of silent rage…” she mumbled the last part.

“It’s possible to be friends with your ex’s, Y/N. It doesn’t have to be awkward. Remember your saying-”

“It’s only weird if you make it weird. Yeah, yeah, I know,” she rolled her eyes. 

“Hey, I can hear your eyes rolling. Stop that,” Nat chided. “I’m just using your own logic against you.”

“You’re a pain in my ass. A beautiful, wise, and annoyingly correct, pain in my ass,” Y/N stood up. “Listen, I’m going to hang out with Chloe for a little. She said she was working on prom stuff tonight and wanted some advice on decorations. Can I call you later?” 

“Yeah, yeah! That’s fine,” Nat waved off. “Oh, one last question. When are you hanging out with Wanda and them. I know they rescheduled.”

“Um, I need to double check with them all, but I think tomorrow night.”

“Hey, maybe now that you and Bucky made up, you guys can hang out like old times. I mean minus the life of the party,” she hinted at herself. “But it’ll be all of us sooner or later.”

“Right, um. Maybe, I’ll have to check with them...”

“Y/N! Something came in the mail for you,” Thomas’s voice rang from inside. 

She nodded to her dad before saying her goodbyes to Nat and rushing in. 

“Mail for me? What-,” she paused seeing the big envelope in his hands. 

Right… She was still married. Forgot about that part. 

“I’m guessing with that look, it means these are the papers I think they are…” Thomas said gently, placing them on the island for her. 

“Yeah… Keep forgetting I’m a married woman,” she tried to laugh off, but it came out forced and awkward. 

He saw her hesitance to move to the papers and realized she was having a lot of thoughts about them. What kind? Couldn’t exactly say, but it was enough to keep her frozen in her spot. 

“Need some help looking over them?” he offered. 

She snapped out of it just enough to decline politely and shake her head. Moving to the island, she grabbed a pen from the counter and moved to the kitchen table to start looking it over. 

“I’ll let Chloe know you’re working on this before you help her with the prom things. Let me know if you need anything, June Bug,” he squeezed her shoulder. 

“Thanks dad,” she mumbled before staring hard at the stack of stapled papers in front of her. 

__________________

“Buck!” Steve shouted from the entryway of their currently shared apartment. “You’ll never guess what! I talked to the landlord about the tenants downstairs and they’re moving out a little earlier than they planned. They should be out within the next week or so.”

As he rambled his new excitement, he didn’t notice the rigid back of his best friend toward him while he sat at the dining table. 

“Buck, you good?” he asked, coming up behind him slowly.

“They came.” 

His answer was so low and quiet that if Steve was any further, he wouldn’t have been able to make it out. 

“What came?” Steve asked confused. 

“The papers. The official ones.”

It took a second, but once it registered, Steve’s shoulders slacked and he closed his eyes. 

“Right…” 

“She came over this morning,” Bucky mentioned, still never moving from his spot. 

“She did?” Steve asked surprised, never hearing of this before. “Is that a good or bad thing?”

“Good,” Bucky said with a soft sigh. “We made up.”

“What?” Steve said in shock, coming around the table to see his friend. “That’s great Bucky! I mean that’s-.” When Bucky’s face didn’t change and held a solemn look on it, Steve turned his head in concern. “Why do you look like that that’s a bad thing to happen?” 

“It’s not.”

“Your facial expression and slumped over body say something else,” Steve continued as he pulled out a chair and sat across from him. 

“It’s a good thing,” Bucky groaned, leaning back in his chair and slumping back instead of forward now. His head bent backward in defeat. 

“I’m not convinced,” Steve grinned, watching his friend pout in what looked like a toddler manner. 

“No, no, it is good. I promise, it’s just that,” he let out a heavy sigh as he sat up and looked back down at the papers. 

“Oh, I see,” Steve nodded, catching on. “These put a damper on your mood some, huh?”

“Some would be an understatement,” Bucky rolled his eyes, picking up the thick white sheets and staring at them in his hands. 

“What are you going to do Buck? Not sign them and force Y/N to be married to you for as long as you please?” Steve laughed in a joking way. He didn’t actually mean it and he was going to say something else, but Bucky’s raised eyebrows stopped him. “Buck. No. That’s not ok. You can’t-”

“I know!” Bucky chided. “I wasn’t- I would never do that,” he waved him off and angrily stood up and moved to the fridge for a drink. 

“How come a part of me doesn’t believe you,” Steve countered, turning and resting his arm over the chair as he watched his friend make a glass of scotch. 

“Come on Steve. That’s inhuman and cruel. Plus, I’m sure that would actually get me into more legal trouble if I attempted something like that. And Y/N would have a field day beating my ass if I did anything that hinted at keeping her married to me.”

“It sounds like you thought this out,” Steve shook his head with a comedic smile. “And I thought you made up. Why would she still want to beat your ass?”

“Forcing her to stay married to someone who was nothing but a prick to her? I’d want to beat my ass too,” Bucky answered, raising his glass and taking a long sip from it. 

“Can’t argue that.”

There was another round of silence as Bucky stayed lost in his mind and Steve tried to read him from across the room.

“Bucky, I know why you don’t want to sign the papers, but there is no good relationship coming out of it if you don’t.”

“I know that. I know that,” he waved off, refilling his glass. “I mean I know that in a logical way, but my emotions on the other hand, aren't catching the idea.”

“Did you tell her you still have feelings for her?” Steve asked. 

“What kind of idiot would I be to do that?” Bucky scoffed. 

“An idiot who’s willing to put it out all on the table instead of sulking in it and contemplating ruining her life by not signing these divorce papers,” he shrugged.  “I don’t know. Just spitballing here.”

“You’re a punk,” Bucky mumbled at him.

“A punk that’s making sense which is why you’re being all grumpy with me,” Steve sighed, standing and taking the tumbler out of his hand even though Bucky protested against it. “If you really want things to be good between you and Y/N, and I mean really good,” he emphasized. “You need to sign those papers and start your relationship at an honest and clean start.”

Bucky knew he was right. Oh, God he wanted to fight and argue with him, but there was nothing to say back. There was nothing that could make Bucky right in this situation. The only thing being what Steve had said. He needed to sign the papers. 

Now, when? That was never specified.

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-> Steve Rogers

-> Andy Barber

-> Ransom Drysdale

-> Lloyd Hansen

-> Curtis Everett

-> Johnny Storm

-> Ari Levinson

-> Together Or Not At All

Life as a roommate can be tricky, especially when you are living with Steve Rogers, Johnny Storm, Jake Jensen and Nick Grant. You opted to be a therapist, but things didn’t turn out exactly as planned… (Steve Rogers x Reader, Johnny Storm x Reader, Jake Jensen x Reader, Nick Gant x Reader) A collaboration with @jamneuromain

-> Bucky Barnes

-> Lance Tucker

Stucky

-> Steve x Bucky

Mermaid AUs

Different au’s below

-> my treasure Avengers as pirates

-> Drowning siren

The Avengers found an old abandoned HYDRA base, that had been cleared after HYDRAs existence had been exposed. At least they thought it was cleared.

CaptainAmerica!Steve Rogers x mermaid!reader

Boxer au

-> Broken bones and broken hearts [ collab with @jamneuromain ]

Boxer!Steve Rogers x Reader

There was only one rule between best friends. Don’t have sex. But what happens when you break it anyway?

Highschool au

-> “Teach Me How To Be Good”

Student!Steve Rogers x tutor!reader

Tutor!reader helps Steve prepare for his math exams. He’s totally falling for her, but she doesn’t want him. She’s older, a college student. 25.

And he’s only a Highschool sweetheart turning 18.

Besides. He’s an inexperienced virgin.

And you? Oh you have a big secret he’s not ready to find out.

Stripper Au

-> It’s all about the…

Stripper Steve Rogers x Rich!reader

-> Better than boys

Boyfriends Dad Andy Barber x Reader

Demon Au

-> Highway to hell

Corrupting people’s thoughts. It’s easy, in a very simple way: sexual pleasure. Turns out no man can resist such a beauty like you.

[ one shots collection with; Demon reader x Cousin!Jake, x Cop!Lloyd, x bartender!Ari, x uncle!Curtis, x Stepdad!Andy, x priest!Steve

Requests are open! -> Chris E and Sebastian S characters

[every-marveler-ever]

Dancing Away

Flufftober Day 25 | @flufftober | First Dance

Marvel Fluff Bingo 2022 Round 4 | 😒 @marvelfluffbingo | Highschool AU

Avenger Bingo Round 3 | 🛡️ @avengersbingo | Childhood Sweethearts

masterlist :: (ao3 link)

Dancing is sought of their things, from highschool dances, to rehearsals, to slow-paced on their porch while the night sky illuminates them. | james 'bucky' barnes/sam wilson

flufftober 2022 | mfb 🛏️ round 4 | avb 🛡️ round 3

“Sam Wilson,” Bucky stands in front of his boyfriend smiling wide, flowers in hand, asking the most important question in high school history, “will you be my date to prom?” It’s cheesy and next to him Steve is holding a huge poster board with the phrase ‘prom would be unbearable without you,’ it’s then that Sam notices the small teddy bear in the bouquet Bucky is holding.

“Yes, you idiot,” and they kiss in the middle of the cafeteria dancing around each other, with no music, almost like they’ve already begun practising. 

Meeting Sam Wilson Bucky immediately realised he was in love with the boy. He came home the day after kindergarten laying on the couch, fainting in love, telling his dads all about the cute boy that taught him how to dance. 

Sam Wilson felt the same when he met Bucky, “you put your hand here,” toddler Sam manipulated Bucky’s hand the way that his mum had shown him. Sam’s mum was a ballroom dancer and from when he was little all Sam could remember was being in a dance studio watching the ballerinas, tap dancers, ballroom dance, and all the other styles that he was obsessed with. 

Teaching Bucky to dance actually realised his passion for football in a weird way, but he still loves to go watch Sam dance when he can. Bucky is in the front row for every, concert, show, exam, etc. Because dancing is important to them and he loves the fact that Sam loves it so much. 

It might be a high school dance, dancing by themselves on their porch slow and steady or fast-paced dancing to no music while in the kitchen doing a million things at once. 

It’s wonderful and theirs.

Cards:

[babybatscreationsv2]

Cornered

Marvel | Winterstarkerstrange

Peter is just trying to get to class when he gets cornered by alphas Tony, Bucky, and Stephen who won't take no for an answer.

Rating: Explicit

Warnings below the cut

Warnings: noncon, underage(highschool au), omega verse, humiliation, public sex, slight mindbreak

Peter's last class was on the second floor of the high school. The quickest way there was the stairwell at the back of the building that sat next to the computer lab. It was usually pretty empty this time of day which gave Peter a nice break from all the noise of constant chatter. He entered the stairwell and stopped, pausing to consider if he should turn back and take the stairs by the cafeteria instead.

"Hey, Petey," Tony Stark called out with a smirk. He and his friends were all gathered together, clearly with no intention of moving on to class. Peter looked around for help, but there was no else around. He shouldn't be alone with these alphas. They were trouble.

"You look pale, darlin," Bucky said. "Why don't you come and sit with us? Relax a while."

"S-sorry, I uh... I gotta get to class." Peter's face felt hot. Just the way they looked at him was vulgar.

Stephen tisked. "Is that any way to speak to an alpha? What alpha is going to want you when you can't follow simple directions?"

"I'm sorry-"

"Get over here," he barked.

Peter's feet were moving before he thought better of it. The alpha's laughed and Peter stared down at the floor. Tony grabbed his chin but he refused to meet his eye.

"You're a pretty little thing aren't you?"

"Please," Peter whimpered. He could smell the pheromones coming off them. They were aroused. He shouldn't be here. He jumped when hands touched his ass. Bucky was behind him crowding him against Tony. Stephen caged him in further. He was blocked on three sides by alphas with the wall of the stairwell to his left.

"I really need to go."

"You really need to shut your mouth before we shut it for you," Bucky warned in his ear.

Peter squeezed his eyes shut and bit down on his lip so it wouldn't tremble. It felt like they were everywhere. Hands palmed his ass and stroked his thighs. One of them grabbed his neck and pulled his hair. Someone found his nipples through his shirt and pinched them. He stood there whimpering afraid to argue any more. He heard the bell chime for class then the slam of doors shutting as teachers locked up their classrooms for the final class period.

"Nobody's coming to save you," Stephen purred. "Your ours until the hours up."

Bucky laughed. "He's shaking."

"Look at me, pretty baby," Tony said. Peter opened his eyes. Tony examined his face with wide pupils. "You're an innocent little thing aren't you? A good, untouched, omega?"

Peter nodded his head.

"Don't worry, sweetheart. If you're good for us, well leave you that way." He smirked. "But you're gonna wish we didn't."

"Please, don't touch me," he whispered, voice broken.

"Oh we're gonna touch whatever we want," Bucky said.

"If you can be a good little whore, we won't knot you," Stephen added.

"Please," he sobbed.

"Shh," Tony said. He stuffed two of his fingers past Peter's lips. He gagged at first, but he settled. He stared away at the wall as tears welled in his eyes.

"Are you scared, pretty baby?" Bucky asked. His lips dragged over Peter's jaw. He could feel his stubble on his skin. His hand slid down his chest all the way to his skirt. It was the pale blue pleated skirt all omegas at his school wore. Bucky reached down and slipped his hand underneath. It slid slowly up his thigh all the way to his cock where it was tucked inside his underwear.

Peter squirmed and Stephen slapped his bare thigh.

"Quit romancing him, Barnes. I want to fuck his face."

"No, please!" Peter said around Tony's fingers.

Tony pulled his hand back and slapped him. "Omegas don't talk back. Get on your knees and open your mouth before your betters decide you need punishment."

Sniffling Peter let himself be pushed to the ground. Stephen grabbed him by the hair and pulled his head back. He looked up at him as he pulled out his cock with one hand.

"Open your mouth." He stare was so unkind that Peter didn't dare disobey him. With a smirk, he spit into Peter's open mouth. He swallow on reflex, but it made him shudder as it slid down his throat. Then pushed his cock into his mouth. Peter wrinkled his nose at the taste. Stephen rubbed himself all over his tongue.

"That's it," he purred. He pushed into Peter's throat, watching the tears form in his eyes. Peter gagged and tried to pull back but Bucky sat on the floor behind. His chest was against Peter's back, keeping him from going anywhere. Peter tried to turn his head away, but Stephen just held him by the hair while the others laughed.

Bucky toyed with his toy, running his nails over it through his panties. Peter sat and whimpered, tears wet on his cheeks, unable to move. When Stephen had enough he stepped aside and Tony took his place.

"Please," Peter rasped. His throat hurt. So did his jaw.

Tony slapped his face. "Open up," he growled.

Peter whimpered and opened his mouth. Tony's cock slid over his tongue and into his throat. He sighed happily as he bottomed out. Peter gagged and tried not to let his teeth scrape.

"That's a good omega," Bucky purred in his ear. He kissed his neck and Peter shivered. "Feels good doesn't it, to be used just like you're made for." He stood up and Tony stepped aside to Bucky could have a turn. Peter sat obediently waiting with his mouth open. His head felt foggy and he felt tingly and good all over. He wanted their attention no matter what they gave him.

Bucky fucked him much slower. He tugged on his hair when he stopped licking and sucking. Peter wasn't sure when it had turned from him getting face fucked to him actively giving head but he didn't want to stop. Stephen pushed Bucky aside and Peter eagerly sucked his cock, too. It felt good in his mouth. He was full and happy and the smell of alpha was everywhere making him slick. Bucky and Tony stood on either side of him, stroking their cocks. Peter could see their knots starting to swell at the base. He rubbed his legs together. His hole ached so bad. He needed to get bred.

"Smells like slick in here," Tony said with a grin.

Bucky smirked. "Yeah it does. That pussy getting wet for us darlin?"

Peter moaned. He sucked Stephen's cock all the way down, letting it stretch open his throat the way he wanted it to in his hole.

"Gonna make me cum like that," Stephen purred. Peter whined. "You want my cum? Yeah you do, fucking slut." He pulled Peter back by the hair and took his cock in his hand. Peter stuck out his tongue trying to taste it, wanting it back in his mouth. Then Stephen came in sticky spurts, in his mouth and on his face.

Tony filled his mouth back up and fucked his face while he moaned happily. Then he pulled out and came on his face too. He felt so messy and dirty and hot. All he could smell was alpha. He wanted to rub it into his skin and soak it up, bathe in alpha cum.

"Please, alpha," he whimpered, seeing Bucky still stroking himself.

"You want this, sweetheart?" Peter nodded. "Come and finish me off then."

Peter licked and sucked along the side of his shaft. He wanted it on his face so bad. He pumped the bottom with his hand while he licked and sucked the head. When Bucky came, he angled it right at his forehead delighted when it covered his skin and gooped shut his left eye.

He sat on his knees, staring up at his alphas while they all grinned and took pictures.

"Dammit," Tony groaned. "He's too good to just dump him like that."

"Why not?" Stephen shrugged.

Bucky shot him a look. "Where's your phone, sweetheart? Let me give you my number."

Peter took his phone out of the pocket of his bag. "Go wash off in the bathroom like a good omega and then shoot me a text. Got it?" Bucky winked.

Peter nodded and took his phone back. Dazed, he went into the bathroom and did was he was told.

Bucky? He sent.

What he got back was a picture of himself, mouth hanging open, covered in cum.

[starbuckie]

Malia’s 400 Follower Writing Challenge!

Hey there, my gorgeous, lovely followers! First of all, thank you so, so much for 400 followers!! This is incredible that there are 400, let me repeat, four-fucking-hundred people following me on this hellsite, that enjoy my friendship and/or writing. It’s nearly been a year on tumblr, and every piece of writing I’ve published, the friends I’ve made have just been absolutely monumental in my life. 4 is one of my lucky numbers, and so as a tribute to that times 100, I figured that now would be a great time to have a writing challenge. As I work on a few fics of my own, I’d also love to see what y’all come up with as well, so let’s go :)

CHALLENGE MASTERLIST

rules (ugh i don’t like that word let’s go with guidelines):

- you don’t actually gotta be following me, but that’d be pretty cool

- if you could be so kind, even if you don’t participate, please please reblog, as that would be very much appreciated

- to participate just send me an ask with the prompt or prompts you’ll be using, and the character you’ll be writing for. you can definitely choose two prompts from separate categories, but remember that prompts will become unavailable after two requests

- i’m pretty versatile with fandoms, so i’m gonna say marvel, harry potter, supernatural, star wars, criminal minds, bridgerton, and any sebastian stan characters, but if you’d like to write for a character not in any of those fandoms just tell me in the ask (so basically any fandom, i don’t know how to speak)

- please be x reader! doesn’t have to be fem!reader at all, but please make it y/n

- the fics can be any length, a drabble, headcanon, oneshot, twoshot, series, just make sure to tag me in any multipart fics because i’d love reading all your amazing fics

- while any fics are welcome (angst, fluff, smut, darkfic), i draw the line at incest and pedophilia, and make sure to TAG AND WARN YOUR FICS PROPERLY. if you are under eighteen and i see you have requested to write a smut fic, i will say a big fat NO because you should not even be reading that.

- to make sure i see it, make sure to use the tag #mals400followerwritingchallenge and tag me in it

- if i don’t reblog your fic within two days just shoot me an ask or message because i may just be dead or my tumblr is being stupid, and i will get my ass in gear

- all the fics will be put on a masterlist i’ll have on my masterlist as they are submitted, and it will be reblogged every time a new fic is added

- i know a lot of us may be in school right now or have jobs and families and shit just happens and sucks sometimes so i’m gonna make the deadline june 30, and you can sign up or submit any fics until then :)

NOW FOR THE PROMPTS:)) btw, all the line prompts are from @a-cure-for-writers-block​

angst line prompts:

“This will be the last time you lie to me.”

“You know it’s not like that.”

“How could you think this wouldn’t hurt me?”

“You’re never going to be the same after this.”

“I just think it’d be best if we never met.”

“I can’t believe you would even think to leave me like this.”

“You never loved me, did you?”

“It didn’t have to be like this, but now you’ve ruined everything.”

“What did you want once this was all through? Tell me!”

“You could’ve- could’ve stayed. You could’ve helped me fix things.”

“This isn’t going to be fixed. You’ve ruined this for good now.”

“I hope I’m not put in the same part of hell as you.”

“When did you think you could hurt me again? Today? Tomorrow?”

“You’re back in my life and I want to die again.”

“You only ever brought me pain and I’m sick of it.”

“You put yourself in that position! That wasn’t my doing!”

“When was it that you realised that you didn’t love me?”

“I really think it’s easier for people when I’m not around.”

“I know, but you didn’t have to use them like that!”

“I’m not someone who breaks easily, but I must commend you on this.”

random line prompts:

“You look like you’re going to punch me.” “I was actually going to kiss you, but if you’re into that sort of thing then I’m out.”

“I mean, if we hadn’t met at a strip club.”

“Can we get coffee?” “Is this a date or is it because you’ll end up strangling someone if you don’t get caffeine in your system.” “I shouldn’t have asked.” (@spaceodditybarnes with Bucky Barnes or Chris Beck)

“… and then he came up up to me and kissed me until I was-” “I’m going to have to tell you to shut up now.”

“We should do this again sometime!” “I would honestly rather do anything other than that again.” (@extremelyblackandwhite)

“I hope you don’t think that we all act like this.” “There’s more than just you? Jesus.”

“I’m just tired.” “That’s understandable. Go and sleep, I’ll sort everything out.”

“You drank it?!” “Yes, it was quite delicious, did you know?”

“Can you just act normal for this evening. It’s all I’ll ask of you.” “You’re asking for a lot then.”

“I haven’t got laid in like forever.” “Oh sorry, did I look like I was offering? Because I’m most certainly not.” (@adorkably​)

smutty line prompts:

“Do I look like I’m messing around? Do I look like I won’t punish you?”

“Fucking is a reward, but you haven’t been good.”

“Move an inch and you won’t be coming tonight.”

“You look just about good enough to eat.”

“Take your clothes off. Right now.”

“We’re really going to fuck here? What if someone sees us?” (@bvckysmoon​ with Bucky barnes)

“Hands behind your back.”

“Open your mouth for me, baby.”

“Is it good when I touch you here? Or maybe here?”

“You’re so in for it when we get home.”

“You can take it, you’ve done it before.”

“Just a little more.”

“I won’t apologise for marking you up, everyone should know you’re taken.”

“Suck on my fingers.”

“You look so good with my hands around your neck.”

“Keep your eyes open, look at me, baby.”

“Look how good you take it.”

“My baby, you did so well.”

“God, you feel amazing.”

“Swallow. All of it.”

tropes:

enemies to lovers

friends to lovers

mutual pining

arranged marriage

sex pollen (@jimmypagesandbrianmayshair)

sharing a bed

slow burn

arranged marriage

unrequited love

childhood sweethearts

fake relationship

roleswap

established relationship

AUs:

Highschool AU

Soulmate AU

College AU (@spaceodditybarnes with Bucky Barnes or Chris Beck)

Coffee Shop AU (@jimmypagesandbrianmayshair)

Detective AU

Historical AU

Bodyguard AU (@i-am-a-closet-fanfic-fiend​ with Steve Rogers)

CEO AU

Bakery AU

Royal AU

Mob AU

Mythology AU

Modern AU

Hospital AU (@captainscanadian with Bucky Barnes)

Bakery AU

Demon AU

(Guardian!)Angel AU

Criminal AU

songs:

Burn - Hamilton

Dancing With Your Ghost - Sasha Sloan

Tears Dry On Their Own - Amy Winehouse

Silly Girl - Chloe Moriondo

Me and My Husband - Mitski

Something - The Beatles

Uptown Girl - Billy Joel (@blueberrythor with Bucky Barnes)

I Can’t Help Myself - Four Tops

She - dodie

Let’s Fall in Love for the Night - FINNEAS (@subtlebucky with Valkyrie)

Everybody Loves Somebody - Dean Martin

A Sunday Kind Of Love - Etta James

[puppypeter]

Part 2: this time there’s no Hydra involved (though some of the bad guys are indeed Hydra characters). Please READ THE TAGS! Most of these fics are based around trauma, recovery etc and feature triggering scenes or flashbacks and darker themes. Please be safe and don’t read them if they can be triggering for you! I love many of these fics so much, they have so much plot and are amazingly written, but bare in mind the themes they cover! Enjoy them below the cut:

Tell Me How To Breathe In And Feel No Hurt | 202860 words | Part 1 of Tell Me How To Breathe In And Feel No Hurt

Steve looks over; the guy is standing in the darkness, and when he steps forward Steve’s breath catches in his throat. A few inches shorter than Steve, dark hair falling flat and limp around his high cheekbones, eyes permanently flickering between blue and green and grey and framed by long eyelashes, sharp and bright even in the gray, artificial lighting, only one arm, pulled protectively around himself.

“Bucky?” he whispers incredulously.

or Bucky is a hooker who stumbled into prostitution in desperation and Steve is an achingly lonely artist who has spent four years missing his high school sweetheart and maybe they never stopped loving each other.

Even In The Dark (We Will Find A Way Out) | 242572 words | Part 2 of Tell Me How To Breathe In And Feel No Hurt

“I’m scared,” Bucky whispers. The words are packed; scared doesn’t begin to cover the impossible panic that’s still washing over him, waning and then slamming him again, so much it makes him dizzy.

“I know,” Steve whispers back, “I know. It’s okay to be scared, Buck. Nothing bad is gonna happen to us, baby, not anymore.”

Still reeling from the attack, Bucky and Steve, together, grow and recover and work to heal.

Then the past comes for them.

Snake Eyes | 159983 words

There's a lot of expectation attached to Steve Rogers' name. It's taken him years to prove his own worth - that he's made it so far in the USNA on his own merit and not just because of his father. He's close though - there are only a few more months until he graduates and gets to stand on his own two feet. It's taken a lot of effort to get there, and a lot of sacrifices.

Bucky's beyond the point of expectation. When your father and grandfather have both been President - and your mother nurses political ambitions of her own - brilliance is a foregone conclusion. He's just counting down the final months of his confinement to the glass cage of the White House and he's determined to put that whole world behind him.

But as the days standing between them and their dreams dwindle, Steve comes to realize he might have made one sacrifice too many, and Bucky learns that his freedom comes at a cost he's never going to be able to pay.

Marvel/Political Animals AU

Under The Bridges Of Fame | 89678 words

For better or for worse (usually worse), Steve Rogers has been the most famous guy in the room for a while. And though newsreels have given way to YouTube, people's reactions haven't changed much in seventy-some years. Steve's become an expert at keeping his head down and getting on with his life.

A head-on collision on a busy street sends books flying and sweeps Steve off his feet. The point of impact has a name: James. A charming mess of long hair, thick glasses, and a crooked, not-quite-smile. If he recognizes Steve, he chooses not to comment, placing him firmly in Steve's good graces.

As far as Steve can tell, they might be Bogie and Bacall all over again, save for the group of idiots with selfie sticks who surround them. But for once, the request isn't for Steve.

Which begs the question: if James is James, then who the hell is Bucky?

This Is The Place Where Everything Starts To Begin | 93430 words

Steve Rogers is a tiny spitfire of an artist just trying to make it through his junior year at SHIELD High. Bucky Barnes is the mysterious new kid, adopted son of Principal Alexander Pierce, with a prosthetic arm and a head full of dangerous secrets. When their paths cross, a friendship is formed, one that will lead to the revelation of the dark underside to Brooklyn and the horrific events happening right beneath the surface of its glimmering facade.

The Little Red Balloon | 151807 words

When Steve goes out to a bar looking for a chance to unwind, he doesn’t expect to find the most beautiful person in world there. And he doesn’t expect for that person’s kiss to feel like the missing puzzle piece in his life. And he really doesn’t expect to find himself falling head over heels for that person — for Bucky Barnes — over the next two months, watching as the rest of his life with this man stretches out in front of him.

But Bucky has secrets. Things he won’t tell. And he just wants to live his life in peace, and do what he can to give kids like him the kind of help he never had. But there are things you can’t outrun. And when his past catches up with him, Bucky will do anything to keep Steve safe from the monsters that lurk in the shadows of his life.

But Steve would do anything for him, too. And he’s not about to let Bucky slip away.

This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. When fate collides with choice. And when the deepest love confronts the worst kind of fear.

This is what happens when Steve Rogers meets Bucky Barnes.

What I Used To Be | 117095 words

When the police uncover a hidden sub-basement in the home of criminal Alexander Pierce and find a tortured omega and his three pups, they bring them to the Stark Omega Clinic, a non-profit dedicated to rehabilitating traumatized omegas.

After dark in September 2005, fourteen year old Bucky Barnes vanished. Eleven years and three pups later, he is far from the boy that went missing from a suburban neighborhood outside of Denver.

Steve Rogers is an alpha of some means. When he came into money, he decided to use what he had for good and sign up as a candidate to be a support alpha for his close friend Tony's charitable clinic. When he takes on the task of helping reintegrate Bucky and his pups into the world, he doesn't expect to fall so hard.

Monster In A Daydream | 29804 words

Alexander Pierce was the only one who could love him. He was the only one who dealt with him being so useless and stupid and weak. The only one who helped him grow to be a better person, a better boyfriend and a better submissive. He was the only one who could love someone as disgusting as Bucky was.

OR

Bucky is stuck in an extremely abusive dom/sub relationship with Alexander Pierce and Steve, his best friend from childhood, tries to save him before it's too late. This is a story of abuse, recovery, non sexual intimacy and a blossoming relationship between an abused Bucky and a Steve who just wants to make everything alright.

Ugliness | 46762 words

Highschool AU - Bucky suffers a horrible injustice at the hands of his teacher Alexander Pierce. Will he ever be able to find his voice and reach out to his best friend?

Dark Fics Part 1 | List of all fics recs

[romantic-barnes]

bucky barnes | masterlist

series & mini-series 

| strawberry & tape |

Bucky Barnes has the town in is hands and a lot Blood. All you have is a cafe your mother left you after her passing. But as Bucky’s attention moves to you, do you have the strength to pay revenge for his wrongdoings? Does your push into the dark paradise end in love or blood? | dark!biker!bucky x reader

| unintended |

The moment you have come of age, you are being ripped out of the place you call home and into the kingdom of Cydonia ruled by King James, your betrothed. Neither of you pleased with the situation, neither of you being honest. Between fights, snarky remarks and glaring, do you find time to breathe? Is it possible to reconcile or even love one another? | king!bucky x princess!reader

more to come

one shots

| gin, tonic & a lemon on top |

Maybe Bucky’s an alcoholic or maybe he just has a crush on the sweet like syrup bartender. | fluffy!bucky x bartender!reader

| cake |

You’re just a piece of cake for Bucky to be devoured and so your birthday takes a dark turn. | dark!bucky x innocent!reader

| out of control |

being in control never felt so good and hearing him beg is like music to your ears | au!bucky x reader

| show & tell |

Bucky needs to show you off, keeping you a secret isn’t an option anymore. Not when everyone assumes you’re not taken. | au!bucky x reader

| high school & sweethearts |

Yours and Bucky’s daughter has a sweetheart and is asking her parents for advice, bringing you both back to the time you were in high school. | dad!bucky x mother!reader

more to come

drabbles

| detention | 

In which Bucky is trying to get your attention, but both of you getting detention instead | highschool!bucky x highschool!reader

| bucky boy |

in which Bucky reveals his true feelings before going off to war | 40s!bucky x reader

more to come | requests are open

[stony-ao3-feed]

Coffee and Cream

Read it on AO3

by Bleakloft

Tony is a college drop out, looking for jobs to make ends meet when he becomes a new hire at a big coffee chain, Coffee Bean. Learning to navigate the ins and outs, he meets someone unexpected as a guest, his highschool ex turned Hollywood sweetheart, Steve Rogers.

Words: 788, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Pepper Potts, Bucky Barnes, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Sharon Carter

Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark

Additional Tags: barista!au, Minor Sharon Carter/Steve Rogers, endgame Stony, Ratings may change as the story Progresses, Homophobia, Howard Stark's A+ Parenting

Read it on AO3

[sebahstianstan]

christmas tree farm.

Summary: Nothing has been going to plan with your Christmas preparations. Nothing except the fact you find the perfect tree in under a minute. The catch? Your former flame from high-school has claimed the same tree and it doesn’t look like a compromise is coming your way anytime soon.

Pairing: bucky barnes x fem!reader

Warning(s): Cursing

Inspired by this prompt

A/N: This is my first time posting my writing, I just thought this was a cute little drabble. Enjoy!

Word count: 865

*This is a non-superhero au!*

You usually loved Christmas time. Living in New York, every year was automatically magical no matter what. This year? Nothing had been going to plan. Your preparations had been put on hold until your boyfriend was to come into town so you could do everything together. But that was a short lived plan once you received a text message the day prior to his arrival that your relationship was over. With your roommate out of town and no available last-minute flights to visit your family, you were alone.

Approaching the Christmas tree lot located in Coney Island, you shifted your car into park and stepped into the blissful wonderland that was Christmas in New York. There were no holly-jolly feelings within you, though. Frankly, you were just in search of a Charlie Brown tree to satisfy your feelings of angst. Entering the lot, your attention was immediately captured by the most beautiful tree you had ever seen. Seriously, this tree would fit perfectly in the corner of your apartment next to your television. It was bushy and proportional, there was nothing wrong with this tree. It was perfect. Christmas would be saved by this tree. Your feet moved quickly as you rushed towards it. A smile finally found its way across your lips as you placed your gloved hands on it.

“ ‘Cuse me, ma’am. But this is my tree.” A voice with a hint of familiarity spoke from behind the tree as he stepped around.

“Your tree?” Your eyes narrowed into a withering glare as you looked up at the man.

“Y/N?” His eyes grew slightly wide as your eyes locked.

“Bucky Barnes?” Your expression matched his as you stood in silence for a moment before you laughed softly. Just your luck. “Wow, what has it been?”

“Ten years?” Bucky laughed softly as well, the hand not holding onto your tree scratching behind his neck.

“So… Um, this is kind of my tree. It’s going to save Christmas.” You cleared your throat, wanting to avoid the small talk which Bucky gladly went along with.

“You see, I can’t let you take it because I kind of already called dibs.” Bucky smirked slightly.

You sighed at this, your eyes rolling as you propped your hand on your hip. You refused to give up this tree. Especially to Bucky fucking Barnes who ripped your heart from you chest in the twelfth grade and shattered it. Absolutely not.

“Dibs? What are you, ten?” You scoffed slightly. “Come on, you kind of owe me.”

“I owe you?” Bucky arched a brow and matched your body language of propping his hand on his hip. “I think your memory is getting hazy with age, doll. You broke up with me.”

“What?” You were in shock at this. “You broke up with me! Look, I am not having this argument with you in the middle of a fucking Christmas tree lot ten fucking years after the fact. Come on, James.”

Bucky smiled at you and if you didn’t know any better, you thought he was enjoying this. Sighing hard, you took the opportunity to take a good look at the man. He had the same dreamy blue eyes, just a little wrinkled around the edges. A beard was beginning to come in and his once long hair was now cropped beneath his beanie. The most noticeable difference was the prominent muscles you could see despite his winter jacket. Bucky fucking Barnes. Your first love, your first kiss, first time, first heartbreak… Your first everything. The event unwrapping before you was also the first time you were saying no to him.

“So, tell me…” Here we go, you thought. “Why will this tree save Christmas?”

“Because this tree is perfect,” You replied, sighing once more. “Nothing has been going right and… Look, I don’t need to justify myself. Can you please just let me have the tree?”

Bucky stayed silent for a moment, pretending to think. You were growing more annoyed as the seconds passed. Finally, he smiled.

“No.”

“No?”

“Nope.”

Exhaling deeply, you took a step towards him without letting go of the tree.

“Bucky,” You started.

“Y/N,” He replied, tilting his head slightly.

“What is it going to take to get you to let go of this goddamn tree?” You asked with a sigh.

“A date.” You were not expecting that.

“A… What?” Definitely not the first time you were left speechless by Bucky Barnes.

“A date,” He shrugged. “One date, and the tree is yours.”

“This is not happening,” You laughed softly, shaking your head as you looked at the ground before looking back up at the man who was merely smiling and watching you with amusement.

“And if I say no?” You cocked a brow.

“Then Christmas is doomed,” He shrugged once more. “Come on, Y/N, for old time’s sake?”

You thought about it, you really did. A date with Bucky Barnes. Your highschool sweetheart, your first love. It was humorous, really. After all of these years, your first Christmas alone… Running into him, of all people. It took you under a minute to find your perfect Christmas tree and only a few seconds to say yes to a date with Bucky fucking Barnes.

[ao3feed-stony]

Coffee and Cream

by Bleakloft

Tony is a college drop out, looking for jobs to make ends meet when he becomes a new hire at a big coffee chain, Coffee Bean. Learning to navigate the ins and outs, he meets someone unexpected as a guest, his highschool ex turned Hollywood sweetheart, Steve Rogers.

Words: 788, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Pepper Potts, Bucky Barnes, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Sharon Carter

Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark

Additional Tags: barista!au, Minor Sharon Carter/Steve Rogers, endgame Stony, Ratings may change as the story Progresses, Homophobia, Howard Stark's A+ Parenting

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/33383227

[icantreadactualbooksanymore]

here’s my big list

poe dameron

flight status handbook - ao3 link - ongoing series/oneshot collection - enemies to lovers

joel miller

strawberry wine - ongoing series - pre and post outbreak

stay in bed - ongoing series - slow burn love triangle - currently pre outbreak

feral - ongoing series/oneshot collection - feral!reader - post outbreak

bucky barnes

wkemeup - all of these are amazing

little lion man - personal fave of the above - reader goes back in time and meets 40s!bucky

staticverse - several completed and ongoing series - tfatws!bucky - lots of content

swallow - completed series - biker!bucky - highschool sweethearts

time after time - ongoing series - time loop

11 hours - ongoing series - biker!bucky 

the safest way to go - completed series - college au - on and off relationship

heart to a gunfight - completed series - modern au - fake dating at a wedding

out of time - ongoing series - bucky x rogers!reader / tony x rogers!reader

steve rogers

(she moves with) shameless wonder - ongoing series - greek godess!reader

just right - completed series - two steves from different universes

renaissance - completed series - pararescue!reader

chris evans

on deck - completed series - mlb!chris

invisible string - ongoing series - actress!reader

jess mariano

do you see her face? - completed series - coworkers who are mean to each other to lovers

last updated 30.03.23

none of these are my work, all credit to the writers, they’re all very talented and i appreciate them greatly

[justkending]

Moral of the Story. Chapter 22.

Summary: Marrying too young out of highschool leads to a naive and failed marriage. Now 10 years later, word comes that the divorce was never actually completed. Bucky and Y/N have to come back together after all these years to settle what wasn’t all those years back. Passive attitudes, miscommunicated endings, and reminiscing of old loves and lives all comes back for the two.

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x Y/N

Word Count: 3900+

A/N: Ok! So this is the last official chapter! I have finally finished the series and my next plan is to write an epilogue eventually as soon as I come up with a storyline I would like this to round out to. I hope you all enjoy as much as I did writing this series. It's crazy that it all started with listening to a song while doing my hair. I have a lot of stories I've been brainstorming on, but refused to start until this one was done. So bare with me and my crazy schedule of teaching for when the next story is to come:) XOXOXOX

Chapter Twenty-two:

Another long list of flights to get her across the country, but she was back in her childhood bedroom and resting for the night. 

She had gotten a really late flight in and her dad was nice enough to pick her up around midnight. 

The house was quiet and being home brought back a form of peace. A peace she never knew she missed until she got a taste of it again in the recent months. 

But there wasn’t much time to rest and focus on that as she had lunch with one of the new businesses the next morning. 

She hadn’t told anyone besides her family she was coming in since she wanted to surprise the rest of the group. However, a piece of her was also not sure how to with a certain person. 

But for now, her focus needed to stay on work. 

She had a great lunch with one of the small businesses that she had become rather close with in her time in highschool, which was now a booming business in the community it had started in. They were the florist shop she would visit anytime she went to the farmers market and were now in the top three florist shops in North Brooklyn. 

The meeting went well and they were very flexible and open minded on starting and learning new concepts to start implementing more eco-friendly routines into their work. 

Since the meeting was short, she decided to head to one of the coffee shops in the area and get a taste for a new place she was sure she’d become a regular at. 

She did a little research as to what was the most sustainable in the area, something she was pretty consistent with, and happened to find a small shop about a mile walk away. 

She ordered a matcha latte and grabbed a chocolate chip cookie to snack on as she looked more into some of the businesses she would be talking with throughout the week. 

In a little nook, she watched as the New Yorkers went about their normal day. Dogs being walked to teenagers giggling at the videos on their phones. 

She missed this atmosphere. Though LA and Brooklyn were big city based, it didn’t mean that they were similar in every way. East coast and west coast were two very different cultures. 

After doing a substantial amount of research, and a little bit of spaced out daydreaming about the changes of the city, she packed up and headed out to get back home for dinner. 

With her hands full, she turned her back to the push door and opened it while backing up. She said a quick thank you to the barista who wished her a happy day, and before she could fully step outside, she was already running into someone. 

“Oh, sorry!” she mumbled, quickly trying to catch the extra pastry bag she had bought for her father. 

Before the bag could hit the floor, the stranger caught it and she looked up seeing those damn piercing blues as if they had been waiting for their entrance into this next chapter in her life. 

“Y/N?” he said, followed by a surprised smile. “What are you doing here?” 

“Bucky,” she laughed, somehow at ease with his reaction. “How are you?” 

“I-I’m good,” he chuckled, handing her the brown paper sack and going to open the door so she was no longer leaning on it. “Wh-What-?”

She moved out of the way as another person excused themselves behind her. Bucky and her relocated to the side of the door where a few outdoor tables stood half occupied. 

“What am I doing here?” She asked his question again for him. “Business,” she nodded. 

“Business?” he questioned relaxing in his spot. “On the other side of the coast?”

“Funny, isn’t it?” she smiled at him, knowing his brain was still trying to catch up. “Yeah, um, my co-founder, Donna, and I got a lot of feedback from the stores I handed out company cards to on my short visit here. My friend thought it would be a good move to come over here and work with them and see if we could start reaching out to other areas.”

“Wow,” he sighed. “That’s amazing. I’m sure your family is extremely happy with that.”

“Oh, you know exactly how that’s going,” she smiled, looking at her feet then back at him. His gaze never once wanted to leave hers in case this was a dream and she would disappear any second. “Dad’s my own personal alarm clock. Sherri is helping me get the bathroom organized upstairs so it's ‘just as I like’ as she put it. Chloe is insisting on a movie night every night until I leave. The list goes on…” 

“I can think of a few other things one of the best bed and breakfast might be doing,” Bucky agreed. 

“They are a really good host family, huh?” she teased. 

“So how long are they hosting you for?” Bucky questioned, tilting his head. 

“That’s TBA…” Y/N hesitated to answer. “At least 3 months, but it all depends on how business goes.”

“3 months? Wow,” his eyebrows shot up. “That’s quite a bit.”

“Yeah, I’m excited for it though,” she shrugged with a happy grin. “I had kinda been moping around work since my visit here, and Donna came up with a way I could get out of that rut and possibly make our company bigger in the long run. Sure, living with my parents for 3 months might be a push.” She sighed. “But I just feel like I missed so much of their lives being so far away that being back makes 3 months seem like no time at all.”  

She realized her short rant was a little more personal than she meant to come out with, but when she looked up at Bucky, he was following every word like it was a start on a treasure map looking for lost gold. 

She let out an awkward laugh. “That was a lot for answering how long I’m staying. I guess you’re just the first friend that I’ve seen, so I’m unloading it all on you first.”

The word. Used so simply and so naturally, either of the two could have carried on without a thought to it, but they didn’t. Because it wasn’t simple. The natural part had made it convincing and sincere. 

She had thought out the sentence and when it filtered through her mind, she didn’t think to correct it because it was… Natural. 

They were friends again. And the tension held between the two had been healed to non existence. It felt comfortable again…

“I’m glad I’m the first friend to find out,” Bucky said just as simply as she had. 

They stood there smiling at the other and a silent emotion flowed spontaneously through them that was the utter perfection of peace. 

The 10 years apart had done them good in the end. Little did they know, it wasn’t until that 10 years came to an end that they fully transformed to their best selves.

_________________

“We haven’t had a poker night with Y/N since highschool. Think she’s going to be as good as she was last time we played?”

Bucky chuckled at Steve’s comment as they laid out bags of chips and the blonde scooped dips into serving bowls. 

“I think I still owe her at least sixty bucks,” Bucky mumbled as he thought back to their highschool gambling days. “Maybe more, but don’t remind her.”

“I’ll keep quiet. I think I owe her more than that,” Steve realized, pausing on the dips. 

There was a second of silence as they set up for their party and classic rock played in the background from Bucky’s playlist. 

“I still can’t believe that you, out of all the people in the city of Brooklyn, ran into her before she told us about her return home,” Steve laughed, grabbing some of the beers they had out and putting them in the fridge before going back to his previous job. 

“You and me both, pal,” Bucky nodded, leaning on the counter. “But I’m glad it happened.”

“I’m sure you are,” Steve chuckled under his breath. 

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Bucky shot a friendly glare his way. 

But then a knock on the door sounded and before either could look at the direction of the wood barrier, Sam was running out from the hall to answer it.

“I got it! I got it!” he shouted, jogging as if he had been waiting for someone. 

Steve and Bucky shared a look. The crew of everyone coming tonight wasn’t going to be here for another 30 minutes or so. And they don’t remember ordering anything…

After a minute they heard him mumble a thank you as he closed the door with a box in hand. 

“Whatcha got there, Wilson?” Bucky asked, slowly watching as Sam grinned at the delivery. 

“Is that-?” Steve seemed to catch on faster than Bucky.

“Dinner from my sister? Hmm mm,“ he hummed with a wide smile that showed the gap in his teeth. 

“I thought we were doing finger food tonight?”

“Y’all are, but this isn’t for you,” Sam was quick to correct.

“Whose is it?” Bucky raised an eyebrow.

“It’s for Y/N and I,” he answered simply, putting the fresh cajun food into the oven to stay warm. 

“You and Y/N?” he resaid as if it would make more sense a second time. 

“Yeah,” he said. When he turned back to the other men he saw their faces waiting for an explanation and sighed before obliging. “Sarah is slowly starting up her business up here. She’s doing well, but I know Y/N has all kinds of connections and suggestions for local businesses. I want her to try her food and possibly take my sister as a client if I can convince her.”

Steve laughed and crossed his arms as he placed the last bowl of dip on the bar top. 

“I’m pretty sure you could have just mentioned your sister was a local entrepreneur and she would have jumped at the opportunity to get in touch with Sarah,” Steve smirked. 

“She’s actively looking for people to work with anyway. That’s the whole reason she’s here,” Bucky added. 

“Well, this way, she can sample just how good my family's passed down recipes are worth to invest in,” Sam shrugged, happy with his plan anyway. “All it takes is one bite.”

“You’re really going to not share,” Bucky asked, peering at the closed oven door. 

He had a taste for Sarah’s home cooked meals. Sam was kind enough to bring leftovers when they had family dinners, and they were also regulars at her new restaurant that had been open for the last three weeks now.

“You’re more than capable of calling a delivery in,” Sam retorted, getting a not as friendly glare from Bucky this time. “Or are you struggling with money? Cause I can let Y/N know that you may need a little longer on getting her that $60 you were talking about…”

The glare became even less friendly at the dig and he wished he hadn’t said anything with Sam in the vicinity. 

“Why did you have to go and make friends with that guy?” he huffed, turning around and directing his question to Steve even though Sam was in the room. 

“God, you guys,” Steve groaned, shaking his head and escaping to the living room. 

____________________

Wanda and Vision were the first to come, then Clint and Laura. Slowly people trickled in and though it was a small reunion, it was nice to see the entire crew back together. 

Now they were just waiting for their last guest. 

“She’s running a little behind, isn’t she?” Bucky asked, checking his watch for the 10th time in the last 5 minutes. 

“Relax,” Steve sat at the table where they were getting the poker chips sorted. Wanda and Clint laughing next to each other and Vision and Laura on the couch talking about random things. “She texted she was stuck in traffic. Her Dad took the car, so she had to haul a cab.”

Bucky heard him, but that didn’t give him any sense of ease. He felt as though he needed to be a little bit prepared for her coming, and the only thing he had control over in that area was the time they had set. Of which she was late for such a punctual person. 

As if manifesting her to appear, the last planned knock of the night cut through the room. 

“I got it!” Bucky practically jumped up from his seat and raced to the door.

In his tunnel vision to the door, he missed the looks the entire crew shared and the smirk Steve had as he shuffled the cards. 

Taking only a second to collect himself, he opened the door, and there she was; dressed in a pair of jean shorts and what Bucky knew was a thrifted vintage shirt with sneakers and bag of chips and case of beer in hand.

“Sorry I’m late,” she smiled at him bashfully. 

“Better late than never,” he replied with a smile of his own. “Come on in,” he waved, moving out of the way for her. 

She thanked him as he took the food and drinks from her, yet stayed by her side. He could tell that there were nerves in her stance, but upon seeing a sincere smile, she relaxed.

“Y/N!” Wanda shouted, jumping up from her seat and rushing to hug her friend. 

“Wands!” Y/N chuckled, opening her arms as she met her in the middle. 

She went around the room saying her hellos and happy to see you’s to everyone she had missed. It took a second for them to get to the poker part of the night as they were catching up and reminiscing on life.

Eventually they were seated and Bucky grabbed the chair right next to Y/N with Wanda on the other side of her. In the olden days, he was one of the few people who could catch onto her tells in the game of bluff. Because of that, his best vantage point was from across the table, but he didn’t care about winning or losing tonight. He just wanted to be next to the person he had so long wished to be this close to again. 

And if Y/N was being honest, it was nice being in close proximity to him now that it felt like old times. She missed the comfort this group gave her, but she realized she also missed all the little quips and classic Bucky behaviors that came with being friends with him again. 

It didn’t go without notice from those around them how easily they fell back into the habits they used to share as best friends. Slight nudges when the other had tricked them. The eyes rolling anytime Y/N caught Bucky trying to jokingly peek over her shoulder to see her cards. The name drop of “Everest” every once in a while as he teased her. 

They may not have picked up on it, but it was clear as day that the flirting was happening and the sass and sarcasm they two spit back to each other was spoken as if the 10 years between now and then had never happened. 

“Sam, this is amazing,” she said in shock as she took a bite of the shrimp pasta that his sister had perfected. The buttered bread along with it was perfectly dusted with garlic and other spices to compliment the main dish. 

“My family has the talent of making some of the best comfort food around. And now I don’t have to worry about flying out to Louisiana anymore to get it,” Sam gleamed in pride. 

“This is,” she paused, finishing her bite. “Just amazing.”

“Thank you,” Sam chuckled. “I was actually wondering if-”

“Here, let me get you a card. I would love to work with your sister if she’s willing. I think she’d be a great partner as a locally owned woman started business,” she rushed to her purse to hand off her business card. 

“I told you,” Bucky mumbled, coming in and overhearing the conversation as she ran past him to the living room. 

“I like her,” Sam grinned. “I never thought I would say it, but you have good taste, Barnes.”

Bucky rolled his eyes at the comment and Sam followed behind Y/N to continue talking business until their next round of whatever card game they decided on next. 

But like any night, the evening was coming to a close and people had to get back home for work the next day. 

Clint and Laura were the first gone and Vision and Wanda had just left, leaning Sam, Bucky, Steve and Y/N. 

“Welp, I guess I’m the next one out. I should get home before midnight since I’m waking up early for another meeting,” Y/N announced, standing and stretching. 

“Do you want me to call a cab for you?” Sam offered his new friend. 

“No, that’s fine,” she grinned, patting his back. “I just need to check the app-”

“I can take you home,” Bucky interrupted, making everyone turn their head to the brunette who was sitting on the couch. 

Steve’s eyebrows raised at the quick proclamation and looked between the two as they stared at each other, both caught offguard by his quick offer. 

“I have some things I need to drop off for your dad,” he was fast to cover. “For a new project we’re working on,” he added. 

“I don’t want to be a bother-” she started, trying to be polite, but also internally hoping he didn’t listen to her.

“It’s not an issue,” he waved off, standing and coming around the furniture. “I’ll go grab those things and we can head out.”

He pointed back toward his room and waited for the all clear. 

“Ok,” she nodded with a smile. “I guess you can make it your way of paying me back for that $60 you owe me for the last poker game.”

He wasn’t expecting that quip and immediately put two and two together, turning slowly and threateningly to Sam. 

Steve tried to stifle a laugh at the conversation, but wasn’t successful. 

“I’m going to kick your ass,” Bucky muttered, walking by Sam giving him a smack to the back of his head. 

Steve’s laugh got louder as he gave up trying to not be too loud. 

“Don’t think I forgot you too, Steven. You also have a debt to my poker skills,” she pointed. 

Steve sombered at the call out and sent a nervous smile to her, before taking the beer from the end table and bringing it to his lips to keep him from having to respond. 

_______

The ride started out a little awkward. Especially since now it was just the two of them and they didn’t have their friends to be buffers. 

The first couple minutes was quiet until Y/N spoke up pointing out a new store she hadn’t noticed on the block before. 

They had small talk about the conversation starter and it got quiet again. 

“You know, you didn’t have to drive me home. I could have called a cab,” she mentioned while looking over at him. 

He smiled and shrugged and moved to just have one hand on the wheel. 

“I wanted to,” he replied honestly, looking back at her before the road. “That and I really do have somethings to drop off for your dad.” He figured if he made it awkward, the deflection would help. 

“Not like you couldn’t come any other day of the week,” she sassed but in a joking manner. 

“Right, right,” he nodded with a small laugh, going along with her sarcasm. “Well, long shift tomorrow and the next day, and the next day…” he waved his hand, selling his point. 

“Hm, what a shame,” she shook her head with a sly grin. 

Bucky turned at that comment. 

“How so?” 

“Well, I was going to ask if you wanted to join Chloe and I for movie night tomorrow. I think she was inviting Becca, so I figured I’d invite the other Barnes kid,” she smiled looking ahead. She was too nervous to see his reaction in case she was taking too big of a step. 

But all she heard was silence. 

Her cheeks began to burn red. She was scared that if she looked at him, she’d see confusion and realize she played her cards wrong. 

But that was the opposite of what she saw. 

She turned, seeing that at the stop sign they had approached, luckily the only ones at the four way stop, he had turned and was staring at her in shock. But not a bad kind of shock. At least it looked good. He had a soft smile as if he couldn’t believe she would suggest something as amazing as it was simple. 

“You want me to come to movie night with you and Chloe?”

“Well, yeah. It would be like old times but with both of our little sisters,” she replied, refusing to look away from those eyes that she had gone so long without really gazing in. “I hope that didn’t come off weird,” she was quick to redirect. “I just realized I really enjoyed your company tonight, and if I’m being honest, I’m feel we are at a spot where we are trying to step back into our friendship, and-”

“Y/N,” he stopped her when she began fumbling on her words in nerves. She stopped and looked at him worriedly. “I think a movie night is long overdue,” he said simply. “And I’ll be honest as well… I really miss hanging out with you too.”

His hand came to lay on top of her and he gave her a squeeze. Instinctively, she opened her hand to hold his. 

“I’m glad we’re on the same page,” she smiled widely. 

“It’s been a while.”

“I’m glad that wait time is over then.” 

“I agree completely.”

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[irndad]

Angst prompt”it’s breaking my heart to see you like this” with Bucky please!!!!

a/n: modern au highschool sweethearts!

It’s Steve’s wedding. This is not the thing that should be on his mind.

Except, Steve looks so in love, marrying his childhood sweetheart Peggy, and he’s just so goddamn happy. Everyone is so damn happy. It’s a wedding, of course, they are. It’s meant to celebrate someone making the choice to be happy with someone for the rest of their lives.

And she’s here.

She, being the love of Bucky’s life, the same girl he’s had an eye since he was 14 years old, since she knew what it was to like someone. His first kiss, the first girl he ever loved so hard that it would break his heart.

And in the end, she did.

Or not exactly her, anyway. It’ been years since it all happened, but Bucky still remembers. Her breaking up with him in their senior year after a rumor about him cheating became so prevalent she had to believe it, her leaving for college and never coming back to the town where he, Steve, Peggy and she had been the best of friends and fallen in love.

He’s in his twenties, now, and it shouldn’t matter. He loved her in high school, she was a crush when he was a kid, he shouldn’t be hiding in some hall thinking about how fucking unfair it is that she brought her new boyfriend here. To his best friend’s wedding.

we would’ve gotten married first.

“Hey,” and fuck, it just has to be her that finds him hiding out, with his tux fucked up and his tie undone.

She is still so beautiful, just stunning in her bridesmaid dress, a lock of her hair falling out from her immaculate hairstyle, and it hurts. She is the kind of beautiful you don’t want to look away from, hardly can, and once, he had the privilege of that being his right.

God. It hurts.

“Hi there,” he replies, and it’s so stupid but she can tell he’s faking that smile, because when hasn’t she been able to read him?

well, we know when. she left over it.

“You look lovely,” he says, forcing himself to meet her eyes. She really does. The blush dress suits her, and she looks bashful at the praise. He preens.

“You’re looking ridiculously handsome yourself, Barnes.” and he rolls his eyes Her voice is a sweet drawl, a playful flirt between old friends. While it’s unbearably attractive, it’s obvious how she thinks of him. Old friend, not the one who got away.

“Had to show up the groom, you know that doll. Upstaging Stevie’s my whole life passion.”

She laughs, that gorgeous sound falling from painted lips, and tucks the lock behind her ear.

“You were always good at it.”

Silence stretches between theme for a moment, and for a second, Bucky thinks she’s going to leave.

But she doesn’t.

“Are you okay, James? It’s breaking my heart to see you like this.”

And if he closed his eyes, he could imagine he wasn’t here. That he was 18 again, and she was calling him James in his car, voice warm with the kind of love she only feels for him. He could.

“You know, I always thought we were going to get married first.”

Her smile is sad and slow, like she expected it to come up.

“Your mother would’ve made my bouquet red roses.”

“I’d have insisted on Gardenias. Like you wanted.”

If he was a little more sober, he would censor himself. Act like he doesn’t remember what type of flower she’d want at their wedding. As if it could ever happen.

“I-“ she pauses, swallowing. It’s all so fucking dramatic, this hiding and the hushed voices and the tone, but this is how it is now. This is what’s left of them. “I’m sorry. I never told you that. I shoud’ve believed you. Hell, I believed you 30 minutes after we broke up. It’s just, how do you fix that?”

He knows the proper thing to say here. It was high school. It doesn’t matter anymore. He laughs when he thinks back on it. Whatever will be will be.

But he just can’t lie, not about this. Not when he still thinks about the feel of her in his arms, how she’d laugh when he kissed her in the hallway, how she’d run her hands through his hair like it was the calming thing to do for her. He can’t act like it doesn’t matter. The past’s always been his weakness.

“You could’ve. You could’ve come back 30 minutes later and I’d have forgiven you.”

And isn’t that the most pathetic part of it?

“Bucky, James, I-“

And before she can say a damn thing about hearing the most vulnerable thing he might ever say in his goddamn life, Peggy steps into the little nook they’ve found themselves in.

“Come dance with me!” Peggy slurs, and she goes with her.

This is how growing up goes. Sometimes you never get the answers you want to have.

The next time Bucky sees the woman who will always be the love of his life, is at her wedding.

Whatever will be will be. Whatever will be will be.

angst prompts!

[ao3feed-clintxnat]

Into The Black And White

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/38olJKL

by the_ren_lover

This Christmas season the hottest toy on the market is the Tickle-Me-Thanos by Trickster Toys and Steve Rogers is absolutely certain that obtaining one will win him back the love of his daughter. Unfortunately, he’s not the only one who’ll go to drastic measures to get their hands on one of the previous few dolls in the small town of Hatchetfield. There is chaos on the horizon this Black Friday; is it simple shopping mania, or is a darker force pulling the strings?

(The Black Friday/Marvel Crossover AU nobody asked for but I’m providing. You don’t need to have seen Black Friday to understand this work)

Words: 5747, Chapters: 1/17, Language: English

Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, The Avengers - Ambiguous Fandom, Black Friday - Team StarKid, StarKid Productions RPF

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: Multi

Characters: Steve Rogers, Wanda Maximoff, Stephen Strange, James "Bucky" Barnes, Tony Stark, Peter Parker, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Sharon Carter (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Peter Quill, Vision (Marvel), Pietro Maximoff, Thanos (Marvel), Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Arnim Zola, Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel), Thor (Marvel), Edwin Jarvis, Sam Wilson (Marvel), James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Nick Fury, Carol Danvers, Peggy Carter, Helmut Zemo, Wade Wilson

Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Wanda Maximoff/Vision, Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov, Wanda Maximoff & Peter Parker, Pietro Maximoff & Wanda Maximoff, Loki & Thor (Marvel)

Additional Tags: Past Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers, Past James “Bucky” Barnes/Helmut Zemo, Blink And You’ll Miss It Tony Stark/Bruce Banner, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Black Friday AU, Steve Rogers Has PTSD, Scary, Mob Mentality, Angst, Mourning, Hurt/Comfort, Cults, Explicit Sexual Content, Explicit Language, mentions of abuse, Tony Stark Does What He Wants, Evil Loki (Marvel), Good versus Evil, Not Beta Read, Parenthood, Falling In Love, highschool sweethearts, Eldrich Horror, Camp Nanowrimo, Minor Character Death, Original Character(s), I Promise It Isn’t As Depressing As It Sounds..., Eventual Smut

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/38olJKL

[starbuckie]

Some Quarantine Lovin’ Epilogue: Always Be Together

Marvel Highschool! AU

Pairing: Bucky x Reader

Warnings: Obscene amounts of fluff, kissing, swearing, kinda a lot of angst

Description: Bucky Barnes is absolutely, no doubt about it, in love with Y/N L/N. He’s loved her since the day he laid eyes on her in the third grade. He loved her when he had his own girlfriend, and when he was barely friends with her for a whole summer. And of course, in his freshman year, they are now stuck together. In a house. During a worldwide quarantine. This should be fun.

Words: 2,943 words

A/N: Well, we’re at the end! Thank you so much to everyone who’s been following this series, as it’s my first fic, and is so special to me. Natasha’s story is also very personal, as I’m still trying to figure out how to tell my parents that I’m bisexual, and they’re kind of closed off to the LGBT+ community and can only hope for what I wrote for Natasha. As always, thank you to my badass beta @transparentfestivaltiger​ and I really hope you’ve enjoyed this journey with me, and that you all continue to stay safe and healthy. Love you <3

When the shelter in place order was lifted from New York, life went by so fast. Jobs slowly started to open up again, people picking up the pieces of their lives that had broken during quarantine. The cure still hadn’t been found yet, but hope still stayed strong within everyone’s heart. It had taken much longer for scientists and doctors to find the curative to the virus, but the day it was announced was one to remember. Happy cheers could be heard everywhere around Brooklyn, tears rushing down everyone’s faces, for those who had previously lost their loved ones to the virus and to new beginnings. The community all came together and they all knew they could be stronger coming out of the worldwide pandemic. 

The rest of high school went by fairly slowly, considering they had spent nearly a whole semester online. Everyone had trouble recovering from the effects of quarantine, but it got easier as they went along. Bucky and Becca both became part of the Rogers family easily, the endless stream of love and happiness radiating them all the time. Mrs. Rogers had been a motherly figure to him all his life, aspects of her reminding him of his own ma, and he was brothers with Steve, which was pretty great in his opinion. 

By the end of high school, Natasha had come out to her parents, which was something both of them tried their hardest to understand. The redhead was shocked when they told her that they should have known and that they were sorry if they had ever made her feel unloved or left out, a reaction she could have only dreamed of. Both of her parents were still trying to understand her and her needs to feel safe and comfortable, and though it wasn’t perfect, Natasha couldn’t be more grateful that her parents were trying. 

Throughout the rest of high school, the “Golden Boy Trio”, as the girls liked to call them, continued playing baseball together, all three of them getting scholarships in their junior year. Eventually, Sam was the only one who accepted his scholarship, as the two other boys had already planned what they wanted for their futures. 

The sweet couple, however, continued to grow together, both as people and a pair, falling deeper and deeper in love with each other every day. Yeah, that was something that was never-ending, no matter the circumstance. Y/N and Bucky went around the school known as the high school sweethearts, the two students who were irrevocably and completely infatuated with each other, and that was obviously fine with them.

By the time the end of their senior year rolled around, Steve was already dead set on joining the U.S. Army, something both of his parents were proud of, though terrified as hell for as well. Wanda and Sam were both headed for sunny California, her wanting to major in psychology and him on a full-ride baseball scholarship to UCLA. Natasha had been offered a chance to study under a fashion designer in France, so she ended up leaving just mere weeks after graduation, bringing lots of tears and promises to talk whenever she could. Bucky and Y/N though, they were staying in their home state of New York, both of them on scholarships to Columbia and NYU. After all, Bucky needed to look after Becca, who was five years old by then but already had an extreme attitude and a tendency to be very, very, clingy. Joseph and Sarah Rogers loved her even more for that.

Bucky and Y/N’s dorms weren’t far from each other, and they were happy that their relationship wasn’t long-distance. Study dates at coffee shops became frequent, and their love for each other only growing. Around their junior year of college, the couple was already having talks about getting married soon after their graduation. Both of them were planning on continuing for their masters at their respective schools, but after nearly six years of their relationship, they both knew that they wanted to be together for the rest of their lives. 

Kids had thoroughly been discussed though. After taking care of Becca since he was thirteen, he wasn’t rushing to have any of his own any time soon, and he made it clear that he wanted to wait until after college. After all, they hadn’t even graduated yet and still had five more years of their education left before Y/N went off to her internship. 

Oh, how quickly the tables had turned.

Y/N had managed to get pregnant at the very beginning of their final year as undergrads. She had freaked out, not knowing if Bucky would leave her, not knowing how the fuck it had happened, and what she would do with the baby. She had finally decided to keep it a secret for a few weeks, at least until she found out how to tell her boyfriend, but after she started to refuse drinks and get sick more often, Bucky grew suspicious. Now, James Barnes was a smart man. He had remembered when he was a teen and his mama was sick when she was pregnant with Becca, so naturally, he questioned his girlfriend. 

“Are you pregnant, Y/N?” Bucky asked her quietly. He didn’t seem mad, but his tone made it certain that he was dead serious. Taking a shaky breath and trying to hold back her tears for her own sake, she nodded her head and grasped his hands.

“Yes, James.” She sighed. “I’m pregnant. And,” Y/N took a deep breath, “I’m going to keep it.” Silence was all that surrounded the room. Normally, silence with the two of them was soft, it was comfortable, like a blanket of comfort and relaxation. But this was high-strung tension, uncertainty mixed with unsaid awkwardness. Bucky’s heavy sigh was all that was heard, and Y/N let go of his hands as he got up and left the room.

Y/N was in shock. Hand covering her mouth, her strangled sobs echoed back to her throughout the dorm. He’d surely tell her parents. Or would he want to even do anything with her? She was still in school, and she had to go to med school the next year. Her parents would never support this. God, what mess had she gotten herself into?

No more than fifteen minutes later, Bucky broke in through the front door, panting and nearly wheezing with the loss of air he had. However, he saw Y/N’s red, puffy eyes with her clearly wet cheeks and saw where he went wrong.

“I thought -hic- you left, Bucky.” He instantly wrapped his arms around his shaking girlfriend, his eyes filling with tears after realizing that he had hurt her. The one girl that meant the most to him in life, that he loved with his entire heart, and he’d been the one to make her cry.

“Doll, no, no, I promise you, I’m not going to leave you.” Bucky lowered the two of them to a laying down position on the couch, legs intertwined and chests pulled together. “I will never, ever leave you, and we’ll find our way through this together.”

Y/N rubbed at her eyes, relief filling her body at his words until she felt a sharp object poking into her hip. “Buck, what’s in your pocket?”

She noticed the sharp intake of breath he took. She noticed that he was fidgeting with the object in his pocket. She noticed that he was breathing rapidly. She noticed him getting on the floor, kneeling with an open box in his hand.

“Y/N, you’re my best friend. You have been for fourteen goddamn years, and you have seen me everywhere. My highs, my lows, when I was drunk off my ass puking in my bathroom and giving a speech at our high school graduation. You of all people know that I am a very organized person, but trust me, this is the one time you will see me unprepared. But, our lives have always been a little unconventional, haven’t they? We had our first kiss in the middle of a global pandemic because I was too scared to tell you that I liked you anytime in the six years before that. Our first time together was when we were eighteen at the Time Hotel in Times Square and we went in our pajamas to McDonald’s right after. And now we’re going to have a baby. I already know you’re going to be an amazing mother, and there’s no better time to do this than now.” Scooting closer to Y/N, he stared into her eyes, still red-rimmed from the crying, but a huge dopey smile plastered on her face. “I asked your parents for your hand last week and they said yes, so we have their blessing. Y/N L/N, the love of my life, will you please make me the happiest man in the world and marry me?”

Y/N nodded enthusiastically and threw herself into his arms. “Of course I’ll marry you, Bucky.” Bucky was crying at this point but he didn’t even try to wipe them away as he slipped the silver band onto her finger. She grasped his face in her cold hands and kissed him feverishly. “I love you, James.”

Smiling like a fool in love, which he was, he placed one last lingering kiss to her lips. “I love you too, Y/N.” Moving his hand down to her stomach, which hadn’t started showing, he rubbed it soothingly. “And I already love this little one too. How long have you known, baby?”

Y/N covered his hand with her own and let out a watery smile. “Three weeks. I didn’t know how to tell you, and I’m sorry I didn’t earlier.”

“No, no, no, baby, you have nothing to feel sorry for. I can understand why you felt scared, and I’m going to be honest, I am too. But we’ve gotten through so much together, what’s a little human compared to us?” Bucky grinned wider at hearing her sniffly giggle and he sat her on his lap on the wood floor of her NYU dorm.

“So who’s going to be the one to tell my mom and dad that you knocked me up and proposed to me?” His eyes widened and she laughed harder at the expression on his face. Sure, he didn’t want to face the wrath of her parents, but if it made Y/N happy, he’d do it with no hesitation at all.

The pregnancy was difficult during school. Especially because they went to different schools, Y/N struggled with being alone so much that she eventually moved back into her house with her parents. Bucky would always show up once a day when he knew that her courses were done, whether he could only stay a few minutes or the night, and talk to the baby. Though he'd previously said that he didn’t want kids until he was done with college, he’d been nothing but absolutely amazing and protective since finding out Y/N was pregnant. A bit too protective though. 

Three weeks before she was due, which was also right before their graduation, the couple started to get into more and more heated arguments. Bucky insisted that she needed to stay home and do absolutely nothing, but Y/N still had more finals she needed to take at school. Her stress from both hormones and classes got to her, and finally, she talked to her teachers, asking to just make the finals all in one day so she could go home earlier and not wait it out. It took some convincing, but they finally agreed and passed all her finals with flying colors, which made her cry with happiness.

Two days before graduation, little Winnie Sarah Barnes was born. After six hours of pain and screaming, Winnie came into the world happy as a clam. Y/N’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, Becca, and Natasha all came to support the happy couple. Wanda, Sam, and Steve couldn’t join this momentous occasion with them, but all three sent letters and called many, many times to see the precious baby.

The next four years of college went by fast with Winnie in the family. Y/N and Bucky finally got married, something everybody was able to attend. Steve had come back from his first tour by then to be the best man and Natasha as the maid of honor. It was very small, simple but elegant, and the new Barnes couple could not be any happier with how one of the happiest nights of their life went. Y/N graduated NYU at twenty-six with a Doctor of Medicine and applied for an internship at NYU Langone Medical Center while Bucky got offered a job as the creative writing teacher at the high school they went to. “Full circle, huh, baby?” He’d jokingly said to her after he got the email. And a full circle it was indeed.

2033

“Buck, we need to bring him. He really, really doesn’t wanna stay with MJ tonight.” Y/N ran around their shared Brooklyn apartment frantically, her crying son in her arms. Bucky and Y/N’s family was in absolute chaos. Bucky had come back from the high school late, Y/N nearly forgot to pick up Winnie from after school care, and their four-month-old son, Steve, did not want to be taken care of by the babysitter, MJ. Of course, their family was normally in disarray, with Y/N’s shifts at the hospital and Bucky’s demanding students, but tonight was their ten-year high school reunion, and between the four in their family, it was a disaster.

“Mommy, I can hold Stevie, you can go get dressed,” Winnie said in a quiet, sweet voice. Placing a delicate kiss on her head, Y/N thanked her and scurried off to get ready. Bucky was pretty prepared, looking handsome as always in his button-down blue shirt and black slacks, short brown hair combed neatly. “You look nice, daddy.” His daughter said while sitting on the couch next to him. He was about to thank her as she started speaking again, “For once.” 

Crinkling his nose playfully and gasping in mock offense, he took Steve from her arms and tickled her sides, breaking her into peals of giggles. “Do I not look nice all the time, sweetheart? I can’t believe my own baby daughter doesn’t think I’m handsome.” Y/N heard the laughter from the hallway as she headed towards the living room. 

“Well, my beautiful, beautiful husband, I think you look very handsome, like you always do.” Y/N quipped from the entrance. Bucky and Winnie turned their heads towards her, and both of their eyes widened. Letting out a low whistle, her husband’s eyes roamed her body in the appealing red dress and black heels. 

“Damn, hot mama,” Bucky readjusted Steve in his left arm and slid the other one to cheekily squeeze Y/N’s ass, “you look gorgeous.” Even after fourteen years of their relationship, Y/N couldn’t take one compliment, and heated up under her husband’s lustful gaze. 

“Mommy! Mommy! I wanna look pretty too, can I wear your heels later?” Laughing, Y/N picked Winnie up and spun her around quickly before pulling her into a crushing hug. “Ugh, mama, you’re going to break my spine.” 

Both Bucky and Y/N shared confused glances at their daughter’s sudden sass. “Where did you learn to get an attitude like that, missy?” Bucky asked.

“Auntie Becca, she always sasses the boys at her school, she says. She always tells me to ‘screw them over and have some fun with my ladies’.” Y/N nearly wheezed with how hard she was laughing, knowing of fifteen-year-old Becca’s sass. Bucky on the other hand was absolutely appalled that his younger sister was teaching his children these things. 

“Of course your Auntie Becca sasses the boys, she can’t keep her damn mouth shut to save her own life.” Bucky grumbled, making Y/N peck his cheek and grab his hand. 

“I called my mom, she says she and my dad can take the kids tonight, thank God.” Swatting his butt, she scooped Winnie up in her arms and started to make her way to the door. “You two are going to stay with Grandma and Grandpa tonight, does that sound good?” The little girl in her arms nodded excitedly, ready to be spoiled by her grandparents. 

After Bucky and Y/N dropped their kids off at her parent’s house, they rode to their old high school in comfortable silence, just the radio playing Bucky’s old Spotify playlists. 

“We’re going back to the place where we started.” Bucky said all of a sudden. Y/N shifted  in her seat to look at his with a raised eyebrow. 

“We met in third grade, baby, do you not remember that?”

Sighing, he took her hand in his and rubbed small circles on the back of her palm. “Well, I mean where we started. Like in a relationship, when we were sent home for quarantine, when I kissed you in your ma’s kitchen, and I took you on a date to Prospect Park.” Looking into each other’s eyes, the couple smiled. “We’ve come a long way since then, haven’t we?”

Leaning over to kiss him, short and sweet, she replied, “Yeah, yeah we have.”

Riding the rest of the way in their blissful bubble of happiness, the couple reminisced about their freshman year of high school, all where their quarantine love had started. 

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