#char:BAMF!steve

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Bucky knew that Steve was…different.

None of that mattered, though. Steve was his best friend. He couldn’t imagine life without him. In a year or so, Steve would find a nice girl and settle down, and all of this would be forgotten. Steve wasn’t a fairy. It’d just been so long since he’d had a date - these damn girls in New York don’t recognize a good thing when it’s staring them in the face - that he’d given up hope of finding a girl. Bucky would fix that.

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Would live to recommend From Grit to Pearl by BlueSimplicity. I really love the platonic interactions between rebecca and bucky which is something i rarely see as the focus. Stucky is honestly pretty sweet too

(mentions of child abuse, torture, character death)

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Hello, just wanted everyone to now that the masterpiece that is Baghdad Waltz has just been completed. One hell of a beautiful ride with stunning characterization (don’t read last chapter in public)

Baghdad Waltz* by Dreadnought (complete | 680,730 | E) *rape/noncon, graphic violence, /others, wartime violence involving children, child death, alcohol&drug abuse, addiction, suicide/suicidal ideation, child abuse

Lieutenant Steve Rogers has done all the right things. Graduated West Point at the top of his class. Earned a coveted spot as an infantry officer. Found the woman of his dreams. Everything is going exactly as planned. That is, until he accepts a platoon leader position for a unit deploying to Iraq, where he’s reunited with the ex-boyfriend he’d rather forget but never could.

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Sergeant First Class Barnes thinks he knows war. He lives in a wild cycle of military training, deployments, sex, drinking, and pining for his former best friend and ex-boyfriend, Steve Rogers. But when Lieutenant Rogers is assigned as his platoon leader during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Sergeant Barnes realizes that he doesn't know the first thing about what it means to truly fight for something.

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An Iraq War love story in three movements.

Or:

The story of two men who go to war and don’t quite come back home.

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For a lovely fluffy but with a nice dude of angst shrinkyclinks please check out my heart tells me you are lonely, too by FanGirling. So many hugs for winter soldier Bucky (cw for suicidal thoughts, attempted rape/noncon, nonconsensual drug use)