words:@corarochester | art: @artgroves
Rating: E
Fandoms:Captain America, MCU
Warnings: Underage (Bucky is 17 and Steve is 27 when they meet)
Wordcount:71,800+
Relationships: Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers
Tags: Alternate Universe - No Powers, Post WWII, Age Difference, Coming of Age, Period-Typical Homophobia, Internalized Homophobia, Realistic depictions of war, Queer Bars, Pearl Harbor - Freeform, The Pacific Theatre, WWII AU, First Time, glorious self-acceptance in the era leading up to the American queer rights movement, Gay Steve Rogers, Bisexual Bucky Barnes, POV Steve Rogers 2nd Person, POV Bucky Barnes 3rd Person
Summary:“Do you want to go somewhere more… private?”
The blond man, after a long silence, had agreed. “My room is just up the block,” he said, jerking his head at the bar’s door.
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In 1937, Steve Rogers joins the army, and by 1945, he’s back in Brooklyn, dishonorable discharge in hand and nothing to show for years in the Pacific.
In 1947, a seventeen year old Bucky Barnes meets Steve Rogers in a Brooklyn gay bar, and Steve Rogers finally comes home.
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