#steebadore
I tried to go and leave you behind, what did I find? I took a trip on a train and I thought about you. If these two break up, they’ll get back together eventually. Below are my Top 5 Favorite stories:
“Come Home to Roost” (M, 4k) by Nejinee
Seeing your ex at a party is bound to be awkward. Seeing your ex, whom you’re still deeply, desperately in love with, at a party, is a whole other level of awkward.
+ Modern AU. Two years after they break up, Bucky gets high and waxes rhapsodic about Steve’s dick to anyone that’ll listen.
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“Runaways” (T, 4k) by crinklefries
He is inconsolably, terribly, horribly hung up over his ex.
It doesn’t help that his ex is his co-worker.
It doesn’t help that his ex is Captain Fucking America.
+ Shrunkyclunks. Shield Agent Bucky runs into his exes at a midnight grocery run. Hilarious, with an assist from the bodega man
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“Keep it together” (T, 4k) by Nejinee
“Is this the Bucky who stomped all over your precious star-spangled heart and left it for dead by the side of the highway?”
What do you do when your (clearly traitorous) friend invites your ex to dinner? You fake it, that’s what. You pretend to totally have your shit together. You pretend to not stare, to not notice how your ex hasn’t gotten decrepit and gross with age. No, you instead focus on how mature and cool you are now without them. You also realize you haven’t gotten over them, not even a little and that seeing Bucky Barnes again is probably the sickest joke the universe has ever played on you. Your life, Steve Rogers, is a shitshow.
+ Modern AU. Another one by Nejinee!! A double date with Sam and Nat goes off track. Protective friends, fancy food, alley sex, and getting back together.
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“For the Summer” (E, 44k) by CoraRochester,fadefilter,steebadore
Fifteen years ago, Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes had been two teenagers in love, spending sweltering summers in Eagle Inlet, Steve’s sleepy lakeside hometown way up in the Adirondacks. Sure, Bucky’s rich family only came up in summertime, but they were off to college soon and they’d be together forever, right?
Not quite.
These days, Bucky’s back in town for the summer and it turns out, some hurts—and firsts—are hard to get over.
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There was something venomous and fiery chasing itself through Steve’s veins, choking the life out of his common sense. He put a hand on Bucky’s waist, small and tight, shifting with Bucky’s quick breathing and he squeezed, trying to ground himself. It didn’t work.
There was hardly any space left between them. Bucky’s hair brushed the tip of his nose. It was citrus and sweat and like a gut punch of memory. “We could see if I’m any better now,” Steve said. “I’ve had a little more practice since then.”
+ Modern AU. Bucky is on track to take over the family business when he runs into his ex from 15 years ago. Steve and Bucky still yearn for each other and want to make it work this time around.
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“Exes and Doughs” (T, 11k) by maximoffs
Captain America could have decided to walk into any donut shop on that Tuesday afternoon, but he had to walk into Bucky’s.
“Your life isn’t Casablanca,” Bucky said to himself, out loud, counting out the drawer in the back.
OR (to the tune of Taylor Swift’s "You Belong With Me”): He’s a donut-maker and Steve’s on the Avengers ♬
OR: Bucky Barnes, ex-assassin-turned-donut-chef, gets a visit from his ex-boyfriend-turned-protector-of-the-People, Captain America.
+ Canon divergence. Childhood lovers before the war, but Shield took Steve and the CIA took Bucky and used them in and out of cryo. Steve still loves him even after they went their separate ways.
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+ More Exes to Lovers in the High School Reunions,Apocalypse, Fake Dating, and Doctorslists
