#stucky fic
I just wanna be by your side (if these wings could fly) for the rest of our lives. Magical Realism! Below are my Top 5 Favorite stories:
“Sunshine’s Gifts” (E, 52k) by Quarra,wearing_tearing
“Who are you?” Steve asks, eyes bright with anger and cheeks flushed with heat.
Bucky laughs.
His warrior, his Steve, is as brave and as incredible as Bucky thought him to be.
“Is this how you offer me thanks for saving your life?” Bucky grins, delight making him giddy and playful. “Pinning me to the ground without even a proper courtship first?”
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Or: Bucky is Horny. Steve likes his big rack.
+ Alt Avengers. Fae Bucky leads the Wild Hunt and gets a crush on Captain America. Courting, flying horses, space dogs, and everyone is happy
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“The Leshy’s Prey” (E, 5k) by DeamonSlayer576,exclamation
Steve is just a small woodland fairy, but when he hears that the Leshy, a powerful forest spirit, has stolen a child, he can’t let this injustice stand. He takes it upon himself to confront the Leshy. The confrontation… doesn’t go as planned.
When the confrontation goes in a more sexual direction than Steve had intended, he’s not certain he minds, and maybe the Leshy isn’t as bad as he’d first thought.
+ Fantasy AU. Fairy Steve helps the local village find lost items, and gets more than he bargained for when he looks for a lost child.
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“Runaways” (T, 4k) by crinklefries
“Do you believe in magic?” Bucky asks, sitting back on his haunches.
Bucky’s too old to believe in that kind of thing. He graduates in a year with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the Columbia University. He believes in what he can see, in what he can touch and feel.
He can’t believe in magic.
But.
+ Modern AU. Bucky finds interesting trinkets all around New York and falls in love with Steve along the way
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“Going Through” (G, 2k) by Taste_is_Sweet
Bucky wasn’t quite sure what to do with the extremely angry fairy he rescued from the group of Make Humanity Great Again! assholes who’d been trying to suffocate him in a jar.
+ Fantasy AU. Steve gets saved, nursed back to heath, and gets a crush.
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“Under the Hawthorn Tree” (E, 57k) by odetteandodile
There is a faerie tale of sorts, though it’s one known only by the Fair Folk themselves and a few others who know that they can’t tell it.
It goes like this.
A young man wanders into the woods one night, and wanders until he isn’t a young man anymore—but something else.
Seventy years later, another man follows him. Inside of a magic ring, they meet.
(or, Bucky is a faerie—amongst other things—and Steve Rogers, as always, is helpless but to love him from the start)
+ Modern AU. Environmental Consultant Steve gets sent to check out a forest before it gets bulldozed. He finds a mushroom circle, Bucky, and the fae court.
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“Thyme and Tide” (T, 21k) by leveragehunters (Monkeygreen),seleneheart
Bucky might be only a one-armed ex-mercenary who’d washed up, half-drowned, on the shores of Sciatha with nothing and nowhere—never mind how hard Captain Rogers, head of Sciatha’s Royal Guard, was trying to change that—but even he knew better than to get involved with the fae.
Unfortunately, that wisdom had somehow bypassed Sciatha’s ancient kings…and fae bargains always came due.
+ Fantasy AU. The kingdom has a deal with the fae, and they’ve taken Steve. Bucky holds faith that Steve will return.
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+ More fic recs here
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
I’ll put a spell on you, you’ll fall asleep. I’ll be the first thing you see and you’ll realize that you love me. Witch-Specific fics! Below are my Top 5 Favorite stories:
“If You Ever Did Believe” (M, 33k) by wearing_tearing
Bucky Barnes will never die of a broken heart. The spell he cast at thirteen, in between white petals and whispered words of magic, makes sure of that.
But then Bucky murders someone, conspires with his sister to hide the body, and meets Steve Rogers.
+ Modern AU. A Practical Magic AU. Steve investigates a small town when Rumlow goes missing, falls in love with the main suspect, and participates in an exorcism
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“60 Beans and a Cup of Magic” (T, 28k) by crinklefries
In a little corner of Brooklyn, Bucky Barnes is a baker, Steve Rogers is a witch, and over the course of a year, they bake some goods, drink a lot of coffee, and discover, between them, a little magic.
or;
steve rogers–once a disaster bi always a disaster bi; and now a disaster bi with magic
+ Modern AU. A hilarious and adorable fic where Bucky doesn’t realize Steve is magic and falls in love with him. Featuring an incredible amount of desserts and Steve’s sweet tooth
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“A Soft Place To Land” (E, 10k) by anoneknewmoose,Livelylute,mwestbelle
Plant witch Steve spends his days with his tight-knit coven, gardening and loving on plants of all kinds. Bucky has a gloved hand and dark energy he can’t quite hide. This is the low-fi magical realism story of their love.
+ Magic AU. Bucky breaks away from his coven and moves into Steve’s apartment building. He wants to do good and be better, and Steve loves and accepts him
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“Northern Sky” (M, 50k) by littleblackfox,WarlockInTraining
Bucky casts around the field, the light rapidly fading as the storm clouds grow denser, swallowing up the weak winter sun. The spirits are here, he can feel them, their amorphous thoughts, panicked and trembling. They can feel his own fear, rising in the back of his throat, fuelling their own terror.
Bucky reaches for the chain around his neck, fumbling for his amulets. His fingers close around the two pieces of silver, fine and bright as the scars on his arm.
Please. Please keep me safe.
+ Fantasy AU. Bucky is the village witch with an affinity for spirits, and Steve is an artist that can’t stay away. Mutual pining, a lot of rain, and Studio Ghibli feels
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“Something So Familiar” (G, 6k) by leveragehunters (Monkeygreen)
When Bucky was seven the Training Masters told him he had no magic, no potential, that he’d never be a witch. It wasn’t a surprise. Witches came from certain families and a certain class, just like magic was sterile and ordered and familiars were obedient and servile. That was simply the way the world worked.
Bucky grew up and got on with living his mundane life, knowing he was one hundred percent magic free. Which meant it came as something of a shock when the familiar appeared in his living room, claiming Bucky was his witch. It meant the Masters had been wrong. It meant Bucky had magic.
It meant, just maybe, that wasn’t the way the world had to work after all.
+ Fantasy AU. Witch Bucky finds out he has magic, gets trained by his familiar, and starts a quiet revolution
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Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can! The Greatest Generation and Gen Z get along better than you think. Below are my Top 5 Favorite stories:
“Astronomy In Reverse” (T, 184k) by pansley
A year after the Winter Soldier failed his mission in DC, Bucky Barnes is doing his best to stay under the radar from both Hydra and Steve Rogers. His hope for a peaceful day-to-day life in limbo goes awry, however, when he meets Queens’ newest hero; a pure-hearted kid with a death wish and a ridiculous pair of red and blue pajamas.
The last thing Steve expects when he finally tracks Bucky down is that, not only has the man been living in Queens all this time, right under his nose, but also that, in the two years since they last saw each other, Bucky somehow acquired a kid.
Alternatively: How Peter Parker effectively fucks over Bucky Barnes, and also totally saves him.
+ Post WS. Found family.Bucky changes his lifestyle to be the best dad Peter Parker could ask for.
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“got guns in my head (and they won’t go)” (G, 9k) by bysine
By comparison, being roommates with James Buchanan Barnes, formerly the Winter Soldier, has been a vast improvement. Notwithstanding the part where people openly take pictures of Barnes (and consequently Peter) on campus. Or random people poking Peter in the back during lectures to hiss, are you really the Winter Soldier’s roommate at him. Or remnant HYDRA operatives kidnapping Peter in order to lure the Winter Soldier out (which, really, is too many levels of stupid for Peter to handle).
“You know you’re not supposed to call him the Winter Soldier any more, right?” Peter says, while they handcuff him to a pipe. A pipe. “Also this whole thing is kind of messing up my schedule. My two overdue papers won’t exactly write themselves.”
+ Alt endgame/everyone lives. Bucky and Peter are now college roommates. Peter fights crime, writes essays, and tries to keep trauma from messing with his powers.
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“Make It Till You Fake It” (E, 4k) by AggressiveWhenStartled
“Ned,” Peter said, like a drowning man sighting land. “Ned. Captain America and the Winter Soldier are fake dating right now and it is the most painfully awkward and obvious thing I have ever seen, all of us want to die, Ned.”
+ Post WS. The Avengers try to catch Steve and Bucky lying about dating, and Ned is a Stucky enthusiast
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“The Five Times Peter Got Help With Schoolwork and The One Time It Was Done For Him” (G, 19k) by DJ_unicornsrgr8
Peter needs more sleep. And time. But he definitely doesn’t need help, or at least that’s what he tells himself.
Aka Peter isn’t a good self-advocate.
Aka the title is pretty self-explanatory.
+ Post WS. It’s hard to be in school and fight crime at the same time. The Avengers love Peter and make sure he’s fed, rested, and cared for.
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“The Trials and Tribulations of the Watermelon Werewolf” (E, 147k) by BlueSimplicity
It’s not easy being a werewolf, but Steve Rogers knows he’s lucky. Lehigh’s doing well under his care, the humans and werewolves thriving. He doesn’t have a mate, but a bonding like that is rare, and with all the members of his Pack already mated, he knows it’s not going to happen for him.
Until the day it does, the realization literally knocking him on his ass.
That’s fine; he can deal. He’s an alpha after all, and while there are rules to courting when one’s mate is human, he knows he can prove his worth. Except no one told him how hard it would be. And Steve is really bad at this. Really, REALLY bad.
After a couple of rough years, Bucky Barnes is back on his feet and ready to start a new phase of his life. He’s been given a second chance and while Lehigh might not be as big as NYC, he loves his apartment, chonk of a cat, new job and crazy neighbors.
Except things have started to get weird. Maybe it’s because of all the werewolves in town, although he’s never had a problem before. Yet he can’t help but notice things have changed, with people staring at him wherever he goes, asking him strange questions, and stealing his lunch.
And it all started when a watermelon was left on his doorstep.
+ Fantasy AU. Werewolf Steve finds his mate when human Bucky moves into town. Idiots in love, featuring found family/pack and adorable Peter Parker
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*More Peter Parker stories in the Road Trips (x2 fics), Weddings, and Teachers AUlists
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\ *✝︎ lay me in the tall-grown grass in a shallow grave | being touch starved and lonely makes you dumb… steve and bucky too {5k request}
\ * sunbeams & rhythms | the boys have a surprise for you at your darkest time of need {challenge entry}
\ * if three’s a crowd, then what does that make four | you, steve, and bucky are very happy with your current arrangement… until you find out something that might change the dynamic {challenge entry}
\ * operation decoration | you expected to come home to a decorated house. what you actually came home to was two cranky men and a mess {challenge entry}
\ * after hours | bucky and steve pay you a visit at work {challenge entry}
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\ * unwanted | steve tries to make up after a bad fight
\ * please | it started with a simple question
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\just a little rush babe (featuring okoye) | steve returns to wakanda to check on bucky’s recovery progress
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Title:Death and the PhD
Pairings/Characters:Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers; Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Thanatos
Rating:Teen and Up
Wordcount:3282
Prompt #: H43
Warnings:No archive warnings apply; mentions of death and Thanatos, the Greek god of death
Summary:PhD student Bucky Barnes loves his research on Thanatos, the Greek god of non-violent death. So wrapped up in his studies that he doesn’t realize someone’s stalking him and his roommate Steve who’s come to mean more to Bucky than only someone who resides in his apartment, he’s forced to find the courage to resist when he comes face-to-face with his stalker.
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