“I can stand,” Barnes said, but he was filthy and pale and weak. “I’m
all right, I—” and she knew right away from the casual way Rogers
pulled Barnes against him, from the completely unselfconscious way that
Barnes clung to him as he tried to get his feet under him, forehead
pressed against Rogers’s shoulder like a drunk, that they’d been lovers
in a spit-swapping, aggressively physical way. This was no airy,
spiritual love; military poetry. These were bodies that knew each other. (read)
by dirtybinary (though it’s mostly Steve with him)
as always, mind the warnings in each fic. Hope it helps!
EDIT: Forgot to add Color by Numbers by vitoliel. It fits, though it’s Bucky who does all the work at realizing he’s a person and Steve and co. who decidedly fail to treat him as one (for 2 chapters, at least), fair warning.
When Steve meets TJ Hammond, the Vice President’s son, TJ isn’t in a
good place. Perhaps it’s that which draws Steve to him – subconsciously
he recognizes something of himself in TJ, and maybe the same is true for
TJ. It’s an unlikely friendship they strike up, but it deepens and
eventually expands into something else.
TJ Hammond didn’t expect to fall in love with Steve
Rogers. He didn’t expect to want a long-standing relationship with the
superhero. He didn’t expect to ever be told he was the carbon copy of
Steve’s dead past lover, Bucky Barnes. He also didn’t expect the utter
heartbreak he felt when Steve said Bucky Barnes was alive…and that he
needed to find him.
With Bucky in the picture, how is TJ supposed
to compete against Steve’s real lover, when all TJ had was just Barnes’
face to begin with?
HYDRA goes too far and injures the Winter Soldier beyond repair. They
turn to a dangerous new procedure to reverse the ageing process and,
hopefully, the harm they have done to their greatest weapon. Fast
forward thirty years to TJ Hammond, a late night kidnapping, and a blond
man who feels like home coming to his rescue.
With Hydra still trying to kill the dangerous people on their list,
Steve ends up protecting the Hammond family. But with some help from
Bucky and the rest of the Avengers, plus a lot of confrontations with a
very opinionated family, he also finds that right partner.
Steve Rogers is a warrior without a war, a soldier without a
mission, and a man without a plan. Bucky doesn’t need his help, the
other Avengers are busy with their own lives, and not even a move back
to Brooklyn has given Steve a purpose or any idea on what to do with his
life.
But when he meets TJ Hammond at a charity event, he thinks
maybe he’s at least found a new friend. That he’s found someone who
understands a little of what it’s like to rebuild one’s life from the
ground up. Someone who could help him rediscover just who exactly Steve
Rogers is.
And maybe – just maybe – they discover a deeper connection along the way.
(see her 2015 index for more ficlets in the Second Time Around universe)
Three weeks after his ‘defrosting,’ Steve Rogers is
lost and depressed, wandering the street of New York, haunted by his
memories. Things only get more painful for him when he sees Bucky
walking up the street. Except. It’s not Bucky.
Instead he meets TJ Hammond, son of a former President and the
current Secretary of State, a man troubled by past mistakes, current
addictions, and his family’s political ambitions.
Together they tackle their own demons and try to make their lives a
little better, all the while forming a friendship that will heal them
both. And maybe become a little something more.
“You probably don’t remember me,” the guy said with an apologetic smile, “but my name is–”
“Stevie,”
TJ said as it dawned on him. It literally felt like the sun coming up,
like waking up out of a long sleep, and TJ surged to his feet without
thinking. “Oh my God, Stevie, I missed you so much.”
TJ has been with Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes for
quite some time, but things might change when it’s put to the ultimate
test; Elaine Barrish’s campaign trail.
Or the one where Bucky learns to bond with people, Steve hates the right wing, and TJ is just happy to cuddle his boys.
Or how T. J. Hammond went looking for himself – and kept running into Steve Rogers’ broad chest along the way.
If
this is a love story, it was inadvertent. Also, ridiculously
unsuccessful supervillains, dear old dead friends, Secret Service, TJ’s
grandmother being inappropriate, and a lone match-making deer.
Steve and Bucky have decided to come out publicly. Tony
hooks them up with someone he considers an expert in that area –
trouble maker and all around lost soul, TJ Hammond.
HYDRA gets a hold on important American security information and now
they’re using information about cabinet members’ families to get what
they want. Special forces from SHEILD are called into help. The
Hammonds, America’s favorite family, are forced to wait it out in the
White House under supervision of security and SHEILD agents.
TJ Hammond, America’s bad boy, is under supervision of the one and only Steve Rogers and things go better than planned.
Mild-mannered reporter by day, superhero by… other parts of the day.
The one where Captain America has a day job, Bucky spends most of his time with superheroes and supervillains, and nothing is quite as normal as it seems.
Steve knows that the world looks at him as 6’2" of muscle and more muscle, blue eyes, golden locks and apple pie smile.He doesn’t necessarily like it, but he’s used to it. He’s not really going to go out of his way to correct the usual between the lines straight-as-a-die assumption that goes with it. The physical description is, he knows, correct, it’s something he has worked hard on. But in reality he’s 6’2" of giant-gay-marshmallow-puff, all fluff and feels. And yes, he knows he needs to spend less time on the internet, especially tumblr
In which Steve is the proud owner of Frost, a semi famous local bakery in DC and despite the overwhelming insistence that it’s about time he start dating, Steve swears up and down he isn’t ready for that. Or as of recently, just doesn’t have the time because of Mr. Barnes – the highly demanding wedding planner on the phone who keeps asking for nearly impossible deliveries and maybeSteve would like to personally strangle him. Maybe.
In which there are tuxedoes, vodka martinis (shaken, not stirred), fakeout makeouts, massive property damage, a shark pit, and Steve has an Ursula Andress moment. But mostly, in true James Bond fashion, villains are seduced to the side of good.
Bucky Barnes has always lived at the edge of Steve’s map. From grade school to church to this foul-smelling dock job, where Bucky heaves crates around and Steve counts figures in the dark, cool office, they’ve always been close enough to be aware of each other but too far to strike up any real friendship.
They’ve lived in the same neighborhood among the same stock of beaten-down Irish immigrants their whole lives, and they’ve had three proper conversations.
Steve Rogers has always known that the supersoldier serum was a gift, and he’s never been afraid to do what’s right.
When Uncle Sam asks him to unite the two sides of the Cold War by taking part in a symbolic union with a fabled Russian assassin, Captain America doesn’t hesitate to do his duty.
Little does he know how thoroughly his world is going to be turned upside down.
While on a mission storming a HYDRA facility, James Buchanan Barnes touches one of the many strange alien devices collected by the Red Skull. He does this, in fact, twice— in the past, and in the future.
Next thing he knows, Bucky Barnes is opening his eyes in the 21st century, which is full of great gadgets and coffee, and at least includes his old pal Steve. (And, inexplicably, a different Stark.) Meanwhile, the Winter Soldier finds himself in the middle of WorldWar Two, helping Captain America hunt down HYDRA (which is at least familiar), pretending to be Bucky Barnes (which is not), and figuring out the very noisy group of soldiers who call themselves the Howling Commandos.
Round up of the best fics I’ve read this month, divided into two categories: Canon and AU. Favorites are marked with a ♥. ↳ for more detailed fic recs, visit wintershield recs // monthly recs tag.
“Where am I? Where is this?” and he was in Brooklyn, he was on a beach, the train was shaking around him. He was in the plane, ice splintering up onto the windshield. He was in a tank, tubes trailing from his face, from his groin. Christ, he was cold. There was still ice on his fingers. He was in the Grand Canyon. He was in Times Square. This couldn’t be Times Square. Where the hell was this? “Tell me! Where am I, who are you, where’s—” —Bucky?
There are many, many instances in Bucky’s life where he has to swoop in and protect Steve. It happens a lot, since the kid can never keep his mouth shut or his fists to himself- though Bucky is always happy to step in and help him finish people off. It’s what he does.
There is one time, however, where he does not have to step in, and he never forgets it, not for the rest of his life.
“He’s had it tough,” Steve forced himself to say. “Stuff like that changes you. I think – I think for him I’m just a bad memory now.” It was gutting to say out loud. It was Wednesday and Steve was miserable.
Natasha studied Steve for a moment, the way she studied a tactical mission. Finally she shook her head. “That sucks.”
It was Wednesday and Steve was blindsided by how much he appreciated Natasha Romanoff’s friendship.
I’ll be updating this list as I make my way through my to-read list (which is extensive) and adding fics that I think are absolute must reads. They are in no particular order.
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