MOD’S READS: NOVEMBER 2017
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(I’ve been cleaning out my marked for later list, so not as much Stucky this month)
The Cyborg Arm Job by copperbadge
The Leverage crew run into a new friend, find some buried treasure, and fight some Nazis. It's a pretty good day.
From Tralfamadore, With Love by newsbypostcard
In 2018, Steve, Sam, and Bucky embark on a mission to explore a Hydra-owned warehouse when a kid with mutant powers sends Steve 18 years into the future. After figuring out where (and when) he is, Steve tracks Bucky down in 2036 to find he's become a successful business owner and an impassioned advocate for mutant rights. Steve's just as in love with Bucky as he was when he left, but for Bucky it's been a long 18 years. It's hard to accept when Bucky keeps him at arm's length... but Steve's never met a challenge that he didn't take.
As he gets used to life in 2036 and the flaws in Bucky's idyllic life expose themselves, Steve also has to manage a suspiciously ubiquitous security force, a Brotherhood of Mutants, and old competing loyalties among his aged friends. There's a Bucky in 2018 waiting for him to come home, but if he does that, it means leaving this Bucky behind for a third, unforgivable time. How can he choose?
What's Bucky not saying?
How can he face losing everything -- again?
- Part 11 of 4 Minute Window
Bucky Barnes restores antiques for a living. Steve Rogers saves the world. Bucky has no reason to believe their paths will ever cross, right up until they do.
Or: the Notting Hill AU.
Project Phoenix by TheAvalonian
“They told me you were enemies,” the girl said blankly. “They told me I had been forged in hatred.”
Neither Bucky nor Steve said anything for a long time. The girl stayed with her hand pressed to the glass, waiting. This time, the question was there, even if she hadn't asked it outright.
Bucky cleared his throat, tearing his eyes away from Steve's and pushing down on the handle. “Well, they lied,” he said gruffly, and strode out the door without looking back.
Post-TWS, Steve and Bucky's lives are just starting to resemble some kind of normal when a young Hydra agent shows up in the lobby of the Avengers' Tower, claiming to be their daughter.
Mighty like Love, Mighty like Sorrow by Regann
After freeing himself from the Russians' mind control, Bucky is left at loose ends, drifting through the decades. Still, he's in no hurry to take up Nick Fury's offer to once again fight the good fight -- especially not when Fury has the nerve to put some imposter in his best friend's old suit and send him out to fight against Chitauri.
The Long Road Begins at Home by owlet (I can’t believe this is over now T___T)
Oh sure, reunion results in happiness, kittens, and rainbows, because that's definitely how life goes when you've just spent 70 years as a tool of villainy. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
Living on the corner of 6th avenue in Brooklyn is not what Adam Jackson expected once he returned home from the war.
And he certainly didn't expect to become friends with a twitchy veteran named James who carries two pistols and can't seem to remember shit.
[The story wherein Bucky finds a friend in a homeless veteran and eventually finds himself again.]
Never go to bed alone when you have a library card by relenafanel
Tall, blond hottie (in a sweater) was back, staring at the wall of new and popular titles with a thoughtful expression on his face. He came in every Tuesday night like clockwork, read through the summaries on the back of a handful of books with his profile turned just enough towards the front entrance that Bucky could see the slope of his nose and take joy in watching those arm muscles minutely flex as he shifted the book in his grasp.
- OR -
Steve is an attractive library patron who is far too competent to ever ask librarian!Bucky questions. Bucky likes that in a man.
We're Not Broken, Just Bent (And We Can Learn to Love Again) by allofthefandoms
“I know you’re trying to help,” Steve says gently. “But I don’t think the Veterans’ Association is really equipped to deal with PTSD from being frozen for 70 years and having to fight your brainwashed best friend.”
“Well, when you put it like that,” Sam replies dryly, feeling foolish.
“Look, you’re just trying your best and I really appreciate it, but…but talking about it isn’t what I need. It’s itching under my skin, making me restless. I need to get out, but I have no idea where to start.”
“Road trip,” Sam says, suddenly inspired. “The great American tradition. Drive across the US in a car that breaks down too much, see the sights, bemoan flat expanses and bad diner food. See what you’ve spent your whole life fighting for.”
“A road trip? Really? That’s your grand solution?”
“Says the man who has always wanted to see the Grand Canyon.”
“Got me there,” Steve says, and this time the smile reaches his eyes.
Mod Julia
In which Steve comes home and finds that Bucky has retreated into a massive pillow fort.
i'd like to tell you something (but i have to think of something first) by obsessivereader
Attention focused solely on the book, he moves forward, one slow, pretend-casual step at a time—he’s seen enough movies to know that moving fast will draw people’s attention.
Five feet. Four feet. Almost there.
He’s a bare three feet away when Rogers fucking materializes out of thin air, cuts right in front of him, and heads straight for the book.
“Hey,” Bucky whispers furiously, “I want that book!”
The one where Bucky and Steve get married by bitsandbobsandstuff
No one tells Bucky Barnes how to plan his wedding. And that includes Steve.
Show Me Your Teeth by leveragehunters (Monkeygreen)
Other things that aren't supposed to happen: Steve Rogers remembering who you are even after you've fogged his mind so he forgets. But Bucky should have known from the moment he met Steve that he wouldn’t be able to make Steve do anything he didn't want to—including making Steve forget him.
Now Bucky just had to figure out how Steve had remembered him...and why he was so happy about it.
When they pull up in Newark, Buff Jeff wakes up with a jolt and Bucky is knee-deep in C++ and desperately in need of breakfast. Buff Jeff turns to look at him, a little bewildered, and Bucky looks back. It’s starting to get light outside, and Bucky is suddenly very aware of his crazy insomnia eyes and haphazard ponytail.
“Um,” Buff Jeff says. He’s almost adorable with his sleepy eyes and awkward expression. “Oh. You’re-- um. Real.”
Five times Steve Rogers doesn’t need a guard dog (and one time...)
Small Victories by portraitofemmy
“Come to bed.”
Bucky blinks up at Steve, the grey eyes behind his glasses still squinted from staring at the laptop screen in front of him.
in a cabin in the woods by belovedmuerto
Steve finds Bucky in a cabin in the woods, two years later.
Newton's Law Of Naps by rohkeutta
Within the first hour Steve backs an art book, a short animated film, an eco-friendly electric toothbrush, and an archeological excavation in Oklahoma.
Not that he actually wants an eco-friendly electric toothbrush or a bicycle rack that’s shaped like a moose head, but supporting small businesses is fun, and he loves the creativity Kickstarter is bursting with.
He’s got too much money just lying around, anyway.
