MOD’S READS: APRIL 2018

Here’s the list of everything the Mods have read this past month!

Mod Iamnmbr3

To Never Have Loved At All* by hitlikehammers (complete | 2,839 | T ) *post IW fix-t fic

Steve will say they had work to do, and a universe to put to rights. They had people to find and hearts to unbreak. They had a mission. There was no time for any of them to mourn.
Steve, as it turns out, says a lot of things that are mostly bullshit.

introducing mister and mister united states by moonythejedi394 (complete | 18,440 | T )

“HE’S BEAUTY HE’S GRACE HE’S MISTER UNITED STATES!” “Bucky, what the [bleeped]…?”
“Following his pardon by the President of the United States, Sergeant James Buchanan Barnes, former Nazi prisoner of war and brainwashed Hydra agent, took to an unusual method of adapting to the modern world: Twitter. His Twitter handle was tweeted out by Tony Stark, and in the following two days, he gained over ten million followers. Barnes posted only four tweets as well as sharing and retweeting several Vines, but two of his tweets were videos of the famed Steven Rogers, also known as Captain America. The latest of these featured Barnes entering Captain Roger’s bedroom and shouting the line: “He’s beauty, he’s grace, he’s mister United States”, just to cause Captain Rogers to fall out of bed before confusedly saying, “Bucky, what the [bleeped]?” The rest of the world seems to agree with Captain Rogers; Barnes, what the hell?”

Your Kind of Idiot by dirtybinary (complete | 4,545 | T )

In which Bucky doesn't fall from the train, Steve has company when he wakes up in the twenty-first century, and neither of them knows how to talk about their feelings unless they're about to die.

things learnt upon reunion by dirtybinary (complete | 2,615 | T )

It is their first day on the run, and their first night spent together in seventy years: part mission, part honeymoon.
Bit by bit, Steve gets the hang of Bucky again.
Or: the CA:CW trailer gave me feelings and then this happened.

What We Asked For From Each Other* by Speranza (complete | 10,701 | E ) *includes one instance of Steve/Tony but is very clearly stucky endgame

"I don't like pain," he told Banner. "Or assassins. Or boyfriends, actually."

despite the threatening sky and shuddering earth (they remained) bypraximeter (Zimario) (complete | 71,532 | E )

“They really didn’t want the mask to come off.” Hill thumbed through the scans, and pulled out a film that she then handed over to Sam, face mostly expressionless but for the flat line of her pursed lips.
Sam accepted the film and held it up to the light, angling so both he and Steve could see it, squinting at the outline of the Winter Soldier’s skull, and the blips of unnatural white that showed up, God, in his brain, not to mention about half his teeth, plus the mask, with its thin protrusions—
“Those are pins,” Steve realized. He looked over at Hill. “The mask—it’s nailed to his face.”
Hill’s face was as unmoved as ever. “Like I said. They really didn’t want it coming off.”

Always 1895 by DarkCaustic (complete | 2,004 | T )

After that, he finds, well.
The good stuff, as he likes to call it.
Stories about before. Before the avengers, before the war, even.
Before, before.
Other lives. All that potential, never reached.
Stories about him, about them about–
Bucky.

Mod Julia

a fighter by his trade by ElisAttack (oneshot | 2,423 | E)

The crowd roars and swells around him, hands reaching, clapping him on the shoulders, shaking him in congratulations, and all Bucky does is wonder if Steve will finally take him home.
Or the one where Bucky boxes, and loves Steve Rogers.

Not the Needle, Nor the Thread by steebadore (oneshot | 2,017 | E)

Bucky wakes to a noise.
No, Bucky wakes to the noise. It's not the hoarse shout of nightmares born of battlefields and blood that so often tear them both from sleep. No, this is smaller. Bitten off. Choked back. A furtive, strangled keen, nearly silent but pitched at a frequency that would raise Bucky from the dead.

Burn your bridges down by Ark (oneshot | 8,610 | E)

Even under the ice, Steve used to dream about this.
He holds onto Bucky, keeps him there, and then Steve is kissing back. Kissing like he’s never kissed before and never will again. Kissing like coming home, like waking up, like returning from the dead.

Above the Rain and Roses Universe by coveryourheads (rsk110), Kellyscams (series | 73,943 | E) - sex work

Steve Rogers has been looking for The One ever since testing as Dominant. True love. Fairytales. Happily ever after with his very own submissive is all he wants. Which might be asking the universe for a little too much, but he'll take a good connection to start with.
But tonight, Steve is visiting The Armory. An exclusive club where unattached Doms can go and enjoy themselves with a good sub for the night. Not exactly the place Steve expects to find his one true love.
Then again, fate might have other plans, and one sub might get in way over his head making assumptions about this Dom.

Mod Blue

The Hero Steals a Kiss by spitandvinegar (restricted, oneshot | 1,084 | T)

We're all in need of comfort.

Better Than To Bend* by silentwalrus (oneshot | 23,494 | M)
*polyamory

In which Sergeant James Buchanan Barnes is tired, hungry and completely failing at not sticking it in the crazy. Also there’s a war going on or something.
aka world war threesome. Fear these queers.
Part 1 of Bucky Barnes Gets His Groove Back & Other International Incidents

If They Haven't Learned Your Name by silentwalrus (complete | 236,499 | M)

Steve gets out of the hospital in two days, but just barely. “I’m fine,” he tells Sam, Nurse Eunjung and the phalanx of doctors assigned to make sure Captain America didn’t bleed out and die and get bad PR all over their nice clean hospital. “I have an advanced healing factor. It’s fine. See? I’m standing.”
“That is not standing,” Sam tells him.
“You’re bending the IV stand,” Nurse Eunjung adds pointedly. “Let go and sit down, they don’t grow on trees.”

aka Steve and Bucky's Global Honeymoon Revenge World Tour.
Part 2 of Bucky Barnes Gets His Groove Back & Other International Incidents

"He will live on in our memories (and in our actions, as America’s greatest hero)" by liionne (oneshot | 3,241 | M)

They all think you're dead, you know.”
“And?” Steve asks.
“And you're an American icon. A hero. Don't you think they should know that they're mourning in vain?”
“They thought I was dead before.” He says eventually. “They can cope.”
Or: The world thinks that Steve Rogers was killd by Thanos. Bucky and his friends know better.

Under Paper Skies by InterruptingDinosaur (complete | 18,138 | M)

All Bucky wants is to get back to New York in time for his meeting, but his luck runs out when a blizzard traps him in D.C. It gets even worse when the guy looking like Bucky’s every dirty fantasy come to life catches him giggling at the erotic thrillers in the romance section of the airport bookstore.
So much for making a good first impression.

Through Cities And Churches by Speranza (complete | 37,256 | E) (reread)

A tale of many cities and churches and two boys. Happy 100th Birthday, Bucky Barnes: March 10, 2017.

The whole of 4 Minute Window* by Speranza (series | 105,353 | E) (reread)
*/others, but kissing only

"Look, if they catch me," Bucky muttered, "they're either going to kill me or they're going to put me in a box with a little window and—Steve, I can't."