Can We Pretend To Leave? And Then We'll Meet Again by misspunkrock

Title: Can We Pretend To Leave? And Then We'll Meet Again
Author: [archiveofourown.org profile] misspunkrock
Rating: E
Word Count: 23,252
Summary: The thing is Bucky hadn’t the slightest clue when it first began.
 
Maybe it was when he was old enough to understand what the meaning of the word desire was. Maybe it was when he saw that crooked smile for the first time and really noticed the brightness that was barely contained behind blue eyes. Maybe it was when they had to start sharing a bed together in the winter because their too small apartment got far too drafty.
 
 
 
Or in which Bucky writes Steve notes and Steve finds them years later.




Garden State by attice

Title: Garden State
Author: [archiveofourown.org profile] attice
Rating: E
Word Count: 11,552
Summary: The thing is, Steve’s the kind of guy who tells people to be quiet in movie theaters not because he can’t hear the movie, but because somebody can’t hear the movie; he’s the kind of guy that sticks up for mothers in clothing stores not because they’re his mother, but because they’re somebody’s mother. He’s the kind of guy that—
 
(It takes seven shots.)




volgograd by black_nata

Title: volgograd
Author: black_nata
Rating: E
Word Count: 7,673
Summary: He is nineteen. He is a hundred. The little boy he cherished has now become a big, strong man, who looks at him as though he is not part machine, and has brought him to his home for cake.




Gravitation by Odsbodkins

Title: Gravitation
Author: [archiveofourown.org profile] Odsbodkins 
Rating: E
Word Count: 18,158
Summary: "He couldn't remember when he first started feeling the pull. Perhaps it was too long ago, or perhaps it had been gradual, something that crept up on him. But by the time he was sixteen, Bucky knew that the axis of his world spun around Steve Rogers in the worst possible way."

Inspired by finding out that in the prequel comics for Captain America: The First Avenger, Steve and Bucky are in art class when the news breaks about Pearl Harbor.