thestuckylibrary | Entries tagged with trope:friends to lovers

Title: A Midsummer Knight's Dream
Author:

GoldBlooded
Rating: E
Word Count: 29,050
Summary: Sir Steven, knight, alpha, and baron of a small countryside estate, receives an invitation to a Royal Tournament: It’s a winner-take-all competition, and the prize? The hand of Prince James, the kingdom’s most eligible omega, in marriage.

It seems like a lifetime ago that young Steven left the palace – and his best pal, the prince - to attend to his familial duties. Since that time, he’s dreamed of reclaiming his friendship with the prince; if not as a companion, then perhaps as a member of the prince’s guard.

Prince James, royal, omega, and heir to the throne is tired of being reduced to his designation and pressured into an arranged marriage like a political pawn. He devises the tournament as a means to an end: winner claims his hand in marriage, but if he wins? He’ll get to claim his own future.

Let the tournament begin...

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Title: Fill My Lungs with Sweetness
Author:

starclipped
Rating: T
Word Count: 13,461
Summary: In which there are coupons, presents, friendships, feelings, and a list.

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Title: Laughter Lines
Author:

gammadolphin
Rating: M
Word Count: 100,249
Summary: Bucky Barnes is a rising Hollywood star with a tragic past and a reputation for driving his bodyguards away. Steve Rogers is a veteran with the same tragic past and the need to get back out in the world. The two of them have been estranged since they were teenagers, so when Steve joins SHIELD as a bodyguard, he is less than thrilled when he finds out that Bucky is his first assignment. But how bad can it be? They're both professional adults, right?

Wrong.

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Title: Cinder and Smoke
Author:

littleblackfox
Rating: E
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Word Count: 51,798
Summary: “They say there’s no law in Parasapa. Is that true?”

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Title: There Should Be Stars
Author:

childhoodinfamy
Rating: T
Word Count: 45,469
Summary: “All memories to tell you the truth aren’t good.
But sometimes there were good times.
Love was good. I loved your crooked sleep
beside me and never dreamed afraid.

There should be stars for great wars
like ours. There ought to be awards
and plenty of champagne for the survivors.”
- Sandra Cisneros

Or, it takes them decades.

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Title: Of Devious Daughters and Ballet Teachers
Author:

heartsdesire456
Rating: T
Word Count: 6,390
Summary: When Steve's daughter gets cast as Clara in The Nutcracker, Steve meets her new ballet instructor, Bucky Barnes.

It all goes downhill from there.

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Title: Thank God It's Christmas
Author:

alwayswithatoneofsurprise
Rating: T
Word Count: 23,194
Summary: Just over a week before Christmas, the spirit of the season is high, but even with the extra Christmas cheer in the air Steve still doesn't believe that things could ever happen between Bucky and him, that Bucky could ever love him, that his best friend, his flatmate, could ever want to be more than that. Nat and Sam both think Steve should say something, and as Christmas gets closer and closer Steve is unsure whether not knowing is better than knowing.... The buildup to Christmas.

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Title: Leave Me On The Mountain
Author:

perfect_plan
Rating: M
Word Count: 18,598
Summary: Bucky is certain that he's about to die, cold and lost in this mountain forest. But just as he thinks that the wolves have him, someone finds him and takes him in.

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Title: Schrödinger's Romance
Author:

lesbuchanan
Rating: M
Warnings: Bucky/Others
Word Count: 196,220
Summary: "It could be a relationship, it could not be. You can assume either until you see for sure the results."

We all know those moments. Those moments when your family all gathers around you and asks "So, do you have a boyfriend yet?". Bucky knows these moments all too well and, quite frankly, he's sick to death of them. Unfortunately, being a 21 year old college student makes it harder for him to come up with excuses, and with Christmas coming up he needs to think of a way out fast. A chance encounter with a stranger through an old library textbook could just be the kind of miracle he needs to make it through the holidays with his last shreds of sanity intact.

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Title: The Tower
Author:

noncorporealform
Rating: E
Word Count: 75,835
Summary: Peggy Carter recruits Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes to fight against Baron Zemo, a man who desires the powers of the entity that has taken a liking to Steve Rogers. The Howling Commandos search Europe for artifacts with the mission to retrieve them before Zemo's Secret Empire can, but the Baron is ruthless and patient, willing to play the long game.

As the world explodes into a war seeped in occult forces and lead by madmen, Bucky has to admit for his own peace of mind that he's always loved Steve Rogers and would follow him into any kind of war, no matter how strange.

Horror AU set in World War II.

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Title: Taking Flight
Author:

galerian_ash
Rating: E
Word Count: 7,976
Summary: Five times Bucky tried to help Steve get over his fear of flying, and failed — and the one time he succeeded without trying.

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Title: It's Just Temporary
Author:

perfect_plan
Rating: M
Word Count: 52,615
Summary: Bucky Barnes has no idea what he wants to do with his life and is stumbling from one temp job to the next. Hopefully he can keep his new job at Stark Industries for longer than a week...

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Title: Painted in Indigo
Author:

nekare
Rating: M
Word Count: 11,031
Summary: "You should be careful of that one,” Mr. Hendrickson says, with a nod to Bucky outside the window. “It ain’t right. Looking at you all the time as he does. The way he should be looking at girls.”

Steve laughs, because damn, but what a ridiculous idea.

Or, five times Steve caught Bucky looking at him, and the one time he looked first.

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Title: Nice Work if You Can Get It
Author:

reserve
Rating: M
Word Count: 12,920
Summary: Bucky Barnes and his best pal Steve Rogers stumble into a situation that leaves Bucky feeling tongue-tied, out of his element, and convinced that Steve—Steve!—has more experience with the ladies than he previously let on. It's terrible.

(Pre-serum Steve, pre-war Brooklyn, befuddled Bucky, and showgirls, for your pleasure.)

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Title: Ships at a distance
Author:

Chimerari
Rating: T
Word Count: 15,664
Summary: The year was 1930. Peggy Carter was on a one-woman mission to uncover the truth of Franklin county, the moonshine capital of America.
Meanwhile, Steve Rogers was fighting to keep the family diner running after his mother's passing. The last thing he wanted was for someone to poke their nose into his and Bucky's side business. Times were hard. They needed to make a dollar same as anybody else.
This was a story about the small people, who unknowingly propped up the Broadwalk Empire.

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Title: Not Another Supersoldier Fantasy
Author:

triedunture
Rating: E
Word Count: 16,462
Summary: Bucky finds a popular sex toy modeled on Captain America's own anatomy. Well, isn't this just perfect? Because even after all this time, he still hasn’t seen Steve’s supersoldier cock. But apparently in this day and age anyone with $29.95 can get a decent replica. The unfairness of this is of galactic proportions.