The Stucky Library

In 1938, there’s a bar in Brooklyn called Sully’s where people are safe to be themselves. Behind the bar, a girl pours drinks. She’s always got a big smile for Steve and she says queer like it’s a good thing. On a regular basis, she takes his shoulders in her hands and tries to shake sense into him, saying, “When will you do something about that best friend of yours?”

In 2012, Bucky’s gone, but Steve’s not, and the girl’s hands are too old to shake him. She does her best to make him see sense anyway.

Steve had people who loved him before the war, and it turns out a few of them are still around when he finally comes home.

Steve knows pain. Has always known pain. Far back as he can remember, hurting has been a part of him.

AKA Steve’s Rhapsody in Pain, Part One: Chronic Illness Edition. Contents: one (1) Smol Steve Rogers with Very Big Pain Problems, one (1) Wee Bucky Barnes with a Very Foul Mouth, twenty thousand (20,000) Nazis in Madison Square Gardens, infinite pining, and excessive use of parentheses.

Part 1 of The Hundred Year Playlist (series also contains Steve/Peggy)

Steve wakes up alone, without Bucky, to a future he could never have imagined. He fights aliens, picks up boxing again, writes little notes that Bucky will never be able to read and struggles to find his place in this Brave, New World. He does not, thankfully, have to do it on his own.

Steve Rogers-centric. Canon Divergent. Stucky Endgame.

Part 1 of Unbecoming Everything You Are Not

Steve returns from the bathroom as soon as Bucky’s eyes close. “Buck!”

He groans. “Nope. I’m going back to bed. Nope.”“Bucky.”“No.”“We’re going to be late.”“To what?”“Your surprise.” Steve waits for Bucky to move, gives up after a moment. Then, like an asshole, he settles his tiny ass on Bucky’s hips and fucking tickles him.“Goddammit, Steve,” Bucky nearly shrieks. He opens his eyes wide and pushes at Steve’s massive shoulders. “Off, off.”Steve relents, but doesn’t get off — apparently, it’s just too funny. He drops so they’re chest to chest, laughing so hard he’s making them both shake with it.“Stevie,” Bucky complains, but he’s smiling wide enough for it to hurt. It doesn’t quite hit the intended mark.

A fic spanning from April 10th, 2011 to August 21st, 2016. Read as Bucky and Steve encounter relationship woes, superhero-dom, cute animals named after beloved characters, Bucky’s hilarious family, tragedy, and the Accords. Not necessarily in that order.

(Written for the 2018 Shrunkyclunks Bang!)

Part 1 of The Stars Crossed Right

“I’m sorry, it’s just you look so much like…”

James waited for the end of that sentence, at a loss, and Steve suddenly wished he could disappear into the floor.

If ‘daughter’ and then ‘granddaughter’ was tough enough to accept, he had no idea how he’d ever manage to associate Bucky with anything close to a great grandson!

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Steve meets Bucky’s great grandson, James, who just so happens to look almost exactly like his dead best friend and he has no idea how to deal with that, or the unprofessed feelings that are suddenly dragged back into his life.

Bucky Barnes is 99% certain that if he hears one more Avengers song, it could be fatal.

He’s also 99% certain that the stranger with the bright smile and blonde hair he met at the cafe walked out of his dreams.

Starting an Avengers hate club with a man who buys you cake to combat your mental break down at hearing a stupid song one too many times seems like a fine idea, what could go wrong? It’s not like either of them knows the Avengers….or that either one of them is in the band….right?

Or

The one where Bucky falls hopelessly for Steve and starts an Avengers hate club with the lead singer of the Avengers.

Steve and Bucky got into plenty of adventures before they were Captain America and the Winter Soldier.

“For the error bred in the boneOf each woman and each manCraves what it cannot haveNot universal loveBut to be loved alone”-(W.H Auden)

A young man perched on a fire escape somewhere in Brooklyn, and began to do what just about every other able-bodied man with a draft notice in his hand was doing right now- Bucky Barnes began to pray.

“Please God, I’ll sure as hell fight for my country” he implored,“I’ll die for it too, as long as you make sure Steven Grant Rogers is happy.”

They always share a bed.They always share a bed when one or the other sleeps over. They just do.

Steve sleeps over at the Barnes Household and Bucky is desperate to fulfill an agreement they made prior.

“Steve is eleven, Bucky twelve, and they’ve been told often enough that they’re getting too old for this: sleeping side by side, sharing space like the brothers they’re not. Neither his mother nor Bucky’s has outright banned this bad habit, but he thinks that’s only because they still expect their sons to grow out of it. That’s exactly what Bucky might do, and it scares Steve, since he could happily sleep like this every night for the rest of his life.”

Steve shakes his head slightly. “You don’t have to try to make me feel better, Buck,” he says, kicking idly at a pebble on the sidewalk. “I know what the girls all think of me, and - ” Steve comes to an abrupt halt, blinking rapidly. He’d been watching the path of the pebble, and it had skittered into an alleyway.

An occupied alleyway.

Occupied by two men who are in a very intimate - and very dangerous - embrace.

Bucky ambles to a stop beside Steve, follows his gaze curiously - and freezes. “Jesus,” he breathes.

Steve knows pain. Has always known pain. Far back as he can remember, hurting has been a part of him.

AKA Steve’s Rhapsody in Pain, Part One: Chronic Illness Edition. Contents: one (1) Smol Steve Rogers with Very Big Pain Problems, one (1) Wee Bucky Barnes with a Very Foul Mouth, twenty thousand (20,000) Nazis in Madison Square Gardens, infinite pining, and excessive use of parentheses.

Steven Rogers, comic-book artist and former Captain in the US Army, is a True New Yorker through and through. But when his relationship falls apart, Steve is forced to move back to his hometown, where the inspirations for his comic books lie.

Following the death of his father and then his mother two years afterwards, Bucky has been left raising his little sister Becca, and he is doing a damn fine job of it, thank you very much. He hasn’t been distracted by cars or women since he took up his role as a guardian - in fact, he hadn’t been distracted at all until a certain Steve Rogers appears on his doorstep.

However, both of them have dramatically changed from the time they were best friends. Bucky doesn’t know that Steve didn’t come back from war unscathed. Steve doesn’t know that Bucky has always been completely and utterly in love with him.

In a tale that focuses on the loss of childhood innocence, the pressures of society and the stigmas associated with trauma, Steve and Bucky learn to trust again, and maybe fall in love along the way.

(Thankfully, not aided by Clint Barton’s Love Barn.)

This is the story of a sister and her brother.

As the shadow of the war fades and gives way to new conflicts, Becca Barnes battles the constraints of the twentieth century: an education, a marriage, a career, with the ghosts of her youth never far from her memory. As the twenty-first century barrels on through its awkward teenage phase, Bucky Barnes builds a new life, with new friends, and a burgeoning relationship with his lifelong companion Steve, the erstwhile Captain America, as they struggle to find their place in the world.The last time Becca saw her brother was on the eve of war; neither of them expected, some seventy-something years, a hip replacement, and one new arm later, to be reunited.

This is a story about family.