It took a lot to get Bucky out of his apartment these days. The kittens were a decent enticement, but the smartass volunteer he met at the shelter was an even better incentive.

Bucky Barnes is a war vet with a prosthetic arm, an anxiety disorder, and a serious coffee habit. Steve Rogers, formerly Captain America, is a tiny bundle of attitude who hasn’t really come to terms with the fact that he was de-super-serumed in 1945. Steve wants Bucky to take over his old job and find out what S.H.I.E.L.D. is hiding, Bucky wants to punch Tony Stark in the face, Sam Wilson wants them both to get over themselves, and Clint Barton just wants someone to watch his dog. Well, no one ever said that either love or Avenging would be a walk in the park.

Steve is working undercover for Hydra when he gets an unexpected promotion.

To the Winter Soldier Project.

In a world where Captain Steve Rogers really did die in the Valkyrie, and it was Sam, Clint and Natasha that saved Bucky Barnes, Tony Stark decides the Avengers need their own official graphic novel series.

Enter artist Steve Rogers.

Modern Winter Soldier AU where Bucky is a genie who became HYDRA’s Asset.

When HYDRA found the Tesseract they also found a genie in a bottle. Knowing a genie’s wishes are a trap that will turn and bite you, they used the power of the Tesseract to enslave the genie. It cost them three wishes but it bought them an Asset with power greater than any human and for 70 years they used him to work HYDRA’s will on the world.

Until they lost him.

His bottle washes up on a beach and he’s found by a new Master, Steve Rogers. Steve, horrified at having absolute power over someone, has a very different approach to being in control of a genie. While Bucky waits for his new Master to show his true colours they’re trying to work out how to live with each other. Bucky doesn’t trust Steve, Steve’s friends don’t trust Bucky, and no one realises HYDRA has not let their Asset go so easily

Rogers-Steven-Grant shut up.

“You have power in you. Don’t discount yourself too quickly.”

Interesting. Although emotional speeches from a friend did not equate reaching a level seven threat, the Asset could admit that he was a little bit intrigued.

“Whatever,” Rogers-Steven-Grant grumbled. “I’m putting on some music.”

AKAAn AU in which Bucky is a highly conditioned assassin and Steve is his next target.

What if your best friend in the whole world was taken away from you? What if he was tortured, unmade, turned into a weapon, over and over again?

And what if you could warn yourself, prepare yourself, make it so that none of this would ever happen to your best friend? Changing the timeline is dangerous; the paradox could end all that you know. You don’t know the ripple effects, but it’s a chance – you could save your friend. Would you?

If you’re Steven Grant Rogers, of course you fucking well do.

“I think I’m gonna have to hurt some people,” Steve Rogers says, voice tight with rage. The asset assumes that will be him, then laughs at himself for the thought.

He’s not people.

Peggy Carter was the Captain America during the WWII desperation for a poster boy. Thats right, boy, but Bucky and Howard tricked the bigwigs into putting Peggy into that serum contraption. And out came the biggest wave of female glory did you ever see. The only problem being, Bucky still fell off the train, Peggy crashed into the antarctic.

Only one of them managed to come back from their woes.

Bucky Barnes.

Here is the story of how he met a skinny little punk from Brooklyn. And fell hopelessly in love for the second time in his no-good life.