We have some Battle Couple fics, but you could also try the Established Relationship tag, the Fluff tag
and maybe the Public Displays of Affection tag.
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How we rolled up the carpet so we could dance by rohkeutta, SulaSafeRoom
Steve’s already showered and changed into sweats and a tank top, his hair still sticking up in cowlicks. When Bucky drags himself to the couch, still in his uniform with soot on his face, Steve takes one look at him in the soft glow of the living room lamp and opens his arms.
Bucky drops the shield on the floor and crawls over Steve’s legs to collapse on top of him, tucks his face under Steve’s chin and exhales. “Jesus fucking Christ.”
Tag: fic rec
Good help is hard to find. – Feather (lalaietha) – Marvel Cinematic Universe [Archive of Our Own]
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Maria Hill, Pepper Potts, Original Female Character
Additional Tags: everyone wants to hire Maria Hill, Maria Hill’s terrible horrible no good very bad weeks, Maria Hill has no time for your bullshit, Pepper Potts has no time for your bullshit, Pepper Potts and her team of badass ladies, ladies in the Tower, hypercompetent women
Series: Part 1 of Settle in and find your home
Summary:
“No offense meant, but I’m not up for games, Pepper – what do you want?”
Pepper startles Maria by being just as blunt – not that Pepper plays around much, but she’s usually one for observing basic social niceties and putting the kind of lead-up to a conversation that means you more or less know where things are going. Apparently not right now. She just takes her cue from Maria instead.
“I want you to sign this,” she says, as Eva takes a folder out of her bag and leans over to place the SI-stationery file she takes out of that in front of Maria on the table, “I want you to take the job I’m offering you, and I want you to sort out the absolute fucking rats’-nest of a mess in the security and personnel end of my company. I want to make goddamn sure that nobody ever manages to do what they did on Insight Day again.”
Fic recommendation time again. You don’t need to have read the rest of the series or the connected works for this one (tho it’s a great gateway). Takes place right after Captain America: Winter Soldier and assumes that the characters are actually competent or hyper-competent people. Wonderful Maria Hill voice.
Good help is hard to find. – Feather (lalaietha) – Marvel Cinematic Universe [Archive of Our Own]
All of Space and Time and Place – Anonymous – Captain America (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: James “Bucky” Barnes, Donna Noble
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Crossover, IN SPACE!, Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug, and occasionally gets one
Summary:
Bucky Barnes and Donna Noble, intergalactic space vagrants.
Guys, this is so charming. So, so charming.
All of Space and Time and Place – Anonymous – Captain America (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]
a wooden milestone
According to ao3, I posted the first chapter of Freezer Burn five years ago today. It was my first MCU story and a sort-of return to comics(-ish) fic after the better part of a decade away. Which means that (a) yes, I am a fannish dinosaur and (b) I didn’t name the story after the working title of CA:tWS; they named the working title after my story.
I started FB with only a vague idea of where I was going – and then had to abandon that vague idea once Marvel announced that Captain America 2 would be a Winter Soldier movie because at that point the story was MCU-compliant and I utterly refuse to create fanon where canon is imminent. (Or, why I wrote a POV character for almost five years in SGA without using his first name because he didn’t have one.) So I didn’t know who the bad guy was until about halfway through – about 100k words in is not a recommended point to pause and figure out what the heck you’re doing, for the record. Which is why there are enough red herrings to stock a fish counter and a few too many lovingly detailed meals before I get around to advancing the plot where it’s actually going.
The story turned out okay, I think, and then became a series with both official sequels and unofficial connected parts as I worked out characters (or, why the master list for the series is different from the series page at ao3). I got over my canon compliancy fetish and the end result is that the story is MCU through a very thick 616/Brubaker filter. I officially closed the files sometime after Revenant, but then I kept adding to it, so it’s sort of a zombie now. But I’m not even considering trying to write Codename: Pandora until I get the albatross of a stalled wip off of my neck.
Anyway, it’s been five years since I dipped my toe into that pond and I’m celebrating. 🙂
Freezer Burn is one of my favorite MCU/616 stories and a regular reread. If you haven’t read it yet, please do for a Steve Rogers that is an unabashed foodie, a Clint that is no one’s fool, a Natasha with her own agenda and a Bucky that shows up when he’s damn well ready.
And to @laporcupina – thank you. I followed you over from SGA and have never regretted it.
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