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    03 Jun 2026

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    “Sveta,” Ilya answers, letting his mouth sink into the forward sound of his mother tongue: “Are you okay?”

    “It’s Alexei,” she says. Her voice is a stolid calm. Ilya stares absently ahead, finding a spot on the way to steady his gaze on. Across the thousands of miles between Ottawa and Moscow, Svetlana says: “It was an overdose.”

    His ears ring, a high pitched sound of radio feedback.

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    Ilya becomes the guardian of his sixteen year old niece after his brother passes away.

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    29 May 2026

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    “What is all this?”

    “Keys to Steve’s place in Brooklyn, and his motorcycle. Some records about his, ah, accounts and things. He—well, he hasn’t been declared officially dead, we can’t, you know, say anything about the time travel, but—”

    “He’s not coming back,” says Bucky, before Banner has to try to couch it softly, or spare Bucky’s assumed feelings. It’s a courtesy Bucky doesn’t need. His feelings have seemed very far away since Steve left. “I know.”

    "Yeah, so, uh, I just figured you should have all this."

    Bucky is doing fine after the Blip. He has his amends, he has his exit strategies, he goes to therapy. Steve's gone, but that's fine, Bucky can deal with that, even if he can't deal with feeling like a ghost in the apartment that Steve left behind. But when Steve returns, they'll both have to deal with how to rebuild a friendship and a home that are haunted by the ghosts of who they used to be. Their methods of doing so are perhaps less than ideal, what with how they involve more sex and stealthy surprise interior decoration than any actual communication. Maybe that's all they need to make a new home together.

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    28 May 2026

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    AMAZING 100/10 5 STARS

    they are so sweet and i needed a canon fix-it

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    The beginnings of a plan took shape in Steve’s mind, as clear and simple as a tactical frontal assault. He’d prove to Bucky that this was it, he was staying: Steve was retired from the fighting game, Steve wasn’t going to let anything keep pulling them apart. Maybe then when Steve finally told him he loved him, Bucky would believe him.

    All things considered, Steve thought he’d handled the whole Thanos killing half the universe thing and the ensuing bitter, desperate quest to defeat him pretty well. Sacrificing his super soldier serum to use one of the Infinity Stones wasn't a problem either, not when it meant getting back the half of the universe they'd lost, and especially not when it meant getting Bucky back. But retirement and finally confessing his feelings for Bucky? Those were proving to be more challenging.

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    25 May 2026

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    AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhh

    That smut at the end, jesus christ with a bazooka. They are so precious

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    Header by Ice-Whisper

     

    Steve and Bucky, start to finish.

    "Come on, pal, it's me. Take another hundred years if you want, I'll still be here."

    (All these stories stand alone and are roughly canon compliant)

    DREAMERS WITH EMPTY HANDS: Pre CATFA. Steve Rogers/Chronic Pain, with bonus Steve/Pining. 1924-1943

    GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE, WHAT'S NEW?: CATFA. Steve/Emotional Pain, War Years Edition. 1943-1945/2011

    THE TERROR OF KNOWING: Winter Soldier Years. Soldat/Fear, with bonus Baby Widows. 1945-2014.

    FOOL FOR SACRIFICE: Avengers 1 - AoU. Steve/Losing Everything. 2011-2015

    NO HOPE FOR THE WEARY: TWS-CACW. Bucky/Let Him Rest. The Big Recovery Fic, 2014-2016.

    LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPON: Pre-IW. Steve/Bucky/their giant pile of Issues.

    COMING SOON: Post EG and TFATWS season 1. Sam and Bucky's Multiverse Roadtrip (to get Steve back)

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    21 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    JESUS CHRIST, I have been reading this off and on for ages, but I finally finished the last couple of parts of this series, and oh my goodness. STEVE ROGERS, this man is most definitely an inexperienced pillow princess with the most baby blues out there. Also the beginning parts in Brooklyn, they're my favorite