20 Works in Bucky Barnes Is Not Recaptured by Hydra Post-Fall From The Train in 1945
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The Winter Prince by Kalyps0
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Deadpool - All Media Types, Marvel 616, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), X-Men - All Media Types
18 Oct 2025
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What if Bucky was never real? What if he were just a mask that James wore?
"No, James had other reasons for befriending Steve. Steve was easy to push around, easy to manipulate. James had learned that quickly. Stealing Steve’s medicine wasn’t something he was proud of, but it paid the rent when he needed it. And besides, Steve never noticed. He was too focused on the big picture, too busy dreaming of being a hero to notice the little things—like his pills going missing."
Basically, what if James was a borderline sociopath with a Master/Slave kink a mile wide, and how that would affect the MCU as we know it, starting with the draft and following through the beginning of Iron Man (2008)
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- Part 1 of Wolf on a Golden Leash
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Reunion by PresidentRoarie
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
20 Jun 2025
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Based on a Tumblr post, it's basically what I think would happen if Bucky fell off the train but wasn't recaptured by HYDRA and instead froze like Steve. I used some of the dialogue for Bucky's rant at the end from the post, so thanks to the wonderful human who wrote some of that, they get a writing credit here.
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In A Week by garbage_cannot
Fandoms: Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
22 Mar 2025
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What if both Bucky and Steve fell from the train?
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the winter lady by capitanareferencias
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel 616, Marvel
15 Feb 2025
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In 1942, Red Skull never found the Tesseract, so World War II never needed a Captain America.
In 1943, Sergeant James Buchanan Barnes, also known as Bucky Barnes, is fighting in German territory under the command of Captain Luther Smith. An important piece in the war. After being shot down in battle, James takes his badge to bring it to his family, unaware that he would be captured by the Germans.
However, a German woman saves the life of the dying Sergeant Bucky Barnes and triggers a love story that will mark the entire century in a war romance novel.
But when adapted to the big screen, it features the reincarnation of its fictional characters. Will love transcend time, death, and fiction?
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You’re mine and mine you’ll stay by BrattyPaganSub
Fandoms: Marvel's Avengers (Video Game), Marvel Cinematic Universe
02 Jan 2025
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Bruce Banner realizes the error of his ways in pushing Bucky away. Only when the younger man moves on. Bruce comes to the realization that he needs to act on it before someone gets hurt.
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Homeward Bound by readers_permit
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
24 Dec 2024
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in my ideal reality, Steve Rogers went back for Bucky. they both made it home, unscathed. no HYDRA, no avengers. just a little house in the new york countryside and nothing but the world and them, till the end of the line.
please don't crucify me
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It's Dark In The Valley by this_wayward_life
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
25 Sep 2023
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Bucky Barnes is found by the SSR in the wake of Captain Rogers' death.
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- Part 1 of Tumblr Drabbles
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good afterlife did not exist by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
17 Dec 2021
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Bucky wanted to fight and bite and demand answers.
Instead, he was a trembling, disoriented mess, unsure of which one of his senses had just shut down and which one went into overdrive.
A warm calloused hand cradled the back of his neck and Bucky sobbed, scared out of his mind but seeking the contact, thinking of his mom and his sisters and Steve, all of them affectionate and kind and tactile.
All of them gone, thinking Bucky had died–or maybe he did die as nothing made sense, and Bucky tried to remember some prayers his mom taught him back when he was a kid, failing miserably and heaving a hysterical sob.
Bucky was enveloped in a warm hug, stranger’s body a furnace against his cold and trembling one, and Bucky’s instincts should’ve yelled at him to bite, fight, run, hide–instead, he relaxes into the stranger’s hold and cries for the first time since the war had started.
(TOG and MCU crossover, Immortal!Bucky, pre!Stucky)
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Steve Rogers Is Too Stubborn To Die by mayellow for PR Zed (przed)
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, What If...? (TV 2021)
31 Oct 2021
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There wasn’t a light bulb moment nor fireworks, it wasn’t an epiphany really. I guess I just finally accepted the fact that I fell in love with my best friend. And I will be forever cursed.
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How Bucky and Steve lived their lives after What If...? Episode 1. This is Canon, y'all!
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A series of 31 short fics for the Flufftober 2021 challenge on Tumblr. One fic posted once a day, for each prompt. Featuring Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes, these fics will span the whole of their friendship, from childhood in the 1930s to the modern day post Endgame, though it's all canon divergent from Endgame.
October 19th Prompt - Flowers
The year is 1967, and Howard Stark has managed to find Steve Rogers in the ice. When he comes to, he learns that Bucky has also managed to survive his fall, and was never found by HYDRA. He finds him on a sojourn in San Francisco, with flowers in his hair...
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- Part 19 of Flufftober 2021
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Bucky glanced up at the walls - decades of photographs, a life lived alone in the memory of another man's ghost. The photos documented everything, an empty space where Steve might have stood, or proof of the history that passed by should he ever come home and need to learn what he had missed. The faces of two young men in a war, a very long time ago, with hopes and dreams. Sketches by hands lost in the ice.
What if Bucky Barnes was not found by HYDRA in 1945?
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- Part 1 of Photographs
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“Are you going out there by yourself?”
Another pause. “Not entirely.”
Bucky knew that he was lying. “Steve—“
“I’m gonna be fine, Buck. You just focus on getting better, alright? And when you go home, I’ll follow you when this is all over. I promise.” Steve squeezed his hand.
“Don’t make promises you can’t keep.” Bucky’s voice was small and threatened to break.
“I intend on keeping this one,” he assured, his other hand brushing back the hair that stuck to Bucky's forehead from sweat. “I’ll be right behind you.”
What would have happened if Steve found Bucky after the train first.
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- Part 18 of The Lost Memories
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Made Whole But Fractured Still by JoieWilder
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
16 Apr 2021
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Bucky returned to Brooklyn with an empty sleeve, a fractured heart, and not much idea of what he would do with himself.
[The war is over for Bucky which means facing his family, hopefully getting a new arm, and trying to come to grips with the loss of Steve.]
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- Part 2 of Finding Light Without Sunshine
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The first thing Steve consciously recognized was the song.
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1960s, no Winter Soldier by fandom_filth
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, X-Men - All Media Types
07 Aug 2020
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What would have happened if HYDRA never imprisoned Bucky after his fall? If they saved his life only for him to be rescued and brought home? If Steve could read German enough to land a plane?
And what would happen, 20 years later, if Bucky noticed his lover still looks the same?
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- Part 3 of AUgust Winterwolf/Loganbucky
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stucky blurbs by bardsandbees
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types
14 May 2020
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i got some lovely feedback on my first drabble which i've moved to the second chapter here so i decided to start publishing some of my favorite ones!
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The Best Way to Wake by LeeHan
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
28 Feb 2019
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James Buchanan Barnes lay in a glass pod in the middle of the table, frozen since he fell. Steve’s hands were on the glass before he realized he’d moved.
“Wait, Captain!”
“Get him out,” Steve whispered, his hands searching for a clasp, a keypad, something.
“Captain, we need to keep him in stasis—“
“I said get him out!”In which Bucky Barnes lay frozen in the Alps for seventy years only to be woken up a year after Steve Rogers was uncovered from the Arctic.
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Stupid Punk by orphan_account
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
13 Jul 2018
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au inspired by a prompt wherein Bucky never falls into the hands of hydra and is instead cryogenically preserved in the ice after he fell off the train (I know this only happened to Steve because of the serum but oh well). This is Steve and his reunion In the 21st century
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The Odyssey by buckyjerkbarnes
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, DC Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), Wonder Woman (2017)
09 Jul 2017
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"No," Diana murmured, "we fight to protect the men, women and children who are suffering uselessly under the thumbs of infantile dictators. Those men are not leaders—they are whining children, bullies to those who hold less power than them."
If Steve were awake, Bucky knew damn well he'd have hearts in his eyes.
He wasn't the only one who seemed to be having the same series of thoughts as Monty breathed: "My god, there are two of them."
[Alternatively known as "The Frisbee Friends" for Diana and Steve set to be future shield-bros. Ranges from 1944 to 2011.]
*Note: chapters 1-6 were all written before the release of Wonder Woman (2017)Series
- Part 1 of the long way home
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Sweet As Pie by thearrowsoflegolas
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
03 May 2016
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He could smell burning by the time he stood outside his door.
His heart stopped.
Almost without thinking, he slammed the door open with his shoulder, ignoring the burst of pain that it sent ringing through his arm. Was something on fire? Was Steve alright? Had what remained of HYDRA finally found him?
He whipped his head around, looking for the source of the fire, the acrid smell of smoke in his nostrils.
“Bucky.” A low voice came from his left, and he whipped his head around to see Steve, wearing a frilly pink apron with ‘Kiss The Cook’ emblazoned on the front of it. One of his hands was raised, palm facing upwards.
The other was clutching a large frying pan that was pluming out unnecessarily large amounts of black smoke.
Well, that explained the smell.In which Bucky bakes a pie, Steve tries (and fails) to help, and I pretend that none of Civil War happened, because James Barnes deserves to be HAPPY goddamnit.