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Natalia was never supposed to meet the Winter Soldier.
The Winter Soldier was never supposed to notice her.
But when S.H.I.E.L.D. sends Natalia undercover into HYDRA, she’s assigned to monitor their most dangerous asset. They are both in too deep when the cracks start to show, and escape is a dangerous thing.
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The Promise by wilkwo
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (MCU)
09 Nov 2025
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Set between The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and CA:BNW/Thunderbolts, this story explores an ever expanding series of mishaps and shenanigans resulting from Sam asking Bucky out on a first date.
Is Bucky ready for said date?
No.
Is the Winter Soldier invited?
No.
Does he show up anyway?
Hell, yes!I'm many chapters ahead, pondering the mysteries of Bucky's mind, and the love a newly reawakened part of him has for Sam, who's struggling to maintain his optimism in the face of multiple kidnappings, abrupt protocol amendments, and unexpected interior decorating. Enjoy!
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The Swan & The Soldier by pandbarnes
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Winter Soldier (Comics)
08 Nov 2025
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Winter Soldier (HYDRA) x Reader (HYDRA), Forced Proximity, Bodyguard/Protectee Relationship
You are the daughter of a high-ranking HYDRA officer, raised between gala halls and steel corridors, trained to maintain perfect poise in any scenario. But when an attack at the Bolshoi Theatre turns into a warzone, your only mission is survival. The Council activated the Winter Soldier to protect you. Elegance is your armor. The Winter Soldier is your shadow. But in HYDRA's game, even salvation comes with a body count.
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Heart of Winter by ker0ppik00
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
07 Nov 2025
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After the fall of HYDRA, Bucky Barnes is a man untethered —haunted, hunted, and held together by the thinnest thread of will. When he’s brought to the Avengers compound to heal, he expects clinical detachment and judgment. What he finds instead is Lily, a sweet, stubborn doctor with warm eyes, floral dresses, and a quiet determination to see the person behind the weapon.
Lily Bloom thought she left SHIELD behind for good. But when she’s asked to help rehabilitate the infamous Winter Soldier, she agrees on her terms. No lab coats. No walls. No treating him like a project.
As trauma surfaces and trust slowly blooms, the lines between healer and patient begin to blur. But their past isn’t done with them and when the ghosts come calling, they might be the only thing keeping each other from falling apart again.
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And Far Too Late Came Far Too Soon by ThatStargazingAquarius
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
07 Nov 2025
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Bob and Bucky are alone in the Thunderbolts Tower, until suddenly they’re not. Back in 2012, Bob appears in Avengers Tower, while Bucky is back in Hydra.
They need to find a way back to 2027, and maybe set these Avengers on a better track than their own timeline.
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Blood, Toil, Tears & Sweat by lazyastronomer
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies)
07 Nov 2025
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The year is 1945. You are Mrs. James Barnes, one of the countless 'gold star wives' who lost a husband in the war. V-E Day in Europe brings an end to the European theatre; though to you, the victory is hollow without Bucky by your side. You didn't even have a body to bury.
As focus shifts to the fighting continuing in the Pacific, you are facing the frightening prospect of raising your unborn child alone. That is, until Steve Rogers comes to your door, determined to make good on the last request that Bucky ever made of him.
The year is 1955. He is the Winter Soldier, and has been for the past decade, living a half-life in the ice at the whims of others. When he is roused for a mission, he executes it without question. He doesn't wonder why the target calls him 'Barnes'. He doesn't hesitate to kill. And once he stages the scene to look like an accident, all he needs to do is walk away.
But he can't. Because in a fleeting photograph on a newspaper front page, he sees the face of a stranger he doesn't remember, but who he knows. And he can't get you out of his head.
[AU Sequel fic to LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS — Ongoing serialization being cross-posted from my Tumblr!]
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- Part 2 of MCU: Loose Lips Sink Ships
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"You’re my mission" the words came out when I shoved the target on the ground.
"You’re my mission!" I repeated while punching target in the face. It sounded more as if I was trying to convince myself that the man laying under me is nothing more than just another target, another mission to accomplish.
When I was about to punch the target one more time—something stopped me.
I looked at his face closely. It was bruised and his eye was swollen, blood dripping from his mouth and nose, few cuts on his forehead and cheeks."Then finish it, because I'm with you till the end of the line" the target said
*I'm with you till the end of the line*
I remembered these words
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After destruction of Project Insight and Steve's and Bucky's fight on Helicarier, Steve falls into the water and Bucky rescues him. After taking him out of the water he stops for a second to make sure Steve was breathing and then walks away. What If Steve wasn't breathing and Winter had to take care of Steve?
I TRIED TO MAKE IT AS CANNON AS POSSIBLE! I WANTED IT TO TAKE PLACE BETWEEN CATWS AND CIVIL WAR BC I WANT MY FF TO CONNECT TO CIVIL WAR(i love making things semi-cannon!!)
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Unraveled: A Winter Soldier Origin by bellawrites18
Fandoms: Winter Soldier (Marvel Comics), The Winter Soldier: Cold Front - Mackenzi Lee, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Captain America (Comics), Captain America - All Media Types
04 Nov 2025
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The year is 1945, in the heat of the Second World War. The last thing James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes remembers is falling - falling and listening as his best friend Steve Rogers, more commonly known as Captain America, called after him. When he wakes up in the hands of some of World War II's greatest enemies, everything takes a turn for the worst as Bucky is slowly transformed into a living nightmare, both mentally and physically.
Can he escape this nightmare, or will he be forever trapped living a life that may cost others their own?
Book one in the "Unraveled" series.
Book two, "Unbound" is complete and can be found under my works.
Both books can be found under the same titles on my wattpad, under the username "voguekvrt"
Please note: this contains major spoilers to the MCU.
Please read the brief Author's Note at the beginning before reading.
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- Part 1 of Unraveled Series
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...at least love should save us from life by Vanya25
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Winter Soldier (Marvel Comics)
01 Nov 2025
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In a world built on lies and blood, she breaks the Asset. She tears through the walls no one else could breach, leaving him raw, exposed, painfully human. For a fleeting moment, he remembers who he could be—who they could be together. But Hydra’s cruelty threatens to shatter everything they have fought to reclaim.
Secretly allying with the Black Widow, Misha races against time, desperate to carve a path back to Steve, to freedom – for both of them. Every step, every decision, is a razor’s edge between survival and utter annihilation. Alone in a world that wants to consume them, two souls cling to one another, fragile threads of trust and loyalty binding them through hope and pain.
Yet the closer they come to escape, the more perilous their bond becomes, and in the blink of an eye, everything they hold dear could vanish forever….until one of them has to make the ultimate sacrifice.Series
- Part 3 of Of memories and life
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but diesel is desire (you were playing with fire) by icedshakenespresso214
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
01 Nov 2025
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Margaret Mooney grew up with a single mother and weekly child support paychecks from an absent father. James Buchanan Barnes was kept on ice for seventy years and awoken to take orders. By all logic and odds, they never should have met. Only, they did.
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Months after Steve Rogers recovers Bucky Barnes, it is evident that his mind is shattered. Steve soon seeks help from Doctor Magnolia Amherst.
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i will not ask where you came from (and neither should you) by icedshakenespresso214
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
30 Oct 2025
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Milada Cermak works under the thumb of HYDRA’s research branch in Slovakia. Holly Adamson is a kindergarten teacher in Queens. They have nothing in common— other than a connection to James Buchanan Barnes.
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red room by Kkharrin
Fandoms: Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
29 Oct 2025
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'I have a plan. Little roadtrip, find a facility, kill some nazis maybe, just like old times.’
Representative Barnes is slowly drowning under the weight of hostile politics and the 9-5 workday. Yelena thinks she has a great idea for raising his spirits, namely one involving finding a lost European Hydra base and maybe getting to kill some Nazis. Unfortunately, they may have bitten off more than even they can chew.
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- Part 2 of red room
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Is This The Way To Amarillo? by UponTheWindowSill
Fandoms: Marvel, Marvel 616, Marvel (Comics), Winter Soldier (Marvel Comics), Captain America (Comics)
26 Oct 2025
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On February 20th, 1973, Codename: Winter Soldier was assigned the mission of killing Texas Senator Harry Baxtor. Though the assassination was carried out with the necessary efficiency, the operative did not appear for his scheduled extraction. Priority is given to this asset’s retrieval.
He knows this much:
His name is James, and he is twenty years old. In 1954, he was assigned the codename of Winter Soldier for Department X, a clandestine arm of the KGB. He has been their agent since they saved him, an American soldier, at the end of the war, and his former allegiance to the United States makes him one of their most valuable undercover operatives in the fog of the Cold War.
Yet, even though there were some twenty eight years between then and now, he automatically defaults to 1945 whenever he considers the year. And every time they release him from cryogenic stasis, he can’t help but recognize that the world steadily grows less and less familiar to navigate. In a mission to the United States during 1973, he decides to briefly put aside his obligation to Department X to pursue what little he can still recognize. -
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“How much of a person do you have left in you, soldier?”
The Asset blinks at him. The question makes him nauseous. “Sir?”
or the first time the Winter Soldier meets Brock Rumlow and has memories of cooking soup
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- Part 1 of Taught to Starve
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Ashes Beneath the Obelisk by Queen_Calanthe
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
08 Oct 2025
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James Barnes woke in a strangled cry, chest heaving, ragged gasps.
“Zemo,” James choked. “It’s not been me. The Soldier - he’s been here. He’s been living as me. He’s tapped your phone, email, everything. Get help - Sam, Wakanda, anybody - he wants to raise Hydra from the ashes!”
Zemo stroked his shoulder, soothing. “It is only a night terror, darling. You are safe. Here, with me.”
But James only clung harder, eyes wild. “No, no. It’s him. I'm not strong enough, he might hurt you.."
Zemo soothed him back to sleep, dismissing the echoes of old trauma. He would notice if the Winter Soldier had taken his husband’s place. Wouldn’t he?
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Heal the Weapon by buckybarnesdeservestobehappy (hutchabelle) for ZepysGirl
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies)
04 Oct 2025
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After decades without him, Steve finally comes face to face with Bucky, his best friend and lover—this time as the menacing Winter Soldier. In a desperate attempt to break through Hydra’s brainwashing, Steve refuses to fight, willing to sacrifice himself if it will save the love of his life. Once Bucky pulls Steve from a watery grave, the adventure begins—a serum that returns him to his pre-Captain America size, rediscovering the power dynamics of a revived relationship, and dodging Hydra. Unfortunately, they can’t hide forever, and Steve’s forced to perform acts he could never have imagined to save them both.
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i can see you (make me want you even more) by icedshakenespresso214
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel
04 Oct 2025
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Savannah Huffman was not his first choice of a public relations specialist. James Buchanan Barnes was not an easy client to work with. They could make do without the other, live without the other's respective baggage— easily. Without cost, without complaint.
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One Russian word was all it took to send Bucky spiraling back into chains he thought he’d broken.
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- Part 5 of Bucky & Yelena
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Reader has been enhanced through experimentation, she has blood control abilities, and is part of British S.H.E.I.L.D. She and a group of others are sent to the US as a part of an integration program between the sister agencies.
Reader befriends Bucky Barnes (the winter soldier), their relationship grows until Bucky relapses into the winter soldier and attacks her, straining their already odd relationship.Reader is characterised as odd/weird and has slight obsessive tendencies.
I decided to write this cuz I really like Bucky fics when he relapses into the WS however I can never find any where he doesn't immediately turn back without there being much damage done (I love the angst lol); so TW lots of violence and gore as he almost kills her ;p
The timeline isn't canonical although it's set sometime before infinity war when Bucky is still battling with the winter soldier. reader is also covered in scars because of the circumstances surrounded how she got her abilities.