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1. Ghost Stories by spentlizard

   Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Thunderbolts (Marvel Comics), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • F/M, Multi
   • Work in Progress

   11 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • James "Bucky" Barnes/Ava Starr
   • James "Bucky" Barnes & Ava Starr
   • James "Bucky" Barnes & Sam Wilson
   • Bill Foster & Ava Starr
   • James "Bucky" Barnes & Yelena Belova & Robert "Bob" Reynolds & Alexei Shostakov & Ava Starr & John Walker
   • Yelena Belova/Robert "Bob" Reynolds
   • John Walker/Olivia Walker (Marvel)
   • James "Bucky" Barnes
   • Ava Starr
   • Sam Wilson (Marvel)
   • John Walker (Marvel)
   • Alexei Shostakov
   • Yelena Belova
   • Robert "Bob" Reynolds
   • Bill Foster
   • Alexander Pierce
   • Yelena Belova's Guinea Pig (Thunderbolts 2025)
   • Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
   • Congressman Gary
   • Mel (Thunderbolts 2025)
   • Melissa Gold
   • Hydra Agents (Marvel)
   • The Void | Dark Sentry (Marvel)
   • Antonia Dreykov
   • Other Marvel Characters
   • Carl Striklan
   • Sharon Carter (Marvel)
   • Sarah Wilson (Marvel)
   • Elihas Starr
   • Catherine Starr
   • Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan
   • James Montgomery Falsworth
   • Janet Van Dyne
   • Hank Pym
   • Scott Lang
   • Lemar Hoskins
   • Olivia Walker (Marvel)
   • Slow Burn
   • Eventual Romance
   • Drama & Romance
   • Bucky Barnes Needs a Hug
   • Bucky Barnes Has PTSD
   • Ava Starr Needs a Hug
   • POV Ava Starr
   • POV Bucky Barnes
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • United States Congressperson Bucky Barnes
   • Watchtower | New Avengers Tower (Marvel)
   • Washington D.C.
   • Bucky Barnes & Sam Wilson Friendship
   • Childhood Trauma
   • Mental Anguish
   • Bonding
   • Hugs
   • Fluff
   • Found Family
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Canon Compliant
   • Post-Movie: Thunderbolts (2025)
   • Thunderbolts Team Members as Family (Marvel)
   • Spoilers for Movie: Thunderbolts (2025)
   • The Void Shame Rooms (Thunderbolts 2025)
   • Thunderbolts Team Members Live in the Watchtower | New Avengers Tower (Marvel)
   • Bucky Barnes and the 21st Century
   • Bucky Barnes & Winter Soldier Are Different Personalities
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Implied/Referenced Character Death
   • Slow Romance
   • Team as Family
   • Hydra (Marvel)

   Summary

   Three months after the New Avengers make their debut, Congressman Bucky Barnes is getting ready to pass his first - and likely only - bill of his political career.

   Ava Starr has personal business that she needs to attend to in Washington, D.C., so she hitches a ride with her fellow Avenger (a distinction she's yet to fully embrace for herself).

   Things soon get complicated between them.

   Even when you take the assassins trying to kill the pair of them out of the picture.

   (A StarrBucks/WinterGhost romance, canon compliant up until the post-credits scene; updates when I feel like it)

   Language:

   English

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