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1. Saving Grace by notyourmoralcompass

   Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   18 Jun 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Rape/Non-Con
   • James "Bucky" Barnes/Original Female Character(s)
   • James "Bucky" Barnes
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Ulysses Klaue
   • Sam Wilson (Marvel)
   • Steve Rogers
   • Tony Stark
   • Natasha Romanov (Marvel)
   • Wanda Maximoff
   • Vision (Marvel)
   • James "Rhodey" Rhodes
   • Scott Lang
   • Helmut Zemo
   • Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
   • HYDRA programming
   • Dissociation
   • Mind Control
   • Trauma Recovery
   • Slow Burn
   • Emotionally Repressed Bucky Barnes
   • post-CATWS
   • PTSD
   • dark themes
   • unreliable narrators
   • Psychological Torture
   • actual torture
   • Heavy Angst with Plot
   • War Crimes and Consequences
   • Betrayal
   • redemption is not linear
   • Weapons With Trust Issues
   • they do not talk about their feelings
   • Touch-Starved and Terrified
   • Slow Burn? This is a Controlled Demolition
   • Emotional Constipation: A Dual Biography
   • healing smut
   • Original Character Needs to Learn Consent
   • Learning Humanity in a War Zone
   • Non-Consensual Touching
   • Non-Con/Rape (mentioned)
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Protective Bucky Barnes
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Found Family
   • Memory Loss

   Summary

   Her mission was simple: retrieve the Winter Soldier and return him to HYDRA.
   Alive, if possible. Dead, if it meant she didn’t fail.

   But nothing about James Buchanan Barnes is simple. Not the way he looks at her. Not the way he carries the title of weapon like a wound. Not the way her suit trusted him more than it ever trusted her.

   He spares her life. And she makes the mistake of letting him keep his.

   Now they're running—together. From HYDRA, from the Avengers, from every power on Earth that wants them back in chains. Every road behind them is soaked in blood. Every road ahead is a dead end.

   And somewhere in the middle of it, he touches her like he’s afraid to break her.
   Like she’s not a weapon.
   Like he isn’t either.

   Where do they go, when there's nowhere left to run?

   And what does it mean to be human, when you were never meant to be?

   A post-CATWS slow-burn character epic. Bucky/OC. Trauma, trust, and the long road to something like love.

   Trilogy of Trilogies.

   BOOK I: NOW COMPLETE
   BOOK II: Chapters Daily

   Series

   • Part 1 of Acts of Grace

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   83,019

   Chapters:

   21/?

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