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Whumptober by Destiel101
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Captain America (Chris Evans Movies)
12 Oct 2025
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Whumptober starring our favourite Winter Soldier
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Dismantled Matryoshka by SunshineNGunpowder
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Captain America - All Media Types
12 Oct 2025
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The Winter Soldier, fresh out of the Potomac River and vulnerable, is stalked by Rumlow’s team before he can successfully make his escape. Dubbing the monicker Crossbones, Rumlow uses his privileges as Field Handler to collect the Asset with the promise he won't return him to Hydra. Not that Barnes has much autonomy on the matter after given a direct order, but it's a nice sentiment.
Meanwhile, news from America reaches a certain EKO Commander who can't pass up the rare opportunity of the Soldier being loose from his captors. In true dramatic fashion, and self-interest, Zemo decides to up the stakes for his own devices. Too bad Hydra--choking on the ash of their covert empire--isn’t ready to let their cherished attack dog go. Just to add fuel to the fire, having a new unauthorized Sokovian handler in play certainly throws a wrench into everyone's plans.
As for the Asset. Sgt. Barnes. Bucky. James... He just wants to learn who he is after everything, without others' opinions dictating how he's expected to act. But no one-not Rumlow, Steve, the Avengers, and certainly not Helmut-fucking-Zemo make it easy for him.
And Hydra just won't stop sprouting damn heads.
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Commitments, Conspiracies, and Complications by PreDawnInsomniac
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
12 Oct 2025
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The MCU never really dove into how the Winter Soldier programming was removed from Bucky’s mind. As a scientist, that bothered me. Professor Jadzia Xavier is a semi-original, inserted, female version of Charles Xavier that has come to Wakanda to help right the wrongs done to James "Bucky" Barnes. She’s there to repay a debt, help a broken man heal, and assert her place in the MCU. She didn’t necessarily consider the legal ramifications, the strain on her engagement, or the inconvenient feelings aroused by a one-armed curmudgeon with severe PTSD.
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ever fallen? by scribblesoul
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
11 Oct 2025
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Did he know how it had started?
Well, not this—not what they were doing now—though he knew that too. He knew how that fuck had started, how that tension had begun…
Bucky knew how that teasing had escalated into something more, how the sharp retorts from Walker’s sharp tongue had turned into cutting kisses. -
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“You really scared me there. For a second, I thought you weren’t coming back,” Bucky whispered in a low voice.
It was a vulnerable confession.
He had never sounded like that before, not for John. Ever. It was too personal. Too intimate. Too much.
Or: John time-travels and has to figure it out how to go back, as he struggles to understand why this future Bucky is so different from the one back home, the one that hates his guts.
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Relationship assessment test by Timtamtane
Fandoms: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
11 Oct 2025
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(Chapter 1) Bucky and Sam are forced to go through a ‘relationship evaluation’ by asking each other hard-hitting questions, except, both are too immature to meet up in person.
Their questions are much sadder than expected, but where does that leave them?
A collection of sambucky texting oneshots (including some w/ divorce drama).
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Three times Peter talks to Bucky because he wants to die and one time because he doesn't. by Goozze
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
11 Oct 2025
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"No, you don't under- understand. I was scared."
Bucky blinks, uncomprehending.
"I thought I was going to die."
And suddenly, it clicks. His eyes widen.
"...And you didn't want to," he realises.
Peter is sobbing harder now- not with sadness, or fear, or despair, as he'd thought- but with relief. With joy. He nods.
"I didn't want to."
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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)
11 Oct 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 Feeling of Being Known by hiyabucky
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America - All Media Types, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
11 Oct 2025
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The New Avengers have formed, and Valentina is looking for new recruits. When Evelyn Day turns up with unprecedented, untested and not fully disclosed powers, including the ability to control the Void within Bob, she becomes a valuable and powerful member of the team.
And in the chaos, Bucky Barnes finds love in the 21st century. Life seems pretty good - he's in love, he's seen, he's known - but his past will always come back to haunt him eventually.
Slow burn, eventual plot twists, heavy focus on Bucky's recovery, allowing himself to be loved, and trying and sometimes failing to move on from his past.
*Not canon compliant with Avengers: Endgame because I hated Steve's ending and Bucky deserved more time with him post-Endgame*
*Partially inspired by all those 'Bucky as a boyfriend' headcannons littering my TikTok right now and by some Bucky/Thunderbolts memes*
*Was originally written to be post-FATWS but I have been madly working to make it post-Thunderbolts*
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Between the Lines by JoLRose
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Marvel, Captain America: The First Avenger - Fandom
11 Oct 2025
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James Buchanan Barnes, once a childhood bully, is now a man who possesses Grace's heart—he is a curse that Grace could not escape from. This is a story about friendship, love, challenges of life and all the things that hide between the lines...
Based before and during the events of Captain America: The First Avenger. This story is an alternate universe (AU), and it will include slight deviations from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movie. Female OC, first-person narration.
Disclaimer: This is a fan fiction story and I don't own many of the characters mentioned in it; they belong to Marvel. Some events of the story are also retellings of the scenes from the movie mentioned above. Apart from the original female character and her family, I do not claim any rights to anything else. -
Falling Back by Whimsera_123
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
11 Oct 2025
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He had done this before. He had followed their orders, obeyed without question, and became everything they wanted him to be. Their perfect weapon.
But he had left, he escaped, and he remembered who he was. He started healing, slowly, and painfully. He had friends. He fell in love. He had a life, fragile, haunted by the blood on his hands, and the echoes of their cruelty and violence. But it was still his.
And then they took it all away. Again. They shattered everything he had fought to rebuild. He never thought he would go back, not ever, and certainly not like this. Not when they were using the person he loved to do it.
He had done this before. And now, he will have to do it all over again.
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Sydney "Syd" Maren--a reserved, no-nonsense neurotech researcher--is given her hardest case study yet. The patient? The handsome but grumpy Winter Soldier, James "Bucky" Barnes. Syd has no patience for traumatized super soldiers who hide guns in their lunchboxes, but maybe she'll learn a little sympathy when she gets caught up in an adventure with her cranky patient.
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Operation: Throuple by bryonyotsana
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
10 Oct 2025
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What if a temporal hiccup meant Steve Rogers completely botched his trip back in time and landed smack-dab in the middle of the newly formed Thunderbolts? A group of dysfunctional "heroes" with more baggage than a lost-and-found convention.
For John Walker, it's the greatest day of his life. A lifelong fanboy, he's now on a team with his idol, Captain America, and Bucky Barnes, the one guy who’s been giving him the cold shoulder since forever. But John's hero worship is more than Bucky can take. Now Bucky has to deal with the guy he thought abandoned him and a puppy-dog soldier who's showering Steve with the admiration Bucky had been so carefully rejecting. It's a possessive, jealousy-fueled nightmare.
Now, with missions to run and way too many feelings to unpack, the trio finds themselves in the most awkward love triangle in superhero history.
Their solution? To somehow convince a completely oblivious John Walker that two of the world’s most complicated ex-soldiers are clumsily trying to court him. It's all a disaster, but hey, at least they're in it together.
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About You (Bucky Barnes x OC) by ilovefictionalmales
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Chris Evans Movies)
09 Oct 2025
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Saving my brain power for the actual content in this story, basically Steve Rogers (MCU) has a younger sister named Rose (I'm so sorry I know this name is really basic but it was really popular in the 20s when she was born) who fought in WWII with him and she and Bucky Barnes were engaged before he "died" and Steve and Rose were turned into ice cubes (derogatory).
Rose and Steve are now in modern times (2016) having issues with their superpowered roommates (The Avengers) and trying to get their PTSD ridden third member of the trio (Bucky) to remember that he cares about them.
I swear there's actually substance to this story I'm just so unserious please read it so I feel important
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Bucky has a chat with Winter about wants.
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you don't have to hold me anymore (our caves collapsing) by morally_gay
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Chris Evans Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel
10 Oct 2025
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Bucky fades in and out of consciousness, so often he can’t tell what’s real and what’s not. If the war and imprisonment hadn’t been enough to drive him crazy, this was.
He wondered if people would remember him— remember him, not some warped version they constructed in their mind. Steve would remember him. Rebecca, if she could still remember her older brother when she grew up.
Bucky closed his eyes and hoped they wouldn’t miss him too much.
Footsteps, crunching on snow, barely audible over the ringing in his ears. A voice— a man. Talking to someone slowly. “—е дышит."
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james barnes becomes the winter soldier.
[WHUMPTOBER 2025, DAY 9: "suicide"]
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- Part 9 of whumptober 2025
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Can you ever wash away my blood (from your pale stained hands)? by eeshakaur08
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel (Comics), Black Widow (Movie 2021), Black Widow (Comics), Winter Soldier (Comics), Captain America (Movies)
09 Oct 2025
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Her eyes scanned the room, her eyes catching dark-hair, a glint of metal, a face, beauty and danger frozen in time. Sitting on one of the couches, looking dazed and out of place, was someone she never thought she’d see again. Her heart lurched in her chest, a flash shock passing through her eyes, only detectable by those closest to her... She couldn't afford to let her emotions show. Not now. Seeing Bucky again, (James, her mind screamed at her), stirred up memories she had long buried, feelings she had tried to forget, hurt and pain she had overcome. But if nothing else, she was a spy, a master of deception, and she would play her part. For now, she would pretend that James “Bucky” Barnes was just a new, slightly traumatized, Avenger, who happened to have done a short gig as the Winter Solider... She had to. For the sake of her team, for James, and for her own sanity.
Or an Avengers AU, where James and Natalia met in the Red Room but were separated, and now with James back, Natalia will have to overcome her emotions to maintain her carefully constructed new life. (I know this fucks with the timeline and I don't care, let me have my winterwidow in peace)
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Like Real People Do by microwaved_huh
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
09 Oct 2025
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Following Bucky's pardon, he is left with a level of freedom he hasn't had the privilege of experiencing since the 40s. It isn't too difficult for Bucky to figure out most aspects of the modern world - new technologies, fashion trends, the occasional alien invasion - and he is adjusting to all of that quite well, but the people? Bucky would rather not. Between an incessant Sam who keeps calling "just to check in" (Bucky assumes it's only out of obligation, or some promise to Steve), and the people he impacted as the Winter Soldier (both positively and negatively), Bucky has decided that isolation suits him best.
For some reason, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find some alone time, much to Bucky's dismay.
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The War That Lasts A Century by cuckybbarnes
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Marvel 616
09 Oct 2025
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(18+) STUCKY — ONGOING CHAPTERS (as of Oct. ‘25)
This story begins PRE-WW2 in 1941. MCU events are ahead by 1 year, this timeline was so hard to figure out but this is what makes the most sense.
Steve and Bucky are canon best friends who partially live together at Steve's house.
NON-ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP.RIGHT NOW: Bucky is struggling with his sexuality. Steve is more willing than Bucky—feelings are proven difficult to talk about.
SIDENOTE: Currently, Bucky is the top and Steve is the bottom but Steve is the INEVITABLE top once we reach post-serum (soon). Give it a chance guys...<3This is a SLOWBURN with a lot of smut.
I intend to write this fic beginning in 1941 and ending after (some of) the events of CACW except everyone is living happily in Avengers tower.So far, we’ve reached the years: 1941 and 1942.
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8 – Elusive ghost (Aftermath of Torture – Blindfolds - Deaf Character) by Hilimi
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe
08 Oct 2025
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Bucky was honestly appalled at how easily he had fallen back into the Soldier's shoes. It was just so... easy. Natural.
He often reassured himself that this was who he was, a soldier, even back then... but the forties were long behind him now.
Gone were the days when he knew how to take care of a combative but wounded blond disaster.
Unfortunately for him, this era, like all others, did not care if he was ready or not.
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- Part 8 of Oktober 2025