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11k words of post-movie Steve/Bucky. *happy sigh*

Sam's not Steve's only visitor in the hospital. *sobs*

Maria Hill's interview at Stark Industries. Perfect!

The Winter Soldier reaches out to Sam. Sam's not sure how he feels about this.

25k of post-Cap 2 Steve/Bucky that hurts in the best way. Second person POV, and also I'm not sure I buy Tony's characterization, but it's a lovely look at the lengths Steve will go for Bucky.

After the movie, the Winter Soldier tries to find himself. Oh my heart.

Lovely coda to CA:TWS

Really lovely (and surprisingly long! 14k!) post-movie story where Steve, Sam, and Natasha search for the Winter Soldier. Spoilers, obv.

“I got tired,” he says, eventually. “Of what?” “Of killing people. Not a useful trait, in an assassin,” To his surprise, this elicits a tiny smile, no more that the upward turning of one corner of her mouth. He’s starting to get the weird sense that this woman is fond of him. “It’s a useful trait,” she says. “In some circumstances. Trust me.” To his greater surprise, he does. really excellent Steve/Bucky/Natasha from Bucky's POV. no spoilers for Cap 2

Spoilers for Cap 2! Really lovely coda to the movie.

I’ve Been Careless With a Delicate Man by Paraxdisepink

This man is not the same man Steve Rogers used to know, a lifetime ago. Steve Rogers does not care. Lovely, satisfying Steve/Bucky.

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And the thing is. Steve crashed and Bucky killed, but they’re not trapped in ice or a weapon anymore, they’re alive, they’re alive and Bucky knows that Steve can’t look at that life as anything other than a gift. For Bucky, it will take a long while yet to recalibrate his mind to view life as anything more than fragile. Easily expended. Meditative, melancholy look at Steve and Bucky in the 21st century.

Sleeping Beauty AU where Bucky doesn't become the Winter Soldier but he doesn't age either, so he's there when they find Steve in the ice. Lovely.

Oliver thought about it, which he hated doing—not that he didn’t ever think, exactly. Oliver thought about most things a great deal; Diggle called it “brooding,” and he wasn’t wrong. Oliver just didn’t like to think about Felicity, and about what she signified, because that was a loaded gun he was not yet ready to fire. Not thinking about her was like keeping his index finger set alongside the trigger instead of upon it, like stringing the bow but never nocking the arrow. Lovely, melancholy look at Oliver (not) dealing with the changes in Team Arrow and his relationship with Felicity.

"You know, it's weird. In some way, I think I know what you must've felt back when we were growing up, when everyone was trying to bully you around, tell you what to do. But you never gave in. No matter what, you never let the bastards beat you down." Steve nudged at Bucky's shoulder with his own. "Because I always had you by my side." "Nah, I think you'd have still survived without me. You were destined for greatness." "Only because I had you as an example," Steve said, and nuzzled Bucky's jaw. "The important thing is we survived." Lovely Steve/Bucky reunion sex.

Bucky washes up on Kate's shore (that is not just a metaphor). Raggedy former sidekicks finding each other!

Weevil's going back to jail for sure. Not tomorrow, or next week. Hopefully not even next year. But there's no way around it: guys like him, guys with too much skill and pride to spend their lives mopping floors and cutting lawns, end up in jail. Sorry abuela, but he's not spending his life begging rich white guys for jobs and biting his tongue when they disrespect him. Weevil, from post s3 through the movie. Oh, honey.

Kate falls into Gotham and teams up with Tim until America can find her. Ah, Kate and Tim being snarky crimefighting bros makes me so happy.

Sweet post-movie domesticity for Mako and Raleigh.

She can't tell him that she doesn't want to be happy, that she's made for something more complicated than that. She's made for adrenaline and bad decisions that turn out okay in the end. Maybe adulthood means becoming the person who hides complicated truths from your parents, rather than letting them hide complicated truths from you. She rolls her eyes at herself; it sounds like the kind of pseudo-deep voiceover you'd hear at the end of a TV show. Excellent coda to the movie with a wonderful take on the Keith-Veronica relationship.

Felicity bakes when she's happy. Adorable Oliver/Felicity with some quality Diggle, plus cupcakes. (some dialogue punctuation issues a beta would fix.)

Maria Hill doesn't trust Natasha Romanoff. Natasha understands that. This is a really sharp look at Natasha's early days with SHIELD.

AU where Steve and Bucky are CIA agents. Bucky gets captured, and Steve races against the clock to get him back. Lovely, and it's nice to see how the other characters fit into this AU as well.

Really wonderful story about Jane and SCIENCE and also Thor, and how history has treated women scientists. It made me a little teary at the end.

Sweet and slow Steve/Natasha.

Lovely and hot Steve/Bucky Hades/Persephone AU.

Natasha and Bond and some hot spy-on-spy action.

Super hot pre-war Steve/Bucky rimming.