Here’s a compilation of some Christmas-y fics posted this year! :) ( I put a * before the ones I’ve read!)
THIS IS THE EDITED VERSION OF THIS POST AFTER I MISTAKENLY PUT IT UP ON THE 24TH ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
* Leave Those Umbrellas At Home by rohkeutta (2K)
Bucky watches the watery snow come down and thinks about it, his mood deflating steadily. He imagines Steve going home the next morning, sitting down at his desk and opening his Super-Secret Sexcapade Journal and writing Bucky’s name in next to a carefully-thought Preparation & Performance Grade.
B+ for the effort to look nice naked, C- for being embarrassingly vanilla and wanting to do it face-to-face so he could scritch his fingers through Steve’s beard and hair. Not worth a repetition. Kinky Grade: F.
Bucky’s being uncharitable and he knows it, but Hangry Barnes can be a sad sack of shit when he wants to.
BYOFB (bring your own fake boyfriend) by amsch (calendulae) (3,5K)
Steve needs 1) a fake boyfriend and 2) ice skating lessons.
He currently has 1) a burning desire to prove Tony Stark wrong at their office holiday party and 2) a best friend who he might be deeply in love with.
* Let’s Make Our Own Traditions by debwalsh (3,8K)
A Stark Christmas party. Thor’s Asgardian mead stash. Steve Rogers and spiked eggnog. Bucky.
Where the Lovelight Gleams by Scout924 (4,7K)
“You go right on out that door and you go tell your Ma I said ‘no, thank you,’ and I will not be coming over for Christmas dinner. And there’s not a damn thing you can do about it, Bucky Barnes.”
Bucky’s just trying to make sure Steve’s not alone for Christmas, especially since it’s the first one he’s had since his Ma died. And if he has to drag Christmas cheer through the door all by himself, well, that’s what he’ll do.
* It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year by stevergrsno (noxlunate) (5K)
“You should come over for a drink.” Christmas Stealing Hot Neighbor says instead of answering Steve’s very valid question.
“I really don’t think I should. Sounds like fraternizing with the enemy.” Steve says, even as he’s abandoning his tree and moving towards the gate.
“Look at is as a know thy enemy thing instead,” Christmas Stealing Hot Neighbor says before flashing Steve a smile and oh, oh no, Steve is screwed.
Aka Steve Rogers is competitive, Bucky Barnes is into his hot new neighbor, and Christmas Feelings ensue.
* two strangers in the bright lights by Claudia_flies (7K)
It really is an accident. Steve wouldn’t even call it a slip of the tongue, because what he said and the way it was heard were two different things.
Mistletoe Not Required by odetteandodile (8K)
Two months into their still blossoming relationship, Steve and Bucky: buy a Christmas Tree, babysit a Niece, and Realize some Things.
When Bucky arrives at Steve’s apartment ready to decorate for Christmas, he instead finds Steve a little the worse for wear following a bad day in the avenging business. Bucky makes it HIS mission to prove his boyfriend chops taking care of him. But after the bruises fade (at a super soldier’s healing pace, so like, FAST), Bucky’s left feeling like there’s something more he needs to say.
A few revelations lit by Christmas lights and with mood music by the one and only Bing Crosby, as Christmas truly calls for.
Part 3 of Sweater Weather
* Baby, It’s Cold Outside by LeisurelyPanda (9K)
Steve hates snow. He hates winter. But he loves Christmas and he’s been looking forward to it all semester. All he really wants is to get home so he can relax and spend the holiday with his Ma. Bucky loves snow. He loves winter. He’s Jewish, so Christmas isn’t a huge deal for him, but he loves the winter songs that come on when Christmas rolls around. So when a blizzard comes rolling in while he and Steve are driving home from college at the end of the semester, he’s pretty excited. Steve hates it on principle. Unfortunately, they get caught in it and are forced to pull over and weather out the storm at the nearest cheap motel they can find. There’s just one problem. There’s only one bed.
Can they survive three days of awkwardness and sexual tension? Will their feelings emerge or will they tiptoe around each other as they always have? Will it end in disaster or will it give them the chance to find happiness at last?
The 12 Trees of Christmas by GoodbyeBlues (9K)
‘Suddenly ‘soft’ and 'dark’ and 'lush’ were no longer adjectives fit to be tied to just his Douglas Fir, because the man from the ladder was approaching him, a shy smile on his flawless face, and Steve was totally gone.’
Steve purchases an outrageous number of Christmas trees and accidentally creates a tiny apartment forest, all because he needs an excuse to visit adorably shy tree farmer Bucky Barnes. Lots of fluff and Christmas feels abound! <3
(i’ll be home for christmas) if only in my dreams by crinklefries (13K)
“I told my best friend that story,” Steve says after a moment, voice thick. “When we were seven years old. And he told me he’d do the same for me. And that year, when I opened my present, inside was a small wooden bird to hang on the tree.”
Bucky looks up at Steve, the little bird in his hand and Steve–well he’s smiling.
“I don’t remember,” Bucky whispers.
“I’ll tell you,” Steve says.
(or; six Christmases Bucky Barnes doesn’t remember–and one he will)
* Feline Fatale by roe87 (16K)
Bucky Barnes is an executive’s assistant. He is shy, timid, and no one tends to notice him.
That is until his boss, Alexander Pierce, catches him snooping around one night and murders him for it.
Except, Bucky doesn’t die, he’s saved by some kind of miracle.
Now he has to juggle two identities: Bucky Barnes, shy assistant, who gets asked out on a date by a nice man named Steve Rogers… and his alter ego, a masked cat-man who’s out for revenge, fighting on rooftops with that meddlesome do-gooder Captain America.
Some say cats have nine lives. Bucky’s just begun his.
* Maybe This Christmas by deadto27 (24K)
Bucky’s not going home for Christmas. But it’s fine. He’s spending Christmas alone in his apartment, but it’s cool. He’s not feeling up to seeing his family after his accident anyway, plus he has to work. He’s totally fine with it. But then he runs into Steve, literally, and suddenly his Christmas isn’t looking so empty after all.
* Make My Wish Come True (all i want for christmas is you) by chicklette (20K, 10/12)
Steve’s spent his whole life pining for Bucky Barnes. Why should this year be any different?
A Holiday fic that begins on New Year’s Eve and wraps up on Christmas Day.
If Only In My Dreams by odetteandodile (28K)
Bucky is a highly successful cooking and lifestyle blogger, the gay New England Pioneer Woman if you will. He writes all about life in his Connecticut home with his D.H. (darling husband). Only problem? It’s all complete fiction. He actually lives in a shitty Brooklyn apartment, is single as hell, and has visited Connecticut exactly one time at the age of eight.
When his agent Sam informs him that he’s been offered an exclusive sponsorship deal with Stark Media and a three book contract to go with it, Bucky’s forced to fess up to Sam, who’s predictably…displeased. But Sam’s also convinced the deal is too good to miss—even if they have to put on a little bit of a show in order to get it.
So Tony and Pepper descend on Bucky and Sam’s fake home for Christmas with a devastatingly handsome War Hero in tow, and their already complicated plan quickly gets even more complicated as Bucky finds himself falling head over heels for Steve. Can he keep it together just for the holidays? Did he ever have it together in the first place?
* Get Jingle With It by mambo (41K)
Bucky stands alone in a room full of Steve’s coworkers wearing a light-up Hanukkah sweater and holding a plate of terrible spinach puffs. It’s Christmas Eve, and they’ve been snowed-in, stuck with Steve’s coworkers for nearly a week at their company retreat. Steve is flirting with an asshole across the room while Bucky watches one of Steve’s overly-familiar coworkers making his way over to him, probably to ask Bucky about his sex life for the fiftieth time since this week began. Why does everyone keep asking about Bucky’s sex life? Because everyone at this terrible party thinks that he and Steve are not only a couple, but the cutest couple at this whole shindig. And that apparently makes them feel entitled to all of the information about Bucky’s private life that they can get.
They aren’t entitled, and he and Steve aren’t a couple. But that doesn’t mean that Steve isn’t the love of Bucky’s life.
Bucky nibbles on the edge of the nasty spinach puff and nearly gags.
* Jingle Bell Thot by mambo (8K)
“Holy hell,” Steve says.
“What?”
“Tony’s trying to kidnap Santa Claus.”
