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Post-Avengers, Deserumed Steve | 54K | Explicit
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Thereās no SSR anymore. Itās SHIELD, now. The worst part is, itās named after him in some way, Peggyās idea of a memorial to honor his sacrifice. He hates the thought of it, because it makes him feel like a hypocrite. His shield was only ever a prop, not something to base an agency around.
But heās been mythologized differently. They give him files to read on this thing that Peggy and Howard built, and his story is a part of itāor anyway, the story that Peggy and Howard chose to tell about him.
It shouldnāt matter; they thought he was dead. They never thought he would see what they turned him into.
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In which Steve and Bucky never met, and Steve was always a USO performer instead of an actual supersoldier. The serum keeps Steve alive in the ice, but he wakes up the size he used to be in the 1930s, albeit healthier. Hydra sends the Soldier to kill Captain America, but somehow the Soldier canāt make himself do it.
Suddenly Steve is stuck with an assassin who canāt quite kill him but refuses to leave him alone and the knowledge that Hydra is still out there somewhere.
If you canāt beat them, subvert them.
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Really great canon divergent fic, I really enjoyed it! šĀ
