Chapters: 11/20
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America - All Media Types
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes/Vasily Karpov, Peggy Carter/Gabe Jones, James "Bucky" Barnes & Howling Commandos Members
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan, Gabe Jones, Jim Morita, James Montgomery Falsworth, Jacques Dernier, Peggy Carter, Howard Stark, Arnim Zola, Vasily Karpov, Steve Rogers, Rebecca Barnes Proctor, Angie Martinelli, Chester Phillips, Winifred Barnes, Dottie Underwood, Johann Fennhoff
Additional Tags: Howling Commandos Family (Marvel), Protective Howling Commandos (Marvel), Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Human Experimentation, Prisoner of War, Torture, Non-Consensual Body Modification, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Inappropriate Humor, Everyone Is Unhinged, Body Horror, Panic Attacks, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Rewrite, Winter Soldier Handler Vasily Karpov, Not Agent Carter (TV) Compliant, Cold War, Red Room (Marvel), Red Room, Self-Harm
Series: Part 12 of The Man on the Bridge
Summary:
The Howling Commandos can reluctantly, spitefully, and maliciously comply with most of SHIELD’s more questionable decisions, but the sudden appearance of Vasily Karpov on the scene lights a fire of vengeance that puts them on a collision course with the newly commissioned Winter Soldier.
Canon Divergence AU Set post-WWII.
"Steve and... Bucky," it says slowly, testing the names, the concept they represent together.
"That's right," Steve confirms, his voice thick with emotion again, but different this time - warmth instead of sorrow. "Steve and Bucky. Just like always."
Always. The word echoes strangely, triggering fragments of memory - a small, stuffy apartment; bloody knuckles and exasperated sighs; shoulders pressed together on a narrow mattress; a campfire somewhere cold, Steve's new, larger body still somehow fitting perfectly against its side.
Always. Steve and Bucky. A constant, a certainty in a world of shifting, unreliable memories.
"Yes," it says finally, the single word carrying the weight of a choice, a desire, a preference of its own. "Steve and... Bucky."
Steve's breath catches audibly, his arms tightening fractionally around it. "Yeah, Buck," he says, voice unsteady with what sounds like joy.
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