This entire fandom died as one being after seeing the superbowl trailer with so much Bucky! We got about three requests for fics talking about Bucky being in the cryo tank or his trauma being frozen. Hopefully, these deliver. And Now, join me in hell:
20th Century Limited (E) Words:52010 by Speranza
“Where am I? Where is this?” and he was in Brooklyn, he was on a beach, the train was shaking around him. He was in the plane, ice splintering up onto the windshield. He was in a tank, tubes trailing from his face, from his groin. Christ, he was cold. There was still ice on his fingers. He was in the Grand Canyon. He was in Times Square. This couldn’t be Times Square. Where the hell was this? “Tell me! Where am I, who are you, where's—” —Bucky?
A Face Built For Gettin' Punched (E) Words:189012 by bomberqueen17
This is Bucky in from the cold, fresh off a triumphant escape from HYDRA, but stuck now with the aftermath. His arm is busted, he has 75 years of cumulative damage to deal with, HYDRA's vengeance includes releasing the files on his missions to the world and whipping up sentiment against him, he still has implanted conditioning to reckon with, and he's a YouTube sensation.
Steve has to handle his confusing career status, the unfinished business he and Bucky left behind decades ago, and the whole idea of having personal feelings and, like, relationships and things.
Natasha is still coming to terms with life as not-a-spy, and her own implanted conditioning.
Sam Wilson is perfect in every way but sometimes exasperated. His job is not easy. His personal life is even less easy.
Breaking the Ice (E) Words:6693 by Dira Sudis (dsudis)
It always hurt like this when he came out of the ice. Freezing to death was peaceful at the end, but waking up was fire and pain and this horrible helpless shaking every time. This was the first time he'd had someone to hold on to, though.
Codename Captain America (T) Words:14611 by fannishliss
The Asset does not return to the checkpoint, despite Hydra directives.
Cryogenics (E) Words:12772 by Sodafly
“What is there to know?” Bucky asks although he knows the answer, leaning into the gentle touch. Gentleness is something so unfamiliar.
“We’re the same Steve. We’re the Winter Soldier.”
“Then why do I call you Bucky and why do you call me Steve?”
Ghost in the Shell (M) Words:50233 by Wind_Ryder
He lay the jacket over the Winter Soldier's body. “My name is Steve Rogers, we’re going to get you out of here.” The head turned, wide blue eyes stared up at him. Steve felt his breath catch in his throat.
“Steve?” the Winter Soldier asked.
After mounting a valiant war effort, Steve’s body finally won out over his mind. He turned and he puked. He was still vomiting even when Natasha shouted for the man to stay still and not move. There, in the tube, frozen in time, lay Bucky Barnes. Natasha was right. Things could always get worse.
How They Make You a Weapon (M) Words:34332 by monicawoe
written for the prompt
"Lovingly detailed dark!fic about the process by which Hydra turned Bucky into the Winter Soldier."
Knee-high by the Fourth of July (T) Words:4099 by Spylace
Five times Steve scared people while defending Bucky and the one time he put the fear of God into them.
push your old numbers (M) Words:2312 by lanyon
The Winter Soldier emerges.
The operative must be eased from cryostasis as one would ease a child from a nightmare. A low level of lighting is required. Remember! Soothing voices. Previous experience has shown that the operative reacts unfavourably to conflict within the first ten minutes of waking. He is our greatest achievement. Treat him accordingly. Treat him as one of the Kelch eggs. Treat him as you would your ailing grandmother. Treat him as you would your lover. Treat him as you would any volatile substance. Failure to do so is catastrophic. Remember Sasha. - Nasten’ka Petrova.
Recursive (not rated) Words:67128 by Domenika Marzione (domarzione)
In the wake of the HYDRA revelations, Steve Rogers finds himself both a pawn of the rebuilding SHIELD hierarchy and the leader of a newly-independent Avengers. He’s got masters he can’t run from, teammates he can’t let down, and a best friend who is turning his newly remembered past to ashes.
But when a blast from a mysterious device seemingly sends him back to 1944, Steve has to decide if he should he change his past and risk ruining his future by fixing his greatest mistake.
Requiem Æternam (M) Words:18621 by hitlikehammers
The truth is: cryostasis is still a form of sleep.
Just because you're frozen doesn't mean you cannot dream.
Right of Refusal (G) Words:3330 by biblionerd07
5 times Bucky said no, plus one time he said yes and no.
Sing Me the Alphabet (T) Words:78290 by thesardine
There wasn’t anything left to salvage. That’s what Fury believed. It would have been a kindness to put him down.
When SHIELD finally releases Bucky from custody, he is not the man anyone expects him to be. The ruthlessness of the Winter Soldier is gone, replaced with a child-like wariness as he struggles to communicate his warped understanding of who he is and what was done to him. But with Hydra scrambling to regroup, SHIELD takes dangerous measures to secure Zola's algorithm to use against them, and Steve is dragged back into battle, forced to weigh what's best for Bucky against what's best for the fate of the free world.
Steve races to recover his friend before the man who was Bucky is gone forever. When the rescue stalls, he starts to crumble under the weight of everything he has lost and everything the war has taken from him.
Meanwhile, Bucky confronts a terrible piece of ex-SHIELD tech that was in development long before Project Insight, but in order to survive, he must decide who he is going to be: the vulnerable Bucky Barnes or the indomitable Winter Soldier? It turns out there might not be as big a difference as everyone seems to think.
The Sun & The Star (T) Words:2166 by greenbergsays
There is a way these things are done; this is not it.
Or the one where Steve belongs to the Winter Soldier.
this sudden sinking feeling of a man about to fly (T) Words:1701 by lanyon
During the events of The Avengers, Steve finds more than HYDRA weaponry on the Helicarrier.
United States v. Barnes, 617 F. Supp. 2d 143 (D.D.C. 2015) (T) Words:20605 by fallingvoices & radialarch
Winter Soldier set to stand trial for Washington D.C. massacre and treason apne.ws/1og6SWE