whoo alright so here’s my @stuckysecretsanta fic for @timelord-rowan a billion years late. he asked for: modern au, preserum steve and fluff. i hope i managed?
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modern au, repairman!bucky, artist!steve, dorks having stay-in dates, slice of life fic
summary:
This wasn’t how it was supposed to happen. Repair men were supposed to be middle aged, balding, professionally friendly but otherwise quiet men who did the job and left, that was the law of the universe, right? The person standing in Steve’s doorway with a mildly concerned expression couldn’t be the repairman, despite how he’d introduced himself.
Bucky Barnes, here to fix the faulty showerhead?
or: the one where steve gets a crush on the repairman, but it works out in the end
Do you have anything pre-serum and adorable? Or something similar to This, You Protect? Also if you don't, you should put the Choice is not a word a bullet knows series in your ever-growing library, it's not just Stucky, there's a bit of Sam, and Natasha in there with Steve and Bucky, it's a bit of a crazy mix, and a bit like This, You Protect, just think some people might like it. Thanks as always.
adorable pre serum here and here!
I haven’t found anything quite like This, You Protect so far. the closest I’ve found was a 90k gen fic you can find here
If any of our followers have any other recs like This, You Protect please let us know, I’d love to read them!
Can I have some more Coffee shop and bakery aus? Ive finished the ones in the tag you linked. Thanks.
I thought you might be back for more soon. Enjoy!
Cards to your Heart
The one where Bucky is an Iraq war vet working at a coffee shop and Steve is the starving art student he falls in love with.
Not Another Auld Lang Syne
Coffee Shop AU. Natasha, Jane and Darcy own Les Trois Demoiselles bakery and cafe. There are no superpowers. Bucky and Steve are army veterans working harder than they should to find a normal life after the traumas that have scarred them. Steve has bad lungs, Bucky is an amputee. Tony andPepper are "fixers" by nature.
Nothing Short of Thankful
Steve's hunkered down on a bench right outside the still-dark Starbucks,thankful for the mittens that Sam’s mother had knitted for him and clutching his newly-updated astronomy journal to his chest, when he hears a jingle of keys and a door creak open to his left. His head snaps up and his heart leaps because thank fucking god someone’s finally come to open the damn Starbucks.
But no, it’s not the Starbucks guy (whose name Steve always forgets, no matter how many times he was there when he opened up), it’s someone going into the new bakery that just opened across the street.
The Second Rise
The one where Tony buys Steve a bakery after Bucky goes MIA, and three years later, Bucky comes back.
Shrieking Guns Out of Tune
Steve's life is slowly getting better after the war. He gets better, he has friends, he drinks, he bakes.And then Bucky returns.
Sprinkles
Steve Rogers owns the best Cupcakery in Brooklyn. The garage that just opened across the street, however, may be driving business away with its seemingly dirty and rough-around-the-edges staff. Add in the stress of planning a wedding with his fiancée Sharon, plus a high-strung finance manager, and Steve was a nervous wreck. But when the drop-dead gorgeous mechanic with a sleeve full of tattoos and long brown hair comes into his shop one day with a nervous smile and two dollars in his pocket,Steve doesn't think anything could really come of this chance meeting. It's just harmless flirting. Right?
Boy was he wrong...
Sweet On You
Bucky Barnes is the owner of a small bakery shop which a sleep-deprivedSteve Rogers walks into one early morning and consequently flips Bucky's world upside down.
This Town is a Song About You
But sometimes, when his bed feels too big and too empty, Steve wishes for someone. (If that someone happens to be named Bucky Barnes, well, at least he's consistent.)
Even though my iPad's browser is still overloading with fics, I must read more Bakery AU! I've loved what I've seen recced that seems to go along with that. (Cake Walk and Sprinkles) and I've been craving more. Thanks.
Have a look at our coffee shops and bakeries tag and if you’ve read them all or just want like ten more send in another message and I’ll make a post with more bakery aus when I have the time!
Hello! I've loved all the other fics I've seen recced on here, can you dig me up any lengthy modern au please? Thank you, you're amazing and give amazing recs.
Here are some skinny!steve modern aus, but also have some big steve ones!
Heat of the Night
Based on this prompt: Steve is a cop. Bucky is the kept boyfriend of the super rich bad guy. Bucky doesn’t really have any information because his sole job is to look good when they go out. But he gets Steve’s card and he calls him and Steve meets him for lunch and coffee and dinner and Steve knows this could be a bad thing. He knows Bucky could be a trap. But the way he talks, how he smiles at Steve, laughs like it’s a sound he’s not used to making…Steve thinks he could be worth it. Steve thinks he could be worth everything. (via tumblr user disappointme)
If You Can’t Stand the Heat (Stay Out of the Kitchen)
When Captain Steve Rogers left the Army he fell in to a life of cooking. He never expected it to lead him to become a personal chef for the Barnes family, one of the most influential families in Washington D.C.
He certainly never expected to fall for their playboy son
The First Rule [WIP](seems like Broken Dicks and Bloody Noses to me)
Steve Rogers keeps showing up in the ER after a fight, and Bucky decides to ask Steve to be his trainer… and maybe out on a date…
Aint No Rest for the Wicked [WIP](sorry for reccing this so much but it’s my lifeblood)
Steve’s just moved back to Brooklyn after spending ten years in California trying to make a life for himself as an artist right after high school. Having escaped to the other side of the country following the sudden death of his mother, Steve feels guilty about abruptly leaving all his friends for so long, unfulfilled, scared and nervous about started college at his age, and unbelievably lonely. So when he meets Bucky Barnes, a young sex-worker, at a bar the night before his first day of classes, temptations might be too high to resist.
One night paying for sex with the most sinfully gorgeous guy is nothing to brag to the papers about, huh?
S'not like he’ll ever see him again anyway…
…Right?
Camp Knightwood
It feels incredible to be back here; it still looks and smells and sounds exactly the way it did ten years ago, but being back at Camp Knightwood is also a little bittersweet. He knows Bucky’s probably long since moved on from this place, from the friendship and whatever else they’d shared over the course of eight summers but… Steve still can’t help but feel a little nostalgic. Camp Knightwood was where he made his first real friend, where he’d given Bucky Barnes his first real kiss, where he’d tentatively fallen in love for the first time at fourteen years old.
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In which Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes spend eight summers together, and then ten years apart, and then reunite as camp counselors.
If you need more come back bc modern AUs are literally everything to me ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I'm on mobile again. Can you please find me some Artist!Steve? Or Punk!Steve, or TattooArtist!Steve. Loved the ones you suggested last time. Thanks.
See our Artist!Steve tag! theres only a few in it cause i need to go in and make sure everything is tagged but its gonna be a lot of work so i’ve been putting it off. there should be more in it within like the next two weeks maybe if i get to it before uni starts, if its not done by then maybe like in october when I go home for thanksgiving.
Theres a lot of overlap in the Tattoo Artist! Punk! areas but I gave you some of each anyways.
Punk!Steve fics
Four Years of College and Plenty of Knowledge (series)
Steve Rogers is an art major and Bucky Barnes is in a frat. Somehow they fall in love.
The Vigilante Pranksters of Brooklyn High (WIP)
Bucky Barnes believes that there are only two good things about high school.One of them is Steve Rogers, the tiny punk who picks fights, steals library books, and skips school to go to protests. The other is Captain America, Brooklyn High’s mysterious vigilante prankster. No one knows who he is; they only know that if you shove one kid into a locker, you’ll find 20 water balloons in yours the next day.Bucky has spent the majority of his high school career trying to stay out of trouble, and he’s about to risk it all for a sincere boy with a secret identity.
Young Volcanoes
At eighteen, James Barnes has mastered more languages than he can count on two hands. But when his homeroom teacher asks him to tutor Steve Rogers, it’s like he forgets how to speak at all.
TattooArtist!Steve fics
Broken Dicks and Bloody Noses
Steve and Bucky meet in the ER, and then keep meeting in the ER because they are both knuckleheads who keep getting beaten up by other people.
I’ve Never Felt Young (but for you I’ll try)
Bucky has been working at Clint’s bakery ever since he left the military. He’s happy with his life, and adjusting to his missing arm. But when tiny, argumentative Steve Rogers walks into the bakery one day, his life will never be the same…
never gonna find it (if you’re looking for it)
Clint has a roommate named Bucky, who Steve has never really met. When Clint and Natasha decide to take the next step in their relationship, Steve is in need of someone to help him pay the rent, and Bucky is in need of a place to stay.
Tiny Hipster Steve, who owns a tattoo shop, and war veteran Bucky find that they share much more than just a living room, and fall in love the way stupid kids usually do.
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Steve Rogers was content with his life. He loved his shop, loved creating works of art for people to display on their bodies, had atight knit group of friends who cared about him, and had finally paid off his student loans and the loan he’d taken out to start hisbusiness. But it still feels like there’s something, or someone, missing from his life.
Everything’s going to change when he decides to take Natasha’s advice and sign up for a military penpal program.
**BONUS ARTIST STEVE**
The Broadest Stroke of Colour
Sarah Rogers always loved Steve’s hands.
“Your hands will do a lifetime’s work,” she’d say. “It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Remember to do the work you can for those you love.”
Almost a century later, Steve does just that.
No Spirit in the Sun
Bucky is a disabled veteran having difficulty adjusting to civilian life. Steve is the artist the VA has hired to paint a mural for the clinic. Last time they saw each other, the cops were dragging them away from the only stable home they’d ever known.
Shine Together in the Darkness
The weight of the worldis love.Under the burdenof solitude,under the burdenof dissatisfaction
Sorry if you've already done this, I'm on mobile. Can you put links for somethings with Skinny!Steve and Modern AU. Thanks. :)
my ultimate weakness. This is pretty much everything I have, it ended up super long, like more than 40, so it’s below the cut
All Those Things You’ve Always Pined For
It’s been fifteen years since Bucky Barnes left Steve Rogers standing in a New York airport and never saw him again. Those fifteen years have brought him wealth and stability; everything his lower middle class Brooklyn upbringing had not provided. He is happy.He doesn’t want for anything.He doesn’t need anything.That’s about to change.
At Ease
Steve frequently sends out care packages for the troops, and when he learns about the penpal program, he’s quick to fill out an application. He’s assigned Sergeant James Buchanan Barnes. Everything grows from then.
Broken Dicks and Bloody Noses
Steve and Bucky meet in the ER, and then keep meeting in the ER because they are both knuckleheads who keep getting beaten up by other people.
Buck Me
Steve’s been friends with Bucky for fourteen years. Unfortunately, he’s also been in love with him for nearly just as long. He’s been pretty good at hiding that over the past few years - until he follows a porn link one night and accidentally discovers that his best friend is secretly a camboy. Steve really shouldn’t watch those videos… Not with the filthy things Bucky does to himself that gets him screaming every time he comes…
He shouldn’t… he really fucking shouldn’t.
Cake Walk
Steve Rogers runs a small bakery in Brooklyn with his friend Peggy. When his neighbours Natasha and Sam announce that they are getting married, Steve is immediately commissioned to make the wedding cake. He’s more than thrilled, but gets more than he bargained for when asked to co-ordinate with Bucky Barnes - Natasha’s highly attractive and charming wedding planner.
Clean Up On Aisle 3
“Think the cops come by Walmart arresting people for indecent exposure often?” The dark-haired man spoke, voice thick with arousal as he let his hands ghost up Steve’s shirt. Steve hissed at the contact, focusing on not dropping his groceries on the floor as a thumb flicked his nipple into a hardened nub.
“God I hope not.” Steve all but purred in response.
Confession and Corruption
Steve Rogers is the son of the Pastor. He’s in the choir, he’s well behaved, and well looked upon by his family and the other members of the congregation. But he’s not so pure as his family would like to think, and all it takes is a dark haired boy with a lazy smirk and teasing red lips to tip him over the edge; a service Bucky Barnes is more than happy to provide.
Don’t You Wanna Know How We Keep Starting Fires?
“What happened?” she asks, following the source of the smoke to the kitchen, where all the windows are thrown open. The smoke stubbornly refuses to dissipate, probably suppressed by the humid morning air outside. The guy’s still coughing, and every so often from behind him Bucky can hear the hiss of the inhaler as he fights to breathe.
“I tried to make breakfast is what happened,” he says, between puffs on the inhaler. He’s wearing, of all things, black lounge pants that proclaim him to be a Gryffindor, despite being approximately Bucky’s own age. “Breakfast didn’t cooperate.”
Fantasmic!
It’s Steve’s second summer working at Disney World when he meets Prince Charming (aka: Bucky Barnes, college kid from Brooklyn whose ass looks absolutely devastating in his Prince Charming slacks) and maybe starts to feel a little Disney magic in his heart.
Flowers in the Window
Bucky tried to readjust to civilian life with a little help from his friend Natasha. As he went to work in her flower shop he learned that he’s actually a natural. What he never expected was the gorgeous blonde that came in every week to pick out a bouquet.
Bucky hated how he felt his heart pound every time the guy walked in to the shop. Hated how someone he hardly knew couldplague his dreams at night. He didn’t even know the guys name for crying out loud and besides, it didn’t matter. A man buying flowers on a weekly basis was definitely not single, especially when they looked like he did.
Nevertheless, Bucky always felt himself trying to stall as he helped him out, lingering as he wrapped the flowers. Besides having an artist’s eye for color, the blond was also apparently an expert on the meanings of each flower. Really. The fucking meanings of them. Instead of fiddling with his phone or trying some other way to look busy, he would happily explain the meaning of that week’s bouquet to Bucky as he worked and that voice. Bucky had no idea how a guy so small could have a voice that deep but it sent shivers down his spine.
Yeah, it was too bad there was no way this guy was single.
four years of college and plenty of knowledge (series)
Steve Rogers is an art major and Bucky Barnes is in a frat. Somehow they fall in love.
History Through Art and Propaganda (Or; The One Where They Do It In Professor Rogers’ Office)
You knew he’d be probably the youngest teacher you’d have. You were expecting the short stature and the ugly sweater and the friendly smile as he introduced himself. You were not expecting the scuffed up Docs or the full lips or the Frodo fucking blue eyes or the most gorgeous hands you’ve ever seen on a man.
i’m a fool with a curse and a crush
“He is, of course, slightly confused as to why Steve has been so willing to hang out with him, considering Steve wears khaki pants and tucks his shirt into his belt, but figures if Steve is weird for hanging out with a kid who wears smudged eyeliner and metal studded leather around his wrists, then Bucky is also weird for voluntarily spending time with a skinny as fuck asthmatic who shines his shoes and combs his hair into place every morning.”
aka skinny!steve and punk!bucky, who are really just two teenagers in love
I’ve Never Felt Young (But For You I’ll Try)
Bucky has been working at Clint’s bakery ever since he left the military. He’s happy with his life, and adjusting to his missing arm.But when tiny, argumentative Steve Rogers walks into the bakery one day, his life will never be the same…
just god stomping his big ol' feet by Poe
The world is ending in fourteen days. Steve can come to terms with that. He’s twenty four. Was sort of hoping to live a bit longer than that, but what can you do? He’s going to die alone watching nature documentaries. Bit depressing, that. Until a man falls onto the fire escape outside his window and invites himself to stay. Suddenly, Steve’s not facing the apocalypse alone, and they decide to make a pact. For the next fourteen days, the apocalypse doesn’t exist. It’s not happening.
Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World AU. You don’t need to have seen the movie to read this, you could consider it a very,very loose inspiration.
Leap Year
It’s a Rogers family tradition, as his mother loves to remind him: Take your love to Ireland, propose to them in the motherland on the day of the Leap Year, and live happily ever after. His father had done it, his father before him, and his father before him. Steve had been hoping to be the end of the line, but if Tony’s going to string him and their four year relationship along, fine. He’ll tak ematters into his own hands.
He’s getting engaged if it kills him, he’s just got to survive a trip to Dublin in the company of James Barnes first.
Like A Good Neighbor, Steve Rogers Is There
The one where Steve Rogers answers calls at State Farm and Bucky is something of a repeat caller.
from a prompt on tumblr that asked for a State Farm AU
this story kind of took on a life of it’s own
a long way from the playground
“Actually, I am dating someone.” He says.
What ends up happening is, he says the first name that comes to mind.
What ends up happening is, he blurts out, “Steve Rogers.”
Without thinking, obviously. Because if he had been thinking, he would have thought of something better than this.
And that’s how Bucky ends up bringing Steve as a date to his sister’s wedding.
Meet-Cute AU’s
series by 74days. Not all modern or skinny steve but a good chunk of them are and theyre all real good
Nighthawks
Bucky’s working the graveyard shift at the diner when some tiny guy in Doc Martens walks in and orders a strawberry milkshake.
No Spirit Standing in the Sun
Bucky is a disabled veteran having difficulty adjusting to civilian life. Steve is the artist the VA has hired to paint a mural for the clinic. Last time they saw each other, the cops were dragging them away from the only stable home they’d ever known.
Not Your Average Hook Up
Bucky Barnes is home from the army on two weeks R&R and going crazy. His friend Natasha suggests that he get laid and convinces Bucky to get the Grindr app. Gorgeous tiny blond artist Steve stands out among the profiles and, as nervous as he is,Bucky goes over to his apartment. But he’s pretty sure that Hook-ups are not meant to be like THIS.
never gonna find it (if you’re looking for it)
Clint has a roommate named Bucky, who Steve has never really met. When Clint and Natasha decide to take the next step in their relationship, Steve is in need of someone to help him pay the rent, and Bucky is in need of a place to stay.
Tiny Hipster Steve, who owns a tattoo shop, and war veteran Bucky find that they share much more than just a living room, and fall in love the way stupid kids usually do.
Of Love And Lightsabers
Steve isn’t particularly happy that his friends have hired him a stripper for his birthday, until said stripper turns out to be dressed as a Jedi…
On The Cusp
Bucky is a rich kid. Steve is his butler. It doesn’t stop them from being best friends.
One Caress
Steve’s rarely been touched in a way that didn’t equate to some kind of hurt. The cold metal of a stethoscope against his frail chest or the sting of a needle drawing yet another blood sample, when he was a sickly child. The bone-shattering punches thrown by the neighborhood bullies on the playground, or by his own father at home, drunk and wild. His mother, weak and clutching at him as she grew more incoherent with the drugs as the cancer ate away at her insides. Touch was something he shied away from,something he told himself he just didn’t want.
Except…he did. He just didn’t know how.
Until he finds a flyer for a local “affection and intimacy services” program.
In which Steve learns how to become comfortable with touch, and there is one very good dog, and a slow-burn romance.
One Row Down
Bucky notices somebody fall asleep on the bus everyday and makes it his mission to wake them up each time so they don’t miss their stop.
There was a small guy sitting across from Bucky one row down, head resting against the window. He was sound asleep, despite the bus jolting to and fro and looked entirely too happy to be asleep on public transport.
sharing beds like little kids
Steve and Bucky are childhood best friends who get separated when they’re thirteen and Steve moves away. Five years later, they see each other at a party.
It seemed to Bucky that there had to be a certain all-encompassing awkwardness in going up to the guy you loved best when you were twelve and saying “Hey buddy, remember me?”
Shine Together in the Darkness
The weight of the worldis love.Under the burdenof solitude,under the burdenof dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carryis love.
(a modern AU where Steve is an artist, Bucky is ex-military current theatre tech and everyone is happy)
Sign Dirty to Me
In which Bucky is a sign language interpreter and has to handle the most unexpected call he’s ever had to make.
Signed, Sealed, Delivered (WIP)
Steve Rogers was content with his life. He loved his shop, loved creating works of art for people to display on their bodies, had a tight knit group of friends who cared about him, and had finally paid off his student loans and the loan he’d taken out to start his business. But it still feels like there’s something, or someone, missing from his life.
Everything’s going to change when he decides to take Natasha’s advice and sign up for a military penpal program.
Sketchbooks and Spies
Bucky stops, remembers he is with a civilian, and grabs his badge from his jacket pocket.“I’m Bucky Barnes, I work for S.H.I.E.L.D. I’m supposed to be bringing that suitcase to a base in California, and the people shooting at us are willing to kill both me and you to get it. For the time being, I think it’s safer if you stuck with me.”“Oh,” is all Steve squeaks out, “Oh.”-Or, spy Bucky gets his luggage mixed up with civilian Steve’s, and winds up being stuck with him for the next two months.
Some days last longer than others
Bucky moves onto Pastor Rogers’ farm on a Sunday.
“Can’t offer you much right now,” Rogers had said with a sad twist to his mouth, “but there’s an old cabin needs fixing up, you’re welcome to camp out there and do whatever you want with it.” He laughed. “Maybe you can even teach my boy to use a hammer.”
The pastor’s seventeen year old son Steve is the last thing Bucky expects. He’s got a smart mouth, a nose for trouble, and a habitof seducing members of the football team. Bucky didn’t think he was looking for anything, but Steve ’s got his own ideas about what Bucky needs.
the structure fell about our feet
Captain America was a game Steve used to dream up when they were kids, but they’re not kids anymore. When they were kids, Steve always came back. Eventually, battle won or forfeited, the glaze over Steve’s eyes would fade and he’d see Bucky and smile, like all the bad guys were gone forever. Back then, it seemed like they really could be.
This Is How We Learn
The year is 1986 and Steve Rogers is a scholarship student at Lakewood Academy, a school for students gifted in music, art and dance. When he meets fellow student Bucky Barnes, Steve learns that sometimes the most important lessons we learn in life aren’t things we’re taught in school at all.
To Be Vulnerable Is Needed Most Of All
Steve is a shy comic book artist and meets his new neighbour, Bucky Barnes.
In which there are awkward longings, meddling best friends, comic conventions, heartache, lemons, video games, dorkiness,dancing and two cute boys.
Trains
Bucky Barnes is the lead singer of Winter Soldier. Steve Rogers is their biggest fan.
Undertones and Overtures
In which Steve is deaf and Bucky is an amputee.
Bucky Barnes is studying for his masters in Music Composition at Juilliard when he unexpectedly meets skinny little artist SteveRogers in a book store one Saturday. They both have their issues and it’s going to take a lot to understand each other, but with a little help from friends and family, they might be able to make this work.
The Vigilante Pranksters of Brooklyn High (WIP)
Bucky Barnes believes that there are only two good things about high school.
One of them is Steve Rogers, the tiny punk who picks fights, steals library books, and skips school to go to protests. The other isCaptain America, Brooklyn High’s mysterious vigilante prankster. No one knows who he is; they only know that if you shove one kid into a locker, you’ll find 20 water balloons in yours the next day.Bucky has spent the majority of his high school career trying to stay out of trouble, and he’s about to risk it all for a sincere boy with a secret identity.
Wait What?
“That’s all I needed. Thanks. I love you, bye.”
A solid five seconds passed with Bucky frozen at his desk.
He should have hung up. Immediately.
War is hell, but that’s not the half of it…
Criminal AU.
Bucky Barnes is a drug addict, running out of friends and money. When Natasha finds him a job at a beat up record store, Bucky isn’t sure what to think of the owner - Steve Rogers is taking on some moral crusade to protect the neighborhood from gang violence by working alongside the biggest and best of the underworld community. All Bucky knows is that there is no way in hell he is going to get involved in this. Not at all.
with the sun shining down over me and you
“From the sounds of it, he probably has a concussion. It’d be safest for everyone if we brought him in just so the docs could get abetter look at ‘im.”
“No,” Steve croaks. “‘M fine. Fit as a whistle.”
You Stand Alone to Every Record I Own
Bucky Barnes is eighteen, a senior in highschool, and totally in love with his best friend. It’s okay. He’ll either get over it or sleep with every hipster twink in college who’s in a band. At least, that’s what Natasha says.
young volcanoes
At eighteen, James Barnes has mastered more languages than he can count on two hands. But when his homeroom teacher asks him to tutor Steve Rogers, it’s like he forgets how to speak at all.
[The AU story wherein Bucky has a talented tongue and is praying to get into NYU when he’s asked to tutor Steve, and the boys experience life as their relationship goes from professional to personal over the course of one year.]
