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Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers/Eldritch Entity, Eldritch Entity/Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes Characters: Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), James "Bucky" Barnes, An Eldritch Being, Alexander Pierce, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Tony Stark Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Lovecraftian, Lovecraftian Monster(s), Lovecraft AU, Eldritch, Magic, Portals, Horror, Canon-Typical Violence, Sharing a Body, Tentacles, Softer versions of Lovecraftian horror, Romance, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, kind of?????, Body Horror, possibly? not sure if that's the right tag for this, Polyamory, Does it count as polyamory if they're both in the same body?, Bickering, Communication, Trauma, Grief/Mourning, Background Relationships, Tentacle Sex, Shower Sex, Snark, Digital Art, art embedded in fic Summary: One moment Steve stood listening to Fury talk some nonsense to deceive the bugs apparently everywhere in Steve’s apartment, and the next moment a door opened where there hadn’t been a door before. In the doorway stood a figure, outlined in the fluorescent light pouring out from behind it. Steve made out arms, legs, a head, but around those were....other limbs, squirming and curling. His head ached when he tried to count them, perhaps three, perhaps twenty. His eyes shied away from understanding the sight of them, at once glowing with an oil-slick rainbow of colors while also being the same empty blackness of endless space.
The figure looked hard at Steve, meeting his eyes over a face-mask. The eyes were the same as those awful limbs, simultaneously a bright, mesmerizing gold and also holes into a place with no light at all.