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Stucky angst fic recs? ideas & suggestions?

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I liked this a while ago because I was on mobile but I have a slew of recs that maybe aren’t as common (and some that are).

H/c angst:

Fly from Heaven - thegraytigress (actually this author has a ton of quality h/c. Emphasis on hurt)

Bucky’s not who he used to be, even if he is in the same place, whispering the same things and holding onto the same hopes. All he knows is that he believes in Steve. He believes in their friendship. He believes in his memories. And his memories are telling him that Steve is going to be okay. Steve will come back.

Gifts From Polydamna - bob-genghis-khan (idek_idic)

Steve didn’t know exactly what it was that had brought him here. He just knew that he was in a strange bed, in a strange room, with a familiar face.

He couldn’t move, and everything was pain, but it was okay because Bucky was there to look after him. Bucky took the pain away, and cared for him with gentle hands and quiet words.

But something wasn’t right.

Today is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life - An Errant Tumbleweed (cryogenia)

A long time ago, a great man made a promise to him: one day, you will no longer have to fight. 

The Right Way to Fall - Taste_is_Sweet

He’s nearly uniform grey like the sky outside, with his grey, unremarkable jacket and equally unremarkable grey cap. Just scruffy enough that most people would avoid eye contact in case he asked them for change. But his eyes are startling blue and stark and wild, and he looks at Sam and Sam looks at him, and yeah. Turns out he knows where Bucky is after all.

Except, Sam reminds himself with a slow, cold slide of fear down his spine, this isn’t Bucky. This is the Winter Soldier, who’s gone completely, absolutely still like an animal trying to decide whether to attack or run. And Sam is suddenly, terribly aware of all the people around them: all the tourists and the kids on their field trips; all the families with their babies and toddlers; all the sentimental fools like him come to visit Captain America on an overcast Wednesday afternoon.

But Sam has also seen that expression on the men and women who come to his counseling sessions. He’s seen it in the mirror more times than he cares to count. He knows that kind of fear and pain, just like he knows that the man who was once James Buchanan Barnes could have already killed him. Killed as many people as he wanted to, and run.

He could have, but he didn’t.

the sun will rise (with my name on your lips) - gunboots

“What do you want from me?” Before he was Captain America, before he was Steven G. Rogers, Captain in the 107th, he was just Steve Rogers. Steve Rogers, after all this time, all this science, and all this power is still human. If it means making a deal with the god of lies to bring back his best friend, he’ll do it.

Every time.

Loki’s smile shifts. It’s ancient and terrifying, and it seals his fate.

Convenient to the Longing - Miri1984

Set post Soldier/Ghost and Pre What Makes Me Happy. Flashbacks to what happened to Bucky when he fell from the train — Hydra shenannigans, horrible horrible people doing horrible horrible things. Basically an excuse to write Steve and Bucky angst. Bucky is back, but he has seventy years of memories to sort through, and some of them are ones he’d rather forget. Winter Soldier compliant.

Politics and Animals -Kryptaria, rayvanfox

It all started on a quiet Brooklyn street. Sure, putting the Veterans Administration clinic next to a funeral parlor was probably the universe’s idea of a joke, but it had a coffee shop right across the street. And the old church next to the coffee shop had a new sign over the doors: Howling Commandos.

When Steve Rogers, the new Team Lead at the VA, first looked across the street and spotted the gorgeous guy with the cute dog, he never planned on becoming emotionally invested. It was just supposed to be a no-strings night of pleasure.

But Bucky Barnes turns out to be far more complicated than Steve ever expected, and at every turn, it seems like Bucky’s past, his family, and his stalker are all conspiring against them. Is it even worth the effort?

now we’re face to face -vrooom

“My name Bucky.” It’s hard for him to pronounce his full name. He’s always liked the “buh” sound that his lips make when he smacks them together.

The little boy smiles back at him. “Steve.”

the best of you -gossamernotes

Bucky is on a covert mission when he gets the call.

They tell him that Steve has been compromised.

[The story wherein Hydra captures Steve to create a new weapon. Bucky, alongside the rest of the Avengers, come together and work through the fallout.]