If you've been holding off, waiting for a completed fic, now is your time!
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Chapters 18 + 19 together are about 8k words, so set aside some time for this one! I wanted to split them up more but alas, it simply didn't work out. Chapter 18 is the really long one.
Chapters: 6/?
Fandom: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson/Helmut Zemo, James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson, James "Bucky" Barnes/Helmut Zemo, Sam Wilson/Helmut Zemo
Characters: Helmut Zemo, James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Oeznik (Marvel), Joaquín Torres
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, Conflicted Emotions, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Heavy Sarcasm, Angst, Fluff, Tumblr Ask Box Fic, hurt zemo, Troubled Sam, Raging Bucky
Summary:
A team. Friends. A well-oiled machine. They were always so busy worrying about what they weren't, that they'd missed what they were, to themselves, to the world, and to each other. Thankfully, there were many things to be learned from a botched operation: What was important, what they could let go, and what they would fight to hold onto.
"It would be important to note, for anyone keeping score at home, that this decidedly was not how Sam Wilson had wanted their operation to go."
I get Bucky x Zemo, I really do. They are so cute together when one of them isn't treating the other like a literal inanimate object to be sold and used as a killing machine and walking dildo. 🥺👉🏾👈🏾 uwu
BUT......Sam x Bucky. They are just so hot together when they are gently teasing each other, always supporting one another, and protecting/trusting the other with their lives. 🥰
........this is how tf y'all sound.
(This is a parody of a post I saw in the sambucky tag, I'm just being petty. 🤷🏾♀️)
please tell me more about 'lets properly upset zemo'!!!
i'm so glad people are interested in this one! i've already posted a snippet from it here, but here's another! thanks for asking <3
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“Are you ready to talk about it?”
Sam cared. Sam cared so much it only emphasised how little he cared himself. Zemo felt stretched thin, emotion too far past boiling point to calm yet not close enough to exhaustion to feel the gentle tug of compliance on his body.
Sam was crouching down in front of him like he hadn’t just smashed a super soldier’s face in and still had at least one remaining good hand. He didn’t know when Sam had learned to feel any degree of security around him, but for better or worse he didn’t seem to give a single fuck about his supposed risks as he used the cloth in his hand to wipe the thick, sickening layer of sweat, tears and snot from his overheated face.
When Sam followed the action with a “I’m sorry,” it almost sounded like it meant something.
He really needed to stop hooking up with strange men in alleyways. Nothing good ever comes from it and it always ends up being A Thing, and this time is shaping up to be no different.
E / 6.4k words / infidelity and betrayal, public sex, drug use, awkward moments, modern!AU
When Bucky gets the mission assigned to him, that he is to protect the well respected but definitely arrogant Baron, Helmut Zemo in Sokovia during the Holidays, he doesn't quite picture his life will change the way it does. He anticipates an annoying stay at some old mansion, watching out for the man as he sips champagne and flirts his way through the upper crusts of European society. Instead, he sees a charming, intriguing man, who looks at Bucky like no one else does. As Bucky tries to keep Zemo out of harms way, his past as an assassin haunts him, and this Christmas he has to re-learn how to care about someone, and be cared for.
Or, the Christmas Movie AU about how James "Bucky" Barnes falls in love with Helmut Zemo, very much against his own better judgement, at Christmas.