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Circling Back by chaya
Oct. 31st, 2014 05:53 pmTitle: Circling Backarchiveofourown.org/works/1467004/chapters/3091645
Series Title: It's Not Linear
Author: chaya
ship/characters: Bucky/Steve, Pepper/Tony, Jane/Thor, eventually Sam/I won't tell you but it's great
Rating: R
flocked: ao3
Warnings: lots of feels?
Summary: Bucky comes to Steve, who takes him to Avengers Tower for help. Bucky's recovery is not linear.
Reason for Rec: Bucky feels, Sam, humor, Steve feels, Sam sass, black!Peter, mentor!Bucky, Hulk and snack foods, Natasha and Bucky speaking in Russian, T'Challa, and the entire sequel which has been taken down? Hopefully it comes back.
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Series Title: It's Not Linear
Author: chaya
ship/characters: Bucky/Steve, Pepper/Tony, Jane/Thor, eventually Sam/I won't tell you but it's great
Rating: R
flocked: ao3
Warnings: lots of feels?
Summary: Bucky comes to Steve, who takes him to Avengers Tower for help. Bucky's recovery is not linear.
Reason for Rec: Bucky feels, Sam, humor, Steve feels, Sam sass, black!Peter, mentor!Bucky, Hulk and snack foods, Natasha and Bucky speaking in Russian, T'Challa, and the entire sequel which has been taken down? Hopefully it comes back.
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Parker comes over the next day, wearing street clothes and carrying a backpack. Natasha pulls him into the hallway after the initial meet-and-greet of everyone in the Tower, and just as Natasha had told Steve he would, Peter comes back in looking at Bucky with a forced everything-is-fine kind of expression. Bucky, thank god, doesn't seem to notice, because Bruce has finally gotten around to explaining what it is he does.
"Green?"
"Green," Bruce confirms, smiling a little sadly.
"How big, though?"
Peter edges around the room to come back to Steve, and Steve can still see it - that edge of starstruck awe in Peter's face, even when he's still processing what Bucky is, what he was made to do.
"So, uh." Peter chews his lip. "Hydra, huh?"
"Yeah," Steve says, and his voice is light and firm at the same time. This is your opportunity to get past it. If you don't, this won't work.
Peter nods, following Steve's gaze to where Bruce is raising one hand higher and higher, finally gesturing up to a point in the high ceiling where the Hulk's head would be, and Bucky's eyes are as wide as saucers.
"But he's, like, cool now." Peter puts in that strange modern inflection that makes it a question.
"He's a good person," Steve says. "Who's been through a lot."
"Okay." Peter tilts his head, as if recalibrating a little, then looks excited. "Has someone told him about Obama yet?"
"Sam did. He was more surprised by JFK."
"Really?"
Steve holds his hands out, shrugging. "Everyone seems to forget how much America distrusted Catholics."
