a collection of oneshots i've written on tumblr via @/ladyvesuvia of both angst and fluff! some of these have already been published separately on my account.
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PAIRING: TFATWS!Bucky Barnes x Fem!HYDRA!Reader SUMMARY: Being tasked to seduce the ex-Winter Soldier to add him into HYDRA's recovering arsenal turns into a wreck when the fine line between mission and reality blurs as you begin seeing him as your beloved instead of your ticket out of doom. (Loosely Based on Valentine, Texas by Mitski) WORDS: 6.6k REMINDER(S): usage of she/her pronouns. allusions to sex. manipulation. brainwashing. alcohol. trauma. major character death. cursing. major angst. fires. kidnapping. blood. abuse. violence. description of hair changes. hurt...no comfort hehe. errors. please let me know if i missed anything else!
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"It's been you and me since before I was me. Without you, I don't yet know quite how to live."
— I Guess by Mitski
Being left behind to exist was a travesty of a luxury, a future lie to be written on history textbooks of high school students. Some think that life was better when half the population was gone, while some think so otherwise.
You, on the other hand, barely had any idea. How could you if you spent most of your five years in a chair for what you were told was going to become the greater good?
HYDRA had once been so overwhelmingly big, you'd know because you've witnessed it grow right beside the man who took you in when he found you a week after you escaped juvenile prison with no home to return to when you were reduced into a lowly lost orphan in the middle of nowhere.
Elrich Aslanov, the man who dared to renew and revive HYDRA, had fed you, raised you, hoping to turn your abilities accompanied by your fragile trust into a future weapon.
"My beloved child," he had called you on the umpteenth downfall of the organization, determination and purpose clear in his voice. "We'll rebuild all of this and make it ours."
And then the Blip happened.
It was a dreadful situation and yet you had just wished you had disappeared as well rather than training to become a weapon for your so-called guardian's greed.
You hated yourself for having complied in the first place.
You sensed the end coming forth until everybody came back and your new assigned purpose emerged.
"Lure him," you were ordered.
By the time you had set foot outside to fulfill your mission of earning the ex-Winter Soldier's trust with false promise of a romance, you had nothing else in mind but letting go of gratitude towards Elrich Aslanov and just surviving.
You had a plan to convince whoever this James Buchanan Barnes guy was to go somewhere far away with you. You didn't know how to do it, but that was the idea.
Right now, you sat right next to your target, who was occupied in a conversation with an elderly man you did not recognize.
You hadn't watched any rom-com movies or any movies at all to begin with, but knowing how to blend in was part of the job description.
