James Buchanan Barnes thought he'd finally left HYDRA behind. Then a ghost from its darkest experiments walks back into his life. As a mysterious survivor known only as "Mimic" is drawn into a global conspiracy involving super soldiers, hidden agendas and forgotten secrets, Bucky is forced to confront his past once again. From uneasy allies to something much deeper, this is a story about healing, second chances, and finding a future after a lifetime of war.

They turned her into a weapon before she even knew what she was. Katie Forbes-Subject 0, Project Recluse-the Red Room's most dangerous success story. A ghost in red. A mind carved into obedience. A heart rewritten until nothing real was left... or so they thought. He was never meant to remember. Bucky Barnes-the Winter Soldier-HYDRA's perfect assassin. Silent. Ruthless. Broken into something unrecognizable. A weapon wrapped in a man who used to be a hero. When their worlds collide, it isn't fate. It's a mission. She was trained to hunt him. He was trained to kill anything that threatens the mission. But something goes wrong. A hesitation. A flicker of recognition. A memory that isn't supposed to exist. Because beneath the programming, beneath the orders, beneath the blood on their hands... They remember what it feels like to be human. Now hunted by the very people who created them, Katie and Bucky are forced into an uneasy alliance-two weapons learning how to choose for the first time. And somewhere between survival and war... Enemies start to feel like something more.

Their instincts have always been to run. He knows how to retreat behind silence and the old instinct to keep his hands off anything good. She knows how to keep moving before attachment turns into captivity. In the wreckage left by Hydra and TALIC, with old files exposed, public perception twisted into something hungry, and gods dropping from the sky with impossible warnings, they find themselves facing a stranger kind of battle. He is faced with something new and far more frightening than obedience: the first fight he has ever consciously chosen for himself, and he chooses it for her. She, meanwhile, has to reckon with a future that no longer has anyone to chase and nowhere left to run. What comes next is quieter than war, and far less simple: learning how to be constant when neither of them was ever taught how.

''Come morning light you and I will be Safe and Sound'' A story of a forbidden and unsuspected between two of the world's most elite assassins. Through good and bad, memory loss, death.They always know one thing their love for each other was infinite. Always what drove them. What happens when they're together and when they're apart? Will time and hardship change them? Will they recognize the one they've loved for years? Will their relationship recover from what they've been through? Only time will tell.. Bucky Barnes and Lilith Volkova's Love Story

For over seventy years, the Winter Soldier has been a ghost story told in whispers-a weapon wrapped in cold metal and colder programming. But when S.H.I.E.L.D. collapses and the helicarriers fall into the Potomac, the ghost is left broken, bleeding, and entirely alone in a modern world he does not recognize.Enter Elisabeth Elise Smith. To her quiet Virginia neighbors, she is just a sweet, unassuming civilian nurse who keeps to herself. In reality, "Elisabeth" is a meticulously crafted lie-a forged identity hiding a disavowed, top-tier black-ops trauma surgeon who fled S.H.I.E.L.D. after witnessing its darkest secrets. Her isolated cabin isn't a home; it's a heavily fortified underground triage clinic.When a dying assassin with a cybernetic arm crashes through her door, Elisabeth faces a choice. Her training tells her to run. Her instincts tell her he is lethal. But her oath as a doctor forces her to open the door.What follows is a dangerous game of survival and deception. As Hydra clean-up crews close in to reclaim their missing asset, Elisabeth must use her medical expertise and sharp wit to repair Bucky's failing cybernetics and anchor his fractured mind. To survive, they must drop their masks and learn to trust each other.In a world built on political paranoia, shadows, and betrayal, can a doctor's warmth truly melt the ice around a heart trapped in a lifelong cold war?

"𝘙𝘺𝘢𝘯 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘹." "𝘐𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘙𝘺𝘢𝘯 𝘢, 𝘶𝘩𝘩," 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘦𝘥, "𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥." "𝘈 𝘨𝘶𝘺'𝘴 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦?" "𝘜𝘩𝘩, 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘩." "𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘢 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘯." Black shadow operative Ryan Knox is a liar. There's no other word for it, she lies to everyone like it's a sport. Which is ironic, considering how much she hates being lied to. The only person who knows everything? Nicholas Fury, the man who had Ryan's files sealed and recruited her under heavily confidential circumstances. She works alone, in the dark, acting as SHIELD's personal cleaner of messes she never made. When strange things keep happening, Ryan uncovers a trail of corruption and bloodshed, all leading back to her. Without knowing who to trust, she has to keep sniffing out the truth on her own. Ryan is forced to stare her past in the face, realizing that she's not as in control as she would like. Will Ryan Knox continue to be a liar, or will she take a leap of trust and fight back like she was meant to? bucky barnes x f!oc (age gap) tws-thunderbolts

|| 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐎𝐍𝐄 || ❝Pressure creates diamonds, but fire refines gold.❞ She is plagued by her memories, stuck in the past. He believes in her, but while she is stubborn to her ways, he knows that she can be better. With a troubled past, Milena Kordes discovers a life of murder and darkness. Set on acquiring revenge and figuring out who had been at fault that night, she becomes stuck in a struggle between the life she once knew and her reality. 【 Will she be able to choose between achieving revenge for her past or happiness for her future? 】 - this is set in a fantasy world after Age of Ultron. I'm acting on the idea of Bucky joining the Avengers after Winter Solider. Civil War is also introduced near the end! Stay tuned :))) & pls read it pls thank u 🥺 UPDATE: I'm in the middle of revising this story. As when I first wrote this I wrote without any major editing. Now, I'm going to revise and go through the book more, before I add on to the sequel. Started: February 7th, 2021 Finished: April 17, 2021 59,231 Words '•.¸¸.•''¯'••._.• #1 in TopSecret •._.••'¯''•.¸¸.•' #665 in wintersolider #363 in sebastian

Born from secrets no one was meant to survive, Shade carries a power she does not control-and a past that refuses to stay buried. Brilliant, lethal, and unpredictable, she walks a line between charm and danger, knowing every choice could tip the balance between life and destruction. Some powers cannot be hidden. Some destinies cannot be escaped. And some storms, once awakened, cannot be tamed. "Power sleeps in shadows... but shadows do not forgive." "Power sleeps in shadows... and he was about to step into them." fem OC x Steve Rogers

Anna Kuznetsov was raised to be a weapon. The Red Room taught her how to fight, how to kill, and how to obey. Feelings were weaknesses. Attachments were punishable. Love was forbidden. Then she met the Winter Soldier. HYDRA's deadliest assassin was supposed to be a machine-silent, ruthless, and incapable of mercy. Yet behind those cold blue eyes, Anna saw something no one else did. A man trapped beneath decades of programming. As missions grow bloodier and the walls around them close in, Anna must decide whether to remain the perfect soldier she was trained to be or risk everything for the one person who makes her remember what it means to be human.

Guards close in. Sam circles above. Bucky feels the solid line of her spine against his. Familiar. Different. Dangerous. "You could've called," he says under his breath. A guard advances. She cracks her knuckles lightly, once. Twice. Even. "And miss this- timing's perfect," she replies. Another wave surges forward. Bucky rolls his shoulder, metal glinting beneath torn fabric. "I had it handled." A faint smile curves at her lips. "You always do." The first guard lunges- And the hallway descends into violence- ---------- In a slow burn of tension, fear, and unspoken truths, they must navigate the delicate pull between survival and connection, restraint and surrender. Because sometimes the quietest things carry the most gravity-and sometimes the only way to stay is to let someone in.