in which the thunderbolts* gain yet another antihero with a complicated past, and bucky barnes takes that personally [bucky barnes x fem!oc] [thunderbolts x fem!oc] [slowburn, enemies to lovers] [found family] [18.4.26] © -𝐣𝐛𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫

in which a girl goes from ghost to family, and she has to live with the terrible miracle of being chosen [bucky barnes x fem!oc] [the avengers x fem!oc] [post captain america: civil war au] [slowburn, found family, angst&comfort] © -𝐣𝐛𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫

Book Two of The Phoenix Years {Previously New Age Red} As Erica and Bucky take the leap into building a future together, they face challenges far more intimate than missions or battles: healing from old wounds, navigating family, and daring to believe they deserve happiness. But just when they think they've settled into a rhythm, life delivers the one surprise neither of them thought possible-one that could change everything.

Atlas Yunshui never expected to find herself living with the Avengers. The 19-year-old drinks and sleeps around at her own will, all while trying to finish high school so she can start next September at Columbia University. One night, when flying back to her home from a fling's apartment, she catches the eye of the infamous Tony Stark, along with the rest of the Avengers. At first, she was reluctant but eventually gave in and moved into the Avenger tower. She finds herself drawn to the mysterious man with the metal arm in the room next to her's and wants to help him in any way she can if he'll let her. Watch as Atlas discovers her true calling and her near-incomparable power, all while falling in love, saving the world, and figuring out the cryptic message her father had left behind.

A sequel to 'The Winter She Made' They were made by HYDRA. Remade by Wakanda. And now-they're trying to live like the world can't take anything else from them. Katherine Zola spent her life following orders she never chose-raised by a ghost, trained to seduce and dismantle, and ultimately tasked with delivering Sergeant James Buchanan Barnes into the hands of the very program that would erase him. That was then. Now she wakes up in D.C. with sunlight on the floor, a wedding ring on her finger, a daughter who laughs with her whole chest, and a husband who looks at her like forgiveness is a language he was born speaking. The Winter Soldier is gone. Persephone is a ghost. And for the first time in her life, Katherine is building something that doesn't require her to bleed for it. Bucky Barnes is done spilling blood for someone else's cause. These days, he fights with bills instead of teeth. Words instead of weapons. Trying to reshape the world that once broke them with nothing more than policy and sheer, stubborn hope. For a man engineered to kill, he's learning how to repair. And Katherine is learning too. Not how to be harmless-she never will be-but how to be whole. How to love without punishment. How to stay. So when the Thunderbolts Initiative rises-an uneasy alliance of ex-criminals, ghosts, outcasts, and shadows the world tried to forget-she agrees. Not out of punishment. Not out of penance. Out of choice. Because if Bucky's going to carry the weight of their history into battle again, she refuses to let him carry it alone. Because she understands better than anyone what it means to be repurposed. To be salvaged. To be feared. The Thunderbolts aren't Avengers. They aren't symbols. They're survivors. And maybe-if they're careful-they're the beginning of something stronger. Something new. Monsters break things. But the two of them-the Winter she made, the past she undid-they are learning how to mend. Together.

Y/N has always kept to herself to avoid others from discovering her abilities. After a night she would rather forget, S.H.I.E.L.D. gives Y/N two choices: stay at a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility to be monitored, or stay with the Avengers to be monitored. She reluctantly chooses the latter. While learning new skills, Y/N faces the challenge of navigating the meaning of family after years of detachment from others. Then, when an old threat familiar to both the Avengers and Y/N reappears, she is given the ultimatum of helping or hiding. Despite the unknown, Y/N places herself in the world of superheroes and finds her purpose may be more than what her parents had her believe. *** [1st person POV] NOTES: Follows a timeline where Hydra is still active after 2014 (CA:WS), Avengers didn't break up after Civil War, and takes place ~one year after Bucky's return from Wakanda.

When you wake up next to a stranger after a reckless night out, you don't expect to see him again-especially not at your new job at S.H.I.E.L.D. But life has a twisted sense of humor. Thrown into a high-stakes tactical unit, you're paired with none other than Sergeant James "Bucky" Barnes-your one-night stand with the smug grin and the lethal hands. He remembers everything. You wish you didn't. Between dangerous missions, training simulations, and trying to ignore the heat every time he's too close, you're forced to balance professionalism with unresolved tension. And just when you think things couldn't get more complicated, feelings start to get involved. You were ready to work with legends. You just weren't ready to fall for one.

In a world where Bucky Barnes was never turned into the Winter Soldier, he and Steve Rogers returned from WWII as national heroes-and stayed close friends into the modern day after both crashing into the ice to save the world. You grew up hearing stories about both of them in Brooklyn, saving the world and having to adjust to this century. When SHIELD expanded the Avengers Initiative, you joined the compound as part of their elite intelligence and security team. A housing reshuffle forces you to share a suite with Bucky. At first, it's pure chaos-snide remarks over coffee, toe-to-toe arguments in the kitchen, heated stares in shared gym sessions. Everyone else assumes you two can't stand each other. Maybe you think that too. But proximity has a way of cracking armor, and behind closed doors, something begins to shift. Still, neither of you dares to acknowledge it. There's too much at stake-team dynamics, SHIELD protocol, and worst of all, Steve's reaction. After all, you're the one person he's always told Bucky was off-limits. In public, it's tension and sarcasm. In private? It's slow-burning desire. And one night, everything changes.

Life hasn't exactly planned out they way that Lilly had hoped. Never in her wildest dreams did she think she would be a 26 year old divorcee and also a single parent, but that was the hand life dealt her. Now she's starting over and when she bumps into a stranger in a cafe she doesn't expect her life to suddenly change paths again. James Barnes is New York's most sought after bachelor and playboy, never wanting to settle down. However when he bumps into the most gorgeous women he's ever seen and her adorable daughter his life is about to be turned upside down in the most unexpected way. He will stop at nothing to protect them. Warning 18+ Contain sexual content, explicit language. I don't own the marvel characters