"You call my name and I'll run to you. I'll always come for you. Do you understand? You're safe with me." When an unknown threat enters your life, protection is offered at the highest level. One catch. The man is infuriating. Finding a way to co-exist with Bucky Barnes seems impossible, until suddenly it's not. When the dark horrors of the past are resurrected, when new players emerge from the shadows, the game suddenly changes. Bound together by a common enemy, you find yourself face-to-face with an unexpected realization. Falling for the man tasked with keeping you safe, is the last thing you expected. This should be interesting.

Modern!AU Sugar Daddy!Bucky Bucky doesn't need anyone, especially not a sugar baby. He isn't that desperate... but she smiles so sweetly and she's endearingly awkward, and he's so lonely. She's an artist, a painter, the type of person who always puts others before herself. Throwing caution to the wind Bucky offers her a place to live, a place where she can finally paint whatever her heart desires. He doesn't need much in return; a friend, a muse.

Bucky and a girl he never met before have to go undercover as married on a mission to Europe. He feels alienated in the modern world, while she goes through life alone and abandoned. Maybe they can find a new home in each other, but she's not easily convinced. Soft!Bucky turning to Grey and then Dark as the story progresses from pining, jealousy, unrequited love, to forced (real) marriage and noncon.

Aliana Gomez dies and wakes up in the MCU as the soulmate to the Avengers. Finding herself working for them, she has to balance keeping the fact that she's their soulmate a secret as she tries to prevent the demise of half the universe. Easy enough, right?