in a world where howard stark has a genius sister, the war doesn't just make a soldier. it makes a trio. steve rogers is the compass. bucky barnes is the heart. maxine stark is the spark with grease on her hands and sarcasm on her tongue, fixing radios, fixing rifles, fixing the people she loves because it's the only kind of praying she knows. ⋆˚࿔ but the future they used to joke about doesn't survive the 1940s. her lover falls from a train and the world calls it death. her best friend disappears into the ice and the world calls it heroic. and max gets too close to hydra's protocols, sees the pattern behind the cruelty, and hydra doesn't kill her. hydra keeps her. because she's useful. because she's leverage. because she's the one thing the winter soldiers body will still recognize when his mind won't. ⋆˚࿔ ⤷ ゛{ 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 → 𝙘𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙡 𝙬𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙪 } ˎˊ˗ 𝙗𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙮 𝙭 𝙊𝘾, 𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙨𝙩 & 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩, 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙪𝙢𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮, 𝙝𝙪𝙧𝙩/𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩, 𝙝𝙮𝙙𝙧𝙖 𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧, 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙮

"Where are you going with this?" "You know where I'm going with this," Jessica said. "She thinks the most dangerous people are the ones who lie to themselves about who they are the longest." "Absolutely not," Bucky snapped, stepping forward, his hands bracing the counter like it was the only thing grounding him. "Jess, are you insane? You will lose everything you've built, everything you fought and survived to become. You really want to give her that satisfaction?" Jessica moved around the island, calm but resolute, standing in front of him now. "If we can prove she's assembled a team of enhanced individuals... if we find them? That's all the evidence we need to bury her. No trials. No backroom politics. Just facts." Bucky let out a low sigh, scrubbing a hand down his face. "So what, you're just going to stroll into her trap and hope it leads somewhere?" "Val wants me on her team?" Jessica leaned in slightly, eyes steady. "Then that's exactly what I'll give her." A smirk ghosted across her lips. "And then we tear her empire down from the inside." *** [Book 3] Prequel: The First Mission Book 1: One Last Mission Book 2: One More Mission Book 3: One Final Mission Bucky Barnes x Jessica Rogers (Fem!OC) Based on the events of Thunderbolts* Started: 07.05.25 Completed: 04.06.25 *** Content Warning: This book contains sexual content, violence, death, and other mature themes. Reader discretion is advised. **Disclaimer: This is a work of fanfiction. I do not own any characters outside of any OCs mentioned. This story is purely for entertainment, and no copyright infringement is intended.**

There were people in this world, shadows of his past, who still wanted the Winter Soldier to suffer. And Bucky knew, with bone-deep certainty, that there was no greater way to hurt him than through the one thing he couldn't live without. Her. *** [Book 2] Prequel: The First Mission Book 1: One Last Mission Book 2: One More Mission Book 3: One Final Mission Bucky Barnes x Jessica Rogers (Fem!OC) Based on The Falcon and the Winter Solider. Started 23.04.25 Completed 07.05.25 *** Content Warning: This book contains sexual content, violence, death, and other mature themes. Reader discretion is advised. **Disclaimer: This is a work of fanfiction. I do not own any characters outside of any OCs mentioned. This story is purely for entertainment, and no copyright infringement is intended.**

"I know I loved you," Bucky's voice broke the silence, low but unwavering. Jessica paused mid-step, her back still to him. A single tear slipped down her cheek, carving a slow path as she blinked hard, refusing to turn around. "I don't need my memories to know that." *** [Book 1] Prequel: The First Mission Book 1: One Last Mission Book 2: One More Mission Book 3: One Final Mission Bucky Barnes x Jessica Rogers (Fem!OC) Follows the events of CA:TFA - Avengers: Endgame. Status: Started: 11.04.25 Completed: 23.4.25 *** Content Warning: This book contains sexual content, violence, death, and other mature themes. Reader discretion is advised. **Disclaimer: This is a work of fanfiction. I do not own any characters outside of any OCs mentioned. This story is purely for entertainment, and no copyright infringement is intended.**

"If the war pulls us apart," she breathed, "promise me you'll remember us like this." Bucky's answer came without hesitation. "If the gods were to take my memories, I'd fall in love with you again," he said, voice steady despite the storm. "In this life, and every life after." *** [Prequel] Prequel: The First Mission Book 1: One Last Mission Book 2: One More Mission Book 3: One Final Mission Bucky Barnes x Jessica Rogers (Fem!OC) Pre-Captain America: The First Avenger Captain America: The First Avenger *** Content Warning: This book contains sexual content, violence, death, and other mature themes. Reader discretion is advised. **Disclaimer: This is a work of fanfiction. I do not own any characters outside of any OCs mentioned. This story is purely for entertainment, and no copyright infringement is intended.**

A young woman leaving an abusive relationship finds herself roommates and friends with The Avengers. My story does NOT follow the MCU. Steve didn't leave after defeating Thanos. Tony, Nat, Vision are all alive. This story doesn't have your typical captured, kidnapped or anything drama. It's pretty drama free, just a cute love story 🥰 TW: Mentions of Self Harm Smut Violence/Blood Mentions of SA/R@pe

frozen heart. hate - noun / verb • an intense or passionate dislike for someone or something. • to feel strong dislike or aversion toward someone or something. 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐕𝐄𝐋 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐂 AU bucky barnes x fem!oc after 𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑𝐒: 𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄 - after 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐂𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐑

Sequel to Good At Surviving. 》It's your time to shine now. Don't let the world sleep on you.《 #3 jamesbuchananbarnes (6/10/21) #1 thefalconandthewintersoldier (9/22/21) (All the characters and events except the ones I made up belong to Marvel. I do not in any way own them.)

"Tell me something I don't know." He whispers. "I'm in love with you." His lips tipped upwards, his eyes casting down upon mine. "Already know that." He whispers, his hand reaching up towards me as he softly brushed his thumb upon my cheek. "Oh yeah?" I whispered right back. He hummed, before his lips are on mine. Winter Soldier x OFC Mature 16+ Sexual Content ahead (*)

They were forged in war and fractured by the same hands that made them monsters. Katherine Zola was born with a name she never chose, the daughter of HYDRA's most notorious architect. A child genius, a living weapon, and the program's most effective ghost. Her mission logs were sealed in blood and buried in silence-until one day, she was given a name: Sergeant James Buchanan Barnes. She didn't know why HYDRA wanted him-not at first. Only that she was ordered to track, weaken, and retrieve him. That her mission began before his fall from the train in 1945. That she was the reason he ended up in enemy hands. And she did it. She followed orders. She delivered him. What she didn't expect was to care. What she didn't plan for was falling in love with the man she helped damn. Bucky Barnes thought he was just another casualty of HYDRA-another soldier stripped of self and turned into a weapon. But the truth was darker. His capture wasn't chance. It was chosen. He was targeted by a girl with smoke in her lungs, ghosts in her eyes, and a lie tucked in her smile. A girl who became everything to him, right before she disappeared. Decades later, they stand on opposite sides of the same war-both survivors of mind control, both drowning in guilt. And both still tethered to each other by a past neither can outrun. Because she was his mission long before he ever became hers. -Set during Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Thunderbolts -long book, buckle up for the ride. #1 in thewintersoldier 9.24.25 #1 in original character 9.23.25 #1 in natasharomanoff 12.28.25 #1 in avengersfanfiction 1.6.26 #2 in jamesbarnes 9.24.25 #3 in samwilson 10.9.25 #3 in marvel 12.30.25 #6 in wintersoldier 9.24.25