Natasha has been on her own for a while now, and is fine with that. Life much less complicated when she's alone. Bucky is out of cryo and working with Steve, trying to reconnect with the world and find his place in it. When the two meet again in Odessa, both will have to decide what they really want. (sequel to "Everybody Else's Girl" and "Real Man")

After the events involving the Accords, Natasha Romanoff has lost everything - her closest friends sided against her, the team has broken apart, her home as she goes into hiding, not sure who to trust. With no other options, she goes back to work, using her very specific skill set for good. Nightmares and doubts plague her until she remembers why she left the Red Room in the first place.

After a botched assassination attempt on one of Natasha Romanoff's oldest friend, Yelena Belova, she immediately launches an investigation. Probing deeper and deeper into her own past, will she be able to face what she finds there? (set after I Would For You; interpretation of her Age of Ultron backstory) Edit: now with angsty/cute BuckyNat epilogue!

Natasha should have known it was too much to expect her life to be normal (too many people know who she is now), but she's going to take a break from it all for a while. Live a nice quiet life being haunted by her past. Until she comes home to find a ghost with a metal arm sitting at her table, and has to face who he is. And who she is.

Natasha Romanoff goes to live in Avengers Tower when everyone else does, even if that includes a certain metal-armed assassin who has shot her twice. She's less than thrilled when he starts going on missions with them, but he's an excellent partner. It's almost as though he knows what she's going to do, and she begins to become suspicious that there may be more to their past than she remembers.

A day in the life of Codename: The Winter Soldier as his programming starts to fray.

In an undisclosed location in Russia, there is a school that trains young women to be deadly assassins. When one of their first missions fails, the asset known as the Winter Soldier is brought in to train them. The girls all benefit from his influence, but none more than Natalia Romanova. (WinterWidow, alternating narrators)

After destroying HYDRA's ability to take him again, he starts to define himself as more than the Winter Soldier, and maybe as Bucky Barnes, as more of his past surfaces. When Steve asks him to come back into the field, he can't say no, soon finding himself with a support system he hasn't had in decades. He'll need them when tragedy strikes. (eventual Bucky-centric Civil War story)

She always knew she would survive if SHIELD fell, but she never thought she would be part of the process. With the Avengers going their separate ways again and no SHIELD to return to, she goes under cover to reassess what brought her here, retracing the path from the Red Room to the Avengers and on to whatever she will do next. With a little help from her friends, can she pick up the pieces? (Companion to Terrible Lie)

He barely survives the fall, but they find him and make him the perfect weapon. After being forced to fight his former best friend, he breaks free of his handlers and goes to find himself. With a little help, he gets revenge and ensures that they won't be able to take him again. His mission takes him to a museum, to abandoned bases, and finally back to Steve Rogers.