He knew when he gave Simmons that one last breath that there was a possibility that he would never take one of his own again - and it came true. He's dead, and now he has to watch her grieve because neither can let the other go. Part two of the Atlas series, a group of short stories inspired by the music of Ryan O'Neal and Sleeping at Last.

❝And when we have nothing else to do, we drive without a destination in mind, letting fate take us wherever as we drown in our sorrows and try to be alright.❞ [i n p r o g r e s s]

Set after Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Bucky is lost, without a purpose and brainwashed within an inch of his life. S.H.I.E.L.D and Hydra have both fallen and without anyone to stop him, Bucky intends to find out who he is - or who he was - before Hydra took away every last inch of him. Steve is left recovering from the catastrophe, but knows that Bucky is still out there, and that Bucky needs his help. Steve will do everything in his power to help his best friend find out who he is again. How far would you go to help your friend recover their mind? How long would you try for? Steve knows it isn't going to be easy, and wants to set Bucky on the road to recovery; but confusion and nostalgia hides around every corner. If Bucky is to find himself once again, Steve is going to have to face some hard truths about how he lost his friend and see him through every step of the way as he recovers, seeing him through the good times, and the bad. They might soon realise that the question "Who am I?" carries so much more than a name and a face.

Good girl and bad boy? Psh, cliche. Archenemies hating the heck out of each other and then falling in love? That's cliche too. Two best friends who end up as a couple? Oh, man. That's the worst. Simply put, every cute love stories are only cute as stories in Alana Ross' head. The bad boy and good girl story doesn't happen in real life. Nor does the archenemies falling in love thing. And not all pair of best friends become a couple in the long run. Adorable romantic tales simply don't happen in reality. Period. So what happens when she has to team up with Stefan Holden to co-write a book for English? She doesn't want it to have one of those silly and unrealistic plot lines, but as time goes on, Alana begins to discover that maybe, just maybe, the cute romantic tale isn't as implausible as she thinks it is. [i n d e f i n i t e h i a t u s]