The world ended in silence. In the aftermath of the Snap, and the loss of James Barnes, Dahlia was left with more than grief. She was left with the truth. The truth of who she had been before the war, who she became in the KGB's hands, and the violence that still lived beneath her skin. With the man who anchored her gone, there was nothing left to outrun. Only memory. Only reckoning. Five years later, James Barnes returned. But the world he came back to was not the one he had once knew. The world was quieter. The Avengers were scattered, most of them gone. And Dahlia was sharper. Harder. Whole in ways that frightened him. Whole in ways that left no room for the past they never got to finish. He loved her. She loved him. The battle between them should have stopped there. But it didn't. Not until one of them surrendered. And for two soldiers... It was easier said than done. 𖦏 𑁍 𖦏 𑁍 𖦏 APART OF THE ❝SONG OF SEASONS❞ SERIES 1. Even Winter Softens ✓ [17 chapters] 2. Even Summer Withers ✓ [15 chapters] 3. Even Autumn Fades ✓ [57 chapters] 4. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐬

They saved her life. But they didn't save her mind. Dahlia Rousseau was the first Black Widow conditioned to obey, trained to kill, and taught to hate the Winter Soldier. The man she once loved is now the enemy she was programmed to destroy. As buried memories begin to surface, Dahlia must fight a different kind of war: unlearning everything Hydra and the KGB carved into her, including the lies about James Barnes. Bucky remembers her. All of her. And that is his punishment. Forced to stand aside while the only person he loves recoils from him, Bucky waits- knowing that loving her means letting her hate him. Because if Dahlia is going to survive the burdens of her past, just as he did, she has to choose who she becomes. Even if she never chooses him. 𖦏 𑁍 𖦏 𑁍 𖦏 APART OF THE ❝SONG OF SEASONS❞ SERIES 1. Even Winter Softens ✓ [17 chapters] 2. Even Summer Withers ✓ [15 chapters] 3. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐦𝐧 𝐅𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬 ✓ [57 chapters] 4. Even Spring Blooms [in progress] 𖦏 𑁍 𖦏 𑁍 𖦏 #1 Black Widow

After their attempt at escaping went wrong, Bucky and Dahlia were captured and sentenced to a lifetime with Hydra. After being placed in cryo-freeze, Bucky was forced to watch as Dahlia's fate was left undetermined. He didn't know if they killed her, if they tortured her, or if they just let her go. But he knew Hydra wasn't that forgiving. He knew they wouldn't let her off easy. So after the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, he buried himself in the past, trying to find out what happened to the woman that saved him. The woman he loved and would do anything for. The woman who kept him from withering even in the darkest of times. If he did find her one day, he knew he would never let her go. Not again. 𖦏 𑁍 𖦏 𑁍 𖦏 APART OF THE ❝SONG OF SEASONS❞ SERIES 1. Even Winter Softens ✓ [17 chapters] 2. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 ✓ [15 chapters] 3. Even Autumn Fades ✓ [57 chapters] 4. Even Spring Blooms [in progress]

She worked for Hydra. Not because she believed in their cause, but because she was stuck there. Hydra wouldn't let Dahlia go; not when they realized she was the only person who could calm their most important asset down. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘳. He was dangerous. Lawless. Ruthless. But when it came to Dahlia, he was suddenly enraptured. He could not hurt a single hair on her head- in fact, he would kill anyone who dared lay a hand on her. Because, despite the control Hydra had over him, the one thing they couldn't make him do was hurt her. 𖦏 𑁍 𖦏 𑁍 𖦏 APART OF THE ❝SONG OF SEASONS❞ SERIES 1. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬 ✓ [17 chapters] 2. Even Summer Withers ✓ [15 chapters] 3. Even Autumn Fades ✓ [57 chapters] 4. Even Spring Blooms [in progress]

'District 4, Aphrodite Clearwater also known as the 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓' When Aphrodite realizes she will be reaped for The Hunger Games, she and her Mother devise a plan-𝑻𝒐 𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚. . . .30/10/24: 1st in #Peeta . . (Pre Hunger Games - Mocking Jay Part 2)

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Once, they were weapons. Now, they're something far more dangerous. Trained by HYDRA. Sharpened into silence. Together, they were nearly unstoppable-until their paths split in blood and secrecy. Years later, he's with SHIELD, with the Avengers, fighting for the side he once destroyed. She's still in the shadows, loyal to the system that built her. When a mission forces their worlds to collide, old instincts kick in-and so do feelings neither of them should still carry. Enemies on paper. Something else entirely beneath the surface. But the past doesn't let go, and neither does HYDRA. And in the space between duty and desire, someone always bleeds.

"'til Brooklyn sinks." She entered the world in the same breath as a legend-Stella Grace Rogers, twin sister to Captain America. A fighter, a flame, laughter caught in her lungs and bruises etched into her knuckles. Long before the world christened her Americana, she was only Brooklyn's brightest spark-Bucky Barnes' whole, unshakable heart. Bucky was Steve's friend first. Stella's second. But somewhere between the teasing glances and the stolen dances, he fell-hard, helpless-for the girl with a golden heart and fire burning through her bones. They were young. They were in love. They were engaged to be married. And then the war split everything wide open. Seventy years later, history remembers her as Americana: the woman with the vibranium liberty ring, the unyielding icon, a legacy carved in blood and sacrifice. But behind the title remains the girl who never stopped grieving the boy with the metal arm-the boy who once swore her forever. She burned bright. He was forged into a weapon. And now, as the past rises again from the ice, all that endures is the love that time could never bury. Some ghosts wear dog tags. Some wear diamond rings. -Set during Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, and some Avengers: Endgame -long book, buckle up for the ride. #1 in jamesbuchananbarnes 11.5.25 #1 in thewintersoldier 11.6.25 #1 in original character 9.24.25 #1 in marvelfanfic 12.7.25 #2 in buckybarnes 12.1.25 #2 in captianamerica 10.13.25 #3 in captainamerica 10.11.25 #4 in captainamerica 11.6.25 #5 in jamesbuchananbarnes 11.2.25

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.

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