shadewrite
Some loves are strong enough to survive time itself.
Brooklyn, 1939.
Isabella Rogers has always lived in the shadow of her brother Steve, the sickly boy with a lion's heart and impossible dreams. She's used to looking after him, to keeping their world together through ration lines, sketchbooks, and stubborn hope. But everything changes when Steve's best friend, James "Bucky" Barnes, comes home in uniform, charming, brave, and far more dangerous to her heart than any war.
As the world tilts toward chaos, Isabella is pulled into a secret experiment that will alter her fate forever. Alongside Steve, she becomes something more, faster, stronger, unyielding. But strength can't save everyone. When Bucky falls from the train, Isabella's world shatters... and she follows her brother into the ice, frozen in time and grief.
Seventy years later, she wakes to a world she doesn't recognize and a man she thought she'd lost forever, now twisted into the Winter Soldier. Torn between the woman she was and the soldier she's become, Isabella must face the one truth that still binds them across decades:
Love doesn't fade. It only waits.