🖤 Marvel | Bucky Barnes x OC | Dark Recovery | Psychological Trauma | Slow Burn
"They broke her to build her. Now she's learning how to be human again with the man who delivered her to the ones who shattered her."
Nora was taken. Conditioned. Turned into something unrecognizable under Hydra's doctrine. They called her The Wraith.
She was never supposed to come back.
But when Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes uncover her identity on a mission, they don't capture her. They rescue her.
Brought to Wakanda to recover, Nora finds herself surrounded by people who care and by the man who once delivered her into Hydra's hands. Bucky doesn't know how to live with what he did. Nora doesn't know how to forgive him.
Together, they walk the razor's edge of memory, trust, and slow healing.
As she navigates moments that blur the line between tension and tenderness, and fragments of a life she never chose, Nora must decide. Is survival enough? Or is she strong enough to want something more?
With Sam pulling strings to give her a chance at freedom, and Bucky standing at her side with more guilt than answers, Nora must confront the past Hydra forced on her... and the future she might finally choose for herself.
⚠️ CW: PTSD, trauma recovery, past non-consensual experimentation, emotional intimacy, flashbacks, identity loss, slow-burn romance
{Formerly named Țuică}
If you asked Dr. Aurora "Rori" Harris whether she was your average psychologist, she'd probably laugh and say, "Absolutely yes!" She worked long hours, carried her patients' burdens home with her most nights, and went above and beyond for anyone she cared about. That was just who she was.
But the truth? Rori was far from average. She had a particular set of gifts-skills that even she didn't fully understand. Skills that would make her indispensable when Sam Wilson and Captain America came calling, asking her to track down Steve's childhood friend, James Buchanan Barnes... aka Bucky, the Winter Soldier.
She can't say no. She wants to help. But as she dives deeper into the shadows of Bucky's fractured world, one question hangs over her: Will she keep her promise to Steve and Sam? Will she reveal Bucky's location, or will she find herself dangerously drawn to the broken man behind the legend?