Paper Walls | Bucky Barnes
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Last published Mon, Sep 8, 2025
Adriana Ashford wasn't supposed to survive Hydra.
Faster, sharper, harder to break. She's proof of their experiments, even if she'll never be as strong as Captain America or as unyielding as the Winter Soldier. Fighting is the only thing she has left, so when she walks into Stark Tower asking for a chance, she doesn't expect acceptance. She only expects to bleed for it.
What she doesn't expect is Bucky Barnes. Assigned to train her, he's everything she doesn't want... cold, guarded, and just as broken as she is. Walls built from trauma never hold forever, and when the heat between them burns slow, sharp, and impossible to ignore, Adriana learns the truth:
Paper walls always fall.
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