Love survives war

1941. Army nurse Oaklen Rivers never expects to fall in love, least of all with Sgt James "Bucky" Barnes. But war has a way of making time feel borrowed, and their love burns fast and real before it's torn away due to a train- where Bucky falls to his death, or so she and Steve Rogers believe.

Oaklen doesn't get to grieve for long. She's taken by the Red Room and subjected to an experimental super-soldier serum that goes wrong, its instability fused with toxic radiation. The parts of her that do survive are powerful, volatile and never fully controlled. Far from the girl she used to be.

Years later, the world reveals its cruelest truth; neither of them died. Both were broken, remade, and used. Now free, they must navigate the wreckage of who they were, who they were forced to become, and whether love can survive when nothing else was spared.

A marvel AU, OC, Bucky Barnes love story.