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Brooklyn, 1943.
Eighteen-year-old Evelyn Bennett is on her way to buy bread when she meets nineteen-year-old Sergeant James "Bucky" Barnes at a crowded railway station.
His train leaves in twenty minutes.
It should have been nothing more than a brief conversation between two strangers. Instead, Bucky asks her to write to him, presses his mother's St. Christopher medal into her hand, and leaves Evie with one promise:
He'll try to come home.
Their letters begin with teasing, stories from Brooklyn, and small details about the life Bucky misses while serving overseas. But as the weeks turn into months, their letters become more personal, and the two of them begin falling in love from opposite sides of the ocean.
When Bucky returns to Brooklyn on leave, Evie finally gets to know the boy behind the letters-the charming, stubborn Brooklyn soldier who has already found his way into her family, her prayers, and the future she has started imagining for them.
But the war is far from over.
Between deployments and stolen weeks at home, Evie and Bucky build a life out of handwritten promises, first kisses, courtship, and dreams of what might come after the Army. Every time Bucky leaves, they return to the one thing that brought them together in the first place:
their letters.
Inspired by the events of Captain America: The First Avenger, Travelin' Soldier follows Bucky Barnes and the girl waiting for him in Brooklyn as they navigate young love, war, separation, and the hope that one day they will finally get to keep the future they have spent so long writing about.
ATTENTION:
Hey everyone! Quick note on this fic: I decided to tweak Bucky's age to 19 to fit the historical WWII timeline a bit better and suit the direction of this story.
In the marvel comics he's 16 when he enlists and in the movie he's in his 20's.
Hope you enjoy, and let me know what you think!