Acts of War and Other Bedtime Stories – Wiggle
Bucky/Tony
19,014 words
In the aftermath of SHIELD's fall, Bucky remembers killing Howard and Maria Stark.
He owes their son an apology.
canon divergence
Baby Won’t You Come Home With Me? – InsaneJuliann
Bucky/Tony
12,442 words
Tony's known for his one night stands, despite the way it does no good for his reputation. At one of the many parties he attends, he spots a figure in the crowd that shouldn't be there - James Buchanan Barnes, the Winter Soldier, Steve's old best friend. Curious, Tony pretends to have no idea who he is and treats him like he would any other good looking guest of the party. He flirts.
Surprisingly, Barnes flirts back. And while he doesn't go home with Tony, the next time they see each other they flirt again. And again.
It kind of becomes A Thing from there.
au: a/b/o, canon divergence, slow burn
Classic Sci-Fi – spelling_error
Bucky/Tony
18,067 words
Bucky wakes up to Steve telling him he's lost his memory, but not to panic, it'll only last a few days. Easier said than done when the last thing Bucky remembers is fighting Hydra with the Howlies in WWII.
He tries to make the most of it however, and there's this guy... Tony Stark. It's pretty clear the guy hates Bucky's guts, which is unfortunate because god damn is he a sight.
He tries to figure out what he did to wrong Stark, but everyone just tells him he doesn't want to know.
They were right.
amnesia, canon divergence, enemies to friends to lovers
Dadcula (aka Bucky Barnes’ No Good, Very Bad Week) – weethreequarter
Bucky/Tony
6,705 words
It’s a Tuesday and Bucky’s sitting in the chest of a dead celestial, and that’s not even the weirdest thing happening on this Tuesday. No, even weirder than the fact his best friend and his boyfriend have apparently decided to take up residence inside the body of a dead alien is the fact that said boyfriend has apparently lost his mind.
“My dad wants to meet you,” Tony had announced not five seconds before.
What?
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In which Bucky Barnes is not having his best week ever. And it's all Tony's fault.
canon divergence, established relationship
False Names, Right Nets – ashes0909
Bucky/Tony
25,364 words
After saving Steve from the Potomac river, Bucky Barnes disappears into the Costa Rican mountainside intent on staying off the radar. He only interacts with society for reconnaissance and surveillance - to make sure his tail is clear.
Then he stumbles into a chat room.
canon divergence, mutual pining, online relationship, secret identities
love has teeth which bite – whatshouldntbe
Bucky/Tony
121,273 words
JARVIS announces, “Sir, Peter Parker is on his way up. Shall I direct him to the workshop?”
Tony has never sighed so much in his entire life. “Send him over.”
Peter appears moments later, face red and eyes frantic.
“Don’t tell me you webbed all the way here?”
“Mr. Stark, he’s dangerous!” Peter exclaims more than yells. “Have you heard what he can do with a potato peeler?”
or
How Tony totally meant to volunteer to be the Winter Soldier’s handler, you know, like on purpose (and not because he had been deliriously awake for 56 hours on a quest to put Fortnite into the grave before Fury had asked). This is obviously Pepper’s fault.
[MCU/AU where Tony became a S.H.I.E.L.D operative early in life, and paved a satisfying career of intrigue doing so.]
canon divergence, hurt/comfort, kidnapping
Possessed By Light – Enmuse (Scifiroots)
Bucky/Tony
31,769 words
Tony Stark disappeared shortly after the Avengers started coming into their own. All traces led to dead ends, and time marched on. In the spring of 2017, it came to light that Hydra was deeply intertwined with SHIELD, and Captain America found out his best friend still lives. Now, James "Bucky" Barnes has come home, more or less. His mind is his own, including the fractured memories that flit just beyond his reach. A drop-in appearance by former SHIELD director Fury clarifies one thing: the Winter Soldier had met Tony Stark.
amnesia, canon divergence, found family, hurt/comfort, kidnapping, mind control, pre-relationship
Safe House – ali_aliska
Bucky/Tony
89,533 words
For years, Tony had successfully kept his secret. Neither the world nor his team knew he was Iron Man and as far as he was concerned, everyone was better off that way. On his best days, Tony Stark was not someone people liked and trusted, so the last thing Tony wanted was to tarnish Iron Man’s good reputation by revealing the truth.
But then SHIELD falls, the Avengers face disarray, and a stray Hydra assassin forces Tony to go into hiding—and where better than the safe house he had just crafted for the Avengers and their own ex-assassin ready to come in from the cold?
Tony plans to hide away from everyone in his makeshift workshop until the coast is clear and he’s safe to go home. No one would care to spend any time with the reclusive, arrogant billionaire anyways, right? Iron Man is the one everyone wants around.
Bucky Barnes, on his own journey to reclaim his life and identity, seems to disagree with that sentiment.
canon divergence, found family, hurt/comfort, misunderstandings, mutual pining, secret identities, slow burn
The Stars Go Red – orbingarrow
Bucky/Tony
14,026 words
Iron Man is not exactly a super-villain, he's just doing his best to save the world, and his methods are questionable, okay? Doing what's right isn't always easy. Tony's come to grips with that.
And it all works out fine until Hydra comes recruiting and then maybe a little help would be nice. He just doesn't expect that help to come in the form of the Winter Soldier (who happens to be the one person in the world who knows Tony's secret identity) and the Avengers (who really need to catch up.)
Basically all the identity porn.
canon divergence, fluff, secret identities
8 Simple Rules (For Dating Tony Stark) – justanotherpipedream
Bucky/Tony
10,244 words
Bucky blinked as he stared at the list in front of him. "8 Simple Rules (For Dating Tony Stark)" was underlined in bold, black sharpie. Bucky gaped as Rhodey stared back at him, completely serious. All Rhodey ever wanted was for his best friend to be happy. And, if that meant outlining everything for Bucky in black ink to make sure these two love-sick idiots stayed together, then Rhodey would do it.
canon divergence, established relationship, fluff, found family, hurt/comfort
All The Ways To Say – camichats
Bucky/Tony
1,471 words
There are so many ways someone can say 'I love you' and once they do it's written on your skin.
au: soulmates/soulmarks, canon divergence, panic attacks
And still we prevail – StarkDusted
Bucky/Tony
37,885 words
Yeah, no, fuck this, Tony would like a refund thank you, 110% would not prefer to die today, die, die like mom and dad who were dead back in that car-
December 16th, 1991.
It's an important day for HYDRA. The acquisition of the means to create several more soldiers for their cause- and the day that Anthony Edward Stark falls into their hands. The handler likes to think of it as the day of birth for their second greatest asset.
amnesia, canon divergence, hurt/comfort, kidnapping, PTSD, series
Broken People – dracusfyre
Bucky/Tony
11,861 words
Prompt fill from imaginetonyandbucky: During Afghanistan, the ten rings got frustrated and sold Tony to hydra for hydra weapons and made him the Iron Soldier. After Steve gets Bucky back from Hydra (idk Cap 3 w/ civil war?) Bucky not only remembers the other winter soldiers, but the soldier he fell in love with (Tony) and basically him and Steve go save him (like when they went to Siberia in the movie but none of the "running from the law" stuff)
So I didn’t follow the prompt exactly because there’s already a great story like this on ITAB already and I wrote something similar to it not too long ago (Making a Hero), so I went in a slightly different direction. Instead of Hydra getting Tony from the 10 Rings, they got their hands on him when they assassinated his parents…
canon divergence, kidnapping, tw: dubcon
But(t)… But(t)… But(t)… – katling
Bucky/Tony
1,984 words
No one knows who Iron Man is, other than the bodyguard of the Avengers' main benefactor, Tony Stark. Bucky figures out the secret but not quite in the way you might think.
canon divergence, secret identities
calling me home – feignedsobriquet, weethreequarter
Bucky/Tony
56,450 words
When Alexander Pierce turns up asking questions about Harley, it sets off alarm bells in Tony's head. But he never could've predicted it would result in him going on the run with the Winter Soldier in a desperate attempt to protect his children from Hydra. Throw in the Soldier's true identity, revelations about Tony's parents, and awkward parent-child reunions and Tony's left wondering what he's gotten into. And that's without the fact he maybe-kind-of actually likes his new co-parent.
canon divergence, depression/mental illness, PTSD
Conflict of Interest – Amethystina
Bucky/Tony
8,844 words
The Winter Soldier always completes his missions. He is a well-trained asset that flawlessly follows orders and never breaks protocol. But when he is instructed to assassinate Tony Stark, things get complicated. The Asset is set to observe his mark before acting, hired as Mr. Stark's bodyguard in order to get close to the man.
But what happens when the Asset gets too close? His orders contradict one another, one requiring violence and the other that he protects his mark. The Asset doesn't know which one takes priority, but his instincts tell him not to harm Mr. Stark.
How is he supposed to kill someone he so desperately wants to protect?
canon divergence
Heavy With Hope – valiantlybold
Bucky/Tony
21,370 words
Tony's freezing to death in a Siberian bunker.
Bucky's searching for his past in a Siberian bunker.
canon divergence, enemies to lovers, hurt/comfort, long distance relationship
His Girl, FRIDAY – iam93percentstardust
Bucky/Tony
6,299 words
Maybe Tony didn't have to leave the team but he sure felt like it. In the days after Ultron, he drifts, alone and a little lost, until Bucky decides that it's his job to look after Tony's happiness. And who better to help him than Tony's own AI?
canon divergence, cooking, domesticity, fluff
I spy – withered
Bucky/Tony
2,566 words
Bucky couldn’t stand his job.
He’s hardly unique in that department, but god does he hate his job. It ranks higher than his previous gig at Hydra Communications, and then his brief – very brief – stint at Hammer Corp, by a mile, but a pain in the ass was a pain in the ass, and SHIELD Intel is a pain in the ass like every other.
Especially when one of the people he's tasked with spying on happens to be Tony Stark.
canon divergence
I Thought… – camichats
Bucky/Tony
8,785 words
Tony thought he'd die from palladium poisoning. Tony thought he fell in love with his new assistant/bodyguard Bucky. Tony thought a lot of things that weren't true.
breaking up & making up, canon divergence
I Will Always Be – blue_pointer
Bucky/Tony
13,589 words
In a world where people see through the eyes of their soulmates when they sleep, Tony Stark's dreams send him off the edge.
au: soulmates/soulmarks, canon divergence, depression/mental illness, hurt/comfort, secret identities
it starts and ends with memory – Rowantreeisme
Bucky/Tony
14,137 words
Tony Carbonell is a completely normal professor at MIT. He tutors kids, both in his class and not, and builds things in his free time. He feeds stray cats and drinks too much coffee and wears dorky shirts to class.
He's also an Avenger and the son of the late Howard Stark. He's pretty sure, though, that no one except his two closest friends and his AI's know this.
And then the Winter Soldier breaks into his home.
au: teacher, canon divergence, panic attacks, secret identities
Lost and Found – NotEvenCloseToStraight
Bucky/Tony
108,855 words
Six months before ‘I am Iron Man’, a man is left in an alley with nothing but his clothes, a first name, and a missing left arm. James doesn’t remember anything, but he picks himself up and tries to navigate the lost pieces of his life anyway.
Six months after ‘I am Iron Man’, Tony is falling apart. Pressure from Capital Hill, stress about the Expo, PTSD from Obadiah and Afghanistan and a blood toxicity monitor reading 19% has Tony tipping over into a nervous breakdown, so one day he runs away and tries to get lost, hoping to find some peace.
Tony and James meet as strangers but with Tony crossing things off his bucket list and James having nothing to lose, what starts as an offer to fix James’s arm quickly escalates into more.
Through Monaco, the Expo, and a birthday party, Tony and James learn that getting Lost can lead to being Found in incredible ways, but James doesn’t know about the palladium and Tony isn’t ready to admit they have an expiration date.
With time almost up, is Tony ready to say goodbye? And what happens when a Captain from James’s past shows up and calls him ’Bucky’?
canon divergence, hurt/comfort, panic attacks, PTSD, slow burn, strangers to lovers
Love Like Winter – swtalmnd
Winter/Tony, Bucky/Steve
5,906 words
Tony wasn't sure what he'd expected when he chased the bright spark of an idea down into his workshop in the middle of the night, but it certainly wasn't the warm slide of Bucky Barnes' arms around his waist from behind.
The Winter Soldier wants Tony. Tony consents all over the place, and then eats Steve's waffles for breakfast.
canon divergence
Murderers and Thieves – 27dragons
Bucky/Tony
36,689 words
For a man capable of disappearing so utterly that even the international intelligence community thought he was a myth, it didn't take them long to find the Winter Soldier.
For a man who supposedly wanted to be found, the Winter Soldier fought like a wildcat when Steve and Sam finally cornered him.
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(Post-CA:TWS) Steve and Sam have found Bucky, but they're going to need some help to bring him back to himself. A story about friendship, love, and the family you choose. (One-sided Bucky/Steve in the past, eventual Bucky/Tony. Some other pairings if you squint really hard.)
canon divergence, first time, getting together
my light (smell) will guide you home – winterbitch (WinterLadyy)
Bucky/Tony
31,346 words
After escaping from HYDRA and dealing with Captain America, Bucky goes to New York. He can get lost there and figure out who he is. But something huge is missing from his memory and when the full moon comes, Bucky figures out what, but it's too late. The Wolf takes over, snooping around New York and looking for what's pulling him. Then he meets Tony Stark, who just can't leave the huge, fluffy dog starving on the streets.
Only the huge dog is weirdly protective and definitely smarter than average...
au: werewolves, canon divergence
Near Miss – Arboreal
Bucky/Tony
7,995 words
A car accident, the police had said.
He could have lost them to something as stupid as a car accident. He could have lost them, and his last memories of them would be of arguing with his father and ignoring his mother.
Bucky's trigger words begin to fail. This changes things.
canon divergence, hurt/comfort
Say It in Silence – covarla
Bucky/Tony
69,800 words
“Tony!?”
He startled at the sound of Steve’s voice, nearly dropping his tablet. Tony looked around and bit back a curse. He hadn’t been paying attention to where he was walking and had wandered into a part of the Wakandan palace he really didn’t want to be in. He quickly looked back over his shoulder. There was Steve with Barnes and Sam right behind him. Steve took a step forward. Tony did the only sensible thing he could think of at the moment. He ran.
canon divergence, hurt/comfort, kink: bondage, kink: Dom/sub, kink: praise, mute character
share and celebrate – Potrix
Bucky/Tony
2,680 words
It’s been almost twenty-four hours, but still none of it seems or feels entirely real.
Well, to be fair, learning about the existence of parallel universes, finding out there’s at least one other Earth that has been destroyed by a threat his Earth isn’t even fully aware of yet, and getting two other-universe versions of people he’s currently not exactly on speaking terms with dropped into his lap has been kind of a lot.
It might take Tony another day—or year, more likely—to wrap his head around all of that.
canon divergence, kidfic, parallel universes
Sins of the Father – AvocadoLove
Bucky/Tony
11,196 words
Tony's practically become an old hat at being taken hostage, but something's fishier than usual this time around: his captor looks twenty-eight but claims to know Howard Stark, the NYPD negotiator is a SHIELD plant, and what's this about a fleet of helicarriers set to launch? (TWS AU.)
canon divergence, kidnapping
Star Crossed – TenSpencerRiedPlease
Bucky/Tony
7,776 words
Maria calls him in a panic, freaking out in the middle of the night and that’s how he ends up outside of MIT looking for Tony. Its the first time he’s seen him in a decade and it turns out he’s not too hard to spot because he’s got a bright personality, the kind that draws people in or maybe he’s biased. Tony seems to notice him at almost the same time and he grins, immediately shoving his books into the poor kid’s arms beside him and running over to him. Bucky doesn’t expect Tony to launch himself at him but he catches him nonetheless.
“Bucky!” Tony says excitedly, arms circling around his neck.
age difference, au: soulmates/soulmarks, canon divergence
The Great Awakening (To Hold Infinity) – RayShippouUchiha
Bucky/Tony, past Steve/Tony
4,246 words
Constellations wheel around in Tony’s mind at night, illuminating his sleep with the beauty of a supernova, the terrible gaping hunger of black holes, the whimpering cry of a nebula as it births new stars into creation.
All of Space laid out for him to marvel at.
Tony learns and learns and learns and then he creeps downstairs and babbles relentlessly to his first and only friend.
All the while the Cube hums, just a bit smug, just a bit loving, and shows him more.
alternate universe, canon divergence, hurt/comfort, tw: child abuse
Unconditionally – Potrix
Bucky/Tony, Steve & Tony
5,479 words
“Hello,” Steve whispers quietly, carefully brushing some of the tears away from the baby's cheeks.
Giving a sniffle, the baby latches on to Steve’s hand, then whines unhappily, hiccuping wetly.
“I don’t know how to, you know,” Steve explains helplessly, making something that vaguely resembles a cradling, rocking motion with his free arm. The baby is less than impressed with that, though, and takes a noisy, stuttering breath. Steve’s eyes widen in alarm. “Oh, no. No, ssh, no. Here, c’mon, it’s all right.”
Very gingerly, Steve slides one hand under the baby’s back, cups its neck with the other, and slowly lifts the squirmy bundle out of the crib, and against his chest. “There, ssh. That’s better, isn’t it?”
In answer, the baby tucks its damp face into Steve’s neck, apparently content to stay where it is. Steve glances around the room, a little lost, but the baby just gurgles, and doesn’t start crying again, which he decides to count as a success.
canon divergence, kidfic
Under Pressure – TenSpencerRiedPlease
Bucky/Tony
55,850 words
Tony watches as Bucky tracks his movements with an easy confidence that should probably make him uncomfortable. He knew the man’s skills set and the way he was looking at Tony was like he was some kind of snack- he probably shouldn’t feel so comfortable with an assassin looking at him like a meal to be eaten but here he was.
canon divergence, depression/mental illness, hurt/comfort
What Has Been Done – Tahlruil
Bucky/Tony
16,225 words
Bucky has lived with the Avengers for a while now, and he's mostly settled in. During the process, he fell for Tony Stark - hard - but he can't quite bring himself to admit it to the brilliant engineer. So he just does what he can to take care of and protect him, hoping that maybe the other man will fall just as hard for him... and be the one to take their relationship to the next level. In the meantime, he's noticed that there's one member of the team that Tony seems afraid of, and he is definitely not pleased by the notion.
Once he finds out what Wanda did to cause that fear, she might wish she'd never left Hydra.
canon divergence, friends to lovers, getting together, mutual pining