Helping Hands – tisfan
Bucky/Tony
68,925 words
Single-father and disabled military vet, Bucky Barnes goes to the Food Pantry... where he meets Tony Stark, serving a community service sentence...
au: no powers, depression/mental illness, hurt/comfort, kidnapping, panic attacks
people like you must be the world’s loneliest creatures – avienexjel
Bucky/Tony
96,126+ words
tony stark is rich and popular and an arrogant asshole. in other words: his iq rivals einstein's, he's slept with most of his "friends" at least once, and he's so fucking lonely that sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night and cries into the cold sheets on the empty side of the bed.
it's no different at SHIELD boarding school, at first. half the student body hates him, half want to be him, nothing new. that is, until tony accidentally breaks james barnes's prosthetic arm, and he suddenly finds the most vulnerable pieces of himself surfacing whether he wants them to or not.
au: high school, au: no powers, hurt/comfort, panic attacks, PTSD, wip
Table 8 – marsmaywander
Bucky/Tony
3,442 words
3 am is Riri’s favorite time at the diner. It’s when her “midnight daters” show up. And if Tony Stark wants to frequent her workplace at ugly-o-clock in the morning… well, she’s not gonna turn down the tips (even if his “disguise” is beyond unconvincing).
fake relationships, panic attacks
this isn’t violence, this is just a war in my head – sleeponrooftops
Bucky/Tony
107,356 words
Tony’s been stumbling his way through life for 45 years without any assistance, thank you very much, and he’d like to point out that forgiving the man who killed his parents is on the negative side of his to do list labeled NEVER. The problem is, they’ve got a few scars in common, and somehow they become little nightlights during each other’s darkest moments.
Or, the story of how Tony and Bucky started out here: one broken nose, a few guns, several fist fights, sharp words, a heart attack, bruised jaws, and the definition of mistrust—and ended up here: an anchor in unsteady waters.
enemies to lovers, panic attacks, PTSD, slow burn
When You Wake – arianapeterson19
Bucky/Tony
2,608 words
Tony was many things but stubborn was the most prominent. So when HYDRA kidnapped him and decided to turn him into their personal flying monkey, they didn't realize it wasn't going to be simple.
OR
The one where Tony's mind is a mess and Bucky is patient.
hurt/comfort, kidnapping, panic attacks, PTSD
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
How much further must I travel, before you walk with me? – Bill_Longbow
Bucky/Tony
32,629 words
In a universe where you can make contact with your soulmate by drawing onto your skin, Bucky's soulmate immediately stands out. It doesn't bother Bucky too much his soulmate puts them in places where only they can see, the drawings are for him, and that's enough. They are so much more complicated, more detailed, more beautiful than the ones others get, after all.
One day the marks on his skin are not drawings, and they mark a pivotal change in their relationship. A change that ends with Bucky being disillusioned and enlisting. The loss of his arm overseas is just a step above the rock bottom they must reach before it gets better.
This is a story about two soulmates, lost and broken. But aren't broken things more beautiful for the cracks?
au: modern, au: no powers, au: soulmates/soulmarks, depression/mental illness, panic attacks, PTSD, tw: child abuse, tw: self-harm
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
Someone To Bring Me Home – Myrime
Bucky/Tony
32,894 words
After coming home from the war, Bucky has a hard time piecing his life back together. He has friends and a home, but it all feels suffocating enough to send him running, hoping to find something worth living for.
With Obadiah's betrayal hanging around his shoulders, Tony moves to the country, where he becomes a small-time mechanic with a secret workshop in the basement, trying to figure out how to go on from almost having lost everything.
Neither of them is quite sure where home is anymore. When they meet, they both think themselves broken. Maybe all they need is someone who understands them to build something new.
au: no powers, breaking up & making up, hurt/comfort, panic attacks, PTSD
tell me no – halfwheeze
Bucky/Tony
54,436 words
Barnes, 107th Infantry 32557038.
Barnes is not Bucky. Barnes is not the Winter Soldier. Barnes doesn't know who he is, or even sometimes, what he is.
Maybe Tony Stark can help him figure that out. Or maybe, if he just gets all the tools, he can fix Tony along the way too.
anxiety, Christmas, domesticity, found family, Hanukkah, kidfic, knitting, panic attacks, PTSD, slow burn, trans character, tw: suicidal thoughts/reference