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
Fractures (Filled With Liquid Gold) – itsallAvengers
Bucky/Tony
63,268 words
Ultron happened. The Avengers left.
Tony is fine with being alone again. He always worked better as a Lone Wolf than a team player anyway. He's not sleeping or eating or resting or... living, but it's fine. It's good. It's okay.
And then there's James.
depression/mental illness, hurt/comfort, slow burn
Guidance Needed – Akira_of_the_Twilight
Bucky/Tony
115,847 words
A sentinel could spend most of their early years without a guide. By their mid-thirties if a sentinel had yet to form a bond with a guide their senses would start to lose focus and precision until they became overwhelmed and went insane.
Tony was in his forties and the bond he had was a thin string that could be snapped with just one word, and it was the only reason why Tony wasn’t locked up in an asylum for sentinels.
Even with his bond though, Tony was deteriorating, unable to control his senses and becoming overprotective of his teammates.
If he didn't increase the strength of his current bond or find a new guide who he could bond better with then he would be locked up for life.
Too bad Starks have a history of having trouble bonding, and Tony's already tried every technique to strengthen his bond with his guide.
Oh, and let's not forget his guide was none other than Mr. Perfect himself: Steve Rogers.
So really? Tony was screwed unless those bonding techniques started working, because who the hell else could bond with him and do it better than Mr. Perfect?
au: sentinel/guide, hurt/comfort, slow burn
Hope for the Holidays – Reioka
Bucky/Tony
14,690 words
Tony never expected to share Christmas with the man who killed his parents, but he's here now, so they should make the best of it.
Christmas, fluff, getting together, slow burn
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
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
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
River – martianwahtney
Bucky/Tony
10,402 words
Two weeks after the so-called Civil War, Shuri drops a healing Bucky Barnes off at the Avengers Compound. Tony figures out pretty quickly that they both have a lot of healing to do.
fluff, hurt/comfort, kidfic, slow burn
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