Avengers fic rec: So This Is Love by amethystkrystal

Title: So This Is Love

Author;  amethystkrystal

Ship: Steve Rogers/Peggy Carter/Bucky Barnes; Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes; Steve Rogers/Peggy Carter

Wordcount: 18,122

URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21297884

Summary:

After Bucky was presumed killed in action, Steve left Brooklyn and became an animator at Stark Pictures in Los Angeles. There, he fell in love with and married Peggy Carter, founder of SHIELD.

They’ve built a happy life together, but things suddenly become complicated after an attempt is made on Peggy’s life and the would-be assassin has a very familiar face.

Why this fic is awesome: Still!Smol Steve as an ANIMATOR (well, I’m a sucker for Artist Steve) – the atmosphere and the placing, including descriptions of Steve’s motion picture plans…it’s all so good The whole thing is just So Much Good Jam.

Genuinely just a lovely Alternate. BAMF! SSR! Peggy, Artist! Steve, Sad! Coming in from the cold! Bucky.

 

Avengers Fic Rec: Lessons in Normality by relenafanel for umetnica

Title: Lessons in Normality

Author: relenafanel for umetnica

Ship: Stever Rogers/Bucky Barnes

Wordcount: 38,002

URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16355564

Summary:

Things Steve knows about his boyfriend Bucky: How he looks with his face relaxed in sleep. That he can perfectly flip pancakes. The way he’s open about things Steve is still adapting to, like therapy and depression and sex toys and being a millennial. The way he laughs with his mouth wide open and his eyes squinted, and the cheerful way he cheats at cards and loses at laser tag.

The way he seduces Steve with a knowing glint in his eye. The way Steve responds to it, stronger each time, taken by his beauty and competence and snark and compassion (or the compassionate way he boots Steve in the ass when he needs a push).

Things Steve doesn’t know about his boyfriend Bucky: That he’s an undercover operative gathering intel on Hydra, SHIELD, and which Steve is affiliated with.

 

Otherwise known as The Honey Pot AU

 

Why this fic is aweseome:

What I love about this fic more than anything else, is that it does something clever that I’ve never seen before with stuff I love (Identity Porn FTW). Steve is still Cap, but sans Avengers, so he gets shipped off to hang out with the strike team and is suffering (aided by SHIELD/HYDRA) with no way of anchoring himself in the new century when along comes Bucky.

NSFW.