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    "Soldat," Zemo says again, voice gently commanding. Bucky hates that he automatically looks up at Zemo again. "It is alright. You can let go. I will take care of you—but at your word I will also leave at any time."

    The words seem almost laughable at first. Bucky shouldn't trust this man, he was in prison for a reason, he took advantage of him, Bucky shouldn't be this easy to affect anymore, he—

    But oh he wants, he wants so terribly that he's almost shaking with it, so wound up and tense. He just wants to sink into the warmth of submitting, of feeling like he's floating and only needs to focus on being good. And this time it's different. This time he truly wants to do it, and can decide for himself whether to submit. And that prospect feels good.

    (Or, in which Zemo gives Bucky what he's been needing.)

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    Bucky had sworn not to repeat the mistake of taking Zemo to bed, and yet it happened again and again.

    This time, though, he discovers a forgotten pleasure amongst his guilt.

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    11 Aug 2026

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    Abruptly, Sam wonders how many people have put a friendly hand on Bucky in the last ninety-odd years. How many times did touch like this mean pain and suffering, instead of someone trying to take care of him? And it makes his heart ache, the thought of how much devastation and roughness Bucky’s been through, denied this kind of casual, compassionate touch that Sam doesn’t even think twice about offering.

    Experimentally, he pulls his hand back. Bucky makes this low whining noise that makes Sam put his hand back immediately. And then he watches the way Bucky leans into it, eyelids fluttering like he’s almost falling asleep like this. Doesn’t even seem conscious of it, like he’s gone somewhere else in his head while Sam’s patching him up. And it’s – Sam doesn’t know what to think, doesn’t know what to feel. Because this is Bucky, and he’s showing such terrifying vulnerability, and Sam –

    Sam can’t help but wonder if Bucky still expects pain every time someone touches him.

     

    (Five times Sam realizes Bucky is touch-starved, and the one time he really does something about it.)

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    10 Aug 2026

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    Bucky lifts his head as much as the metal strap around his neck allows. His face is the same familiar scowly mask as always, but Sam knows him well enough by now to see something off in his eyes. Something so damn unfamiliar there it takes Sam too long to realize.

    Fear.

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    In which Bucky is medically tortured in front of Sam, and then they cuddle.

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    The world may have forgotten Peter Parker, and yet he remains, the New York City winter bleeding him dry. Just as he thinks the loneliness might suffocate him, he stumbles into Deadpool mid contract completion. If Deadpool is everything Spider-Man stands against, then why is he so damn intriguing?

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