screaming loud enough to turn back the wind

Title: My whole world fits inside a moment
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Roseanne Cash
Warnings: violence, systemic and institutional abuse, magical realism, war, AU, torture
Pairings: Steve/Bucky, George Barnes/Winifred Barnes, Joseph Rogers/Sarah Rogers
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 6300
Point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Steve/Bucky, people with magic are hated and mocked but they are useful to armies and powerful groups
Note: I think I’m using period terms correctly, that aren’t okay now (and weren’t then, actually). No offense meant.
Another note: I’ve borrowed Tamora Pierce’s Tortall magic.



When James Buchanan Barnes was born, every dog in Shelby, Indiana, howled for five minutes.

Title: the fury of love
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: violence
Pairings: implied Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 390
Point of view: third
Prompt: Steve & Bucky - What Steve's willing to do

I can't help but think that historians aren't exactly aware of how Captain America started his journey to becoming the world's first super hero.

In an ironic twist of fate, [Bucky's] prison camp was liberated by none other than his childhood friend, Steve Rogers, now Captain America.

Ironic?

It seems people aren't aware of the fact that Steve's first unsanctioned (suicide) rescue mission, was done with the sole intent of finding Bucky. That rescuing the other prisoners had been an unintended benefit. That he had released them because it was the right thing to do and it would have been cruel to leave them there (and because getting in was easy, but Bucky and him were going to need a distraction to get out), but Bucky was his focus.

It seems people aren't aware of exactly what Steve's willing to do for Bucky.


They talk about it later, the networks and the journalists and the various governments trying to decide what to do.





Title: Who knows how powerful your anger is?
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from a Psalm
Warnings: character death, violence
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 413
Point of view: third

Deep down, Steve has always known that he couldn’t sustain his anger forever.





Title: Your war is here
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Adrienne Rich
Warnings: references to violence/torture
Pairings: Steve/Bucky, Bruce/Betty
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1500
Point of view: third

This is how it starts: an execution order is handed down for the man once known as the Winter Soldier.

This is how it ends: bloody and on fire.

Title: The snow drops its pieces of darkness
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Sylvia Plath
Warnings: AU; character death
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 610
Point of view: third
Prompt: any. any/any. Rima XI, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

"I am ardent, I am dark,
I am the essence of passion;
with yearning for pleasure, my soul is full;
is it me you're seeking?"
"No, it isn't you."

"My skin is pale, my plaits golden,
I can give you sweetness without end;
My treasure is in tenderness;
is it me you're calling?"
"No, it isn't you."

"I am delusion, an impossible thing,
a vain phantom of mist and light;
I am unbodied, I am impalpable;
I cannot love you."
"Oh come, please come...!"





( Bucky Barnes died when he fell from a train in late 1944. )



Title: in the dark room putting bones into place
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: violence
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 905
point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Steve/Bucky, nobody realizes that Bucky is the only who really sees Steve's dark side


( Steve Rogers has always fought for the little guy, against bullies and tyranny and unfairness. Everyone knows that. )



Title: the greatest secret
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: none
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 175
Point of view: third
Highlander, Methos +/ Duncan, "I don't want to be the last. But I'm afraid I'll be."


( Here is the greatest of Methos’ uncountable secrets: he does not want to be the last. )



Title: to tame with kindness
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU during Avengers
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 370
Point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Loki, this won't hurt a bit


( The mortal takes down half of Loki’s men before Loki steps in, placing a gentle hand to his cheek. )



Title: hypothetical
Fandom: Animorphs
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: references to Tobias' unhappy home life
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 95
Point of view: third
Prompt: Animorphs, any, speed dial



( Red-tailed hawks that live in the woods don't have cell-phones, obviously. )

Title: Brother, you are my oracle
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Donald Platt
Warnings: References to the ex-Winter Soldier's time at Hydra; post-Cap2 and ignoring whatever happens in Avengers2.
Pairings: none
Rating: pg
Wordcount: 865
Point of view: third
Prompt: Marvel, Any, Movie Night.




( Jarvis is James’ best friend. )



Title: mirror ‘verse
Fandom: Once Upon a Time
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU
Pairings: Jefferson/Grace’s mother, Rumpelstiltskin/Belle
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 430
Point of view: third
Prompt: Once Upon a Time, any/any or gen, AU with reverse morality - the heroes/heroines are all evil and cruel and the villains are actually good

( After Rochelle dies, Jefferson tries to take Grace and hide away somewhere. )


Title: the dogs bayed the dirge
Fandom: Supernatural/Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: takes place in Hell; post-series for Leverage, whenever for SN
Pairings: Crowley/Eliot
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 300
Point of view: third
Prompt: Leverage/Supernatural, Eliot/Crowley, I'll make you a deal


( the trainer of the hounds )




Title: armor
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: post-Cap2
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 390
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, "if you want to be inconspicuous, don't wear a bright orange hoody!"


( Clothes make the man. )



Title: firm they might have stood, yet fell
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Milton
Warnings: mindgames/brainwashing, trauma, torture, violence, and death. Also, AU during Cap2 though canon up till then.
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 550
Point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Bucky Barnes +/ Steve Rogers, HYDRA got to Steve a long time ago.


( They are never out of the ice at the same time. )

Title: you mattered
Fandom: Animorphs
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from the series
Warnings: post-series
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 85
Point of view: third
Prompt: Animorphs, Jake/Cassie (and/or Tobias/Rachel), And never really had a chance / I had so many dreams / About you and me / Happy endings / Now I know / I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairy tale



( They saved the world but Cassie can’t call it a victory. )



Title: bless us that remember
Fandom: Animorphs
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Natasha Trethewey
Warnings: post series; canon character death
Pairings: canon
Rating: pg
Wordcount: 145
Point of view: third
Prompt: Animorphs, Cassie (post-#54), but somehow times keeps passing and it isn't long before the clamor and excitement everywhere she goes fades into an interested glance, a pointed finger, a whisper behind a hand, and the world moves on and soon she is forgotten



( She never was the exciting one. )



Title: colors come slowly
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Denise Levertov
Warnings: post-Cap2
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 490
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author's choice; author's choice; the colors of the century are red, white, and black. (Thea Gilmore, "Red, White, and Black")

( Red in the ledger can never be wiped out. )





Title: The water below is as dark as the grave
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: takes place during Cap2
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 350
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, water is rising around one while the other watches


( I’m with ya till the end of the line. )




Title: lose the world for love
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from John Carey
Warnings: references to violence/death/torture
Pairings: post-Steve/Bucky, pre-Steve/ex-Winter Soldier
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 795
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, "The Fires of Pompeii."


( Steve has never before been this angry. )

Title: let's go break the law just one more time
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Leverage
Warnings: references to violence
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark/James Rhodes, Peggy Carter/Gabe Jones, Natasha Romanova/Clint Barton, Alexander Pierce/Bucky Barnes
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 14000
Point of view: third
Prompts: vary with each chapter


“Hey, babe,” Bucky says into the phone, trying to smile, “remember that favor I was doin’ Potts, was gonna be the last job before I retired?”

Steve sighs heavily. “Yeah, Buck, I remember.”

“Well, see, Hammer tried to kill us instead’a payin’ us, so…” He lets it hang there for a moment and instead of saving him from the awkwardness, Steve waits him out. “We need a thief, Stevie. They were kickin’ around names and, well. You’re the best.”


Yes, this is a Leverage AU.

Title: love is where yesterday is
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: violence/death/everything implied by the existence of an ex-Winter Soldier
Pairings: implied past-Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1215
Point of view: third
Prompt: It doesn't take Steve and Sam all that long to find Bucky. Mostly, because when they do find him, he's catatonic. Breathing and occasionally blinking, but nothing else. (Why, when, and where up to author.)

Steve...well, Steve doesn't handle this so well.

Bucky may not be able to be angry about what he's suffered at Hydra's hands, but Steve figures he's got enough anger for the both of them. So, he leaves Bucky in Bruce and Sam's capable hands and heads out.

This time, he takes no prisoners.

And after each mission, Steve makes sure to come back and resume his vigil at Bucky's bedside, and describes in great detail how many agents were still in the building when he collapsed it, who he killed personally because he saw their name in the Winter Soldier file, how many fewer people there are in the world who can ever hurt Bucky again.



“Cap, we could use your help,” Fury says.

“Please, come in,” Coulson requests.

“Hey, your boy smiled today,” Sam reports.

Steve speeds up the takedown and goes home to New York.

Title: You were mine but I lent you out
Fandom: Marvel
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: references to violence and death
Pairings: implied post-Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 300
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any superhero universe or cop show. Any. Sometimes it doesn't pay to save the world.


( Three times now, he’s put the world ahead. )



Title: sings the tune without the words
Fandom: Smallville
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Emily Dickinson
Warnings: AU for Smallville
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Point of view: third
Prompt: Superman: TAS, Superman/Lex Luthor, the thing with feathers


( If Clark had just told him... )




Title: nothing since you and me even feels like love
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from A Softer World
Warnings: references to violence
Pairings: Kronos/Methos
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 150
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any, Our love was doomed, / a burning building, / a broken neck. / But nothing since / you and me / even feels like love.


( No matter where he searched, Kronos did not find Death. )



Title: young
Fandom: Shane
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: future!fic
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 190
Point of view: third
Prompt: any book. any. Looking back on younger days the view stretched on for miles/We charged into our future with laughter and smiles (Edwin McCain - Jesters, Dreamers, & Thieves)


( He knows that if Shane were still around, he'd suggest another way. )




Title: stone wreathed in starlight
Fandom: The Hobbit (Jackson films)
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for the third movie
Pairings: Tauriel/Kili
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 160
Point of view: third
Prompt: any. any. To love you is to go mad/To love you is to lose myself (Kate Earl - Nobody)


( She leaves, after. )

Title: ‘til my dyin’ day
Fandom: Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: character death, violence
Pairings: Parker/Hardison/Eliot
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 135
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, Any, "I'm coming back for you. I promise"



( I’ll come back. )



Title: I saw the passing of times you will never know
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Louise Erdich
Warnings: character death; future!fic; post-apocalyptic
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 515
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos /& Duncan, three thousand years later Methos is surprised to find Duncan still alive, thanks to Methos advices. But now look at the state of his soul ...


( To be quite honest, Methos had not expected Duncan to survive his first millennium. )



Title: of thieves and hoards
Fandom: Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: fantasy AU but set in the modern-day
Pairings: Sophie/Nate
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 290
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author's choice, author's choice, "I collect kingdoms. Not really to do anything with them. I just like having them."



( Dragons hoard things. )


continues here



Title: to look at a soul
Original characters in a daemon reality
Prompt: Any, any, dæmon AU: as though it wasn't weird enough when that person's dæmon didn't settle in high school, they never expected them to settle as ____

( Ten year high school reunion. )




Title: the mercy of one voice speaking from far away
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Denise Levertov
Warnings: takes place after Avengers2
Pairings: maybe implied Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 400
Point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Steve/+Bucky, oh, to see what they did to you... It would break your captain's heart.


( He still goes to the memorial. )

Title: you know for me, it's always you
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Taylor Swift
Warnings: violence, references to brainwashing/torture
Pairings: post-Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 400
Point of view: third
Prompt: author's choice, any, (504): i'm trying to reconcile what i did last night with who i am as a person.



(  A part of him is reeling in shock, even twelve hours later. )



Title: beneath the birth of the sky
Fandom: Marvel
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: post-Cap2, violence
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 130
Prompt: MCU, Steve/or& Bucky, Bucky keeps saving Steve's life


( The asset leaves the mission on the riverbank. )



Title: Just because you're clean don't mean you don’t miss it
Fandom: Political Animals
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Taylor Swift
Warnings: post-show
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 230
Prompt: any, any, there are no happy endings because nothing ends


( They still look at him like they're worried, like they don't trust him, like he's not quite good enough because he's been sullied. )




Title: if thou diest, my love, I know not where to go
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Keats
Warnings: violence, torture, brainwashing, death
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 650
Point of view: third
Prompt: author's choice, any, "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to become a villain."

( Bucky Barnes died in the mountains. He should’ve stayed dead. )




Title: Just grab my hand and don’t ever drop it
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Taylor Swift
Warnings: violence/torture/brainwashing; post-Cap2
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 850
Point of view: third
Prompt: Avengers movieverse, Steve/+Bucky, "No matter what anyone else tells you, love is not necessarily a good thing."


( There are things that are weapons, when used dangerously. )