Weekly Fic Rec: lucida, obscura by Chiyume, gwyneth rhys

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Author’s summary:

 

All the times he’d longed for Steve to talk to him that way, to touch him, and it had to be now. He watched as Steve got lost in a sea of men, the wave carrying him along. Below them the artillery was making its way up through the valley as the 107th, swollen with fresh replacements, tore through the Germans’ territory, preparing to pound them into oblivion. In a short time, the planes would be lighting those tanks up and turning the forest to toothpicks. Bucky looked at his hand. Maybe I’ll just evaporate, because I’m not supposed to be here. I would have ended up like all those other experiments.

 

Words: 20239, Chapters: 1/1

 

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: James “Bucky” Barnes, Steve Rogers, Howard Stark, Gabe Jones, Timothy “Dum Dum” Dugan, Jim Morita, Peggy Carter

Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: The Tesseract (Marvel), Magical Artifacts, World War II, Period Typical Attitudes, First Kiss, First Time, What’s Wrong With Bucky, There Are More Things in Heaven and Earth Than Are Dreamt of in Howard’s Philosophy

My notes:

 

I adore the way Bucky’s journey of despair and coming out of it is depicted, how the many sides of his life make a whole that makes sense. And lovely art too!