Fic: Everything Rekindled

Link to AO3

A collaboration for capbb with a whole lot of wonderful art by auntiesuze (all of it embedded in the fic).

The Winter Soldier escaped from Hydra in the early eighties, and since then he's helped SHIELD to get rid of their parasite, taken over the Russian and Irish mobs in Brooklyn, used his influence to make the borough safer, and reclaimed the name James (albeit not Barnes, and definitely not Bucky). By 2012 he was leading a very comfortable and content life, if not exactly happy one.

 

Everything changed when Captain America was found in ice, and suddenly there was a possibility for James to find happiness again. For once, the biggest obstacle on his path was himself.

Words: 42398, Chapters: 9/9

 

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Other Marvel Characters

Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Divergence - Post-Avengers (2012), Complicated Relationships, fear of commitment, Pining, Explicit Sexual Content, getting to know each other again, Road Trips, grand canyon - Freeform, Winter Soldier as a benevolent mob boss, Artist Steve Rogers, Illustrated, Captain America Big Bang 2019 | cabigbang, Embedded Images, Digital Art

Sunday Snippets November 10th 2019

First and foremost, our Cap Big Bang fic Everything Rekindled is now completely posted. The art by auntiesuze is embedded in it, all five pieces plus the banner are just so beautiful! I got extremely lucky with this collaboration.

Now that the bang fic is off the table, I'll work on other stuff. It was funny, since I've lately been generally busy so that I've only managed to work on the bang fic, and it was all editing in the final weeks, it was a bit of a drag to get back to actually writing. I did manage some, though. Some of the things I'll be working on in the near future (plus a new idea) below.

I wrote another chapter for my holiday space adventure, and at this point I'm really glad I decided to go with a less ambitious plan this year, since there's two thirds still to go. At this point I don't think I'll have a terrible rush to finish it, but I'll have the whole Christmas week off work, so that'll help if it comes to it.

Beyond that, I want to write the Carol/Maria story that I've already started, and I actually set up a scrivener file for the quartet series I mentioned last month, the post-EG sort of fix-it where the parts focus on Sam, Nat, Steve and Bucky in the aftermath. The first part will be about Sam.

Also a non-Marvel thing, I think I've mentioned I love the comic the Wicked + the Divine, which ended this summer. I always played with the idea of writing a story of Inanna and Baal, and I'm going to, a small one at least.

And the new idea, which was a suspected brain hijacking, because it's a contemporary no powers AU, and that's really not something that usually happens to me. I've sometimes entertained the idea, but I like even in my AUs to have some parallels with canon, and I really didn't want to do a war veteran story, because all things considered, I think Steve would be against every recent war the US has been involved with. But I came up with a premise that worked for me, so maybe that will get written.

I say maybe, because at this point I really have to accept all my ideas will not get written, even some fics that have a serious word count in drafts will never see the light of day. That's just how it goes.