Weekly Fic Rec: Long Off Skies by eyres

[stellahibernis]

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Author’s summary:

 

Bucky’s daily circuit, without fail, takes him to the small plot of land where Steve is buried. Brooklyn’s ghostly ruins are the perfect setting for the once proud tombstone, now battered and sloping from wind and grit.

 

Sometime in the future, Earth has been left uninhabitable after a long alien war. The few humans remaining fled to the skies, leaving only Bucky Barnes behind to monitor the dying planet.

 

Then, a very much alive Steve Rogers crash lands at his front door.

 

Written for the Cap Big Bang 2018. Art by superhumandisasters and angeolras.

 

Words: 30701, Chapters: 7/7

 

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: James “Bucky” Barnes, Steve Rogers

Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 (Movie), Post-Apocalypse, Temporary Character Death, Explicit Sexual Content, Famine - Freeform, War, Starvation, Space Stations, Grave Robbers, minor appearances of Tony Stark, Protective Bucky Barnes, Age Difference, Eventual Happy Ending

My notes:

 

This is a very well realized AU, I love the world building, how Bucky is portrayed to have learned to live in the new world and how it has affected him, as well as the very hopeful ending.