@lovemesomesteve

Aaliyah

I love Marvel, I love the Avengers, I love me some Steve Rogers.

Captain, You’ve Got a Problem

The Avengers have spent months chasing you. You’re clever, unpredictable, and infuriatingly good at staying one step ahead of them. Until now. Captured at a high-profile gala, you’re suddenly surrounded by enemies demanding answers you have no intention of giving. But beneath the sarcasm, flirtation, and carefully maintained composure lies a history far more complicated than the Avengers realise. Steve Rogers has questions. You have jokes, a questionable attitude, and a particular interest in testing just how much patience Captain America actually has. You’re a trained operative with a talent for manipulation, a mouth that never quits, and absolutely no interest in making this easy for anyone. He’s disciplined, stubborn, and unfortunately for himself, your new favourite person to annoy. Steve intends to get to the truth. You intend on making his job as difficult as humanly possible.

Break Up With Her // Bucky Barnes

You’ve been an Avenger long enough to know that not everyone has to like you. Fortunately, the people who matter do. You’re difficult, occasionally insufferable, and have never particularly cared for playing nice. Steve Rogers has learned to tolerate your attitude, Bucky Barnes has made a habit of returning it, and somewhere along the way, the three of you have developed a rather dysfunctional little dynamic. Then Vanessa arrives. Six months later, she’s everyone’s favourite new addition. She’s sweet, considerate, effortlessly charming, and, much to your irritation, Bucky’s girlfriend. You don’t particularly care for her. Perhaps it’s the way everyone seems to adore her. Perhaps it’s the feeling that she’s occupying a space that was once yours. Or perhaps you’ve simply noticed something about Vanessa that everyone else seems determined to overlook. Whatever it is, you have no intention of making things easy for her. But there’s a difference between wanting to get under someone’s skin and wanting something that belongs to them. And Bucky Barnes might just become your worst idea yet.

Getting Under His Skin

Captain America has faced aliens, super-soldiers, and the end of the world. Apparently, none of them prepared him for you. A year ago, you were fighting on the wrong side of the battlefield. Now, you’re living in Avengers Tower, working alongside the very people you once fought against. The team has learned to trust you, Tony thinks you’re brilliant, Natasha understands you better than most, and the others have more or less accepted that chaos tends to follow wherever you go. Steve Rogers hasn’t gotten the memo. To him, you’re reckless, insufferable, and far too comfortable challenging his authority. To you, he’s a stubborn, self-righteous pain in the ass who takes himself entirely too seriously. Naturally, you get along wonderfully. Between sarcastic remarks, training-room rivalries, shared dinners, and arguments that somehow become everyone’s business, you make it your personal mission to get a reaction out of him. And Steve? He’s determined not to give you the satisfaction. But living under the same roof has a way of complicating things. Especially when resentment refuses to stay simple, the tension between you becomes increasingly difficult to ignore, and the man who can’t stand you starts paying far more attention than either of you would like to admit. He’s not your biggest fan. You’re certainly not his. And neither of you is prepared for what happens when hating each other stops being quite so easy.

The Human Experience // Avengers

For twenty-one years, HYDRA teaches you how to survive. How to fight. How to follow orders. How to recognise a threat before it becomes one. What they never teach you is how to live. Taken from your mother at four years old and raised inside a classified facility, you’ve never known anything beyond experimentation, conditioning and carefully controlled routines. You’re twenty-five, highly intelligent and exceptionally capable, but the ordinary world is practically foreign to you. You don’t understand friendship, affection, dating or why people do half the things they do. And when the Avengers discover you during a raid on a HYDRA facility, they quickly realise that bringing you back to the Compound is going to be considerably more complicated than they anticipated. For the first time, nobody expects you to be useful. Nobody gives you orders. Nobody decides what your life should look like. There’s just a team of superheroes trying to help you navigate a world you’ve never experienced, a particularly stubborn Captain America, and a long-haired, perpetually brooding super-soldier who seems to understand your circumstances a little too well. You know how to survive almost anything. But learning how to live? That’s an entirely different mission.

Such a Good Girl // Bucky Barnes

Bucky Barnes has never been someone who needs to be in control of everything. But lately, he’s been discovering something about himself he hadn’t quite expected. It starts with Y/N. A friend, a fellow Avenger, and someone who’s never been particularly difficult to have around. She’s confident, playful, occasionally cheeky, and perfectly capable of giving him a hard time. Yet there’s something about the way she responds to him that he can’t seem to stop thinking about. A simple instruction. A knowing look. The quiet satisfaction of being listened to. What begins as an unexpected curiosity slowly becomes something neither of them has a name for. Bucky starts exploring a side of himself he’s never had reason to acknowledge, while Y/N discovers that there’s something rather appealing about letting a certain stubborn super-soldier take the lead. They’re friends. At least, that’s what they keep telling everyone. But some dynamics are harder to ignore once you discover how much you enjoy them.

Learning You // Bucky Barnes

They know him as the Winter Soldier. A weapon built by HYDRA, a ghost with a metal arm, and a man whose past has been stolen from him. You know what he is capable of. You’ve fought him. You’ve seen the violence firsthand. But when Steve Rogers recognises the man beneath the mask, you choose to believe there’s more to him than the weapon HYDRA created. Now Bucky Barnes is back at the Avengers Compound. The programming is gone, but the man underneath is still guarded, distrustful, and far from ready to let anyone in. He doesn’t want your kindness. He doesn’t want your questions. And he certainly doesn’t want another person trying to get close. Unfortunately, you’re not particularly good at keeping your distance. What begins as an uneasy familiarity slowly turns into something neither of you expects. Because getting to know James Barnes means learning that there’s a difference between the man he was, the soldier he became, and the person he’s still trying to find. And perhaps, for the first time in a very long time, he gets to decide who that person is.