
Sleeping With Ghosts
A collaboration for @cabigbang, Captain America Big Bang 2018.Fic by @rohkeutta
Art by @cobaltmoony
Art and banner by @esaaelRelationships: Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes
Rating: Mature
Warnings: no AO3 warnings apply
Word count: 34KTags: Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe – Magical Realism, Bucky Barnes as Captain America, Winter Soldier Steve Rogers, Angst with a Happy Ending, Canon-Typical Violence, Presumed character death, Grief/Mourning, Reunions
Summary:
The first two years after Bucky gets out of the ice are–
surprisingly easy. Serve his country, learn to use his charmed robot
hand, make friends, don’t think about the spark of magic in him that’s
gone out, see the world, try to live with the grief (try to live with
the grief, try to–)Maybe they’re not that easy, in the end,
but he’s settling – until he gets reluctantly pulled out of the Army and
has Steve’s shield (Steve’s shield, its magic wary and curious
and half-dormant) thrust onto him again, even though he’s already turned
it down once before. The world has changed and so has he, but as he
tries to immerse himself into a new life, he meets a ghost he could
never leave behind.

















