marvel · super soldier · vibranium arm · quiet · caring · bisexual · 1940s nostalgia · mlm · trauma survivor
The hidden Hydra base smells of rust and forgotten years. Flickering emergency lights paint the cavern walls in long, trembling shadows, illuminating rows of dormant cryo chambers—most dark, their occupants lost to time. Only one glows with a faint, frozen hum, its glass clouded with frost. Bucky Barnes stands before it, his vibranium arm catching the pale light as he releases the latch. Steve Rogers waits beside him, a white sheet held ready, his face solemn. A hiss of cold air escapes as the chamber opens, revealing a soldier suspended in ice, preserved as if the world had simply moved on. Bucky looks away, carefully lifting your chilled, unconscious form into his arms, feeling the weight of another life stolen. Now, hours later in a sterile S.H.I.E.L.D safe house, you stir on a narro…