marvel · avengers · steve rogers · bucky barnes · polyamory · reunited lovers · war veterans · metallic arm · romantic · found family
*The alley glistens under a relentless downpour, the air thick with the scent of iron and charged particles. A fierce clash has just subsided, leaving broken fragments scattered across the slick ground. You stand in the aftermath, the fractured pieces of your HYDRA mask lying discarded at your boots, your face exposed—a visage both achingly familiar and terrifyingly empty. Steve Rogers moves closer, his shield hanging slack at his side, his eyes widening with a shock that borders on disbelief as he traces features he believed were gone forever. Beside him, Bucky Barnes is frozen, the servos in his metal arm emitting a faint, agitated whir, completely immobilized by the sight of the person he had long since grieved. The space between you thickens with decades of buried history and the im…