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Defying Duty

bodyguard!bucky x high profile!reader

strangers to friends to lovers to enemies to….?

When Bucky moves into the apartment next door, you're none the wiser when it comes to what his true intentions are. All you know is that your new neighbor is charming, mysterious, beyond handsome, and he’s caught your attention from day one. Unbeknownst to you, Bucky was hired by your parents to keep you safe. However, the more he gets to know you, the harder he starts to fall despite the myriad of rules he would be breaking. Fate was on neither of your sides when it brought you two together. It was certainly not on his side when you find out the truth. But you’ll be damned if you don’t take fate by the reigns and bend it to your will to make him pay for lying to you. If love is a game, then you’ll make sure you are the victorious one in the end.

*images above do not depict the actual reader, it’s merely based off the vibes of the series 🫶🏼

my lovelies, I hope you enjoyed this little sneak peak look at one of the series I have been working on behind the scenes along with all of my other wips. 👀🩷 I know I mentioned this before, but I tend to make moodboards, playlists, and chit chat about my wips because those motivate/inspire me to keep writing! 👩🏻‍💻✨ I also tend to forget about my wips if I don't actively do things to remember them, so this little post here will serve as my reminder to work on this series! 😂🩷

also a huge thanks to my beloved Mon @lomlbuckybarnes 🩷🩷 who is singlehandedly fueling my motivation for this series 🙂‍↕️💕 she deserves all the flowers for indulging me and my thoughts 💐✨

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I have lots to share, so please send in some!! 👀❤️

for every "🌹" received in my inbox i'll post one random sentence of a random WIP i'm currently writing

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The people need to know more about Joaquin and Bob fics😌🙂‍↕️

Oh, my beloved Mon, you are so very right about that 🤭💕💕 Thank you so much for this ask!! 🫶🏼

The Road That Leads To You is the title I gave to the collection of fics of our beloveds Bucky, Joaquin, and Bob in a biker AU 🏍️💕 It’s set in The Biker’s Tulip universe which is my Biker!Bucky x Florist!Reader story, and I have decided to give both Joaquin & Bob their own love interests too 🙂‍↕️💕

Bob & Joaquin are part of Bucky’s biker crew, but they’re part of the younger crew that includes Yelena, Kate, & Peter. Tulip, the reader in Bucky’s story, becomes like a big sister to the younger crew and she is an integral part of making Bob & Joaquin’s love stories happen 👀🩷

Biker Bob’s love story will focus a lot on finding your person, a gentle love that heals, the kind of love that builds you up and stitches even the deepest wounds inside you.

Biker Joaquin’s love story will be more on the rom-com side. Our golden retriever boy will have his annoyance to lovers with a local school teacher he meets while doing one of the biker’s a favor one day.

Lastly, I will share the cover art for the masterlist I’m working on for this collection 🫶🏼🫶🏼

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[elixirfromthestars]

WIP Game

thank you so much for tagging me my sweet @buckyys-babydoll 🫶🏼

rules: in a new post, post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet or tell us about it.

I have done this a couple of times before, but since I've gotten an influx of new followers this past week, (welcome my lovelies 💖) I thought I would share some more wips and link below my wip lists from before in case you'd like to ask anything on them 🫶🏼 For all my new lovelies, just so you know, I'm the kind of writer that loves to chit chat/yap about my wips because it reminds me they exist 😂😅, and it motivates me to work on them! 💖

here are all my newest wips in no particular order:

The Road That Leads To You || a collection of fics, drabbles, headcannons, etc for my biker boys -> Bucky, Joaquin, & Bob. It's all set in the biker's tulip universe! So feel free to ask anything about any one of them!

The Biker's Tulip || I officially have 10 Chapters planned out 👀✨ So if you're curious about their story at all let me know! (Biker!Bucky B.) [shared even more here]

Pushing It (Boyfriend!Jake S.)

Just A Roommate (Roommate!Jake S.)

Too Much (Avenger!Bucky B.)

Untitled Princess & Pauper AU (Knight!Jake S.)

Untitled Princes & Pauper AU (King!Bucky B.)

Close Call (Jake S.)

Didn't Mean It (Jake S.)

For the rest of my wips, check out the other lists! 💖

wip list #1 -- wip list #2

*Not included here are all my daydreams of Jake Seresin and the Dagger Squad in various AU's (modern cowboy AU, band AU, apocalypse AU, & sports AU) that I giggle over with my beloved Mon, that maybe one day might become wips, but for now, are just daydreams.✨You are welcome to ask about these too because why not? 🤭💖

no pressure tags: @arcane-vagabond @se7entyrell @bcksbarnes @fullymyself @writing-for-marvel @thevillainswhore @artficlly @flowersforbucky @mrs-elsie-barnes @thereoncewasagirlnamedjane & anyone else who would like to do it 💖

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very interested in FBI Jake 👀👀

Viv! 🫶🏼 Thank you so much for asking!! 🩷

So FBI!Jake is a little series that has been dancing around my head for awhile. 👀✨ It’s still in the development stages, but the premise of the series is that after a near death experience that makes him question his career path, Jake resigns from the military and purses a career at the FBI.

After a couple of years of proving himself and moving through the ranks, Jake finds himself assigned to his first ever undercover job for the organized crime unit. The task is simple: infiltrate a local gang, keep tabs on them, and gather enough intel/evidence so they can be taken down before the gang grows in size and power. Simple enough right? It would be, if it weren’t for the fact that the younger sister of the head of the gang catches his attention from day one. Now, he has to navigate his duty as an agent with his rapidly growing feelings for you.

There’s still a lot I have to figure out for this wip, but it’s a concept I’m really excited to dive into!! 🥰

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🌻for the spring ask game! jake and tyler are my faves so if you have any wips for them you'd like to share, but i also have been a bucky girl for years

Viv!! 🩷 Thank you for the ask!! 🥹🩷 Sorry for getting back to you so late, I'm barely catching up on everything I missed since I've been on vacation ✈️✨

I'm trying to see which wips I have left with those characters to talk about and it seems like I have Accidents Happen with Jake and Summer Love with Tyler!! 💕

Accidents Happen is a cute little request I got where the reader and Jake have an accidental kiss. The reader is on the shy side and Jake is such a softie in this for the reader!! 🥹💖 I’m having the setting at Fanboy’s birthday party, but apart from that I don’t have much written so I’ll share the little cover banner with you!! 🫶🏼

Summer Love is a mini series or series idea of a summer romance with the tornado wrangler himself. It's not fleshed out fully, (still in the very early stages of development) but I do have little ideas here and there of a romance between Tyler and a reader who comes down from a big city to Oklahoma for the summer on vacation and they fall in love despite only having the season together. I’m thinking there would be like a summer festival date, maybe some camping, possibly storm chasing, and so much more!! I’m thinking of lots of romance with an angsty climax 👀✨

As a bonus✨, I have an idea that’s not really a wip yet more so just a little idea floating in my head where there is a Knight!Jake, and a Prince!Bucky but it’s not a love triangle because there will be two readers and two separate fics that interconnect 👀💖 It’ll be a bit more complex than I’m used to, and it’s based on the Princess & the Pauper 👑💞

I would love to hear which wip sounds the most interesting to you, Viv!! 🫶🏼🫶🏼

blossoms of appreciation 💐

[elixirfromthestars]

‘Just a roommate’ is either angsty or spicy… 👀

You have it right with the angst there, my lovely 👀 Thank you for the ask!! 🫶🏼

Just A Roommate is a wip that’s still in its early stages, but the overall premise of it is that you, the reader, have been roommates with Jake for a couple of years now. Throughout deployments, trainings, and missions, his life has been anything, but stable.

Except for you. You are the only constant in his life. You’re his closest friend, his roommate, his confidant, the person who he can talk about anything and everything with, and maybe there’s more there between you that can be explored, but neither of you have made a move to explore it. Leaving whatever those feelings are, simmering under the surface.

You have been crushing on Jake for the longest time, but you’re convinced the feelings are one sided. So, the next time Jake is deployed for a few months you decide it’s time to move on. Your decision leads you to once again download those dating apps and try again.

Jake has never let himself consider more than a friendship with you. He likes the way things are. He likes the stability of it, the way you are the one thing he can count on to be constant in his life. Of course, there’s something deeper he feels for you, but this man is in total denial.

However, Jake is forced to face his feelings when he returns and you give him the devestating news that you’re seeing someone. Not only that, but if all things go well, you might even potentially get to the point where you’ll move out of your shared apartment and eventually Jake’s life.

Jake does not like that. He does not like that at all.

And let all the angsty goodness ensue from there!! 🤭

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[elixirfromthestars]

WIP GAME 🖋️✨

thank you so much for tagging me my lovely @thereoncewasagirlnamedjane 🩷🩷

rules: in a new post, post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet or tell us about it. then tag as many people as you have wips.

I have done this two times before, and if you'd like to ask about any of those wips I'll leave them here & here 💖Recently, I organized all my wips into a chart (because I needed order okay 🥲) and I ended up with 53 wips, and many are untitled, so for this game I gave them placeholder titles so it doesn't get confusing! 🫶🏼 Feel free to ask away! 💌✨

here are all my other wips in no particular order:

HIs Present (Husband!Bucky B.)

Holiday In the Park (Biker!Bucky B.)

Accidents Happen (Jake S.)

Under the Mistletoe (Bucky B.)

Caged In (Detective!Bucky B.)

Missing Piece (Logan H.)

By The Candlelight (Cowboy!Bucky B.) (more here)

Sick Day (Bucky B.)

Afterglow (Logan H.)

Love Language (Bucky B.)

Remedy (Biker!Bucky B.)

A Piece Of You (Logan H.)

Game On, Sweetheart (Jake S.)

Medicine (Boyfriend!Steve R.)

Should've Been There (Matt M.)

His Anchor (Boyfriend!Bucky B.)

Love Notes (Boyfriend!Steve R.)

Just Friends (Tyler O.)

Healing Wounds (Steve R.)

Reunion (Bucky B., Crossroads PT II)

The Christmas Contract (Lumberjack!Bucky)

The Biker's Tulip Series (Biker!Bucky B.)

Once Upon A Time (Prince!Jake S.)

Taming Bullet (Racecar Driver!Bucky B.)

Ivy (Prince!Bucky)

Undercover (FBI!Jake S.) (more here) (moodboard)

Is It Casual Now? (FWB!Bucky B.)

Defying Duty (Bodygaurd!Bucky B.)

A Rose Without Thorns (Mafia!Bucky B.)

Careful There (Detective!Bucky B.)

I think this is the first time my wips are so diverse in characters! 🥰❤️ I can’t wait to finally finish writing these!! 🥺🩷 I have a total of 53 wips, but I won’t be tagging that many people 😂🩷

no pressure tags: @humanwip @arcane-vagabond @buck-star @flowersforbucky @se7entyrell @writing-for-marvel @mrsbuckybarnes1917 @fvckingavengers @nickfowlerrr @nameless-ken @thevillainswhore

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My sweet Sydney @buck-star 🩷, thank you so much for tagging me!! 🫶🏼🫶🏼 I know I am late to this, but I’m still catching up to all of my asks/mentions/reblogs etc from the time I was away on vacation 🥺🩷 This game seemed so fun, so even though I’m late, I’m excited to do this!! 💖 (I cheated a little on the V because I couldn’t find a sentence that started with that letter 😅)

L - Leave it to her to make you feel like a burden. (Matt Murdock x Vigilante!Reader)

O - “Oh, thanks for that—yeah. That’s exactly what I need to hear right now.”  (Detective!Bucky x Lawyer!Reader)

V - “A fine gathering Viscount Stark held tonight, wouldn’t you agree? Although I would say the music—” James starts, but you interrupt him with a snip, “Excuse me, your grace.” (Duke!Bucky x Lady!Reader)

E - Exhaustion had seeped its way deep into your bones, so much so, you didn’t notice you were stirring your coffee with a pen. (Vigilante!Bucky x FBI!Reader)

no pressure tags: @humanwip @se7entyrell @mercurial-chuckles @thevillainswhore @thereoncewasagirlnamedjane @writing-for-marvel @arcane-vagabond @neverthatsirius-jo @flowersforbucky @nameless-ken + anyone else who’d like to play!! 🩷 (if you’ve already been tagged and done this, feel free to ignore this!! 🫶🏼)

Your word is: STAR

Wip Word Train!

EEEE!!!! Thank you SO much for the tags @bhaal-battle-beer-bard, @vividiana, and @khywren!! I've been tagged in a few different words, Lust, Spring, and Growl, so I'll go with GROWL since that was the most recent word I was tagged in and haven't seen anyone fulfill that one yet!

Rules: you get a word and look through your current WIPs to find a sentence/paragraph starting with each letter of that word.

These are all from Part 8 of Beauty and the Bard!

G - “Go on,” was all you offered. He exhaled. “She told me that I was allowed to love you.”

R - Raphael lifted his head. “My apologies to the flittering lovebirds.”

O - “Our guests will have no idea we fucked on the lounge in the drawing room.”

W - “We’ve never laughed together,” he licked your ear. “Not once,” you giggled.

L - “Listen to your mate,” Nessa growled.  “She’s not-” “Oh please,” Nessa said, annoyed. “You two reek of each other. It’s as if you were attempting to make pups mere moments ago.”

I tried to get a little variety in here from all over! Can't wait for you guys to get some context!

No pressure tagging: @arzen9, @busy-baker, @tillysketch, @buck-star, @deadly-diminuendo, @verbenaa, and @andromedaancunin!! Your word is "HEART" 🥰

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Ooof. Normally in a roommate trope it’s the guy that gets into a relationship, I love how it’s the reader in this one. I can’t wait to see Jake grovel and long for the reader

What can I say 🤷🏻‍♀️💕 I like my men pathetically down bad and groveling 🤭🩷😂 Jake just needs that push to force him out of that denial stage, you know? 👀✨

Because once the one thing in his life that he deemed permanent—you—is no longer going to be that…the poor guy is panicking 👀

I can’t wait to share it with you all!! 🫶🏼

[elixirfromthestars]

Hello, lovely Mel!! 🥰

I’ve been a bit on a Matt Murdock kick recently and was very intrigued to see him on your wip list 🤭 any insights my love? I’m getting angsty vibes by that title 👀

Mollie, hello my darling!! 🥹🩷🩷 I’ve been rewatching the earlier seasons of Daredevil before I start the new show, and it’s gotten me excited to write for him again! I missed him 🥺

Should’ve Been There is an angsty, but sweet hurt/comfort fic with Matt. I am such a sucker for the hurt/comfort trope, and I wanted to explore the kind of emotional turmoil/guilt Matt would feel when the reader gets hurt because Matt wasn’t there. I don’t have much written so I’ll share the little cover banner instead 🫶🏼

Thank you for the ask!! ❤️

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Wip Wednesday 🖊️✨

(on a thursday ✨)

Thank you for the tag my lovely @marvelstoriesepic !! 🩷

I have too many wips…many are just ideas and outlines 😅 so I scavenged all of them to see if there was one wip that had something written that I haven’t shared yet, and to my surprise I did have something!! 👀💖

A snippet of the next part in The Biker’s Tulip titled The 107th

(biker!bucky x florist!reader 🌷✨)

Bucky isn’t yours. You know you have no claim on him. He’s been a kind…neighbor? Friend?  Does he even consider you one of his friends? You’ve met some of his friends. You’ve seen the warmth in his gaze when he talks to them, and yet you don’t remember seeing him smile at them like he does with you.  So, what are you two?  You know something in your heart is blooming for him despite the warnings your mind constantly throws at you. And maybe you should have listened and stomped out whatever unrequited crush on Bucky was sneaking its way into your heart to try and permanently plant itself there. Maybe if you had done that, seeing him right now browse the flowers in your shop for someone special—someone else—in his life wouldn’t leave the hollow ache in your chest like it is now. 

And that’s all I’ll share for now 🤭💕✨

no pressure tags: @buck-star @arcane-vagabond @se7entyrell @flowersforbucky @sunday-bug @sergeantbarnessdoll @jackys-stuff-blog @fullymyself

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Thank you for the tag Sydney!! 🫶🏼🫶🏼

The last thing I wrote was the next part I’m working on for my Biker Bucky series, The Biker’s Tulip 🌷💕

“Hey…what were ya doin’ up there?” Bucky asks you with a small smile.

no pressure tags: @flowersforbucky @mrsbuckybarnes1917 @barnesafterglow @humanwip @neverthatsirius-jo @nickfowlerrr @marvelstoriesepic

writing meme: post the last line that you wrote and tag someone for every word in the line.

Thank you for the tag @hederasgarden 💞

Here are my latest lines from The Middle of Nowhere Part 5:

But for the first time, Bradley looks back up at the tree. From this distance, it is now painfully clear that the body tucked into the orange jacket high above him is not yours. “No…”

NP Tags: @green-socks, @blue-aconite, @mayhem24-7forever, @ohtobeleah, @writercole, @navybrat817, @roosterforme, @sunlightmurdock, @clairewritesandrambles, and anyone else who wants to share!

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You sold me on your FBI Jake pitch 😍🔥

Oh, my lovely, I am so happy to hear that!! 🥹🩷 Noticing how interested people are in this series is making me so excited to work on it more 👀✨ I haven’t written for Jake yet, so I was a little nervous at first, but the more I talk about this wip the more I’m eager to get to writing it! 🥰

Just for you, I worked on this little moodboard!! 🫶🏼

[elixirfromthestars]

Hi Mel, It's me again🫣🫢

I wanted to chit chat🍷 would you mind sharing some of your wips with us? Maybe you could choose 3 Bucky wips and share the last 2 sentences of those? 👀 Or maybe something else, if not feel totally free to ignore this💗

Oh my beloved friend, I am so happy to see you here again 🥰❤️ You know I’d love to chit chat with you 🍷❤️

Let’s see… 🤔 I shared info on all my fluffy winter fics for Bucky last time, so this time… I’ll choose 3 of my other Bucky wips 👀💖 (these are three I haven’t really talked about and I only have outlines for/very little written, so I’ll share a bit more info on them)

For this first wip (as of now) it’s titled Faking It. The premise of this story is that you have hated Bucky ever since he was basically given credit for a project proposal you made at work. You’ve been nasty to him since, so he doesn’t like you much either. However, at a company gala you find out that your best friend and long time crush Joaquin is dating Bucky’s on and off again ex-girlfriend Dolores. Bucky finds out at the same time that you do, and he comes up with the brilliant idea to fake date each other to make your crushes jealous. But as they always say, there’s a fine line between love and hate. Something you both will find out during your little scheme.

[fake dating, modern au, enemies to lovers, rivals to lovers, rom-com]

Here are your two sentences:

“He’s stealing my girl.” “You would know about stealing wouldn't you?”

For the second wip, it’s titled Taming Bullet. In this one, Bucky “Bullet” Barnes returns to his hometown after a few years of a successful professional racing career. He decides to take a break and upon his return, he comes back into your life. And considering the disastrous way he left it last time—you’re not friendly upon his arrival. However, he can’t seem to stay away from you and he ends up uncovering a secret you have been hiding from your brother. Will he keep your secret? Or will he betray your trust once again?

[brother’s best friend, 18+, frenemies to lovers, the one that got away trope]

Here are your two sentences:

The last time he saw you, you stared at him like he had reached into your chest and snatched your heart right out of its cavity. Now, you were glowering at him like you would put a bullet through his head and not bat an eye—all life gone from those eyes he used to adore the way they looked at him.

For my third wip, it’s titled Falling For You. In this one, your brother is the leader of the notorious local biker gang. By blood you’re affiliated to it, but by choice you don’t associate yourself with it. The gang is very territorial and doesn’t like that all the rich socialite’s have come back into town to renovate the area. The gang especially doesn’t like all those rich college kids coming into the local businesses as if they owned the place. James “Bucky” Barnes being one of them, and the son of one of those very wealthy socialites. So you can imagine your brother wants you far far away from Bucky Barnes and any/all of his friends. Will you be able to stay away? Or will there be something that pulls you into the very arms of Bucky Barnes?

[strangers to friends to strangers to lovers, forbidden romance, west side story inspired]

Here are your two sentences:

Sometimes life brings you back right where you’re meant to be. And it seems like this time, it brought you back to those ocean eyes you had found a home in, in this very cove, many years ago. 

I would love to know if anyone is looking forward to any of these! 🩷

[elixirfromthestars]

WIP Game 🖋️✨

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPS.

I was tagged by the lovely and talented @nickfowlerrr 🥹🩵 thank you 🫶🏼✨

I have absolutely way too many. So have fun reading through a lot of them🤭💗 and bear with me as a few are untitled &/or the title is not finalized 🗒️💞

Boulevard Confessions (40sBucky)

A Carriage of Convenience (Duke!Bucky)

No Rest for the Wicked (Vigilante!Bucky)

Haunted (Vampire Hunter!Bucky)

Love at a Distance (Artist!Bucky)

What a Catch (Athlete!!Steve)

Kiss It All Better (Peter)

Attention (Thunderbolts!Bucky)

For Worse or For Better (College Bucky)

Faking It (ROM-COM Bucky)

Break Me Like a Promise (Ex! Bucky)

Falling For You (Surfer!Bucky)

Axels of the Heart (Lumberjack!Bucky)

Cat Got Your Tongue? (TFATWS!Bucky)

It’s Always Been You (Soulmate Bucky)

Tulip (Biker!Bucky)

The One Where We’re Friends (Mechanic!Bucky)

As you can see there’s so many Bucky ones 👀❤️

no pressure tags: @humanwip @mrsbuckybarnes1917 @peteyprecious616 @malum-forev @marvelstoriesepic @whatever-lmaoo