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I like my BuckyTony how I like my chilli flakes. 🔥🔥🔥

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Mob boss Tony and bodyguard Bucky

"Don't think I'll be allowed up in heaven, Barnes." "Then I guess I'll follow you down in hell, Little Devil."

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Bucky reaches out to Tony during his stay in Wakanda. They connect, tentatively at first and then through science and fiction. They're friends. Good friends by the time Infinity War rolls out. And it's then, when the jet lands without Tony, with Rhodes looking more often at the sky than the rest, he realises he has been in love with the genius for quite a while.

He means to say ", Steve, tell him". Except he never gets to finish it before he's gone.

Five years later, when he comes to—it's night and he's disoriented. But there's a fight and his friends, his brother needs him. He's glad to see Tony is okay, older than he remembers. Yet still with that snarky wink and the smirk reserved for the grumpy old Barnacle.

Then the inevitable happens. Tony dies. And Bucky's heart broken.

After the funeral, Steve finds him, asks him if he wants to come with him. And Bucky thinks he might understand. He does understand. Steve loved Stark. In every way he could.

But he recalls Pepper finding him, staring him in the eye and holding his hand with a soft, reassuring ", I know". He recalls the kid, her eyes alert with the same kind of genius as her father, and the warmth of her mother. He remembers Sam's hand on his shoulder. Rhodes sharing a beer. Ayo. Shuri. T'Challa. The future he has seen. And he just knows, the futurist would hate him for turning back to a past he would never belong to.

So he stays.

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WinterIron Cinderella slash Mob-AU?

based on this

Mob boss Bucky meeting Tony Carbonell for the first time. The later has his mouth stuffed with chocolate filled donut and spews crumbs all over the suave looking guy's clothes when he goes to ask for more coffee at the counter. Neither of them know each other's true identity. But Tony thinks Bucky is snobby and entitled, and isn't afraid to voice it out loud even when other people around him look like they are pissing their pants.

Cue three more explosive meetings. And a fourth where Tony sets a building on fire to get a bunch of robbers arrested. No one knows who this new kid is, but everybody has a blast (literal and non literal) with him and ends up loving him. Bucky is curious.

The two meet, again and again until things between them thaw. They strike an odd sort of friendship, which soon blooms into entirely something else.

Five months of a whirlwind romance, then Tony disappears. No one knows where he came from or where he went to. Only one person does and she wants Bucky to stay away from her little Ducky, keep his filthy mittens off of him.

Bucky has a lot of respect for Peggy Carter, for the empire she carved out of sheer will. But like hell he is going to let the old granny stop him from getting his Tony back.

A year later, the Avengers are meeting Howard Stark to negotiate old territories and a new weapons deal. Bucky is sitting in the office, being offered whiskey and cigar by the old man himself. Steve is busy talking and bickering good naturedly when the door opens.

"Hey, dad! Mom wants to know if she could take Jarvis over to aunt Pegs—"

Bucky looks up, already turning around and Tony's eyes are still so bright and beautiful. The flush on his cheeks, the white t-shirt falling off his shoulders and his unruly mop of hair falling across his forehead. It's like he hasn't changed a bit.

"Anthony, later."

Tony swallows and nods, backpedaling out of the room quickly after stammering an apology. But Bucky is smiling, his chin resting on his fist. He vaguely hears Howard apologizing for his son, hears Steve hiss ", cut it out, Buck. You look like a creep". But all he can think is: Tony Carbonell, his Tony, is actually Tony Stark, son of their new weapons dealer.

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Aesthetic:

WinterIron Private Detective AU

Bucky Barnes, a private detective with a shady past, is hired by Howard Stark to keep an eye on his wayward son. But Tony Stark's not at all like he portrays himself to be and is keeping secrets of his own. Namely, going behind his father's back to sneak a peek at who in SI is selling weapons to the terrorist group Ten Rings.

- Naivelittleprincess

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“I will find you”

♪ Audiomachine

"This time, Steve. Between him and me, you choose him. You choose him or so help me-" "Buck-" "You choose him. You save him. You bring him home." "Okay. Okay."

The fight happens. It's bloody and gruesome. Steve still ends up choosing Bucky over Tony. And that is what finally breaks them apart.

He spent three years falling in love with Tony. And now, Bucky spends all his time trying to live without him. His sleep addled ramblings; the high pitched giggle which Tony would try to convince everyone isn't cute; the lab; those hands; his soft voice telling him over and over that they moved past Siberia a long time ago; and that smile. He misses it all. He misses Tony and hates that Steve gets to go back in time to get his happy ending, while Bucky is still stuck grieving a newfound love.

The revelation of multiverse is a hope, a nightmare and a sin all at once. But when he finds the right universe; where Tony is alive, happy in a world that is so similar to his, Bucky takes his bid and dives right in.

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Detective Bucky and Police Chief's Son, Tony

based on this

If anyone asks, Bucky does odd jobs around the block to get by. He mows lawn, cleans the backyard and even babysits the dogs or preferably the cats. That's the gist of it. But not the whole story. Yes, he does do all those bits and bites. He does love Alpine and her wrinkly old owner, who always says she'll leave the cat to Bucky when she keels over to her death. Except he also does other things. Other things like solving a murder. You see, Bucky used to be a private detective. As someone who retired from war with one arm lost to carnage, he craved justice for those sad little deaths no one cared about. So he became a private detective to solve the murders the right way. Outside the law. Except his best friend, Steve, Captain Steve Rogers, decided that his team could use his help. So now he spends a lot of his time following the team of a few good police officers to solve murders the right way. Lawfully. It's only a spare bonus that he gets paid for justice.

A good life. Great, even. If only Bucky was extraordinary at solving murders.

Oh he's good. Very good by standard definition. But he could be better. He could be Holmes, not Watson. Not second best. Not nearly there. Not almost all cases.

It bums him. Scares him that Steve would come to his senses and hire someone else. Someone better than Bucky.

It could be better, he's still thinking that when he bumps into someone. Someone very pretty. With big, round doe-like eyes and a face that could sell on those fashion magazines for men and women alike. Someone who wears bright red glasses too big for his face. Plaid pants and patched jacket with untucked, oddly buttoned shirt. Someone who blinks at him and lights up the world with his smile. Someone with a voice of a siren, who crows ", you have my arm," and then runs away at the sound of the police alarm.

Steve finds him gaping at the spot like a fish out of the sea. "Bucky!"

The detective only blinks and closes his mouth shut when his best friend shakes him, asking if he'd seen a young boy with the weirdest fashion sense and a rapid fire mouth that gets him in trouble. Bucky only briefly registers the sentence. But his mind latches onto the trouble bit.

"Who was that, Steve?"

Steve sighs, pinches the bridge of his nose and shakes his head.

"That was Tony Stark." He suddenly smiles fondly. Like he's talking about his unruly child. "Our Chief's son."

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Sneak Peek:

Guns and Rainbows

SUMMARY:

"Would you STOP shooting at people?" "What do you want me to do? Hug them instead?"

In which Bucky's a little too trigger happy, Tony just wants a quiet night with his secret boyfriend, the Avengers are mostly confused about who keeps leaving flowers in Hydra hideouts and Pepper's just sick of these two idiots.

SNIPPET:

If someone asked Pepper when and where her migraine started, she'd tell them it was when Maria Hill came to her, asking for a job. But the truth was, her headache started as soon as Steve Rogers told them all who the Winter Soldier was. A more accurate description would be when Tony Stark decided to take an impromptu vacation in Romania. His answer to her very obvious ", why Romania," was a shrug and that devil-may-care smirk that used to do things to her heart rate—but now it just made her take an anxiety pill.

It wasn't till he called her from his hotel that she had her first migraine case creeping up her neck. In Tony's words: he pinned Winter Soldier's location, he decided to go see for himself what the fuss was all about, then they talked and ", he's just so hot, Pepper, you wouldn't believe"—she did because the very bisexual idiot had a thing for hot-danger-boys (case point, Loki) and it was very bad for her already erratic blood pressure. All of this was followed up by him calling her after a month and her Tony-Stark-did-something-stupid-again instincts screaming. She was right because ", Pep, I guess I'm dating the Winter Soldier now", followed up by a soft, grumbling ", doll, please, at least tell her my real name. And what do you mean by guess". And the forever-unimpressed Miss Virginia Potts had only one thing to say. "I want to meet him." Then ", you owe me new shoes, Mister Stark."

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