WinterStarr
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The Ghost of You by SunsetMaiden
Fandoms: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ant-Man (Movies), Captain America (Movies), Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
22 Oct 2023
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“And which of us do you trust?” she asked with a narrowed knowing gaze. “That’s what I thought,” she continued coolly when he didn’t respond. “Trust is an impossible feat for people like us.”
“Not impossible. Difficult, but not impossible.”
“I almost trusted someone once,” her tone turned wistful as she stepped away from him, retreating behind the wall of aloofness that she’d erected between them. “It wasn't particularly well done of me, it seems.”
OR: Bucky can't get a read on his new teammate Ava...and there may be a reason for that...
Series
- Part 3 of The Bucky Barnes Thunderbolt Era
- Part 1 of WinterStarr
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Known by SunsetMaiden
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), Ant-Man (Movies), Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
28 Dec 2024
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He hugged her close, strong arms—one given at birth, the other by Hydra--a temporary haven she could never keep. The warm brush of his lips against her forehead made her feel safe. "If I could figure it out, you'd come with me?"
"If you could figure it out, I'd go anywhere with you. Everywhere." He'd never figure it out. She knew this drill. Knew the minute his handlers found him, they'd erase her from him.
This only ended one way.
OR: The Winter Soldier and Ghost form a deep but doomed connection while working an assignment together.
Series
- Part 6 of The Bucky Barnes Thunderbolt Era
- Part 2 of WinterStarr
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Yelena Has Questions by SunsetMaiden
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Widow (Movie 2021), Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
12 Apr 2025
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“That’s it?” Yelena looked around, watching in awestruck annoyance as absolutely everyone dispersed to do the Winter Soldier’s bidding. “Am I the only one who still has questions? I have questions.”
OR: A one shot based entirely on the trailers for Thunderbolts*. Yelena still has questions for Alexei and Ava after Bucky successfully rallies everyone into a team.
Series
- Part 7 of The Bucky Barnes Thunderbolt Era
- Part 3 of WinterStarr
- Part 5 of Team Thunderbolt
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Bucky and Ava Get Cordial by SunsetMaiden
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe
08 May 2025
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Bucky and Ava discuss their new team, their troubled pasts, and Antonia Dreykov over ice cream.
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Bucky hesitated, searching sage green eyes that had no business being as pretty as they were. They were distracting. She was distracting. He refused to contemplate why he found her that way.
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- Part 10 of The Bucky Barnes Thunderbolt Era
- Part 4 of WinterStarr
- Part 3 of Team Thunderbolt
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The Geriatric Upstairs by SunsetMaiden
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Ant-Man (Movies)
11 Oct 2025
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Ava Starr is bound and determined to help the 106-year-old man living in her apartment building, not realizing that he is Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier!
Or: A reclusive, weary Bucky has retreated back to his Brooklyn apartment after the events of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, unaware that his life is about to change thanks to his beautiful downstairs neighbor.
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Ava moved up the next step and promptly stopped. Wait. Someone who was one-hundred-and-six-freaking-years-old lived in the same building? All by himself? Her heart dropped to the pit of her stomach. This place was a shithole. She took the stairs because the elevator barely worked and when it did, it smelled strongly of feet. How did the poor old thing even get his mail? There was some senior citizen living all alone, wasting away somewhere in the same building (he had to be wasting away, right? He was over a century old!) as her. This poor man had to be on his last leg. If he could even walk at all, that is. And a recluse at that, shutting himself away. It was simply too tragic to contemplate.
Finally, Ava found someone she wanted to help.
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- Part 5 of WinterStarr
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Seducing the Winter Soldier by SunsetMaiden
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ant-Man (Movies), Black Widow (Movie 2021)
07 Mar 2026
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Bucky is in for a shock when Ava phases into his bedroom.
OR: Ava is bad at feelings...but so is Bucky. Maybe they're just what the other needs.
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“To be fair, I *am* here to proposition you.”
Bucky nodded. What else could he do? Had he entered a parallel universe? Ava Starr had barely said five words to him since they’d moved into the tower. The most she’d ever spoken to him was urging him to enter the void after Yelena. Now, here she was, in his bedroom, looking gorgeous. And available. And snarky. And hot as a thousand hells. Again, he was the damned winter soldier. He didn’t know how to handle such heat.
“Just not blatantly. Or in…a weird, uncomfortable way.”
“Because this is completely normal,” Bucky commented dryly.
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- Part 6 of WinterStarr
- Part 6 of Team Thunderbolt
- Part 13 of The Bucky Barnes Thunderbolt Era
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We Don't Have to Kiss, Right? by SunsetMaiden
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe
10 Nov 2025
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When positive press after a mission stirs up speculation that Bucky and Ava are dating, Mel seizes an opportunity to rehab Ava's public image.
OR: Fake Dating, Baby!
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“This is good. You two getting along,” Mel interrupted when an awkward silence settled between them. “We need that connection to make this work.”
“What work?” Ava turned toward the other woman.
“The PRomance…showmance…whatever you want to call it.”
“What exactly is a PRomance?” Bucky asked with a sneer.
Mel clapped her hands together. “I’m glad you asked. Fake dating. You two are going to do it.”
“No, we’re not,” Ava snipped.
“I don’t real date, why would I fake date?” Bucky asked, dazed.
Series
- Part 7 of WinterStarr
- Part 7 of Team Thunderbolt