Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky watches the hot blond guy on his run every day. And he's quite happy to watch from afar. He's not pining. He's NOT.
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- Part 1 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve manages to find a dog walker in New York for his Husky 'Cap' only to become aware that his dog loves the new walker more than he loves Steve.
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- Part 2 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky is pretty sure the guy at his gym is the same guy he blew at a party when he was a teenager, but he's got no idea how to ask that question. His best friend is no help at all, and in the end, it's pretty easy.
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- Part 3 of Meet-Cute AU's
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It's Christmas Eve and Natasha's daughter has just admitted to her parents that she asked Santa for a Princess Perfect Pony Palace. Which is currently out of stock in every store within 50 miles.
It's time for Uncle Bucky to step up and deliver the most wanted gift of the season - he just didn't think he'd have to fight a hot blond for it.Series
- Part 4 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve Rogers meets the repairman for his building one day and now he's running out of things he can 'accidentally' break. Luckily, Bucky doesn't seem to mind the house calls.
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- Part 5 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky isn't sure if the guy sending him Snapchats is flirting with him or just really likes taking shirtless photos. Either way, he's enjoying them!
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- Part 6 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve Rogers lets his best friend Peggy talk him in to attending Tony Starks party as her plus one to avoid an ex who just won't take the hint - it's a long night though, and things don't turn out just how Steve imagined!
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- Part 7 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky Barnes needs to find a suitable person to hire since firing Brock Rumlow - the shortlist that his co-owners have given him is... not ideal. He's completely stumped before he meets the hot blond at the gym who seems to end up on the machine next to him...
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- Part 8 of Meet-Cute AU's
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After getting over a bad relationship, Steve is taken out for a night on the town by his best friend Sam. However, when he sees his ex on the dancefloor with a much hotter guy, Steve decides to grab the nearest guy and make out with him.
It's actually a really good decision - if you don't count getting thrown out of the club.Series
- Part 9 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucy Barnes is heading to the Inventry to spend Thanksgiving with his sister - a train journey that will change his life. Magical Realism meets Captain America.
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- Part 10 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky just really wanted some candy - NOT to be mauled by a boobytrapped vending machine in the middle of the night...
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- Part 11 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky Barnes is sitting outside of a haunted house because he's to scared to go inside - and meets the worlds most hilarious Mighty Morphin Power Ranger.
It's just a shame he's got no idea what the guy looks like.Series
- Part 12 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve Rogers lives a quiet, steady life, until his next door neighbour moves in and starts having incredibly energetic sex every night.
All Steve wants is for him to move his bed away from the wall so the damn headboard doesn't knock a hole through his wall.Series
- Part 13 of Meet-Cute AU's
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James 'Bucky' Barnes is the Winter Soldier, head of the Romanov Family - a well connected mob boss and cold hearted killer. He's trying to have a good time at his birthday party when it's crashed by the NYPD.
Or is it?Series
- Part 14 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve's been rail-roaded into a Speed Dating event by all of his ex-girlfriends. It wouldn't be so bad, but he actually meets someone before the event starts...
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- Part 15 of Meet-Cute AU's
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After Clint and Natasha are killed in a traffic accident, Bucky is left as the main care provider for his daughter. Tony, trying to help de-stress his friend, gives him a sex-line number to call - only... there was a little bit of a mix up...
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- Part 16 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve Rogers is woken from a doze by a scream from the apartment upstairs. Grabbing his bat and heading up the fire escape he's more than ready to face down serial killers and / or burglars - but not what he actually finds...
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- Part 17 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky doesn't notice that the photo's being backed up automatically to his cloud aren't his until he comes face to face with the best nude selfie he'd ever seen.
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- Part 18 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve needs help - his daughter Louise is being teased at school for her messy hair and he's completely clueless at how to do even the simplest of styles. Luckily, neighbour Natasha gives him a link to an online YouTube tutorial with the hottest dad on the planet...
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- Part 19 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve thought that living with a bad tattoo was just one of those things, until a drunken night out with his friends changes that.
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- Part 20 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky is an alpha with no hope of ever having an opportunity to court an Omega. Or maybe he's just been looking for the wrong type of Omega!
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- Part 21 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky is on the worst date of his life, and what he really needs of for this waitress to get the message he's sending her with his mind to rescue him.
She doesn't, but she does send someone to extract him from a night of torture...Series
- Part 22 of Meet-Cute AU's
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They say, that the God’s were worried that the perfect person, the two halves that made one perfect being, would become more powerful than the gods.
James doesn't believe that at all. It's a kids story to explain away the unexplained, sooth the minds of the superstitious.Series
- Part 23 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve is a single dad who's just topped 'best daddy ever' with his Christmas gift to his daughter Peggy.
Bucky is a single dad who's trying to be understanding about the price of crap at concerts.
And Peggy and Becca have plans of their own.Series
- Part 24 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve Rogers is quite happy with his quiet life, until his new next door neighbor is convinced that his house is haunted.
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- Part 25 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky should have known Brock was a total asshole, but he certainly wasn't expecting him to cheat on him - and then steal his laptop! Stealing it back was the only option he had, really.
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- Part 26 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky Barnes is a rock-star with an expiry date - all he wants is to get out of his contract without being sued.
It's not until he does that he realises that it's not the end for him, but a second chance.Series
- Part 27 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve thinks that maybe his date with Natasha wasn't a total failure, but after dialing the number she'd given him at the end of the night, it looks like he was so, so wrong. The guy on the end of the line though, seems to need a little bit of help and it costs nothing to be nice...
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- Part 28 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve really couldn't have just let those guys take advantage of those girls, right?
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Bucky really couldn't let that asshole say those things about Dottie, right?
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A Story about how two beat-up morons find each other in the ER.Series
- Part 29 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve accidentally makes a deal with a demon called Buchanan, who keeps showing up... and then doesn't leave.
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- Part 30 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve is waiting on his Blind Date showing up - he's got two things to go on.
1: He's good looking
2: He wears a lot of blackAnd damn... yes on both counts!
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- Part 31 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky Barnes loves his daughter just as much as any man ever did. He expected to be the most important man in her life for a lot longer than 5 years old, when she comes home to tell him that her teacher is Captain America, shrunk down in a Nazi plot.
But the war is over, and Bucky's got a bum arm and a job working in the office of the docks he worked as a lad, and he really doesn't give it too much thought.Series
- Part 32 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky may or may not have over-reacted when his sister advised him that some creep had groped her. Going on the information that he was 'short and blond' resulted in him accidentally knocking out one very surprised Steve Rogers, art teacher.
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- Part 33 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve Rogers works as a florist. Yes, a florist.
He's pretty used to spending his time with colourful flowers and not a lot of people, when one lazy day a man walks into his shop and changes everything.Series
- Part 34 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve Rogers has been on more failed blind dates than anyone he's ever even heard of - but he just can't say no to his boss when he's set up on yet another.
However, when his date arrives, Steve just knows it isn't going to work out - and they hatch a plan to stop their well meaning friends from interfering in their love lives!Series
- Part 35 of Meet-Cute AU's
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The telescope was just supposed to help him with the fine motor functions of his prosthetic - his (not that kind of doctor) Doctor had even suggested it. So when he looks through the scope and spies someone looking back at him... someone kinda cute... Well, it's not his fault if things escalate, right?
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- Part 36 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve Rogers isn't really quite sure what is going on, because one moment he's feeding Clint's dog a treat and the next the hottest guy he's ever seen is wiping blood from his mouth and accusing him of tasting bad.
(OR: The one where Bucky is a vampire and Steve is anemic)
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- Part 37 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Being an Incubus wasn't exactly weird when you spent most of your free time in a crappy coffee shop owned by the grumpiest Pixie in New York, so Bucky felt like he fit right in.
He'd even managed to mould the lumpy couch into something comfortable, so it wasn't too bad.
Until he walked in one day to find someone in his spot.Series
- Part 38 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve's just walking home. At midnight. Alone and trying not to get mugged.
The Zombie was unexpected.Series
- Part 39 of Meet-Cute AU's
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There's a bet at the Firehouse that Barton'll go for more than anyone else at the Charity Auction - and Bucky finds himself roped into the whole thing against his will.
It's all fun and games until a mystery phone bidder pays waaaaay to much to get Bucky alone.He's gonna end up dead in an alleyway because of Barton and his stupid bet.
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- Part 40 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky's been trying to book Captain America actor Steve Rogers on his show for longer than he can remember. But when the actor does agree, he's not expecting their first meeting to be quite so... well documented... by social media.
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- Part 41 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Baron Grant, nothing more than a small, sickly country gentleman with no fortune and very little to recommend him, has just poured a glass of claret over Duke Barnes, a wealthy lord with the world at his feet.
(Podfic by auroreanrave now available)Series
- Part 42 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky's not sure if working for Black Widow Magazine is a good idea given his history with Natasha, but when he's asked to shadow her to Carters Spa as a 'perk' he's got to admit that maybe the job has more merit than he previously thought.
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- Part 43 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky Barnes isn't lonely. He's not. But the new UI 'AmeriCap' has made him realise just how much he depends on it... when it stops working.
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- Part 44 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky Barnes has been dead for so long he hardly remembers being alive. He's seen a lot of changes to the building he haunts - but after a few 'accidents' with new owners, the building has remained untouched through the years. That is, until it is inherited by one Steve Rogers...
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- Part 45 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Steve's not too happy about his forced vacation - two weeks away from work at a secluded beach resort might be Sam's idea of bliss, but for Steve it's a nightmare. That is, of course, until the resorts personal trainer offers to give him one-on-one swimming lessons. Two weeks might not be long enough!
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- Part 46 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky Barnes is so over being hit on my every single Alpha in New York City, so when a friend gives him a number for CAP he jumps at the chance to get a fake Alpha boyfriend - and Steve Rogers might not be what he was expecting but he sure does the job - but one persistent Alpha doesn't seem to care...
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- Part 47 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky Barnes is a popular teacher of Arithmancy at Hogwarts - he loves his job and supports his students any way he can. So when the new Charms teacher transfers over from Salem and it looks like Bucky's dragging his feet about asking him out - his students take matters into their own hands.
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- Part 48 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky Barnes has to find out what member of the NYPD Detective pool took part in the last 'fluid run' for test samples to ensure that all the machines in the CSI labs worked.
Enter Sam Wilson and his partner - Steve Rogers.Series
- Part 49 of Meet-Cute AU's
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Bucky Barnes has survived the Virus that devastated the world, leaving him road-tripping over America dodging violent gangs and trying to get through another year.
When he manages to find a radio station still broadcasting, he's not aware that the voice on the other side of the country will soon become the driving force behind his actions.Series
- Part 50 of Meet-Cute AU's