thunderboltsortofapenny:

demisexualsteve:

haha so there’s this post going around that says “soulmate au where only your soulmate can kill you” and i can’t stop thinking about stevebucky and i want to die

bucky falls from the train and steve knows he’s dead because he killed him, he let him fall, he was the only one who could take that life and he did

and he can’t escape. he can’t get drunk and he can’t fucking die. he flies a plane right into the ocean and it’s still not enough. his body freezes and his heart almost stops beating and it’s still not enough. this is his punishment: a world without bucky, and a world he can’t leave. 

the russians find bucky barnes and bucky barnes isn’t dead, because steve was wrong. steve didn’t let him fall, bucky just fell. they realize he’s bonded and they realize who he is and that’s what they sell to hydra, decades later: the only weapon that can kill captain america. 

bucky doesn’t take off his goggles. they don’t stare at each other, there is no hollywoodian moment of recognition. there is a bullet in steve’s stomach and blood all over his star-spangled suit and life slowly leaving him. he looks down at the red-stained fabric incredulously and croaks, voice raspy and weak, bucky? 

the soldier barks who the hell is bucky? and steve’s world goes dark. 

Milo

Milo

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