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Wherein Bucky is jealous of himself, the other Bucky is very confused, and Sam is frequently exasperated. Featuring time travel, kidnappings, and way too much discussion of destiny, love, and the self.
Sam has questions. Peter has memes. Bucky has a secret.
Strange is an unscrupulous real estate wizard.
Where do you hide a teenage superhero fugitive? The only answer Sam can find is the hidden and slightly haunted house Strange offers. They have room to breathe but after everything, Sam knows he wants Bucky in his life, he knows he needs to help Peter figure things out, but he's not sure if he's ready to put down roots again. Also, why is there a man in a giant Rhino suit tearing up downtown?
Bucky and Sam go on an undercover mission as husbands in Palm Springs, where they attend a Pride party, make new friends, and are not great at spying, actually.
Sam Wilson is an amazing realtor. He works hard, he takes care of his clients, and he can sell any house he puts his mind to.
Unless, of course, the house happens to be haunted by an irritating, standoffish ghost who died in 1940. Then things get a little more complicated.
Sam Wilson runs a small, independent investigative firm with his college friend Steve.
He's renowned for solving and uncovering just about anything that lands on his desk until random strangers start disappearing in his city. With only a hunch and an address, he heads to a dingy dive bar downtown for answers.
What he finds is so much more than he bargained for.
She just shook her head and led the two of them through to the living room where the TV was still playing, showing the latest worldwide news.
“…concerningly similar to the methodology of the Winter Soldier.” The reporter was saying, standing with her back to a bank, somewhere in Europe.
The picture on the screen switched to a picture of a young girl, wearing something that was almost identical to what Bucky had been wearing when Sam had first met him as the Winter Soldier, right down to the muzzle and metal arm. She was looking straight up into the camera that had caught her, and the reporter was explaining it in the background.
“The only security camera that wasn’t disabled before the massacre began caught this image of a young girl entering the bank- wearing clothing almost identical to the Winter Soldier again.”
It switched again to pictures of some of the victims, a mother and son, the bank tellers, a few managers, some more random civilians who lives had ended because they had chosen to go to the bank that day.
They start out as friends with benefits until Bucky breaks it off, Sam tries to keep some distance in the aftermath but then there’s a mission and, as always, Bucky tags along uninvited.
Sam Wilson's fugitive life, post-Accords: taking refuge in a kingdom that might as well have been magical, in a sprawling palace set against beautiful mountains and jungles, where there was a handsome man cursed and trapped in a deathly sleep in a glass coffin, and a kind and just king who was working to heal him, and a stalwart warrior from a far-off time who wouldn't leave his cursed friend, and, hell, Sam even knew a witch. Surely Sam could be forgiven if his thoughts turned to fairy tales and Disney movies.
Bucky's kind of like a Disney princess. Sam would maybe like to be Prince Charming.
“You’re sending me on a two-man undercover,” Bucky says, helplessly, “staying in a vineyard retreat, alone, with Wilson.”
“Pack your swim trunks,” Daisy adds, “apparently it’s got a hot tub.”
Bucky looks at Sam. Sam looks back at Bucky. Sam’s arms are crossed over his chest, his forearms bare. Bucky carefully doesn’t look at Sam’s forearms, or the way his t-shirt is pulled tight over his shoulders, straining just a little at the seams. Bucky’s not looking at that at all. He makes eye contact, careful to keep his face neutral.
Sam’s eyes are soft and dark. Maybe a little amused. He has very long eyelashes.
Bucky swallows hard.
“Great,” he says. “That’s just— great.”
The Power Broker decides to work with Norman Osborn to recreate the Super Soldier Serum and they target the only super soldier that they know of - Bucky Barnes.