Because they're best friends, and that sticks.

It should be simple. After all, it's one of the first words every child learns, right after "mama" and "papa". Hell, it had been Becca's favorite word when she was two or three. But he couldn't say it. Not as a shout, not as a whisper, not as a prayer. It's as if it got stuck somewhere between his throat and lips - it just wouldn't come out.

As so often since he had come back, Steve visit Peggy, also today on Christmas Eve. And as so often before, his visit turns into a visit to the past.

Tony was sure that his friends were determined to give him more gray hairs. They must be having a bet going on, why else would Bruce, a social scientific pariah, Natasha, a deadly ex-ballet dancer/assassin, and Steve and Bucky, wanted men by Hydra and all of the Untied States, all be hiding in his tower at the same time. No Slash!

"Compliance will be rewarded, Winter Soldier. Stand down and come with me." While it was a HYDRA passphrase, it had never been intended for use on the Asset. The Asset was not required to respond. The Asset complied because the mission had failed; the target was not eliminated. The promise of reward was reason enough to acquiesce. The promise was a lie.

(OS) Décembre 1943. Dans un bar de Londres, Bucky Barnes réfléchit à sa relation avec Steve Rogers.

"We're co workers who hate each other but you had too much to drink at the staff christmas party and admitted your love for me i don't know how to act around you now"

"Our christmas party turned into a tropical theme because the radiator is broken and it's hotter than hell in here - damn you look good without a shirt i never noticed before asgdhfjgkhl"

Christina Jackson lived a life of abuse, emotionally, spiritually and physically. She has a rare syndrome called heterochromia irdris. Her right eye is brown and the left blue. Christina has a long scar traveling from the corner of her affected eye to her jaw, results from her last relationship. Now she's homeless living in the alleyways of New York City.

Instead of being recaptured by Hydra, Bucky is frozen after the train accident, never to become the Winter Soldier. He wakes up in 2012 and has a few things to say about Steve's crashing a plane.

Clearly, the Winter Soldier wasn't as cruel as he could have been. Somebody had to break his armor. The question was, who? Well, what about Director Pierce's adopted daughter? She was kept a secret from both S.H.I.E.L.D. and the rest of his acquaintances, but when she snuck out one night, the Winter Soldier's assigned to keep a constant watch on her. What will she help him realize?

She believed in Fate. She saw Fate all the time. In her dreams, in her waking moments. People she didn't know, but knew better than their own families, she saw their Fates.

"Both our kids asked Santa for us to get together what do we do?"

Bucky finds a little kitten on the alley, behind a restaurant and decides to take it back to the Avengers Tower.

Bucky isn't quite acting like himself. Natasha catches that and with help of Barton tries to stop him before he gets out of the Avengers Tower.

Agent Clarissa Connors of SHIELD has been through many things in her life time which is a lot considering she doesn't age. (Steve/OC)

Just a Christmas-y Stucky one-shot to go with the season. It's Bucky's first Christmas with the team and he gets an idea while playing piano and singing Christmas carols.

It's hard to find peace, even if you deserve it. And Sam Wilson, well, he's been through more than most. Sometimes it takes a real hero to help find someone the serenity they deserve. [Sam/Steve, oneshot]

Steve and Peggy accidentally wind up at the hospital instead of a restaurant for their date.

Steve Rogers siempre fue un hombre de costumbres. [Este fic participa en el reto #10: "¡Navidad está aquí!" del foro "La torre Stark"]

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in the day of battle. Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, oh Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God cast into Hell Satan and all evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

Bucky's rescue in Captain America: The First Avenger. Starting with Bucky's thoughts when a much larger version of his best friend liberates him from a hydra torture room: equal parts joy and terror. "Then Steve is pulling one of Bucky's limp arms over his inexplicably broad, inexplicably solid shoulders and leading him out of the torture room. As much as Bucky is burning to turn

It's time for Steve to learn the family secret. Why does Tony keep visiting Peggy. Well Steve is about to find out.

Steve draws bodice-ripper style pictures of him and Sam, but he never meant for Sam to see the pictures. Disclaimer: I don't own the Avengers, nor am I making money from this. For a prompt on the kink meme.

They did this to him. Her only wish is that he would be able to fly free. Oneshot