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1. Touch, Not War by kittymills

   Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   13 May 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • James "Bucky" Barnes/Ava Starr
   • James "Bucky" Barnes
   • Ava Starr
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Post-Movie: Thunderbolts (2025)
   • transformation of trauma
   • Smut
   • Vaginal Fingering
   • romantic feelings
   • soft smut
   • Bucky Barnes's Metal Arm Used as a Sex Toy
   • (kind of)
   • unspoken feelings
   • Intimacy as communication
   • Quantum instability
   • bucky's arm is more than a weapon
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • WinterGhost - Freeform
   • ava x bucky
   • emotional connection as well as physical
   • Self-Indulgent
   • I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping
   • Sharing a Bed
   • Vibranium as Stabilizer
   • spoon and stay
   • Healing Sex
   • somewhere in the multiverse
   • Spoilers for Movie: Thunderbolts (2025)
   • Not Canon Compliant with Movie: Thunderbolts (2025)

   Summary

   After Val's announcement and the chaos that followed, the apartment they escape to finally settles into uneasy silence - until Bucky finds Ava, unravelling quietly in the kitchen, her body flickering from too much time in the suit. She doesn’t ask for help, not at first, but when she lets him close, Bucky learns just how much he still has to give - and how much Ava has given him without even knowing.

   What begins as quiet comfort becomes something deeper, steadier, and far more intimate than either of them expected.

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