“I can’t believe you let yourself get cockblocked by Barton.”
Title: build it bigger than the sun
Author: defcontwo
Reader:
reena_jenkins
Coverartist:
reena_jenkins
Rating: PG-13
Fandoms: Captain America (movie'verse)
Pairings: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Warnings: accidentally secret relationship, the world's most useless and irritated secret agents, cockblocked by the Avengers, post-CA:TWS, not canon compliant
Length: 01:13:40
Author's Summary: “Yeah, because nothing says heteronormative like living in Dupont Circle for two years and wearing skin-tight shirts to hit on hot airmen when you go running in the morning.”
“Look, I know you’re being sarcastic but I really don’t get how no one picked up on that.”
Steve and Bucky try to work out their relationship. The Avengers keep getting in the way.
Download Link: You can download this podfic as an mp3 right over here (thank you,
paraka, for hosting me).
Why I Love It: There's actually a lot of stuff in here about emotional vulnerability and rebuilding a relationship, and how you have to change because life is change and if you can't change then you stagnate and DIE, but being in a relationship means that you change WITH your partner, and then you change TOGETHER into something new and wonderful - but mostly, I'm here for the obliviously cockblocking Avengers. Because really. Crashing dinner? Less-than-stealthy blind date setups? A wilful misinterpretation of the phrase, “Tony. I don’t need to go on dates to find someone. I have Bucky”? ALL DELIGHTFUL.
And the emotion-porn is good, too.