Hi all - you’re going to notice there’s no new chapter of Coup de Foudre this week.
I’ve been recovering from my illness and haven’t had time between the fatigue and the real life work job to write enough to get a chapter out. I was a few chapters ahead when I decided to release the fic but it’s been a real struggle with life things to stay ahead.
I’m hoping with the bank holiday to get a couple of chapters in the bag and I’m so sorry for skipping a week! ❤️
Tags / Warnings (these will be added to with chapters: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Historical, Alternate Universe - Regency, Stucky - Freeform, Pre-Serum Steve Rogers, Omega Steve Rogers, Alpha Bucky Barnes. Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha/Omega, Arranged Marriage, But by themselves, Sort Of, Inspired by Bridgerton (TV), Courting Rituals, Weddings, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Pretty Much Covers It, Declarations Of Love, After a while, Amazing outfits, Bottom Steve Rogers, Top Bucky Barnes, Slow Burn, 19th century slow burn, Brock Rumlow is an idiot, Illustrations, NSFW Art, mpreg exists in this universe
Summary
Dear Readers,
Today is the day. The day that all Debutantes dream and fear in equal measure, in which they meet the Queen and are Judged ready or not for their presentation into Society. The Presentation Room is always awash with Scents, with those unmated forbidden from any sort of Scent Deception—as is only right.
This year, we have many a scion of Old and Noble Houses attaining their majority. I am sure that, like me, all will be watching with breath that is bated…
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When Steve Rogers is presented at Court as a desirable Male Omega to the world, he has no idea what to expect. But after meeting the sought-after Duke of Buchanan through a chance encounter, his life is forever turned upside down.
Tags / Warnings (these will be added to with chapters: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Historical, Alternate Universe - Regency, Stucky - Freeform, Pre-Serum Steve Rogers, Omega Steve Rogers, Alpha Bucky Barnes. Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha/Omega, Arranged Marriage, But by themselves, Sort Of, Inspired by Bridgerton (TV), Courting Rituals, Weddings, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Pretty Much Covers It, Declarations Of Love, After a while, Amazing outfits, Bottom Steve Rogers, Top Bucky Barnes, Slow Burn, 19th century slow burn, Brock Rumlow is an idiot, Illustrations, NSFW Art, mpreg exists in this universe
Summary
Dear Readers,
Today is the day. The day that all Debutantes dream and fear in equal measure, in which they meet the Queen and are Judged ready or not for their presentation into Society. The Presentation Room is always awash with Scents, with those unmated forbidden from any sort of Scent Deception—as is only right.
This year, we have many a scion of Old and Noble Houses attaining their majority. I am sure that, like me, all will be watching with breath that is bated…
::
When Steve Rogers is presented at Court as a desirable Male Omega to the world, he has no idea what to expect. But after meeting the sought-after Duke of Buchanan through a chance encounter, his life is forever turned upside down.
Tags / Warnings (these will be added to with chapters: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Historical, Alternate Universe - Regency, Stucky - Freeform, Pre-Serum Steve Rogers, Omega Steve Rogers, Alpha Bucky Barnes. Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha/Omega, Arranged Marriage, But by themselves, Sort Of, Inspired by Bridgerton (TV), Courting Rituals, Weddings, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Pretty Much Covers It, Declarations Of Love, After a while, Amazing outfits, Bottom Steve Rogers, Top Bucky Barnes, Slow Burn, 19th century slow burn, Brock Rumlow is an idiot, Illustrations, NSFW Art, mpreg exists in this universe
Summary
Dear Readers,
Today is the day. The day that all Debutantes dream and fear in equal measure, in which they meet the Queen and are Judged ready or not for their presentation into Society. The Presentation Room is always awash with Scents, with those unmated forbidden from any sort of Scent Deception—as is only right.
This year, we have many a scion of Old and Noble Houses attaining their majority. I am sure that, like me, all will be watching with breath that is bated…
::
When Steve Rogers is presented at Court as a desirable Male Omega to the world, he has no idea what to expect. But after meeting the sought-after Duke of Buchanan through a chance encounter, his life is forever turned upside down.
Tags / Warnings (these will be added to with chapters: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Historical, Alternate Universe - Regency, Stucky - Freeform, Pre-Serum Steve Rogers, Omega Steve Rogers, Alpha Bucky Barnes. Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha/Omega, Arranged Marriage, But by themselves, Sort Of, Inspired by Bridgerton (TV), Courting Rituals, Weddings, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Pretty Much Covers It, Declarations Of Love, After a while, Amazing outfits, Bottom Steve Rogers, Top Bucky Barnes, Slow Burn, 19th century slow burn, Brock Rumlow is an idiot, Illustrations, NSFW Art, mpreg exists in this universe
Summary
Dear Readers,
Today is the day. The day that all Debutantes dream and fear in equal measure, in which they meet the Queen and are Judged ready or not for their presentation into Society. The Presentation Room is always awash with Scents, with those unmated forbidden from any sort of Scent Deception—as is only right.
This year, we have many a scion of Old and Noble Houses attaining their majority. I am sure that, like me, all will be watching with breath that is bated…
::
When Steve Rogers is presented at Court as a desirable Male Omega to the world, he has no idea what to expect. But after meeting the sought-after Duke of Buchanan through a chance encounter, his life is forever turned upside down.
as a white fan of the mcu, something that’s really disheartening to see after watching the most recent tfatws episode is the disparity between who’s talking about which scenes/lines. a lot of white creators & fans have been solely focusing on bucky’s line during the therapy scene but completely ignoring sam’s reaction to it all and his reasoning. not to mention i’ve only really seen black creators talk about isaiah bradley and the racial profiling scene. the major theme of the show is institutionalized racism and it’s meant to form a direct parallel to how the US is today, but white fans and white creators are shying away from or ignoring some of the most important scenes and lines just bc their white fav had one heartbreaking line. do better.
I’d just like to say that I wholeheartedly agree with what you’re saying and that people in the notes seem to be missing the point or straight up having a cry over the truth. It’s as simple as looking in the fatws tag and seeing most of the content be about Bucky and his trauma or scenes, it’s about how the most popular posts are buckys or how he’s the only one that trends on Twitter. It’s about how Sam’s story doesn’t get half the damn love that Buckys does. It’s the fucking truth. Simple.
Request: Anon- Bucky Barnes and “I love you more than anything in this world” pleas❤️
Word Count: 502
Author: Charlotte
Hospitals rooms were almost like a second home for you. Fighting crime and being a general badass led to regular injuries and as long as you could come out of the hospital at some point it seemed like a win. Whenever you went on missions, you were almost certain to get hurt, so you just hoped for minor injuries but this time it wasn’t as you had wanted. You had been distracted in the midst of a fight that you hadn’t noticed a different person with a gun. The bullet had ripped through your abdomen, leaving you in a pool of your own blood. You had luckily not been alone, and Bucky had been able to take them both out before getting you medical assistance, but past him calling for help, you had lost consciousness.
When you had awoken, the bright lights of the hospital room burned your eyes terribly. Next to you sat Bucky, whilst a woman in a nurse’s uniform stood sorting out the machine that you were hooked up to. You tried to sit up, but both of the people rushed to your side to gently push you back into the bed.
“You need your rest,” the nurse said softly. “You have been given some pretty strong pain medication, so you might feel drowsy or confused. I’ll just go get your doctor to explain everything for you now that you’re awake.”
She shuffled out of the room, leaving you alone with Bucky. He seemed relieved to see you awake, having seen the extent of the damage that the shot had done to you.
“How are you feeling?” He asked.
The nurse had been right, your mind seemed like it was in a fog, and you didn’t seem to have any energy to fight off the thoughts that came into your head from escaping out of your mouth.
“I’m glad you’re here,” you smiled, struggling to keep your eyes fully open. “I wouldn’t want anyone else here.”
Bucky didn’t really know what you meant seen as you hadn’t answered his question at all.
“Of course, I wasn’t going to leave you here on your own.”
You lazily held onto his hand, your grip weak and half of your fingers fallen from his palm.
“I love you more than anything in this world,” you whispered.
It had been something you had felt for as long as you had known him but seen as you were unable to control your thoughts, you let yourself say more than you had ever thought you could until you regretted it all when the medication had worn off. Little had you known, he had felt the same, but he couldn’t help but feel disappointed to learn of your feelings now that you weren’t fully there in your mind.
With a pained heart, he gave your hand a tight squeeze. “When you feel better, we can talk about it.”
You nodded your head before your eyelids finally became too heavy for you to fight to keep open.
Request: Anon- Bucky Barnes and “I put everything on hold for you”
Word Count: 1070
Author: Charlotte
As they saying goes ‘tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. You couldn’t have agreed any less with that status. When you first met James Buchanan Barnes, you fell head over heels and your courtship was completely perfect in your eyes. He had a kind and loving heart, and made you feel good about yourself in ways you hadn’t without him. You couldn’t have imagined life without him, not even when he was to head off to war, you felt unstoppable, and would have sworn that he would come home to you, and you only felt that confirmed when he proposed to you before he got on the train to leave for the army.
By no means were you naïve. You knew the dangers of war, even with the main fight far away from you, you were not blind to the damage it was causing but the fog of young love forbade you from thinking that even war could get in the way of the two of you. How blind you had been. He didn’t return to you and the reality of that never truly set in, such an intense pain could not be felt without destroying you. Steve apologised for losing him, for not having done more but you didn’t blame him, you were just grateful that he was safe.
Your life crumbled from that day. Who you had been as the future Mrs Barnes was lost with your fiancé, and you were just left as a shell of the person you once were. You needed a distraction and Steve introduced you to his friend Peggy who was able to find you a job and once he disappeared, you only went deeper into it.
Once the war ended, the rumours of something continuing to rumble under the surface and as people had once believed the research into super soldiers weren’t put on hold. You had nothing else to live for and put yourself forward for being a guinea pig, not caring about what happened to you. You didn’t die though, you suffered the experiments, but you came out as a new you, still damaged by the pain in your heart, still grieving and anger-filled but now with unknown levels of powers. The scientists had put you through strenuous tests after to see what had happened to you, and as your powers became clearer, you did what your fiancé had always done best, fought for the little guy.
You’d never be Captain America, but you were a hero to New York, able to use your powers for good, keeping your head down in fighting crime, never getting close to another person again. One power they hadn’t anticipated was longevity. It wasn’t clear at first, not until everyone around you had aged a decade, and you looked like not a day had passed. With every year it only became clearer that you were still physically in your mid-twenties whilst everyone else continued to age. Over seven decades later, you could only be grateful for having not made connections as those you had grown up with were mainly passed, whilst you looked like you were still in your prime.
It felt like you would be hero for eternity, keeping to yourself but helping all that you could. One night you returned to your small apartment and flicked on the tv to see that Steve Rogers had exited the ice and all the past came back. You didn’t contact him. You couldn’t but after he was making headlines for a few years, you no longer had a choice as he had heard of the woman with powers in his hometown and investigated. He could have never imagined that it would be you. You reconnected reluctantly but dismissed him whenever he mentioned Bucky, not believing him when he told you he was still alive and not willing to let yourself get hurt again.
Steve knew how much you cared about Bucky and wasn’t going to let you continue to dwell in the pain that had consumed you for nearly a century. He invited you to the Avengers Compound, just for a chat, and you agreed, not realising it was a set up. You sat with him sipping at your coffee when the door behind Steve opened, revealing the man you had mourned for longer than you had been by his side.
“Bucky,” you croaked, the mug from your hand dropping, shattering onto the ground below you.
“Y/N,” he said, a pained smile curling onto his lips.
Every emotion that you had tried to bury deep down within you all that time ago reappeared and you lost all control that you had tried to cling onto. You pushed your chair away from the table, storming over towards the man you had never believed that you would see again.
“I thought you were dead,” you shouted. “I thought that I would never see you again. I put everything on hold for you.”
Bucky and Steve exchanged a look, having not had any idea that you would react like this, not knowing why you would shout at him.
“I have never stopped loving you,” you said, still shouting but tears beginning to fall down your cheek. “I could never stop loving you.”
As the sorrow you had tried to hide for so long surged from within you, Bucky reached out a hand to gently touch your shoulder, forcing you to make eye contact with him, both of you in tears.
“I’ve always loved you, doll,” he smiled tearfully.
You let yourself break, falling into his arms, in a tight, long missed embrace. The two of you stood entwined together for longer than normal, neither of you wanting to let go of the one thing that had been missing from you. The hug stretched on as Bucky guided his hands down your arms to hold onto your own hands, but paused when he felt something on your finger. He looked down at the small stone sitting on a simple band that had not been removed since he had placed it there all those years ago.
“You still have your ring,” he whispered, surprised that you had kept it for so long.
You shrugged your shoulders. “Getting cold feet after all this time, Barnes?”
A small laugh escaped him.
“I still stick by making you my wife even after the longest engagement.”
Summary:Crushed between the expectations of society and your family, you catch the attention of an unwanted caller and life you never desired. (Regency AU)
