fic: angel of mine, chapter 9 (mcu)

Title: Angel of Mine
Fandoms: Marvel Cinemagic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Peggy Carter, Sharon Carter (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Sam Wilson (Marvel), Rosalie Archer (OC)
Pairing: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes/Original Female Character(s), Steve Rogers/Original Female Character(s), James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers/Original Female Character(s)
Rating: Mature
AO3 Tags: Slow Burn, Flashbacks, Canon-Typical Violence, Torture, Implied/Referenced Torture, Rated for future chapters, Not Captain America: The Winter Soldier Compliant, Not Captain America: Civil War (Movie) Compliant, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Angels, Alternate Universe - Angels & Demons, Demons, tpromptsachallenge
Summary:
Angels walk among us. They serve the people, aiding those who need it, guiding their chosen, and using their magical abilities to make the world a better place. Rosalie Archer thought she had it all. Once her two best friends, Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes, returned from World War II, she would bind her life to theirs, and the three of them would live happily ever after. Only Bucky fell from a train, and Steve crashed into the ice, and Rosalie had to find a new path in life.

Now it’s 2014, and unbeknownst to Rosalie, her secret has been discovered. HYDRA wants to harness the power of angels, and with the help of a demon with a grudge, their experiments are close to complete. When Rosalie goes missing, her old friend, Peggy Carter, sends Steve and Bucky after her. In a reunion seventy years in the making, how will Steve and Bucky react to Rosalie’s abilities? How will the rest of the Avengers react to a new comrade with wings?

And how far will demons go in order to see all of the angels destroyed?

A Stucky/OC Angels AU.

Notes:
Written as part of ~tilltheendwilliwrite's 7.7k Covid Sucks Prompt Challenge. Congrats on all the followers, T - you deserve all that and more! I hope you like what I've come up with for this challenge. ♥

This fic assumes that 1. Bucky was rescued from HYDRA, 2. the Accords never happened, and 3. everyone is living happily ever after(ish) in the Avengers Compound. What's canon? I've never met them. Takes place post the first Avengers movie.

Warnings for Chapter 9: Canon-typical violence

Rosalie squeezed each of their hands. “Do you trust me?”

Though he’d been born and raised Catholic, Steve didn’t have much faith in a higher power anymore. But he couldn’t deny the truth before him now.

Angels were real. Rosalie’s magic was real. He believed in her. It was enough.

“Of course,” he murmured. Bucky nodded too. “What do you need from us?”

“Just your faith in me,” she said, “and to believe that what you’re about to see is real.”

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a champion of the people who don't believe in champions;

Challenge #9

In your own space, brag about yourself. Tell us what things you've done that you're proud of; the things that make you the wonderful person you are.


Oof. It's always hardest to talk about yourself, isn't it? We're so conditioned to temper ourselves, to hold back, that when given the opportunity to shout from the rooftops, it can be hard to find things to talk about.

So screw it, I'm gonna at least try.

♥ Last year I became a municipal liaison for NaNoWriMo, mostly because I really love my writing group and wanted to be able to help in some way. Throughout October and November of 2020, I led three two-hour long calls on Discord a week. And people showed up, session after session. We got to talk writing and write together and while our sessions are quieter now, we're still chatting and writing away. I learned that, yes, I can put these things together, and yes, I can lead the group, which makes it easier to do in my "everyday" life as well.

♥ I have finished complete drafts of three original novels. Are these drafts the best? No. Are these ideas salvageable? Yes. What's important is that I finished them, and I learned from them, and my next efforts will be better.

♥ I am writing for me, and the things that make me happy.

♥ I have managed to keep a bi-weekly posting schedule for Angel of Mine and am currently a chapter ahead on editing!

♥ I have two kids who are growing up to be awesome humans, curious and smart and (mostly) polite and definitely sassy as fuck.

♥ After years of putting it off and feeling as though things weren't "bad enough" to matter, I finally started addressing my lifelong anxiety. It's a long road, but I am worth it.

♥ I am more than enough. And so are you, whoever is reading this.