Once More Unto the Breach

Steve never becomes Captain America, and Bucky never becomes the Winter Soldier. Bucky makes it back from the war in 1945 - but the fight isn't over for either of them. With Bucky grappling with the aftermath of combat, injury, and time spent in captivity, Steve has to step up to take care of him even though he's still facing struggles of his own. As they try to make sense of this new life together, it eventually becomes impossible to avoid confronting the feelings that lie beneath - the underlying reasons why they'll do anything for each other, no matter what.

Hi, thanks for checking this story out:)Warnings should be spelled out in the tags - at the moment they apply for the first couple of chapters, but I plan to update them as the story progresses.title is stolen from Shakespeare's Henry V in honor of the schoolwork I should have been writing instead of this fic (also because it's a popular ww2 play but mostly that)