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Beat the Bastards (26677 words) by Annaelle
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Minor or Background Relationship(s), Peggy Carter/Gabe Jones
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Vasily Karpov, Johann Schmidt, Sarah Rogers, Josef Mengele, Peggy Carter, Gabe Jones, Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan, Aleksander Lukin, Abraham Erskine, Nazis - Character
Additional Tags: caprbb2019, Inspired by Art, trigger warning, Holocaust, Human Experimentation, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Red Room (Marvel), ALL THE TRIGGER WARNINGS, World War II, Young Bucky Barnes, young Steve rogers, Friendship, Getting Together, Slow Burn, Death, Super Soldier Serum, Character Death, Implied/Referenced Brainwashing, Boys In Love, Canon-Typical Violence, Nazis, Cold War, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, The Author Regrets Nothing, The Author Regrets Everything, Embedded Images, Different languages, Translations will be added at the bottom of each chapter, Mercy Killing
Summary:
"For the dead and the living, we must bear witness." — Elie Wiesel
“Okay,” Bucky said, the word coming out slowly and carefully. “Are we friends then?”
Steve looked at him carefully and then nodded, deciding that he should very much like to have a friend, because he’d never really had one before, and Bucky seemed like he was fun. “Best friends.”
—Steve Rogers is three years old when he is first given Erskine's supersoldier serum. He is five years old when Hydra finds him and takes him to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Bucky Barnes is six when he and his sister witness the brutal murder of their people, when Nazis take them and give them to Uncle Mengele. He is six when he meets Steve Rogers and he /knows/. They're seven and eight when Auschwitz is liberated and the Russians find them.
They are seven and eight when they learn that sometimes, justice does not exist.
What if Steve and Bucky didn't grow up on the American side of the conflict?
STUCKY CAPRBB2019—AU—THE BOYS ARE BORN 20 YEARS LATER—STEVE GETS THE SERUM AS A KID—ZOLA IS A DICK—SO IS MENGELE—AND SCHMIDT—AND KARPOV
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What if Steve and Bucky didn't grow up on the American side of the conflict?