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Dumpster #5: We didn't start the trashfire

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So, it's common knowledge that CW Bucky got a lil chubby. What if things go a bit differently, Bucky comes back home with Steve, and finally he can eat what he wants and doesn't have to stress about being in peak physical condition. Like he doesn't full on let himself go and go all overweight or obese, he just has a bit of a tum instead of washboard abs and a rounder face and he likes it that way. Steve likes this Bucky too, with his dad bod and long hair and beard and a newfound love for flannel.

It all goes to shit when Bucky's old friends (HYDRA ofc) show up when Steve's not home and aim for a good ol' trash party, just to find out that Bucko looks a lot different now.

Cue humiliation, fat shaming, HYDRA goons faking disgust/being genuinely disgusted yet still fucking Bucky, degration, shame shame shame etc etc.

+++ HYDRA friends tryin to get to Bucky by suggesting that Steve must be grossed out by him too / 'wondering' why Steve still puts up with Bucky

Hoooooooly shit I love this!! Poor Bucky feeling suddenly disgusted at himself when he was so happy before, and even more disgusted at the fact that his rapists can make him feel this way - that he would care whether they find him attractive or not. Steve, who was probably absolutely fucking in love with Bucky's new softness and chub and how healthy he looks, seeing Bucky drawing into himself, looking more and more ashamed with each new taunt from strike and not being able to do anything about it

That bonus OMG. There is not enough “bad guys capitalizing on post-WS Bucky’s insecurities” in this dumpster

Question... Can there be hurt/comfort at the end with Steve reassuring Bucky he loves him anyway? Or would you prefer just mean horrible fat shaming delight?

OP here, ohhhhh is this a potential fill??? Tbh I'd be happy with literally anything and everything that more or less fits with the prompt, so just go ahead and do what feels right!

((tho personally I've always been of the opinion that a lot of fic lets bucky off too easy with the 'and then Steve showed up and somehow everything was fixed instantly' trope so if it were up to me, straight up shame, degradation, abuse, hurt no comfort plz))

potentially~! I only discovered this place last night but I saw this and writing eating problems is kindddd of my jam, so want to at least attempt this!

Might end up with some H/C but not in the "Steve Saves Everything" way ha.

Gonna attempt to do a minifill at least *sweats nervously and starts writing*

Yeeee, some H/C is perfectly fine!

Don't be nervous, take your time, I'm sure whatever u come up with is gonna be a± 10/10 awesome. Looking forward to the fill, whatever length it's gonna be!!

Not CW-compliant because I wanted Rumlow in it, and Bucky found before then, anddddd I took many, many liberties with the trigger words. Soz.

All hurt, no comfort. Temptttted to write a follow up with comfort, and food problems, because man, I hurt writing this. Hope this kind of filled the prompt? Maybe? I hope? T.T If not, I apologise!

[In researching Kinder Surprise from 2016, discovered that the toys in them were made by Romanian children, in the slave labour sense. And somehow, that feels oddly poetically fucked up, given the context...]

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The first thing the Asset did after he left his mission by the river was run. The next thing he did, after he'd made sure he was safe, had a little hideout, one where they wouldn't find him, was eat. He couldn't explain the drive for food; he hadn't had one in so long, but something pulled him to food.

And he ate.

And then he threw up.

He couldn't remember the last time he'd eaten food, real food. He'd been fed intravenously for as long as he could remember, the food making him feel sick and wrong. But he ate anyway, like he was dying, and food was like pulling the bullet wound from his stomach and sewing the wound closed.

He made himself sick four more times before he could stop, before he even tasted the things he was eating.

After that, through months on the run, food became... special. Everything tasted like colour, and sound, and intensity. It was sweeter, saltier, more than anything he'd ever experienced, and he couldn't get enough.

By the time Steve (Steve... his name was Steve) found him, he'd tasted every flavour of skittle he could get his hands on, and liked to sort them by colour, little neat rows, and then eat them until they were an even number. He'd tried every flavour of the colourful drinks he could find, and whilst initially affronted by the way the bubbles made his nose tickle, he liked the rush he experienced from those drinks more; the bubbles made him smile to himself now.

He should have known that they would be his end; he was always sharp, alert, aware, until the sugar wore off, and he crashed. And that was how he was found. The crash had made him dull, and less aware, and somehow... Steve found him. It had taken him months, but he'd managed.

The Ass-.... Bucky... Bucky didn't trust him at first, but when Steve had held up a little red and white egg, saying that this candy was banned in the USA, and even had a toy inside, and he had another 300 back home... Bucky had gone willingly (the inside of the toy had a little princess in a blue dress. Bucky loved her).

*

Bucky sucked the chocolate off the end of his thumb and placed the mini Stormtrooper on a shelf, with the rest of the Star Wars toys. He liked those ones, but he didn't like the Stormtroopers as much, and he already had three of them. His favourites were the Ice Age ones, followed by the Princesses, followed by the Superheroes. He had seven mini Steves now, but he kept those beside his bed, beside his Sleeping Beauty princess. The rest of them lived on a bookshelf Steve had got for him, the shelves filled with hundreds upon hundreds of Kinder Surprise toys. They were his, the first things that had been truly his in so long. Steve didn't even touch them without his permission.

The Kinder Surprise were his favourite. Steve had shown him a lot of candy in the last eight months, and even though the chocolate was nice, it wasn't Creme Egg nice. But he did really like the toys inside, and that made up for the funny taste the Kinder Eggs left in his mouth. He supposed everything had pros and cons; Creme Eggs tasted the best, but they left him with a headache if he ate more than nine in a row. He'd tested.

"Oh man, another Stormtrooper?" Steve asked, coming to join him in the living room and kneeling beside him. He was in his Captain America uniform, shield already on his back. His phone had gone off a few minutes ago, alerting him to a new mission, extraction imminent. He knew there were only minutes left before Steve had to go, but he appreciated him coming in to give him a kiss goodbye.

Bucky nodded and pouted. "I still don't have a Yoda..."

Steve laughed, and kissed him quickly. "We'll get you more when I get back."

"If you get back..." Bucky huffed, shifting uncomfortably on the floor.

Steve fixed him with a stare that made Bucky look away quickly. "I always find you in the end, don't I?"

Bucky nodded, just the once, still not looking at him. He hated when Steve went away on missions, but he knew it was a necessary evil. He could have joined him, but Bucky had seen enough horrors for one lifetime, and Steve had this. Maybe next year. Maybe next year he could be at Steve's side in the battlefield too, instead of just in their brownstone in Brooklyn.

Steve tugged him in closer by the nape of his neck, sucking his lower lip into a sweet kiss before pulling back, resting his forehead against Bucky's. "I'll be back soon, okay? Promise me you'll still be here when I get back?"

Bucky nodded. "Promise."

Steve stood then, squaring his shoulders as he tugged the cowl over his head.

The apartment was quiet then, too quiet. It made his skin crawl when Steve left, so he turned on some soft music and raided the fridge. He knew not to make himself sick now, but Steve liked feeding him, liked making sure Bucky had everything he could ever want to eat in the fridge, just in case.

He polished off another two eggs before bedtime (this time he got an Ewok, which he didn't mind having multiples of, because he'd thought they were cute, and another fucking Stormtrooper). Falling asleep without Steve was hard, but he knew that it made Steve happy when he slept. Steve always looked so happy when Bucky did normal things, like eat food, and take baths, and read books, and watch movies (they watched a lot of movies - but none with aliens, or any guns - Star Wars was different) and sleep like a normal person. And Bucky liked making Steve happy, so Bucky tried to do those things.

It shouldn't have been as easy as it was to rid himself of a lot of the programming. Hydra had worked very, very hard, to ensure he was as broken down as possible, a mindless machine for their purposes, but one mission against Steve had broken down the first layer. The second mission had broken the next. A few months with Steve had broken things that Bucky didn't even know needed breaking. It hurt, a lot. It made him scream, and cry, and break things, and had made Steve scared sometimes... But... he was getting there.

A year ago, had anyone approached him in his sleep, anyone come without 30 feet of his sleeping form, he'd have been awake within seconds, and armed. But now, he was used to Steve being around, Steve climbing into bed with him after missions, sleepy and soft, and kissing the back of his neck. So when he heard sounds in the apartment, he just smiled happily to himself; Steve had come home, just like he promised, and way sooner than he'd expected.

Wait.

Bucky lurched up, coldness gripping him. There was no way Steve would be back so soon. His suspicions were confirmed quickly as his eyes picked up in the dark room several forms, familiar uniforms. Before he could react, a voice that he wished he could forget said "Nutmeg."

*

Back then, the trigger words had been an almost welcome respite. His body knew what to do when they were used, and his mind could lock out. It was like watching himself through glass; it wasn't him doing those things, it was his body. He wasn't even in the passenger seat, he was in the back, gagged and bound, and not even able to fight, just watch in horror.

Sure, things could bring him back, including time, and when he came back it was awful, every time, but it meant for the most part, he wasn't there.

He isn't so lucky this time. He's been Bucky for months now, and whilst the trigger word took over his body, his mind is still very much there.

He hasn't had to be yanked out of bed, he's doing as he's told. He's standing in the middle of the room, faces that he'd hoped to never see again around him. It's still dark, but he knows them, knows them all well. He knows they can't see him all that well but they know he's doing exactly as they ask. He tries desperately not to show his shaking, breathes deeply to avoid his heart rate spiking, despite the terror pulsing through him.

He hasn't been truly afraid in so long, and it feels unfamiliar to him. The Asset had been frightened, and unsure, but this... this is new. He isn't sure what to do with it. God, he was so stupid. So stupid to think he was safe, to think that he could ever be safe. He's got... nothing. There are knives around the room, but he's surrounded by five of them, and his knives are out of reach. He's only wearing sweatpants, because he's an idiot, completely unprepared.

"Kneel," Rumlow's voice pushes through the darkness again, and Bucky *drops* to his knees, his full weight behind it, bones cracking as he does. It sends pain searing up his body and he inhales through gritted teeth. All they had to do was say the damn words and he was... this again.

Light fills the room, someone finally turning on the fucking light.

What surprises him is the choke of laughter from Rumlow. Then sniggers from the rest of them. Bucky doesn't know what they're laughing at, but his cheeks, neck, chest, all burn. He can't look at them, and his metal hand digs into his knees.

"Geeze, thought we were coming for the Winter Soldier. Did you eat him or something?"

Bucky doesn't get it, but everyone is laughing.

"Wouldn't have thought he'd go soft being on the run, but looks like he needs to go for a run!"

More laughter. Bucky... thinks he gets it now... but he's not sure.

Rumlow gets up close, prods him in the gut with his shoe, gently at first; Bucky holds his breath as Rumlow pokes his softer stomach again and again, cackling. Bucky is expecting the kick to the gut, but it winds him all the same. He falls forward a little, but Rumlow grabs him by the hair and yanks him upright again. Bucky is panting.

Bucky's trying desperately not to shake, can't let them see he's scared, but then they have to know. He's too deep under the words, can't even bring himself to breathe too deeply without permission, let alone fight them off. He tries to clench his hand, but he can't. He tries to wriggle his toes, but he can't. It's as if having the break from the control has made it stronger, not weaker like they'd hoped.

What are they doing here? How did they find him? Are they going to take him again? Hydra is coming apart, its main head cut off, but Steve and his friends are still trying to bring down the smaller parts. One head cut off, another two, etc etc. He's heard it a thousand times, and if they manage to get The Asset back... He doesn't want to think of what could happen.

"Christ, I don't even know if I'll be able to get a boner with 'im looking like that."

A rush of heat prickles the back of Bucky's neck. What's... wrong with how he looks? His hair is longer now, but softer, and he hasn't shaved in a few days, but he can't think of what else they might be talking about.

"Do you think we'll be able to get it in past all that fat?"

And then it finally clicks. The rush of heat from before intensifies, and embarrassment starts winding its way through his body. He... may have gained a few pounds. Steve let him eat whatever he wanted; sometimes his eyes filled with tears when he saw Bucky eat something new, and he liked it. But... he's not... he's not... fat... is he? But he can see it now. His face is rounder. His tummy, the one that Steve had kissed his morning before doing down on him, the one Rumlow had poked and prodded with his boot, is softer now, a little squishy with him kneeling on the floor as he is, his shoulders slumped. Steve's sweatpants had grown a little tighter on him, but Steve had just bought him new sweatpants.

He's... he's fat. He's not Steve's pretty boy now.

He's brought back to it all when Rumlow utters another damn word, and against his will, Bucky falls forward, face into the carpet, ass in the air. No. No. God. Not this again. He recovered physically months and months ago, but he and Steve had barely just taken that back, "reclaimed" it as Steve had said.

"Anyone with a dick long enough to push past lardass here?" someone jokes.

He feels his sweatpants being tugged down, and he tries desperately to check out before the pain starts.

He fails.

Miserably.

It hurts, somehow worse than it used to. But then, he used to be drugged to the eyeballs. He'd only ever been half there, at most. Now, he's here, he's all here, and it makes him choke on a sob. At least Rumlow had used lube.

It occurs to him, a cold voice in his mind that Rumlow had never done such thing, and certainly hadn't this time. Bucky doesn't want to think about it.

"Look, guys, he's got tits now! It's not gay if it's got tits!" Rumlow shouts victoriously, as he plays with the tiny spots of softness at Bucky's pecs. They hadn't seemed any different this morning, but right then, he felt he may as well have become a woman, tits the size of grapefruits rubbing against the carpet. Rumlow's nails bite into his skin, and he knows without looking that there's more blood. There's wetness on his face, but he knows that that at least isn't blood, for now.

Rumlow comes quickly, slapping his ass as he pulls out, laughing manically despite his breathlessness. "Fuck me, it jiggles. Guys, you've got to check out the jiggles."

Bucky's just grateful that they haven't made him lift his head out of the carpet. At least they can't see his tears, the shame burning in his face. They can't see him bite his lip, trying to muffle his sobs or grunts of pain.

The next guy is rougher than Rumlow, but at least his cock is smaller. It still burns, semen and blood stinging the torn skin.

"Fuck boss, d'you remember when Winter Soldier was a nice piece of ass. If I wanted to fuck Jabba the Hutt, I wouldn't have come here, that's for sure," the guy manages through his thrusts.

Bucky gets that reference.

Bucky hates that reference.

If Bucky survives this, he's going to burn all of his Star Wars toys.

Rumlow pulls him up by his hair, but hasn't given him permission to use his hands, so his weight is hanging from his scalp, and precariously on his knees as he's fucked. He gasps, clenching his teeth, desperate to put his hands down. Rumlow doesn't give him the pleasure, instead just pressing his cheeks together with his other hand, cheeks and lips squishing unattractively.

He absently notes that Rumlow's face is pretty unattractive right now too, half-melted off, but it's just a vague mention under the screaming in his mind.

"Awww, would you look at that face," he coos, smirking down at him. Bucky tries to look at the floor, not to make eye contact but Rumlow squeezes his face tighter before slapping him. "Look me in the eye, little pig," he snaps. Bucky can't help but do so, even as his eyes swim with pain and shame.

Rumlow drops him on his face again, and Bucky is grateful, because then nobody can see him, and he can't see their faces as they laugh at him. He can still hear them though, and the words don't get any kinder.

"I'm surprised I'm even hard. Look at you, you fat bastard." Another one has finished, a new one starting, and Bucky is finally, blissfully, spacing out. The pain is one thing, but the thoughts, the humiliation, that's what sends him to the blank space he used to spend most of his time.

Even through it, though, he can feel every roll on his stomach, the jiggling of his tits, even his ass now, and somehow it hurts almost as much as the fucking. He's hyperaware of every movement in his skin, the fat bouncing around with every thrust.

"God, I wonder what Rogers sees in you now. At least before you were a hot little thing; bet he just keeps you around because he feels sorry for you now."

That one breaks through the haze of pain, and shame, and fear, and sick. Steve's name. A wave of revulsion swamps him in ways that the pain and humiliation hadn't.

No, no... Steve... Steve loved him. Didn't he? But... Steve was so good, he'd never tell Bucky if he found him unattractive... And just last week he'd asked if Bucky wanted to come running with him... What if that was his subtle way of saying he thought Bucky was getting fat? Steve had always been a precocious and painfully honest little shit, but he knew Bucky was fragile. Maybe he hadn't said anything, and was trying to do it subtly. Maybe he really did just feel sorry for him.

They notice the change in him, he must make a sound or something, because that's when the onslaught really starts. And he thought it had been bad before.

And this time, he can't tune it out. It all blurs together, a stream of how Rogers won't want him like this, how Rogers pities him, how Rogers can't wait to be rid of him.

Thrust. Thrust. Thrust.

Jiggle. Jiggle. Jiggle.

His mind screams, screams, begs for him to break free, to kill them, to kill himself. He's never felt so disgusted in himself and he actively bites back bile.

"Hey boss, look at these!" There's more laughter around him, but Bucky doesn't tune in. He doesn't pay attention, feeling nothing except his stomach rocking back and forth as he's fucked into again, by whom, he doesn't know.

He hears laughter, but he's been hearing that all evening.

Something blue, and red, and tiny, and plastic drops in front of his eyes. He's got carpet burn on his cheeks. His eyes don't focus for a few moments, just sees the tiny blue and red shape before him. When they finally focus, he sees a tiny Steve. Another few drop.

No.

No.

"Well, isn't this adorable?" Rumlow grins, gripping Bucky by the hair again, lifting him just enough that Rumlow can be sure he sees the tiny Kinder Surprise Steve's.

He doesn't even build up to it. He just steps on the little toys with his combat boots and crushes them, their tiny plastic bodies warping and snapping under the weight.

And something inside Bucky snaps.

That had happened sometimes. Despite all his trigger words, despite all the wipes, all the brainwashing... Sometimes the Soldier, the Asset, would break free, become destructive. Steve always was his weak spot.

There's no white hot rage, like those times. There's a crystalline peace, a silence that he hopes he can live in forever.

Rumlow's closest. It takes Bucky seconds to flip him, snap his neck.

He takes three of them out before they can even reach for their guns. The final one at least has his gun in hand when Bucky twists his head right around.

Three of the Steve toys survived, their little bodies able to be put back together easily. It calms him and he keeps them wrapped gently in his hands as he gets to work.

He makes it to the bathroom, forces himself to vomit, metal fingers down his throat, as if that can somehow make him more appealing, bring back his old body. He vomits, but he's still disgusting when it's done.

Still naked, he walks into the kitchen, grabs a garbage bag, and promptly empties the fridge, the pantry. He moves quickly, efficiently, as if still under the trigger words, only... he's not. He doesn't think anybody else in the world knows his trigger words anymore. He should feel relieved, but he mostly feels nothing.

He grabs another garbage bag and goes to the shelf with all his toys, and one after the other sweeps them into the garbage bag. They all look so small, and fragile, in the bottom of the huge black bag. He wishes he could join them.

He doesn't want to go back into the bedroom, but he can't take the trash out naked. He manages to find clothes, ignoring the pain in his body, ignoring the way Steve's sweatpants cut into his hips, making his tummy and hips balloon over the top. He presses at it miserably.

He'll have to clean the bodies up when he gets back upstairs. He doesn't know when Steve will be home; it could be soon, it could be days. He doesn't know the correct protocol for getting rid of bodies in Brooklyn...

Through the bedroom window he can see it's dawn, the sky pink with the rising sun.

He isn't gone long, or so he thinks. Maybe when he'd thrown the two bags in the dumpster he'd been caught up in a thousand yard stare. He must, because the sky is a little less pink when he next blinks. His feet are colder. His arms are colder too. He blinks a few times and goes back upstairs.

Steve's there, standing in the living room, still dressed, shield still on.

Steve's seen the bodies. Steve's seen the empty shelf. Steve's seen the empty apartment. Steve had thought he'd gone.

Steve reaches for him, all tears, and relief, and panic.

But Bucky can't let him Steve touch him. Not anymore. Not like this.

OP here, wow anon that was quick. You spoil me :^p

Gonna be honest with u here: reading thru part 1, I wasn't sure if this was gonna be exactly my kind of thing. I guess the whole Steve spoiling bucky with sweets situation brought it pretty close to the weight gain/obesity/feeding kink which is a big fat (pun not intended lol) NO for me, and personally I'd have gone in a more 'grown man Bucky decides that it's reasonable to skip his workout every once in a while' direction, rather than 'infantilized Bucky collects kinder toys, gets fat'.

However, I kept reading and I am glad I did cuz. Hoooo boy. You really did it with part 2. It all worked so well. Rumlow's dialogue. The way the words make Bucky see himself. The aftermath. Exactly what I was looking for, and very masterfully written too. (I absolutely loved that lil bit about Bucky noticing that Rumlow ain't that cute nowadays either)

Thank you so much for this, anon! And do let me know if you write any more

Phew, glad you ended up being okay with it. Yeah, it definitely wasn't meant to be a feeding/obesity etc kink (which, nothing wrong with, but definitely not my kink, nor my intention) - I was picturing him the same size as CW, so not even close to fat ha, just healthier and with fewer abs. And yeah, just wanted to yanno, settle him into life, make him think he might be safe and happy, and then yanno, completely crush that ^.^

I'm working on the comfort bit now, not sure how that'll go. Thanks for the great prompt; it was a lot of fun to work on. :)

Oof, this was devastating. I'd totally be up for that h/c ending if the filler wants to do it and OP is fine with it--definitely let us know if you decide to write more!

(Also, I never knew that about kinder eggs. I looked it up and it seems like nothing came of the child labor allegations, so here's hoping they weren't true.)

I fucking love this anon - I, for one, am VERY much up for a h/c ending if you wanted to write one!!

This is phenomenal! I loved everything about it, especially the shift of how Bucky though about himself and his body when Rumlow and co. pointed it out to him. And I like that Bucky got to end it and kill them himself. I would definitely read an h/c follow-up as well.

Thank you for this, anon! I'm glad OP enjoyed the project as a whole, but for me, personally, the Steve stuff in part 1 really rang my particular bell. Not so much from the feederism/weight gain side (the Bucky I'm picturing in this story looks like the canon CW Bucky - not actually fat at all, just a little husky) but the weird sweetness of their domestic life. My favourite part was Steve so casually commiserating with Bucky over another Stormtrooper - showing just how invested he is in who Bucky is now, and how whatever makes Bucky happy makes Steve happy. I would love to see this Steve's reaction to the latest trauma and any variation on food issues you can scare up for a h/c sequel!

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