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Since I've been fighting a migraine for the last four days, I didn't think there was anyway I was going to finish my story by the

intoabar challenge deadline.

But somehow, I did!

So, here it is, Illya Kuryakin walks into a bar and meets...Bucky Barnes!

Two of my biggest fandom collide! I couldn't have picked a better pairing myself.

Title: Jazz and Vodka
Author: P.R. Zed
Word count: 8,879

AO3 Link

The assignment let me pull out a fragment I've had kicking around forever with young KGB agent Illya Kuryakin getting pulled in as a last minute replacement for the Winter Soldier's handler. Which turned it into a multi-timeline 8K mini-epic. (When I told him what my word count was looking like, my husband just said "Of course you did.")

It's been ages since I've posted here, but this, I couldn't resist.

On Friday, two very exciting things will happen.

The first episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the series I have been waiting for FOREVERRRRRR, will finally drop.

And the basketball team of my grad school alma mater, the Wisconsin Badgers, will play their first, and hopefully not last, game of this year's March Madness.

In honour of these events, I will be wearing my Bucky Badger, Winter Soldier t-shirt all day.

(You have no idea how excited I was to find that shirt on TeePublic when I went looking for some better Winter Soldier merch than Marvel has supplied.)

In other news, I've finished a first draft of the wayyyyy late Stucky FTH story, only 19 months after it was due. In a bid for poetic justice, I used this year's FTH to bid on a beta for the story. I might actually get it polished and posted in the not too distant future!

...because several of you have pointed out that there is a Bucky that is not a Badger.

And also because I've been reading a bit of Bucky/Steve fic of late.

And finally because

just_ann_now pointed out there's a sequel to This, You Protect and I've spent the evening devouring it whilst Ros watches Hockey Night in Canada. Team-Building Exercises is just as funny and heart-breaking as the original, and I lurvvvv it.

(If anyone else has any Captain America fic recommendations, I'd love to hear them.)

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