Title: Do Not Meddle in the Affairs of Grad Students (for They Are Caffeinated and Quick to Nerd Out)
Rating: Mature
Word count: ~46,200
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes
Additional Characters: Becca Barnes, Natasha Romanoff, Peggy Carter

Summary: As a student returning to finish his bachelor’s degree and pick up the scattered pieces of his trashed life, Bucky has a few problems: he’s nearly ten years older than the other students, he has lingering pain from shattering his arm, and his Tolkien-obsessed roommate Steve Rogers is way too hot for his own good. If Bucky's going to get through this degree and get his life back on track, he cannot afford the distraction. Nope. No way. No distractions.

Or the Lord of the Rings-scholar College rom-com AU no one was expecting.

Notes: Thanks to Nospheratt for the alpha read and to sopdetly for beta reading and prompting this fic in the first place. (Little did she know what her innocent ask of "what's happening in this picture" would produce.)

Thank you to my wonderful artists, deisderium and softestbuck. I cannot begin to express how much their art helps the whole project.

Other notes available on AO3.

written for notanotherstuckybb 2020

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