Title: The Buckland Shore Drew Nearer
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen
Word count: 865
Pairing: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Major Tags: Post-College AU, Rom-com, Established Relationship, Flirting in Lord of the Rings, Fluff, Humor, Financial Issues, Bookstores, Kissing

Summary: When lost in a labyrinthine used bookstore with your Tolkien obsessed boyfriend, where else would you find him other than lusting after used copies of books he already owns?

Or Part 3 of the Lord of the Rings-scholar College rom-com AU no one was expecting.

Notes: Thank you to my prompters beaarthurpendragon and softestbuck for leaving the prompts Stucky + shiver + bookstore and library + “oops” + Stucky, and inspiring me to revisit my LotR Nerds! (Which, okay, I've been looking for the smallest excuse and "bookstore/library" was it.)

Written for SteveRogersBingo, "Free Space."

Thanks in this series also always goes to softestbuck, who has approved the continued use of their beautiful Elvish chapter headers and to sopdetly who not only provided a quick beta but inspired this AU in the first place. 💙

Disclaimer: As always, I do not know Elvish and for this installment relied on the resources provided by Parf Edhellen. Previous installments used Quenya, but the Elvish here is Sindarin, specifically the fan extrapolation for the word "sweetheart."

Other notes available on AO3.

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