this city bleeds its aching heart

Ah, I don't usually read works in progress but how could I resist this? Oh boys, your oblivious pining is obvious to everyone. *waits impatiently for more*

God, but this is good. It's an awesome concept executed awesomely, with the feelings, and the humour (YES THE HUMOUR) and I love love *love* the way you write Steve and Bucky's dynamic and banter and just their whole relationship.*chinhands*

Oooh this is excellent! Can't wait for the updates!!

It doesn't even matter how many times I have read this, it is still a damn good time. I adore how comfortable they are together, even when they're uncomfortable. Like they still know exactly where they stand, even when things are weird.

omg this is perfect, ugh all the stupid miscommunication, while still somehow having their Steve/Bucky connection and the sex is really hot, like reallyreally

I am so coming along for this ride - move over, Cohen, and don't hog the best view!

so much longing!! i love itttttt!

Why can I only push the kudos button once? Ohmygod. God in heaven help me! OMG!!! OMFG!!! I love this. I saw this and went no, I do not want to start a WIP but I couldn't resist especially with a fake marriage but this is fantastic!!! And then there was the end!!! I can't wipe the grin off my face. I love how they go back and forth between oblivious, pining, getting what they want, angsting, being the synched soldiers, pining, goofy, it's just a;lksdfjp!!!! Yay!!! I can't wait to read more. Really loving the nosy neighbors. Wouldn't mind seeing more of the nosy neighbors and "Real wives" type hitting on either of them so both get to play the jealous husbands. I live in suburbia and it really doesn't take much to get people talking.

Ugh, boyssss, stupid boys with their pining and their obliviousness. I loved all of the feelings, particularly during the sex, because I have a marked weakness for porn that is made of emotions. Their dynamic is flawless, with the banter, and the way that of course they can fool everyone into thinking they're married and besotted with one another. Your writing is as lovely as ever. For you, I have broken my rule about WIPs, so I really, really hope there's more soon. :D

Okay, so this is glorious and I'm so excited to read it unfolding. I love how well you've written both Steve and Bucky and, oh, the requited-unrequited love and suuuuch a glorious sex scene. The intimacy, the good humour and the slowly simmering tension, both in terms of plot and in terms of their relationship, is very deftly handled.Can't wait for more.x

Okay, it's very obvious that both of them are crazy to bone each other, they're both very insecure too. This guy they're after is creepy, if he's truly pepping.

WORDS CAN'T DESCRIBE HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS!!! IT'S BRILLIANT! THE FEELS!! This concept is absolutely brilliant! I ADORE THIS AND I ADORE YOU! I MEAN HOLY SHIT!! THEY BOTH HAVE FEELING FOR EACH OTHER AND THEY DON'T KNOW IT! MY HEART BROKE FOR STEVE WHEN BUCKY KISSED HIM AND THEN HE FOUND OUT IT WAS PART OF THE ASSIGNMENT! I'M A HUGE BUCKY/STEVE FAN AND WHILE I HAVE ONLY RECENTLY STARTED READING FICS ABOUT THEM THIS IS EASILY THE BEST ONE I'VE READ! IT'S ACTUALLY ONE OF THE BEST FICS I'VE READ PERIOD!!!

You are mashing, like, *all* of my buttons. Oh my god. *rolls around in the feels*

YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU ALREADY but to see this in all its fantastic glory omfg i am overwhelmed with ALL THE FEELINGS. just...how they stumble around each other and the not-so-accidental touching! and bucky never quite knowing how to belong, to the world or steve, and steve needing him just as badly because BUCKY. what i really love about your s/b dynamic is that they're equally strong willed and protective of their friendship - and in spite of the awkwardness they find HOME in each other ;____;all this with espionage!!! i look forward to the shenanigans they get into trying to bring down cohen. and the SEXYTIMES omfg i am dead.your writing is what drew me to this pairing and this cements my love for them 1000% <3 THANK YOU <3<3<3

The entire story was lovely and exciting and just the right amount of fluff. Also, the porn was pretty hot. Definitely one of my favorites!

Oh, this was amazing! Totally worth staying up until 4am to finish! (And part of me is tempted to go right back to chapter one and read it all over again right now!)

This piece has been sitting in my Pocket list for like a life time, and finally I finished reading the first chapter during my hell-like workday (and yes i'm going back to that planet called REALITY but all I want to is STAY in this universe with my boys and never leave!!). Fake relationship? Oh like anybody with eyes would fail to find you two so desperatly in love with each other and care for each other! Good call, boys! (Of course I have to admit that hot sex has been missing for about a century. So speed up soldiers.)The sutble and sometimes careful way of thinking and behaving when around each other is sooooo cute and I couldn't help but laugh and melt away as I read it.I also couldn't bear the idea of not having a Chinese version of this brilliant story! If it reallly didn't happen, can I have a try? You will be fully credited and linked back, and I will send you the link once it's out on the Internet. (And if it's already done, I would just be more than happy for you and the steve/bucky lovers in China. ^_^)Thank you again for your writing! <3

HOW IS THIS SO BEAUTIFUL I LOVE YOU

Loved this story from the first chapter to the last! Amazing work

MEOW! This is hot, hilarious, sad and adorable at the same time.Oh these two!

This was so amazing, omg, I loved every bit of it. It was sweet and funny and HOT and just...perfect! Thank you so much for this wonderful story!

EASILY my favorite Steve/Bucky fic. I could read this over and over and over (instead you should just write more)!

One of the biggest no homos I've ever seen. Also this is pleasantly hurting and funny at the same time.

I will forever and ever cherish this fanfiction. It is all I think about since yesterday. Thank you so much. Thank you thank you thank you!

Love this AU!Two questions, though: does Bucky have two flesh arms in this universe, and since when is he four years older than Steve?

This is such a small, silly detail but I'm working on a fic myself and theres a picnic involved and I picked potato salad too and was reading this wondering if there was some sort of Bucky to potato salad thing that's going around that I'm unaware of haha.Anyway, loved this, gonna finish reading all this tonight! Great work!

I just wanted to let you know that I wrote about this beautiful story over on my blog and also included artwork courtesy of Brumous! Enjoy :)http://acollectivemind.com/2014/08/27/fanfic-wednesday-this-city-bleeds-its-aching-heart/

So I really love this story on its own merit, and I looked up the poem and I love that, too, and I wanted to thank you for writing the story and for introducing a stranger to a poem she likes. so thank you!

I love this fic soo much! Thanks for writing it! :)

This trope always gets me. Favorite parts:"That's why I called you in. No one turns on the charm like you. And who's gonna suspect a couple of happily married queers of getting up to funny business even if they're just new to the neighbourhood?"The word sits uneasily in Steve's chest. "You sure you're supposed to use that word?"Bucky laughs softly. "If I can't, then who can?" Steve's about to ask Bucky to explain when Bucky says, "I'm going in."."Damn you have a dirty mouth on you, Buck," Steve says sleepily, curling his fingers through Bucky's damp hair."Sorry," Bucky mumbles, "I get a bit like that sometimes when I'm getting off. If it helps, it means I'm really enjoying myself?"He feels Steve's hand tighten in his hair a moment and then Steve laughs. "Yeah, I'd guessed you might've been.""Think he was fooled?" Bucky asks, and he feels a little squirrelly at the thought of Cohen watching.Steve yawns and mumbles, "Could've fooled me." Bucky has no idea what that means....I fucking love this accidental mutual no homo they've got going on here. Oh god.

Just stopping by to tell you how much I love this. <3

thank you so much for this work! i've read it two or three timesi love all the tension and pining - i think it's my favourite stucky fic <3 actually, i thought about translating it to Russian - do you mind? or maybe it's already translated?

I really think this might be my favorite Stucky fic, and I can't put my finger on why. Probably a combination of the fake undercover husbands AU with a side of Suburban charmer boys, best friends again Steve and Bucky, and double "Unrequited" best friend love. I think that's why, all my guilty pleasure genres in one amazing fic. :D I love it every time I re-read, so thank you for writing this great little story.

I love everything about this story. I can watch these two idiots fall for each other in a hundred different ways, but the pining while oblivious to the other's feelings is my weakness. Love where this is going! Now to read the rest!

I've been meaning to read this for ages since I love the entire premise! So I'm glad I finally got the opportunity to, and I loved every word of it! I felt so bad for Bucky during his conversation with Cohen; it was so awkward but hilarious at the same time, and well it did end up getting him and Steve into a very compromising and hot position in the end; so I guess it wasn't too bad, after all! :D

I'm so in love with this fic it's crazy. Thank you so much for writing something so awesome!! :)

I just had to leave another comment because I made an 8tracks playlist based on this wonderful fic & I thought you'd like to listen to it? http://8tracks.com/chvystiel/to-show-you-love I hope you like it! :) Btw totally reading this again haha

8tracks playlist "to show you love":Heart Out - The 1975 Runnin- Adam Lambert Casual Affair - P!ATD Pillow Talk- Zayn Malik Ghost - Halsey Please Don't Go - Joel Adams Promise I Always Will - Steffany GretzingerRunaway - We The KingsTalk Me Down - Troye SivanA.M. - One Direction Sweetest Devotion - Adele It Comes Back to You- Imagine Dragons

I should be sleeping but this is irresistible

wow this was honestly such an incredible read! I loved every word ♥

I had a sudden yen to come back and reread this fic, and I'm so glad I did. I forgot how very hot it was!

This is the first Stucky fic I've ever read and I think I chose wisely. This is wonderful!

this... this is amazing! and as for the psychologist/arms dealer, I couldn't think of a possibly more badass combo. Especially since he's literally an old guy. old people should be feared. they've got too much time on their hands.

i've read this twice already but it came up again on my dash so i thought i'd comment again! this is one of my favorite stucky fics, im a sucker for sharing a bed/fake relationship tropes, especially together, and i've had a hard time finding one that does it as well as yours does :) i love it!

tag yourself im buckys hair

0.0 DAAAAAAMN, that was hot. Wow.So, Love this premise and really enjoy all the ancillary characters. Kinda LOLd that Cohen talks about the two of them, almost as though he's there to push them together. *snort*MOARRR!Found via this rec on Tumblr: http://petite-madame.tumblr.com/post/144645914896/do-you-have-an-ao3-or-any-stucky-fic-recs?utm_campaign=SharedPost&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=TumblriOS

Hi Renne! I'm a fan from Viet Nam and tbh I love you fiction soooooo much. And I just want to ask for your permission to translate "This city bleeds its aching heart" into Vietnamese. I really want to share your work with many readers in my own country. Waiting for your reply :x I promise I'll copy your full credit, and translate any comments from my blog for you if you want. Btw you can call me Thoanh <3

Oh my god, what idiots. They're so in love.

Hey girl! I've just recently had a Marvel movie marathon (the first time I had watched any of the films ever) and immediately got hooked on Stucky. And now here I am!! Haha this is beautiful so far and I can't wait to finish it and I'm gonna go do that now. Just a quick question-- it's most probably dumb-- but does Bucky have his metal arm in this? Thanks boo! Gonna go finish this amazing piece of fic now xx :)

This is about the fifth time I read this, and almost every sentence has me squealing in happiness. I love your writing, it makes me so happy. :)