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Series Begun:
2016-05-30
Series Updated:
2025-10-18
Description:

In a world of normal soulmate markers, where everyone has a countdown on their wrist to when they will find their soulmate or else they die, James "Bucky" Barnes has one that constantly jumps all over time and has never run normally in the almost 100 years he's been alive. And now it's stuck.

Meanwhile, Clara Oswald's has run strangely her entire life, and even though she's no longer in her home universe hers is still counting down. It hadn't made sense to the Doctor in her home universe and it doesn't make sense to her or Ashildr in this new universe. She expected it to disappear, but it's simply counting down to her inevitable demise. And every effort she makes to get to the time and place where she'll meet her soulmate or die, her TARDIS stops her.

Despite it all, fate has it ways to make these two meet...even if it takes a TARDIS and the Avengers to make it happen.

Notes:

A Doctor Who/MCU crossover soulmate AU series where Bucky and Clara are soulmates across universes, who find each other despite the odds. Goes AU for Doctor Who after "Hell Bent," where a glitch makes Clara and Ashildr jump into the Marvel-616 universe, where the Marvel Cinematic Universe happens. In the MCU, everything happened in canon up to "Infinity War" but "Endgame" ended differently.

Basically, instead of restoring the people who disappeared in the snap, history changed. The Battle of New York went differently, in that it wasn't Loki bringing in the aliens and Loki ended up turning and helping the Avengers during the battle. The changes in history caused Thanos to be thwarted before he did the snap in "Infinity War" so it never happened. Everyone at the final battle in "Endgame" remembers both the original timeline and the new one, but most people were never aware there was a change. Also, Tony still did the snap but in this AU he survived, albeit with Pepper's help giving him CPR, and just lost his hand instead of his life.

End game ships are Bucky/Clara, Loki/Ashildr, Tony/Pepper, Steve/Natasha, Stephen/Christine, T'Challa/Nakia, Clint/Laura and possibly Yelena/Kate and Peter/MJ, all of whom are soulmates in this new timeline/were still soulmates from the old timeline.

"Sanctum Santorum adopts stray cats" fic idea comes from popcorn-plots (AO3 | Tumblr) and is used in this series with permission.

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