The Holiday (слэш)

There’s a listing for a home exchange just outside of Liverpool, a charming, very English stone cottage with a garden, just a stone’s throw from the water. Two bedrooms, one bathroom, a fireplace, a kitchen, only a 15 minute drive into the city proper.
Bucky: Hey, I’m very very interested in renting your cottage for the next few weeks. I live in NYC, in a nice apartment in Chelsea. No roommates, just a grumpy cat named Tom who won’t bother you as long as you talk to him sometimes. He likes roast chicken. He’s weird, but cute.
Loki: I have never met a cat that I did not like. The dog is my roommate’s, I would much prefer a cat.
Loki: I have not been to NYC during the holidays for many a year. Is two weeks acceptable to you?
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Heartbroken, burned out, and aimless, both Bucky Barnes and Loki Laufeyson are in desperate need of just getting away. When these two strangers agree to switch homes and lives for the holidays, what they find, and who they meet, may be exactly what they needed all along.
 
[ A Marvel (stucky/thorki) RomCom AU of the greatest of all holiday movies, The Holiday ]
Notes: Translation into 日本語 available: The Holiday ｜ホリディ by Nelyo3 Out of the depths of my post-Thanksgiving, turkey-addled mind came one thought and one thought only: if my favorite Marvel characters and ships starred in my favorite holiday movie of all time, The Holiday, who would they be?
Over 60,000 words (and counting) later, I present to you, for your reading pleasure: The Holiday.
There will be 12 chapters, with one chapter posted each day, as a fun nod to the 12 Days of Christmas. The final chapter will be posted on Christmas! Each chapter will alternate, for the majority of the fic, between Bucky's POV and Loki's POV. The last three chapters will have both of their POVs.
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