Fiction Recs

Steve/Tony
50,701 words

Howard makes him want to run and never stop running, but Steve is the first person who's made him, even a tiny part of him, want to stay. And he knows that won't end well, not for anyone

"Night Tony," Steve says, that same soft, sweet smile on his face, and Tony wonders if maybe Steve Rogers is not such a bad thing after all.

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or: when 18 year old tony stark meets the barista with the very blue eyes, and realises that maybe hiding isn’t the only answer.

Steve/Tony
18,000 words

Based on a prompt from a Tumblr Anon, it's 2am and Tony drunk dials his ex. He gets Captain America instead.

Bucky/Tony
12,094 words

Sleep-deprived and under-caffeinated, grad student Tony falls asleep in a conveniently empty classroom and wakes up in the middle of Bruce’s Physics 101 course. After seeing a groggy Tony fumble a simple question, actual-student Bucky offers to tutor him. In a moment of “oh no; he’s cute” panic, Tony takes him up on it. Now, in addition to his already complicated life, Tony has to figure out the answer to the incredibly messy question: “How do you look like you’re failing the class, when you literally wrote the book?”

Bucky/Tony
4,561 words

“Give me my hoodie back, you gremlin.”

“It’s not yours anymore,” Tony says, rolling over to mash his face into the pillow. The blanket slips down to reveal a shirt that Bucky last remembers seeing over a month ago. “You lost your rights to it when you left it on my side of the room.”

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Alternately, Tony's a terrible roommate, Bucky is annoyed, and somehow they fall in love.

Steve/Tony
24,131 words

Seven years ago, Steve broke up with Tony because he thought it was the Right Thing to Do™ for both of them.

But he never asked Tony.

And now it's seven years later, and Tony has decided to very publicly remind Steve of a promise he made to him once upon a time.

Or, Steve and Tony dated in college, broke up, and now Tony wants Steve back again.

T'Challa/Tony
2,278 words

T'Challa is somewhat tired of hearing about how awesome Tony is from James Rhodes. Then he meets him and finds that Tony is actually that awesome.

T'Challa/Tony Stark
2,278 words

T'Challa is somewhat tired of hearing about how awesome Tony is from James Rhodes. Then he meets him and finds that Tony is actually that awesome.

Steve/Tony
1,549 words

Steve and Tony are pen-pals through the years.

Steve/Tony
20,544 words

At age fifteen, Steve Rogers had been in love with Tony Stark.

By age twenty, he’d (mostly) gotten over it. And then he promptly became Tony Stark's fuck buddy.

Steve/Tony
24,878 words

Ten years ago, Tony fell in love with his roommate: funny, handsome, kind, smart Steve Rogers, who also happened to be the lead singer and guitarist of a band, The Howlies.

Then The Howlies made it big, Steve moved away, and Tony vowed to avoid any mention of the band, their songs, and the man he missed his chance with.

But chance has a way of giving you exactly what you need, even if you don't know it yet...

Steve/Tony
37,108 words

When Tony starts at MIT, he's excited to finally be in the same city as his older brother, Bucky, again. Then he meets Bucky's roommate and best friend Steve Rogers and falls faster than he would have ever thought possible.

Steve/Tony
3,987 words

Tony is a snarky, sassy, college age disaster, making his way through the Ph.D program by way of spite, stubborness and unhealthy amounts of caffeine so lovingly supplied by the local coffee shop.

Steve is the barista hopelessly in love with the fluffy haired, sleep deprived, genius.

It happens exactly the way you think it does.

Steve/Tony
10,694 words

Steve has eight weeks to finish studying for and pass his bar exam. And its going rather well, until 20 year old boy genius Tony walks into the same library, and sits at the same table.

Steve/Tony
69,462 words

Okay, so maybe Steve isn't Professor Stark's biggest fan at the start of term but first impressions can be mistaken.

Now Steve doesn't care what Clint says, Tony is not his boyfriend.

Steve/Tony
12,596 words

Tony has been using The Boyfriend to get out of work obligations for a year now, but there's one fairly significant problem:

The Boyfriend doesn't exist.

Bucky/Tony
24,495 words

When Tony finds out that Howard is thinking about changing the terms of Tony’s trust fund, he embarks on a not-so-elaborate scheme to prove that he’s totally settling down and not in continued need of Howard’s “guidance” until 25 instead of 21.
Step 1: Get a fiance
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit (Finally be free of Howard)

Unfortunately, Tony Stark is the worst con-artist ever, and may only be kidding himself...

Steve/Tony
11,405 words

Tony Stark is forced into the nightmare of his death, again and again, without end.

The only thing that seems remarkable about this adventure is that he wakes up, every Saturday morning, in Steve Rogers' bed, whom he just can't seem to escape, no matter how much he tries.

Steve/Tony
2,805 words

This is what Tony deserves for suffering an apparent lapse into insanity and giving credence to anything that freaking Scott Lang has to say.