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.

 Phil/Tony & Bruce/Betty/Tony
65,569 words

In the wake of the Uncivil Skirmish, Tony Stark is the only Avenger left. To his unending surprise, things just get… easier.

Steve/Tony
19,544 words

“Mr. Stark? I, uh, I'm still not entirely sure how to do this, but the gentleman told me to leave a message, so I guess...” A sigh rattled over the phone line. “Look, Tony, I'm going to level with you – they told me I had one phone call, and you... you're the first person that popped into my head. So, yeah, I, uh... I've sort of been arrested, and I know we don't always see eye to eye, but I – if it's not too much trouble, that is – could really use some help, if you... you know what? It doesn't matter. Sorry for bothering you, Mr. Stark.”

A reworking of IM3.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
40,085 words

Every child is born with two marks, one from their mother and one from their father. They say that each mark represents a lesson your soulmates will teach you, that you can gain more and more as you go through life.

Tony was born with four. They said he was destined for greatness.
If this is what greatness looks like then Tony doesn't want it.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
46,023 words

In an alternate universe, Tony Stark never came out as Iron Man, even to his teammates. Sometime after CA:WS, Bucky comes to the tower, regains his memory, and rekindles his relationship with Steve.

A year later, Steve and Bucky realize neither of them have ever had sex with anyone else, and they probably won’t if they keep their relationship monogamous. When they decide they want to explore, Bucky decides to ask Tony for a one night stand, and Steve decides to ask Iron Man. Both of them bite off more than they can chew, as they both discover that they’re in love with their extracurricular lover - while still being madly in love with each other. Tony just hopes it’s all worth it, because if they ever find out it was him with both of them, he’s pretty sure they’ll never want to see him again.

Steve/Tony
37,921 words

Following the Battle of New York, the Avengers Initiative kicks into high gear under the leadership of Steve Rogers, i.e. Captain America. Tony didn’t mean to become part of this initiative, but it makes sense to sign on due to his experience with SHIELD and Rhodey’s War Machine suits.

The upside: Tony’s tech can be used in a widespread and meaningful way to help protect people. The downside: the last time Tony saw Steve, he’d rejected Steve’s proposal of marriage and broke his heart, leading to almost ten years of the two having no contact whatsoever. Until now.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
40,793 words

Tony likes to think he doesn't lie to himself, if not the rest of the world. So he knows that his insecurities are pretty much as textbook as they get. Abusive father, absent mother, misunderstood by his peers, almost murdered by that asshole. Yeah, it's pretty obvious why he shies away from emotional fucking honesty with anyone other than, you know, Pepper. That one time. Which had just such a great ending. Ugh.

When he finally gets over himself and accepts that Steve might be good, might be a good thing, a thing that he could possibly maybe actually deserve here, it should surprise him that Bucky fucking Barnes is recovered. It doesn't.

Steve/Bucky/Tony
9,202+ words

"I will give you two hundred dollars if you hide me until my asshole ex leaves." The bartender blinked in surprise and reached towards Tony again. His panic spiked. "A thousand plus whatever I have in my wallet. Anything you want. Please."

Bucky/Tony
68,925 words

Single-father and disabled military vet, Bucky Barnes goes to the Food Pantry... where he meets Tony Stark, serving a community service sentence...

Steve/Tony
6,316 words

Tony is still a consultant, and between SI, the team and SHIELD he's overworked and exhausted. That's okay.

He and Steve have been having sex for weeks but that's all it is, just sex, and Tony wants more but he'll never get it and that's okay. Really.

What's not okay is the fact that Howard Stark has somehow appeared in the future and is the same as always.

This is definitely going to fuck up his schedule.

Loki/Tony
50,638 words

The first time Tony thinks - absently and vaguely - that he would like to feel Loki's hands on him, it catches him by surprise.

Bucky/Tony
96,126+ words

tony stark is rich and popular and an arrogant asshole. in other words: his iq rivals einstein's, he's slept with most of his "friends" at least once, and he's so fucking lonely that sometimes he wakes up in the middle of the night and cries into the cold sheets on the empty side of the bed.

it's no different at SHIELD boarding school, at first. half the student body hates him, half want to be him, nothing new. that is, until tony accidentally breaks james barnes's prosthetic arm, and he suddenly finds the most vulnerable pieces of himself surfacing whether he wants them to or not.

Bucky/Tony
54,436 words

Barnes, 107th Infantry 32557038.

Barnes is not Bucky. Barnes is not the Winter Soldier. Barnes doesn't know who he is, or even sometimes, what he is.

Maybe Tony Stark can help him figure that out. Or maybe, if he just gets all the tools, he can fix Tony along the way too.

Bucky/Tony
107,356 words

Tony’s been stumbling his way through life for 45 years without any assistance, thank you very much, and he’d like to point out that forgiving the man who killed his parents is on the negative side of his to do list labeled NEVER. The problem is, they’ve got a few scars in common, and somehow they become little nightlights during each other’s darkest moments.

Or, the story of how Tony and Bucky started out here: one broken nose, a few guns, several fist fights, sharp words, a heart attack, bruised jaws, and the definition of mistrust—and ended up here: an anchor in unsteady waters.

Gen
65,801 words

An extended look at how Tony lost his team and found his family.

So help me, I will give all of these characters the happy ending they deserve, in the happiest multi-verse that ever existed (after some Rough Times because that’s just life.)

Featuring
- a less problematic Spider-Man recruitment scene
- mostly stand-alone chapters
- JARVIS mandated Sex-Ed
- a Tony Stark Defense Squad worth something
- no one dies
- a slow but genuine team reconciliation
- and the all important answer to the question Tony Stark + Happiness = ?

Steve/Tony
62,806+ words

Tony is a 27-year-old disgraced omega working as a nanny. His summer consists of taking the child in his care, Natasha, to the community pool.

Alpha Steve Rogers is the 18-year-old, ridiculously attractive lifeguard of said pool.

When Tony meets him, he feels like he’s been punched in the gut and his omega instincts immediately go haywire. But Steve is nearly ten years younger than him. And definitely out of his league. Plus, there’s the whole ‘he’s sworn off alphas’ thing.
It doesn’t matter how blue Steve’s eyes are. Or how spectacular his muscles look, all wet and glistening, as he vaults out of the water. The two of them will never, ever happen.

Steve, though... Steve’s got other ideas.

Bucky/Tony
2,608 words

Tony was many things but stubborn was the most prominent. So when HYDRA kidnapped him and decided to turn him into their personal flying monkey, they didn't realize it wasn't going to be simple.

OR

The one where Tony's mind is a mess and Bucky is patient.

Steve/Tony (pre-relationship)
22,327 words

Tony is not the go-to-guy when people are sick, hurt, emotionally distraught or - actually he is never a go-to-guy aside from tech. But sometimes, no-one else is there and then he will step up.

Because he is a Sucker™.

Lots of idiots, protective everyone, teeth rotting fluff, sarcasm and weird shit.

Steve/Tony
5,872 words

Steve and Tony help each other learn to breathe again.

Bucky/Tony
1,471 words

There are so many ways someone can say 'I love you' and once they do it's written on your skin.

Bucky/Tony
32,629 words

In a universe where you can make contact with your soulmate by drawing onto your skin, Bucky's soulmate immediately stands out. It doesn't bother Bucky too much his soulmate puts them in places where only they can see, the drawings are for him, and that's enough. They are so much more complicated, more detailed, more beautiful than the ones others get, after all.

One day the marks on his skin are not drawings, and they mark a pivotal change in their relationship. A change that ends with Bucky being disillusioned and enlisting. The loss of his arm overseas is just a step above the rock bottom they must reach before it gets better.

This is a story about two soulmates, lost and broken. But aren't broken things more beautiful for the cracks?

Steve/Tony
55,859 words

If it hadn't been for the stupid fucking toad, Tony wouldn't be dying of boredom now. And he wouldn't have to put up with surveillance state Steve. It was just a broken arm, for fuck's sake!
 

In which Tony gets hurt and finds himself with way too much time and a very worried Steve. Who he might be falling for. Fast. But that's stupid because he's Tony Stark, a man with enough issues to make a seasoned therapist weep, and Steve is Captain America and pretty much perfect and it's never gonna work out anyway. Right?

Steve/Tony
4,648 words

It's not a mantra. Not really. It's not something he explicitly tells himself. No.

It's just... it stuck to him.

Fine. He's fine.

Steve/Tony
7,901 words

"The gunshot wound had been too infected, in between the lack of care and the blood loss there was no choice but to amputate the leg from above the knee and down."

Tony's captivity had changed everything about him, he gained and lost valuable things, and led him to be Iron Man. He's perfectly okay with his secrets to remain secrets, but he didn't expect his team to actually care. Also, unconsciously falling in love with Captain America was definitely not part of the plan.

Steve/Tony
11,494 words

The Avengers want a pool. Tony can arrange that for them. He can. The thought doesn't fill him with horrible, daunting dread and crippling fear.
Not at all.

(Or maybe denial does more harm than good)

Bucky/Tony
14,137 words

Tony Carbonell is a completely normal professor at MIT. He tutors kids, both in his class and not, and builds things in his free time. He feeds stray cats and drinks too much coffee and wears dorky shirts to class.
He's also an Avenger and the son of the late Howard Stark. He's pretty sure, though, that no one except his two closest friends and his AI's know this.
And then the Winter Soldier breaks into his home.

Steve/Tony
30,400 words

This is how Tony fixed the team and the damage he’d done, and in the process learned how to start fixing himself. Well, maybe the latter might take a little help from Steve.

Bucky/Tony
108,855 words

Six months before ‘I am Iron Man’, a man is left in an alley with nothing but his clothes, a first name, and a missing left arm. James doesn’t remember anything, but he picks himself up and tries to navigate the lost pieces of his life anyway.

Six months after ‘I am Iron Man’, Tony is falling apart. Pressure from Capital Hill, stress about the Expo, PTSD from Obadiah and Afghanistan and a blood toxicity monitor reading 19% has Tony tipping over into a nervous breakdown, so one day he runs away and tries to get lost, hoping to find some peace.

Tony and James meet as strangers but with Tony crossing things off his bucket list and James having nothing to lose, what starts as an offer to fix James’s arm quickly escalates into more.

Through Monaco, the Expo, and a birthday party, Tony and James learn that getting Lost can lead to being Found in incredible ways, but James doesn’t know about the palladium and Tony isn’t ready to admit they have an expiration date.

With time almost up, is Tony ready to say goodbye? And what happens when a Captain from James’s past shows up and calls him ’Bucky’?

Steve/Tony
3,669 words

Suddenly, he's soaking - someone just threw a fucking water bomb or something, and it's not a big deal, it shouldn't be a big deal-

But for some reason, it is.

Bucky/Tony
32,894 words

After coming home from the war, Bucky has a hard time piecing his life back together. He has friends and a home, but it all feels suffocating enough to send him running, hoping to find something worth living for.

With Obadiah's betrayal hanging around his shoulders, Tony moves to the country, where he becomes a small-time mechanic with a secret workshop in the basement, trying to figure out how to go on from almost having lost everything.

Neither of them is quite sure where home is anymore. When they meet, they both think themselves broken. Maybe all they need is someone who understands them to build something new.

Steve/Tony
1,669 words

Something I wrote awhile back for the prompt 'one day Tony emerges from his workshop and realizes, for the first time in his life, he’s surrounded by people. By friends who like him for him rather than his money. He’s only really had Rhodey and Pepper (and JARVIS and the bots) before. Cue panic.'

Steve/Tony
41,340 words

Tony rebuilds, modifies. Takes fragments and gives them new order. He does not create. He can’t, not anymore. Not after this.

Or: After the events of Ultron, Tony rebuilds the tower by himself and shuts everything out to the point that Pepper takes desperate measures and asks Steve to come and help.

Steve/Tony
8,794 words

“I tire of this,” Amora says, and with a casual gesture the entire team is pinned in place, frozen in mid-air. Steve has the unsettling, half-familiar feeling of someone rifling through his head like it’s a card catalogue. A mind-reader as well as a witch, then.

A female voice whispers into his mind’s ear. It’s very tragic in here, dearheart, but I think your armored friend is, somehow, more psychically toxic than even you.

What’s wrong with Tony? Steve thinks, but the presence is gone, leaving his memories of war stirred up like flying insects rising off a lake in at dawn.

The Enchantress opens Tony's mind to anyone and everyone near him. Steve knows he should let Tony keep his secrets, but he's not noble enough to stay away.