Fiction Recs

Steve/Tony
13,155 words

After Obadiah's betrayal, Tony hides in the depths of the Midwest to become a mechanic.

The Avengers come into his life anyway.

Steve/Tony
44,890 words

In the ever raging war between the Kree and the Skrull staying on top of events is important.
When the Kree Starforce notices the assembly of a handful of people with superhuman abilities, they decide to send a spy to Earth. Commander Tony's mission is clear: screen them, assess them and acquire the most skilled for his Starforce Unit.

But when Tony starts to realize he is watching their leader Steve for more than a purely professional reason things get complicated and Tony's secret identity becomes more and more of an obstacle.

Steve/Tony
10,814 words

This was just supposed to be a once-in-a-while cat sitting gig to get Tony back on his feet. It wasn't supposed to be weeks on end at an amazing apartment, it wasn't supposed to be mysterious locked rooms, it wasn't supposed to be masked men in the middle of the night.

And it definitely wasn't supposed to be falling head over heels in love.

Steve/Tony
34,684 words

Tony Stark had a secret identity long before he became Iron Man.

Following his parents' deaths, Tony was desperate for some privacy from the press. So he and Hank came up with a way for Tony to be two people at once. Which was fine, until Afghanistan and then his second identity had a name - Iron Man - and then there was New York and the Avengers and Steve Rogers. Then he discovers his crush on Steve is requited and he’s juggling two identities and a relationship, while working with Hank and Hope to figure out if Jan is alive. And then there's whatever Darren Cross is up to with the Pym Particles.

Steve/Tony
14,577 words

Steve woke up six months ago into a future that leaves him indifferent. There is work, and not much else. His current mission is a basic search and rescue operation to retrieve an American who was kidnapped by a terrorist group ten days ago. He won't let the fact that the hostage is Howard's son be a distraction.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
3,791 words

Just because Iron Man is the only guide who can actually pull Bucky and Steve out of a zone, doesn't mean that Tony has to tell them who he is.

Steve/Tony
62,140 words

After being thawed, Steve's adrift in the 21st century. There's nothing for him here, just the endless cycle of pre-packaged food, pointless training exercises, and long hours at the gym. But when he takes on a new project, it leads him to a new friend - one who might open up all kinds of new doors, new feelings, new experiences. Or might just break his heart.

Bucky/Tony
25,364 words

After saving Steve from the Potomac river, Bucky Barnes disappears into the Costa Rican mountainside intent on staying off the radar. He only interacts with society for reconnaissance and surveillance - to make sure his tail is clear.

Then he stumbles into a chat room.

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
57,459 words

Fourteen-year-old Tony Stark finds Captain America's broken radio in his father's safe and decides to repair it. It works, because of course it does, he fixed it, after all, and he gets to talk to a group of soldiers who can't share much about what they are doing, which is fine by Tony because while it is true that he is technically a student at MIT, he maybe wasn't entirely upfront about everything. This presents a problem when he develops feelings--okay, fine, a massive crush--on one of the soldiers.

Bucky/Tony
45,570 words

There were moments where Bucky wondered what could have made Iron Man, possibly his best friend here in the future, sarcastic and gentle and funny and caring, hate Tony Stark so much. Moments where he wondered what Tony Stark, who could manage to be kind and generous to the assassin who had murdered his parents, could have done to Iron Man. But he never dared to ask, afraid of the answer.

Bucky/Tony
5,386 words

Bucky had learned early on that life had a way of going to shit on very short notice. As a kid, that had meant running around and goofing off with Stevie only for an asthma attack to come out of seemingly nowhere. During the war, it meant creeping through the wilderness or a town or a base only for bullets to start flying. One minute you could be fighting back to back with your best friend, the next you could be falling to the bottom of a snowy chasm. That was just life.

Steve/Tony
41,095 words

How do you date a robot? Even the twenty-first century doesn't have the answers to every question. Steve will have to figure this one out for himself -- after he politely rebuffs Mr. Stark's interest, of course. Sure, Mr. Stark is handsome, but Steve would rather be with his bodyguard. So when Iron Man agrees to go on a date with Steve, Steve couldn't be happier. He loves Iron Man with all of his heart, and their relationship rapidly grows serious. But why does Mr. Stark hate Iron Man so much? And why in the world is Mr. Stark trying to tear Steve and Iron Man apart?

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.

Steve/Tony
40,778 words

After what happened in New York the Avengers with the help of Tony Stark are trying to become more independent. The team has grown together and for Steve Iron Man is a big part of that, although he has some trouble getting along with his employer. Then Steve faces a bit of a mystery when Tony Stark gets kidnapped – and Iron Man, who is supposed to be the man's bodyguard when he's not an Avenger, is nowhere to be found.

Bruce/Tony
15,281 words

In an AU, instead of taking out Tony's arc-reactor, Obadiah Stane kidnapped Tony, faked his death in a "lab accident", imprisoned him, and forced him to design weapons for Stane.

Bruce is going about his day hacking Stark Industries to learn more about the Hulkbuster weapons when he comes across some discrepancies in the code--subtle things, like inefficient loops in otherwise streamlined code, bizarre variable names, or incorrect comments.

Intrigued, he goes through all the code of SI's weapons industry, comes up with a pattern, and finds the messages Tony has been hiding in the code.

And then he goes and busts Tony out. Lots of badassery, including on Tony's part--he may be defeated, but he's not broken.

Steve/Tony
194,400 words

When the mysterious group of vigilante assassins known only as 'The Avengers' are tipped off about the dirty secrets that lie within Stark Industries, Steve Rogers has his heart set on taking out Tony Stark for good in order to protect the rest of the world from his evil. He's seen the footage, after all- Stark is a man who fights only for himself. And of course, when a job arises as chief bodyguard for Stark, to protect him from the growing threat of an ominously infatuated stalker, the opportunity is way too good for him to miss out on. It's the perfect placement, and the perfect way to find out whether or not their tipoff is genuine.

But as Steve falls into rank as the new bodyguard for Mr. Stark and he spends time getting to know and protect him, his initial hatred begins to falter and merge into something different, something far more terrifying than the prospect of killing the face of Stark Industries.

Steve Rogers may just be falling in love with him instead.

Steve/Tony
5,478 words

The Avengers have rescued Tony, captured and drugged by AIM. Since, for some strange reason, Iron Man isn't around, Steve offers to sit with Tony as he comes up out of sedation. Mostly Tony just wants to tell Steve he loves him; it's nothing Steve can't handle, and mostly Steve just wishes Tony meant it the same way he did. But then Tony wants to talk about several things he shouldn't know, and Steve learns that sometimes the truth really is that simple.

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?”

Steve/Tony
60,811 words

It’s been almost a year since Tony was rescued from the Ten Rings by SHIELD. In this time, Tony has forged a new path for Stark Industries and taken on a new under-the-radar role as a consultant for SHIELD. Tony’s SHIELD job eventually brings him into contact with the newest Captain America, who’s a pretty cool guy, though for security reasons Tony can’t know his real name or see his face without the Captain America mask. This is also about the time that Tony notices a certain Mr. Stevens, a new hire in SI’s corporate office...

Steve/Tony
16,000 words

Wherein, Steve's love of Tony's ass prevents Civil War and saves the universe from the Snap. Seriously.

Bucky/Tony
89,533 words

For years, Tony had successfully kept his secret. Neither the world nor his team knew he was Iron Man and as far as he was concerned, everyone was better off that way. On his best days, Tony Stark was not someone people liked and trusted, so the last thing Tony wanted was to tarnish Iron Man’s good reputation by revealing the truth.

But then SHIELD falls, the Avengers face disarray, and a stray Hydra assassin forces Tony to go into hiding—and where better than the safe house he had just crafted for the Avengers and their own ex-assassin ready to come in from the cold?

Tony plans to hide away from everyone in his makeshift workshop until the coast is clear and he’s safe to go home. No one would care to spend any time with the reclusive, arrogant billionaire anyways, right? Iron Man is the one everyone wants around.

Bucky Barnes, on his own journey to reclaim his life and identity, seems to disagree with that sentiment.

Bucky/Tony
23,793 words

Shadow and Iron have been online gaming friends for years but never met.

Bucky Barnes just got a temporary contract to work at Stark Industries and he absolutely hates his new boss.

The two have a lot more in common than originally thought.

Steve/Tony
57,041 words

Steve didn't like Tony Stark.

Stark probably didn't like Steve, either. They'd gotten off on the wrong foot, and that was putting it mildly.

And having to pretend to be a civilian Stark was dating, as cover for trying to save Stark's life while Iron Man was busy with a SHIELD mission, obviously wasn't going to help.

Bucky/Tony
31,236 words

When Tony decides to personally answer tech support queries to find ways to improve the next Stark Phone, the last thing he expects is to grow weirdly attached to one of the callers. The man is clearly not accustomed to modern technology, but his determination to get better is both admirable and adorable, and Tony can't help prolonging their conversations. Before he knows it, they're exchanging numbers.

Talking to James — be it over texts or the phone — soon becomes the highlight of Tony's day and he might just be falling in love, though he tries his best to deny it. He knows nothing can happen — not while James thinks Tony is just some random tech guy at Stark Industries rather than the man who owns the entire company. And, as if that wasn't enough, there's also Iron Man and the Avengers to consider. Tony would have to reveal everything before a relationship with James would be possible, but he's not sure how to do that without also risk scaring him away.

It therefore comes as quite a surprise when Tony finds out that James has been keeping similar secrets of his own.

Steve/Tony
26,511 words

Tony's decision not to reveal his identity as Iron Man to the world was shrewd and calculated. Too bad it's about to backfire on him like a Jericho missile.

Bucky/Tony
14,026 words

Iron Man is not exactly a super-villain, he's just doing his best to save the world, and his methods are questionable, okay? Doing what's right isn't always easy. Tony's come to grips with that.

And it all works out fine until Hydra comes recruiting and then maybe a little help would be nice. He just doesn't expect that help to come in the form of the Winter Soldier (who happens to be the one person in the world who knows Tony's secret identity) and the Avengers (who really need to catch up.)

Basically all the identity porn.

Steve/Bucky/Tony
26,893 words

The vigilante Iron Man is in the habit of showing up at a fight and disappearing again when it's done, whether the Avengers want his help or not. Steve has had more than enough of it, which is why, when Bucky finally manages to get him with a tracker before he flies off, Steve isn't going to let little things like a broken leg, an overprotective boyfriend, and a mysterious satellite deadzone get in the way of tracking him down.

Their - okay, fine, Steve's - truck breaking down on them might be a bit more of an obstacle, but at least the mechanic they've found, a guy called Tony, is nice enough to put them up - or should that be put up with them? - for a few nights while he works on repairing it.

Steve/Tony
35,216 words

No one knows Tony is Iron Man. Then Tony gets amnesia, and literally no one knows Tony is Iron Man.

Steve/Tony
48,559 words

Young Tony Stark is forced to marry Captain America.

It is either the best or worst thing to happen to him.

Spoiler: It’s for the best, mostly. 🙂

Bucky/Tony
10,104 words

When Bucky Barnes is found and brought back to the Avengers mansion, Tony just wants to help. The more questions he asks, though, the more his team seems to pull away from him. At least Iron Man and the Winter Soldier are getting along.

Steve/Tony
16,500 words

This Thank You Fic request was for a blind date AU where Pepper and Natasha set them up. I went with the premise that Tony never revealed himself as Iron Man and no one knows Captain America's true identity, so double identity porn, whee!!!

Steve/Tony
11,427 words

Tony gets kidnapped from his Stark Industries office. Steve gets taken with him. But AIM doesn't know they've mistaken Captain America for a simple security guy – and nobody knows Tony is Iron Man... Life is complicated.

Bucky/Tony
1,984 words

No one knows who Iron Man is, other than the bodyguard of the Avengers' main benefactor, Tony Stark. Bucky figures out the secret but not quite in the way you might think.

Steve/Tony
30,547 words

Thinking that he's been caught out, Tony confesses that he's Iron Man - at least that's what he thinks he's doing. Steve hears something very different. Date night, sexy-fun times, and a jumble of errors as Tony tries to fix his mistake results, all compounded by a mysterious enemy who's been hacking into SI servers.

Steve/Tony
17,113 words

“Tony,

I’ve completed the background check on Steven Rogers, and there’s something big you need to know. Like, massive security-threat level big.

I’m sorry, sugar. He’s bad news.”

—⎊—

or: A corporate espionage story told solely through excerpts from CEO Tony Stark’s inbox. Featuring romantic pining, delightful office lunches, sarcastic super-geniuses, intense investigations, revolutionary nanotechnology research, unhinged arch-nemeses, haunting ghosts from the past, and an endearing emoji overload by a witty Peter Parker.

Bucky/Tony
13,654 words

Tony Stark is happily married to his husband Bucky Barnes...he just hasn't quite managed to tell Bucky that he's a secret agent yet and he's really hoping that the Winter Soldier, an agent from another organization, doesn't manage to kill him before he can make it home for dinner.

Steve/Tony
7,845 words

Tony offers to help Steve woo the mysterious person he's apparently in love with.

Bucky/Tony
4,027 words

Tony thinks he has a pretty great life post-Iron Man. Riri's got everything nicely in hand, but he gets worried about Bucky. Bucky hates that he's keeping his Winter Soldier identity secret, but he thinks that he's in too deep to get out.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
5,310 words

“Iron Man likes this place?” Steve hisses at Bucky, his centuries-long witch-hunting partner and husband in all but name. “They’re using magic on humans.”

Which is illegal under the witch–human treaty their job is enforcing.

Steve would hate to shut down Iron Man’s favorite bar. For one thing, Iron Man will be less likely to date them. For another, they can’t ask the hot bartender, Tony, to bed in the interim if he’s in jail.

Steve/Tony
9,750 words

Steve accidentally finds out that Tony Stark is Iron Man. He methodically and hypothetically works through what to do about it.

Gen
5,092 words

Tony has a secret. He has kept it for years with no problem, but that is suddenly much harder when he is sharing his Tower with superspies, a scientist, a supersoldier, and a god. The inevitable injuries and absences are hard to hide, and he is sure they are starting to see a pattern. It’s only a matter of time before they confront him with the fact that he is…

No. Wait. That’s not his secret.

Bucky/Tony
13,589 words

In a world where people see through the eyes of their soulmates when they sleep, Tony Stark's dreams send him off the edge.

Rhodey/Tony
1,736 words

James Rhodes is Iron Man. It makes the secret identity less confusing, and if you asked Tony, he'd say that Jim was better at it anyways.

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
32,997 words

After Afghanistan and Iron Man, SHIELD gave Tony a choice. He could out himself as Iron Man, or claim it was a bodyguard, and hide his face from the world.

Agent Agent never said anything, but Tony had hacked SHIELD's servers and knew they wanted him to go the bodyguard route. Yes to Iron Man and no to Tony Stark, and all that.

That, as well as keeping Pepper safe, made him go with the bodyguard cover, and flimsy as he thought it was, no one questioned it.

Of course, why would they? Tony Stark was no superhero.

---

Although, it's less easy to keep a secret identity with a bunch of superheroes and spies living in your house.

Bucky/Tony
1,380 words

“Nice to finally meet you in person," Bucky said. "If you’re anything like you were over text, I think we’ll get along just fine.”

“More or less,” Tony shrugged playfully. “Just with a little more murder.”

Something dark passed over Bucky’s face, there and gone in an instant. “Murder?” he asked.

“I’m a mystery writer,” Tony explained, hands waving. “That’s why my search history was so bizarre, you know? Gotta do my research and all that. What do you do?”

“I work in forensics,” Bucky replied after a beat.

Tony breathed out a sigh of relief. “Oh, good,” he said. “For a second there, I thought you were a serial killer or something.”

Steve/Tony
17,174 words

“I’m coming,” he mumbled as he pulled his helmet back on and replaced his gauntlets. Once more the faceless Iron Man, he turned on his heels and clunked out of the private room.

Yes, Tony Stark was a man of many secrets. And this was his biggest – he was Iron Man.

Loki/Tony
2,959 words

Hero fights villain, villain sets deadly trap, hero narrowly avoids their complete obliteration while maintaining banter—that is what Loki is used to. It’s almost routine by now, though an enjoyable one. The Man of Iron has always been far more clever than the others.

But why isn’t he getting up?

Bucky/Tony
13,688 words

In which officially Bucky and Iron Man are dating, unofficially Bucky knows Tony is Iron Man, officially no one else knows Tony is Iron Man, and unofficially Tony and Bucky are trolls.

Or, Steve and Natasha learn never to assume they know what's going on in Tony and Bucky's relationship.

Steve/Tony
11,048 words

Tony needed a bodyguard for his kids and Steve Rogers was the most recommended pick available. Even as Tony tries to be wary of him, the guy manages to worm his way into Tony's life and soon his heart. But Steve has a secret that might be something that even Tony with his Iron Man suit cannot handle easily.

Steve/Tony
53,732 words

A Soulmate AU where people meet their soulmate in their dreams. Of course, not even that solves all the world's problems, especially if one or more of the soulmates has a secret identity...

Bucky/Tony
19,587 words

“What,” Tony says softly but with a great depth of feeling, “the actual fuck just happened?”

“I believe, Sir,” JARVIS pipes up from the phone in his pocket, an unnecessary amount of what sounds like glee in his voice, “that you’ve once again managed to maintain your closely guarded secret identity. Truly your subterfuge skills know no bounds."

“You’re an asshole J,” Tony mutters back as he reaches up to rub at his temple. He either has a headache coming on or a blood clot. At this point he’s honestly not sure which he’d prefer.

"I did learn from the best, Sir,” JARVIS tells him sunnily.

Steve/Tony, Clint/Phil
194,998 words

Clint knows several facts to be true:
1. He will always look out for those who are his.
2. Steve loves Tony.
3. Tony loves Steve.
4. Tony is a civilian.
5. Iron Man is a villain.

But just because something is true does not mean it is the whole truth, the complete truth and nothing but the truth.
He doesn't know that yet.

Bucky/Tony
5,327 words

"I’m sure if there is anything to find, I’ll find it. I found you, didn’t I?”
“I’d say Iron Man’s the one who really found me, but you’re the man behind the machine, right?”
The way that was phrased, it almost sounded like James knew—no, that was impossible. If the rest of his teammates, who had all known both Iron Man and Tony for ages, couldn’t figure it out, how could James have figured it out so quickly? Tony was just being paranoid.

--

In which Tony's managed to keep the fact that he's Iron Man a secret from his teammates and the rest of the world for years. With that kind of track record, fooling Bucky should be easy. But Bucky isn't the Winter Soldier for nothing.

Bucky/Tony
44,792 words

Tony Stark is fine. Really, just peachy. Maybe a little lonely, and yeah, PTSD is a bitch but he's managing. But then Clint Barton signs him up for some help site that allows you to text people going through similar shit, and Captain America drags a hurting Bucky Barnes to the Tower. And everything changes. Tony starts to fall for the mysterious man he's been texting AND for the beautiful blue-eyed ex-assassin living in his home. Dealing with that, along with trying to deal with the two rather large secrets he's carrying, Tony Stark's life gets a lot more complicated, something he didn't really think was possible.

Bucky/Tony
9,987 words

One week ago, Captain America and the Winter Soldier left a broken Iron Man in a Siberian HYDRA bunker... Now they're standing in Tony Stark's living room with no idea he's the man they left behind.

Steve/Tony
11,975 words

Tony never became Iron Man – or an Avenger – but the Avengers were still put together to save the world from Loki. After the first battle the Avengers begin to receive help from an unknown source, guiding them during missions and in some cases keeping the team together. Fury wants the culprit caught while Steve feels they should thank him instead of putting him behind bars.

Steve/Tony
62,231 words

“Hi, Cap,” he said, and his lips did the involuntary stretching towards his ears, because they didn't seem to be informed of the new ‘we do not act like a besotted school boy around Steve’ policy. In fact, none of the organs below his brain seemed to be on board with it. His heart was thudding, his palms were sweating and it was all Tony could do to stop his feet from moving past the fridge and straight into Steve’s personal space.

I wonder what he would think if he knew what kind of messages I'm exchanging with random people over the Internet.

He'd probably be horrified.

*

“JARVIS?” he said into the empty kitchen.

“Yes, Captain Rogers?”

Potential responses began to mass in his mind. JARVIS, I’m an idiot. JARVIS, this crush is getting out of hand. JARVIS, can you imagine any way, any possible way, Tony might be interested in me? JARVIS, some days I’m not sure if he even likes me. JARVIS, I think about him all the time. JARVIS, I’m ninety years old and I’m asking a computer program for advice on my love life. JARVIS, what should I do?

*
Tony puts out an ad. Steve answers it.

Steve/Tony
64,215 words

In a world where no one knows the identity of Iron Man, Tony Stark is the best thing since sliced bread, at least in the opinion of one Steve Rogers. He doesn't like to let anyone know that - especially not Tony - but one day it sort of slips out. Luckily it's only to his best friend, and Shellhead won't tell anyone. What could possibly go wrong?