15 Things to Do in NYC If You’ve Been Stuck in an Ice Berg for 70 Years – gogglor
Steve/Tony
39,835 words
Tony and Steve can't stand each other, but they agree for the sake of the team and the people that rely on them that they have to figure out a way to get along. So they come up with a plan to spend time together, in the form of a Buzzfeed listicle of things to do in New York City.
Because if you go to enough museums with the guy you can't stand, you should *eventually* stop hating him, right?
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Come for the slow burn, stay for everyone's opinions on Cats the musical and a story about teenage Tony stealing an ice cream truck in an attempt to get laid.
enemies to friends to lovers, mutual pining, series, slow burn
and you needed someone to show you the way – Chapter 1 – SailorChibi – The Avengers (Marvel Movies) [Archive of Our Own]
Bucky/Steve/Tony
24,421 words
Tony knows what the team really thinks of him. It's a delicate balance: they tolerate him because of his money and his toys, and he gets to stay on the team and fight with them. He's okay with that. So long as he hides the fact that Steve's and Bucky's names are written on his skin in the most embarrassing act of one-sided love affection ever, everything will be fine.
It just figures that a fantastically stupid villain, a kidnapping plot and a video camera will bring Tony's well-kept secret out into the open.
au: soulmates/soulmarks, hurt/comfort, kidnapping, series
Being Stubborn – Potrix
Steve/Tony, pre-Steve/Bucky/Tony
7,027 words
Tony is no stranger to people disliking him on sight, hating him with or without reason, but with Steve it’s different. There’s something about Steve, an invisible pull that draws Tony in, makes it impossible for Tony to take the easy way out.
He craves the confrontations with Steve, looks forward to them with an almost perverse glee, his head heavy and foggy with want. Tony wants, he needs. Wants it from Steve, needs it from Steve.
Whatever it is. Tony isn’t sure yet, but he’s determined to find out, no matter what. No backing down.
au: a/b/o, au: soulmates/soulmarks, series, sick fic
breathe me in – imperialstark
Steve/Tony
2,371 words (plus sequel)
After yet another near death experience, Tony Stark has a new perspective on life and how short it is. While trying to make amends with Steve Rogers, he gets far more than either of them bargained for.
kink: exhibitionism, series
Half Agony, Half Hope – Annie D (scaramouche)
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.
breaking up & making up, canon divergence, mutual pining, panic attacks, PTSD, series
Hellooo Nurse – themthere_taterthings
Bucky/Steve/Tony
6,853 words
Steve and Bucky are magnets for trouble and keep getting hurt in crazy ways. Tony is the ER nurse who is constantly treating them. One of them is always hitting on Tony, who's more than a little confused by the attention.
au: doctors/nurses/paramedics, au: no powers, hurt/comfort, series
I Can Weather the Storm – RiotFalling
Bucky/Tony
7,380 words + sequels
Bucky breaks something he shouldn’t have in an arctic ice shrine.
Good thing he makes an adorable Yeti-man, and Tony loves him in any shape or size.
au: monsters, established relationship, kink: monsterfucking, kink: size difference, kink: temperature play, series
It Gnaws Me Through – ToAStranger
Poly!Avengers
19,281 words
And in his heart, there grows a garden.
canon divergence, hurt/comfort, series
It’s All in the Mind – inukagome15
Steve/Tony
22,998 words
Tony is 100% normal. Tony is not a mutant. Tony is Iron Man. Tony is an Avenger. Tony...is just fooling himself.
alternate universe, hurt/comfort, series
Keep Boredom at Bay – KandiSheek
Steve/Tony
76,396 words
One slip of the thumb means that Tony just texted a picture of his dick to Captain America instead of his casual hookup. Which is just as well because the guy hates him anyways.
It's certainly the weirdest way he's ever managed to break the ice.
canon divergence, epistolary, kink: phone sex/sexting, series, texting
Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be – iam93percentstardust
Steve/Tony
72,556 words
Famed director Phil Coulson brings Shakespeare’s beloved play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to Broadway. This production though comes with a twist: a brief but passionate love affair between the faerie king, Oberon, and his attendant, Puck. In the roles of the two star-crossed lovers, Coulson casts America’s darling Steve Rogers, fresh off his third Academy Award, and Broadway royalty, Tony Stark. Steve quickly finds himself falling for the quick-witted and sarcastic actor but Tony is dating the stage manager. Unwilling to come between the seemingly happy couple, Steve steps back but all isn’t right behind the scenes and Tony may need him when everything falls apart.
au: actors, au: no powers, series
Me through Him to You – sahiya
Steve/Bucky/Tony
18,438 words
“You’re sick, you need someone to look after you. This mission could take a couple of days, and I want you in one piece when I get home.”
Tony sighed. “Why do you care?”
Steve’s mouth twisted unhappily. “I hope that’s the fever talking.” He stepped closer. “When I get home,” he said, so quietly that Tony didn’t think even the nosiest of their nosy friends could hear it, “we’re going to talk, all right? Until then, please let Bucky look after you. Consider it me looking after you, through him.”
hurt/comfort, series, sick fic
Meeting the Monsters – itsallAvengers
Steve/Tony
23,333 words
Tony's at public school with kids his age for the first time in seventeen years, and he is determined that this year is gonna be his year. He's going to make friends. He's going to be popular. People will like him.
Unsurprisngly, none of that actually happens.
He does sort-of-maybe fall in love with a vampire in his class that everyone is terrified of, though. So... there's that.
au: high school, au: monsters, au: no powers, mutual pining, series
Not a Breakup – Annie D (scaramouche)
Steve/Tony
33,525 words
Tony knew it was a bad idea to start sleeping with Steve. It could mess up team dynamics, make things even more awkward between them in the future, or just plain get in the way of their trying to save the world. Tony foresaw all of the above but not the advent of feelings, and at the most inopportune moment.
feelings realization, friends with benefits, misunderstandings, series
Stick With Me, Baby, I’m the Fella You Came in With – Annie D (scaramouche)
Steve/Tony
10,660 words
During the final battle with Ultron, Tony kisses Steve for the first time. Afterward, he makes it clear to Steve that he was just running on adrenaline and not thinking clearly. Steve seems to accept it, but the kiss nudges open a door of possibilities, and the situation escalates.
first kiss, getting together, series
Stuck in a… – Annie D (scaramouche)
Steve/Tony
13,005 words
Steve gets into a serum-enhanced rut. Tony figures that there’d be a long list of people who’d volunteer to help Steve out, but there’s only one person Steve wants.
au: a/b/o, getting together, hurt/comfort, kink: heat/rut, kink: knotting, pwp, series
Tensile Strength – sahiya
Steve/Tony
21,225 words
Tensile strength is the resistance of a material to breaking under pressure. Spider web has a greater tensile strength than steel.
But everything has its limits. And between Spiderman, the SAT's, and dealing with the fallout from the soul stone, Peter has run smack into his. Cue Tony's shitty immune system and the fact that he maaaaybe hasn't told Peter yet that he and Steve are a thing, and we have ourselves a party.
anxiety, hurt/comfort, kidfic, series, sick fic
The Evidence – StrivingArtist
Bucky/Tony
16,692 words
Didn’t notice. Right. Sure. Two brilliant minds, two super spies, and a god didn’t notice when the chattiest man they knew stopped making sound. They just seemed happier than before. Brighter and more cheerful than before. They just seemed like they were more comfortable with him around when he was stone silent.
Fuck it.
He knew they noticed.
And he knew they liked him better this way.
depression/mental illness, hurt/comfort, mute character, series
the slowest runner in all the world – silkspectred
Steve/Tony
2,884 words
Tony was pregnant in Siberia. Steve didn't know.
au: a/b/o, depression/mental illness, kink: mpreg, series
The Trial Run – Annie D (scaramouche)
Steve/Tony
13,879 words
Tony and Steve pretend to date, and enjoy it far more than they should.
fake relationships, friends to lovers, series, slow burn
Three Days, One Week, and a Lifetime – swtalmnd
Bucky/Steve/Tony
121,464 words
Bucky and Steve work at a coffee shop. Tony meets them when they actually make his insanely caffeinated order. Sparks fly and pants drop. 50% Actual Porn, 40% Schmoop, 10% clothes & coffee porn.
au: coffee shop, au: no powers, au: soulmates/soulmarks, kink: Dom/sub, PTSD, series
Time Falls Away – NotEvenCloseToStraight
Bucky/Tony
79,451 words
The Battle of New York: Tony flies himself and the nuke through the wormhole and when his suit shuts down and he starts to fall, he knows he's going to die.
But then he wakes up in an alley in Brooklyn, two strangers staring down at him in confusion and Tony is sure he is dreaming when he shakes hands first with pre-serum Steve Rogers, and then Bucky Barnes.
Trapped in 1942, Tony befriends Steve, and falls in love with Bucky but America is at war, and Bucky and Steve ship out to join the cause.
Tony knows all the stories about the Howling Commandos and knows what’s coming for the soldiers, and has to live through history as first Bucky falls, and then Steve disappears.
Tony is left alone in the 40's, crying himself to sleep in the house he had shared with his best friend and his lover.
But then he wakes up on the pavement in New York, the Hulk roaring in his face, Steve staring down at him, and he has to wonder if it was all a hallucination.
When Tony fell through the sky, did he fall through time as well? Why does Steve act so cold towards him? Were he and Bucky really that happy together?
Did it all really happen, or is Tony in love with a life he can only have in his dreams?
series, time travel
5 Times Tony took care of an Avenger and 1 Time they took care of him (whether or not he liked it) – QueenOfALotOfDifferentWorlds
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.
hurt/comfort, mutual pining, panic attacks, series, sick fic
Acceptance – orphan_account
Bucky/Steve/Tony
7,193 words
Tony has always had two soulmates. It’s not entirely unheard of sometimes soulmates die or you get a soulmate who was born in a different generation. With the ever-changing future sometimes, people found their soulmates and ended up with all of them. The point was the fact that tony had Two soulmates wasn’t weird. It was weird how fucking much the marks looked like the handwriting of dead men.
au: soulmates/soulmarks, series
After Midnight – justanotherpipedream
Bucky/Steve/Tony
21,811 words
Tony is content living his perfectly normal life, with his perfectly normal job. He has his bots, his friends and his average sized apartment, what more could he ask for? Of course that's when a demon shows up on his door, asking to make a deal.
What kind of demon goes by the name of 'Bucky' anyways?
Apparently, someone's been capturing demons and forcing them into familiars against their will. Bucky was concerned that's what happened to his demon friend and sometimes lover, Steve. Bucky, with a reluctant Tony's help, work together to figure out what's been happening to the demons all around the city.
au: fantasy, series
And still we prevail – StarkDusted
Bucky/Tony
37,885 words
Yeah, no, fuck this, Tony would like a refund thank you, 110% would not prefer to die today, die, die like mom and dad who were dead back in that car-
December 16th, 1991.
It's an important day for HYDRA. The acquisition of the means to create several more soldiers for their cause- and the day that Anthony Edward Stark falls into their hands. The handler likes to think of it as the day of birth for their second greatest asset.
amnesia, canon divergence, hurt/comfort, kidnapping, PTSD, series
Brought Together – Era_Penn
Gen
2,231 words + sequels
Tony was not a team player, and he knew it. He was loud and obnoxious and self-centered, and he had done more harm than good in his life. He didn't deserve to have anyone watching his back, but he felt like maybe they deserved to have him watching theirs. So, when he saw the sad, sorry living conditions of the other Avengers, he couldn't help but help them.
domesticity, fluff, found family, hurt/comfort, series
Cracked Hearts Under Iron Ribs – XtaticPearl
Steve/Tony
14,833 words
Rhodey is away for almost six months now and comes to meet Tony after the mission. He doesn't understand the domesticity of the whole Tower and unknowingly sets off a whole truck of insecurities which make Tony crawl back into being a Stark instead of just Tony. The team is not at all happy and Rhodey joins them in trying to figure out a way to help their resident genius feel better in his skin.
domesticity, established relationship, series
Did it hurt when you fell? – bonksoundeffect
Bucky/Tony
2,100 words
HEIGHT DIFFERENCE AUS (let's be honest, rdj/tony stark is a short cinnamon bun)
“You were trying to reach for a box of cereal and a whole shelf’s-worth of cereal boxes fell on you here let me help”
au: no powers, meet-cute, PTSD, series
Electric Storm – manic_intent
Thor/Tony
4,947 words
[An AU where Tony has Storm's powers, is part of the X-men, and can't seem to stop repeatedly being grounded. ] The incident, Tony would later tell the Professor in his defence, was the fault of sheer logical causality.
series
even when you lie, even when you hide (you mean everything to me) – AceofWands
Bucky/Steve/Tony
30,295 words
All these years he’d wondered, that little childish part of him that loved his mother’s stories, what his soulmate was going to be like. Even as his father made sure he knew there were more important things he had to accomplish, told him over and over that he’d be better off without a soulmate at all – to the point where Tony had wondered if maybe he’d be one of those people whose soulmate had died young - he’d secretly hoped and wondered if he’d be one of the lucky ones.
And now he knew.
His father had been right all along.
Tony had two soulmates, who already knew each other.
He decided then and there that he was never, ever going to tell them he existed.
And then he woke up in a cave in Afghanistan.
au: soulmates/soulmarks, hurt/comfort, series
For You – Ilearnedtoreadforthis
Steve/Tony
30,240 words
Tony Stark and Steve Rogers were college sweethearts, until Tony suddenly broke up with Steve. Five years later, a chance encounter brings Steve back into Tony's life, but Tony's kept a major secret from him.
au: a/b/o, au: no powers, breaking up & making up, kidfic, kink: mpreg, series
going on a ride – theappleppielifestyle
Steve/Tony
6,363 words
"You want to take me for a ride on your motorcycle," Tony repeats, slow so he can process it as he’s saying it, "because you think my glasses are cute."
au: high school, series
Hot Summer Nights – tonystarkssnipples
Steve/Tony
8,557 words
Tony moves into the apartment directly across the street from Steve. Their windows face each other and there's a small piece of roof jutting out between them, connecting in the middle. As the summer goes on, they find themselves crawling out their windows to spend more and more time together.
au: high school, series
Impulse – AlchemyAlice
Bucky/Tony
3,629 words
Bucky is found by SHIELD. Tony wants a project. They meet somewhere in the middle.
series
It Only Hurts (When I Breathe) – Ocean_Born_Mary
Steve/Tony
6,290 words
Tony could see the mass of scar tissue built up around the reactor, could see the little pieces of shrapnel in his lungs, and he wondered, even now, how he was able to Not-Breathe so well with his heart and his ribs and his lungs all squished out of place.
found family, hurt/comfort, PTSD, series, sick fic
It’s Not Cosmetic – withasideofangst
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.
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Although, it's less easy to keep a secret identity with a bunch of superheroes and spies living in your house.
canon divergence, hurt/comfort, misunderstandings, PTSD, secret identities, series
Love Is In The Air – JehBeeEh
Steve/Tony
3998 words
Steve quickly found his seat once he got on the plane and reached up to put his carry-on in the overhead bin. He was one of the last people to get on the plane, and he noticed the seat next to him was empty. This flight was definitely looking up. As he was about to take his seat though, he heard a vaguely familiar voice next to him.
“Excuse me? I’m so sorry to bother you with this, but would you mind helping me get my carry-on up there? The angle is just awkward from here, and you have a definite height advantage which’ll make things go a bit faster. Plus, I may have over packed a bit, and it weighs a ton, which I’m sorry in advance for, but judging by the size of your biceps and shoulders – not that I was staring or anything, but you look like you work out, yeah? – you will handle it in a much better fashion than I could.”
Steve, on the other hand, was definitely staring now. Because when he’d turned, he was looking at Tony Stark.
au: no powers, meet-cute, series
Love Like Winter – swtalmnd
Bucky/Tony, eventual Bucky/Steve/Tony
5,906 words
Tony wasn't sure what he'd expected when he chased the bright spark of an idea down into his workshop in the middle of the night, but it certainly wasn't the warm slide of Bucky Barnes' arms around his waist from behind.
The Winter Soldier wants Tony. Tony consents all over the place, and then eats Steve's waffles for breakfast.
getting together, series
Love’s Such an Old-Fashioned Word – Annie D (scaramouche)
Steve/Tony
11,167 words
Steve gets the very brilliant idea that he and Tony should date, but Tony needs some convincing.
fluff, getting together, series
Put Away Childish Things – arsenicarcher (Arsenic)
Poly!Avengers
36,423 words
Tony and Clint are captured by villains who can only get what they want from a child-Tony. So, obviously, they de-age him. Because comics.
de-aging, hurt/comfort, kidfic, series
Some Things Shouldn’t Be a Chore – scifigrl47
Steve/Tony
22,187 words
Steve takes things like personal responsibility and respect seriously. Tony's got people he pays to take care of that kind of thing, and anyway, he's pretty sure that he's going to die of some exotic disease in his workshop, because Dummy's still a little spotty about what is 'clean' enough to put on an open wound. The rest of the Avengers are in this for personal gain, except for Clint, he just enjoys being a dick.
And some things shouldn't be a chore.
domesticity, fluff, humor, series
Somebody Get Me a Doctor – FestiveFerret
Steve/Tony
5,631 words
A blinking reminder in the corner of Tony’s screen robbed him of most of his attention for the day. Doctor’s Appointment, it said, helpfully, three pm.
au: doctors/nurses/paramedics, au: no powers, kink: medical, kink: sounding, pwp, series
Standard Deviation – jennagrins, karengrins
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.
au: college, au: no powers, series
The Soldier And The Hurricane – copperbadge
Bucky/Tony
18,899 words
When the Winter Soldier fails to kill Howard and Maria Stark and is taken prisoner in the summer of 1967, his salvation comes in the unlikely form of a Russian-speaking, father-disobeying, endlessly-tinkering seventeen-year-old: Tony Stark.
alternate universe, series
Tony Stark, Fairy Godbillionaire – RoseRose
Bucky/Steve/Tony
7,618 words
Tony Stark receives an invitation to Steve and Bucky's wedding. He has absolutely no idea who they are. For their chutzpah, he decides to pay for everything for their wedding- and hop into the planning to make sure they get the best of the best.
They end up falling in love.
au: no powers, domesticity, fluff, found family, series, weddings/proposals
What is grief… – iam93percentstardust
Steve/Tony
12,593 words + sequel
They loved each other, right? That was all that mattered. They loved each other; they made each other happy. There was no need to worry about the odd occurrences that kept happening like the phantom laughter Tony sometimes heard or the glass bowl Steve dropped and forgot about or the strange friendship between Wanda and Agnes... right?
au: no powers, fake relationships, series
What Makes Us Human – IraBragi
Bucky/Steve/Tony
11,414 words
One day he glanced across the breakfast table and realized that he loved them. These two alphas who were good and righteous, who made him want to be someone who could deserve their love.
He didn’t make it to the toilet before he threw up everything in his stomach.
au: a/b/o, courting, series