Fiction Recs

Steve/Tony
29,625 words

Steve isn't looking for an apple and Tony decides his passion is to inspire young souls.

-x-

OR: the AU where Tony is a Youtuber and Steve is Captain America and somehow they still save the world together.

Bucky/Tony
19,014 words

In the aftermath of SHIELD's fall, Bucky remembers killing Howard and Maria Stark.
He owes their son an apology.

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
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/Tony
12,442 words

Tony's known for his one night stands, despite the way it does no good for his reputation. At one of the many parties he attends, he spots a figure in the crowd that shouldn't be there - James Buchanan Barnes, the Winter Soldier, Steve's old best friend. Curious, Tony pretends to have no idea who he is and treats him like he would any other good looking guest of the party. He flirts.

Surprisingly, Barnes flirts back. And while he doesn't go home with Tony, the next time they see each other they flirt again. And again.

It kind of becomes A Thing from there.

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.

Bucky/Tony
147,252 words

The fall of the first domino, the flap of a butterfly’s wings, or James Buchanan Barnes. Only a time traveler could hope to figure out which one of those things had the greatest cascade of impacts on history.

Good thing this story has one.

Bucky survives HYDRA’s experimentation just to get stuck in the future (of an alternate dimension) for a week. He’s supremely thankful for the warnings he got there, that prevented the ‘Winter Soldier’ from ever becoming one of his titles, and prevented Steve from earning the nickname “Cap-cicle”. He’s pretty sure he’s dodged both those bullets. Now he just has to make it far enough into the future to meet his alternate-future-self’s fella, and maybe help out with an alien invasion or two along the way. Piece of cake, right?

Bucky/Tony
18,067 words

Bucky wakes up to Steve telling him he's lost his memory, but not to panic, it'll only last a few days. Easier said than done when the last thing Bucky remembers is fighting Hydra with the Howlies in WWII.

He tries to make the most of it however, and there's this guy... Tony Stark. It's pretty clear the guy hates Bucky's guts, which is unfortunate because god damn is he a sight.

He tries to figure out what he did to wrong Stark, but everyone just tells him he doesn't want to know.

They were right.

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.

Bucky/Tony
6,705 words

It’s a Tuesday and Bucky’s sitting in the chest of a dead celestial, and that’s not even the weirdest thing happening on this Tuesday. No, even weirder than the fact his best friend and his boyfriend have apparently decided to take up residence inside the body of a dead alien is the fact that said boyfriend has apparently lost his mind.

“My dad wants to meet you,” Tony had announced not five seconds before.

What?

-

In which Bucky Barnes is not having his best week ever. And it's all Tony's fault.

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
16,426 words

All children, even genius ones, deserve a friend and when one of Tony Stark’s friends destroys his favorite toy, he decides that the friends he creates are better than the ones he meets. Inspired by his father’s stories about the Howling Commandos, he creates holographic versions of his childhood heroes. As he grows up, peerless and lonely, Tony continues to upgrade his holograms until they become fully-fledged AI, capable of moving around the tower and offering advice and above all, loving him.

This shouldn’t be a problem and it isn’t–until the Avengers move in.

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.

Bucky/Tony
79,864 words

The Winter Soldier and Tony Stark have run into each other many times over the years and, despite the brainwashing and the memory wipes, something about the genius just seems so familiar. It kind of makes the Soldier want to keep him safe.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
64,370 words

Fucking Asgardians.

Thanks to one of Thor's crazy stalkers, Tony finds himself stranded in the past. If he significantly changes the course of history, he might never get home again. The choice, when it appears, turns out to be not nearly as difficult as he might have expected.

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.

Steve/Tony
4,854 words

"It’s been two months," Steve says, voice low. "Rhodey- Colonel. It’s been two months.”

Steve/Tony
12,953 words

"Hold that thought," Tony said into his phone. "I apparently just got hit by a hitchhiker."
"You hit a hitchhiker?" Happy sounded horrified.
"What? Am I talking to a wall? I got hit by a hitchhiker."

Having just broken up with Pepper, Tony is driving to California on Christmas Eve. When he picks up a hitchhiker, he hardly expects him to be the former Captain America, defrosted and on the run from SHIELD.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
36,749 words

Steve and Bucky both have two soulmates. When Bucky falls, Steve goes into the ice not long after. He wakes up decades in the future and has a rough introduction to his other soulmate, Tony Stark.

Neither man seem too enthused about the revelation, and Steve is slightly surprised when Tony makes no demands of him or even uncovers his soulwords. Turns out, Stark doesn't think too highly of soulbonds. Still, they manage to work together and Steve comes to realize he might have misjudged Tony.

He's working up the nerve to try and make this more than a friendship when Bucky turns out to be alive. And not quite alone.

Or, Steve is jealous of cuddles and bed sharing, Tony has no expectations of his soulmates because his soulwords are extra crappy, Bucky is sharing his psyche with the Asset, and all of them are on a converging path to falling in love.

Poly!Avengers
19,281 words

And in his heart, there grows a garden.

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.

Steve/Tony
25,314 words

Post Avengers movie. Tony had figured that his life would go back to normal, or what passes as normal in Tony Stark's life, after the Chitauri Invasion - he was sadly mistaken. Fury isn't getting off his back about this whole team thing (never mind that most of his team mates are notable only through their absence), Pepper is dangerously close to a nervous breakdown due to his latest world-saving stunt (which really doesn't make his life any easier), terrorists have it out for him and the world by proxy, and Steve Rogers continues to defy all his expectations, somehow firmly inserting himself in Tony's life - all the while being ridiculously attractive and possibly the most oblivious person on the planet. Oh, and let's not forget the blue goo, there's blue goo, too. Sometimes Tony really hates his life.

Bucky/Tony
121,273 words

JARVIS announces, “Sir, Peter Parker is on his way up. Shall I direct him to the workshop?”

Tony has never sighed so much in his entire life. “Send him over.”

Peter appears moments later, face red and eyes frantic.

“Don’t tell me you webbed all the way here?”

“Mr. Stark, he’s dangerous!” Peter exclaims more than yells. “Have you heard what he can do with a potato peeler?”

or

How Tony totally meant to volunteer to be the Winter Soldier’s handler, you know, like on purpose (and not because he had been deliriously awake for 56 hours on a quest to put Fortnite into the grave before Fury had asked). This is obviously Pepper’s fault.

[MCU/AU where Tony became a S.H.I.E.L.D operative early in life, and paved a satisfying career of intrigue doing so.]

Bucky/Steve/Tony
253,827 words

Tony Stark REALLY hates magic with a passion. He knows it's got something to do with how his memories aren't quite as he remembers them. He knows Steve screwed him over and sent him that shitty apology with an even shittier phone. And he is pissed supposedly with no end in sight and no resolution to be had. And yet, he also has this other set of memories - One where he is madly in love with Steve...

Steve Rogers REALLY feels like things with Tony could've gone a lot better. So he stubbornly stays in the Avengers compound to try to set things to rights, vowing to repair his Avengers family and his friendship with Tony. And yet, his endgame is still to help Bucky get rid of the Winter Soldier programming - Help his first and the one true love of his life to find himself again...

Bucky Barnes REALLY loathes having to rely on others to tell him about his life. Steve is a big help, but sometimes, Bucky feels like Steve's after helping him for the benefit of the person he used to be rather than the person he is. Unlike Steve, Tony doesn't give a shit about him. And yet, it's with Tony that he feels like he can be or do anything - Like fall in love with the man he had orphaned all those years ago...

Bucky/Tony
31,769 words

Tony Stark disappeared shortly after the Avengers started coming into their own. All traces led to dead ends, and time marched on. In the spring of 2017, it came to light that Hydra was deeply intertwined with SHIELD, and Captain America found out his best friend still lives. Now, James "Bucky" Barnes has come home, more or less. His mind is his own, including the fractured memories that flit just beyond his reach. A drop-in appearance by former SHIELD director Fury clarifies one thing: the Winter Soldier had met Tony Stark.

Bucky/Tony
73,411 words

“Tony blinks.
He blinks and his entire world changes.”

Tony is sent back in time from mid-Infinity War to just after returning from Afghanistan.

How different is Tony Stark, and the MCU, with all that knowledge of the future?

Haunted by the guilt of Rhodey’s injury, the betrayal and pain of Steve, the fear of Wanda, the loss of Jarvis, and the foreknowledge of Thanos, this Tony is one the universe hasn’t contended with before. And he is more than ready to re-claim his title of genius, billionaire, and philanthropist in ways unexpected.

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.

Steve/Tony
43,872 words

Tony's gonna die of palladium poisoning anyway, why not join a pointless expedition to recover Captain America’s body? And after, well, why not dedicate his last few months to making sure an American hero settles into his new life? What else is he going to do, get drunk at parties?

Steve/Tony
20,287 words

Fresh out of the ice, Steve Rogers is lost. Everything is too loud, and too different, and just too much. He feels adrift, unsure what place he has in this new world.

He takes a spontaneous road trip, hoping to find some peace; little does he know that it will lead him to a charming little town, Tony Stark and just maybe... a place to call home.

Alternate summary: A soft sad boy on a brooom brooom has a serendipitous journey.

Steve/Tony
26,840 words

Tony Stark never thought he'd ever meet Captain America, let alone have his underwear tumbling around in Tony's dryer mere minutes after he broke Tony's doorknob.

What even was his life?

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.

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
87,241 words

Steve wakes up in the 21st Century. He doesn't think much of it, and it's dubious about him. He meets a Norse God, joins a superhero team, and feels terribly awkward about the whole monument at Arlington he's rendered obsolete by not being dead. Meanwhile, Tony is trying to make his mark on history by being the man who finally drove Nick Fury over the edge.

Loki/Tony
8,674 words

In Afghanistan, Tony discovers that he's a fucking psychic. He kind of just rolls with it.

Steve/Tony
3,911 words

"AU where Tony isn't Iron Man. He's a consultant for the avengers, so they still live in his tower, he still builds/improves their gear, but he never invented Iron Man. He's still close to the team, and is still a genius, so as the non-superhero member, he gets kidnapped. A lot. The team becomes increasingly protective of Tony."

Steve/Tony
18,465 words

“Oh, I won’t bother you.” The tone of Steve’s voice implies that he definitely will be bothering Tony, aggressively and frequently. “Don’t worry about it. I’ll keep to my farm, you keep to yours. Solitude together.”

Tony opens his mouth to argue that that’s not how this works, but he snaps it shut at the realization that Steven Grant Rogers is fucking with him. That twinkle in his eye has accelerated into a full-on glimmer, and the ends of his lips are twitching. Jesus, he hates this man. Or maybe he wishes he did. Tony can’t really tell the difference anymore.

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/Steve/Tony
8,849 words

Although rescuing his soulmates, Steve and Bucky, isn’t new, Tony never planned for them to find out he's the one helping them, much less catch him in the act.

He certainly didn't expect them to ever want him back.

Bucky/Tony
10,244 words

Bucky blinked as he stared at the list in front of him. "8 Simple Rules (For Dating Tony Stark)" was underlined in bold, black sharpie. Bucky gaped as Rhodey stared back at him, completely serious. All Rhodey ever wanted was for his best friend to be happy. And, if that meant outlining everything for Bucky in black ink to make sure these two love-sick idiots stayed together, then Rhodey would do it.

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
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.

Bucky/Tony
10,459 words

Afghanistan left Tony's heart too damaged for flight, but someone needs to be in the suit.

Bucky/Tony
25,852 words

Tony is sitting on his ass, trying to catch his breath in the dust of an alien planet when the Avengers take their vote.

It goes as expected.

Steve/Tony
12,703 words

Steve wakes up in a new world, in 2008, and joins the Avengers where he finally gets to meet the man whose name has been imprinted on his skin since birth. But Tony Stark is closed-off, distant, and disinterested. While Steve is trying to come to grips with finding out his soulmate doesn't want him, he can't help but notice the decline of Tony's health. Worried about his heart after the arc reactor, Steve steps up to help him, but when Tony confesses what's really wrong, it's not at all what Steve expected.

Steve/Tony
14,337 words

Obadiah Stane, CEO of Stark Industries since Howard’s son died before Steve even woke up, isn’t happy that the Avengers haven’t caught the villain Iron Man yet. The mysterious man in the armor keeps destroying SI weapons, and even though they tried to arrest him, he always slips through the Avengers’ fingers. It doesn’t help that Steve enjoys their bantering a bit too much, and that he’s starting to think that Iron Man has a worthy cause.

Steve/Tony
16,545 words

Two years after he comes out of the ice, Steve is drifting through life. On his teammate's recommendation, he decides to go back to school where he meets the grandson of an old friend. He finds happiness with Tony but Steve won't be in Boston forever and someone is out to hurt the Starks. Will Steve and Tony be able to reach their happily ever after?

Bucky/Tony
11,861 words

Prompt fill from imaginetonyandbucky: During Afghanistan, the ten rings got frustrated and sold Tony to hydra for hydra weapons and made him the Iron Soldier. After Steve gets Bucky back from Hydra (idk Cap 3 w/ civil war?) Bucky not only remembers the other winter soldiers, but the soldier he fell in love with (Tony) and basically him and Steve go save him (like when they went to Siberia in the movie but none of the "running from the law" stuff)

So I didn’t follow the prompt exactly because there’s already a great story like this on ITAB already and I wrote something similar to it not too long ago (Making a Hero), so I went in a slightly different direction. Instead of Hydra getting Tony from the 10 Rings, they got their hands on him when they assassinated his parents…

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.

Bucky/Tony
56,450 words

When Alexander Pierce turns up asking questions about Harley, it sets off alarm bells in Tony's head. But he never could've predicted it would result in him going on the run with the Winter Soldier in a desperate attempt to protect his children from Hydra. Throw in the Soldier's true identity, revelations about Tony's parents, and awkward parent-child reunions and Tony's left wondering what he's gotten into. And that's without the fact he maybe-kind-of actually likes his new co-parent.

Bucky/Tony
8,844 words

The Winter Soldier always completes his missions. He is a well-trained asset that flawlessly follows orders and never breaks protocol. But when he is instructed to assassinate Tony Stark, things get complicated. The Asset is set to observe his mark before acting, hired as Mr. Stark's bodyguard in order to get close to the man.

But what happens when the Asset gets too close? His orders contradict one another, one requiring violence and the other that he protects his mark. The Asset doesn't know which one takes priority, but his instincts tell him not to harm Mr. Stark.

How is he supposed to kill someone he so desperately wants to protect?

Steve/Tony
17,650 words

“I’m going to fuck you stupid,” Steve says, pulling away only a fraction of an inch to say it, a promise as deep and certain as the look in his eyes, “and you’re going to take it. Aren’t you, Tony.”

Tony wants a drink. Steve gives him something else.

Steve/Tony
44,522 words

“Ah, tut tut, Thor All-Father; she no longer calls to you. She is open for the taking. We of power can feel it,” Proxima Midnight drawled, a smile tugging at her lips. This time when she hefted her trident she pointed it right at Thor, then proceeded to point it at each of them—Tony, Steve, Nat, James—and then back again to Thor. She held the trident steady, her muscles obviously strong and used to its weight in her hand. “Do any of you challenge me for her?” she demanded. 

-or-

The one where Mjolnir gets repaired, Thanos' minions come knocking, Tony gives a speech, and there's a road trip. That may or may not lead to kisses. Oh, and Tony just might be worthy of lifting Thor's old hammer after all...

Strange/Tony
8,274 words

They’re horribly different in all the best ways.

Steve/Tony
27,594 words

The Supreme Intelligence told Anthony to kill Vers, traitor to the Kree. But when he fails and she captures him instead, he's forced to realize that things are not what he thought they were at all. First, he's Tony Stark, from Earth. Unfortunately, Tony also finds the Avengers fractured when he makes his way back home.

Bucky/Tony
21,370 words

Tony's freezing to death in a Siberian bunker.

Bucky's searching for his past in a Siberian bunker.

Bucky/Tony
6,299 words

Maybe Tony didn't have to leave the team but he sure felt like it. In the days after Ultron, he drifts, alone and a little lost, until Bucky decides that it's his job to look after Tony's happiness. And who better to help him than Tony's own AI?

Bucky/Tony
2,566 words

Bucky couldn’t stand his job.

He’s hardly unique in that department, but god does he hate his job. It ranks higher than his previous gig at Hydra Communications, and then his brief – very brief – stint at Hammer Corp, by a mile, but a pain in the ass was a pain in the ass, and SHIELD Intel is a pain in the ass like every other.

Especially when one of the people he's tasked with spying on happens to be Tony Stark.

Bucky/Tony
8,785 words

Tony thought he'd die from palladium poisoning. Tony thought he fell in love with his new assistant/bodyguard Bucky. Tony thought a lot of things that weren't true.

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.

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.

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
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
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.

Winter/Tony, Bucky/Steve
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.

Steve/Tony
40,704 words

Captain America and Iron Man had gotten off on the wrong foot - there was no question about that. Maybe it was because Tony Stark had grown up knowing, thanks to Howard, that Captain America would despise everything about him. Or maybe it was because Steve Rogers had no idea how to handle the world he had woken up in, and the man in the Iron Man armor was a dazzling display of everything the 'future' had to offer.

No matter the reason, things had not gone well during that initial meeting.

Tony was fine with that, honest. There was absolutely no pouting on his part because Cap didn't want to be his friend. He wasn't even that upset about the way Cap could hardly stand to look at him. It was fine. Completely. His feelings weren't hurt even a little.

Steve hasn't been able to look away from Tony since they met. Once his initial fumbling was over and he came to terms with the fact that he'd survived the crash after all... well. He'd fallen fast and hard for the flashy inventor. He just doesn't know how to get the idiot to understand that.

Bucky/Tony
36,689 words

For a man capable of disappearing so utterly that even the international intelligence community thought he was a myth, it didn't take them long to find the Winter Soldier.

For a man who supposedly wanted to be found, the Winter Soldier fought like a wildcat when Steve and Sam finally cornered him.

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(Post-CA:TWS) Steve and Sam have found Bucky, but they're going to need some help to bring him back to himself. A story about friendship, love, and the family you choose. (One-sided Bucky/Steve in the past, eventual Bucky/Tony. Some other pairings if you squint really hard.)

Bucky/Tony
31,346 words

After escaping from HYDRA and dealing with Captain America, Bucky goes to New York. He can get lost there and figure out who he is. But something huge is missing from his memory and when the full moon comes, Bucky figures out what, but it's too late. The Wolf takes over, snooping around New York and looking for what's pulling him. Then he meets Tony Stark, who just can't leave the huge, fluffy dog starving on the streets.

Only the huge dog is weirdly protective and definitely smarter than average...

Bucky/Steve/Tony
11,582 words

Tony finds Bucky frozen in the Alps and brings him back, thinking it'll help Steve adjust to modern life if he's not alone. Unfortunately, he finds it has the side-effect of him becoming irrationally jealous.

Stephen Strange/Tony Stark
53,080 words

Soul mate's names appear on their mate's skin. But the names aren't just the ones on their birth certificate- soul marks detailed every name your soul mate would ever receive throughout their lifetime.

Tony’s soul mate is fucking stupid. This idiot used the name ‘Stephen Strange’ and ‘Dr. Strange’- both of which made sense- but then the final tattoo that liked to appear sometimes was fucking ‘Sorcerer Supreme’. He decided from the moment he saw that embarrassing name he was one hundred percent never, ever going to give two shits about his dumbass soul mate.

Stephen had rolled his eyes so hard when ‘Iron Man’ flitted across his arm for the first time. Well, the first time he could read it. But the other names were interesting too- namely Tony Stark.

Bucky/Tony
7,995 words

A car accident, the police had said.

He could have lost them to something as stupid as a car accident. He could have lost them, and his last memories of them would be of arguing with his father and ignoring his mother.

Bucky's trigger words begin to fail. This changes things.

Steve/Tony
36,299 words

Living together with the Avengers, in a relationship with Steve, Tony's as happy as he's ever been—until it turns out he's dying of palladium poisoning. Unwilling to tell anyone, he replaces himself with a Life Model Decoy and breaks up with Steve, so he can hide and focus on fixing his arc reactor before it's too late.

Steve can't decide if Tony is acting strangely or if that's just his denial speaking. Tony Mark II struggles to figure out the best course of action, stuck handling issues he was never programmed to deal with. And Tony isn't sure he can ever get Steve back, even if he survives.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
576 words

One of these days Clint will have to do something drastic, like stage an intervention, today he just watches the fools at their breakfast ritual.

Bucky/Natasha/Tony
4,837 words

Tony was expecting Natasha to break up with him when they were presented with the Accords. He wasn't prepared for what ended up happening.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
13,677 words

James Buchanan Barnes: formerly the Winter Soldier, formerly Captain America’s right-hand man, formerly a sergeant, formerly a dock worker, formerly Stevie’s best friend.... currently a glorified prisoner of Prince T’Challa.... had trouble wrapping his head around all those former selves. He spent too much time thinking about all the bits of him that he kept gluing back together to pretend he was a person anyone would want to keep. He spent even more time picking at the cracks, pointing the flaws out to himself. Only thing he did more than that was make sure no one else noticed how far he was from human.

So, James Buchanan Barnes, who didn’t know what to call himself, who didn’t know how to go forwards, agreed, and moved back into the tower where his best friend lived with a husband orphaned by the Winter Soldier.

Steve/Tony
2,185 words

"No, Steve, Stevie, that was - I remember. That's not Tony Stark. I killed Tony Stark over twenty-five years ago, at the same time that I killed Howard and Maria Stark. They were my targets. Stevie." Bucky's eyes were dark with horror. "I don't know who that is, but he's not Tony Stark."

Steve/Tony
21,574 words

In the aftermath, after he’s gotten the team back, after he’s sent that letter, after Natasha has found them, after Vision and Wanda have disappeared together, Steve looks at them all and asks himself, “Who’s there with Tony?"

And, not for the first time, he wonders what he’s done.

Bucky/Tony
69,800 words

“Tony!?”

He startled at the sound of Steve’s voice, nearly dropping his tablet. Tony looked around and bit back a curse. He hadn’t been paying attention to where he was walking and had wandered into a part of the Wakandan palace he really didn’t want to be in. He quickly looked back over his shoulder. There was Steve with Barnes and Sam right behind him. Steve took a step forward. Tony did the only sensible thing he could think of at the moment. He ran.

Bucky/Tony
2,680 words

It’s been almost twenty-four hours, but still none of it seems or feels entirely real.

Well, to be fair, learning about the existence of parallel universes, finding out there’s at least one other Earth that has been destroyed by a threat his Earth isn’t even fully aware of yet, and getting two other-universe versions of people he’s currently not exactly on speaking terms with dropped into his lap has been kind of a lot.

It might take Tony another day—or year, more likely—to wrap his head around all of that.

Bucky/Tony
11,196 words

Tony's practically become an old hat at being taken hostage, but something's fishier than usual this time around: his captor looks twenty-eight but claims to know Howard Stark, the NYPD negotiator is a SHIELD plant, and what's this about a fleet of helicarriers set to launch? (TWS AU.)

Bucky/Tony
7,776 words

Maria calls him in a panic, freaking out in the middle of the night and that’s how he ends up outside of MIT looking for Tony. Its the first time he’s seen him in a decade and it turns out he’s not too hard to spot because he’s got a bright personality, the kind that draws people in or maybe he’s biased. Tony seems to notice him at almost the same time and he grins, immediately shoving his books into the poor kid’s arms beside him and running over to him. Bucky doesn’t expect Tony to launch himself at him but he catches him nonetheless.

“Bucky!” Tony says excitedly, arms circling around his neck.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
10,048 words

Inspired by a tumblr prompt from months ago that asked me for "AU with Captain Bucky and Winter Steve?" and OT3 feels.

This… this was the original Captain America. From Project Rebirth. The one Howard had always spoken of highly, compared Tony to, wanted to find.

Tony found himself glad Howard never had.
The Soldier shifted the gun, so that it pointed right at the eye of the suit.

Tony considered his options. This wasn’t the first time they’d found the Soldier. Tony had been thinking for a while now that the Soldier was keeping tabs on them. On Bucky.

“Aren’t you tired of this?” Tony asked.

Clint/Tony
9,647 words

When SHIELD decided they were going to send an agent to assess Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man, the Black Widow was their first choice to do the assessment.

Unfortunately (or maybe not so unfortunately), they would have to go with their second choice, instead.

Steve/Bucky/Tony
5,141 words

Tony takes his time padding over to the hut.

Each step feels like he’s barely moving a fraction of an inch, but he forces himself to keep going.

The hut is empty when he peers inside.

“Hi.”

Tony startles, an odd little noise escaping him. When he turns around, Barnes is standing behind him.

“Hi,” Tony returns, his voice rough.

He looks different, Barnes, hair longer, beard thicker, eyes clearer, sharper, more vivid, less haunted, less hungry.

Barnes swallows thickly. “Are you here to kill me?” he asks.

Tony shakes his head. “No, I’m not.”

Bucky/Tony, past Steve/Tony
4,246 words

Constellations wheel around in Tony’s mind at night, illuminating his sleep with the beauty of a supernova, the terrible gaping hunger of black holes, the whimpering cry of a nebula as it births new stars into creation.

All of Space laid out for him to marvel at.

Tony learns and learns and learns and then he creeps downstairs and babbles relentlessly to his first and only friend.

All the while the Cube hums, just a bit smug, just a bit loving, and shows him more.

Steve/Tony
17,782 words

Tony's just settled in to watch some Christmas movies and ignore the loneliness of all the other Avengers having holiday plans when he gets an unwelcome guest.

Loki's got plans, and he needs a distraction. Steve, calling to wish Tony a merry Christmas, gets Loki instead. Avengers assemble - Tony Stark is missing, and according to Loki, the clock's counting down.

Fast.

Steve/Bucky/Tony
16,253 words

Bucky Barnes is unwillingly dragged along when Nick Fury goes to talk to Tony Stark about the Avenger Initiative, as a little demonstration of the bigger universe Tony's just joined.

Steve/Tony
21,796 words

During the Time Heist, Steve and Tony travel back to April 7th, 1970, only to get stuck there when an accident destroys the Pym particles. While they devise a plan to get back home, conversations uncover buried feelings and long-kept secrets that alter their relationship forever.

Bucky/Tony, Steve & Tony
5,479 words

“Hello,” Steve whispers quietly, carefully brushing some of the tears away from the baby's cheeks.

Giving a sniffle, the baby latches on to Steve’s hand, then whines unhappily, hiccuping wetly.

“I don’t know how to, you know,” Steve explains helplessly, making something that vaguely resembles a cradling, rocking motion with his free arm. The baby is less than impressed with that, though, and takes a noisy, stuttering breath. Steve’s eyes widen in alarm. “Oh, no. No, ssh, no. Here, c’mon, it’s all right.”

Very gingerly, Steve slides one hand under the baby’s back, cups its neck with the other, and slowly lifts the squirmy bundle out of the crib, and against his chest. “There, ssh. That’s better, isn’t it?”

In answer, the baby tucks its damp face into Steve’s neck, apparently content to stay where it is. Steve glances around the room, a little lost, but the baby just gurgles, and doesn’t start crying again, which he decides to count as a success.

Bucky/Tony
55,850 words

Tony watches as Bucky tracks his movements with an easy confidence that should probably make him uncomfortable. He knew the man’s skills set and the way he was looking at Tony was like he was some kind of snack- he probably shouldn’t feel so comfortable with an assassin looking at him like a meal to be eaten but here he was.

Steve/Tony
11,047 words

So. Tony's dying. Palladium poisoning is a shitty, painful way to go, but hey: at least it's his birthday party, right? A cool send off. Lots of alcohol and fun and girls and-

...And all Tony wants is Steve Rogers, the stupid Art Professor who used Tony for a booty call now and again and whom Tony had stupidly decided to start falling in love with. Whilst in the middle of getting slowly poisoned to death.

God, he wished his life was easier.

Bucky/Tony
16,225 words

Bucky has lived with the Avengers for a while now, and he's mostly settled in. During the process, he fell for Tony Stark - hard - but he can't quite bring himself to admit it to the brilliant engineer. So he just does what he can to take care of and protect him, hoping that maybe the other man will fall just as hard for him... and be the one to take their relationship to the next level. In the meantime, he's noticed that there's one member of the team that Tony seems afraid of, and he is definitely not pleased by the notion.

Once he finds out what Wanda did to cause that fear, she might wish she'd never left Hydra.

Steve/Tony
13,483 words

When Steve woke up in the future, he met his soulmate and learned he'd lost everything else.

Tony was familiar with loss but he never expected to gain a soulmate in Steve Rogers, the man his family had spent generations searching for.