Fiction Recs

Steve/Tony
101,952 words

In 1867, Tony Stark flees New York after refusing to marry the alpha his parents chose for him. His money runs out in the small kingdom of Dacia, ruled over by King Steven of the Rogers line. Somehow, and he’s not entirely sure how, he ends up accepting the position of nanny to the king’s four children: Harley, Peter, Sarah, and Morgan.

Tony bonds with the children easily but their father is harder to get to know. Steve is still grieving his wife’s death four years earlier. His continued mourning has turned the once bright halls into dark and somber shadows of their former glory. Tony isn’t entirely certain what he can do but he knows that he has to do something or else the whole country, so attuned to their leader, will sink into despair. He begins by reconciling the king with his young children.

Meanwhile, the children have decided that it’s high time their father fall in love again—and Tony is the obvious choice. They concoct elaborate plans to force the two together, hardly realizing that Steve and Tony are falling in love, not through their shenanigans but through the quiet moments they share bonding over the love they have for the children.

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.

Steve/Tony
4,851 words

Tony is still good friends with his ex, Steve, even after four years apart, even though he's with Ty now. Until Christmas comes around, and suddenly that feels completely backwards.

Steve/Tony, Bucky/Natasha
55,527 words

Tony's Malibu mansion has never felt emptier. His parents are dead, his uncle is gone, he hasn't spoken to the man who raised him in years, and the halls echo with the sounds of his regret. When his best friends suggest that he take a vacation for the holidays, he seizes at the opportunity, but he would never have imagined he'd end up on a website for house swapping.

Bucky's New York apartment has never been more quiet. He'd let his ex push away everyone he loved, let him use Bucky for his own gain, and he's got nothing to show for it other than some raging trust issues. When one of his friends suggests he get away from the city for December, he winds up agreeing to switch houses with Tony Stark, of all people.

Tony and Bucky come from two very different lifestyles, but over two weeks at the end of the year, they'll find laughter and love, and maybe, just maybe, they'll make themselves a new home.

Bucky/Tony
14,690 words

Tony never expected to share Christmas with the man who killed his parents, but he's here now, so they should make the best of it.

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.

Steve/Tony
31,457 words

When Tony Stark's fiancée breaks up with him on Christmas Eve to take up a new life on her family's ranch, he isn't expecting to have to spend the holiday snowed in at a small regional airport in the middle of Montana - or that he'll spend it with Steve Rogers. He isn't expecting Steve to be funny and charming and really everything that his fiancée wasn't. He isn't expecting to spend the night questioning how soon is too soon to move on from a breakup.

Steve Rogers is nursing a heartbreak of his own after his longtime girlfriend reconnects with her high school boyfriend. Tony feels like a whirlwind in the best kind of way, but Steve isn't so sure that he should be allowed to move on so quickly from Bernie, no matter how quickly she moved on from him.

But after spending one night trapped together, Steve and Tony discover that Christmas magic isn't just for their partners - and sometimes, the person you've been waiting for is the one you would least expect.

Steve/Tony
20,918 words

“Aw, time travel, no.”

On Christmas Eve, Tony came unstuck in time.

Bucky/Tony
27,750 words

Tony Stark is really too busy to be stuck in the mountains, let alone stuck in the mountains with the Winter Soldier of all people. But Hydra just had to go and make threats and ruin everyone's good time. The real kicker? There is only one bed. Which isn't a problem, a couch is fine, and they are both adults who can take turns. Except then it snows, and all heat and power in their shitty little cabin cut out. Whatever will they do?!

Steve/Tony
34,097 words

Tony Stark has never liked Christmas and this year while he’s still reeling from a publicly humiliating break up, he doesn’t want anything to do with the holiday. He books a remote cabin in a tiny town as a post-break up retreat and plans to hide away until New Years.

Steve Rogers loves everything about Christmas, from the trees he sells on his farm to the parade where he gets to play Ol’ Saint Nick, and when Tony comes to town Grinchy and cranky and sad, Steve turns his attention towards finding any possible reason to make the gorgeous newcomer smile.

Steve’s goofy flirting is first met with sarcasm and exasperation, but as the days count down towards Christmas, Steve’s easy charm and lingering kisses have Tony warming to the idea of a burly lumberjack to keep him cozy on the cold nights.

Tis the season for apple cider and mistletoe, but is Steve’s adoration enough to change Tony’s mind about the holidays? Or will the chance to reconcile with his ex take Tony back to the city and away from the promise of romance and a small town Christmas?

Steve/Tony
13,712 words

Tony's injured, night is falling, and he's stranded in a cabin with a handful of teammates who are woefully under-equipped to deal with the oncoming wave of HYDRA soldiers that are about to blow down their door and pick them off.

Honestly though, Tony's more pissed about the fact that this all happened during Christmas. Were everything going to plan, he'd be copping a feel with Captain America under the mistletoe right about now.

Sometimes he really hates his job.

Bucky/Tony
54,436 words

Barnes, 107th Infantry 32557038.

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

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

Bucky/Tony
32,138 words

Tony doesn't begrudge anyone else their enjoyment of the holiday season; he just wants to be left out of it. He's never really seen the point. Bucky's usually all for it, but a disaster at work that forced him to cancel his plans to travel with his family have left him feeling a little curmudgeonly. The two meet and bond over their shared lack of interest in the holidays.

When Tony unexpectedly finds himself taking care of a pair of kids who rather emphatically expect Christmas to be Done Right, he finds himself turning to Bucky for help.

Steve/Tony
12,157 words

Steve is the first to come home to the tower after S.H.I.E.L.D. goes down. Then Natasha and Clint arrive. Tony doesn't mind, really, he's got the space. Except it's December and they insist on doing Christmassy shit. Who the hell has time for that?!?

Christmas 5 - Tony 0

Bucky/Tony
4,996 words

Tony takes Bucky home to Italy to meet the family at Christmas time.

Bucky/Tony
2,221 words

Writing your letter to Santa is very important! And Morgan has an idea to make sure that Santa gets their letters...

Bucky/Tony
5,318 words

Unexpectedly, Tony is alone for the holidays. He hates being alone, but surely his genius brain will come up with something.

Bucky can deal with the stress of having lost his arm, or the stress of remaining in the closet with his family, but not both. And only one of those things is in his control. But coming out to them when he doesn't even have a boyfriend is nervewracking, to say the least.

A chance meeting on the subway may solve both of their problems... and give them both a gift they weren't even looking for.

Steve/Tony
7376 words

It's been six months since the Battle of New York and Tony is exhausted. The last thing he expected on Christmas' Eve was to meet Steve Rogers again by accident, in Central Park.

Bucky/Tony
3,220 words

Bucky is waiting for the perfect time to ask Tony to marry him.

A science convention wasn't exactly what he expected, but it ends up being perfect anyway.

Poly!Avengers
3,152 words

Five times Tony Stark hated snow and one time he thought it might just be his (second) favorite thing in the world.

The entire city shuts down. Roads are closed. Windows are boarded. Every available blanket is gathered. 

Overnight, the grey city that never sleeps turns white and not a sound can be heard.

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.