Fiction Recs

Steve/Tony
50,701 words

Howard makes him want to run and never stop running, but Steve is the first person who's made him, even a tiny part of him, want to stay. And he knows that won't end well, not for anyone

"Night Tony," Steve says, that same soft, sweet smile on his face, and Tony wonders if maybe Steve Rogers is not such a bad thing after all.

-

or: when 18 year old tony stark meets the barista with the very blue eyes, and realises that maybe hiding isn’t the only answer.

Steve/Tony
23,999 words

“So. Sitrep," Tony said aloud, mainly to keep himself sane. "I'm stuck in a cave with no way to communicate to the outside world that I'm alive, and there's at least a couple of hundred feet of rock between me and help. The way I came in is definitely blocked, and I'm sporting the most spectacular compound fracture which will no doubt make moving around a bit – interesting. Plan of action... Trying to get out on my own might be a challenge.”

Or, cave rescue, Avengers style. Takes place at some non-specific point in time after Iron Man 3 and before Age of Ultron. Established Steve/Tony, though it's mostly in the background.

Bucky/Tony
103,495 words

Beggars can’t be choosers, and all that. However, somehow his bigger worry is if he’ll be able to put up with Stark long enough to even get the upgrade, you’ll have to, Barnes, you can’t keep going with this hunk of scrap metal for much longer.

Bucky only just managed to bite back a curse after moving into a certain pose, and knows his thoughts, for once, are right.

Steve/Tony
9,997 words

So today Steve was annoyed at him about the mission. Of course. It's not like Tony wanted to worry him though. It was just that he wanted to help. The Avengers have a long hall flight from Malaysia to the US. It might just be the perfect time for Steve and Tony to work out exactly what is going on after the whole Ultron incident and discuss this unspoken thing between them. And hey, maybe someone could get Tony some Tylenol too. And a hospital actually.

Natasha/Steve/Thor/Clint/Bruce/Tony
49,004 words

Natasha Romanov enjoys the bond she has with Thor, Clint, Bruce and Steve, all of them fellow Dominants, yet each of them is aware that they are orbiting the empty space where their submissive should be. Tony Stark is publicly a sub, yet none of them can get a grip on what he is in private, and when he is revealed to be a compatible sub to them, he doesn't take it well. They will have to fight against his demons to claim him, and in the process prove to him that he is worthy of being theirs and that they are worthy of possessing him.

Steve/Tony
40.982 words

A quiet night out for Steve and Tony nearly turns deadly when a tragic accident occurs. As they try to pick up the pieces, Steve is forced to confront some painful truths about the nature of their relationship and what the future holds for them.

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.

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.

Pepper/Tony, Gen
125,079 words

Tony's light had flickered out in the aftermath of the fight with the Chitauri, but his team was there and, hey, he'd just been to space, give a guy some slack. The next morning they accepted, but when he collapses weeks later, they're not going to let him brush it off again, and neither is JARVIS.

Bucky/Tony
68,813 words

In a world where alphas legally own omegas, Bucky is just a small time mechanic from Brooklyn who gets lucky in a poker game. Tony is an omega whose life is fraught with abuse, until his luck suddenly takes a turn for the better.

In the grand scheme of things they may only be able to make little differences in the lives of those around them, but that doesn't mean it's not worth making them. After all, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Bucky/Tony
40,320 words

“I get physical when I’m drunk, Steve; you know that. I either punch or fuck. Tony’s not much different."

--

Bucky and Tony have a bad habit of getting drunk together, which results in lot of cuddling and heavy make out sessions, much to the chagrin of anyone nearby at the time.

After a very public stint in Austria though, Bucky decides that maybe these make out sessions shouldn't happen exclusively when they're drunk.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
40,085 words

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

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

Bucky/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?

Steve/Bucky/Tony
48,584 words

Tony swept his gaze over the jacket. It was well used, heavily worn down, but not in a bad way. The fabric felt softened over years of use, and the slight discolorations seemed to suit it. Tony could see the marks left over from the previous owners. A small patch, sewn perfectly in neat little stiches on the inside breast pocket screamed of Steve’s steady hands, while the fraying on tails remained as evidence of Bucky’s impatient tugging.

Or, Steve and Bucky gift Tony with their jacket that survived from the 1940's.

Turns out that wasn't the only thing that survived.

Steve/Tony
26,085 words

After Tony ends up severely injured from a surprise attack, triggering a flashback and putting him in the hospital for emergency surgery, the Avengers come together in worry for their friend and teammate and are disquieted by the intensity of Tony’s reaction. Between the flashback and the sedatives, Tony’s mind revisits key moments in his life while the team bands together in support of each other and their injured friend, letting SHIELD handle Tony’s attacker, they remain where they are needed, even if Tony isn’t awake to truly realize this. And through it all, Steve makes a decision that will change things with Tony.

Steve/Tony
74,383 words

Set after the events of Captain America: Civil War, Tony and Steve have been broken and torn apart by the Accords and the choices they've made. But those that are meant to have a way of making their way back to each other especially since it won't just be the two of them any longer.

Steve/Tony
4,319 words

Tony knew he was in trouble...and it had very little to do with the car that had just hit him.

Steve/Tony
10,431 words

Tony got used to not breathing after Afghanistan. He remembered the agony of it, the black spots in his vision as the world went out of focus, cut through with angry red spikes of pain. He never thought he'd have to do it again.

But if it was to keep Steve safe, well. There was little Tony wouldn't do. Even if it involved coughing up flowers.

Steve/Tony
254,456 words

There were days when the realization that he was someone’s father made Steve's head hurt. Mostly he was grateful that he could trust his instincts, because Peter was what had been missing from his life. Yes, he still had lingering, unresolved issues from his time in the Army, and sure, he had what Bucky annoyingly referred to as a criminally untapped ass and no life outside of work and Peter, but Steve was okay with how his life had turned out because of trusting his instincts.

Unfortunately, those same instincts had straight up betrayed him by going absolutely haywire upon being exposed to Tony Stark.

Veteran single dad Steve runs a tattoo shop. For his 40th birthday, Pepper arranges for Tony to get that tattoo he always wanted, and he winds up with the mother of all crushes instead. Jumping out of airplanes is one thing, but falling in love is something else entirely. Steve struggles with the idea of actually letting someone into his life. Tony is left trying to keep his heart from being broken while Steve figures things out.

Steve/Tony
47,677 words

New York City is still rebuilding in the wake of the Chitauri army when the biotech virus Extremis is released, upgrading a lone domestic terrorist into a posthuman threat. Tony would’ve been happy to keep going on playing with alien tech in his lab, saving average citizens as Iron Man, and pretending not to notice these other people moving into his tower, but sometimes a person just can’t have nice things.

Bruce/Tony, Steve/Tony, Avengers/Tony
73,730+ words

If given the chance, Tony Stark would sleep with any one of the Avengers. Collectively or individually. If anyone on the team offered, he’d probably say yes before they finished talking.

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.

Gen
6,185 words

Illness is a private affair, one that Tony deals with as effectively as he always deals with self-care - as in, not at all. He sends pretty much everyone who looks for him during his times of sickness into mild or major panic, depending.

Steve/Tony
23,979 words

The point was this, though:

In a hundred million universes, in a hundred million different lives, there would never be a single one of them in which Tony Stark deserved anyone like Steve Rogers. Ever.

So this? Nonsensical.

Bruce/Tony
91,279 words

When Bruce looks over Tony's blood work he notices an anomaly that sets them both on a search for answers and shows them just how much they mean to one another in the process. But when the truth finally becomes clear, it's only the start of more obstacles and changes to come as they each find themselves facing new enemies and old.

Bucky/Tony
35,439 words

It was reluctance to let one of his finest inventions ever out of his grasp that made him take a couple days over a week to send the arm to Pepper’s office. But all things considered, Tony figured that sending finest prosthetic that had ever come into existence--literally grasping an olive branch--was one of the classiest gifts he’d ever given. He’d included a note and everything.
 
‘Barnes,
Can help with installation. Or not. Up to you.
--Stark'

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
63,268 words

Ultron happened. The Avengers left.

Tony is fine with being alone again. He always worked better as a Lone Wolf than a team player anyway. He's not sleeping or eating or resting or... living, but it's fine. It's good. It's okay.

And then there's James.

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.

Steve/Tony
14,785 words

Steve is resigned to being alone; he's not exactly anyone's ideal alpha, but he doesn't mind. He has a job he believes in, an apartment he loves, and a comfortable routine. That is, until the smells from his cooking draw a hungry, extremely pregnant omega to his door, and he finds himself falling in love. But Tony belongs to someone else, and no amount of ginger can change that.

Steve/Tony
42,143 words

Steve doesn't understand why Tony dates people who abuse him. Tony doesn't understand why Steve cares.

The rest is bad choices, good choices, rehab, milkshakes, paintball, YouTube videos, couples therapy and learning to put the past in the past. Or: How Tony finds his happy ending.

Bucky/Tony
115,847 words

A sentinel could spend most of their early years without a guide. By their mid-thirties if a sentinel had yet to form a bond with a guide their senses would start to lose focus and precision until they became overwhelmed and went insane.

Tony was in his forties and the bond he had was a thin string that could be snapped with just one word, and it was the only reason why Tony wasn’t locked up in an asylum for sentinels.

Even with his bond though, Tony was deteriorating, unable to control his senses and becoming overprotective of his teammates.

If he didn't increase the strength of his current bond or find a new guide who he could bond better with then he would be locked up for life.

Too bad Starks have a history of having trouble bonding, and Tony's already tried every technique to strengthen his bond with his guide.

Oh, and let's not forget his guide was none other than Mr. Perfect himself: Steve Rogers.

So really? Tony was screwed unless those bonding techniques started working, because who the hell else could bond with him and do it better than Mr. Perfect?

Bucky/Steve/Tony
40,793 words

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

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

Steve/Tony
18,395 words

It turns out, in the 21st century, Steve's best friend is an eighteen-year-old genius named Tony Stark. This might be trouble.

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/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.

Steve/Tony
8,362 words

Tony was fucked.

Or, the one where Tony injures his hands and Steve volunteers to be Tony's hands.

Bucky/Tony
68,925 words

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

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
16,113 words

Tony Stark is twenty, a genius, and a train wreck. When another one of his crazy rendezvous end up dropping Stark Industries stock points, his CEO Pepper decides something needs to be done, and hires an escort to play fake boyfriend to add some stability to his name and reputation.

Steve Rogers came home from Afghanistan a year ago, and is just looking for a quiet part-time job while waiting for college acceptance letters. When his friend Natasha asks him to take on a job for her security company, he figures, how hard could it be?

Bucky/Steve/Tony
7,037 words

After all, in a universe where Love was a physical thing, it was easy to see when someone was a little messed up. Love was an item you held close until you met someone to give it to.

The Team shares their Love, all except Tony. What is he hiding?

Can Steve and Bucky get their heads out of their asses?

Steve/Tony
6,316 words

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

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

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

This is definitely going to fuck up his schedule.

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.

Steve/Tony
15,017 words

Tony almost dies saving Steve’s life, but that’s just part of being an Avenger. It’s no reason for Steve to get all weird and intense around him afterward.

Steve/Tony
4,854 words

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

Bucky/Steve/Tony
90,386 words

Tony has been cold since Siberia, his heart broken from betrayal, soul shattered with the reminder that he wasn't meant for love, and Soul Mark empty after Steve chose Bucky over him.

Steve has been cold since the Valkyrie went down, his heart torn between missing Bucky and loving Tony, soul weary with the weight of grief, and Soul Mark aching after Siberia and watching his soulmates fight each other.

Bucky has been cold since he fell, his heart iced over with decades of pain, his soul barely intact enough to register a loved one, and Soul Mark only half filled in because even with Steve back in his life, some one is still missing from his (their) arms.

But first, Stucky has to come home and Tony has to put the whiskey down. They have to deal with Siberia, with hard truths and harder apologies. They have to learn to tell the whole truth and realize that despite entwined lives and decades of history, none of them are whole without the other.

Three Soulmates, three Soul Marks, three hearts desperate to come In From the Cold and find somewhere warm to rest.

Gen
6,946 words

Tony wakes up feeling like crap and finds himself longing for the time he lived alone and it was a lot easier to get a simple cup of coffee.

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.

Poly!Avengers
19,281 words

And in his heart, there grows a garden.

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.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
71,183 words

Steve Rogers is not a typical Dom and Bucky is a Switch choosing to submit for his Captain. Together they have a love that breaks rules and flaunts expectations, and when they see a beautiful sub being mistreated by his Dom, Bucky and Steve break another rule and interfere.

Tony is a sub bound to Old World protocol-- seen but not heard, there for Ty's pleasure alone, regarded as half a person without his Dom--and Tony thinks that life is normal.

Or at least, he thinks its normal until he meets Bucky and Steve.

Bucky has more freedom than Tony could imagine and Steve's only wish as Dom is to take care of his subs, and when both Dom and Switch fall for Tony, they make it clear there's room for him in their arms and hearts.

First they have to deal with Ty though, first they have to free Tony from an abusive Dom and a history of hurt, and that won't be easy.

But Tony's ready. He's ready to move on and reclaim his life, ready to take a chance on something new, and ready to learn the beauty of willing submission with Bucky, and the truth of a caring Dom in Steve.

Steve/Bucky/Tony
50,773 words

Tony couldn’t honestly remember how long it had been like this. Probably since the day he’d called T’Challa and offered his help. At first it had just been compulsive self-denial: you can’t eat until you’ve drafted your opening remarks, until you’ve finished your research, until you’ve rewritten every last colon and comma and apostrophe in those Accords so that everyone can come home.

Those goals had been realistic. Lately, they’d become impossible. Until everyone forgives you. Until you forgive yourself. Until you make up for every bad thing you’ve ever caused.

He was fine. He was coasting in a dangerous place, but he was fine. He wasn't taking it too far - just far enough.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
54,990+ words

Tony Stark is not at all bitter about being a submissive. Not at all. Why should he be? Sure, his whole life has been one shit show after another, because he is a sub, but why would he be bitter about it? No. Reason. At All.

Then he meets "The Avengers" a group of people helping abused subs. They are good people. Even the two Doms working there.

Not that Tony notices them or anything. They might look like they fell right out of his dreams, but it's not like he is interested, you know.

And who would ever want someone as broken as him?

Steve/Tony
13,975 words

When he cut his morning jog short to join Tony Stark on a reconnaissance mission off the East Coast, Steve sure wasn’t expecting to end up stuck on a life raft in the middle of the ocean, his hand knuckle-deep in Stark's chest.

Steve/Tony
188,535 words

Tony meets his soulmate under the worst possible circumstances. It is not just a kidnapping gone wrong. It turns out Steve and his gang picked him on purpose and they want some personal revenge. If only he had managed to say the words written on his soulmate's arm before they threw him back out into the streets.

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
48,507 words

Stuck in rehab after a near-fatal accident, Tony reaches out via letters to a soldier overseas, and Bucky is more than happy to write back, drawn to Tony for a reason he can't quite name. One or two letters turn into a years worth, then come the phone calls, with Tony quickly realizing that Bucky's voice, with that rolling Brooklyn accent might be his new favorite sound.
When Bucky shows up unannounced at Tony's door, one thing leads to another and maybe a confession or two is made. But Bucky's tour overseas isn't over yet, not even close, and they have months more of distance between them.
Then Bucky disappears, missing in action, and Tony doesn't know if he will ever get his soldier back. And if Bucky DOES make it home, will he be the same boy from Brooklyn who sent Tony love poems, or has his time away and his injuries changed him for good?

Gen
9,056 words

Tiberius, Tony's ex, roofies Tony at a charity fundraiser. The Avengers make assumptions, Steve has a heart-to-heart, and Tony realizes that he's not alone.

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.]

Steve/Tony
8,576 words

There might’ve been a time when Tony longed to be on a team. To join in the sort of easy camaraderie he now witnessed whenever the coffee on his own floor had run out. To know there was a group of people who had his six, on the battlefield and off, but he's pretty sure the Avengers aren't that group.

After the battle of New York the Avengers take up residence in the tower, but Tony tries his hardest to avoid them. They all made it clear enough they don't want anything from him other than to bankroll their outfit. And that's fine. More than fine. Absolutely perfect. If only Steve Rogers would play along and leave him the hell alone.

Because Steve doesn't know he's being pulled by fate, and that the last person Tony wants to disappoint is his soulmate. So better hide and deflect than let him get close. Right?

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.”

Bucky/Tony
18,661 words

Look, Bucky knows that he’s fulfilling every cliché in the book right now. He knows that, as a bodyguard, he’s not supposed to fall in love with his client. But Tony’s good and sweet and so, so lonely and how could Bucky not? He thinks he’s got a shot after Tony breaks up with his boyfriend but on a trip across the country, he finds out that Tony needs a bondmate or the board will steal SI—and Ty’s already said yes.

Steve/Tony
6,405 words

Tony Stark, second newest engineer at Rhodes Labs International, is just trying to rebuild from the ruins of his failed company, vanished fortune, and struggles with alcoholism. His goals include keeping his head down, avoiding stress and convincing Dr. Rhodes to let him build a really cool robot, so why does the universe keep throwing Avengers in his path?

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.

Bucky/Tony
96,126+ words

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

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

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
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.

Steve/Tony
9,575 words

Tony thinks piloting the armor remotely while letting the others believe he’s wearing it is a good plan, until he realizes he’s not hung over, but actually quite ill.

Steve thinks something’s off with Tony today, but he has no clue what that might be, and since Tony says he’s good to go, they’ll proceed with the mission anyway.

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?!

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
4,599 words

“Well, that’s just my fucking luck, isn’t it?” The camera lurches, frame dropping from the ceiling to focus on Tony’s squinting eyes, right up in front of the lens while he makes an adjustment. “No Jarvis, outdated equipment, vibranium withdrawal. I should invite alcoholism over, really make it a party.”

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
86,877 words

In 2017 the Earth is about to end. In 1987 Howard Stark might have the answer. The solution seems simple, except Tony has the worst of luck, and he might just be stuck.

In which Tony hates magic, time travel, babysitting amnesiac assassins and being seventeen.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
21,232 words

Wanted: Mechanic for car workshop, no experience needed. First six months only room and board, later payment in accordance with services rendered. No smoking, no pets. Start asap.

When Tony sees the ad he packs his bags and runs away from his small town home all the way to New York. A place where he can hide that he’s the only heir to the Stark fortune. Where no one calls him names or hits him for being too smart, not smart enough, too gay.

What he finds is a mechanic who might be as damaged as he is and a blond spitfire who tries so hard, but who can't seem to find the right buttons to help heal his friend. Somehow they connect, and somewhere along the line Tony feels like maybe it's possible for him to build a home, if not for that nagging fear of his past catching up with him.

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.

Steve/Tony
3,301 words

Tony was a hot mess when he was sick. Prickly, on the surface. But if you could work your way past that – which Steve had managed long ago – he was clingy, whiny. Needy. Essentially, everything he’d grown up believing a Stark shouldn’t be.

It's Sunday morning, and Tony just wants a warm bed, and Steve. He gets a board meeting, and a crazy high fever instead.

 Bucky/Tony
19,593 words

Bucky remembers Howard. They were friends during the war. He also remembers killing him and his wife and staging it as an accident. Now he’s been given safety and friends under the hospitality of Howard’s son and if Bucky can’t change the past he’ll try to make up for it by protecting the person who not only gave him a home but had to live with the consequences of his actions. He didn’t expect to get too attached to Tony Stark.

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.

Steve/Tony
20,198 words

When Tony Stark cut Steve Rogers' morning jog short to join him on a reconnaissance mission off the East Coast, Tony sure wasn’t expecting to end up stuck on a life raft in the middle of the ocean, Steve's hand knuckle-deep in his chest.

Bucky/Tony
27,375 words

It's good. This little banter thing. It keeps them steady and keeps the silence that follows from feeling too heavy.

It's not familiar in any way, but nothing is. Because in reality he has no idea why he and James bonded, how they first met, when they fell in love... There's just a white wall of nothingness in his mind. That should bother him. In fact he's pretty sure it will later, down the line... But if you can't flirt with your own bonded alpha that you broke out of an evil cult's secret lair with, then what's the point of living? None, that's what.

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
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.

Bucky/Tony
8,600 words

Tony doesn't need a bodyguard, okay? He can take care of himself just fine. Now if he can just convince everyone else - including the handsome new bodyguard.

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.

Bucky/Tony
8,111 words

Freshly back to the States, James Barnes has a lot to learn about his new world, so he watches and learns and finds himself slowly falling for one Tony Stark, who always appears miserable when he has to spend time at the Compound with his former teammates, but who still takes the time to treat James with kindness.

James sets out on a mission to take care of Tony, make Tony’s life easier in whatever small ways he can. An unfortunate misunderstanding nearly ruins that, but in the end, James still reaps the rewards of his secret good deeds.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
16,651 words

In a world where your soulmate's favorite color appears on your skin when they are injured, Tony Stark is born with grey-- the color that appears when your soulmate is incapacitated or dead-- across his body.

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.

Steve/Bucky, pre-slash Steve/Bucky/Tony
161,594 words

Shit hits the fan. The news of Thanos's impending invasion forces the Avengers to reassemble, with some friends new and old, and things don't go entirely smoothly.

Steve/Tony
20,053 words

The reasons not to join the Avengers were many and varied. The problem was that when Captain America smiled at him, Tony had trouble remembering what they were.

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
7,424 words

"Do you think this is still a training exercise, or did we just get our asses handed to us by actual bad guys?" asked Clint.

Tony, Steve, Clint and Bruce spend quality time together in a cave. Tony does not build another arc reactor (even if he sort of needs one). Steve is all Protective Leader. Clint is terrifyingly good with a knife. Bruce bleeds and snarks. There is banter and embarrassing amounts of schmoop and the boys get very touchy-feely.

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."

Clint/Tony
17,814 words

Look, Clint didn't mean to hit the guy, it just sort of happened. He was distracted, and the guy was distracted, and then things were a little bit out of his control. And even if it wasn't completely his fault, he still feels pretty bad about it. He had to go see the guy, didn't he? It was only polite, so yeah. He'd do that.

And look, he doesn't mean to start fake dating his accident victim either, but sometimes life is weird that way. You just gotta go with the flow when it happens, and learn to be the best fake boyfriend ever.

Steve/Tony
27,698 words

Months after the Battle of New York, the team moves into the tower. Tony and Steve keep dancing around each other, but besides his feelings towards the man, Tony has enough to deal with, what with trying to come to terms with himself and his own, personal issues.

He struggles through and through, but in the end, there's only one person who can save him -- the one person he hates the most: himself.

Bucky/Tony
2,608 words

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

OR

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

Steve/Tony
14,690 words

The way Steve’s beating that bag, though—Tony traces the cadence as well as the lines of Steve’s body, and wonders if he might not need to know about the mission after all. There’s a lot of tension knotted in Steve’s shoulders, a frenzy to each punch. The precision lacks. Maybe Steve’s just getting started, and if that’s the case, Tony could be here a long, long while.

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. 🙂

Steve/Bucky/Tony
8,613 words

Tony does the good thing and doesn't make Steve choose between himself and Bucky. He's not prepared for the consequences.

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.

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.

Steve/Tony
5,872 words

Steve and Tony help each other learn to breathe again.

Steve/Tony
3,413 words

Every day Tony woke up in his little cell, and every day Steve came to visit. Tony was never prepared for what happened next.

Steve/Tony
21,379 words

After Siberia, Tony held it together, but after that awful letter he started drinking. Heavily. And now he's having blackouts. Obviously, he doesn't remember calling Rogers on that cursed phone. And what you can't remember, well, it didn't happen. Obviously.

And Steve Rogers has had enough.

Thor/Tony
31,650 words

The entire world thinks Tony Stark is a Dom.

The entire world is wrong.

******
....Thor knew he was thoroughly intruding on Tony’s privacy by entering the penthouse suite of rooms uninvited, but the Dominant intruded anyway, slipping through the half open door and then shutting it quietly behind himself, following the trail of discarded belongings-- the tablet, Tony’s watch, his shoes, a jacket-- towards the huge ensuite bathroom and over to the giant bath tub.

“...Anthony.” All the air rushed out of Thor in a whoosh when he found Tony huddled in the far corner of the bathtub, fully dressed and hiding his face in his arms, shivering in the cool air and clutching at his own skin hard enough to leave indents and closer to his elbow, hard enough to draw blood that dripped in bright scarlet onto the cold porcelain.

Terrified. Alone. Desperately needing a guiding touch. Submissive.

...Tony was a submissive?

"My darling." the Dom whispered hoarsely, as everything 'wrong' about Tony's behavior suddenly made perfect sense. "I didn't see you before, but I see you now."

"...help me..."

Steve/Bucky/Tony
2,500 words

One moment they’re fighting, yelling scathing insults and ugly accusations at each other, and the next they’re kissing, all teeth and anger-fuelled desperation. Steve backs him up until Tony’s shoulders hit the closest wall, and hoists him up, giving Tony no choice but to wrap his legs around Steve’s waist for support. Tony bites Steve’s bottom lip, hard enough to draw blood, and Steve growls, and grips both of Tony’s wrists in one big hand, his hold bruisingly tight.

Steve/Tony
5,839 words

When Tony starts talking in a language Steve can't understand--the language of science--Steve figures he'll retaliate with a little foreign language knowledge of his own. Only once he starts speaking French around Tony, Steve finds that sometimes it's easier to say what he really wants to say to Tony in a language he can't understand.

Good thing Tony doesn't know French.

Steve/Tony
1,549 words

Steve and Tony are pen-pals through the years.

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, Rhodey/Tony
10,008 words

The first time Jarvis holds little Anthony in his arms, he is overwhelmed by emotion that is surprising in its intensity. When little Anthony's palm curves around his finger, Jarvis ducks his head to keep the others from seeing the wetness in his eyes.

"Hello Master Anthony," he whispers into the little ear, tugging the bundle of blankets closer to his heart.

Steve/Tony
10,193 words

The first two times Tony invited him to stay in Stark Tower, Steve said no. But that was before he realized that sometimes even the great Tony Stark needed help.

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
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/Steve/Tony
45,309 words

Ultron is destroyed, the Avengers are in disarray, and the Winter Soldier is still in the wind. Steve knows that he has to fix the ever-growing ocean of distrust between Tony and himself, so he takes a leap of faith and tasks Tony with the most important thing: finding Bucky Barnes. But it takes a pair of sexy but stolen hand warmers, several robots, Hawkeye and countless selfies before Steve realizes the immensity of what he's set into motion.

Clint/Tony
3,327 words

After being hurt in a fight, Tony ends up temporarily blind and tries to hide it from the team so they don't worry.

Clint is the only one to notice, and an honest conversation between the two about exactly how much Tony matters to the team leads to unexpected kisses.

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.

Gen
25,222 words

A few months have passed since the Avengers fought the Chitauri, and the team is coming together, except for Tony, who seems to be coming apart. At first, Steve assumes that he's just being irresponsible and annoying, but then JARVIS clues him in.

Steve/Tony
26,466 words

The Mandarin was after Tony, after his brain, his abilities, but he underestimated Tony, JARVIS, even the Avengers; this does not go well for him.

Steve/Tony
11,331 words

They find Howard Stark's old workshop boarded up in the basement of the New York office during renovations.

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.

Poly!Avengers
22,829 words

Tony’s still not always sure how they all fell out like this. Well, okay, it isn’t like he’s completely clueless, he’s always very aware of sex, in all its forms and manipulations, going on around him and with him.

But Tony had to be blind not to notice the trinkets that Steve and Bruce were sporting.

-

In a world where omegas are given courting gifts of jewelry when alphas or betas or other omegas want to have sex with them, the media, the newspapers, and talk show hosts always make dismissive and disgusted remarks about how Tony Stark sleeps with so many people and yet refuses to wear any of their jewelry in public. Self-centered and arrogant, some say, while others whisper that, with his wealth, Tony really shouldn't be asking for gifts in the first place. Even with all the speculation about how rich and how decadent Tony's jewelry collection must be, however, no one's ever seen it.

Because Tony... Tony doesn't have a collection at all.

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...

Bucky/Tony
17,687 words

Bruce grits his teeth. “I don’t know what you want me to say,” he snaps. “None of us have ever seen this before, Tony. This bug never even existed until Bucky caught it. We’re charting new territory here. So, tell me, you have any bright ideas?”

Tony deflates, promptly. “No, no, I fucking don’t.” He shakes his head, bitterly. “It shouldn’t happen like this. He shouldn’t have to linger on any of it, any of that torment and suffering and misery and fucking horror those evil bastards put him through. It’s not fucking fair.” He jumps off the bed. “I’m, uh, I’m going to re-wet these rags. They’re getting a little dry,” he mutters, in an attempt to vacate the current situation as soon as possible, just for a little bit, so he can get his head on straight.

“Mission Report: December 16th, 1991.”

Tony reels to a stop, just in front of the bathroom door. When he turns around, a shuddering sort of stillness hangs in the air, like everyone’s terrified that a pin is going to drop and destroy everything.

Well, everyone except for Bucky, who groans like he’s dying and stares at Tony with filmy eyes.

“Howard Stark,” he pants. “Maria Stark.”

Gen
6,183 words

Tony is involved in an accident that renders him mute. His recovery and struggles with coping are accompanied by friends old and new.

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.

Bucky/Tony
4,912 words

He was absolutely fine. Like he'd said, today was a normal day. Full of normal things, and normal friends, and normal routines.

It was also the day Obie had yanked his heart out of his chest and then used his own design to try and murder him with, but who the hell cared about that? If he decided to freak out on the date that every bad thing ever happened, he'd be a mess.

(He already was a mess, but whatever.)

Bucky/Tony
32,889 words

Months after the Avengers' dispute in Germany, the team returns to the US and moves back into the tower. As always, everyone pretends that nothing happened. Tony is just fine with this. He's used to pretending, and he'll be damned if he lets any of them see him flinch.

Tony's the bad guy, after all. He's used to it. He's fine with it. He's good at it.

Only now, there's something far worse loitering around the tower - The Winter Soldier. No one notices the guy at first, but when they do, Tony figures that he should have the soldier's back.

Birds of a feather should flock together, and the bad guys should start a book club.

Steve/Tony
1,831 words

Steve Rogers never had a soulmate. The other side of his bond was empty.

Tony Stark wishes his was. He just wants to stop being cold.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
17,096+ words

Tony is starting over after leaving his abusive husband. Said abusive husband isn't making it easy. Luckily Steve and Bucky are there to keep an eye out while Rhodey's deployed.

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
21,370 words

Tony's freezing to death in a Siberian bunker.

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

Bucky/Steve/Tony
6,505 words

Tony knew his soulmates were dead before he hit puberty. He saw them every time he looked in the mirror, two ghosts following him around forever.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
29,510 words

“I just, I’m not always great with words, but I saw how Tony talked about you and then I saw how you talked about Tony and I just, well, I couldn’t unsee it. But then we came back here and now I see the way I look at Tony and I can’t unsee him the way you do… the way he’s meant to be seen.”

Steve scrubbed a hand over his face and through his hair before speaking, “Even if we can get Tony on board, it’s not gonna be easy Buck.”

Bucky gave a familiar, relaxed shrug, “defending your aggressive, skinny ass in every back alley in Brooklyn wasn’t easy either, but it was worth it.”

Steve/Tony
18,120 words

Steve and Tony fight, which is honestly not that unusual.

Then Tony gets kidnapped. And suddenly Steve has a lot more to worry about than their stupid argument.

Steve/Tony
18,173 words

Tony would call it bad luck but, let's be honest, it was probably a long time coming.

Or: Steve tries to find Tony and realizes some things along the way.

Bucky/Tony
21,208 words

Everyone has a soulmate, the one person in this world that will complete you. Tony has always known he wouldn’t meet his, but it was enough to know he was loved.

Until it wasn't.

Steve/Tony
55,859 words

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

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

Bucky/Steve/Tony
66,482 words

Steve knows it's his fault. No one seems to blame him but he knows full well that it was his leadership that put Tony in the hospital, seriously injured and in a coma. Steve stays by his side constantly because he has to wake up, Steve will never forgive himself if he doesn't.

Thor/Tony
16,673 words

Tony has always known that he loves people more than they love him. It's been a constant pattern all of his life - his parents, Jarvis, Obie, Rhodey, Pepper, Steve, everyone. He just never seems to be able to win. That's ok though, he's too old to believe in fairy tales anymore anyways. He obviously isn't meant for it. Who needs that kind of love anyways? He's fine without it. And then comes Thor...

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.

Steve/Tony
7,901 words

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

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

Steve/Tony
11,494 words

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

(Or maybe denial does more harm than good)

Steve/Tony
31,871 words

Tony Stark is not a narcissist, a liar, a soldier, a good listener, a hypocrite, or any of the other bullshit words people like to use. He knows himself, what he is and isn’t, what he does and doesn’t know. And he knows not just numbers, equations, and schematics, but words too.

After Siberia, expectations of Tony feel higher than ever: he’s heading the Avengers; working to revise the Accords; trying to do right by the teenagers who for some reason look up to him; plus the usual work for Stark Industries. He doesn’t really have time to deal with what’s left of his friendship with Steve, let alone figure out his own shit. (He ends up doing a lot of that anyway.)

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.

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/Loki/Tony
9,139 words

Tony has a secret, one he's desperate to keep. His soulmates are supervillains. When push comes to shove and there's nowhere left to run, can he trust his team to help him? What's more, can he trust his soulmates?

Steve/Tony
22,197 words

Three months after the Battle of New York, the Avengers are working better and better together. But Stark being silent on comms after a battle with clumsy robots is starting to worry Steve. Meanwhile, not that far away, an injured Tony is now without JARVIS and hopes he gets help before he bleeds out.

Steve/Tony
16,862 words

Tony and Steve meet for business, but a storm blows in and everything gets a little more intense.

Steve/Tony
30,400 words

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

Bucky/Tony
24,434 words

Pretty much everything had gone to hell after the accident, really. Life had been good beforehand. His dad had been distant, sure, but his mother had been a warm light to wipe that all away. At least Howard had been supportive, in his own way. He hadn’t liked that Tony wanted to be a dancer, but he’d made damn sure Tony would be the absolute best once he figured out there was no persuading the young genius otherwise. He’d even been at that performance; the last one Tony had ever done. It was hard to keep dancing after a spinal injury, after all. Not to mention how all that metal in his chest really limited his lung capacity.

Steve/Tony
15,477 words

Came out of nowhere and feels like drowning. And its not a peaceful fade-out. Lungs burn and eyes water - and Tony just... Steve's breathless, but Tony can't breathe. He goes to his knees... and Steve's world falls apart.

Steve/Tony
9,133 words

This is not the easy mission promised by Stephen Strange. Not only did magic crash the jet in the jungle and busted Tony's armor, now Steve is hurt and they are running for their lives. Yeah, definitely not a milk run, and Tony will have words with Strange as soon as they get out of this.

Steve/Tony
8,309 words

Steve is used to the way it feels by now; a strange but gentle tugging connection under his sternum, warm tingles in his skin whenever they touch. That is, until Tony gets himself kidnapped. Then it kinda feels more like someone is trying to wrench his heart out through his ribcage.

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
10,694 words

Steve has eight weeks to finish studying for and pass his bar exam. And its going rather well, until 20 year old boy genius Tony walks into the same library, and sits at the same table.

Steve/Tony
585,037+ words

Tony slams his hands angrily on the surface of Howard’s workstation, making everything tremble until his father glares furiously at him. He ignores it and begs, “Please don’t make me marry my godfather.”

Or

Yet another Marriage of Convenience AU with a/b/o dynamics that no one asked for. Angst with Happy Ending™ 100% Guaranteed or Your Money Back. This has an extremely experimental and dramatic tone that shifts unexpectedly at times.

Steve/Tony
3,669 words

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

But for some reason, it is.

Steve/Tony
9,598 words

When Tony comes back from a very bad D/s date, in pain and abandoned by his dom, Steve offers to help Tony out and give him all the aftercare he so desperately needs.

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.

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
26,506 words

After the Civil War, the Avengers were back together. 

How is everything going, Tony? Pepper had asked in her email.
It's fine (Tony had written back). I'm fighting with Steve all the time. Everything is going to hell. I'm okay (you know I'm always okay).

 (Or: How Tony and Steve learned to be a bit gentler with each other)

Bucky/Tony
12,087 words

Bucky has always taken up really weird jobs. Once he was a mascot and got beaten up by twelve year olds regularly, he also worked at a camp for a while doing maintenance and not once but twice some kid shit in the shower. He once wrote Hallmark card sayings for a while, which led to writing fortunes for fortune cookies. Bucky eventually left that job to be a professional pet cuddler, which led to him somehow finding his way into professional human cuddling, which he left quickly because he was paid to be the big spoon, not someone’s therapist. His time as a bed warmer was the most fun though.

So Bucky was more than used to a little bit of strangeness to his jobs- that hardly meant he was prepared for his job working for Tony Stark.

Bucky/Tony
3,366 words

Bucky accidentally crashes a blind date and he's not all that sorry about it.

Steve/Tony
27,299 words

Tony gets hit with truth serum. It's a terrible time for everyone.

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.

Gen
1,535 words

Tony doesn't like to make a fuss when he gets hurt. He just wants to lick his wounds in private and get back to it.

The Avengers have other ideas.

Steve/Tony
6,797 words

Steve wakes up to the fact that no one ever compliments or even says thank you to Tony, and that he has fallen into the same trap of painting Tony with a specific paintbrush.

This is how he showers a very confused Tony with praise to make up for it.

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
7,662 words

When magical artificer Tony Stark falls down a hole and breaks his leg, he doesn't really intend to come to the attention of the dark elves who live there.

But when brother and sister, Bucky and Natasha, take him in and heal his injuries, Tony has to question everything he thought he knew about the drow.

Bucky/Tony
4,263 words

"Hey, darling." The pet name rolled sarcastically off Tony's tongue where it crawled across the floor and up Bucky's spine to stab repeatedly at his heart. "Guess who's still your emergency contact?"

Bucky winced. "Shit."

Bucky/Tony
5,569 words

Tearing it all down and starting over from scratch is not, admittedly, the healthiest coping mechanism, but that’s all Tony knows how to do at this point.

After Siberia, he starts with the arm.

By the time Thanos attacks, he ends with a dream.

Gen

The arc reactor, despite being a technical marvel, is quite invasive. There have to be side effects to its presence in Tony's chest beyond the now-resolved Palladium poisoning. The team are about to find out just how debilitating it can be. This would be easier if Tony didn't feel the compulsion to hide the fact that he's sick. Misunderstandings all around, especially given Stark's reputation.

Bucky/Tony
5,376 words

When he gets the first voicemail Bucky listens and deletes without a second thought. New phone now that he's back, probably just a simple misdial. With the second, he listens and deletes, convinced that the caller will realize their mistake when this ‘Jarvis’ never returns their call. The third and fourth he keeps with guilty conscious because there is something about the other man's voice that his broken brain latches onto. With the fifth, tearful and pleading, Bucky confesses to Steve who convinces him to call the number and tell the guy he misdialed. When he finally begins to work up the nerve the sixth comes through it stops him in his tracks.

‘Hey Jarvis, just me. I’m OK, mostly. A little beat up, but hey, that’s Howard. I just wanted… I just.... goddammit. Fuck J I miss you so much! God. Final semester of MIT starts soon and Rhody won't be there and you aren't here because you're gone and it's all my fault!’ Broken sobbing interrupted the message and Bucky felt his heart constrict. ‘Why’d you have to die Jarvis? Why’d you have to leave me alone with Howard? I need you. I… '

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.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
244,942 words

The 1700s, the Golden Age of Piracy, and Captain Steve Rogers has all he wants: a ship, a loyal crew, Bucky at his side, and the horizon offering a new adventure everyday.
But an impulsive kiss gone wrong leads to a marriage between Steve and Tony Stark, and now Steve doesn't know what to do about ANYTHING.
Steve loves Bucky, but something about Tony draws him in. Tony is too innocent for this life, but he picks up a sword anyway. Bucky is Steve's, but when he offers his hand to Tony and now the three of them are something new.
When the truth about Steve's mission to ruin the Stark name comes out, Tony runs away, leaving Steve and Bucky behind in search of answers to the secrets hidden from him his whole life-- about his company, about Uncle Obie, about his parents death.

Steve and Bucky cant abandon their mission against Stane and Tony cant deal with the answers he finds in New York.
Is this the end? Is Tony gone forever? Or will he leave his old life and return to the sea and the Pirates that hold his heart?

Bucky/Tony
3,150 words

There was a tight smile to go with the tea, along with metallic fingers brushing against his own as he took hold of the mug. There was a stubborn child within his heart that resented the kindness of the gesture. He’d been working on disciplining his inner child though, because Bucky wasn’t going to stop doing nice things for him anytime soon, not by a long shot. Tony didn’t really want him to, anyway.

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."

Bucky/Tony
7,721 words

“I-I’m sorry, I was looking for the shelter?” The Omega’s voice comes out with a squeak as the man notices he’s staring down the barrel of Bucky’s rifle.

Bucky notices his scent immediately. Omega. Exhaustion. Panic. He lets the shotgun sink.

“You missed by half a mile.“ Bucky watches the shoulders slump, then wince as lightning brightens the sky, followed by an ear-splitting roll of thunder.

The bundle in the man’s arms starts whimpering.

“I think you should stay here.”

Bucky/Tony
5,525 words

When a mission goes wrong, it leaves Bucky and Tony trapped together, waiting for help. That might turn out to be a good thing in the end, though.

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.

Bucky/Tony
79,572 words

HYDRA didn't create only one magic-user while in possession of Loki's scepter. There's another, and his powers are... a little different from Wanda's. The Avengers crew breaks into a HYDRA base to rescue Tony, who was kidnapped three weeks ago. Only, he isn't the way he was when he left them to go check out the place. Instead, he's now five and a half years old. And he's absolutely terrified of Steve. The Avengers do what they can to keep little-Tony happy until they can get Strange to come take a look at him, and (hopefully) change him back to his rightful age. It's not so easy dealing with a traumatized five-year-old, though, especially one who has some major attachment issues. Toward Bucky, of all people. Throw in some HYDRA shenanigans, and it makes for an interesting time, if not the most peaceful. Older-Tony isn't going to appreciate how much little-Tony blabs, either, but it's pretty hard to tell a five-year-old to shut up when no one wants to hurt his feelings...

Steve/Tony
21,106 words

Steve doesn’t mind that Tony doesn’t return his feelings. He just would've preferred if it didn’t come with the side effect of his coughing up flowers and possibly dying.

Bucky/Tony
10,402 words

Two weeks after the so-called Civil War, Shuri drops a healing Bucky Barnes off at the Avengers Compound. Tony figures out pretty quickly that they both have a lot of healing to do.

Thor/Tony
19,199 words

--“Who hit you?” Growling. “Give me their name.”

The Omega tried to cower away and cover his face but the Alpha too quickly reached across the table and cupped his chin in a huge hand, forcing him to look up and into the light again.

“It--it was nobody.” Anthony stammered as the Alpha loomed closer to peer at the ugly bruises. “I-- I’m clumsy, it was nothing. No one. No one hit me. It’s alright. I'm fine”

“Tis not alright.” A brush of calloused thumb at the Omega’s jaw, the softest touch he’d had in years, and Anthony was mortified when tears sprang to his eyes. “Does it hurt?”

“I--” Anthony nearly lied, but another feather soft touch at his cheek had him whispering soft, “Yes. Very much so.”

“The nobody that blackened your eye will never do so again, do you understand? They will never touch you again.” Conviction burned bright in Thor’s good eye. “You are safe with me, little runaway.”

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.

Steve/Tony
15,876 words

Blinded, deafened, exhausted, injured and afraid, Tony raised himself up into a defensive position, the knife coming up just like Nat had taught him.

“That had better fucking be you, Steve Rogers- it had better be you. Fucking disarm me. If you let me kill you, I swear I will be very, very pissed.” Tony snarled, sure it was Steve approaching. Had to be. Had. To. Be.

What if it wasn’t?

Gen
3,575 words

"Oh good," Steve said. "Keep talking. We'll triangulate on your signal."

"Don't need to hear me to do that," Tony sighed.

"Yes, well, I only asked for a minute of quiet and that was four, so you're over your quota for the day."

Poly!Avengers
12,330 words

Tony, like just about everyone else on the planet, was born with two soulmarks. One belonged to him, and one was the mark that linked him to his perfect match. Two circles, a smaller one inside of a larger one, with a small star in the middle, colored red white and blue, marked the right side of his rib cage, just below his armpit. And in the center of his chest, another circle, this one not filled in, but just the outline of a circle in electric blue. This one belonged to him.

But unlike everyone else, Tony's marks do not stop at two.

Gen
70,339 words

What if despair had a name and liked to eat your nightmares for breakfast? The Avengers are out on a routine mission when despair comes calling, and it sets its sight on our favorite genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist. As the team rallies to rescue their friend, they are brought face to face with the fact that they don’t really know Tony at all.

Bucky/Tony
4,114 words

“You carried me,” Tony suddenly realized. “I passed out and you carried me here.”

Bucky averted his eyes, putting down the now empty bowl on a nearby table. He didn't answer.

“How far?” Tony asked and Bucky's face twisted before it smoothed back out.

“Far enough.”

Or: Bucky and Tony get caught in a snowstorm and Bucky's protective streak takes over.

Steve/Tony
7,609 words

Tony couldn't hide the bruises and injuries forever, pretending like nothing was wrong. One of these days, Tiberius was going to really lose control, and Tony would be lucky to survive. Eventually someone would have to notice.

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.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
34,771 words

After the events of “Civil War” Tony decides to take himself out of the Avengers equation. In the midst of getting things set up for his departure, craziness ensues. Charles Xavier won’t let him go peacefully and a couple of super soldiers from an alternate dimension pop up out of nowhere adding in another wrinkle to Tony’s plans.

Let it never be said Tony’s life was anything but complicated.

Gen
4,846 words

Tony Stark is six when he learns that nobody will come for him. If he wants to be rescued, he’ll have to take care of it himself.

Bucky/Tony
32,894 words

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

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

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

Bucky/Steve/Tony
9,191 words

Tony curled himself into a little ball, folding his wings over his tiny body and shivered. So, this is how he would die? Left starving and frozen in the snow?

He hoped his death would be quick.

Steve/Tony
4,660 words

Tony Stark was called a lot of things, but tender wasn't one of them. Too bad his super-hero boyfriend disagreed.

Steve/Tony
2,315 words

Steve is falling for Tony, a patient who seems to end up with more minor dings and dents than anyone Steve has ever met. But this time, it's not minor.

Steve/Tony
12,477 words

The last thing Steve Rogers expects is to find his soulmate in the middle of a screaming match while trying to prevent an alien invasion. Tony Stark’s not exactly thrilled about it either. At first.

As it turns out, falling in love is even more complicated when you fall for your soulmate.

Steve/Tony
10,359 words

Very, very few people are allowed to hand things to Tony Stark. Steve has to fight to become one of them, and in the process, becomes something more.

Clint/Tony
4,188 words

Tony was pretty sure there was a ghost living out its afterlife in his kitchen. He thought it must have moved in approximately two Thursdays ago, and it seemed to really enjoying cooking - especially Italian - and crappy Chinese takeout. It also seemed to be very friendly, as it always left a note that said something along the lines of ‘for my generous host’ or ‘leftovers are Tony’s, NO ONE EAT’ on top of the food.

Steve/Tony
63,438 words

Steve's used to missing his shot. To being too late, too scared, and losing everything. But he really did think that this time, with Tony, something could work.

Then Tony meets Mark. He's cool and charming, he's a scientist and he's perfect for a man like Tony Stark.

And suddenly Steve...
Well. Steve just doesn't have a place anymore

Bucky/Tony
3,844 words

Surviving a near death experience was weird. That was the only word that came to mind. Tony vacillated wildly between highs, and lows, but with everything going on, he was mostly able to shove his unwelcome feelings into the background, and focus on his New Life. When you built a badass, flying suit and became a superhero almost overnight, you were definitely allowed to abuse capital letters when talking about your life.

Tony was pretty good at ignoring it, though, because, well… Iron Man. Too busy. Too important. Too many wrongs to right, and people wanting to get their grubby hands on his sexy tech, so there was always a reason to do or think about something other than the flesh and blood Tony Stark’s problems.

Right up until he didn’t have a choice, anymore.

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, 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.

Steve/Tony
4,817 words

"Jesus, Steve, it's not like I went diving in the Mariana Trench, I'm fine." Totally fine, and if he's shaking a little and can't quite bring himself to stop touching the arc reactor, whatever, no one's perfect.

(This is how they piece it together and make it work.)

Bucky/Tony
3,455 words

“Fix it.”

Tony blinked into the semi-darkness, his heart kindly reminding him of how alive he was by attempting to punch straight through his ribcage in response to the soft, raspy voice. He knew it was fear and adrenaline, but stupidly instead of making a run for it Tony just stood there and thought of cartoons. His imagination had conjured up a visualization of his heart stretching out through his shirt and pounding away in the air all va-va-voom, as if he’d been struck with Cupid’s arrow.

“Sorry, I’m strictly appointment only.”

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/Tony
41,340 words

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

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

Bucky/Tony
14,930 words

Tony really hates magic. Has he mentioned that lately? He really, really hates magic. Nothing ever good ever comes of it. What he hates even more than magic? Portals. So when the two are combined, he really isn't happy. His point is proven when said magical portal spits of not one, but two, different versions of his father along Ana and Jarvis, young Aunt Peggy and his Mama. Things get... a little bit... interesting after that, shall we say? This may be a blessing in some ways, but it also a curse. It ends up being something else too - a way to finally lay some of his demons to rest, maybe.

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.

Gen
11,086 words

5 times one of the Avengers saw a gap in Tony's mask and 1 time they didn't. The Avengers realise they don't know Tony Stark as well as they thought they did.

Steve/Bucky/Tony
19,944 words

Tony’s world breaks into pieces the moment he learns the identity of the Winter Soldier, but proverbial hammer hits in Siberia, and no man could’ve predicted it, not even Tony.

Steve/Tony
8,794 words

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

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

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

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

Steve/Tony
15,443 words

"Tony, even if you don't go talk to him, you have to face the fact that your father – or at least some version of him – is on this ship right now. This is happening. Whether you want it or not."

Steve/Bucky/Tony
13,609 words

Tony Stark – genius, inventor, entrepreneur, student – is determined to build a company which makes his father’s legacy obsolete by the time he’s thirty but, in the meantime, he’s studying and inventing in between going to the bare amount of classes he’s required to attend at university.

Getting tangled up with students from the Arts Programme wasn’t a part of the plan but, Tony’s good at rolling with the punches and it promises to be one hell of a ride. After all, further education is supposed to be about trying something new.

Gen
37,536 words

Following the events in Manhattan, the Avengers are all dealing with their own unique, internal struggles and Tony finds himself playing therapist. Consumed with their own demons, they fail to see that Tony may just be the one who needs the most help. Rated for language, violence and alcoholism.

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.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
3,778 words

Tony stared at the white, popcorn ceiling above him and tried to figure out what the fuck was going on. It wasn't his bedroom. It wasn't Sunset's bedroom. He must have just woken up because his body still had the heavy, weighted feeling of sleep, but he couldn't remember going to bed last night, nor could he quite remember actually waking up. 

Gen
4,559 words

Bruce isn't even gone for two days when Tony gets himself kidnapped. Again. S.H.I.E.L.D is telling everybody to calm down and wait, but the Avengers Team has other ideas. And in the midst of their daring rescue, the others finally catch sight of all the arc reactor is. 

Steve/Tony
124,987 words

Tony takes the bullet meant for Captain America at the end of their war and through his death, brings together the team again. Only, he isn't really dead and when he comes back, the equations between the team-mates begin to alter and reform, writing a new story altogether.

Steve/Tony
12,657 words

while held captive by HYDRA, Tony's memories of Iron Man are stolen from him. He doesn't know how to get them back, and with every passing second, he becomes more and more aware of how expendable he truly is when he doesn't have the appeal of the suit to keep him afloat.

Just how long is it going to take for the team to get bored of him, now that he has nothing to offer them?

Steve/Bucky/Tony
12,908 words

Fact: Tony Stark is woefully in love with Bucky Barnes and Steve Rogers

Fact: Tony Stark will never be able to have Bucky Barnes and Steve Rogers

Fact: Sometimes, the Universe doesn't agree with Tony Stark's facts, and decides it's going to do its own thing.

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.

Steve/Tony
22,205 words

No one is supposed to survive the date written on their skin. And yet Tony's numbers keep piling up.

Bruce/Clint/Steve/Natasha/Tony/Thor
10,432 words

The Avengers gravitate toward each other, a relationship borne of close calls and sacrifice. Tony struggles to understand, but whether it takes a nudge or a shove, he’s got a whole team prepared to help him figure it out.

Bucky/Tony
5,439 words

Bucky was cold, tired, and his bum shoulder was killing him. Being stuck in the middle of Nowhere, North Carolina with a busted bike was not how he envisioned spending the last few weeks of his leave. Thankfully, there's a sleep-deprived, big-hearted mechanic there to help Bucky out.

Bucky/Tony
13,515 words

Tony has the unfortunate habit of getting kidnapped.
Fortunately, he has a savior.

5 Times Bucky saved Tony. And 1 Time Tony returned the favor.

Steve/Tony
19,377 words

"He almost lost Tony today. Tony almost died because he wasn’t fast enough, wasn’t smart enough, couldn’t come up with a better plan, was incompetent as a leader. It's like Bucky all over again, and isn't that absolutely terrifying, that Tony is as important to him as Bucky? Tony, the genius billionaire playboy philanthropist he’s known for only a couple of years, who he’s really only gotten to know recently, has squeezed his way into Steve’s heart, right next to his oldest friend. And wouldn't that be the stuff of nightmares, if Steve failed to save him, too."

Bucky/Steve/Tony
102,249 words

Tony is born with a soulmark.

Everyone is born with a mark- unless their soulmate is already dead. What’s unusual is how sometimes Tony has a mark and sometimes he doesn’t.

No one knows what to do with that. Marks only disappear when a person’s soulmate is dead. But one day, Tony had a mark and then the next he didn’t. Tony had barely had enough time to realize that something was wrong before it was back.

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Steve is also born with a mark.

But when Steve is injected with the serum, his mark changes. Marks aren’t supposed to change. They’re supposed to remain static, as static as the fact that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

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The Asset doesn't know if he was born with a mark or not.

He would probably say that he was born with one because everyone seems to have one but, if it's not important to his mission, then he doesn't know.

He does have one though. It appears immediately on his metal arm the first time they attach it to his shoulder.

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Everyone is born with a soulmark but some people's marks are faulty.

Steve/Tony
8,064 words

Peggy Carter has just passed away, and before the funeral in a dull attempt to cheer himself up, Steve Rogers finds himself reading through letters that children, or in particular a certain ex-fanboy (who may or may not be Tony Stark) sent him over the years.

Steve/Tony
9,181 words

Steve Rogers was never more happy the day that his soulmark came in, but it led to nothing but disappointment and shame when his soulmate ignored everything he scribbled across his arm; as the years went by, the reason became unmistakable: why would his soulmate want a weak, wretched little thing like him?

Tony Stark was born bitter cold, like he was made of hailstone, and when his soulmark carved itself across his pulse point, he realized why; so, what is his life worth, what could it ever be worth, when his soulmate is dead and he would never have been worthy of him had he been alive anyway?