Fiction Recs

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, pre-Steve/Bucky/Tony
7,027 words

Tony is no stranger to people disliking him on sight, hating him with or without reason, but with Steve it’s different. There’s something about Steve, an invisible pull that draws Tony in, makes it impossible for Tony to take the easy way out.

He craves the confrontations with Steve, looks forward to them with an almost perverse glee, his head heavy and foggy with want. Tony wants, he needs. Wants it from Steve, needs it from Steve.

Whatever it is. Tony isn’t sure yet, but he’s determined to find out, no matter what. No backing down.

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/Steve/Tony
35,025 words

Tony Stark is autistic and nonverbal. Which is fine, obviously, except for it means that Steve and Bucky don't have his words, and it only takes him a few minutes to decide they don't need to know he has theirs.

That's also totally and definitely fine, until he goes and falls in love with them.

Steve/Bucky/Tony
13,621 words

“You’ve got war in your heart boy,” Howard sneers, “don’t ever try and pretend to be anything but what you are.”

Tony feels the familiar burn of a flower mark being etched into his skin but he doesn’t look, doesn’t try and check to see what it is. Instead he keeps his eyes on Howard and his hands cupped around his bleeding mouth and nose.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
36,749 words

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

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

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

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

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.

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
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
14,057 words

Soulmarks aren't always a good thing. People say they stand for a grand destiny, but Tony is a fan of evidence over folklore. And evidence states that your 'grand destiny' could simply be your ending. Death or something worse.

Tony thinks his soulmark just represents his death. It certainly doesn't mean that Bucky and Steve are his soulmates.

Steve/Tony
24,901 words

Everyone has a number of names written on their bodies from birth. Steve has three: Margaret Carter, James Barnes and Anthony Stark. After Steve loses two of his soulmates he's not ready to meet his third. If wishes were horses huh?

Includes texting, movie watching a solid amount of pining and a little kicking HYDRA's butt.

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.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
121,464 words

Bucky and Steve work at a coffee shop. Tony meets them when they actually make his insanely caffeinated order. Sparks fly and pants drop. 50% Actual Porn, 40% Schmoop, 10% clothes & coffee porn.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
8,849 words

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

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

Bucky/Steve/Tony
4,985 words

otpstony asked: The soulmate AU's for Stuckony? #20, cause you know Tony and his nicknames. It could be months before he says either of their names, longer if he knows they are his and each other's and angst~~~

Bucky/Tony
10,228 words

When soul mates cross paths, they take away each others' pain, whether or not they ever meet again.

Tony crossed paths with his soul mate at a young age.

It was during a murder.

Steve/Tony
11,291 words

When Tony Stark was born, he had dozens of soul marks scattered across his skin. After Afghanistan, he had none.

Steve Rogers has only ever had one soul mark. And that was since he woke up.

People are born with multiple marks. All Tony has ever prayed for is just one to call his own. Whoever Steve's soulmate is, they're the luckiest person alive.

Tony would give anything to have someone. Especially someone like Steve.

Thor/Tony
3,704 words

Tony could feel the emotional storm raging at the other end of his soul bond and he wasn't going to let a little thing like Shield stand in the way of him reaching his soul mate.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
7,193 words

Tony has always had two soulmates. It’s not entirely unheard of sometimes soulmates die or you get a soulmate who was born in a different generation. With the ever-changing future sometimes, people found their soulmates and ended up with all of them. The point was the fact that tony had Two soulmates wasn’t weird. It was weird how fucking much the marks looked like the handwriting of dead men.

Bucky/Tony
1,471 words

There are so many ways someone can say 'I love you' and once they do it's written on your skin.

Steve/Tony
12,703 words

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

Bucky/Steve/Tony
2,953 words

Tony didn't want to tell Bucky and Steve the truth, but shapeshifting in front of them made the truth pretty hard to miss.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
30,014 words

Tony Stark has always known that Captain Rogers was his soulmate.

What he didn't know...

was why.

Strange/Tony
1,718 words

Christine gives him a once over and smiles a little, “you really don’t believe in the soul mate thing? Come on, I’m sure you have a phrase. Test it on him,” she says, nodding at a tall, attractive Asian guy headed their way. Tony sighs and decides to humor her because it never works- she’s not the first to test his theory.

“Cockthistle thundercunt,” he says as soon as the poor bastard he’s testing this on gets close enough to hear. Imagine his intense surprise when he gets an offended noise of frustration.

“You made me walk around with cockthistle thundercunt on my body my whole life- you have no idea how embarrassing that is!” he snaps.

Yinsen/Tony
2,338 words

Tony had sort of given up hope on meeting his soulmate. And then they met while being held captive by Ten Rings. They made it out miraculously alive, but now Tony's starting to notice that they don't kiss, and they're not really together.

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
7,032 words

“Hey doll,” a new voice said from Tony’s side.

Tony glanced at the person approaching.

Someone was working the rugged, bad boy look. The new guy rocked a leather jacket and blue jeans.

His blue eyes lit up with joy as he approached Tony. “Something wrong here?” The new guy gave the first guy--the one insisting he was Tony's soul mate--a once over then turned his full attention on Tony. “You’re looking a little stressed, anything I can do?”

Tony took the hint.

Tony wrapped his hand around the new guy’s elbow. He kept his touch light and breakable in case he’d misread the cue.

“Just some guy claiming to be my soul mate, babe.”

The new guy’s eyebrows rose to his hairline in surprise. He chuckled and gave the first guy a smirk. “Strange. Last time I checked we were soul mates.”

Poly!Avengers
3,007 words

Tony Stark has five soulmates, but he gave up on finding any of them a long time ago.

Then he does find them - only he's too busy dealing with Loki's alien invasion to notice. Fortunately, there's shawarma after.

Bucky/Tony
3,881 words

There are days where Tony regrets not going back on his word, where he wishes he had told Steve “No, actually, keep that murderer out of my house and as far from me as possible.” Pepper and Rhodey even said he should. Not in as many words, certainly not because of Barnes, but because they know Tony.

Tony knows, though, that the safest place for Barnes—and everyone else, since the first day people found out about the Winter Soldier more and more civilians were getting grand ideas about bringing him in—is the Tower. His only stipulation is that Steve keeps Barnes away from him.

His timer is steadily ticking toward zero, to the day he meets his soulmate, but to be honest? Tony has a lot more on his mind than someone fate picked out for him.

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/Tony
2,244 words

Tony was a little older than average when he found his soulmate. Because his soulmate didn't exist on this planet until he came through a portal from a different dimension.

Bucky/Tony
2,244 words

Tony was a little older than average when he found his soulmate. Because his soulmate didn't exist on this planet until he came through a portal from a different dimension.

Loki/Tony
6,170 words

When Loki picks Tony Stark as his Favourite, it's mostly a means to an end. It quickly becomes something more.

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/Tony
32,629 words

In a universe where you can make contact with your soulmate by drawing onto your skin, Bucky's soulmate immediately stands out. It doesn't bother Bucky too much his soulmate puts them in places where only they can see, the drawings are for him, and that's enough. They are so much more complicated, more detailed, more beautiful than the ones others get, after all.

One day the marks on his skin are not drawings, and they mark a pivotal change in their relationship. A change that ends with Bucky being disillusioned and enlisting. The loss of his arm overseas is just a step above the rock bottom they must reach before it gets better.

This is a story about two soulmates, lost and broken. But aren't broken things more beautiful for the cracks?

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.

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
15,082 words

In a world where Sentinels, people with five heightened senses, bond mentally and spiritually with Guides, people gifted with empathetic powers, Tony Stark has spent thirty-three years overwhelmed by the emotions of those around him and running from his own. Sentinel Steve Rogers wakes up sixty years out of his own time and struggles to deal with the massive amount of new sensory input while trying to find his footing in a New York very different from the one he knew. When they finally find each other, how will their bond change them?

Bucky/Steve/Tony
3,575 words

Bucky's got one goal: to rescue a captured SHIELD agent and get out before the guards realize he's not one of them. Unfortunately, apparently he's also got soulmates, and when their messages and sketches start appearing on his skin, his mission becomes a complicated mess of trying not to get caught covered in their ink.

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
18,611 words

“Someday, someone will choose you, Tony,” his mother had said, her hands back to cupping his. “And no one, not your father, not anyone, can ever take that from you.”

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
3,990 words

The first time someone tells you that they love you, the words are written on your skin. Gold for platonic love, red for romantic. Of course, people don't often say 'I love you' directly, but Tony in particular tends to give really strange marks.

A lot of people had unusual words from Tony Stark, and Bucky wasn't sure why he wasn't one of them.

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.

Steve/Tony
1,944 words

Suddenly everyone in Manhattan has someone else's voice in their head. Tony got Steve's, for his sins.

Bucky/Tony
6,827 words

Tony hated the idea of soulmates. He really, really objected to it on multiple levels, the most important reason being because it seems to negate his entire idea of romance.

Example. Pepper. She is beautiful and amazing, and Tony is convinced they could have been something more together. Didn’t matter, though, because why would Pepper take a risk on seeing how they played out when she knew Tony wasn’t her soulmate? The answer was, she wouldn’t. Didn’t. Never mind that he’d danced at her wedding, and that Pepper and Natasha are perfect (and insanely attractive) together.

It’s the principle of the thing!

Bucky/Tony
7,776 words

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

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

Steve/Tony
53,732 words

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

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.

Bucky/Steve/Tony
10,244 words

Captain America hates him.

He was sort of expecting that, but to have the man staring down at him with unbelievable contempt, well, he’s not lying, it does sting.

One moment, he’s blasting Loki into a well-earned sense of modesty, and then, Steve Rogers is facing him with that condemning smile on his face, saying that “you’re all about style, aren’t you?”

To be fair, they’re both giving as good as they get, and then, Rogers is retorting that “I’ve known men worth ten of you with none of that”, and suddenly, time is freezing all around them.

Tony curls his fingers around his right wrist, his thumb settling over where the words are written over his pulse point: James Buchanan Barnes.

“Yeah, I know,” Tony says, quietly, and then, the entire laboratory is burning.

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.

Bucky/Tony
4,422 words

Whoever Stark’s soulmate was, they were doing a terrible job of it.

(Bucky volunteers to help out.)

Bucky/Tony
7,123 words

Loneliness had followed Tony Stark his entire life, so they were on pretty good terms. Ignoring those empty places inside of himself was easier once the day was in full swing, but the mornings had a way of slipping a knife between his ribs, and getting him right in the heart.

The last place Tony expected to find the cure for his condition was on TV, but now watching the morning weather report has become the highlight of his day. Well, it was less the weather, and more the weatherman. One look at Bucky Barnes making some adorably lame joke about umbrellas, all lopsided smile and sparkling eyes, and Tony was in love.

Steve/Tony
6,570 words

He pulled back just in time for Tony to shoot up, eyes wide.

“What the hell?” He looked around, blinking quickly. “Please tell me nobody kissed me.”

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.

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
13,483 words

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

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

Bucky/Tony
8,775 words

Tony is captured and deaged while on a business trip, but the team - his family - jumps right into action to take care of their tiny, shy resident genius while they figure out how to fix this. Or at least, they try to, concern growing each time he freezes at the sight of Steve.

But that was something personal, whispered to Bucky between frustrated tears one night, so Bucky wouldn’t be telling that secret unless push came to shove.

Too bad for Tony....it does.

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
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?