Fiction Recs

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.

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
54,436 words

Barnes, 107th Infantry 32557038.

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

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

Loki/Tony
8,674 words

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

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
17,688 words

“You'd better see for yourself,” FRIDAY said as she threw up several articles. When Tony dared to peek a look he groaned. Laughing back at him was his own face as he seemed to hug a smug looking Barnes, topped by the header “Secret affair revealed?” There were more pictures, of them walking together through the ballroom, the two of them close together and staring out into the garden. The headlines weren’t any better. “Lovebirds seeking some alone time?” “Two sides of the war: modern Romeo and Juliet?’ And Tony's favourite: “True reason for Avengers’ fall out: Iron Man stole Cap's love interest!”

When Tony saves James from being harassed during their welcome home gala, the press smells a scoop. Instead of being outraged, the general public reacts overwhelmingly positive to the news, so much so they decide to play along for the time being. But how do you tell the man you orphaned that you might actually like him? Why would James play along for any reason other than feeling in debt? And how are they supposed to mend bridges and be a team again when Steve is so angry all the time?

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/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
40,040 words

"I’m trying to like you, Tony. You’re just making it very hard."

Steve/Tony

Tony makes lists.
Very, very important lists

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/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.