Fiction Recs

Steve/Tony
19,544 words

“Mr. Stark? I, uh, I'm still not entirely sure how to do this, but the gentleman told me to leave a message, so I guess...” A sigh rattled over the phone line. “Look, Tony, I'm going to level with you – they told me I had one phone call, and you... you're the first person that popped into my head. So, yeah, I, uh... I've sort of been arrested, and I know we don't always see eye to eye, but I – if it's not too much trouble, that is – could really use some help, if you... you know what? It doesn't matter. Sorry for bothering you, Mr. Stark.”

A reworking of IM3.

Steve/Tony
13,064 words

Tony tends to be tactile with people he trusts. These days that list of people includes Steve, which is a good sign of the progression of their friendship. For his part, Steve seems to enjoy it as much as Tony does... until Tony goes a little too far.

Steve/Tony
10,814 words

This was just supposed to be a once-in-a-while cat sitting gig to get Tony back on his feet. It wasn't supposed to be weeks on end at an amazing apartment, it wasn't supposed to be mysterious locked rooms, it wasn't supposed to be masked men in the middle of the night.

And it definitely wasn't supposed to be falling head over heels in love.

Steve/Tony
10585 words

In which Clint works behind the counter, Tony is a regular and Steve is the new guy who only goes in for one cup but can’t stop coming back for the coffee. He says it’s the coffee. Spoiler alert: It’s not. It’s Tony.

Steve/Tony
8,362 words

Tony was fucked.

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

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
31,457 words

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

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

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

Steve/Tony
19,693 words

The one where Steve thinks Tony is amazing, and Tony thinks Steve is amazing, but Tony doesn't think Tony is amazing.

Or, Tony has issues with self-worth, and Steve wants to fix that.

Steve/Tony
20,918 words

“Aw, time travel, no.”

On Christmas Eve, Tony came unstuck in time.

Steve/Tony
18,782 words

Steve knows that Tony has feelings for him and, since he doesn’t return those feelings, has been mildly dreading the day that Tony decides to do something about it. When that day finally arrives, Steve discovers that Tony’s wooing strategy isn’t anything at all like he’d expected.

Steve/Tony
34,097 words

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

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

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

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

Steve/Tony
13,712 words

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

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

Sometimes he really hates his job.

Steve/Tony
10,660 words

During the final battle with Ultron, Tony kisses Steve for the first time. Afterward, he makes it clear to Steve that he was just running on adrenaline and not thinking clearly. Steve seems to accept it, but the kiss nudges open a door of possibilities, and the situation escalates.

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
57,041 words

Steve didn't like Tony Stark.

Stark probably didn't like Steve, either. They'd gotten off on the wrong foot, and that was putting it mildly.

And having to pretend to be a civilian Stark was dating, as cover for trying to save Stark's life while Iron Man was busy with a SHIELD mission, obviously wasn't going to help.

Steve/Tony
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
17,434 words

Thanks to the modern gig economy, Steve is the successful owner of a break-up service, i.e. people pay him to break up with their partners for them. One day, he gets the first break-up request for Tony Stark.

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
132,827 words

A battle gone wrong leads Tony to the unexpected and pleasant discovery that Steve is much more well-endowed than he could ever have imagined. But when Tony learns that Steve has never actually been able to sleep with anyone because of his size, Tony does what any good friend would do: he offers to relieve Steve of his virginity. Personally. Tony's determined, Tony's methodical, and Tony has a plan. He's going to get Steve laid. Tony just needs to make sure Steve never finds out that Tony's in love with him.

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.

Steve/Tony
16,545 words

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

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.

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...

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
11,167 words

Steve gets the very brilliant idea that he and Tony should date, but Tony needs some convincing.

Steve/Tony
40,704 words

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

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

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

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

Steve/Tony
1,962 words

Tony vs the tabloids is an ongoing battle. These headlines might be the winning shot.

Steve/Tony
9,018 words

It was Christmas fucking Eve, in the middle of fucking nowhere, and his car was completely fucking dead.

Fuck.

Steve/Tony
4,811 words

Steve's favourite activity was blowing up a teammate, usually Tony, with a distressing amount of delight for a national icon.

Steve/Tony
21,574 words

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

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

Steve/Tony
16,044 words

Tony wakes up in love with Steve. This is an alarming turn of events, because he wasn’t in love with Steve when he fell asleep the night before. That said, it’s sort of nice? To be in love? He’s enjoying it, anyway.

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?