I know that there are some (a lot?) of steve fans who sometimes struggle to find fics focused on him, so I am here now putting a list of Steve fics. I was going to fics that I haven't seen recommended a lot and most of the ones on this post have less than 200 kudos only, but I end up putting everything (it's probably easier to put my bookmarks as public but well...). It's a massive list (over 100 fics?), so it's will be separated into several posts/reblogs.
Not all of them are from Steve's POV or even have him as the main 'main' character, but rest assured he played an important role and is featured heavily. Lots of these are friendship-focused but I categorized them. The shippy ones are mostly samsteve, thundershield, and some rare pairings because I don't venture to other ships a lot and when I did it's to the rare ones instead lol. Hopefully, any of you can find some gems from this list and these are as enjoyable or as good as I remembered. I'll continue to update it, hopefully, every time I find new ones.
Fics are under read more.
General
The Rocket's Red Glare
Steve was born on the Fourth of July (no joke), so a party is in order! Unfortunately, PTSD decides to rear its ugly head. Fortunately, Steve's got an entire team at his back to help him through it. And screaming goats.
an entry in the scrapbook of absurdity
In which Steve turns into a baby and bites people.
Baby Steve Adventures
Captain America gets hit by a spell during a battle. The rest of the Avengers look after him.
Do You Remember Being Happy? ('Cause I Sure Don't)
"Dragr," Thor called them. "Demons" Clint had said. "Thieves" is what Steve labels them as. AKA, the one where Steve is captured by creatures that feed off of happy memories, and the team is left to pick up the pieces. Post-Avengers.
In Search of (Bucky, Family, Home)
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov & Sam Wilson
A week following the events of CATWS, Steve recruits Natasha and Sam to help find Bucky.
Sam raised an eyebrow. “Do we need to recap again? You were shot three times, beaten near to death by an enhanced super soldier with a metal arm and then almost drowned. Yeah, your ass is going to need a few more days of healing time.”
The Truth When Captains Meet
Steve Rogers wakes up on an alien’s space ship being carried bridal style by Carol Danvers. As far as first meetings go, it’s memorable.
Irish Coffee
Pairings: Jessica Jones & Steve Rogers
Jessica runs into an incognito Cap at a cafe. They form an unlikely friendship of sorts.
The Lifetimes of Steve Rogers (Series)
What happens when Steve Rogers steps onto the quantum platform to return the Stones? Where does he go? What challenges does he find? Who does he meet? How many lifetimes can one man have?
Fifty-Two Pickup
Less than a week after the fall of the Triskelion, Steve Rogers is released from the hospital. Although his physical wounds are almost fully healed, other injuries need a bit more time, and some help from friends.
little kids get big so fast
Steve ends up having to take care of the deaged Defenders.
Grampa Steve's Bedtime Stories
If Mommy was away for work, then Morgan’s Grampa Steve came over to stay with her. He’d tuck her in, let her give Mommy a kiss on video chat, then hand her the picture of Daddy for his kiss. Once Daddy’s picture was back on the bookshelf, Grampa Steve would turn off the bedside lamp so that Miss Friday could cover the ceiling with stars, and ask Morgan what story she wanted to hear.
“Captain Steve, Grampa! Tell me Captain Steve!”
Grampa Steve sometimes read to her from books and other times watched a movie with her, but her favorite by far was when he told her Captain Steve’s Adventures Through the Multiverse.
On Camping Trips
Sam is more Hermione than Natasha is, and Steve doesn't want to be Harry.
Powerful
Steve loses the advantages of the super-soldier serum. This is not a tragedy.
His Dream
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson
As if on cue, Steve cut him off with a loud sneeze.
"Yeah. Like that." Sam nodded. "And please sneeze into your elbow next time, dude. You could've just started an epidemic."
"Sorry. Allergies." Steve excused, and Sam raised an eyebrow.
"How do you know it's allergies?" Sam asked, and Steve sighed, putting the ingredients together and solving the mystery of what the gas had actually done.
The answer wasn't ideal. "It feels like the seasonal allergies I had before. Before the serum- and I haven't had them since the serum."
Realization clicked in Sam's head.
"The gas de-serumed you."
Steve swallowed and nodded reluctantly.
OR: Steve gets temporarily de-serumed, with his height and stature staying the same but his immune system being as bad as it was before, and has to stay in the hospital to prevent a severe allergic reaction or illness. Sam stays with him the whole time, making sure he's not alone.
A Strange Encounter
Things have gone awry and Strange is injured. With no other options, he's called for assistance from Captain America and his team.
even if we're apart, i'll always be with you
Steve finds a dirty toy bear at an abandoned gas station, on the way back from a school trip. He brings him home.
As Long as You’re Not Tired Yet of Talking
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov
When Steve Rogers tells her, “Don’t be a stranger,” as they’re all going their own ways after New York, it makes her want to laugh.
Draw/Breath
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov
Natasha like knowing what makes people tick. She likes knowing things, about her teammates and her coworkers and herself. Oddly enough, sometimes other people like knowing her too.
AKA: Natasha wants to know why Steve isn’t drawing anymore, and takes the long way round to get her answer. Because why not.
With Magic We Do Fly
Pairings: Wanda Maximoff & Steve Rogers
In Civil War we see Wanda fling Steve into the air with her magic. They must have practiced that, right?
Que Wanda throwing Steve against a wall. Many times.
Just Like We Practiced
Pairings: Wanda Maximoff & Steve Rogers
Steve had said, in the movie when he asked Wanda to lift him into the building, "Just like we practiced." But just how did they come up with the idea of her lifting people with her powers, and putting them up somewhere like an escalator? Perhaps it was because Wanda accidentally sent a certain tall, blond Avenger face-first into the floor once and he decided he would help her learn to utilize this as a confidence building exercise. Natasha keeps an eye, Thor and Sam help build the training grounds, and Wanda has found her new home. Takes place between AGE OF ULTRON and CIVIL WAR.
Black and White but Red and Blue
They're watching black and white film reels, but Steve sees them in colour.
"My shield may be black and white but it was red and blue. Just like the blue sky under which red blood was spilled. Like Bucky's blue eyes and Peggy's red lips..."
The Road Warriors
Characters: Sam Wilson (Marvel), Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Wanda Maximoff
It wasn't pretty, but somehow the four of them managed to make it through two years on the run.
We'll Fix It
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov
Steve has a hard time after his battle with The Winter Soldier and isn't sure what to do with himself. After not seeing him for a week, Natasha finally shows up to his apartment unannounced to figure out how they can get back to work. There is some crying involved.
From Here On Out
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov
The Accords, the search for Bucky, the fight at the airport ... In a world where nothing will ever be the same, sometimes the road to rebuilding trust and friendship is a little rockier than it should be.
AKA, the story of Steve & Natasha and how they got to where they are.
Steve finally goes to Wanda’s tiny room and taps on the doorframe, although it’s hardly necessary, with the slightly warped floorboards creaking under his feet. “Hey,” he says. “Got a minute?”
Wanda's been a little withdrawn since Steve broke everyone out of the Raft. She's had a lot to think about.
to you.
Pairings: Pietro Maximoff & Wanda Maximoff, Clint Barton & Wanda Maximoff, Wanda Maximoff & Natasha Romanov, Wanda Maximoff & Steve Rogers, Wanda Maximoff & Sam Wilson, Wanda Maximoff & Tony Stark
It's Wanda's birthday today. She's not sure how to feel.
New Love
Pairings: Diana (Wonder Woman) & Steve Rogers
Near the end of World War II, Diana Prince finds herself attempting to reconnect to her long-gone, beloved Steve Trevor. However, she comes across Steve Rogers instead.
Sharing Life (And Canned Green Beans)
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov
It’s Thanksgiving, and Steve is hiding in the second living room on the 8th floor of the penthouse apartments with a can of green beans.
I'm Fine
Steve slowly began to realize that the problem with being a national icon, a hero, and a role model, is that somehow, he became more than human. He become a symbol, not a person. So when he becomes increasingly unhappy, deeply depressed, and utterly adrift in a world where he doesn't belong, the loneliness and isolation are unbearable. How could anyone believe that an iconic hero like himself was really just an ordinary kid from Brooklyn, dying inside because everything he'd gained still wasn't enough to replace everything he'd lost? How could he possibly bring himself to bleed on the ones he loves? So he tells himself the same lie over and over, hoping one day, he'll believe it.
dogpile
"My dog ate my mission report" An injured Steve remembers something he has to do. Unabashed Steve and dogs fluff. "Didn't peg you for a pet guy." "Allergies."
Alone In This World (Together)
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov & Sam Wilson
“We’re fugitives,” Steve said finally. “It might never get better.”
“The world’s always going to need saving," Sam replied. "We’re still Avengers. No one can take that away from us.” Then, like they hadn't been having an entire conversation before, “So when do we leave?”
“Once night falls.”
Do we have any idea where she is?”
“No.” Steve took a sip of his coffee. “But I know where she’ll be.”
it gets the worst at night
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov
Here's how it goes: Natasha sometimes shares a bed with Steve. It's not what it sounds like.
(In which there are Colombian drug lords, awkward boners, cuddly super-soldiers and the Avengers are all giant dorks.)
Shelter
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson
Sam and Steve, right after the fall of SHIELD.
Princely Bickering
Pairings: Jane Foster/Thor, Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers & Jane Foster, Steve Rogers & Thor
Steve allows Sam to lean up and inspect his head for bruises and blood. He then checks out Steve’s eyes. ‘Do you know where you are?’ Steve rolls his eyes. ‘Don’t be an ass, Cap, apparently you can break.’
‘London, England, chasing apparently useless Hydra intel despite having about five hundred international arrest warrants out for us because we’re just that stupid,’ says Steve.
Sam pats him - gently - on the shoulder.
Life on the run isn't easy, especially not after an injury. Fortunately Steve still has a few allies left.
And The Seconds Tick Down
AU of Civil War. How the world ended in twenty steps when Steve died.
"Grant" and "Francis" Go Shopping
Pairings: Clint Barton & Steve Rogers
Steve and Clint both have holiday shopping to do for their family of choice, so they make a day trip to an outlet mall, have a few heart to hearts, use some coupons, buy a bunch of presents, and eventually get through their shopping lists.
A Tune Without Words
Pairings: Jane Foster/Thor, Steve Rogers & Thor, Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson
As he and Sam prepare to begin searching for Bucky, Steve gets various offers of help—some more unexpected than others.
Purpose
Tony Stark wins the fight in Siberia completely by accident.
Steve Rogers does not resist his arrest as he is taken to the Raft.
Sam Wilson, T'Challa, and Pepper Potts pick up the pieces.
Full of Wounds and Still Standing on my Feet
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Wanda Maximoff
The five times Steve looked out for Wanda, and one time Wanda decided someone needed to look out for Steve.
Three Awakenings
The first three times that Steve Rogers woke up during his first twenty-four hours in the twenty-first century.
Making Your Own Future
Characters: Steve Rogers, Diana Prince, Steve Trevor
Five times -- plus one -- that Diana Prince and Steve Rogers encountered one another.
Better Living Through Pizza
Pairings: Clint Barton & Steve Rogers
Steve takes some time off from soldiering and Avengering to get his head on straight, and Clint is assigned to keep an eye on him, because apparently SHIELD believes in the blind leading the blind. Steve really needs a hobby, since modern television shows baffle him, but Clint keeps bringing him DVDs and pizza.
Five Times Clint Barton Spoke with Steve Rogers about Growing Old and the One Time He Didn't.
Pairings: Clint Barton & Steve Rogers
When Steve Rogers reappeared from the past as an old man, there was a lot of catching up to do. Clint Barton made sure nobody got left behind.
Hammer's Totally Heavy-Handed and Incompetent Revenge
"So, at the end of IM2, Justin Hammer swears revenge on Pepper. He waits until Tony and Rhodey are halfway across the world to launch his attack.
Unfortunately for him, thanks to SHIELD, Iron Man and War Machine aren't the only superheroes in Pepper's rolladex. Steve thinks Pepper's just swell and doesn't take too kindly to somebody trying to hurt her."
Cue badass!Steve and competent!Pepper
Fan Mail
Steve starts getting his fan mail and receives an invitation to the prom. Written for a prompt at the Avengers kink meme. It was a great prompt, and so much fun to write and get feedback for!
Prom. Steve 'Grandpa Iceberg' Rogers at a 21st-century high school prom. "This isn't happening. This whole conversation is just an elaborate practical joke. Bruce really just has orders for widgets or something."
Bruce waved the printouts at him. "Fraid not. I don't really do practical jokes. Messing with other people's moods just seems. I don't know. Karmically unwise."
Mascot
Steve runs. People see Steve run. Steve gets adopted by the
neighbourhood he runs through every week day morning. He finds this confusing.
Tony finds it amusing.
Locks Not Replaced
Tony angsts back at Avengers' HQ, Ross is a bully and Steve makes sure he doesn't get away with it. In other words, there is much regret, a bit on the philosophy of locks, adventure and far too many Robin Hood metaphors.
woof
For a prompt on the avengers kinkmeme: "...something different happens when Steve gets Dr Erskine's serum plus the Vita ray treatment... Steve does get taller and stronger, but when the first full moon hits, he turns into a big friendly looking dog. Yes, he's a weredog, not a werewolf."
Mission: Baby
Pairings: James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers
The Asset finds himself in charge of the care of a small baby, but somehow he knows—he has to protect the baby from all harm, whatever the cost.
14 Tracks
Pairings: Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers & Avengers Team
14 tracks from Steve's iPod and how they got on there.
Life Will Rattle Your Bones
Pairings: Erik Lehnsherr & Steve Rogers
Captain America and the Howling Commandos find Schmidt sooner than they thought... wait, what do you mean this is a *different* Schmidt?
In war-torn Germany, the paths of Steve Rogers and Erik Lehnsherr cross, part, and cross again.
come build me up
Pairings: Sharon Carter & Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson, James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers
“Do you ever feel like -- like you joined up because you wanted to do good. You wanted to do the right thing but somewhere along the way, you just lost the whole fucking plot.”
“All of the time.”
Or: the one where Captain America and Agent 13 give long distance friendship a whirl.
Down in the Worn Out Place Again
Pairings: Wanda Maximoff & Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers & Wanda Maximoff
“You don't look a day over 85, Captain,” Wanda says.
Natasha smiles, just barely, and nudges Steve with her elbow. “She makes jokes now.”
(Post AoU, stories about friendship.)
Satellites
Characters: Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Tony Stark, Clint Barton, Nick Fury
Pairings: Natasha Romanov & Steve Rogers, Minor Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Minor Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov
In the immediate aftermath of SHIELD's collapse and Steve's plunge into the Potomac, Natasha considers her place in the world. Also the fact that Steve is depressing.
Timeless Classics
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Avengers Team Five An undetermined number of times (six, apparently) Steve unexpectedly got the reference (sort of), and one time everyone discovered something new together.
you just wait and see
Pairings: Rocket Raccoon & Steve Rogers
“Thor said you’re the captain.” Rogers says, his voice distant, sad smile growing into a sadder grin. “Tough job.”
The Small Hours
Pairings: Steve Rogers & T'Challa, James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers
"I'm not getting him back, am I." The words were flatly delivered – not a question so much as fatigued resignation. "We will do everything we can to help him," T'Challa quietly replied, but he wouldn't lie, not about this. Not to a fellow warrior he respected on and off the field of battle. "The possibility does exist, however, that the triggers are permanent."
The Man We All Remember From the Newsreels
Still getting used to the twenty-first century, Steve comforts himself with memories of long-gone friends. But Howard Stark, the man Steve remembers, is nothing like the man he sees in the newsreels.
we're all choir boys at best
Characters: Steve Rogers, Johnny Storm
You are totally getting laid tonight. "Please stop talking." You hijacked my brain first, this is totally not my fault.
Epistaxis
Steve doesn't worry the first time he gets a bloody nose that won't quit. But when it happens a second, third, fourth... He, and his teammates, start to get concerned.
You Close Your Eyes and the Glory Fades
His body isn’t his own, he knows that, knew before the procedure that everything would change. That was the easiest thing to wrap his head around, actually, the physical changes. He’s used to his body betraying him, so this is just another thing to learn his way around. But the colors of everything, even the sliver of blue sky he could see, craning his head at the tiny window, look different.
Looking For Answers (From The Great Beyond)
After the Battle of New York is over, and Loki and the tesseract are returned to Asgard, Steve takes a road trip across the country, and tries to figure out what he wants to do next.
Mourning the Future
Steve's ties to the past and the future are pretty tenuous, and the serum ensures he lives in an eternal present state of ever-youthful vigour. When an old war buddy gets handed his last marching orders, Steve has to wonder if everyone will eventually leave.
Riviera Life
Sam and Steve have been traversing Europe looking for Bucky. Not everyone is convinced it isn’t an open invitation road trip.
Voluntary Bros.
Characters: Steve Rogers, Johnny Storm
"Dude, you could be twins, they tested you before they defrosted you to see if you were a clone or something, or if he was a clone," Clint said.
"I want to talk to him, I think. I mean, a girl threw her latte at me last week for not calling her back and this dude felt me up at an art gallery yesterday," Steve said.
Two Brooklynites and One Big Apple
Pairings: Miles Morales & Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
“You did good out there today,” Captain America said, brushing a layer of detritus from his unfathomably broad shoulder. “I’ll see you around.”
“Not if I see you first,” replied Miles, fingergunning with one hand as he sent a web rope fwipping off into the distance with the other, catapulting himself away at tremendous speed.
... in which two superheroes battle with bad guys, embark on community art lessons, and a friendship forms along the way.
Battle Fatigue
Steve thought he was doing okay. Things weren't going great, but they were fine, manageable even, and then suddenly they weren't.
We Become New Yorkers (or: Five Times Steve Rogers Looked For Home, and One Time Home Found Him)
New York is a million cities at the same time. This is how Steve found his.
A beautiful day in the neighborhood
In which Steve and Peter learn that the best way to get through a bad situation is together. And to avoid collapsing buildings. And that concussions are terrible, terrible things.
Leviticus 25
"You want to save Bucky Barnes? You are going to have to put your own house in order first because he is going to need a rock to cling to. You are not ready to be that rock for him. You owe it to him -- and more importantly, you owe it to yourself -- to figure things out, figure out how you can be happy in this time and place, whether or not Barnes is with you."
Strike
Sometimes the road to recovery involves bowling. Conveniently, so does the one to the Grand Canyon.
Conversation in Wakanda
“I have been told that you had the privilege to share a training session with some of our Dora Milaje,” T’Challa says. “May I ask how it went?”
“Well,” the Captain huffs. “There’s no polite way to say it: I had my ass handed to me. Repeatedly.”
He sounds and looks utterly delighted.
Contact Light
Everyone thought computers would be the thing that really blew Steve's mind about the 21st century. They were wrong. When he finds out that he missed the moon landing, it's the start of an ongoing obsession with space that maybe involves Neil deGrasse Tyson, Twitter, and Star Trek marathons.
Twenty-Two
“This is Lucky,” Clint said when a dog got between him and Natasha. Lucky’s vest was bright, like desert mornings and night explosions.
“Does he help?” Natasha asked.
Clint pressed his hands flat on the counter behind him. “He saved my life.”
Natasha looked at Steve, her expression fierce. Steve resisted the urge to yank down his sleeves. Instead, he dug his nails into the puckered skin on his forearms.
AKA An AU in which Steve is a veteran just trying to survive (or not).
Gray
Peter doesn't expect Steve to show up at his house one night when he gets home from school. He also doesn't expect to have a long conversation with him, and choose to be on his side instead.
We're Happy, Free, Confused, and Lonely at the Same Time.
"Tony isn't sure, but he *thinks* Steve Rogers is going to try and argue with him about not being a kid, while wrapped up in a fluffy blanket and plaid pyjama pants watching a Disney movie. Tony really hopes that is the case. The Captain America voice looses all affect when wrapped up in that blanket and Tony can't wait to inform him as such." - The one where Tony realises that Captain America and Steve Rogers are not the same person, and Steve is so much younger then he thought.
This Isn't A Love Song, This Isn't A Fable
Steve's not OK with people's perception of Captain America, no matter what he says or how much he pretends otherwise. It's like no one in this time period realizes that there's more to him than a spangly outfit. And yes, he's including the Avengers in that. ... or, the one where everything's all right, until it's not.
it's safe here in our new world
Post TWS. In which Natasha and Steve go shopping, have Thursday night movie nights, and learn that Natasha loves to platonically kiss Steve. Which is good, because Steve loves being platonically kissed by Natasha.
Shadowboxing
Pairings: Matt Murdock & Steve Rogers
It doesn’t matter how many times you fall – what matters most is how many times you get back up. Steve Rogers knew this lesson far too well and it was one Matt Murdock had endured all his life. With both men at their lowest, could a chance friendship bring each of them to their feet again?
Everybody Eats When They Come to My House
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson, James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers
“You’ll ruin your dinner,” Sam says, gesturing with Steve with his spatula.
i fear for the calendar; its days are numbered
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson
Before she goes off the grid, Natasha gives Steve her phone number. He’s honored that he’s the only one to be trusted with it, but quickly learns that she spends most of her free time texting him Dad jokes.
Status Quo Ante
Pairings: James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers
A tale in which Sam suspects he should be used to this by now, for values of 'this' that involve certain folks he hangs out with and situations he finds himself in, Team Cap becomes Team Ex-Cap becomes TBD, and nobody but Clint really wants to know what happened to Scott Lang's GI Joes. (Sam Wilson from the final scene to the mid-credits scene.)
The Glass Parade
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov, Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov
Steve thinks that he’s seen Natasha be at least three different people in the short time he’s known her, and he isn’t sure which one is real.
In which the most confusing part of the future is how much Steve has in common with Natasha, and the fact that she seems dead-set on being his friend.
Still Life
Steve Rogers and a very modern form of art therapy. (The one where Steve draws himself out of despair and into some notoriety when his cartoons hit the internet, but he's still not allowed to look at Tumblr without an okay from Pepper.)
Selective Service
The serum's given Steve a lot, but it hasn't taken anything away from him. Not even the things he never wanted in the first place.
I'm a Hustler, Baby
Steve Rogers has a talent for pool--and for making others believe he's terrible at it.
The Healing Properties of Felt-Tip Pens
Rapid healing has worked wonders on Steve Rogers' body, but occasionally it really screws with his head. In the aftermath of torture, Bruce Banner helps Steve to reconcile mind and body.
If I Die Before I Wake
It's his job, as their leader, to endure the sadistic focus of their captor, and that is the one thought that carries Steve through.
Even Gods Do
Captain America doesn't have a good relationship with sleep anymore. Also, he's not a toy.
Under My Skin
Written for a prompt on avengerkink: I want to see something where, for whatever reason, Steve's accelerated healing turns out to be a bad thing. Something where the faster healing is making things worse. I would prefer something other than the standard, super-healing allows for more torture without death. “He's lucky – to have the serum, to have you all.” Tony wasn't sure about that first part. When one faced death and destruction every day on the job, there were many advantages to having a healing factor...and a great many disadvantages as well.
A Glossary of the 21st Century
Pairings: pre-Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov
Steve's sick of not understanding what's going on, and the team are not all that helpful, so he starts keeping an illustrated notebook for further research. With the help of wiki, google and Logan he starts to settle in and find his place in the twenty-first century.
Blanket Gift Policy
“You didn’t,” Bucky said, with no real hope of being contradicted. Clint shrugged helplessly and passed him the large, soft bundle wrapped in shiny purple foil.
“Sorry.” Tony covered his eyes with one hand.
“I’m getting a migraine.”
“So,” Bruce said wearily, “counting Clint, me, Bucky, Tony, and Sam, that brings it up to five.”
“Excuse you, mine’s not a blanket,” Sam said. “Mine’s a slanket. Big difference.”
Bucky resisted the urge to throw the whole heap of parcels at Sam’s head. “Because it has sleeves? It’s still a blanket, Wilson. They’re all blankets. Even Thor’s direct-from-Asgard raven gift delivery was a cloak, which just means it’s a blanket with a strap. We all got Steve a goddamn blanket.”
One Tin Soldier
Written for a prompt at avengerkink: Because really, under any other circumstances, why would they follow him when he's some guy who's younger than the rest of them (time as a Capsicle aside), who goes around wearing that spangly outfit, who's not even used to the modern world? Why Steve Rogers, rather than a Norse god or the CEO of Stark Industries or anyone else?
“Love is for children,” she'd said, but respect knew no such bounds. The five times the Avengers accepted Steve as their leader, and the one time they followed without question.
and if there's life we'll see it
Steve is instantly taken with this idea of having the picture of the person calling you flash on your screen when they ring your cell.
Secure Your Own Oxygen Mask (Before Assisting Others)
Steve keeps going, because they need him. Being Captain America - having the serum - is a responsibility and a privilege he takes seriously, and he won't waste it by sitting around resting in the middle of a crisis. But then the work is over, and the original victims of the crisis aren't the only ones needing looking after.
Way of the Eagle
Clint introduces Steve to kung-fu movies. Things escalate quickly.
Walking Wounded
In the aftermath of the battle against the Chitauri, Steve's doing just fine. Until he's not. Fortunately, Thor is a perfect mother-hen, Tony makes decent back-up, JARVIS is a genius, and Soap Operas are life-changing. (Or, Post-Shawarma Feels.)
Steve is the leader of the Avengers and he has to conduct himself accordingly--even when he's suffering. That's his job, isn't it?
The Dawn of That Last Great Day
The Winter Soldier has a mission: kill Captain America.
Our Feeble Disguises
Clint swears to Steve that the best pizza in New York is a hole-in-the-wall joint in Hell's Kitchen. After getting a pie Steve wanders the neighborhood until he hears someone getting their ass beat. Along the way he meets our favorite blind lawyer. Friendly bonding over drinks and a mutual dislike of bullies.
Six Meetings Before Lunch
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Thor Six times Steve and Thor hang out.
Source Code
Steve finds himself in the unenviable position of having to either prove he's himself or listen to the news media continue to speculate that he's a robot, a clone, or a lunatic.
The Sky and Everything Beneath It
Steve goes on a road trip to clear his head, but the other Avengers won't leave him alone.
The Real Thing
Pairings: Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers & Tony Stark
Tony talks dirty. Steve gets a nosebleed. This is not a Stony story.
Imprint
"The next day, Steve and the other Avengers are just settling into a meeting on the flight deck when there's a muffled yell, and Alvarez falls out of the ceiling." -- Or, Steve builds a training program, a team, and new life for himself.
The Joke
Steve's not usually oblivious - far from it, in fact. But he does have his moments. Like when he didn't realize that the team was actually serious when they talked about Mjolnir being a magical weapon that only Thor could lift.
Held Together by Spiderwebs
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Peter Parker, Steve Rogers & Avengers Team, Peter Parker & Avengers Team
Steve is not coping well in the twenty-first century. At all. Three months after the Chitauri invasion, he decides he's had enough. But just as he's about to end it all, he runs into the new hero in town.
Muscle Mass (Series)
A serious of one-shots containing snippets of the Avengers and their lives. Most of them include harassing one Steve Rogers and his apartment in Brooklyn, New York.
Intersecting Lines (Series)
A series of post-CA:TWS freeform stories with an emphasis on feels, the Avenger's as a loyal team unit, Sam as an awesome new addition, and a general disregard for pesky things that get in the way of my rabid need for H/C. (In other words: I needed therapy after that movie, and this is how I coped.)
Freezer Burn
Steve Rogers: soldier, artist, foodie, friend, heart of the Avengers, and a guy whose past keeps creeping into his present and dictating his future. A series of stories about him and the people he has chosen to build his life around.
A comics-MCU mashup that is MCU-compliant through all of the Phase One movies then gets a little Brubakerish because the alternative was to get a lot Jossed. All stories can be read independently of the others. You'll miss a few references but lose nothing of the plots.
Every Denny's in America
Thor and Steve are definitely not hiding in a Denny's restaurant. Because Thor doesn't hide and Steve doesn't run away from his problems.
SES-Verse (Series)
An AU where Steve's essentially a failed experiment, corporal punishment is the predominant form of discipline and team leaders take the punishments for those under them.
Pairings: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson
Sam’s father used to say to him; ‘Never meet your idol boy, they’ll only disappoint you,’ and Steve Rogers had indeed been an idol of his growing up. Sometimes Sam wishes his father were still alive, so that he could introduce them and prove to him that some people are exactly who you wanted them to be - and more. Or, follow Sam Wilson through the events of The Winter Soldier in which he sees some things, realizes some things and accepts that some things are inevitable.
Always Kiss Your Heroes
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Wade Wilson
“You’re not gonna call him, right?” Clint asks, face pinched as they watch Deadpool sprint off, muttering to himself about whether or not he should reserve an entire movie theater.
Steve looks down at the WWW ❤ and phone number hastily scrawled on the back of a toy store receipt and decides all at once.
“Sure, I am,” he replies, tucking the number in his pocket, before challenging the universe just to watch Tony’s face as he does it.
“What’s the worst that could happen?”
As it turns out, the worst thing is that he prepared himself for the worst and was blindsided by…decidedly not that.
(Steve agrees to go on date with Wade just to say thanks for a favor. Somehow, that winds up being a love story.)
When You Walk into the Room
Pairings: Scott Lang/Steve Rogers
Scott is Captain America's #1 fanboy and he's not even ashamed to admit it, or that he has a thing for Steve. What's more, he's taken to flirt with Steve if only to see him blush.
To pass among them, or touch
Pairings: Bruce Banner/Steve Rogers, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark
Tony complains that he’s being left out (of course), demands to know “what’s your deal, I take you in and I get shafted with this Avengers book club thing? Not that I want anything with a fucking Oprah seal on the cover, mind you, but what the fuck.”
(Or: the accidental founding of the Avengers Initiative book club by one Dr. Bruce Banner.)
Through Your Eyes
Pairings: Matt Murdock/Steve Rogers
Steve gets an apartment in Hell's Kitchen...
i will stand sentinel (at your grave)
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
He fought for so long, and the world he died protecting no longer exists, replaced by one where technology is precedence over human contact, and instead of asking for a dames hand to dance boys will call them sluts and other names Steve can’t bear to pronounce. He watches the world around him, so full of lust and blood and speed, and it terrifies him that he is no longer sure whether he’d die tomorrow for it.
you're just a chance i take
Pairings: Clint Barton/Steve Rogers
Steve gives him another weird look, but it’s softer, somehow. His shoulders aren’t nearly as tense. Clint hates himself a little for noticing that. Clint’s been gone on the guy since he was fifteen. But that was back when Captain America was an action figure, a comic book character. Now, Clint spends most of his time around him. Now, Clint knows what Steve looks like when he’s tired, when he’s training, when he’s curled around a pillow on movie night with his knees tucked under himself, knows how Steve does a headcount every time he walks into a room, how everything in him seems to tense minutely when he can’t see everyone to keep them safe. Now, it’s actually dangerous territory. Clint’s never been that good at getting himself out of dangerous territory. Normally, it has to almost kill him first.
I say it looks like sunshine
Pairings: Scott Lang/Steve Rogers
See, here’s the thing: Scott Lang, barely functional adult, does not match up with Steve Rogers, literal superhero and protector of the American way. He just doesn’t.
patriotic ants in my stomach
Pairings: Scott Lang/Steve Rogers, minor Scott Lang/Hope Van Dyme, slight Steve/Tony if you squint
And after everything goes down, when Cap breaks them out and they end up in some shady hotel in the middle of nowhere, after calling Hope and Luis to tell them he’s alright, Scott catches a look Captain gives him when he’s stripping out of the suit and, well. It’s… An interesting look. It’s quick, but Scott feels himself smiling, and he asks
“What’s up, Cap?” before he can think much about what’s happening.
“Call me Steve.” He says, blushing slightly, and, wow. That’s definitely worth going to war against 117 countries for.
If Only
Pairings: Bruce Banner/Steve Rogers, Minor or Background Relationship(s)
Since the group is newly formed, Steve takes it upon himself, with a little nudging from Coulson, to try to get the gang more comfortable around each other - building up teamwork mentality and whatnot. When he sees Cap's efforts actually paying off, Loki decides to throw a curve ball their way by turning Steve back into his pre-serum body. While that doesn't stop Steve from trying to help others and his teammates, there's a deadly price to pay if it goes unchecked for too long.
Incognito
Pairings: Bruce Banner & Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner/Steve Rogers
From the kinkmeme: http://avengerkink.livejournal.com/16524.html?thread=37295244#t37295244 After the battle in New York, there's a renewed flood of public interest in Captain America. Steve's OK doing some publicity here and there, but not really comfortable at all being a "dancing monkey" all the time. Sometimes he'd like to be anonymous again, able to just walk down the street and blend in. He turns to Bruce, who has years of experience blending into a crowd. Bruce helps Steve "schlub up" and teaches him some tricks for not standing out. They start going out into the city together to test it out, and as they do, they end up having a really good time together. Enough that they keep doing "test runs" that start to feel suspiciously more and more like "dates"... eventually Bruce/Steve ensues.
It'll Probably Drown Me Before I'm Through
Pairings: Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers
Peggy's neighbor is both handsome and kind. It's really too bad he might be a spy.
a door behind a door
Pairings: Steve Rogers/T'Challa
Steve Rogers is a veteran with a few medals on his chest and too much death on his mind. T’Challa is the Wakandan King, Protector of the Tribes, Heir of Bashenga, and Black Panther—in a very literal way. Neither of them expected to get to know the other so well, but Bast sees all and knows best.
Worth It
Pairings: Bruce Banner/Steve Rogers
“Let’s recap,” Tony said, handing the blow torch he had been using to Bruce.
“Recap what?” Bruce asked - they had just been talking about particle physics, and it certainly wasn’t something either of them needed reminder of.
“You’ve gone to the museum, you’ve gone for Indian food, you went to see a movie, and what was it yesterday?”
Bruce swallowed, glad that Tony wasn’t facing him and was, instead, using a wrench on the latest version of the suit. “Ugh-”
“Oh, that’s right, you went to a concert,” Tony said, almost casually, and Bruce sighed.
“It was free,” he tried.
Bruce likes Steve, and, as it turns out, Steve likes Bruce - but it's all very awkward, and they agree to take it slow.
Ride It Out, Wait It Out
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
2012 is undeniably and often painfully different from the 1940's. So much has happened, and Steve just can't see where he could ever fit in when he's no longer certain who he even is.
Threads, Frayed and Whole
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov
Alphas gift their omegas with trinkets to show they care. As a young operative, all Natasha could ever make was what she found. But how could that compete with what her fellow alphas were offering today?
The Bi-Monthly Meeting of the Brooklyn Boys Shirtheads Club (No Manhattanites Allowed)
Pairings: Clint Barton/Steve Rogers
Two days after Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes move into his building, Clint gets sent overseas on assignment. When he gets back his apartment is clean, the heating’s working right and his second-tiniest tenant is passing Math. Even his coffee tastes better.
Bucky just shrugs and says, “Steve happened.”
In the meantime the members of the newly inaugurated Brooklyn Boys Shirthead Club watch two idiots try to figure it out.
Chase Away the Winter's Chill
Pairings: Clint Barton/Steve Rogers
Everybody sees Steve as the invincible Captain America, the hero who bounced back from being frozen for 70 years and went straight back to kicking ass and taking names. People forget that he's still a human being who underwent a horrific trauma. So Clint is thrown for a loop when he visits Steve's apartment and finds him in the midst of a panic attack brought on by his first winter since his near death in the arctic. Cue Clint doing whatever it takes to look after his teammate and remind him that he is not alone.
Such Great Siege
Pairings: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
In the aftermath of defying his country to save his best friend, Steve Rogers agreed to a plea bargain that would grant his friends immunity but send him to prison. That was two years ago. Bucky had a plan for when Steve finally was released from prison: a quiet house and a big bed, maybe a dog. None of his plans included Steve agreeing to sacrifice himself to save the very people that had stripped him of his title and took away his freedom. But old enemies have a way of coming back.
drowning in the memories
Pairings: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
5 times the Avengers were oblivious to Steve’s aversion to water and the one time they finally got it.
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Bruce Banner/Natasha Romanov, Wanda Maximoff/Vision
After a raid leaves Steve without his serum strength -- and with many of his old ailments attacking his new body -- he's left to figure out how he can lead The Avengers when he can't, actually, leave the building.
Moving In, Moving On
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Life with the New Avengers.
"You want to pretend is a superhero training camp, go ahead, but I am onto you. This is a frat house, and I for one, am not too old for pyjama parties."
Lessons in How to be Happy
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
When Steve tells Sam he doesn't know what makes him happy, Sam takes it as a personal challenge. (or: 5 times Sam tries to make Steve happy and 1 time Steve makes him the happiest man in the world)
Along Life’s Weary Track
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Sam goes home again, eventually, after the summer is done. He takes Steve with him. Various birds mock him along the way.
looking for astronauts
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
It's not even five minutes after Tony's left when Barton leans against the bars on his windows and says, "So, Wilson, when are you gonna tell Cap about your huge crush on him?"
A Truck and a Vintage Volkswagen Bus to the Future
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
In the aftermath of Thanos' defeat and the return of all those who were "snapped," Steve and his Crew search the city streets for those in need of rescue from the fallout. Who they find are more than they anticipated, but everything they've been needing.
The Golden Age
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
There were times Sam loved being a jaeger pilot. And there were times where Sam thought that the universe was having a laugh at his expense when it had decided to make him drift compatible with one James Buchanan Barnes.
The Strong Man
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
He drove Steve home when they discharged him from the hospital. He was okay, just a little lingering pain in his belly where they cut him open. Steve stood inside the door of his apartment, paralyzed.
They’d fixed the wall that had been blown out but he would never unsee it. He would never stop knowing who fired those shots.
“Come on,” Sam said.
“What?” Steve asked, listless.
“You’re staying with me.”
He turned hollow eyes on Sam. “I can get by on my own.”
Sam pursed his lips, unimpressed. “Any other strong man bullshit you wanna spew at me before we go?”
Steve laughed, then winced, and walked back out the door.
Hearts are Heavy Burdens (to Bear Alone)
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
He’d never been particularly good at putting himself out there. He’d gotten lucky with Peggy, that she’d found his awkward clumsiness to be endearing and not just uncomfortable. It seemed unlikely that he’d find someone like that again.
To Build a Home
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov
CNN: BREAKING NEWS – Steve Rogers is “no longer acting with the authority” of the United States government and his whereabouts are “uncertain.”;
Buzzfeed News: Thirty Hours, Thirty Dead: The Chaos and the Control in Europe;
The Washington Post: Is this the new normal?: The Post editors on Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, and the failure of the Sokovia Accords.;
BBC News: Margaret ‘Peggy’ Carter, whom Princess Kate Middleton has called ‘our nation’s foremost role model for young women,’ has died. She was 95 years old.
“Steve. Don’t make me take the phone.”
Three years on the run isn’t easy on anyone, not least a man whose life has already come apart at the seams a few times already, but Steve has one good thing at his side: Sam Wilson. For as long as either of them can remember, all they’ve wanted to do is the right thing, Now, with nothing left to guide them but that single principle (and one another), they set out into the world.
It's (Not) a Date
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
“You said they turned it into more stress and less fun,” Steve hedged. “Maybe we go have fun and ignore the stress?”
Sam stared at him in silence for a moment and then a small smile crept over his expression, “Sure, Steve. Let’s take back Valentine’s then.”
Put a Ring On It aka My Big Fat Avengers Wedding
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, James "Bucky" Barnes/Natasha Romanov
Sam and Steve love each other very, very much. So much they've decided to get married. Unfortunately for them the Avengers also love them both very, very much. They're really excited Sam and Steve are getting married. crack/fluff 616/mcu combo hash
On the Run
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Steve, Sam, and Natasha take a break. Post Black Panther, pre Infinity War.
like a bird loves to fly
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson
When Steve doesn’t say anything else regarding what he’s staring at, Sam finally turns to look himself. Then he laughs. “Seriously, Rogers?” he asks once he’s caught his breath again. “You’ve actually slowed down – which I’ve never seen you do when you’re running – because of some dogs?”
For over on the other side of the park is some random-ass dog walker with at least half a dozen dogs of varying sizes in front of them. Even out of the corner of his eye, Sam can see Steve blushing.
“I just – I like dogs, okay?”
Steve laughs again. “Yeah. No shit.”
How To Draw Beauty From Pain
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
With a little (unsolicited) help from his friends, Steve remembers that not everything has to be doom and gloom all the time.
it only takes one hand (to reach out and help you)
Pairings: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov/Sam Wilson
He still has days like this: he wakes up, stiff and sore, and the rest of the day follows suit.
As Food to Life
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Or: Five meals Sam Wilson shares with Steve Rogers
Steve wakes up again a couple of hours later, complaining about how hungry he is. His IV bag is empty but clearly it was doing very little in the face of the Serum. Sam smiles at him and grabs a nurse, requesting as much food as she can feasibly get. Sam’s fed Steve breakfast; he knows how much that man can put away
Not a Place But a Feeling
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov
This what being home feels like.
Audience Participation
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson
Sam laughed. “Steve. You guys just got done raiding a HYDRA castle, guarded by people with super powers, all to re-capture an alien scepter.” He quirked a wry smile in Steve’s direction. “At this point, I don’t really think it’s possible for anything more exciting to happen.” While Steve and the rest of the Avengers fought to stop Ultron, Sam was stuck watching it all unfold second-hand. He wasn't a fan.
tried, tested, and dedicated
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov/Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Steve and Natasha are former black op soldiers trying to find their way after returning home. Sam's the new neighbor who wants to help.
Cuddling Like Rational Adults
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Steve still isn't that great with the cold and there's a blizzard on the way (Or the one in which Sam, Nat, and Clint Are the Best Friends Steve Would Never Even Have Thought To Ask For)
Must be Special
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Steve's never been to an amusement park. Sam feels the need to rectify that.
Old Habits Die Hard
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Sometimes growing up poor is something a person can't unlearn (or, five Depression-era habits that Steve can't let go of).
Good Answer
Pairings: Sam Wilson/Steve Rogers
The Avengers are trying to work on their public image with some much needed transparency, but the phrase 'PR nightmare' has different meanings for Sam and Steve.
as the love that's gonna shine
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov, Peggy Carter & Steve Rogers, Wanda Maximoff & Steve Rogers
“I see the way you look at him, and the way he looks at you. I understand if you don’t want to get married. It doesn’t make your relationship any less valid. But I also think you’re the type that wants to stand in front of God and everyone else and shout your love to the heavens.”
In which Steve Rogers shares his unique historical perspective, discusses the nature of marriage, plans a wedding, and gets something lost returned to him.
Dizzy on You
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
The headlights have hurt his eyes since mile marker sixty, and the insides of his throat seem to have been replaced by sandpaper. His head hasn't hurt this bad since he literally brought a helicarrier down on top of him, and in another two hours he's probably not going to be fit to sit up, let alone drive. That's not the worst part. The worst part is, Sam's figured it out.
Fault Line
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Steve and Sam set off to find Bucky, but when the leads dry up the rescue mission turns into a road trip.
Restoration
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Decorated war hero, Steve Rogers, now spends his days as an artist. When he's recruited to restore a mural at the VA he meets Sam Wilson while having to battle the effects and scars of fighting in a war.
Aftermath
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Tumblr user shulkiesmash asked for “steve/sam - au where they meet right after the battle of new york.” This picks up right where the prompt says, immediately after the battle (and shawarma!). In this AU spin on things, Sam shows up on the scene of the disaster to lend a hand in whatever way he can, having been trained for pararescue and thus possessing a set of psych & medical skills that'll be useful--especially, as it turns out, to Steve.
what makes you happy? (let's find out)
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Natasha wants Sam to keep trying to get Steve to date. Sam find Steve something to love other than fighting.
Pinterest Wet Dream
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Sam comes over and helps Steve make Halloween treats and Steve finally figures out what Sam has been saying all along.
Store Bought Bones
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Steve is supposed to be unbreakable.
how to
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson,
Sam Wilson was the Picasso of flirting, which was why it was such a shame that Steve could probably get slapped in the face with a dick and still misinterpret a sexual advance as an honest mistake. Oh God, I’m sorry, I accidentally hit your dick with my face. I apologize. I can pay for that. I’m so sorry.
your eyes look like coming home
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Sam and Steve attempt to track down the Winter Soldier. The Winter Soldier has other ideas.
that original lifeline
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Steve's hair is matted and damp, his eyes closed, dark like bruises in the hollows of his face. He’s in a bad way. A real bad way, and Sam can tell; he’s seen this before, this sort of slow dying. (Sam's blood type is O negative. It was useful during his service, and it's useful now.)
Domestication of the North American Super Soldier
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Or, five people who tried to help turn Steve's place into a home and the one person who managed it without having to try at all.
No touch can do half as much
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
The first time Sam clasped Steve’s shoulder, behind him at the kitchen table while they planned how to get Sam’s wings, Steve flinched. Sam was careful after that — there were a million possible reasons for a reaction like that, and he really wasn’t sure he wanted to know which one was true. So he kept his hands to himself, even though it felt strange.
Pack the Good and Leave the Rest
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov, James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers
Have you ever seen the Grand Canyon? Before they even leave New York, Steve tells Sam it's not just about finding Bucky.
Liminal Space
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
When Steve turned to leave, Sam probably should have just let him go. He was a vet like any other, someone who just wanted to talk to someone who understood. Sam could be okay with that, was comfortable in that role, but instead he called out, “Hey!” Steve turned around, a twist of his spine that did interesting things to the lines of his hips.
“Yeah?”
“I get off at six,” Sam said, completely, entirely skipping over the part of the conversation that ended in a question mark. Steve’s expressive brows curled, one climbing up his forehead, lips stretching into a bemused smile. “If you’d like some company,” Sam added smoothly.
truth must dazzle gradually
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov
Sam Wilson attempts to woo Steve Rogers. It doesn’t go quite the way he would have hoped.
hey i just met you (and this is crazy)
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov
After New York—after he’s signed back up, now he’s back in the fight, now that he’s an Avenger—they take his phone back, swap it for something new. Not secure enough, apparently, not a phone for an active agent. The replacement is a Starkphone, sleek and glossy, more locked down. There are security protocols he has to follow. No public wi-fi. Two-point thumbprint and ID code to unlock the screen. Phone on the table for every meeting, and face-down at all times. He doesn’t bother getting a personal phone. Who would he call?
waste another mile
Pairings: Steve Rogers & Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
The road suits them.
A Match Made in Topeka
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Slowly, inexorably, the twine ball kept rolling. It smashed into the wooden gazebo supports, which cracked and buckled on impact like they were made out of styrofoam. The ball bounced down down the gazebo steps and picked up speed as it rolled into the street.
“Oh shit,” Sam said.
The purple-stained side of the ball burst into flames.
“Oh shit,” Steve said.
The twine ball barreled forward, burning merrily, now headed straight for the armored SUV that had been advancing up the street. The agents inside took one look at the flaming wrecking ball heading towards them and bailed out, forced to abandon their cover to avoid the most ignominious death in Hydra history.
(That time Steve was so bad at confessing his feelings that the Winter Soldier had to come in from the cold to do it for him. In which Steve has the suaveness of a human tire fire, Sam has the patience of a goddamn saint, and Bucky has had it up to here with watching them dance around each other. This was supposed to be a quick, goofy road trip romcom, but then I tripped over a lot of Sam and Steve and Bucky feelings, so now it’s a long, mostly-goofy road trip romcom. With a few explosions.)
Distance Between
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Sam's doing paperwork when aliens come through a rift in space and start attacking New York.
Meet Tomorrow If You Choose
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
"Not quite like the other me, huh," Steve said, because there was no point pretending.
"Nah, actually I was thinking I can see it," Sam said. "The way you stand--you project, you know? Like in a way you really always were the big guy, just your body took a while to catch up."
Playlist
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
A lot of songs have been written about Captain America. Sam owns most of them. Steve's relationship with them (Steve's relationship with everything) is complicated. or Sam and Steve explore pop culture and pine for each other while trying to rescue Steve's messed-up best friend.
Escalation
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Sam and Steve get married via a series of escalating dares.
The Fixed Foot
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
In a world where love marks a person, Steve Rogers emerges from the serum without the ability to show how adored he is.
Not the Destination
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Before they leave New York, Tony Stark (Tony Stark, Jesus, Sam's not over it, never ever over it) hands him an AmEx Black and says, "Don't let Cap spend it all on egg creams and quarters for the jukebox."
"That is exactly what I'm gonna do," Sam says. "Egg creams and jukeboxes, nonstop. That's how we roll."
Maybe Home Is Somewhere I'm Going
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers
They were about fifty miles from Atlanta when Sam stirred and yawned awake in the passenger seat. “Morning,” Steve said: the sun had come up, but the two-lane road was still pretty empty, a little morning mist hanging low over the asphalt and in the trees.
On Your Right
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Sam puts the Trouble Man soundtrack on repeat, like a talisman at first, when he thinks that Steve might die. The doctors are grim and serious, claiming that they did what they could for him, removing the bullets and stitching his insides back together. A few hours later, the doctors' faces get less grim, more confused, and a few hours after that, they're throwing their arms up in the air in frustration and grinning with triumph at the same time, because apparently the Super Soldier Serum is worth more than just the fastest mile in human history. Sam spends that time beside Steve, in the position he's gotten used to after only a couple of days: on his right, waiting to see where he'll run next, ready to get his back.
Breaking News
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson “I’ve sent you keys,” Tony said. “I’ve emailed, I’ve texted, I’ve called. Pepper called. There is an entire floor of Stark Tower waiting for you to move in. And instead here you are living in a two-bedroom shack out in the open with your — extremely hot, by the way, nice job there — boyfriend. The paparazzi are going to eat you alive, Rogers.”
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Thor When Captain America recruits a team to retrieve Thor from the land of frost giants, Peter doesn't hesitate to join. After the battle, he sees a few things he wasn't supposed to.
a joy as hard as sunlight
Pairings: Jane Foster/Steve Rogers/Thor, Steve Rogers & Thor, Jane Foster/Thor "If you get killed... Walk it off."- Thor knows what it is to die and yet remain alive, to be homeless down to the air he breathed. He knows he only survived the grief of his falling because Jane, as brave and loyal and daring as she is, was willing to say his name and make him real. He watches Steve in the field, bowed and still fighting, and wonders if anyone has listened to him. - In the years they've stood together, Thor and Steve develop a friendship that buoys them both.
6 Pence None the Richer
Pairings: Thor/Steve Rogers, Thor/Jane Foster
“Clint liked it.” Steve defends himself when the other keeps giving him these judging looks as he’s scurrying about to clean up after himself. Thor only has a case of déjà-vu.
“That’s hardly a compelling argument.” He retorts jokingly, rubbing his fingertip over the aluminum lid of his beer can.
This causes him to pause, pucker his lips thoughtfully, and reply carefully, “Stark probably liked it too?”
Thor barks out a sharp laugh, squinting his eyes shut and shaking his head in disapproval. “Barely aiding to your cause, Steve. Barely.”
I Can't Stop Thinking About.....Us
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Thor, Jane Foster/Darcy Lewis, mentions of Thor/Jane, mentions of Thor/Sif, mentions of Thor/Other Female Character, mentions of Thor/Other Male Character
It was a soft, graze of lips, an exchange of breath….. [Thor knew of heartache.] Steve was different, nothing like those who had previously stolen his heart.
The Storm And The Sun
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Thor
When Thor and Steve Rogers first met and fought Loki and the Chitauri in New York, something happened that neither had expected, or had believed possible. A few years later, both learn that to be able to reach for what they wish for, they must first let go of that which holds them back.
Soon, You'll Be Mine
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Thor
This was unusual for him. When it came to courtship, Thor was forward about it. But then, he usually knew that his intended was likewise interested.
Gladiators
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Thor
I'm filling my own prompt from LJ's Avengerkink comm: "Steve and Thor are captured by aliens and kept as gladiators. Thor is sent out first and he manages to beat the other. He watches Steve be sent out with trepidation and pride that Steve can handle himself. But Steve won't fight. The other gladiator is just a prisoner from some faraway world just like him. So he tries to avoid the blows he can and simply takes the ones he can't avoid. The alien masters are understandably upset that Steve is ruining their fun and try to make Steve fight. Thor realizes that he loves Steve and tries to keep Steve alive until they can be rescued. I'd love to see stolen moments between fights, Thor tending to Steve's injuries, letting Steve sleep on him instead of the hard ground, and first time stolen kisses/gropes. And then they get rescued and have desperate sex :)"
And With Every Mile
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Thor
Steve and Thor decide to go on a road trip together, a journey across the country to see what the world, and life, have to offer them.
If I Ain't Got You
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Thor
Thor waits for the day he finds his soulmate and he thinks it sad, that Midgardians don't have them.
Starborn and Stormbreaker (Series)
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Thor
As he walked, he wondered if sleeping through seventy years and then waking up to find almost everyone he’d ever known or loved gone was preferable to living through each loss. They both sucked, he decided, but he knew he wouldn’t have traded the last few decades for anything in the world.
Between Your Hands
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Thor
Thor and Steve are dating. Steve takes awhile to notice. To be fair, they do sometimes get interrupted by evil scientists and demons on bikes.
Collide
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Thor, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Clint Barton/Phil Coulson
During their third mission, Steve is caught under a collapsed building and is severely wounded. Thor is the first to locate them and stays with him consistently throughout his recovery. As their friendship deepens, both struggle with admitting their feelings to each other.
building your wings (on the way down)
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Thor
“I have offended you, Steven?” Thor asks, as they walk up 8th Avenue under blinking lights.
“No, not exac...no. Not at all,” Steve says, watching his breath and words unfurl in the cool air.
“It’s just that friends -- friends who are...men -- don’t hold hands in public. I mean, not usually.”
the lost man
A man washed up on the shores of Asgard.
Put Me Down
Steve doesn’t like to be carried.
Five times Thor carried him against his will, and one time he wanted it.
Steve didn’t like to be carried.
Reparation
It's Thor who falls from the rainbow bridge instead of Loki, and it's Thor tasked with bringing the Chitauri invasion about. He arrives to Earth a very different man, a more skilled warrior than he was, but wrong. Broken and made into something stronger.
What will it take to stop him? What will it take to set him free? -- Steve struggles to find his place in the 21st century, and to find himself. The Avengers seems to be a good starting point, though there are some things Fury can never give him. What Steve needs is someone who's had time stolen from them, too. And in helping each other, maybe they can help themselves in-turn.
11:59pm
Thor surprises Steve on his birthday.
Show Me Where My Armor Ends
"You're allowed to hurt, Steven. But you have friends now, too. And we will not- I will not let you suffer alone any longer. It is only through helping each other, that we remain strong."
When Steve finds himself breaking, unable to sleep and miserably lonely, he also finds Thor on the roof.
Cheek to Cheek
Steve has the Christmas Blues. Thor is a lot smarter than he looks. Sometimes you need to pull yourself up by the bootstraps, and sometimes you need a little help.
The King of Two Kingdoms
As Thor makes a home on Earth with the Avengers, he falls out of love with his own realm and the allure of rule. In his absence, his favorite human falls in battle, spurring Thor to make his choice.But he's already chosen - it's not the choice that's hard, it's the steps necessary to enact it.
Sam shot up from the bed, trying to catch his breath.
He looked his left and saw a body. It was Steve. He started to calm down. It was all just a dream.
“ Sam…?” Steve woke up groggily. Seeing Sam clearly distressed he woke up quickly. He sat up and put his hand over Sam’s.
“ Sam? What’s wrong?"
” You…were kissing someone else…said that you didn’t…weren’t in love with me…" The sadness in his voice broke Steve’s heart.
“ Oh Sam.” Steve gently took him into arms, and kissed his forehead. “ It was a just a nightmare. i could never do something like that to someone. Least of all to you. You’re it for me."
” I know…it just seemed so real…"
“ Yeah, but it’s all over now. Come on let’s go back to sleep. I want both of us to be rested when I kick your butt during our morning run in few hours.”
Sam smiled as he shook his head.
“ It’s like that old man?”
“ Oh it’s definitely like that flyboy."
Steve relaxed when he felt Sam chuckle.
” I’m gonna beat you one day Steve you just we wait.“
Steve laughed a little himself, ” Whatever you say Sam.”
Sam laid back on to his pillow, his smile growing wide when he felt Steve tighten his grip.
” Sam?“
” Yes Steve?“
” On your left.“ I love you
” On right right Steve.“ Sam turned his head and kissed him on the cheek.
The in sync rhythm of their hearts lulled them back to sleep as the ray of the moon hit the vibranium wedding band on Steve’s finger.
The last thought Sam had before completely submerging back into slumber was a reminder write a thank you note to T’challa for the rare material.
It’s the next morning, after their run and Sam is feeling a lot better. So much so that Steve feels okay enough to pout in his general direction as they enter the apartment after the run.
"You gotta let the bad dream go, Steve."
Steve shoots him another pout as he opens the fridge. "But why is dream me such an asshole? I’m either kissing Tony - WHO I DON’T EVEN LIKE - or I’m unable to let go of my teenage boyfriend. In front of my husband and best friend,” Steve takes a drink of the milk they’d purchased last week from the farmer’s market and makes a face so strong that Sam wonders if it’s soured.
No, that’s just Steve’s go-to face when talking about Tony Stark. Fair enough, Sam thinks, sometimes it’s hard to tell.
“Look, I don’t know, we had a rough day yesterday."
Steve looks like he wants to argue, and then a look comes over his face. "Riley,” he says softly. “Yesterday was the anniversary of his death."
Sam likes to think he’s recovered a lot, and he has. But there are some things he just doesn’t like talking about, so the fact that Steve knows - the fact that he remembers something so important that Sam’s only mentioned once or twice - that’s incredibly sweet.
But then, there are reasons why Sam agreed to marry this man.
"Yeah,” he admits, and he takes the orange jucie that Steve offers out to him. The Depression baby, always offering to make things better with food. Or drink that isn’t alcohol. “If I was counseling someone else, I’d say that the dream was probably a sign that I was worried that you were going to fall out of the sky someday and I’d be unable to catch you, too. Which is why my subconscious was making sit on the sidelines with an unrequited crush."
"Which is silly,” Steve scoffed. “Because first of all, have you ever had an unrequited crush? Who wouldn’t love you?"
"Seventh grade,” Sam admitted. “Todd Emerson. Thought my love of Marvin Gaye made me too ‘old-fashioned.’ Freshman year of college, Leila Taylor. Thought Bernie was a better kisser. Does that count as unrequited?"
Steve just laughs as he pulls out the pans for breakfast. Sam hopes its eggs this time around; he does the best with the eggs. Sam opens up the freezer to pick out the sausage, as an incentive, because who eats sausage without eggs?
"I guess I can’t be cranky about it anymore, since it was coming from a legitimate place,” Steve says reluctantly as he moves to the fridge and gets the eggs out. “Though, if you ask me, the nightmare I had about Tony erasing my memories without my consent was much more realistic."
Another sleepless night another overthinking mcu plot
Zemo's train of thoughts: Family killed by ultron, a robot, created by a scientist and an engineer (who is also a billionare, because yeah not mamy people have resources to build something like ultron) -> super soldiers, who is not a robot, a scientist, or an engineer, or a billionaire, were the problem of the world??
I wanna not be scared! That night in the school, I felt utterly weak, like I needed someone to come in and rescue me. I hate that feeling. I wanna feel stronger than that. I wanna feel powerful.
But we’re going to have a new code. Nous protégeons ceux qui ne peuvent pas se protéger. “We protect those who cannot protect themselves”.
My dream machine decided I needed to create a whole infinity war-style crossover MCU story and I woke up tired. But hey at least in my dream everyone ended up alive and Steve ended up retiring as a broadway musical actor.
