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A fic that gives you warm fuzzy feelings
Thank you so much for he ask! Sorry it took me so long. Part of the problem is that none of my bookmarks are organized and then I have to search through them trying to remember what they all were, and you know my memory is terrible., so I'm like....clicking on every link... Anyway, thank you for the ask!!
Coming Up Roses by fitz_y, imafriendlydalek
Rating: G
Summary: The world’s most beautiful creature, clearly God’s (Darwin’s) gift to mankind, is standing right in his path as if he’s been waiting for this moment, for Tony to walk into his life.
Okay, Tony really needs to stop letting Happy talk him into watching Downton Abbey so often.
“Happy Valentine’s Day,” Tall, Blond and Gorgeous says with a 1000-watt smile. An arm is stretched out towards Tony, a red rose in his hand.
What the hell? Is he dead? Has he died and gone to heaven? Unlikely - he’s pretty sure that, if there is an afterlife, he’s not going up in the clouds. Is he being Punk’d?
Why I'm Reccing: Okay...so...Steve is doing some community service at the retirement home where Peggy lives on Valentine's Day, and all they have for him to wear is a pink medium women's t-shirt with a fluffy velvet heart on it, and there's this running joke about how it's way too small for Steve, and like.... a men's medium would be way too small for Steve. I'm honestly trying to picture Chris Evans in this shirt - I feel like it would fit him like a crop top. I really wish I could art, because I would absolutely draw this.
Also, progressive activist Steve. I won't spoil why he has to do community service, but you can probably guess, and honestly, okay, I will spoil this, because I need more Steve getting arrested at protest fics.
Anyway, Tony just so happens to come visit his Aunt Peggy on this Valentine's Day, and Peggy just so happens to insist that she and Tony take Steve out for coffee.
And, like, this fic is just really fun! You read lines like this:
Better change the shirt too, he thinks as he reaches for his coat and feels the shirt stretch ominously as if it might tear if he makes any other movements than just standing. Which is how he ends up with his arms above his head, tangled in a tiny shirt that he seems to be stuck in, when Tony sticks his head into the break room looking for him. *** “You all se– hell-OHHH!” Christmas was a few weeks ago, and his birthday is still a while off, but damn, Tony must have been doing something right to warrant this gift.
and it's just really fun. It was written in 2018, but it just feels like one of those fun 2012 fics, you know what I mean?