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All's Fair in Larb and War (ao3) - phonecallfromgod ned/peter T, 23k
Summary: Ned Leeds just wants to transition painlessly into college life, but that's easier said than done when Tony Stark has a personal beef with you, Liz Allan's back in town, and your roommate and your superhero boyfriend hate each other (but just don't know it yet).
A Mother Always Knows (ao3) - readergirl1013 T, 16k
Summary: Five times Winifred Barnes suspected her son was one of those sort, one time she knew for sure, and one more time.
assume a defensive stance (ao3) - hoosierbitch bruce/clint T, 4k
Summary: No one can understand why Bruce and Clint are together. Clint's loud, brash, irritating--exactly what Bruce doesn't need in his life. (Also, there are sandwiches. Of LOVE.)
Fake (Date) It Til You Make It (ao3) - Blizzard_Fire bruce/clint M, 6k
Summary: ‘Hey Doc,’ Clint said one morning, strolling into the lab, ‘Can you date me?’ Bruce frowned up at him. ‘Why?’ ‘To fuck with Tony, mainly.'
Bruce and Clint start fake-dating to mess with the others. But then it becomes a question of how long they can keep this up, and maybe their “dates” aren’t quite so platonic anymore…
fed up with hunger (ao3) - frankoceansmoonriver steve/bucky, steve/oc N/R, 10k
Summary: “What do you wanna talk about? How I’m gonna have to marry some girl with perfect ringlets and you’re gonna marry some girl who’s smarter than both of us combined, and you’ll be right to? What is there to talk about? Quit being a dumbass and just go to sleep.” He says it so matter of fact. He says it like none of it bothers him. Steve sighs. “Nobody is gonna marry me,” Steve says softly. He lays back down and goes to sleep. In the morning, Bucky doesn’t mention it and neither does Steve. They go back to not talking about it. Maybe they never will. Or, the one where it’s 1939 and sometimes Steve thinks that having is worse than wanting.
From a Distance (ao3) - VolceVoice clint/phil, clint/steve T, 35k
Summary: “I jump into stuff,” he said. “Leap first, think later. And I’ve always seen things better from a distance. Guess I don't have to tell you that.
“So when you wanted to keep us on the QT, I assumed it was to keep the gossip down, so no one would think I was a way to get to you or that I was sleeping my way to a level five. I got too close, too fast to see that the reason you didn't want to tell anyone is that you just weren't that into me.”
love carved out of caring (ao3) - luthien82 clint/phil T, 25k
Summary: It's just a normal day at the office: an alien invasion, the Avengers assemble and fight, and they lose radio contact with Barton. Except that this time, it's not really a normal day at all, as Phil Coulson finds out soon enough when he is confronted with a three year old Clint Barton and no idea what happened.
Minefields (ao3) - arianapeterson19 T, 34k
Summary: Being in an abusive relationship was a bit like needing glasses. He didn’t realize it until the damage was done.
Funny how people assume only men can be abusive.
No Magic Would Save Me (ao3) - arsenicarcher (Arsenic) pepper/tony M, 20k
Summary: Once upon a time, an angel with the unlikely name of Pepper came to the circus, and took Clint away.
On the Doorstep (ao3) - CeliaEquus background bruce/phil, future clint/steve G, 12k
Summary: Clint Barton didn't mean to pass out in front of Stark Tower. He was just waiting for the Avengers so he could ask them to visit the homeless shelter before it closed. He never expected them to try to recruit him.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Avengers, or any other Marvel thingummies, nor am I making money from this.
peter’s stars (ao3) - IronPengu, parkrstark steve/tony T, 175k
Summary: Steve and Peter lose their apartment and are kicked out on the streets. Steve has to juggle between jobs to earn whatever money he can, take care of his son while resfusing to let him realize how much they’re trouble in, and keep them warm and safe on the city streets in winter.
So, he really doesn’t have time to date the billionaire that flirts with him everyday as he buys his cup of coffee. Even if he did, he can’t let himself fall for the man. Because if he knew that he lived from a backpack and showered in a public bathroom there’s no way he’d still want him…right?
Showdown (ao3) - shatteredhourglass bucky/clint, steve/tony T, 13k
Summary: Bucky was happy for Steve, he was. But did he and Tony have to be so disgustingly romantic all the time? // In which Bucky is tired of Steve and Tony's antics and Clint suggests revenge, which turns out with an additional bonus.
That Moment Divine (ao3) - synonym4life bucky/steve, bucky/ofc E, 61k
Summary: “‘S okay. It don’t have to mean nothing,” Bucky said, trying to convince himself as much as Steve. “‘S just rutting. Just a bit of rutting.”
His lips were so dry, his mouth too, and his throat, but the rest of his body felt like hot languid liquid was flowing through it. Steve swallowed, licked his lips. Maybe Steve’s mouth was dry too?
One hot summer, when Bucky and Steve are fifteen, the line between their friendship and something new that Bucky can’t quite name blurs. It is only years later that the line disappears completely and Bucky can finally put a name to that something.
We'll Haunt This Place (The Two of Us) (ao3) - ElloPoppet clint/steve, sam/bucky E, 25k
Summary: Huh. Captain America showing up at his farm unannounced in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon with a suitcase. Somehow, not the strangest thing to ever happen to Clint. Not even the strangest way he had been woken from a nap, honestly.
we’re pretenders (ao3) - snufkin103 steve/bucky N/R, 10k
Summary: Bucky sets up a double date. Things don’t go as planned.
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21st Century Brooklyn Boys (ao3) - kaosNotRefundable T, 121k
Summary: In which Steve & Bucky from the 1930s wind up time-traveling to the 21st century and finally run into each other...sort of. Brooklyn’s still Brooklyn. Only bustling, shiny, and very expensive. Bucky wants to know why this little yahoo of his is now Big and Sad. And Steve’s pretty certain the last time he saw him, Bucky wasn’t a very confused, quiet, long-haired, dangerous version with so many knives…and a metal arm…
OR:
Who’d’ve thunk procrastinating an arts assignment could save two pals in another century?
aka odessa (ao3) - sirendoom T, 3k
Summary: Natasha was given a mission years ago to escort an engineer but encountered a mysterious enemy along the way.
A Three Part Plan (ao3) - GrannyUnicorn T, 12k
Summary: Bucky was bored.
He’d been staying in Delacroix for nearly a month now that not much was happening since the flag smasher business. Turned out Sam was actually serious about that ‘long vacation’ thing, though the ‘separate’ part seemed to have slipped his mind. Which was fine. This was nice. In the beginning. But Bucky wasn’t used to sitting still, so after one and a half day of sleeping, reading, and looking out over the docks, he had started to get restless, latching onto any opportunity to distract himself.
And then John Walker mysteriously shows up on a boat and asks for his help. This can't go wrong, right?
(I mean, you've seen the tags and the answer is: yes it can)
here is my hand that will not harm you (ao3) - andibeth82 clint/laura T, 18k
Summary: It starts the day they assign him to Laura Morse.
It starts as something he wants nothing to do with.
And then, it becomes something more.
Inevitable (ao3) - imgoingtocrash pepper/tony G, 11k
Summary: When Pepper rounds the corner from the elevators, it's quite a scene.
A swathe of guards are crowded around one particular wall. A few feet away, employees are clustered, whispering and gawking.
The main focus of which is...a girl. A little brown-haired girl curled against the wall. Her eyes are closed, but she’s holding out a hand in defense. A hand plated with red and a glowing sphere encased in her palm.
What is that thing?
Morgan Stark appears in the Stark Industries atrium in the year 2006. Tony and Pepper attempt to get their future daughter back home while dealing with the implications that her existence has for their relationship.
Seventeen (ao3) - Face_of_Poe G, 2k
Summary: Sam Wilson is very happy chasing cold leads on their missing person's case; said missing person is less keen on the matter.
Subject to Change (ao3) - missingcrowdsof1000s, Write_To_You bruno/kamala, aamir/tyesha, muneeba/yusuf, past wanda/vision T, 48k
Summary: An ever-evolving back-and-forth narrative that asks the question — what will it take for Kamala Khan to finally realize that she’s in love with Bruno Carrelli?
Ships Passing in the Night (ao3) - osprey_archer T, 2k
Summary: Hydra releases the Winter Soldier for the Battle of New York. Steve Rogers is 100% thrilled to meet a fellow frozen World War II soldier, even if he was a Soviet.
The Beacons (ao3) - boopboop M, 7k
Summary: To be great, a man must first be broken.
James Falsworth has extensive experience when it comes to taking good soldiers and making them great. His methods have been proved time and again, and though harsh, they always get results. He's never failed to break a man, never failed to prepare him for the horrors that await.
Until Sergeant James Buchanan Barnes throws a spanner in the works.
The Care and Feeding of Traumatized Ex-Assassins (ao3) - Sholio T, 6k
Summary: Steve starts to notice someone's been in his apartment while he's not there. Set after Winter Soldier; spoilers.
The Courting of Tony Stark (ao3) - boombangbing pepper/tony, pepper/rhodey, pepper/happy, tony/joanna, tony/rumiko T, 50k
Summary: It only takes her nine years to say 'I love you' back.
Thermotemporal Equations (ao3) - Blinky The Tree Frog (blinkytreefrog) T, 48k
Summary: Bucky Barnes is used to strange happenings; his time with the Howling Commandos has guaranteed that. He's therefore not totally thrown off balance when he wakes up in an extraordinary tower in a seemingly impossible year. He can’t help but be worried though, no matter how much reassurance he's getting from Steve and his new team.
The Sound of Silence (ao3) - Jac_Danvers ana/edwin T, 24k
Summary: On the eve of the German invasion of Hungary, Anna Zellner was a Jewish shop girl who wanted nothing more than to keep her head down and her family safe. She never thought that selling a tie would draw her into a dangerous world of secrets and spies. A world where her only hope is a bumbling British attache. The story of Edwin and Anna Jarvis, featuring a healthy dose of Howard Stark.
Wrong About You, Wrong About Me (ao3) - betterthanworse M, 30k
Summary: It's effortless, really, for Bucky to slip once more beneath the blanket of Hydra’s conditioning; old patterns slipping back into place, nice and easy, as natural as breathing.
Or,
In Madripoor, Selby gets to name her price. Sam and Bucky must keep up the charade for a little while longer.
(You Can’t Choose) What Stays and What Fades Away (ao3) - Taste_is_Sweet steve/bucky G, 3k
Summary: At some point in everyone's life, the first words their soulmate will ever say to them will appear in deep black writing on their skin.
The words fade to light grey when a soulmate dies.
Sometimes new words replace them, whether they're wanted or not.
(These were the words Steve was born with, running in a messy, uneven line across his skinny little chest, beneath both his collarbones: You okay, pal? Those jerks didn't hurt ya too bad, did they?
Steve woke up from the ice in 2011 with the words, Who the hell is Bucky? circling his heart, in printing so precise it barely looked human.
Steve hated them.)
