#capimexchange2018

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2018 Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange, and Community Gifts Creators Reveals & Master post

This year we got a record 111 works submitted for our event! Thank you all very much for participating in all kinds of ways: writing, arting, submitting the prompts for the Community Gifts, cheerleading the creators, and beta-reading! We hope you had lots of fun. And here, finally, is the full event masterlist revealing the creators of each work! Please remember to mind the tags and warnings at each individual work page.

★ Between the Minutes and the Beats by dreamkist for somalester (MCU, 2610 words)

A retrieval mission goes sideways and Tony learns there are ways out of the dark.

★ A Common Folly by royal_chandler for kellebelle (MCU, 3982 words)

Alongside the growing skirt of daylight, a miserable hangover had greeted Tony the next day. Steve sputtering through awkward morning-after talk had only made it worse, his hands a busy flurry in Tony’s face and dizzying. To save himself the trouble of lengthy jail time, Tony had smothered him with a cotton-dry mouth rather than with a pillow he’d be half-seriously contemplating. And after that? Well Tony discovered that he quite liked kissing Steve and being kissed by Steve.

★ From Small Things... by Shadowolf19 for Sineala (616, 15223 words)

Steve realizes he's been kind of a terrible boyfriend to everyone he's dated, and he'd like to change. He knows exactly who to ask for dating tips: Tony. Tony agrees to go on a practice date with him and give him some pointers based on what he knows about Steve, up to and including a kiss goodnight.

★ I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day by alexcat for ToneeStark (MCU, 4056 words)

Tony and Steve find each other under the mistletoe.

★ Roadside (Captain) America by salable_mystic for gottalovev (MCU, art)

Steve Rogers on a motorcycle ... .

★ Valse des Cygnes by Fluffypanda for mitochondrials (Ultimate, 4562 words)

The Ultimates are set to be the hottest new superhero team in America, but after the launch party Tony Stark's armor is found wrecked and he's presumed dead. Steve wants to get to the bottom of what really happened while the rest of the team is ready to move on.

★ Under Wraps by runningondreams for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 1491 words)

Tony's spent a lot of time planning for this party. He's bought and wrapped gifts, sent out invitations, helped Jarvis decorate and made sure there will be enough food for a super-human crowd.

He didn't plan for mistletoe.

★ We Kill the Flame by laireshi for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 1017 words)

Steve runs his thumb over Tony’s lower lip. “You will break,” he promises.

He’s not right.

Tony’s broken already.

★ You Look Cute in That (2018 Gift Exchange) by One and Five Nines for Cap Iron Man Community (Avengers Assemble (Cartoon), art)

Fill for the prompt: Steve offers Tony to try on his Captain America uniform to make Tony's childhood dream come true (and he loves to see Tony's wearing his stuff)

★ Growing Old Together by Cachette for XtaticPearl (Any, art)

I loved so many of the prompts I had a hard time choosing! XtaticPearl has some great ideas and I hope somehow they get made in the future, but I hope you enjoy this one for now!

★ I Wanna Love You Like I Can by Nixie_DeAngel for marumo (Avengers Assemble (Cartoon), 1554 words)

After an unexpected visit from people that were long thought gone, both Tony and Steve have to reevaluate what they want from the present, the future, and most importantly, each other.

★ In Want Of A Ticking Heart by XtaticPearl for DepressingGreenie (AU, 20529 words)

They dealt with lightning every day, trapping and taming the power of gods on a ship that flew with the gibbons. For all that was strange with their everyday life, the Captain of Avenger never really had understood the stars even as he had admired them between stretched fingers. Little did the regular old Steve Rogers predict though, that the stars were trying to understand him in return too, and from quite closer than expected.

★ somebody to love (do you need anybody) by tony_starkrogers for salable_mystic (MCU, 4245 words)

Steve Rogers is Tony Stark’s PA... but will they ever be something more?

★ To spend an evening with me by Lets_call_me_Lily for monkiainen (MCU, art)

Steve and Tony, late in the evening at a cheerful little café... The perfect place for words of love to slip out.

★ where good affections grow by shell-heads for laireshi (616, 2780 words)

On nights when he can't sleep, dogged down by greyscale memories or intricate plans, Tony slips into orphanages and holds babies in their sleep. He doesn't talk about it, and very few know at all, but when he leaves bed to head out for the first time in his new, wonderful relationship with Steve, he doesn't expect Steve to come along.

He panics at first, because this is something he can't talk about, something he's never been able to share with anyone before, but Steve holds his hand and smiles at him like all the stars are in Tony's eyes, and when he says, "I love you," well-Tony can't help but think Steve could be yet another exception to one of his rules.

So he goes, and Steve comes with him, and like everything they do together, it's twice as good as anything they do alone.

★ Behind Closed Doors by runningondreams for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 3285 words)

The Mansion is in shambles. Tony's life is in shambles. And then there's Steve. Solid, dependable Steve, doing his best to keep them all whole.

Sometimes, there are no good answers left.

★ upon us all a little rain must fall by Lets_call_me_Lily for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU, art)

Pathetic fallacy finds Steve sadly dangling his legs over the edge of a bridge while it rains. Tony, being Tony, goes after him.

★ You Don't Need To Surrender by laireshi for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 1703 words)

There's a reason why Tony knows so well what Steve likes in bed, but Steve does not remember what Hydra Cap did. He's just happy to finally be with Tony.

★ Christmas Affair by Neverever for tonystarkssnipples (MCU, 6646 words)

Tony thinks that Steve will be proposing to him after many years of living together, except that Steve has a secret that could ruin it all.

★ Escape by laireshi for Ironlawyer (616, 1712 words)

Tony Stark is tired of rebuilding. He finds escape the way he usually does, down at the bottom of the bottle . . . But it's okay. It's safe this time. Virtual reality isn't, after all, real.

★ Gift from the Heart by Neverever for SmileAndASong (Avengers Assemble (Cartoon), 4805 words)

Steve and Tony have been dating for awhile now but Steve struggles to get Tony just the right gift for Christmas.

★ Lying is the Hardest Part by kellebelle for dsidhe (MCU, 4889 words)

Tony gets hit with a truth serum. The struggle is real.

★ Smile at the Camera by littleblackbow for gryvon (616, Art & 51 words)

I wasn't sure what to do with the prompts since I'm gifting you some art. But my idea was that this was kind of a confrontation with the voracious press. What happens when the photo gets out.

Anyway, I hope you like it. Happy Christmas and New Year and all of that traditional good feeling stuff!

★ Under the Mistletoe by gryvon for afincf_tirwer (MCU, 1154 words)

He steps out and frowns at the other Avengers, all conspicuously hovering by the windows at the opposite side of the room. Clint's grin means nothing good. Bruce is far too interested in the cup of tea in his hands. Natasha meets his gaze, smirks, and very pointedly looks up.

Tony looks up. Every available inch of the ceiling is covered in plastic mistletoe except, of course, the area the other Avengers are standing.

"Goddammit," Tony says, with feeling.

★ Just wanted to propose! by afincf_tirwer for nasa (MCU, 4157 words)

Steve sees Tony nearly get killed and realises he cannot lose him. One thing leads to another and they make their way to the altar. Barring a few bumps in the road such as when Steve is kidnapped by Hydra and tortured. The night he meant to propose. CAN'T EVIL TAKE ONE NIGHT OFF?

★ Fervor by erde for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU, 4377 words)

Steve finds himself in some particular kind of trouble after breathing a chemical. Tony, who supposedly doesn't want anything to do with him anymore, gives him a hand.

★ One Acquainted with the Night by alexcat for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU, 2964 words)

Tony and Steve meet accidentally on purpose.

★ At Last by PjCole for shell-heads (616, art)

Art of Steve and Tony smiling on their wedding day.

★ Forever Linked by ashes0909 and athletiger for Hayluhalo (MCU, 11225 words)

Before the door even clicked shut, he opened his mouth to let the pink petals flutter to the ground. In the center of all this mess was a single rose, not yet bloomed, but Tony knew, deep down, what this meant.

But they were only teammates for sure; nothing else will go further.

-

“You have Hanahaki?” she asked, barely more than a whisper.

He fisted out the petal from his pocket and held it out to her. “If that’s what would cause this to come out of my throat.”

★ Heartlines by nanasekei for MusicalLuna (MCU, 7845 words)

“Let me,” Tony repeats. He regrets it deeply, so much, he wants to stick the words back into his mouth again, and it must show, in the way his voice wavers. He feels exposed, all of a sudden, as if he’s asking something bigger than what he can actually say. Let me touch you, let me take care of you. “Just… Let me do it.”

★ Left Turn by mitochondrials for dreamkist (MCU, 2556 words)

Steve knows his past sins can't simply be washed away just because Thanos hurdled the Universe into the apocalypse. Still, he can't help but desperately desire Tony's attention. Tony's anything.

★ A Love Song (The Way It's Meant to Be) by msermesth for Missy_dee811 (616, 2750 words)

“I can’t do this anymore, Steve. I just… can’t.”

Steve hears the words out of Tony’s mouth, but he doesn’t understand them, doesn’t recognize what they mean when strung together in a sentence. Tony’s staring straight ahead, watching him, stoic and unmoving, and he’s ready for a battle he doesn’t want.

“What can’t you do?” Steve asks and the words catch in his throat because he knows when Tony isn’t going to back down.

“I can’t be with you.”

★ Matter of the heart by DepressingGreenie for athletiger (MCU, 1163 words)

Tony is diagnosed with a rare heart condition. Steve is the heart specialist he sees.

★ No Surprises by dirigibleplumbing for alexcat (MCU, 4313 words)

Tony (and Nebula) crash-land on the lawn of Avenger’s compound. The first person Tony sees when he steps out of the wreckage is Steve. He doesn’t know if he’s relieved or furious that Steve has survived, too. Somehow, the world keeps going. Tony mostly keeps going too—and figures out how to feel about Steve.

★ Chocolatier by somalester for Cap Iron Man Community (Avengers Assemble (Cartoon), 1278 words)

For the prompt: "Tony, you're like, hot chocolate" - Or: Steve gets intoxicated by HYDRA and ends up being a little too honest.

★ forget-me-not by somalester for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU, 1731 words)

For the prompt: "Steve retires. Tony visits him." / Or, years after Civil War and Thanos, Tony and Steve have a much needed talk.

★ Fire No Guns, Shed No Tears by vextant for Fluffypanda (Noir, 3864 words)

10 November 1813

The Captain has not been spotted for nigh on four days — we all fear for the cargo she carries. To lose her would be to lose our young nation’s most precious treasure, our hope of fending off Great Britain and her puppet Commonwealth once and for all.

I told them not to risk it, I told them! The lake will claim what she will, and now too she holds the wealth, the legacy of this Brotherhood — nay, of these United States.

—

After officially retiring from adventuring in 1940, Tony Stark has found an old Freemason's journal that says there's treasure buried at the bottom of one of the Great Lakes. What he ends up dredging up is significantly more interesting than gold.

★ Frosting and Ink by kenshincha for malome78 (MCU, 1223 words)

Tony runs a bakery and Steve runs the Tattoo shop across the street. Steve goes into Tony's shop on a lark.

★ Good to Have You Back by Sineala for Lady_Katana4544 (616, 3863 words)

When business calls him away from Avengers Mountain, Tony leaves his AI at home to keep Steve company. And when the two of them are called into battle, Steve needs all the help he can get against a foe he never wanted to face again.

★ No Chance Of Listening by monkiainen for nanasekei (MCU, 1320 words)

Tony most definitely does not want to go back to the team after what happened with Ultron. Never. If only Steve could understand it.

★ This Simple Feeling by inukagome15 for Neverever (MCU, 17380 words)

When are two good friends not good friends? Sounds like the setup for a brilliant joke, right? Except when the joke mirrors real life. Tony and Steve are just very good friends. So why is it everyone thinks they're dating?

★ Synapses by Shaliara for magicasen (616, Art + 963 words)

"I dream we are back on Earth and you're telling me not to go."

★ A Good Man by alexcat for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU, 465 words)

Tony mourns.

★ Game Over: Start Again? by laireshi and runningondreams for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 2408 words)

A first kiss is a beginning. A last kiss is an end. Steve and Tony have shared a few of both.

★ Impossible to Unsee by alexcat for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU, 2114 words)

Steve sees something he can't unsee or forget.

★ Animal Instincts by Meatball42 for Cachette (MCU, 1300 words)

When Steve's dog may be set upon by a dog-napper, Steve rushes to the rescue... only to find that he is the one in need of a little bit of assistance.

★ Better Days by Missy_dee811 for Shadowolf19 (MCU, 3056 words)

After the end of Infinity War, Tony finds himself drifting in space. When he returns to Earth, he doesn't know how to cope with Peter's death. He starts drinking heavily. Nothing anyone says helps, so it's up to Steve.

★ Just a little date by jayjayverse for Nixie_DeAngel (MCU, art)

Steve and Tony have an impromptu date night in the lab.

★ Rooftops, Rings and Rutabagas by Sadisticsparkle for adarksweetness (Avengers Assemble (Cartoon), 3428 words)

A date night goes horribly wrong and then goes horribly right.

★ Why We Need to Talk by navaan for ishipallthings (616, 3454 words)

After the Red Zone incident, Steve's sure he and Tony need to talk. But as always with them too many things are going down at the same time.

★ Your Way by brokenEisenglas for PjCole (MCU, 3894 words)

We've been riding the same train for nearly three years now... And I don't even know his name.

★ In the Dark by runningondreams for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 2452 words)

After midnight, in a private room, just the two of them and a movie they've both already seen. Anything could happen, right?

★ Malibu: Become Hero by Veldeia for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU/Detroit: Become Human, 17342 words)

To survive his injuries and captivity by the Ten Rings, Tony makes the difficult decision to take apart a damaged military android left gathering dust among scavenged weapons. What he doesn't expect is that he'll be gifted an intact unit of the very same prototype model later, or just how important this SR100, better known as Steve, will become to him.

(Fusion/crossover with Detroit: Become Human; fills the community prompt asking for one: "Anything that fuses Detroit: Become Human with a Marvel canon of your choice".)

★ Password required by cptxrogers for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 872 words)

Steve thinks that maybe Tony is trying to tell him something with all these security measures.

aka Tony's passwords for Steve change into increasingly more obvious love confessions

★ Romance! by Cachette for Cap Iron Man Community (Ambiguous, art)

Team trip to the zoo. Steve and Tony sneak off for some fun.

★ Bad Reputation by gottalovev for jayjayverse (MCU, 14337 words)

Obadiah Stane, CEO of Stark Industries since Howard’s son died before Steve even woke up, isn’t happy that the Avengers haven’t caught the villain Iron Man yet. The mysterious man in the armor keeps destroying SI weapons, and even though they tried to arrest him, he always slips through the Avengers’ fingers. It doesn’t help that Steve enjoys their bantering a bit too much, and that he’s starting to think that Iron Man has a worthy cause.

★ Count to Ten by Ironlawyer for msermesth (Ultimate, 1026 words)

Tony gets what he wants, but not what he wants

★ Good Morning Beloved by zappedbysnow for meatball42 (616, art)

Tony is off to train the youngsters after breakfast.

★ The Hoodie of Blasphemy by Meatball42 for Cachette (MCU, 3355 words)

The Avengers team gets closer, and so do Steve and Tony. If only Tony could figure out why Steve's sweaters smell so good...

★ I Got You by ToneeStark for navaan (MCU, 7350 words)

For Navaan. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! I hope you like it! Please check chapter 4 for artwork that goes along with the work. <3

★ Jingle Bell Rock by somalester for 1electricpirate (MCU, 6141 words)

Prompt: "Tony finds out Steve also doesn't like Christmas & instead invites him to spend Grinchmas together. Just the two of them in a ski lodge / cabin somewhere in the snowy backwoods. It turns out they are both much more full of the christmas spirit than they thought."

★ Kiss Me, Baby, It's Christmas Time by Shadowolf19 for inukagome15 (616, 2126 words)

“Okay, well, merry Christmas…” he wishes to his lab, deciding he’s allowed to feel sorry for himself right now, he’s like a fallen resistance leader or something along those lines who used to be surrounded by people who enjoyed his company, but who now spends his days alone trying to understand when it all went wrong.

★ Bad by One and Five Nines for Cap Iron Man Community (Ambiguous, art)

Fill for the prompt: Superior Iron Man and Hydra Cap, together at last

★ Charity Auctions and Scheming Boyfriends by laireshi for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 1165 words)

Steve wins a date with Tony at an auction. It goes very differently than he expected.

★ Fool Me Once by laireshi for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 1005 words)

Hydra Cap escapes and goes after Tony.

★ He sees you, Steve, he's wearing glasses by Cachette for Cap Iron Man Community (Ambiguous, art)

Steve finds himself constantly distracted by the sight of Tony in glasses, and the others are definitely noticing. Thank goodness Tony hasn't. Yet.

★ Heart on My Sleeve by runningondreams for Cap Iron Man Community (Marvel Adventures, 1943 words)

Tony wears Steve’s clothes. Steve has no problem with this.

★ Off the Record by runningondreams for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 1455 words)

Steve can't sleep, and when he can't sleep, he broods. After too many nights of restless dreams and nightmares, he hopes Tony can be the distraction he needs.

★ Willed Engagements by DepressingGreenie for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU, 1846 words)

When Steve wakes in the 21st century he finds out that Howard had left him his son in his will... as his bondmate.

★ Crimson Kringle by SmileAndASong for zappedbysnow (Avengers Assemble (Cartoon), 4688 words)

Steve is ecstatic when he draws Tony's name for the team Secret Santa. He hopes that with the perfect gift, he'll finally be able to take their relationship to the next level.

There's only one problem — the name he picked actually isn't Tony’s.

★ Keeping a Close Eye by magicasen for sheron (616, 3017 words)

Steve and Tony are avoiding each other. Carol takes it upon herself to find out why.

★ Once the Brain Fog Clears by Impala_Chick for Shaliara (MCU, 5945 words)

SHIELD HQ loses contact with their Arctic Base, and they ask Steve, Sam, and Nat to go recover their agents. But there is a monster lurking in the ice, and it knows Steve's weaknesses.

★ Skrull Steve by Hayluhalo for dirigibleplumbing (Any, art)

Tony is biased when it comes to Steve, even if it isn't really him.

★ Until the Smoke Clears by cathydeff for RawWriting (MCU, 2778 words)

Tony was born an omega, but Howard, in shame, turns him into a beta.

After the fight at Johannesburg with the Hulk, Bruce & Cho inject Tony with experimental nanites to save his life. It works, but he’s also physically 21, turned back into his original omega gender, and is now apparently Captain America’s scent mate.

Captain America, who’s never noticed that Tony was interested, and then some.

Fuck his life.

★ wrench in the works by MusicalLuna for morcabre (MCU, 1884 words)

Steve hadn't known how to court someone in 1939 and he sure as hell doesn't know how to do it in 2014. He's determined to try though.

★ Fun Overdue by DepressingGreenie for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 1050 words)

Tony seeks Steve out for some fun, as it so happens... Steve was in the library.

★ If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Now by vorkosigan for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU, 12953 words)

"Hold that thought," Tony said into his phone. "I apparently just got hit by a hitchhiker."

"You hit a hitchhiker?" Happy sounded horrified.

"What? Am I talking to a wall? I got hit by a hitchhiker."

Having just broken up with Pepper, Tony is driving to California on Christmas Eve. When he picks up a hitchhiker, he hardly expects him to be the former Captain America, defrosted and on the run from SHIELD.

★ In Sickness and in Health by runningondreams for Cap Iron Man Community (Avengers Assemble (Cartoon), 1031 words)

If Steve has to physically sit on Tony to make him take a rest, he will. He just hopes it doesn’t come to that.

★ An Infinite Loop by laireshi for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 750 words)

"You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren't meant to be happy."

★ Red by One and Five Nines for Cap Iron Man Community (616, Art])

Fill for the prompt: RACK S/M! I would love this to be really vicious and have them both really into it.

★ Off to a Caffeinated Start by Lets_call_me_Lily for Cap Iron Man Community (616, art)

After however-many (too many) hours of being awake, Tony was forced out of his workshop and into bed. Now, our tousled genius needs to reboot his brain.

This situation calls for coffee, of course.

★ Try, Try Again by runningondreams for Cap Iron Man Community (Marvel Adventures, 1662 words)

Steve’s plans usually work out pretty well. This time, though? When all he really wants to do is ask Tony a very important question? Not so much.

★ unforgettable by gottalovev for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU, 5729 words)

It is pretty certain that even if Steve didn't have an eidetic memory, the images of Tony's sex tape would be seared into his mind anyway.

★ Apple Pie by marumo for Sadisticsparkle (Avengers Assemble (Cartoon), Comic)

Tony has acted suspiciously these days... Steve wonders what he is hiding.

★ between the gates by nasa for royal_chandler (AU, 9494 words)

“Have a lovely evening,” the flight attendant says, like nothing at all is wrong. And, really, nothing is - except for the fact Tony’s snowed in at an airport, sharing a room with the ex who broke his heart five years ago, who he was never able to get over. Totally great.

★ No It's Not Camping by brokenEisenglas for tony_starkrogers (MCU, 4043 words)

Steve and Tony go on a much needed Christmas vacation. They may just be getting more in their stockings than they had originally thought.

★ return ticket by adarksweetness for Impala_Chick (MCU, 2328 words)

Tony is alone when the apocalypse occurs. Steve finds his way back home.

★ Simple Truths by sheron for littleblackbow (616, 2863 words)

When Steve tells him about the romance novel he borrowed from Jan, Tony realizes his own feelings for Steve would fit perfectly in a book like that. Of course, Steve must never know.

★ Won't You Say Love by ishipallthings for vextant (MCU, 9969 words)

Steve's ready to tell Tony he wants to be more than friends. But after they're interrupted by a surprise attack that ends with Tony in the hospital, their relationship spirals out of control - especially when Tony starts avoiding Steve, who has no idea how to fix things between them.

★ Black and Blue by runningondreams for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 860 words)

Tony is injured on Avenger’s business. Steve helps care for his wounds.

★ Dispel by laireshi and faite for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 3925 Words + Art)

Steve is hit with a love spell, but he doesn't want it undone: he loves Tony and he's never been happier.

★ Eventually by One and Five Nines for Cap Iron Man Community (Ultimate, Comic)

Fill for the prompt: Post-apocalyptic slavefic au

Tony is godking of the wasteland. Steve is not.

PLEASE MIND ALL THE TAGS AND WARNINGS

★ Hidden Lives by DepressingGreenie for Cap Iron Man Community (AU, 1606 words)

Being a secret superhero is hard, as is keeping that secret from your significant other.

★ Operation Infatuation by Meatball42 for Cap Iron Man Community (3490, 1752 words)

As the Avengers gossip bond as a team, Natasha Stark is forced to admit that she used to have a crush on Captain America as a teenager. Suddenly, it’s all a pining Steve can think about.

★ Under the Table by runningondreams for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 1191 words)

Tony's been thinking about Steve too much lately. It's time he did something about that.

★ A Warmth Like No Other by ishipallthings for Cap Iron Man Community (Avengers Assemble (Cartoon), 1992 words)

Tony invites Steve to make hot chocolate with him. Steve happily agrees, but then his mouth runs away with him.

★ When Your Best Isn't Enough by laireshi for Cap Iron Man Community (616/Avengers Assemble/Marvel Adventures, 1229 words)

616 Steve and Tony get sent to two different universes where their alternate selves are married.

616 Tony is sad: if only his Steve loved him too.

616 Steve is brooding: if only his Tony loved him too.

★ Birds of a Feather by DepressingGreenie for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU, 850 words)

Tony has noticed Steve behavior around him, and decides to act on it.

★ A Blanket Burrito by marumo for Cap Iron Man Community (Avengers Assemble (Cartoon), art)

Making a Tony Stark Burrito.

For 2018 Cap-IM Community Gift Prompts: Steve wraps up Tony with a blanket like burrito.

★ Collapse by laireshi for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 390 words)

Steve Rogers is standing in Tony’s living room in his Captain America uniform with the three bloody holes from the gunshots that killed him.

★ Half-Truths by laireshi for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 1258 words)

Tony should've known the real Steve Rogers could never love him.

★ No, Steve! by DepressingGreenie for Cap Iron Man Community (Ambiguous, art)

Tony is sick of Steve's overly reckless heroic antics.

★ Of Theme Parks and Impersonators by SmileAndASong for Cap Iron Man Community (AvAc, 2082 words)

Tony can't stop staring at the Captain America performer during his and Steve's Disneyland vacation.

★ Of Things Lost in Time by erde for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU, 16090 words)

The Time Stone beckons Steve with the promise of home. He ends up in Clint's farm, reliving the same day again and again.

★ The Pawfect Gift by DepressingGreenie for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU, 899 words)

This was not going how Tony planned it to go. Steve should've loved his gift, what went wrong?

★ Safewords by cptxrogers for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 3109 words)

Five times Steve and Tony joked about safewords and one time they didn’t.

★ Tales of The Golden Avenger: Return of the Red Skull by runningondreams for Cap Iron Man Community (616 Star Wars AU, 10932 words)

It’s been over a year since Tony left the Rebel Alliance to travel the stars with only Rhodey and his AI for company, but when the Wasp calls in a favor, he feels bound to answer. Even though there’s an active bounty on his head. Even though the last time he confronted a real, Force-empowered Sith he lost his right hand. He can deal with all of that.

Except Jan failed to mention that the mission involved Steve.

★ Truth Be Told by heartsandmuses for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU, 6478 words)

Tony didn’t believe in signs. He did whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted, regardless of whether or not the universe seemed to approve. Which was a good thing, really, because if he didbelieve in signs, there would be no doubt in his mind that fate or the cosmos or whatever cruel, eldritch god was ruling his life absolutely did not want him to propose to Steve.

No matter what Tony planned, something, somehow, always seemed to get in his way. Either it was an Avengers alert (which happened about two weeks ago), or a sudden downpour over midtown Manhattan (one week ago), or Steve suddenly being de-serumed (four days ago), or, well—

“A truth serum.”

(Right now.)

★ Upon a Midnight Clear by runningondreams for Cap Iron Man Community (1872, 562 words)

The little town of Timely enjoys a quiet Christmas Eve.

★ We’ve Got a Mystery to Solve, So Be Ready For Your Act by Meatball42 for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU, 3185 words)

The Mystery Inc. gang gets their biggest client yet. Will the team manage to solve the mystery, make a match or two, and secure a tax-qualified, defined-contribution pension account? Or will the various chemicals they've imbibed produce only chaos?

★ Younger by One and Five Nines for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU, art)

Fill for the prompt: not long after Tony left the Avengers, the team is attacked and turned into kids... all except Steve. Steve is good with kids... but he is only one guy, super soldier serum be damned. He calls Tony for help.

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My HE gift for MusicalLuna :D

fandom: MCU ship: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark tags: Hurt/Comfort, Hurt Tony Stark, Hurt Steve Rogers, Light Angst, Fluff

The first thing that Tony thinks, when the power of the suit goes down, is that it’s fucking heavy.

It’s not one of his cleverest thoughts. The suit is always heavy – maneuvering it has taken its toll on Tony’s muscles, which sometimes ache for days after a particularly strenuous mission. But the armor seems to weight a hundred ton after the blow from Doom's spider hits Tony right in the chest, in a way that proves his past self was smart for getting rid of the reactor. The blow sends Tony's body straight to the ground, crashing against the asphalt. Tony’s back slams violently, and he feels a sharp pain in his abdomen that tells him the damn spider broke more than just the power source.

Everything goes dark.

Okay. Okay, Tony thinks, shutting his eyes in order to calm himself down, trying not to get distracted by the view of pure darkness. He notices he is shaking, and he needs to stop, because the power going down means his ventilation system was cut, and he only has so much air to figure out what to do.

Tony can vaguely hear sounds coming from outside, but they’re all distant. The armor has a comm system for a reason – the layer of metal is too thick to allow for conversation. Inside of it, right now, the loudest sound Tony hears is his own breathing, sharp intakes of air as he uselessly tries to move his arms. He’s pretty sure they’re not broken, but they’re too weak to lift the metal – and besides, Tony’s brain immediately thinks, this doesn’t fucking matter, what would standing up even do, Jesus fuck, he needs to concentrate here.

Tony’s body jerks when he feels something slam against his chest. Since the Hulk would have thrown him like a rag doll, and Clint and Natasha know hitting the suit would break their fingers, it must be Thor or Steve.

Tony inhales sharply. He can feel blood buzzing in his ears, the pain in his abdomen making him see white spots.

Don’t faint, he tells himself. Don’t you fucking faint. If you faint here, you’re not gonna wake up.

He can feel weight being laid over his chest, like someone is draping themselves over him, and it hits his torso right in the spot, making Tony let out a groan of pain.

“Tony?! Tony, can you hear me?”

The sound is faint, but it doesn’t matter. Tony would recognize that voice in hell.

“Loud and clear, Cap,” Tony says, focusing on calming down his breathing, because he’s making the little air he already has even scarcer by hyperventilating right now. Steve must not hear him, though, because the next thing Tony feels is another strong slam, and he realizes Steve must be trying to ignite the reactor manually. It’s not a bad idea in itself, but it’s pointless, since the blow broke the main connections. Steve might get it to glow again, but as far as getting Tony out of the suit goes, it would be useless.

“Cap,” Tony tries, but his voice is too weak, too soft even for Steve’s superhuman hearing. “Cap, this isn’t gonna work.”

Steve must grab his shoulders, because Tony feels something pulling him up. His heart is pounding, his body shaking as he tries to gather his thoughts in order. Steve doesn’t know how the armor works, Steve is not gonna be able to get him out. He needs to think, needs to find a way.

He opens his eyes on reflex, and it’s so dark. It’s so fucking dark, and for a moment Tony tries to breathe and can’t manage to, doesn’t find air.

No, Tony thinks. No, not yet, it can’t be—

But there is no air, he can’t find it, he feels his lungs inhaling desperately, but there’s nothing coming in.

The suit was made to be removed via voice command. It was not made to be dismantled. Tony engineered it perfectly, because he’s brilliant like that, clever enough to design his own coffin and guarantee no body would ever come out of it.

You’re not a body, some distant part of his brain says, but it’s hard to hear. Not yet.

The slamming happens again, and Tony has lost control of his breath by now. He keeps inhaling and exhaling frantically. He’s probably cut his air supply by at least a third now. Maybe half.

“Tony?! Tony, talk to me,” Steve says, his voice sounding loud but also distant, and a part of Tony’s brain thinks ha, now you want me to talk, Cap, isn’t it funny how these things happen. Steve must say something else, but Tony’s mind is flying now, making calculations. He can feel blood roaring in his ears, his head is getting dizzy, and he’s going to faint, and he fucking can’t, if he faints that’s it, it will be over, and it can’t be over like that, it can’t be possible, but—

But it will be, Tony thinks, eyes darting all over the huge and unforgiving darkness, trying to find even one glimpse of light that’s not there. He distantly feels what he imagines is Steve grabbing the armor, but Steve can’t fix this, he needs help and Tony can’t help, he’s fucking useless, he can’t think of anything except air, air, air.

He’s going to die, he feels it in his bones. He’s going to faint and die because of one of his weapons, like so many others, and—

There’s a loud, cracking noise when the chest plate is ripped off, and Tony barely has the time to process it before an invasion of bright, blinding light in his eyes, and the wind on his face tells him the faceplate is gone.

He’s panting; he keeps breathing desperately, the air coming inside feeling foreign in his lungs. His vision is unfocused. His eyes blink desperately to adapt to the light, and he’s still shaking.

Steve is hovering over him, and Tony must say something, or babble, because he feels the rough texture of Steve’s gloves against his cheeks, and sees his mouth moving. His ears are still buzzing, he can barely decipher what Steve’s saying, catching only half-phrases like, it’s okay, and, breathe.

And breathe is a good idea, it’s—it’s the best idea. Tony closes his eyes, focuses on breathing. He focuses on the leather of Steve’s gloves; he can feel the weight of Steve’s body leaning over him. He ignores the pain in his torso, focuses on Steve’s voice, and he feels his head spinning less over time, his ears able to hear more. Steve repeats the same thing over and over, like a mantra, a prophecy. It’s okay. You’re okay.

Tony believes him.

Tony barely registers it when they get to the quinjet. Steve throws his arm around his shoulders and basically carries him.

Tony vaguely thinks he must be looking like shit, because Steve sits him down in the corner of the Quinjet that’s usually reserved for post-hulking out Bruce. He rests his back against the wall, and feels someone dropping a blanket on his shoulders. When he looks up, he sees Clint already turning back, and he’s thankful that Clint doesn’t say anything than what can be inferred from the blanket.

Tony isn’t sure how long it takes before the door closes, because he mostly focuses on breathing, on stopping the shaking. Hill scans him, says a bunch of stuff he doesn’t hear on the communicator. Clint sticks around, but says nothing.

When the quinjet takes off, Thor stops by and sits in front of him.

“How are you feeling?” he asks bluntly, and Tony is distantly impressed by how the question sounds honest and yet not at all condescending. “You didn’t look well over there.”

“You looked like shit, is what he means,” Clint says, and Tony snorts.

“I’m fine,” he says, and jumps when he hears someone scoffing at his side. “Jesus.” He turns and sees Natasha, sitting right by him, at just enough distance to avoid touching. “How long have you been here?”

“He doesn’t have any major wounds,” she says to Thor. “Hill said it was an anxiety attack.”

“Oh well, that’s not embarrassing at all,” Tony grunts, running his hand over his forehead. Jesus, he’s sweaty.

“Your panic was warranted,” Thor says, brow furrowing. “Had Steven not thought fast, you’d have suffocated.”

“Not helping, Thor,” Natasha interjects. Her shoulder bumps against Tony lightly. It’s comforting and just subtle enough that they can both pretend she’s not doing it on purpose.

“Well, no one suffocated in the end.” Tony recognizes Bruce’s voice coming from the door. He’s wearing his usual post-Hulk clothes, holding a cup of tea in his hands.

“Hey, buddy,” Tony says. “Sorry to steal your spot.”

Bruce’s smile is tired but honest. “Just don’t do it again,” he says, coming closer. He crouches and sits next to Tony, offering him the tea.

“Oh, you gotta be kidding me.” Tony shakes his head, even as he takes it. “Is this a punishment? Is this a test—thou must drink artisan tea to prove your worthiness of your spot on the team or something?”

“Just drink it, man,” Clint says, rolling his eyes. Tony doesn’t need to look to know Natasha is probably doing the same.

“I’m fine,” Tony insists, even as he complies, taking a sip. It actually doesn’t taste bad, but he makes a face anyway, just because. It does warm him up, and as he looks around the room he can see the half-circle they formed, basically hovering over him in the least subtle way possible. Superheroes aren’t very sneaky.

Tony’s face heats, because he hates being in this position, but there’s warmth in his chest, too. He’s pretty sure they all have other things they could be doing on the way back. That they all choose to be there instead, that’s, well.

It’s nice.

Tony takes another sip in order to not let any reaction show on his face. It’s not a serious thing, it isn’t, they shouldn’t have bothered, but… but they did.

He raises his head to assess the room one more time, going through Thor’s openly worried face, Clint adamantly looking towards the window, Natasha’s face calm even as her shoulder still touches him, and Bruce’s gentle gaze. He feels a rush of warmth and affection that surprises him, followed by a pang of disappointment.

Tony bites the inside of his cheek, because that’s so fucking typical of him – everyone showing him concern but he has to focus on the single absence, the one person who isn’t here.

He tells himself not to say it – it’s stupid, it’s so goddamn stupid, but he wouldn’t be him if he didn’t want more than what he could have: “Where’s Cap?”

“Reporting to Fury,” Natasha says, and against Tony’s will, the hurt in his chest deepens. Of course. A mission report, that could perfectly well be done when they got home, that even Fury wouldn’t have demanded so immediately – that would be Steve’s priority, as opposed to checking on him. That’s. That’s just the way it is.

Tony feels a knot in his throat. God, for a genius, he sure gets hung up on the smallest stupid shit sometimes, like artisan tea or blankets or how transparently Steve doesn’t love him back.

“And people say I’m the workaholic.” Tony does his best to make his voice sound light, and he thinks it works.

Natasha’s shoulder bumps his again, and this time Tony leans back, and she doesn’t move away.

At home, Tony is a lot more calm. He makes a stop at Medical and gets his cuts cleaned and bandaged. There are no major injuries, and, though his torso aches, his ribs apparently resisted this one, so, point for his old-man bones. The doctor makes some annoying questions about anxiety medication and panic attacks, but when she mentions therapy Tony manages to escape with some excuse about having a post-mission meeting. Miraculously, it works, and in a few moments he’s in his penthouse.

The doctor recommended rest, but of course, that’s the last thing Tony wants to do. Instead, he sits down at his desk and checks the armor’s damage. Mark 56 is toast, that’s for sure, but Tony needs to look over the data of when it went down, to get it noted for his next schematics.

He gets totally immersed in it for most of the afternoon. Rhodey and Pepper both call, and Tony sends them texts letting them know he’s fine, with a picture of himself giving a thumbs up. Rhodey texts back a picture of him rolling his eyes so hard only the white part is visible, and Pepper leaves him on read, so, everything is normal.

The other Avengers come by. Bruce and Thor bring him a sandwich and stay for way longer than they should, talking and distracting Tony from his work; Clint and Natasha arrive soon afterwards.

That’s… okay, that’s the new normal, Tony guesses – more than two people interested in his well-being, for unknown reasons. He should be used to it by now, what with the whole team thing, but it’s still weird, to realize everyone around him cares.

Well.

Almost everyone.

Tony manages to spend his entire talk with Bruce and Thor never asking about Steve. He almost does the same with Clint and Natasha, almost, but, well, you see, it’s not actually his fault, the blame lies totally with Clint.

“All I’m saying is, if my arrows had a boomerang function, my array of movements would expand, like, by half. Ask Cap, he agrees,” Clint says, and, see? He brings Steve up, so it’s totally reasonable for Tony to continue the conversation.

“Is he here?” Tony asks, in a completely normal speed. Not eager at all. “In the Tower?”

Clint frowns. “Yeah? I don’t think he left since we arrived.”

“Oh.” Tony focuses on the panel in front of him, pretending to be distracted by the numbers and graphics. Somehow he was waiting to hear Steve had been at SHIELD, taking care of boring paperwork stuff; or he was at the battle site, taking care of the wreck they left behind; or, you know, that he was doing anything else that would have given him a genuine reason not to check on Tony other than the fact that maybe he doesn’t want to do that.

Tony takes a deep breath. He tries to not make it too deep, but Natasha must notice it, from the way she tilts her head in his direction. He stares firmly at the screen.

“Anyway, glad you understand, man – I’ll be waiting for them on my floor for the next mission.” Clint snaps his fingers and finger-guns at him, and Tony rolls his eyes, even though he already has a couple ideas on how to install boomerang functions on the damn arrows.

“Whatever, Katniss,” he says, and for a terrifying moment he can feel Natasha’s gaze on him. Tony sends a silent prayer so that she doesn’t try to console him because Jesus fuck, he’s already gone through enough embarrassment for a day. Miraculously, it works, and she and Clint leave a moment afterwards.

Tony spends the rest of the afternoon waiting. He wouldn’t admit it out loud, would deny it to his final breath, but, yeah, that’s exactly what he’s doing. He’s waiting and expecting and, goddamnit, hoping for the moment Steve will show up. Steve, knocking on his door like no one else in the team bothers doing anymore; glancing at him with that classic frown of concern that makes Tony want to punch him and kiss him senseless at the same time; even scolding him for escaping in the middle of his doctor appointment, whatever. Right now, Tony would take any of that, would happily accept any little thing as a small proof Steve cares.

None of this happens.

When the evening comes, Tony has accepted that he’s delusional, and he’s trying to focus on making something useful instead, like starting the schematics for the next Mark. He immerses himself into work, falling into a frantic rhythm. He creates a hundred different prototypes that, later, he knows he will examine with JARVIS and wonder what the hell he was thinking.

The answer, of course, is Steve. Obviously.

After a while, Tony decides to go get some coffee, in the hopes that it will boost his brain. He takes the elevator down to the kitchen. JARVIS informs him that it’s 10 p.m., which means he likely won’t run into any Avenger having dinner.

As expected, the kitchen is empty. Tony sets up the machine to pour coffee, enjoying the pleasant smell that starts drifting, when the door abruptly opens.

Steve walks in looking like he’s just ran a marathon. Which, considering Steve can run the equivalent of five marathons in a couple hours, is a big deal. He’s panting and covered in sweat, and when he starts walking towards the fridge, he doesn’t even notice Tony at first.

To Tony, it’s a strange experience. He watches Steve a lot – has a hard time taking his eyes off him when he’s around, in fact – but it’s rare to get a glimpse of Steve not knowing he’s being watched. Right now, he doesn’t hide how much the exercise has worn him out, and he opens the fridge and drinks half of a water bottle in record time.

“Leave a little to the fish, Cap,” Tony says, because he’s not Natasha, he can’t do this sneaky thing. He’s terrible at it.

Steve jumps a little, his head snapping to look at Tony, eyes widening at the sight of him. Tony takes in his shocked face.

“Yeah, still alive and kicking,” he quips, his tone just the slightest bit sharp, because he can’t help it – Steve was out, having a run, getting his exercise on while Tony, like an idiot, waited and hoped he’d come to check on him. “Sorry to disappoint.”

Steve frowns, but he doesn’t say anything, turning towards the fridge. He drains out the water in fast sips and immediately places the empty bottle back inside.

Tony crosses his arms. “Seriously, Cap? What is this, a college dorm? I was expecting you’d have more manners.”

Steve tenses up, and Tony can see his jaw clenching. Tony expects a reply, but instead Steve just nods. “Right,” he says, opening the fridge again, picking up the bottle and placing it under the water filter.

Tony raises an eyebrow. Something about Steve’s movements is especially tense, and Tony watches as he takes sharp, short breaths, which – well, he shouldn’t need to do, not with those superserum enhanced lungs.

Steve is still not looking at him, and Tony should take the hint and go away, he should, but there’s always a drive inside him to push and push and push when it comes to Steve. Tony is like a child. He will take Steve getting mad at him over Steve ignoring him any day.

“Are you okay there, buddy?” Tony says. He keeps his voice light, flippant, careful to not let any genuine worry bleed into his words. “Must’ve been quite a workout, to get you so beaten down.” He takes a step closer, leaning into Steve’s space.

Steve’s posture stiffens, the line of his neck and shoulders rigid with tension. He doesn’t answer.

“Oh, cool, I’m talking to the wall now. Can’t say I haven’t been there before,” Tony quips, arms crossed. A mix of anxiety and anger boils in his stomach – right, Steve wasn’t worried, but does that mean he can’t talk to Tony now? Really? Is he mad? And if he is mad, can’t he, you know, at least look at Tony to scold him? “Gotta say, that’s a bit low for you, Cap. I’d expect you’d at least do me the courtesy of letting me know why I’ve pissed you off. You usually do that so well.”

Steve lowers his head, staring at the floor. He turns off the water filter just as the bottle is about to overflow. When he speaks, his voice is low and controlled, every word seeming careful in a way Tony has never heard before, coming from him: “I’m not mad at you.”

“Really? Because I gotta say, you make a fine impression. Maybe it’s strength of habit—“

“Just leave it, Tony,” Steve interrupts, head snapping towards him. Those clear, sky blue eyes stare at Tony, unreadable, and it’s pathetic, but just that is enough to make his heart take a leap in his chest.

“Okay,” Tony says, in a tone that makes it clear that it’s as far from okay as possible. He raises both hands in a dramatic gesture of surrender. “Okay, I’ll leave it. Sorry for, I don’t know, existing, or whatever. By the way, I’m doing great, yeah, much better than I was when I almost suffocated to death this morning, thanks for asking, and--.” Tony stops in his tracks, because Steve has clenched his fists, and Tony’s eyes darted towards his hands and just. Stopped there. “What the fuck happened to your fingers?”

Steve reacts immediately, turning his back to Tony. “Nothing.”

“Uh, no, pretty sure 'nothing' doesn’t cause bleeding, and your hands—“ Tony circles Steve, and it must be a ridiculous scene, but he quickly catches sight of Steve’s clenched fists and, yeah, he wasn’t mistaken. “—you’re bleeding. Why are you bleeding?”

“It’s not—“

“Holy shit,” Tony says, his hand snapping and grabbing Steve’s wrist, turning his palm towards him. Steve’s hand is bandaged, but there are clear red stains of blood, spreading from his fingers to his palm. “You opened a cut, or several. You need to change these, right now, just—“ Tony’s eyes dart for a moment to Steve’s other hand, and it’s also bandaged. “What the hell happened to you?”

Steve’s other hand closes in a fist, and Tony tightens his fingers around his wrist.

“Stop that. What are you, a child?” Tony snaps, pulling Steve closer, turning towards the elevator. “Come on, I’m gonna call Bruce…”

“No,” Steve says. “Bruce’s asleep.” He plants himself in the same place, and, of course, Tony couldn’t drag him if he tried. Tony risks a glance at his face, and is surprised at the nervous energy behind that typical steel gaze. “It’s just a cut, I can take care of it.”

Tony raises an eyebrow. “Where did you even get those?” he asks. It’s a weirdly specific placement for wounds, especially with the hard leather gloves Steve usually wears. It’s almost as if he deliberately stuck his hands in a hole filled with spikes—

Oh.

Oh, no.

Tony swallows, and his face must spell out what he’s thinking, because worry flashes in Steve’s eyes, and he opens his mouth to say something before Tony blurts: “You… When you ripped off the armor...”

Steve goes rigid. His face is impossible to read, but right now Tony doesn’t need to read anything, because the conclusion is too obvious to be anything else.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” Tony asks, and he sounds too mad for someone who just found out their teammate mauled his own fingers for him.

“They weren’t deep cuts,” Steve says, and now his face is easy to read, because it’s that same matter-of-factly expression and voice he uses every time in meetings when he points out Tony is wrong. “The doctor took care of it in a minute.”

“Right, that’s why you’re—“

“Like you said,” Steve interrupts, sounding perfectly calm and reasonable, the anxious energy Tony had glimpsed before seemingly gone. “Something must’ve opened while I was training. It happens. I’ll clean it up in my room and the serum will take care of the rest. Tomorrow, it will already be gone.”

Tony feels a spike of anger rising inside him. It doesn’t make much sense, but it’s as if the frustration he’s been building towards Steve the whole day snaps at once – it’s just so goddamn him, that stoic calm voice, that distant look as he prepares to turn away from Tony like he’s been doing all afternoon. Literal blood on his hands because of Tony, for Tony, and he acts like it’s nothing, like it doesn’t mean anything – and maybe to him it doesn’t, maybe this is just another moment of Captain America classic self-sacrificial bullshit, but Tony is stuck on those bandages, on the thought of Steve ripping his own flesh apart just to get Tony to breathe again.

Tony’s chest feels tight, and his heart feels huge, swollen and heavy while he can’t stop staring at Steve’s hands. It’s ridiculous, it’s pathetic, but he’s blinking too fast and his eyes are burning, and the next thing he knows, he’s holding Steve’s wrist again.

“Wait,” Tony says, and his voice sounds too soft, too weak. He wants to take it back immediately, but his mouth rushes ahead, speaking before he can stop it: “Let me do it.”

Steve blinks. “What?”

“Let me,” Tony repeats. He regrets it deeply, so much, he wants to stick the words back into his mouth again, and it must show, in the way his voice wavers. He feels exposed, all of a sudden, as if he’s asking something bigger than what he can actually say. Let me touch you, let me take care of you. “Just… Let me do it.”

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Tony is sick of Steve's overly reckless heroic antics.

✦ My community gift for the @cap-ironman Holiday exchange. Prompt: *picks up husband* NOPE. NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE! We are NOT doing this again. NO.

Word count: N/a - Art Title: No, Steve Rating: Gen Universe: Marvel 616 Pairings: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark Characters: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark Warnings: None Major Tags: Self-Sacrificing Steve Rogers, Humour, Hug and Fly ~ Summery: Tony is sick of Steve's overly reckless heroic antics.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

SHIELD HQ loses contact with their Arctic Base, and they ask Steve, Sam, and Nat to go recover their agents. But there is a monster lurking in the ice, and it knows Steve's weaknesses.

MCU, Steve/Tony, Rated Mature b/c of descriptions of psychological torture

Tags: Established relationship, emotional hurt/comfort, angst with a happy ending, dark, horror, post-Avengers: Age of Ultron, psychological horror

Written for @shaliara!

Beta’d by indigostohelit @ AO3 as part of the Marvel Trumps Hate auction!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Title: No Surprises Rating: Teen Word Count: 4.3k Summary: Tony (and Nebula) crash-land on the lawn of Avenger’s compound. The first person Tony sees when he steps out of the wreckage is Steve. He doesn’t know if he’s relieved or furious that Steve has survived, too. Somehow, the world keeps going. Tony mostly keeps going too—and figures out how to feel about Steve.

My gift for @alexcat45 for the Cap-IM Holiday Exchange! A moody, post Infinity War Steve/Tony story with a hopeful ending. 

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2018 Cap-Iron Man Exchange Gifts unveiled on January 3rd

It’s the ninth day of reveals! Each day we will be revealing the gifts created by participants of the 2018 Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange and Community Gifts. Over the next days the creators’ identities will be hidden. On January 4th, there will be a post to guess their identities then on January 6th, we will reveal all of the creators who participated this year. (Remember if you've created a work for the Holiday Exchange or Community Gifts, please remain anonymous until reveals!) Here are today’s gifts!

★ Apple Pie for Sadisticsparkle (Avengers Assemble, Comic) Tony has acted suspiciously these days... Steve wonders what he is hiding. ★ between the gates for royal_chandler (AU, 9494 Words) “Have a lovely evening,” the flight attendant says, like nothing at all is wrong. And, really, nothing is - except for the fact Tony’s snowed in at an airport, sharing a room with the ex who broke his heart five years ago, who he was never able to get over. Totally great. ★ No It's Not Camping for tony_starkrogers (MCU, 4043 Words) Steve and Tony go on a much needed Christmas vacation. They may just be getting more in their stockings than they had originally thought. ★ return ticket for Impala_Chick (MCU, 2328 Words) Tony is alone when the apocalypse occurs. Steve finds his way back home. ★ Simple Truths for littleblackbow (616, 2863 Words) When Steve tells him about the romance novel he borrowed from Jan, Tony realizes his own feelings for Steve would fit perfectly in a book like that. Of course, Steve must never know. ★ Won't You Say Love for vextant (MCU, 9969 Words) Steve's ready to tell Tony he wants to be more than friends. But after they're interrupted by a surprise attack that ends with Tony in the hospital, their relationship spirals out of control - especially when Tony starts avoiding Steve, who has no idea how to fix things between them. ★ Black and Blue for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 860 Words) Tony is injured on Avenger’s business. Steve helps care for his wounds. ★ Dispel for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 3925 Words + Art) Steve is hit with a love spell, but he doesn't want it undone: he loves Tony and he's never been happier. ★ Eventually for Cap Iron Man Community (Ultimates, Comic) Fill for the prompt: Post-apocalyptic slavefic au Tony is godking of the wasteland. Steve is not. PLEASE MIND ALL THE TAGS AND WARNINGS ★ Hidden Lives for Cap Iron Man Community (AU, 1606 Words) Being a secret superhero is hard, as is keeping that secret from your significant other. ★ Operation Infatuation for Cap Iron Man Community (3490, 1752 Words) As the Avengers gossip bond as a team, Natasha Stark is forced to admit that she used to have a crush on Captain America as a teenager. Suddenly, it’s all a pining Steve can think about. ★ Under the Table for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 1191 Words) Tony's been thinking about Steve too much lately. It's time he did something about that. ★ A Warmth Like No Other for Cap Iron Man Community (Avengers Assemble, 1992 Words) Tony invites Steve to make hot chocolate with him. Steve happily agrees, but then his mouth runs away with him. ★ When Your Best Isn't Enough for Cap Iron Man Community (616/Avengers Assemble/Marvel Adventures, 1229 Words) 616 Steve and Tony get sent to two different universes where their alternate selves are married. 616 Tony is sad: if only his Steve loved him too. 616 Steve is brooding: if only his Tony loved him too.

To check out all of this year’s gifts (so far!), head over to the 2018 Captain America/Iron Man Holiday Exchange Collection on AO3. When your gift is revealed, please be sure to comment and thank your gifter! If you’re the creator of a gift that’s been revealed, you can reply to anyone who comments on your work and it will show up as "Anonymous Author" until the creator reveals, so please feel free to respond to comments as much as you like. We’ll be announcing all the gifts for today on Dreamwidth, and you can reblog the Tumblr post with everyone! Finally, you may want to change the publication date of your work to today’s date, to help it show up in the AO3 listings for recent works. AO3’s guide is available here and we have a more detailed guide on how to do so here. Happy holidays and we hope you enjoy all of the revealed works! ♥ Your 2018 Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange and Community Gifts mods

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2018 Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange Sign-Ups & Community Gifts Prompt Submissions are opened!

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Cap-Iron Man Holiday Exchange 2018 Guessing Post

All the works have now been revealed. This year between the exchange and community gifts, we've received 111 fanworks! Big thank you to all the participants! The gifts will remain anonymous until January 6th. Until then, it's time to GUESS THE CREATORS! Feel free to share your guesses and discuss your ideas in the comments on this post (anonymous comments are turned on), but if you took part, remember not to reveal your own gift. 

You can guess the creators here on our DW comm (anon commenting is on!).

ALL THE WORKS ON AO3 or all the reveals posts in our exchange tag. The list of everyone signed up for the gift exchange is available in the collection profile, but remember it's not the exhaustive list of all the creators: some of the Comm Gifts authors and artists weren't signed up and some created more than one work! Enjoy all the works, remember to comment, and have fun guessing!