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Title: The Night Before, the Morning After
Universe: AU
Relationship: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: T
Word Count: 1,005
Summary:

“Blue Steel’s right. If you’re going to make a bad decision, let me be your bad decision. Don’t text your ex.”
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“I saw the note you left on the fridge, and I got to thinking about what you said last night. You were the right decision. That’s why I’m calling you.”

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Title: An Open Palm
Universe: MCU
Relationship: Tony Stark & Xu Wenwu
Rating: T
Word Count: 4,583
Summary: The simplest and smartest thing to do would be to kill Tony Stark. He was a danger to the Rings and to himself, the world's foremost expert in creating destruction out of nothing.

Wenwu was no fool; if you played with fire, you were bound to get burned. But that was only if you didn't know how to master it and he did. He knew how to provide the spark and how to temper the resulting flame, how to keep it from sputtering out or engulfing everything in its path.

He knew how to make it his because he knew what Tony Stark wanted and more importantly, needed.

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Title: Once More for the First Time
Universe: MCU
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: G
Word Count: 4,129
Summary:
It was like clockwork. Get together, do a mission, part ways.

Steve wondered what would happen if he asked Tony to stay.

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Title: Hit and Run
Universe: MCU
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: G
Word Count: 263
Summary: Here they both were, Steve careening forward, the brakes useless and broken, Tony in the middle of the road. A collision years in the making.
Notes: Based on this Lights on Park Ave round 41 prompt.

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"I know that road,” Tony said, and Steve saw it then too, the path that he had been on this entire time. He had been stupid enough to think that enough turns off of it would lead him somewhere else when all it did was turn him around so that he was back where he had started.

He could see it in the way Tony shifted restlessly, hear it in the tight, sharp way Tony spoke that he could sense danger was approaching even if he couldn’t see where it was coming from. A prey animal’s instincts kicking in, awful to witness, almost blasphemous—Steve had seen many men like this but not Tony. It was obscene and distressing enough that he wanted to look away.

He shouldn’t be made this small. Not him.

Not by Steve’s hands.

The terror that gripped Tony was something that couldn’t hurt him. Wasn’t supposed to anyway, not when so many years, so many lies and omissions, had buried that night. Steve wanted to tell him that.

And yet.

Here they both were, Steve careening forward, the brakes useless and broken, Tony in the middle of the road.

There was a fork and he had gone down the wrong way, realizing too late what choice he had made by not choosing. There was no turning back now, the time to course correct long gone. Tony was in his path, a startled deer with synapses firing cross-wired, looking at Zemo with distrust and fear, not knowing it was Steve in the driver’s seat, moments away from hurting him.

Title: Puppet Master
Universe: 616
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: T
Word Count: 378
Summary:
Time flies when you're having fun or so the saying goes, but Tony can't say that he's enjoying himself if he can't remember any of it, even if the way that Steve looks at him now is everything he's dreamed of for years.

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Tony came awake, flattening his palm against the nearest tree to keep himself from pitching forward. It was as though something had opened its claws from high up and dropped him, and he had only realized that he had been in the strange being’s clutches before it discarded him—had only realized that he even existed—when he hit the ground. His muscles were watery and weak at impact, the abrupt switch from unconsciousness to consciousness disorienting.

He was in his armor, he observed with horror when he noticed that he couldn’t feel the bark underneath his fingers. His helmet was off and he could see the last rays of the faltering sun unfiltered.

He had been in his lab, working on a gauntlet upgrade idea that had come to him from nowhere the night before.

And now he was here.

Hours missing. The evening at his doorstep. A hulking, austere cliff a distance away through the trees.

“All clear, just like you said,” he heard Steve say before he saw him come into the small clearing.

Relief swept over Tony, dissolving the knot of tension in his stomach.

He didn’t find anything. Good.

Good because he couldn’t have Steve find anything. Because—

Good because he could catch up on what was going on when they got home, pretend that everything was normal—

Tony froze as Steve’s fingers ghosted across the nape of his neck as he passed by. They had felt almost sticky; his skin was damp with the fear that had seized him when he woke up.

He turned to stare at Steve.

“Dinner after this?” Steve asked sotto voce as the others began to trickle in behind him, and a flash of surprised elation spiked through Tony, alien and needle sharp, at the secrecy, at the intimacy of Steve’s words and touch that he didn’t remember earning.

At the unfamiliar way that Steve looked at him, the way that he had always wanted Steve to look at him for as long as he could remember.

Love, Tony realized with a start, trembling.

Mine, came the thought in a triumphant whisper, his joy surging vicious enough to kill as Steve continued to look at him with unchanging affection, not noticing or not bothered by his hunger.

Notes:

I was inspired by these prompts in magic's Steve/Tony Horror Fest treat bag:
616: Steve or Tony have to fight off possession
616: Tony begins to go insane after encountering an Eldritch being
Hope you liked it, magic!

Title: Body Talk
Universe: MCU
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: G
Word Count: 2,499
Summary:
Sometimes Steve thought he and Tony were better at communicating through action than through words, more truthful. Whatever message that could get lost in transit, they could ensure its safe passage with one gesture, one touch, leaving no room for misinterpretation.

Slamming the arc reactor into Steve's hand in answer to his letter.

Holding Tony by the crook of his arm to ask him to stay, to listen.

Shaking each other's hands, knitting back together again.

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Title: Taking Your Love With Me Wherever I Go
Universe: MCU
Pairing: James "Rhodey" Rhodes/Sam Wilson
Rating: G
Word Count: 3,468
Summary: Being with Sam felt like the sun breaking through. Rhodey knew it was only a temporary reprieve, that it wouldn't fix everything because that wasn’t how grief worked. But for now, all he wanted was for the moment to stretch to infinity, to be at the diner they had always gone to back in the old days, talking over breakfast like they always did.

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Title: The Burning of Flowers
Universe: 616
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: G
Word Count: 1,257
Summary: If flowers bloomed, there was only one truth. If none did, there were two: both of you were in love or both of you weren’t.

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Title: Deep Breath In, Deep Breath Out
Universe: MCU
Relationship: Sharon Carter & Natasha Romanov, Sharon Carter & Morgan Stark, Natasha Romanov & Morgan Stark, Natasha Romanov & Tony Stark
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 2,981
Summary: Family dinners were for other people, other times, Sharon thought. Not for people like Natasha and her and not when half the universe was gone. But it felt right being here, strange as it was being in Tony's home.

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Title: In My Hands and Gone Again
Universe: MCU
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 136
Summary: Memories were like fish, Tony had explained, or the tease of one. A flash of silver, and his hands would plunge down. Sometimes he would catch one; other times, it would dart out of reach. He wouldn’t be sure whether it had been real or just a trick of the light, after.
Notes: Inspired by this prompt for Lights on Park Ave round 9. In his final moments, Tony wished he could watch over his family even if it cost him everything. The Stones granted his accidental wish, sparing his life in exchange for his memories. This takes place weeks after Steve found Tony wandering around with amnesia and brought him home.

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“I think I was in love with someone.”

There was that slight indent that appeared between Tony’s eyebrows when he was trying to remember something, a dip that Morgan, sitting in her father's lap, would often trace with a stubby index finger.

It was an easy memory to identify this time, a real one rather than fool’s gold. Steve took the catch, wiping off the muck that obscured it so that Tony could recognize it for what it was.

“Pepper,” he offered, returning the memory back to Tony.

“Yeah,” Tony agreed automatically before shaking his head. “No. No, I love her, but..." He looked out at the shore opposite of where they were sitting on the dock before returning to Steve, eyes luminous in the starlight. "I think I erased someone. I think it was you."

Title: Leaving You Forward
Universe: MCU
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: G
Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings
Word Count: 3,283
Summary: It would be easy, staying here like this with Tony. But Steve knew he couldn't—because he had never taken the easy way out and because he loved Tony.

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Title: A City of Millions
Universe: MCU
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 1,740
Summary: "You’re this city,” Tony once told him.

Steve understood what he meant because that was what Tony was to him too; that was the only way he could aptly describe someone so impossible to capture in a few short words.

Tony was New York, a city of millions in one man.

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I didn’t realize this until I was about to post it, but “Pyriscence” is a nice bookend because it marks the end of an era with Endgame being a farewell to the past decade of the MCU and because my first fic ever in the Marvel fandom and on AO3 also had a one-word title dealing with nature (and warmth). It feels unintentionally poetic in a way, because those are the only fics with one-word titles other than the Warrior ficlet, or maybe I’m getting a little sentimental and overthinking things.

It just made me reflect on what I’ve written these past several years and how, or whether, my writing has evolved since then. I feel like I’m missing the sense of rhythm I used to have back when I first started out to some extent, but maybe that’s because those fics were shorter so that was easier to accomplish. Now I’m able to write long fics! I’ve been writing longer things, which isn’t a thing that I was sure was possible even though I used to write pages and pages when I was a kid (but the stories were very bad lol). It’s not a struggle to do that and I don’t get writer’s block as much as I used to.

And I’m able to write MCU Tony! I can write from his POV, and I can write him talking for more than a few lines! I still have a long way to go in terms of capturing his wit and energy, but to cut myself some slack, I’ve also been putting him in extremely difficult, sad situations. I’ll see how things go if I write less angsty things, but I used to be so daunted by him so I’m happy that I’ve gotten more comfortable with writing him.

Anyway, I’m in the mood to write which seems to happen a lot nowadays when I post something, but I don’t know what. Endgame is almost here which is a terrifying thought because I’m afraid of what the future holds for the fandom especially considering how long I’ve been in it and how much it’s been an enormous and integral part of my life. I don’t know if I should start anything now because I’m afraid I’m going to lose my motivation after watching the movie, I’d want to change things in the story or stories, or I’d want to write something else entirely based off of the movie.

Title: Pyriscence
Universe: MCU
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark,
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 6,991
Summary: In the wake of the Decimation, there's nothing but total destruction, death and chaos that spread like wildfire, uncontained. All Natasha can do is hold fast to her hope in the aftermath—hope that there’s a way out. Hope that Tony will come back to them. To Steve.

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Title: Mending Each Other and Calling It Love
Universe: MCU
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 2,513
Summary: His hands were busted, the skin raw and torn, when Steve pulled off his gloves. Hitting the heavy bag wasn't his go-to method for chasing calmness or sleep, but Tony had been hellbent on beating his nightmares back, even if he scraped himself bloody while he did it.

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I have two more fandom stocking gifts that I wanted to finish so I told myself that I wouldn't treat myself to my own gifts until that happens, and hopefully that would act as both a carrot and a stick to finish ASAP because YAY, TREATS and OH NO, I DON'T WANT ANYONE TO THINK I'M IGNORING THEM WHEN THEY WERE NICE ENOUGH TO STUFF MY STOCKING!!!!! But the guilt kind of pushed me into taking a peek, and I feel bad because I wanted to fill so many stockings with fandom and non-fandom stuff except to no one's surprise, I was busier than I expected over the holidays. :/

I'm definitely going to finish the gifts I have in mind because I have a clear idea of what I want to do and one of them is mostly done and the other, which I haven't started, is something I wanted to do for a few months now for this person. I'm going to have to give up on making anything else though just because I don't want to give something several days after reveals especially to people I've never interacted with as I don't know how often they'd check their stockings now that this year's FS is over.

Anyway, this is just a post letting you know that if you stuffed my stocking, THANK YOU SO MUCH!<3 Seeing everyone's posts made me all warm inside. Fandom people are so lovely. I'll be getting around to replying to everyone soon. I just wanted to write this so people don't get worried that I hate their fill or something which is one hundred percent not the case. It's not you, it's me. For real.

Title: blood in the water
Universe: Marvel 616
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 999 (including lyrics)
Summary: A

fandom_stocking 2018 fanmix for “Plunge” by

kiyaar, one of the most beautiful and tragic fics in the Steve/Tony fandom.

He wonders what’s worse, the fact that Steve actually thought he was better than this or the fact that Steve made him believe it for a bit, there, too.

The song order follows the plot, and the playlist covers Steve and Tony’s POV throughout the story, individually and then both of their POV at the same time before ending with Steve's.

"blood in the water" fanmix tracklist

Listen: Spotify | Youtube

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1. Work on my MTH fic for sabre. I made a little progress on Sunday and have about 2.4k so far, but I'm worried it's boring. There's almost no dialogue so far, and that's fine if there's action, but nothing's happening either. It's just Natasha thinking. It feels so static, which is something I struggle with as a writer. I feel like nothing ever happens in my fics lol. I don't know how to fix this fic, and I don't think I can. :|

2. Do some fandom_stocking fills. I don't have time to do anything big, but I want to make things! I did one fill so far, but that was just a picspam. I know it's a no-commitment event, but I'd feel bad if I didn't do anything because that's what happened with previous no-commitment events (this is my first time doing FS, though) and I don't like the feeling that I'm like "GIMME STUFF >:U" and not doing anything in return. I'm very much in the mood to write things now although one idea, more than the others, is screaming, "PICK ME, PICK ME!" and I don't have time to write it because I feel like it'll be 6k-10k or more. I don't know what I'm going to do. We'll see what happens! Maybe I'll end up making stuff that isn't Steve/Tony. That'll be exciting. :) I want to challenge myself by stepping out of my comfort zone.

3. Finish commenting on asktheravens's ghost!Tony fic that she wrote for me for FTH. Read it if you haven't! Here's the summary:

Steve returned from the war injured in body and mind- and able to see the dead. At loose ends and desperate to get out of New York City, he accepts a fellowship through the Stark Foundation and retreats to a quiet lake house on the grounds of the Stark Mansion. He's supposed to be there to paint, but he quickly realizes that the house is more than he bargained for. Anthony Stark died here a decade ago, but was it an accident? A suicide? Or a murder? Obadiah Stane still lives in the main house just up the hill, and the past casts a long shadow.

When Tony's ghost begins appearing to him, Steve becomes more entwined in the dangerous mystery surrounding his death. Even worse, he finds himself falling for a man who died a decade ago...

Features lots of ghosts, murder, secrets, and supernatural revenge. Also Thor and Rhodey.

And here's my post gushing about it and Tishawisha's beautiful art. I wanted someone to write a story like this for so long, and Molly was the perfect writer for it.<3

I have to finish writing comments. I'm on chapter 3 or 4, and rereading it while commenting has been a pleasure.

4. Read sabrecmc's post-Infinity War time travel fix-it where Steve goes back to when Tony's parents just died and Tony is sad and messy and doesn't hide his attraction for Steve. I can't wait to read this! Sabre and I talked about it because I love this gifset, and I thought the idea of Steve coming across a younger Tony, especially in 1991, would be great angst fodder because Tony doesn't know who Steve is, hasn't learned how to hide behind masks as well as he does now, and doesn't hate him and because his grief over his parents' death would be much sharper. I'm saving it as a reward for finishing #1-3 or at least #3. I can't wait to read it!

5. Sign up for Remix Madness...or not. I want to do at least one fandom event this year, but I don't know how much time I have to write something because I really want to finish or at least make a good amount of progress on two long fics I've been trying to write for a few years, especially the soulbond one which I can't seem to abandon completely. It's been FOUR-AND-A-HALF YEARS at this point! I want to move on! I want to try to get it done by the time Endgame comes out. The other fic...I'm not in too much of a hurry because it starts off as a non-powered AU and then becomes a IM2-set AU. Weirdly, I'm okay with that, but I'm somehow not okay with setting the soulbond fic after TWS and feel like it'll be extremely outdated if I do that. Anyway, Remix Madness. No obligation to write anything, I know, but the way I said I felt about FS in #2 applies here. :/

Happy new year, everyone! I hope 2019 will be a fantastic year, and you’ll have a lot of pleasant surprises, make new friends and reconnect with old ones, have good health, and be happy!

This is my second go at filling out this writing meme because my computer freaked out and shut down on me without warning while I was writing and my entire post was lost. I was almost done with it so you can imagine how upset I was.

This is going to be long.

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I spent the longest time ever doing the writing meme that everyone else was doing and my computer decided it would be abruptly shut down without explanation and I. LOST. MY. ENTIRE. DRAFT.

Why the HELL did that have to happen? WHY THE HELL DIDN'T I WRITE IT ON GOOGLE DOCS OR SOMETHING?

Goodnight. It's 3:48 AM, and I'm too annoyed and a little upset to start over. Maybe tomorrow, but I don't want to start from scratch either. Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool.

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The Night Before, the Morning After

An Open Palm

Once More for the First Time

Hit and Run

Puppet Master

Body Talk

Taking Your Love With Me Wherever I Go

The Burning of Flowers

Deep Breath In, Deep Breath Out

In My Hands and Gone Again

Leaving You Forward

A City of Millions

At the end (in a way?) and looking back

Pyriscence

Mending Each Other and Calling It Love

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Blood in the Water

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