Rec Week 2014 Roundup
non-Civil War fix-its/When Doombots Attack!Fic616Title: IncursionCreator: scrtkpr
Summary: When Steve and Tony are taken down in the heart of Avengers Tower by alternate versions of themselves, their counterparts reveal a threat to both the foundations of the multiverse and to the foundations of Steve and Tony's friendship.
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iloome hereTitle: Make it RightCreator: laireshi
Summary: It was just a dream, Tony thinks, and ignores the gut feeling telling him otherwise. He really must have fallen asleep, and it was all just a dream, he didn't betray Steve like that …Recced by
enmuse hereTitle: Relativistic Heat ConductionCreator: SakuraTsukikage
Summary: Age of Ultron-based, but not entirely canon compliant. Written for the 2013 Cap-Iron Man Reverse Big Bang. Ultron has attacked, obliterating most of the world's superheroes and resistance in a matter of hours. The remaining heroes band together and share what strength they have to get through it, to survive, and defeat Ultron once and for all. Steve Rogers grieves in the wake of the disaster and the heroes' defeat, and no one knows if he will be able to provide the leadership they need--but Tony Stark isn't about to let him slip away that easily.
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evilmissbecky hereTitle: Family Old and NewCreator: Pookaseraph
Summary: When Ian Rogers finally comes to Earth from Dimension Z, his father is in no state to help him adjust, which leaves him relying on the Avengers, unable to forget the violence of his home, and hiding the secret he's sure they will hate him for.
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salmastryon hereAvengers Assemble (Cartoon)Title: Sparky, the Avenger's Robodog (aka Doom Should take Better care of his Things)Creator: love_in_the_stars
Summary: After a routine battle with Doom, Tony stumbles across one of his damaged and abandoned Doom Dogs. True to Stark impulsiveness, Tony gathers its wounded pieces and takes it home to rebuild.
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salmastryon hereSteve pining and angst/Steve vs modern technologyArtMCUTitle: Mechanic AUCreator: ironfries, Vespasiana
Summary: What it says on the tin. Tony is a mechanic and Steve is the guy who brings him small home appliances to fix.
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dragonofmemory hereFic616Title: GreyscaleCreator: jazzypom
Summary: Steve draws Tony, and after all these years, he's now seeing him for the very first time.
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dragonofmemory hereTitle: Things to do in New Jersey when you're dead
Creator: dorcas_gustine
Summary: Tony misses Steve. Tony brings Steve back. There's something wrong.
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salmastryon hereMarvel AdventuresTitle: The Captain and the PrinceCreator: Penumbren
Summary: Steve has had a crush on Tony for years. Captain Rogers heads up the castle guard when Prince Anthony returns from his studies abroad. What's a poor captain of the guard to do when his past crashes into his present?
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Summary: Matchmaking is harder than it looks.
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dragonofmemory hereTitle: Bizarre Love TriangleCreator: panickyintheuk
Summary: Once the idea was in his head, he’d started picking up on all kinds of things, like the way Stark talked about Iron Man with such affection, and seemed to share so many of his mannerisms, and was constantly working on ways of improving the suit. It was obvious.
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MCUTitle: The Only You for MeCreator: blue_jack
Summary: “It’s okay. I know what Tony says about me.”
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jazmin22 hereTitle: Confined Spaces and Misunderstandings Do Not A Good Plan Make, Clint aka This Is Why Steve Is The TacticianCreator: LadyMerlin
Summary: An elevator,
a spilled drink and a ripped shirt, some terrible misunderstandings, and a breakdown of wills. In which everyone's finally had enough of this UST bullshit, and Jarvis is a very, very useful ally.
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jazmin22 hereTitle: Harlem Shake (I Won't Dance, Don't Ask Me)Creator: theladyingrey42
Summary: It's only by chance that Steve happens to head down to Tony's workshop on the day they're filming the video.
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jazmin22 hereTitle: Love among the Hydrothermal VentsCreator: DevilDoll
Summary: In which Namor has a thing for Steve, an octopus has a thing for Tony, and Steve and Tony eventually have a thing for each other.
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dragonofmemory hereTitle: Keep Me WarmCreator: Pheylan
Summary: Steve Rogers hates the cold. But he loves being an Avenger. And he likes Tony Stark more than he wants to admit.
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dragonofmemory hereTitle: Sleep ProtocolCreator: 51stCenturyFox
Summary: You might assume that Steve Rogers, a super soldier, wouldn’t have any sleep-related problems, since he is an optimal physical specimen in the bloom of health.
You would be wrong.
But you know, there are certain conditions.
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dragonofmemory hereTitle: What Rough BeastCreator: immoral_crow
Summary: Steve Rogers, super soldier. It’s amazing really that it takes them all so long to work out just what the serum can do… but given enough time all things become apparent. This is a story about love, and loss; the things we would do to be true to ourselves and true to our hearts; and the prices you must pay to do that.
(There is a more detailed description at the end, in case you want more warnings and spoilers)
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salmastryon hereTitle: History LessonsCreator: MemoryDragon
Summary: Steve hates modern television shows and history. Tony is determined to remedy both of those, provided they can survive each other.
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salmastryon hereTitle: User InterfaceCreator: AlchemyAlice
Summary: Steve dares to stick his head into the workshop on a Tuesday which had so far been filled only with paperwork, and as soon as he actually comprehends what he's seeing, he kind of just wants to forget the filing and the G-33 forms and just stay down there forever.
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salmastryon herenon-powered AUs/sentient household appliances and other AI shenanigansArtMCUTitle: Mechanic AU (comic)Creator: ironfries & vespasiana
Summary: Tony's a mechanic, Steve's apparently hopeless with all appliances. Maybe. It's sort of an excuse to keep Tony. (Yes, courtship by way of fixing little appliances.)
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enmuse hereFicMCUTitle: The Silent WarCreator:
inukagome15 Summary: Thor loves his Pop-Tarts, Clint likes the microwave, Natasha likes coffee but doesn’t want anyone to know, and Bruce and Steve cook. Or that time when everything in the kitchen refused to work, but none of the Avengers want to admit why.
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inukagome15 hereTitle: It's All in the MindCreator:
inukagome15 Summary: The adventures of Tony as a mutant; how he learned to accept himself and his subsequent growth into his own. Hijinks ensue.
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inukagome15 hereTitle: That Damn Tank TopCreator:
inukagome15 Summary: Fill for a tumblr prompt. He’d never seen Tony like this – so stripped down of his usual armors and completely in his element. Or, Steve sees Tony in his tank top when he's in his workshop and likes it. A lot.
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inukagome15 hereTitle: Artificial IntelligenceCreator: kyaticlikestea
Summary: Fed up of seeing Tony and Steve dance around each other, the various gadgets of Stark Tower collaborate to become the best wingmen in history.
If only they were any good at it.
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inukagome15 hereTitle: So No One Told You,Creator: Kari_Kurofa
Summary: Between them there're three apartments, a disgruntled downstairs neighbor, and a coffee shop with a barista who threatens them with tasers. Which, as a whole, that description sounds way more simple than it actually is.
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inukagome15 hereTitle: In Which Tony Stark Builds Himself Some Friends (But His Family Was Assigned by Nick Fury) (SERIES)Creator: scifigrl47
Summary: Slow-build Steve/Tony among a Team-as-Family storyline, lots of AI fun and other adventures...
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enmuse hereTitle: Tale of the Bots (series)Creator: scifigrl47
Summary: When Tony Stark was seventeen years old, he built his first AI. On that day, he ceased to be his father's creation, and became a creating force in his own right.
That one act likely saved his life, and not always in the most obvious ways.
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enmuse hereTitle: Your Barista Is...Creator: PaxieAmor
Summary: Steve Rogers walks into a coffee shop. It's nothing that he expects, but everything he needs.
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enmuse hereTitle: Haaaave you met Steve?Creator: theapplepielifestyle
Summary: “Kids, I’m going to tell you an incredible story. The story of how I met your father.” An Avengers/HIMYM crossover.
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enmuse hereTitle: Got the CreamCreator: YourFavoriteRobot
Summary: Steve is coasting through life after leaving the army without making any real connections to anyone around him. Until a mischievous deity turns Steve's only friend, his cat Tony, into a human being.
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enmuse hereTitle: Apartment 5ACreator: toraten
Summary: An AU in which Steve Rogers edits comic books and Tony Stark is Tony Stark.
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jazmin22 hereTitle: And I'd buy a big house where we both could liveCreator: shinkonokokoro
Summary: Missing: Tony Stark, billionaire businessman, heir to Stark Industries, reward: none. Only Steve didn't know that when he picked up the waterlogged unconscious man from the bank of a river.
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enmuse hereTitle: Confidence Trick Creator: tsukinofaerii
Summary: FBI Steve chasing Hacker Iron Man, and then things get interesting...
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jazmin22 hereTitle: Looking for HeavenCreator: foxxclub
Summary: Ex-stable boy Steve and Lord Tony enter marriage of convenience and try to pretend they aren't head over heels in love&lust with each other.
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jazmin22 hereTitle: Down on the FarmCreator: tellxmebby
Summary: Tony laughs, throwing an old rag at the blond man, who bats it away in the air. "Fuck you."
"Mm," Steve rolls back under the car with a newly fitted socket, "maybe later."
Steve grins up at the chrome above him at the lack of response. It must take Tony a minute to recover, but when he does Steve hears him huff.Recced by
jazmin22 hereTitle: My Life Belongs To My Country, But My Heart Will Always Be YoursCreator: renai-chan
Summary: Crown Prince Anthony of Stark tries to keep his relationship with Sir Steven Rogers a secret from his father, but when Archduke Obadiah Stane is assigned to be his guardian in the king’s absence, their relationship becomes Obadiah’s leverage for control.
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jazmin22 hereTitle: The Tony Stark Relationship Primer (Steve and Tony Make a Porno & Kiss and Tell)Creator: uraneia
Summary: Steve needs to make some quick cash to cover his mom's TB treatment and hospital stay. Bucky convinces him to try porn. Steve's not sure he'll be able to go through with it... until he meets Tony, the guy he's supposed to do his screen test with.
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jazmin22 hereTitle: Upon WakingCreator: winterstar
Summary: A story of recovery. In a world without superheroes, Tony Stark, the disinherited son of a billionaire, goes to Afghanistan as an embedded media star, only to be held hostage for months until he’s rescued. During his recovery, his therapist Doctor Bruce Banner prescribes an unusual treatment; volunteer work at a rehab center. He meets an eclectic assembled group including a vet who thinks he’s Thor, a physical therapist who might be a spy, and an all American hero, Steve Rogers. It is Steve Rogers, the soldier in a coma, who captures his interest and, eventually, his heart.
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jazmin22 hereTitle: Don't Look too Closely (all the angles are oblique)Creator: shaenie
Summary: “I’m removing Captain Rogers from this base, but not from active duty. I want him as SHIELD’s liaison to Stark Industries first and foremost. He’ll report directly to me,” Fury says. “As it is, your identity as Captain America is not public knowledge and it will remain that way until I say otherwise. That said, if you think you can get Tony Stark to work with you if you disclose that information, you have permission to do so.”
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jazmin22 hereTitle: TakingCreator: ifitwasribald
Summary: Shameless smut with nothing remotely resembling a plot.
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jazmin22 hereTitle: The S.T.U.D.Creator: ann2who
Summary: The unexpected and somewhat bizarre story of Steve Rogers and Tony Stark falling madly in love with one another…
…over an A.I. fucking machine.
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queenelfina hereTitle: Tony Stark: Appliance WhispererCreator: Alex51324
Summary: After Tony over-reacts to some SHIELD agents breaking a microwave oven, Steve begins to wonder if there's something the team should know.
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dragonofmemory hereTitle: JARVIS and the Pizza GirlCreator: ohmyloki
Summary: JARVIS makes a friend.
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rakelnott hereTitle: 99 problems (and the dice ain't one) Creator: kellifer_fic
Summary: Tony's life is almost perfect. He lives in a converted warehouse full of friends (and one frenemy), has a job that leaves him plenty of time to think about other things and a regular Friday night campaign. If his best friend, Steve Rogers, hadn't moved away to New York and left him behind, then perfection would've been achieved.
Tony can roll with the punches though and he's almost all the way over that little bump in the road (shut up Bruce, he totally is) when Steve moves back, looking taller and broader and more confident than ever and Tony's left with a converted warehouse full of friends (and one frenemy), a job that leaves him plenty of time to think about other things, a regular Friday night campaign and the uncomfortable realization that maybe he's in love with his best friend and has been since he was sixteen.
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rakelnott hereTitle: When Darkness Sleeps Beside YouCreator: rufflefeather
Summary: Steve meets Tony Stark at a party while he's there escorting another woman. He's not opposed to making a quick buck but things don't go as planned.
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rakelnott hereTitle: The Billionaire Hooker's Deceived ArtistCreator: tsukinofaerii
Summary: During Tony's senior year at MIT, his partying habit finally hit the edge of his parents' patience. When Howard and Maria cut him
off from his usual sources of money, he decides to turn to less conventional ones.
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rakelnott hereTitle: If At First Creator: kellifer_fic
Summary: Where Tony is stupid and Steve has been waiting for a long time.
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rakelnott hereTitle: BulletproofCreator: foxxcub
Summary: At age fifteen, Steve Rogers had been in love with Tony Stark.
By age twenty, he’d (mostly) gotten over it. And then he promptly became Tony Stark's fuck buddy.
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rakelnott hereTitle: Clueless, or: How I Learned to Stop Being a Selfish Prick and Love a CapsicleCreator: withthepilot
Summary: Okay, so you're probably thinking, This guy seems like a total douche. You're half right.
But seriously, I'm a completely normal teenager. A normal genius-billionaire-philanthropist-playboy teenager. Who goes to a school for government agents and superheroes in training. Every morning, I get up, trim my goatee, take a shot of Jack Daniels (which Ke$ha totally stole from me, by the way), and pick out my school clothes.
A Clueless AU, starring Tony Stark.
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rakelnott hereTitle: Olympics 'VerseCreator: sirona
Summary: Five times Beijing 2008 Olympics Gold Medalist Tony Stark thinks it's going to be no more difficult a job to get ready for London 2012, than what he has just achieved. That is, of course, before Coach Fury comes to visit, and offers him a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be a part of something much bigger than himself. Swimming AU.
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rakelnott hereTitle: Loose and Tight in All the Right PlacesCreator: Clio_jlh
Summary: The Avengers, led by Tony Stark, have been kicking around the Williamsburg scene for a couple of years now. When bassist Pepper Potts finds them a new guitarist who completely changes their sound, they also get the attention of SHIELD Records' top A&R guy, Nick Fury.
But on the bill with The Avengers on their big night is Spies Become Soldiers, formed by Williamsburg vets Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton, who wanted to take their music in a new direction. They've only been playing together a few months, but they've already got a lot of buzz surrounding them, and the songs to back it up.
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nevereverposts hereTitle: MidnightCreator: Comedia
Summary: Tony Stark decides that taking a shortcut through a dark alley is the best idea ever. Not unexpectedly he gets attacked, but someone comes to his rescue. It’s not the muscular knight in shining armor he’d normally wish for in this kind of situation, but the scrawny man who ends up saving him proves to be one of the most intriguing people he’s met in quite some time.
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the_kinky_pet herenon-powered AUs/sentient household appliances and other AI shenanigansArt616Title: N/A (this is one of the art pieces for Conjugate)Creator: Jwaneeta
Summary: The picture shows the various New Avengers sporting their new powers
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salmastryon hereFic616Title: Sins of OmissionCreator: Kiyaar
Summary: A Post-Civil War, Pre-Secret Invasion AU where Steve is dead, Tony's a mess, and everything sucks.
In which Tony deals poorly with Steve's death, falls off the wagon, sees ghosts, and misses a lot.
Oh, and the Skrulls are about to invade.
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evilmissbecky hereTitle: Exactly Under the StarCreator: posyvanilla
Summary: Complete AU; takes place in a future in which humans have begun to colonize planets, and borrows heavily from situations in current Marvel canon. New Avengers meets Dark Reign meets Firefly.
Norman Osborn is ruling the (not so free) world, Tony Stark is leading a motley crew of superheroes in an attempt to regain their freedoms, and Steve Rogers may not be as dead as everybody thought.
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salmastryon hereTitle: ConjugateCreator: Valtyr
Summary: The New Avengers get their powers switched around. Peter sniffs people. Steve sticks to things. Logan lies around and drinks beer. In a surprising twist, Steve and Tony make out.
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salmastryon hereTitle: Sea StarsCreator: Muccamukk
Summary: Steve comes back to life somewhere entirely unexpected; Tony doesn't remember being a hero; something is rotten in the province of British Columbia, and the 2010 Olympics are doomed.
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salmastryon hereTitle: W.I.P.E. (Per Expectations)Creator: tsukinofaerii
Summary: An AU of the events covering SIEGE and immediate after. When Tony is rebooted after deleting his brain, he's left with no memory of anything, and lingering programs that keep him from finding out everything he missed. Sometimes you just need to start over, but there's always a place in every plan for a backup.
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salmastryon hereA:EMHTitle: It's Tradition, You KnowCreator: missbecky
Summary: It's Steve's first Christmas out of the ice, and the Avengers' first Christmas as a family, and Tony is distressed when everyone else leaves the mansion for the holidays, leaving it up to him to give Steve the holiday experience he thinks Steve deserves.
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stray_heart hereMCUTitle: Until You're ReadyCreator: exfatalist
Summary: Of course, the only way he could get back to normal was to put an end to the friendly, concerned harassment of his teammates and stow his own embarrassment over the whole ordeal.
So, really, actually, Tony needed to get laid.
“Cap, I need you to pop my cherry.”
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stray_heart hereTitle: Show Me the WayCreator: housestarktech
Summary: Time bending adventures.
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stray_heart hereTitle: Someone to LoveCreator: Blue Jack
Summary: What does it matter that it’d been because of Loki and his damn magic? He’d fallen in love with Steve once. He can do it again.
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the_kinky_pet hereUltimatesTitle: The Emperor's FuryCreator: valtyr
Summary: Steve is an ex-gladiator. Tony wears a toga. Together, they litigate civil cases. Also a surprising amount of boating.
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the_kinky_pet hereFluff/Rock 'em Sock 'em SteveFicMCUTitle: The Art of KissingCreator: inukagome15
Summary: Short stories about kisses shared between Steve and Tony. It's still in progress, but each chapter is self-contained and I'm taking prompts.
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inukagome15 hereTitle: The Kissing GameCreator: nightwalker
Summary: A series of short Steve/Tony fics all about kissing. And flirting. And biting, in one. No one's had any on-screen sex yet, but I'm working on it.
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evilmissbecky hereTitle: There's Something Aboot SteveCreator: epicycles
Summary: "You know, it makes a lot of sense," Tony mused aloud, once all the shouting was over. "You're so polite, you like maple syrup, you wear a lot of plaid."
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entropy_house hereTitle: Anti-virusCreator: marinarusalka
Summary: Steve didn't think he could get sick any more. He was wrong. Tony didn't think of himself as the caretaking type. He was wrong too.
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dragonofmemory hereTitle: Structural IntegrityCreator: Penumbren
Summary: Steve’s stuck somewhere he desperately doesn’t want to be, and doesn’t get the help he expected.
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dragonofmemory hereTitle: ´Sleep ProtocolCreator: 51stCenturyFox
Summary: You might assume that Steve Rogers, a super soldier, wouldn’t have any sleep-related problems, since he is an optimal physical specimen in the bloom of health.
You would be wrong.
But you know, there are certain
conditions.
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dragonofmemory hereMarvel AdventuresTitle: Heart BurnCreator: nightwalker
Summary: There was a dragon and now Tony's mostly naked and it's all Reed Richards' fault.
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