This fic spawned from various (emotion filled yelling) conversations with (and is for) @blossomsinthemist . And also many thanks to Aeniala for the shepherd’s pie recipe in this, it sounds so good! This fic is pure unadulterated fluff set in the Ults verse, taking place in a sort of nebulous time-frame. Mind the read more! Or read on Ao3.
Summary: After a long week that takes its toll on them both, Tony takes a weekend off with Steve. Realizations, dancing, and more fluff than you can shake a stick at.
It’s been sleeting all week, that kind of damp cold that sneaks beneath layers of clothing and steals the breath away. Steve has incredibly high tolerances for temperatures both high and low, but that doesn’t change the fact that he hates the cold most of all. It doesn’t help that their last few fights have taken place outside with the cold icy slush pounding down. It makes him shorter with replies, and gruffer if that’s possible. He can see people skitter away as he walks down hallways later after the debrief. Beneath his gloves his knuckles are smarting; in a few hours they’ll be completely fine, but it’s just one more aggravation on his miles long list.
“Looking awfully grumpy there, handsome.” Tony’s warm tones draw him up short. He’s leaning in a doorway, all insouciant grace and languid poise. Steve feels the tips of his ears go hot when Tony meanders closer and drapes an arm over his shoulder. Steve doesn’t shrug it off the way he might have once. Not now, not when there’s this thing between them. Besides, he likes it. Likes having Tony close, the easy warmth of him there, his quick, clever fingers, and warm affectionate words.
“Stark. Thought you’d be long gone by now.” Despite his best efforts, he still sounds a little hopeful. Sure enough Tony catches it, lips turning upward as he moves his arm from around his shoulder to give his waist a quick squeeze, before letting it drop away so they can walk down the hallway side by side.
“Come with me.” Tony licks his lips, blue eyes lifting to meet Steve’s. “We’ve both had a long week, I thought you might like to relax.” Tony’s gaze darts from side to side. Steve has noticed since they started this that Tony only ever truly looks nervous when he’s talking to him. “The car is around the front, what do you say, weekend getaway?” Tony smiles, stroking a hand down his back with a featherlight touch. Steve just barely represses a shiver, eyeing Tony for a moment. With other people he’s always a little shuttered. Here though, with Steve, his expression is unguarded, eyes bright with hope. He looks a little strained though, as if the week has taken its toll on him as well.
“Okay. Yeah, I don’t want any parties though, you got that?” He grumbles, raking a hand over his face as Tony leads him out to a waiting town car.
“Crystal clear, darling, don’t worry; that wasn’t what I had in mind as it was.” Tony says almost softly, climbing into the backseat beside Steve. The ride doesn’t take very long, but Tony wastes no time getting right up in his space, laying his head on his shoulder and stroking over Steve’s arm and side. It makes something knot up in Steve’s stomach, a lump in his throat when Tony leaves a gentle kiss against the clenched hinge of his jaw.
Tag: superhusbands
Fic: More Than Skin Deep
Tony can just about accept the fact that he and Steve were kidnapped and replaced by Skrulls for three months. But what he can’t figure out is why none of the Avengers noticed. And what he really can’t figure out is why none of their teammates will tell them what the Skrulls did while they were gone.
For Cap-IM Bingo (the square “Skrulls!”), this is a fluffy Skrull story. I honestly mean that. It’s really, really fluffy.
Read More Than Skin Deep on AO3 (3521 words).
in an alternate universe, Steve brings Bucky back to the tower for the first time, and the only problem with that is that Bucky passes out before Steve can properly introduce him to the rest of the Avengers. but that’s okay, because when Bucky next wakes up, free of mind control, it’s to the sounds of pandemonium in the kitchen. this is how he learns that there is a Norse god of thunder living there. also, that no one should mess with Nat’s food. (and that Barton messes with Nat’s food, and reinforces the imperative that no one should mess with Nat’s food.) that Dr. Banner eats enough for, like, four people. and, maybe most importantly, that Steve brings plates of food down to his boyfriend.
“wait what,” Bucky says when this comes up within the first day. oh no, he thinks. Steve got a boyfriend and Bucky wasn’t even around to tease him about it?
“that’s wrong,” Clint tells Thor, who was the one who volunteered this information in the first place, “everyone knows zombies can’t eat food.”
“i do miss when Anthony ate with us,” Thor sighs heavily, and Bucky despairs inside. he missed Steve’s first boyfriend and Steve’s first boyfriend’s death? that’s so sad. what kind of a best friend is Bucky now?
it takes him a few days to corner Steve about this. “you got a boyfriend?” Bucky demands, at which Steve blushes and nods. “who?” and that’s how Bucky learns Steve’s boyfriend was Tony Stark, and now Bucky’s missed the demise of Steve’s boyfriend and Howard’s kid and that’s just really, really fucking sad. “is he the reason you keep going to the basement?”
“that’s where his lab is,” Steve says, sounding sad. he’s producing a photo of Tony now. actually, it’s half of Tony’s face, captured in a manic grin while a blurry Steve in pajamas tries to grab the camera in the background. “he’s been away for so long. i miss him.”
damn. that’s really sad. “hey, c’mon,” Bucky tries to comfort, “plenty of other fish in the sea.”
Steve looks horrified at this. “Buck, i’d never!”
oh, no. Howard had a kid and that kid was Steve’s boyfriend and then he died and Steve isn’t even over him yet. Bucky thinks this is the worst possible time he could have been unbrainwashed.
at the end of his first week, he inadvertently suits up with them on a mission, despite Steve’s protests. Bucky pretends he doesn’t see Steve kiss the folded picture of Tony right before they go into the battlefield, like he’s about to help take down this horde of evil robots in his honor. that’s really, really fucking sad, holy shit, how’s Bucky supposed to comfort him through this?
about three fourths of the way through the mission, a man in a metal can joins them. “sorry i’m late!” says its garbled voice. “alarm didn’t go off in time.”
“because we turned it off,” Natasha says exasperatedly as she snaps an evil robot’s neck between her thighs. “can you even walk without the suit right now?”
oh, there’s a man in there? Bucky doesn’t get to ponder it until after they’ve dealt with the evil robot army. then they’re piling back into the quinjet and the metal man’s mask is folding away (fascinating) and Steve is taking him into his arms and kissing him and what? what happened to ‘i’d never!’? and then Steve pulls away and Bucky gets a good look at the man’s face and recognizes it from the crumpled photo Steve tucks into his pocket– “wait i thought you were dead.”
“i don’t understand but i’m offended,” Tony Stark says.
“your boyfriend’s not dead?” Bucky directs to Steve instead.
“Tony’s not dead,” Steve says, aghast. “of course not. why would you say that?”
and that’s how Bucky learns that this whole time, Tony’s been very much alive and just holed up in the lab working on a new arm for him, and that Steve was, in fact, not taking meals down to the lab because he wanted to feel close to his dead boyfriend’s spirit, but because he wanted to eat with his alive boyfriend. “so you just carry his picture around even though he’s not dead?”
“that’s a perfectly normal thing to do,” Steve defends.
“you kissed it like he was dead and you were thinking soon i will join you, my love.”
Steve goes scarlet. Tony preens and goes all, “aw, babe.” then they’re making out and Bucky’s somewhat horrified because he’s been so preoccupied thinking about Steve’s boyfriend being dead that he hasn’t spared a thought about how awful it might be to witness Steve and his living boyfriend’s disgusting love in real life. but hey, Tony’s really not that bad and he makes Steve happy, and Bucky gets a free arm out of it. (with which he punches Clint because it was totally Clint’s fault that he believed Tony was dead to begin with.)
This is a commission for ishipallthings, who wanted a
stevetony fic based off of this prompt: ‘my favourite underappreciated au idea
is ‘everyone is affected by some sort of love spell and falls in love w person
a but person b’s behaviour curiously doesn’t change at all.’ This rolls in at
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“You doing okay?”
Tony blinks and realizes he’s been looking down at his
cereal like it proves something wrong about his fundamental understanding of
physics and he’ll only figure it out if he stares long enough. He’s been
holding a spoon loaded with the stuff and not eating it, resting it motionless
against the bowl for- minutes, maybe.He looks towards Steve, who is doing that thing where he’s
pretending not to be concerned. It used to piss Tony off, but nowadays it’s
endearing. Some days Tony worries about that, but mostly he buries it before
the worry can come to a head.He eats the spoonful of cereal. “Just distracted,” he says.
some lovely things I’ve learned reading Stony fanfic
Based on the 700+ fanfics I have saved in my phone welp
1) Grease stains on Tony’s cheek turn Cap the fuck on
2) also Tony’s grease stained and sweaty crop top riding up and showing a bit of skin
3) Avengers movie night is in 98% of fanfic
4) INSECURE TONY IS INSECURE AND IT MAKES ME CRY because I’m projecting
5) “Stop flirting and pining and get on with it!!!!” – Clint’s voice through a vent or perched in the ceiling in every fanfic
6) Super Soldier Stamina and All American Man Meat
7) Steve “here I brought you a sandwich so you have to eat” Rogers
8) Tony’s so beautiful and in his element in the workshop that Steve just sits there and basks in his brilliance and has 2175574525 Tony sketches
9) JARVIS sounds sad when Tony is in denial
10) Pepper is magical and makes everything better
11) Peter/James/Sarah/Maria/Virginia as their kids
12) Steve “Imma break the whole gym when I’m frustrated” Rogers
13) We are gay for each other in every universe. Even in the universes where one of us is a woman or we’re both women or were both mermaids or aliens or cats. Literal superhusbands of the multiverse. We’re That GayMORE LOVELY THINGS I’VE LEARNED READING STONY FANFIC:
14) Sleepy Tony with messy hair shuffles into the kitchen/rec room/workshop demanding coffee and flopping his limbs all over Steve while still looking adorable
15) at some point Stark Industries’ stock will plummet because of the gay
16) Tony has entire paragraphs/chapters where he thinks he’s scum and doesn’t deserve Steve and I cry while reading it
17) Horrible Ex-boyfriend Tiberius Stone
18) Natasha is the omniscient Stony shipper stand-in who tells Steve and Tony that they’re idiots while sharpening her knives and disappearing at random
19) In fact everybody knows and even when they give shovel talks truth is they’re all shipper trash of mom and dad
20) Steve and Dummy are instant BFFs
21) Steve’s Brooklyn accent appears when he’s angry or flirting or when they’re engaged in amazing, athletic sex
22) “LET US CELEBRATE THIS UNION BETWEEN SUPERHEROES!” – Thor
23) Steve says some variation of “you gave me a home” and there’s a scene about Tony’s cap collection but that’s actually canon so….Even More Lovely Things I’ve Learned Reading STEVETONY FANFIC
24) Tony’s first childhood crush is Captain America and he has even wanked to the Cap poster on his bedroom wall
25) Tony bows his head and looks up at Steve through his long, thick shoujo eyelashes
26)Tony and Steve save each other from awkward situations in the Maria Stark Foundation Gala and go off to chat on the balcony in private
27) S I Z E D I F F E R E N C E
28) “I can’t sleep. Nightmares.” says Steve as he meets Tony in the kitchen before his morning run.
29) “You don’t really love me. You love Ironman/Captain America.” says Tony and/or Steve sadly.
30) Creeper Uncle Obadiah Stane
31) So. Much. SELF. SACRIFICE!!! (and its hurt/comfort aftermath)
32) “I hate you, but we have to work together to get out of here.” Steve and Tony say while gritting their teeth, even though they’re both hard.
33)Steve waxing poetic about Tony’s hands and his callused, long and slender fingers
34) “There goes your favourite customer,” Nat nudges Steve as the mysterious wealthy-looking man walks in his coffeeshop/tattoo parlour/flower shop/classroom/bar.Tony on the other hand, wonders why he’s always the customer…
35) Tony wears Steve’s dog tags while Steve leaves on a SHIELD mission.
heyo
Prompt: “Imagine your otp proposing repeatedly at different restaurants to get free food; and when the real proposal comes and they get free ice cream or something, person a is like ‘omg that was a really good one the whole speech was a nice touch where did you get this ring it looks so realistic omg’ and person b is just like ‘r u fucking kidding me’.”
As requested by the amazingly patient @ishipallthings ❤ ❤ ❤
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