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Recs 12/28/2016
Competently Incompetent - Era_Penn PG, <1K, GEN
The Stark name was relatively small when Howard was alive; sure, they were known, but it was Tony who built up their empire. People tend to forget that, and he likes it that way. Too bad the Avengers didn't think about that when they sat down to a game of Monopoly.
❤See You In Homeroom - copperbadge PG-13, 2K
Tags: GEN, Friendship
Rhodey wants heat-seeking bullets, Steve wants to go for a run, Natasha wants french toast, and Tony just wants to be prom queen.
******
there's a michael jackson song about this - Bundibird PG-13, Post-IM3/CATWS
It starts out as a joke.
Rhodey takes one look at Tony and Harley tinkering with and squabbling over some piece of tech and demands, “Since when do you have a kid?” and Harley glances up and says casually, without missing a beat, “He impregnated my mom eleven years ago and then left her to raise me alone. He’s a terrible person.”
Tony’s going to be laughing about Rhodey’s expression for MONTHS.
❤Leader of the Pack - windscryer PG-13, 2K+
Tags: GEN, Hurt!Steve, Steve+Tony Friendship, Phase Two Compliant
During a fight, Steve goes down and Tony has to step up. It’s about as hard as he expected it to be (which is not hard at all) but he’d still rather never have to do that again, is that understood, Steven?
❤Jammin' Down the Pedal Like He's Never Coming Back - windscryer PG-13, 20K
Tags: GEN, Friendship, BAMF!Steve, Sick!Tony, Hurt!Steve, Team!fic
Steve doesn’t need a driver’s license while living in New York and going most places by Quinjet or chauffeur, but it would occasionally be useful. And it’s better to have it than not, right? The rest of the Avengers aren’t so sure of that.
AKA five times Steve followed the rules of the road and one time he broke every last one of them. With extreme prejudice.
❤Pennies From Heaven - windscryer PG-13, 4K
Tags: Team!fic, Sick!Tony
Even Tony can't call in sick to life, but he doesn't have to do it all alone either.
❤Your Light Will Guide Me Home - windscryer PG-13, 6K
Tags: GEN, Friendship, Kidnapping, Hurt!Steve, Team!fic
Tony has a broken wrist, a drugged supersoldier, and a kidnapper with delusions of supervillainy who is just competent enough to be annoying. Thank god he's also got some experience with these kinds of things and a team of superheroes waiting for some kind of signal to tell them where to go.
Tentacle Monsters are Usually Bigger - MountainRose PG-13, 8K
Tags: Canon!AU, GEN
Steve and his Avengers find a 'biological sample' held captive in a Hydra lab; It's surprisingly chatty.
Freezer Burn - Domenika Marzione (domarzione) PG-13, 447K+
Tags: GEN, Series, Steve-centric
Steve Rogers: soldier, artist, foodie, friend, heart of the Avengers, and a guy whose past keeps creeping into his present and dictating his future. A series of stories about him and the people he has chosen to build his life around.
❤Nonage - Del_Rion PG-13, 22K
Tags: Kid!Tony, Deaged!Tony
Summary: Loki’s idea of an – unintentional yet effectively hilarious – practical joke is to turn Tony into a 5-year-old. The remaining Avengers soon realize they may not be able to handle the boy-genius. While Thor hunts his brother down in order to turn Tony back to his older self, the rest of the team seeks help from a man who, in the past, was more of a father figure to Tony than Howard Stark himself: Edwin Jarvis.
❤Trusses - szzzt PG-13, 22K, series
Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Hurt!Tony
Tony Stark and the art and science of hard knocks. (Also, the team thing, when did that happen?)
And the Sky is Grey - Teyke PG-13, 24K
Tags: GEN, Hurt!Steve, PTSD
Steve hates the cold. Tony loves to mock him about this – or so Steve thinks. Clint remembers cold nights in Afghanistan and buys everybody else a clue.
A Garden Grows in Manhattan (at the top of Avengers Tower) - Sholio pg, 12k
Bucky and Pepper make a garden. Set post-Winter Soldier.
Culture and Other Balls of Twine - LithiumDoll pg, 17K
“Okay, I realize this could appear to be poorly conceived - to those of limited vision - but what you have to understand is, I’ve actually just had the greatest, most outstanding idea ever.” Tony’s eyes searched heavenward and then he nodded soberly. “Yes, I believe history will consider this my triumph.”
Coulson Lives, but the Avengers might be the death of him. - NiennaNir PG, 252K, series
These are related stories in which Coulson is a BAMF, Natasha has a twisted sense of humor, Steve struggles to grasp the 21st century and Tony buys things.
Purple Converse - cat_77 PG, 32K
Tags: Team!fic, De-aged, Protective!Tony, Action
If asked, none of them could have claimed to have had exceptionally stellar childhoods. With the help of an overprotective handler, an extraterrestrial au pair, and a billionaire sugar daddy, maybe things would be different this time around.
❤Just A Rather Very Intelligent System - DarkestSight (Daylight) PG-13, 18K
Tags: Hurt!Tony, Team!fic, Mission
Five times Jarvis took control of the Iron Man armour without the other Avengers finding out and one time they did.
❤The Dawn of That Last Great Day - ignipes PG, 13K
The Winter Soldier has a mission: kill Captain America.
❤All The Leaves Are Brown (And the sky is gray) - AvocadoLove PG-13, 17K
Tags: Canon!AU, GEN (Mostly)
The Winter Soldier's mission is nearly complete. Howard and Maria Stark are dead, leaving him to dispatch their four-year-old child. One quick twist of the neck is all it will take, but the Soldier finds he cannot do it.
So instead of killing Tony Stark, the Winter Soldier takes him away to raise as his own.
Creation-Connection - icarus_chained PG-13, 15K, Series
The series with Tony-and-his-AIs being badass and protective of each other. *grins* Because Dummy and JARVIS need more love.
A.I.s and Lullabies - Echo PG, 21K
Tags: Deaged!Tony
Tony is suddenly a quiet, wary five year old boy. The rest of the team are less than completely sure about what to do about that.
Like Today Never Happened - Nefhiriel PG-13, 52K
Tags: Hurt!Steve, Skinny!Steve, Protective!Team, Team fic
No one should be able to just steal Captain America's health. The Avengers are all agreed on that. And yet there Steve is: stuck in a hospital bed with a whole slew of medical issues - and nothing about this is remotely okay.
They've got to make this right. They've got to fix this. It's just going to take a while.
OR
Steve is reverted to his pre-serum state, and the Avengers deal with the fallout.
Isn't This Nice? - cat_77 PG-13, 14K
Tags: Team fic
Escorting three politicians to a SHIELD-sponsored meeting goes horribly wrong, as these things are wont to do.
Selective Service - Kroki_Refur PG-13, 10K
Tags: Team!fic, Hurt!Steve, Protective!Team
The serum's given Steve a lot, but it hasn't taken anything away from him. Not even the things he never wanted in the first place.
❤From here to infinity - everythingispoetry PG-13, 17K
Tags: Canon!AU, Team!fic, GEN, Friendship, Hurt!Tony
Summary: In a world where superheroes are still secret, Steve walks past a homeless man every morning on his way to work.Then they save the world together - but it's not enough.
All destinations approximate - jonesandashes, pollyrepeat PG-13, 17K
Tags: GEN, Friendship, Humor, Villains
Summary: “Jarvis, please refrain from killing me. I’m coming in to look at you.”
Phil Coulson is not a crazy cat lady - nyargles PG-13, 28K
Tags: GEN, Humor, Team fic, AU
An AU where the Avengers are not a superhero team, but rather a group of cats that Phil Coulson owns and brings in to the SHIELD offices.
❤Arc Tremors - MountainRose PG-13, 125K
Tags: Hurt!Tony, Hurt/Comfort, Team!fic, POV (Tony), GEN
Tony's light had flickered out in the aftermath of the fight with the Chitauri, but his team was there and, hey, he'd just been to space, give a guy some slack. The next morning they accepted, but when he collapses weeks later, they're not going to let him brush it off again, and neither is JARVIS.
❤Problem Child - TGP PG, 64K, WIP
Tags: Bucky/Steve, Kid!Tony, Canon AU, Time Travel
Two weeks after Steve wakes up, a kid hacks SHIELD and sets every computer to blast AC/DC at random. Now Steve's looking after Howard's get and an evil alien is attacking the world. This is the best day ever. Really. Steve might just find a way to go back in time and punch Howard in the face.
Coulson's Eleven - copperbadge PG, 32K
Tags: Canon!AU, GEN
After Vanko destroyed the Stark Expo, SHIELD instituted a Superhuman Detention program, designed to capture and hold dangerous people -- dangerous people like Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, and others who made themselves noticeable. The superhumans SHIELD has imprisoned -- and some SHIELD agents themselves -- have other ideas about what constitutes 'dangerous'…
Affection - MaidenofIron157 PG-13, 17K
Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Hurt!Tony, Team!fic
Five times Tony Stark's exhaustion gets the better of him, and the one time someone decides it's time he use an actual bed.
Minor Disasters (Or Reasons Why Tony Can't Work When He's Sick) - Ocean_Born_Mary PG, 14K, Series
Tags: Pre-Slash, GEN, Hurt!Tony, Hurt/Comfort
Keurigs, demi-gods, Not-Colds...how could it possibly go wrong?
In Visibility - cat_77 PG-13, 14K
Tags: GEN, Hawkeye-centric, Team!fic
He was used to slinking in shadows, hidden from sight. This was just ridiculous, really.
❤Closing the Circuit - AlchemyAlice PG-13, 14K
Tags: Post-CATWS, Team!fic
SHIELD's down, Captain America's AWOL, and on the whole, things are kind of FUBAR. On the other hand, Tony might have some semblance of a plan.
❤Intersecting Lines - Nefhiriel PG-13, 29K, Series
Tags: GEN, Post-CATWS, Hurt!Steve, Protective!Bucky, Team!fic
A series of post-CA:TWS freeform stories with an emphasis on feels, the Avenger's as a loyal team unit, Sam as an awesome new addition, and a general disregard for pesky things that get in the way of my rabid need for H/C. (In other words: I needed therapy after that movie, and this is how I coped.)
❤Perspective - Red_Tigress PG-13, 11K
Tags: De-Age, Tony's Unhappy Childhood, Team!fic, GEN, Kid!Tony
Tony reverts back to his eight-year old self for a few days. Everyone gains some new perspective. But when Tony changes back, he has to have some heart to heart talks with his teammates.
❤❤Bargaining by proantagonist PG-13, 110K
Tags: Post-TDW, Time Travel, FAMILY!LOVE, GEN, Jotun!Loki
Summary: Faced with an eternity without his brother, Loki strikes a bargain to change the past. Post TDW.
Run - ashinan R, 12K
Tags: Kidnapping, Hurt!Tony
Usually the kidnapping scenario goes as follows: beaten up a bit, demands are made, Tony snarks, Avengers eventually help save. But this - this darkness, this arena filled with mechanical monsters, is not Tony's usual stint. He has no idea if the Avengers are coming for him and no one is making demands. It's just him versus machine.
Somebody's hero - EternalSheWolf PG, 7K, Series
Tags: GEN, Hurt!Tony, Protective!Avengers, Friendship
Tony Stark is six when he learns that nobody will come for him. If he wants to be rescued, he’ll have to take care of it himself.
The Sky and Everything Beneath It - jibrailis pg, 7K
Steve goes on a road trip to clear his head, but the other Avengers won't leave him alone.
The Joke - Imbecamiel PG, 7K
Steve's not usually oblivious - far from it, in fact. But he does have his moments. Like when he didn't realize that the team was actually serious when they talked about Mjolnir being a magical weapon that only Thor could lift.
When We Were Smaller - 27dragons PG-13, 6k
Tags: canon!au
Imagine a BAMF kid!Tony and a dangerous/protective!Bucky (the how, where and why can be your design) trying to get back home/to the Avengers/some place safe.
❤Epilogue - copperbadge PG, 7K
Tags: Post-Avengers
After the fighting is over, then come the hot baths, ice packs, resurrection from the dead, political maneuvering, and happy endings (not like that, Tony).
❤Another Bizarre and Thankless Situation - vain_glorious PG-13, 5K
Tags: Kidnapping, Mission
Hostages 101: If you kill them first, no one is going to do what you say."
Film Studies, or, Four Films About Captain America and One By Him - copperbadge PG-13, 7K
Steve Rogers is no stranger to the silver screen.
Of Course He Remembers Meredith - Wandering_Swain G, 5K
Tags: Crossover: Guardians of the Galaxy
You don't forget the woman with space age daydreams who broke into your father's press conferences in leopard skin pants and Blue Swede t-shirts throughout the early 1980's. Or at least Tony Stark doesn't.
Trust - Wordsplat PG-13, 5K
Tags: Domestic Avengers, GEN
Bruce Banner is very careful where he places his trust, but he's a loyal man to those who've earned it.
Scar Tissue - cat_77 PG, 4K
Tags: GEN, Team!fic
They all have it, to varying levels.
running to keep in the same place - alt3r3go PG, 3K
Tags: GEN, Hurt/Comfort, Pre-slash
Tony's the only one of them who has to wrangle two jobs and he's rapidly running of time for, like, everything.
and if there's life we'll see it - irnan pg, 3k
Steve is instantly taken with this idea of having the picture of the person calling you flash on your screen when they ring your cell.
Black AmEx - copperbadge pg, 4K
Bruce isn't sure he wants to use a credit card Tony gave him. Steve isn't sure he even knows how.
The Good, the Bad and the Fluffy - newredshoes PG, 2k
That time Tony gave Bucky a therapy llama.
well, let the drum beat drop - jonesandashes, pollyrepeat PG, 4K
Pepper leaves, and there’s no more pizza, and Thor’s already talked about Jane, and Tony suspects all of them realize, abruptly and simultaneously, that they actually have no idea what to do now. He is, in fact, pretty certain that they’re just a few minutes away from someone deciding to say something about the weather. It’s probably going to be him.
❤Independence Day - Kroki_Refur PG-13, 3K
Tags: Steve+Tony Friendship
It's not that Tony doesn't want to celebrate Steve's birthday -- it's just that he doesn't actually know when it is.
❤In the Company of Friends - DarkestSight (Daylight) PG, 6K
Tags: Arc Reactor, Team!fic, Protective!Team, Hurt/Comfort
Tony wakes up feeling like crap and finds himself longing for the time he lived alone and it was a lot easier to get a simple cup of coffee.
❤The Cyborg Arm Job - copperbadge PG, 7K
Tags: Bucky!, Crossover: Leverage
The Leverage crew run into a new friend, find some buried treasure, and fight some Nazis. It's a pretty good day.
Tunnel - Silverlace_Vine PG, 3K
Tags: Team!fic
Steve is trapped underground after a building collapses on top of the team; he struggles to escape, knowing the others are dead.
Pass Me By, I'll Be Fine - lucdarling PG-13, 2K
Tags: Post-Avengers, GEN
Clint is a penitent tool, traveling the world on orders from above his paygrade. It's the least he deserves.
❤Generation Gap - JeziBelle PG, 2K
Tags: Friendship (Steve + Tony)
A lot has changed since Steve Rogers hit the ice. A lot has changed since he woke up. A lot more than just which Stark is repairing his equipment.
❤You’ll Find the Bright Places - BlackEyedGirl PG-13, 5K
Tags: Team!fic, Deaged!Team, Kid!fic
Fury temples his fingers together. “Tell me how this started?” Phil tries to give a reasonable report of today's incident. As he spent most of his day trying to keep grade-school aged versions of his team away from a team of gunmen, he has only limited success.
That Which Sustains Me - windscryer PG-13, 2K
Tags: Team!fic, Hurt!Tony
The villain of the week thinks he's found the Avengers weakest link.
When will they ever learn?
❤Six Times The Avengers Stopped An Alien Invasion - Closer PG-13, 3K
Sure, the Avengers are strong, but they're also not stupid. When aliens invade, they usually have a plan.
❤Soft Skills - Lady_Ganesh PG-13, 4K
The team tries to bring Steve Rogers into the 21st Century. It mostly works.
Operation Extraction - Cluegirl PG, 2K
Tags: IM3
Far be it from Tony Stark to educate SHIELD Medical on any particular details, but it just so happened that it was totally possible to make a stable boot cast out of common office supplies.
❤Crime Deterrent - Epiphanyx7 PG-13, 3K
The Starkphone has the longest battery life of any phone on the market, the most high-quality camera, the most free games, the largest internal memory, the only mobile spectrometer, and is made from the highest percentage of recyclable materials,” Tony says.
Dear Clint Barton (circa age 7) - pollyrepeat PG-13, 4K
Tags: Deaged!Clint
The most annoying parts of being de-aged (and then re-aged) are your friends.
❤Near-Death Experience with a Side of Shawarma - Zinnith PG-13, 2K
Tags: Post-Avengers, Hurt!Tony
The battle is over and Tony is fine. Really, he is.
project adulthood - irnan PG, 6K
Tags: Hurt!Steve, Hurt!Tony, Team!fic
"I've been thinking," said Bruce quietly. "The day HQ was attacked. Tony and I were at that R&D meeting we usually skip."
"Yes," said Steve. "Nat said that."
"Well," said Bruce. "Usually, on a Friday, when we skip the R&D meeting, we arrive at HQ around the time that bomb went off."
❤Hold on to What You've Got - Nefhiriel PG-13, 2K
Tags: Team!fic
It just happened sometimes. Spontaneous group hugging. They were entitled to it.
❤Under Fire - antigrav_vector PG-13, <1K
Tags: Protective!Steve, Team!fic
Summary: The Helicarrier is attacked. Steve responds.
Four times an Avenger met Bucky and didn't know who he was, and one time they were all introduced. - Odsbodkins PG-13, 4K
Tags: GEN, Bucky, Post-CATWS
What it says on the tin. In which Tony is kidnapped, Clint is a fangirl, Bruce sees echoes of the past and Thor is Thor.
❤He Ain't Heavy - MusicalLuna PG-13, 7K, Series
Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Team!fic
None of them is invulnerable. The first in a series of hurt/comfort fics featuring the Avengers team.
Fifteen Short Stories About Teamwork - BlackEyedGirl PG-13, 5K
Tags: Team!fic, Post-Avengers
They've made a start. There's still a lot to learn about each other. [Post movie, spoilers]
❤Long Lost Pal - cat_77 PG-13, 7K
Tags: Hurt!Tony
An injured Tony feels no need to change his routine. His team begs to differ.
Seasonal Requisites - MusicalLuna PG-13, 3K
Tags: Holiday: Christmas
It's a PR event.
Life to a Soul - SomeTorist PG-13, 3K
Tags: GEN, Pre-Slash
Few people ever see inside Tony Stark; fewer can stomach what they find; next to no one claims to still like him afterwards. So Tony hides, closing all the doors and battening down the hatches, using charm and confidence as armor when he's not in the suit.
To Tony's horror, Steve somehow manages to see inside him anyway.
❤Job Description - laylabinx PG-13, 5K
Tags: Hurt!Steve, Hurt/Comfort, Friendship
Steve is injured. Tony helps clean him up. They have a heart-to-heart in an empty lab. No slash, just bromance :D Oh, and lots of h/c!
❤Timers and Batteries PG-13, 7K
Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Hurt!Steve, GEN
Months after Loki's defeat, Captain America is injured in battle, and Iron Man comes to a new realization about the leader of the Avengers.
❤Even Gods Do - Cluegirl PG, 8K
Tags: GEN, Hurt!Steve, Protective!Avengers, Team!fic
Captain America doesn't have a good relationship with sleep anymore. Also, he's not a toy.
❤Fully Qualified - 27dragons, sara_holmes PG, 3K
Tags: Team!fic, GEN, Humor
SHIELD thinks the Avengers need to learn to work together. Fury thinks Coulson is the man for the job. Coulson thinks he is not paid enough for this shit.
❤Secure Your Own Oxygen Mask (Before Assisting Others) - Nefhiriel PG, 3K
Tags: Hurt!Steve, Hurt/Comfort, Team!fic
Steve keeps going, because they need him. Being Captain America - having the serum - is a responsibility and a privilege he takes seriously, and he won't waste it by sitting around resting in the middle of a crisis.But then the work is over, and the original victims of the crisis aren't the only ones needing looking after.
❤Shanghai Dangerous - Red_Tigress PG-13, 7K
Tags: IM3, Team!fic, Hurt!Tony, BAMF!Everyone
Clint and Natasha meet up with Tony in Shanghai. Not on purpose. But A.I.M. also shows up, so they just have to put their differences aside and deal.
❤Under My Skin - Zelos (Zelus) PG-13, 2K
Tags: Near Death Experience, Team!fic, Hurt!Steve
“He's lucky – to have the serum, to have you all.” Tony wasn't sure about that first part. When one faced death and destruction every day on the job, there were many advantages to having a healing factor...and a great many disadvantages as well.
❤ Undercover - Red_Tigress PG-13, 8K
Tags: Action, Mission!fic, Hurt!Tony
Natasha never breaks cover. Never.
❤Friday the 13th - Red_Tigress PG, 8K
Tags: Team!fic, Hurt!Tony, GEN
Tony Stark claims he's cursed. The other Avengers maintain it's just him.
❤ Walking Wounded - Nefhiriel PG-13, 3K
Tags: Post-Avengers, Hurt!Steve, Hurt/Comfort, Steve-centric
In the aftermath of the battle against the Chitauri, Steve's doing just fine. Until he's not. Fortunately, Thor is a perfect mother-hen, Tony makes decent back-up, JARVIS is a genius, and Soap Operas are life-changing.
(Or, Post-Shawarma Feels.)
❤If I Die Before I Wake - windscryer GEN, 7K
Tags: Hurt!Steve, Team!fic, Protective!Steve, Torture
It's his job, as their leader, to endure the sadistic focus of their captor, and that is the one thought that carries Steve through.
❤Side Effects PG-13, 5K
Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Hurt!Steve, GEN
The super-soldier serum really should have come with a Surgeon General's warning, Tony decided bitterly
In Great Transition - vain_glorious PG, 3K
Tags: Team fic
One by one, the Avengers move into Stark Tower.
Demolition for Dummies - icarus_chained PG, 2K
Tags: Team fic, Hurt!Tony
Tony collapses a building on himself. His team (including JARVIS) are not happy about this.
Blue Sky Holiday - Nefhiriel PG, 8K
Tags: Hurt!Steve, Team fic
In which there are Stink ‘Bots, coffee stains, wardrobe malfunctions (no, not like that), Tony’s sense of humor is adolescent (yup, exactly like that), reporters show no mercy when it comes to superheroes and their vices - and sometimes even super soldiers need Band-Aids and hugs. Also, bacon is the ultimate deus ex machina, and you can’t go wrong with The Princess Bride for therapy.
Or: It’s all fun and games until Captain America has a meltdown.
Deprivare - cat_77 PG-13, 1K
Tags: Team fic
He had survived far more intense situations in the past. He just usually wasn't quite as naked when he did.
There's No I in Team (It's Busy Being Used in Fine) - cat_77 (PG-13, 3K
Tags: Hurt!Clint, Team fic
If you ask him, he's fine. Which is precisely why they are not asking.
Lines and Shadow - justanotherStonyfan PG, 5K
Tags: Pre-slash, Friendship, Artist!Steve, PTSD (Steve)
Steve loses his sketchbook. Tony finds it.
Memento - Moiraine PG, 9K
Tags: GEN
Clint has two polaroid pictures carefully hidden in his room.
Something Good to Die For (To Make it Beautiful to Live) - blackkat PG, 3K
Six people Tony thought Yinsen would have liked, and one person Yinsen really did.
Finite - cat_76 PG-13, 2K
Tags: Hurt!Tony, Team!fic
It was right and logical and the math, as always, worked. That, at least, was something he could rely on when all else failed.
Just Gotta Get Right Out of Here - cat_77 PG-13, 4K
Tags: GEN, Hawkeye-centric, Team!fic
Kidnapped, stripped, and left without one of his senses - this day went firmly into the "suck" column of his life.
Protected - cat_77 PG-13, 4K
Tags: GEN, Hawkeye-centric, Team!fic
Protect - to keep safe from injury or harm.
Added Tension - Red_Tigress PG, 1K
Tags: IM3
Tony Stark has to dive to the bottom of the Hudson during a battle. Slight spoilers for Iron Man 3.
Comrades - Nefhiriel PG, 6K
Tags: Team!fic
Five times Thor defended his friends from people who should've been on their side, and one time his friends defended him.
❤Protocol 1985 - hollimichele PG, 5K
Tags: GEN, Time Travel
“Holy crow, it worked,” someone says.
Five Times Tony Hid Throughout His Life (And One Time He Didn’t) - AngeNoir PG, 6K
Tags: GEN, Friendship, Sick!Tony, Hurt/Comfort
Illness is a private affair, one that Tony deals with as effectively as he always deals with self-care - as in, not at all. He sends pretty much everyone who looks for him during his times of sickness into mild or major panic, depending.
Small Ones - determamfidd PG, 5K
Tags: GEN, Baby Avengers
A fight with Amora the Enchantress leaves the Avengers... a little altered. Hulk isn't very impressed with this turn of events. Neither, as it turns out, is Bruce.
Give You Shelter - MusicalLuna PG-13, <1K
Tony doesn't really understand what Steve's doing.
Not What I Meant to Do - MusicalLuna R, 1K
Tags:Hurt!Tony, GEN, Team fic
Tony doesn't like to make a fuss when he gets hurt. He just wants to lick his wounds in private and get back to it. The Avengers have other ideas.
Relief - kuro PG, <1K
Tags: Fluff, GEN, Hurt!Tony, Pre-slash
Tony has a migraine attack. The Avengers mistake it for a hangover. (And Steve might have some secret skills nobody knows about.)
Smiley Sunshine Daycare - starspangledsprocket PG, 2K
Tags: GEN, AU
Steve runs a daycare along with Peggy, Angie, Sam and Bucky. Loki's first day is hard on everyone.
Kidnapping is a Bad Thing, Tony - EternalSheWolf PG, 7K, Series
Tags: GEN, Kidnapping, Team fic, Hurt!Tony, Tony's Unhappy Childhood
Tony Stark is six when he learns that nobody will come for him. If he wants to be rescued, he’ll have to take care of it himself.
The Fortified Road. - Eshnoazot PG, 1K
Tags: GEN, Hurt!Steve
But out of all the Avengers, they don’t expect Steve to fall first.
Secondhand - Nefhiriel PG, 1K
Everyone knew that Captain America must have at least one bad habit. Somewhere. Surely. But it still came as a surprise.
Recs 12/28/2016
Competently Incompetent - Era_Penn PG, <1K, GEN
The Stark name was relatively small when Howard was alive; sure, they were known, but it was Tony who built up their empire. People tend to forget that, and he likes it that way. Too bad the Avengers didn't think about that when they sat down to a game of Monopoly.
❤See You In Homeroom - copperbadge PG-13, 2K
Tags: GEN, Friendship
Rhodey wants heat-seeking bullets, Steve wants to go for a run, Natasha wants french toast, and Tony just wants to be prom queen.
******
there's a michael jackson song about this - Bundibird PG-13, Post-IM3/CATWS
It starts out as a joke.
Rhodey takes one look at Tony and Harley tinkering with and squabbling over some piece of tech and demands, “Since when do you have a kid?” and Harley glances up and says casually, without missing a beat, “He impregnated my mom eleven years ago and then left her to raise me alone. He’s a terrible person.”
Tony’s going to be laughing about Rhodey’s expression for MONTHS.
❤Leader of the Pack - windscryer PG-13, 2K+
Tags: GEN, Hurt!Steve, Steve+Tony Friendship, Phase Two Compliant
During a fight, Steve goes down and Tony has to step up. It’s about as hard as he expected it to be (which is not hard at all) but he’d still rather never have to do that again, is that understood, Steven?
❤Jammin' Down the Pedal Like He's Never Coming Back - windscryer PG-13, 20K
Tags: GEN, Friendship, BAMF!Steve, Sick!Tony, Hurt!Steve, Team!fic
Steve doesn’t need a driver’s license while living in New York and going most places by Quinjet or chauffeur, but it would occasionally be useful. And it’s better to have it than not, right? The rest of the Avengers aren’t so sure of that.
AKA five times Steve followed the rules of the road and one time he broke every last one of them. With extreme prejudice.
❤Pennies From Heaven - windscryer PG-13, 4K
Tags: Team!fic, Sick!Tony
Even Tony can't call in sick to life, but he doesn't have to do it all alone either.
❤Your Light Will Guide Me Home - windscryer PG-13, 6K
Tags: GEN, Friendship, Kidnapping, Hurt!Steve, Team!fic
Tony has a broken wrist, a drugged supersoldier, and a kidnapper with delusions of supervillainy who is just competent enough to be annoying. Thank god he's also got some experience with these kinds of things and a team of superheroes waiting for some kind of signal to tell them where to go.
Tentacle Monsters are Usually Bigger - MountainRose PG-13, 8K
Tags: Canon!AU, GEN
Steve and his Avengers find a 'biological sample' held captive in a Hydra lab; It's surprisingly chatty.
Freezer Burn - Domenika Marzione (domarzione) PG-13, 447K+
Tags: GEN, Series, Steve-centric
Steve Rogers: soldier, artist, foodie, friend, heart of the Avengers, and a guy whose past keeps creeping into his present and dictating his future. A series of stories about him and the people he has chosen to build his life around.
❤Nonage - Del_Rion PG-13, 22K
Tags: Kid!Tony, Deaged!Tony
Summary: Loki’s idea of an – unintentional yet effectively hilarious – practical joke is to turn Tony into a 5-year-old. The remaining Avengers soon realize they may not be able to handle the boy-genius. While Thor hunts his brother down in order to turn Tony back to his older self, the rest of the team seeks help from a man who, in the past, was more of a father figure to Tony than Howard Stark himself: Edwin Jarvis.
❤Trusses - szzzt PG-13, 22K, series
Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Hurt!Tony
Tony Stark and the art and science of hard knocks. (Also, the team thing, when did that happen?)
And the Sky is Grey - Teyke PG-13, 24K
Tags: GEN, Hurt!Steve, PTSD
Steve hates the cold. Tony loves to mock him about this – or so Steve thinks. Clint remembers cold nights in Afghanistan and buys everybody else a clue.
A Garden Grows in Manhattan (at the top of Avengers Tower) - Sholio pg, 12k
Bucky and Pepper make a garden. Set post-Winter Soldier.
Culture and Other Balls of Twine - LithiumDoll pg, 17K
“Okay, I realize this could appear to be poorly conceived - to those of limited vision - but what you have to understand is, I’ve actually just had the greatest, most outstanding idea ever.” Tony’s eyes searched heavenward and then he nodded soberly. “Yes, I believe history will consider this my triumph.”
Coulson Lives, but the Avengers might be the death of him. - NiennaNir PG, 252K, series
These are related stories in which Coulson is a BAMF, Natasha has a twisted sense of humor, Steve struggles to grasp the 21st century and Tony buys things.
Purple Converse - cat_77 PG, 32K
Tags: Team!fic, De-aged, Protective!Tony, Action
If asked, none of them could have claimed to have had exceptionally stellar childhoods. With the help of an overprotective handler, an extraterrestrial au pair, and a billionaire sugar daddy, maybe things would be different this time around.
❤Just A Rather Very Intelligent System - DarkestSight (Daylight) PG-13, 18K
Tags: Hurt!Tony, Team!fic, Mission
Five times Jarvis took control of the Iron Man armour without the other Avengers finding out and one time they did.
❤The Dawn of That Last Great Day - ignipes PG, 13K
The Winter Soldier has a mission: kill Captain America.
❤All The Leaves Are Brown (And the sky is gray) - AvocadoLove PG-13, 17K
Tags: Canon!AU, GEN (Mostly)
The Winter Soldier's mission is nearly complete. Howard and Maria Stark are dead, leaving him to dispatch their four-year-old child. One quick twist of the neck is all it will take, but the Soldier finds he cannot do it.
So instead of killing Tony Stark, the Winter Soldier takes him away to raise as his own.
Creation-Connection - icarus_chained PG-13, 15K, Series
The series with Tony-and-his-AIs being badass and protective of each other. *grins* Because Dummy and JARVIS need more love.
A.I.s and Lullabies - Echo PG, 21K
Tags: Deaged!Tony
Tony is suddenly a quiet, wary five year old boy. The rest of the team are less than completely sure about what to do about that.
Like Today Never Happened - Nefhiriel PG-13, 52K
Tags: Hurt!Steve, Skinny!Steve, Protective!Team, Team fic
No one should be able to just steal Captain America's health. The Avengers are all agreed on that. And yet there Steve is: stuck in a hospital bed with a whole slew of medical issues - and nothing about this is remotely okay.
They've got to make this right. They've got to fix this. It's just going to take a while.
OR
Steve is reverted to his pre-serum state, and the Avengers deal with the fallout.
Isn't This Nice? - cat_77 PG-13, 14K
Tags: Team fic
Escorting three politicians to a SHIELD-sponsored meeting goes horribly wrong, as these things are wont to do.
Selective Service - Kroki_Refur PG-13, 10K
Tags: Team!fic, Hurt!Steve, Protective!Team
The serum's given Steve a lot, but it hasn't taken anything away from him. Not even the things he never wanted in the first place.
❤From here to infinity - everythingispoetry PG-13, 17K
Tags: Canon!AU, Team!fic, GEN, Friendship, Hurt!Tony
Summary: In a world where superheroes are still secret, Steve walks past a homeless man every morning on his way to work.Then they save the world together - but it's not enough.
All destinations approximate - jonesandashes, pollyrepeat PG-13, 17K
Tags: GEN, Friendship, Humor, Villains
Summary: “Jarvis, please refrain from killing me. I’m coming in to look at you.”
Phil Coulson is not a crazy cat lady - nyargles PG-13, 28K
Tags: GEN, Humor, Team fic, AU
An AU where the Avengers are not a superhero team, but rather a group of cats that Phil Coulson owns and brings in to the SHIELD offices.
❤Arc Tremors - MountainRose PG-13, 125K
Tags: Hurt!Tony, Hurt/Comfort, Team!fic, POV (Tony), GEN
Tony's light had flickered out in the aftermath of the fight with the Chitauri, but his team was there and, hey, he'd just been to space, give a guy some slack. The next morning they accepted, but when he collapses weeks later, they're not going to let him brush it off again, and neither is JARVIS.
❤Problem Child - TGP PG, 64K, WIP
Tags: Bucky/Steve, Kid!Tony, Canon AU, Time Travel
Two weeks after Steve wakes up, a kid hacks SHIELD and sets every computer to blast AC/DC at random. Now Steve's looking after Howard's get and an evil alien is attacking the world. This is the best day ever. Really. Steve might just find a way to go back in time and punch Howard in the face.
Coulson's Eleven - copperbadge PG, 32K
Tags: Canon!AU, GEN
After Vanko destroyed the Stark Expo, SHIELD instituted a Superhuman Detention program, designed to capture and hold dangerous people -- dangerous people like Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, and others who made themselves noticeable. The superhumans SHIELD has imprisoned -- and some SHIELD agents themselves -- have other ideas about what constitutes 'dangerous'…
Affection - MaidenofIron157 PG-13, 17K
Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Hurt!Tony, Team!fic
Five times Tony Stark's exhaustion gets the better of him, and the one time someone decides it's time he use an actual bed.
Minor Disasters (Or Reasons Why Tony Can't Work When He's Sick) - Ocean_Born_Mary PG, 14K, Series
Tags: Pre-Slash, GEN, Hurt!Tony, Hurt/Comfort
Keurigs, demi-gods, Not-Colds...how could it possibly go wrong?
In Visibility - cat_77 PG-13, 14K
Tags: GEN, Hawkeye-centric, Team!fic
He was used to slinking in shadows, hidden from sight. This was just ridiculous, really.
❤Closing the Circuit - AlchemyAlice PG-13, 14K
Tags: Post-CATWS, Team!fic
SHIELD's down, Captain America's AWOL, and on the whole, things are kind of FUBAR. On the other hand, Tony might have some semblance of a plan.
❤Intersecting Lines - Nefhiriel PG-13, 29K, Series
Tags: GEN, Post-CATWS, Hurt!Steve, Protective!Bucky, Team!fic
A series of post-CA:TWS freeform stories with an emphasis on feels, the Avenger's as a loyal team unit, Sam as an awesome new addition, and a general disregard for pesky things that get in the way of my rabid need for H/C. (In other words: I needed therapy after that movie, and this is how I coped.)
❤Perspective - Red_Tigress PG-13, 11K
Tags: De-Age, Tony's Unhappy Childhood, Team!fic, GEN, Kid!Tony
Tony reverts back to his eight-year old self for a few days. Everyone gains some new perspective. But when Tony changes back, he has to have some heart to heart talks with his teammates.
❤❤Bargaining by proantagonist PG-13, 110K
Tags: Post-TDW, Time Travel, FAMILY!LOVE, GEN, Jotun!Loki
Summary: Faced with an eternity without his brother, Loki strikes a bargain to change the past. Post TDW.
Run - ashinan R, 12K
Tags: Kidnapping, Hurt!Tony
Usually the kidnapping scenario goes as follows: beaten up a bit, demands are made, Tony snarks, Avengers eventually help save. But this - this darkness, this arena filled with mechanical monsters, is not Tony's usual stint. He has no idea if the Avengers are coming for him and no one is making demands. It's just him versus machine.
Somebody's hero - EternalSheWolf PG, 7K, Series
Tags: GEN, Hurt!Tony, Protective!Avengers, Friendship
Tony Stark is six when he learns that nobody will come for him. If he wants to be rescued, he’ll have to take care of it himself.
The Sky and Everything Beneath It - jibrailis pg, 7K
Steve goes on a road trip to clear his head, but the other Avengers won't leave him alone.
The Joke - Imbecamiel PG, 7K
Steve's not usually oblivious - far from it, in fact. But he does have his moments. Like when he didn't realize that the team was actually serious when they talked about Mjolnir being a magical weapon that only Thor could lift.
When We Were Smaller - 27dragons PG-13, 6k
Tags: canon!au
Imagine a BAMF kid!Tony and a dangerous/protective!Bucky (the how, where and why can be your design) trying to get back home/to the Avengers/some place safe.
❤Epilogue - copperbadge PG, 7K
Tags: Post-Avengers
After the fighting is over, then come the hot baths, ice packs, resurrection from the dead, political maneuvering, and happy endings (not like that, Tony).
❤Another Bizarre and Thankless Situation - vain_glorious PG-13, 5K
Tags: Kidnapping, Mission
Hostages 101: If you kill them first, no one is going to do what you say."
Film Studies, or, Four Films About Captain America and One By Him - copperbadge PG-13, 7K
Steve Rogers is no stranger to the silver screen.
Of Course He Remembers Meredith - Wandering_Swain G, 5K
Tags: Crossover: Guardians of the Galaxy
You don't forget the woman with space age daydreams who broke into your father's press conferences in leopard skin pants and Blue Swede t-shirts throughout the early 1980's. Or at least Tony Stark doesn't.
Trust - Wordsplat PG-13, 5K
Tags: Domestic Avengers, GEN
Bruce Banner is very careful where he places his trust, but he's a loyal man to those who've earned it.
Scar Tissue - cat_77 PG, 4K
Tags: GEN, Team!fic
They all have it, to varying levels.
running to keep in the same place - alt3r3go PG, 3K
Tags: GEN, Hurt/Comfort, Pre-slash
Tony's the only one of them who has to wrangle two jobs and he's rapidly running of time for, like, everything.
and if there's life we'll see it - irnan pg, 3k
Steve is instantly taken with this idea of having the picture of the person calling you flash on your screen when they ring your cell.
Black AmEx - copperbadge pg, 4K
Bruce isn't sure he wants to use a credit card Tony gave him. Steve isn't sure he even knows how.
The Good, the Bad and the Fluffy - newredshoes PG, 2k
That time Tony gave Bucky a therapy llama.
well, let the drum beat drop - jonesandashes, pollyrepeat PG, 4K
Pepper leaves, and there’s no more pizza, and Thor’s already talked about Jane, and Tony suspects all of them realize, abruptly and simultaneously, that they actually have no idea what to do now. He is, in fact, pretty certain that they’re just a few minutes away from someone deciding to say something about the weather. It’s probably going to be him.
❤Independence Day - Kroki_Refur PG-13, 3K
Tags: Steve+Tony Friendship
It's not that Tony doesn't want to celebrate Steve's birthday -- it's just that he doesn't actually know when it is.
❤In the Company of Friends - DarkestSight (Daylight) PG, 6K
Tags: Arc Reactor, Team!fic, Protective!Team, Hurt/Comfort
Tony wakes up feeling like crap and finds himself longing for the time he lived alone and it was a lot easier to get a simple cup of coffee.
❤The Cyborg Arm Job - copperbadge PG, 7K
Tags: Bucky!, Crossover: Leverage
The Leverage crew run into a new friend, find some buried treasure, and fight some Nazis. It's a pretty good day.
Tunnel - Silverlace_Vine PG, 3K
Tags: Team!fic
Steve is trapped underground after a building collapses on top of the team; he struggles to escape, knowing the others are dead.
Pass Me By, I'll Be Fine - lucdarling PG-13, 2K
Tags: Post-Avengers, GEN
Clint is a penitent tool, traveling the world on orders from above his paygrade. It's the least he deserves.
❤Generation Gap - JeziBelle PG, 2K
Tags: Friendship (Steve + Tony)
A lot has changed since Steve Rogers hit the ice. A lot has changed since he woke up. A lot more than just which Stark is repairing his equipment.
❤You’ll Find the Bright Places - BlackEyedGirl PG-13, 5K
Tags: Team!fic, Deaged!Team, Kid!fic
Fury temples his fingers together. “Tell me how this started?” Phil tries to give a reasonable report of today's incident. As he spent most of his day trying to keep grade-school aged versions of his team away from a team of gunmen, he has only limited success.
That Which Sustains Me - windscryer PG-13, 2K
Tags: Team!fic, Hurt!Tony
The villain of the week thinks he's found the Avengers weakest link.
When will they ever learn?
❤Six Times The Avengers Stopped An Alien Invasion - Closer PG-13, 3K
Sure, the Avengers are strong, but they're also not stupid. When aliens invade, they usually have a plan.
❤Soft Skills - Lady_Ganesh PG-13, 4K
The team tries to bring Steve Rogers into the 21st Century. It mostly works.
Operation Extraction - Cluegirl PG, 2K
Tags: IM3
Far be it from Tony Stark to educate SHIELD Medical on any particular details, but it just so happened that it was totally possible to make a stable boot cast out of common office supplies.
❤Crime Deterrent - Epiphanyx7 PG-13, 3K
The Starkphone has the longest battery life of any phone on the market, the most high-quality camera, the most free games, the largest internal memory, the only mobile spectrometer, and is made from the highest percentage of recyclable materials,” Tony says.
Dear Clint Barton (circa age 7) - pollyrepeat PG-13, 4K
Tags: Deaged!Clint
The most annoying parts of being de-aged (and then re-aged) are your friends.
❤Near-Death Experience with a Side of Shawarma - Zinnith PG-13, 2K
Tags: Post-Avengers, Hurt!Tony
The battle is over and Tony is fine. Really, he is.
project adulthood - irnan PG, 6K
Tags: Hurt!Steve, Hurt!Tony, Team!fic
"I've been thinking," said Bruce quietly. "The day HQ was attacked. Tony and I were at that R&D meeting we usually skip."
"Yes," said Steve. "Nat said that."
"Well," said Bruce. "Usually, on a Friday, when we skip the R&D meeting, we arrive at HQ around the time that bomb went off."
❤Hold on to What You've Got - Nefhiriel PG-13, 2K
Tags: Team!fic
It just happened sometimes. Spontaneous group hugging. They were entitled to it.
❤Under Fire - antigrav_vector PG-13, <1K
Tags: Protective!Steve, Team!fic
Summary: The Helicarrier is attacked. Steve responds.
Four times an Avenger met Bucky and didn't know who he was, and one time they were all introduced. - Odsbodkins PG-13, 4K
Tags: GEN, Bucky, Post-CATWS
What it says on the tin. In which Tony is kidnapped, Clint is a fangirl, Bruce sees echoes of the past and Thor is Thor.
❤He Ain't Heavy - MusicalLuna PG-13, 7K, Series
Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Team!fic
None of them is invulnerable. The first in a series of hurt/comfort fics featuring the Avengers team.
Fifteen Short Stories About Teamwork - BlackEyedGirl PG-13, 5K
Tags: Team!fic, Post-Avengers
They've made a start. There's still a lot to learn about each other. [Post movie, spoilers]
❤Long Lost Pal - cat_77 PG-13, 7K
Tags: Hurt!Tony
An injured Tony feels no need to change his routine. His team begs to differ.
Seasonal Requisites - MusicalLuna PG-13, 3K
Tags: Holiday: Christmas
It's a PR event.
Life to a Soul - SomeTorist PG-13, 3K
Tags: GEN, Pre-Slash
Few people ever see inside Tony Stark; fewer can stomach what they find; next to no one claims to still like him afterwards. So Tony hides, closing all the doors and battening down the hatches, using charm and confidence as armor when he's not in the suit.
To Tony's horror, Steve somehow manages to see inside him anyway.
❤Job Description - laylabinx PG-13, 5K
Tags: Hurt!Steve, Hurt/Comfort, Friendship
Steve is injured. Tony helps clean him up. They have a heart-to-heart in an empty lab. No slash, just bromance :D Oh, and lots of h/c!
❤Timers and Batteries PG-13, 7K
Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Hurt!Steve, GEN
Months after Loki's defeat, Captain America is injured in battle, and Iron Man comes to a new realization about the leader of the Avengers.
❤Even Gods Do - Cluegirl PG, 8K
Tags: GEN, Hurt!Steve, Protective!Avengers, Team!fic
Captain America doesn't have a good relationship with sleep anymore. Also, he's not a toy.
❤Fully Qualified - 27dragons, sara_holmes PG, 3K
Tags: Team!fic, GEN, Humor
SHIELD thinks the Avengers need to learn to work together. Fury thinks Coulson is the man for the job. Coulson thinks he is not paid enough for this shit.
❤Secure Your Own Oxygen Mask (Before Assisting Others) - Nefhiriel PG, 3K
Tags: Hurt!Steve, Hurt/Comfort, Team!fic
Steve keeps going, because they need him. Being Captain America - having the serum - is a responsibility and a privilege he takes seriously, and he won't waste it by sitting around resting in the middle of a crisis.But then the work is over, and the original victims of the crisis aren't the only ones needing looking after.
❤Shanghai Dangerous - Red_Tigress PG-13, 7K
Tags: IM3, Team!fic, Hurt!Tony, BAMF!Everyone
Clint and Natasha meet up with Tony in Shanghai. Not on purpose. But A.I.M. also shows up, so they just have to put their differences aside and deal.
❤Under My Skin - Zelos (Zelus) PG-13, 2K
Tags: Near Death Experience, Team!fic, Hurt!Steve
“He's lucky – to have the serum, to have you all.” Tony wasn't sure about that first part. When one faced death and destruction every day on the job, there were many advantages to having a healing factor...and a great many disadvantages as well.
❤ Undercover - Red_Tigress PG-13, 8K
Tags: Action, Mission!fic, Hurt!Tony
Natasha never breaks cover. Never.
❤Friday the 13th - Red_Tigress PG, 8K
Tags: Team!fic, Hurt!Tony, GEN
Tony Stark claims he's cursed. The other Avengers maintain it's just him.
❤ Walking Wounded - Nefhiriel PG-13, 3K
Tags: Post-Avengers, Hurt!Steve, Hurt/Comfort, Steve-centric
In the aftermath of the battle against the Chitauri, Steve's doing just fine. Until he's not. Fortunately, Thor is a perfect mother-hen, Tony makes decent back-up, JARVIS is a genius, and Soap Operas are life-changing.
(Or, Post-Shawarma Feels.)
❤If I Die Before I Wake - windscryer GEN, 7K
Tags: Hurt!Steve, Team!fic, Protective!Steve, Torture
It's his job, as their leader, to endure the sadistic focus of their captor, and that is the one thought that carries Steve through.
❤Side Effects PG-13, 5K
Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Hurt!Steve, GEN
The super-soldier serum really should have come with a Surgeon General's warning, Tony decided bitterly
In Great Transition - vain_glorious PG, 3K
Tags: Team fic
One by one, the Avengers move into Stark Tower.
Demolition for Dummies - icarus_chained PG, 2K
Tags: Team fic, Hurt!Tony
Tony collapses a building on himself. His team (including JARVIS) are not happy about this.
Blue Sky Holiday - Nefhiriel PG, 8K
Tags: Hurt!Steve, Team fic
In which there are Stink ‘Bots, coffee stains, wardrobe malfunctions (no, not like that), Tony’s sense of humor is adolescent (yup, exactly like that), reporters show no mercy when it comes to superheroes and their vices - and sometimes even super soldiers need Band-Aids and hugs. Also, bacon is the ultimate deus ex machina, and you can’t go wrong with The Princess Bride for therapy.
Or: It’s all fun and games until Captain America has a meltdown.
Deprivare - cat_77 PG-13, 1K
Tags: Team fic
He had survived far more intense situations in the past. He just usually wasn't quite as naked when he did.
There's No I in Team (It's Busy Being Used in Fine) - cat_77 (PG-13, 3K
Tags: Hurt!Clint, Team fic
If you ask him, he's fine. Which is precisely why they are not asking.
Lines and Shadow - justanotherStonyfan PG, 5K
Tags: Pre-slash, Friendship, Artist!Steve, PTSD (Steve)
Steve loses his sketchbook. Tony finds it.
Memento - Moiraine PG, 9K
Tags: GEN
Clint has two polaroid pictures carefully hidden in his room.
Something Good to Die For (To Make it Beautiful to Live) - blackkat PG, 3K
Six people Tony thought Yinsen would have liked, and one person Yinsen really did.
Finite - cat_76 PG-13, 2K
Tags: Hurt!Tony, Team!fic
It was right and logical and the math, as always, worked. That, at least, was something he could rely on when all else failed.
Just Gotta Get Right Out of Here - cat_77 PG-13, 4K
Tags: GEN, Hawkeye-centric, Team!fic
Kidnapped, stripped, and left without one of his senses - this day went firmly into the "suck" column of his life.
Protected - cat_77 PG-13, 4K
Tags: GEN, Hawkeye-centric, Team!fic
Protect - to keep safe from injury or harm.
Added Tension - Red_Tigress PG, 1K
Tags: IM3
Tony Stark has to dive to the bottom of the Hudson during a battle. Slight spoilers for Iron Man 3.
Comrades - Nefhiriel PG, 6K
Tags: Team!fic
Five times Thor defended his friends from people who should've been on their side, and one time his friends defended him.
❤Protocol 1985 - hollimichele PG, 5K
Tags: GEN, Time Travel
“Holy crow, it worked,” someone says.
Five Times Tony Hid Throughout His Life (And One Time He Didn’t) - AngeNoir PG, 6K
Tags: GEN, Friendship, Sick!Tony, Hurt/Comfort
Illness is a private affair, one that Tony deals with as effectively as he always deals with self-care - as in, not at all. He sends pretty much everyone who looks for him during his times of sickness into mild or major panic, depending.
Small Ones - determamfidd PG, 5K
Tags: GEN, Baby Avengers
A fight with Amora the Enchantress leaves the Avengers... a little altered. Hulk isn't very impressed with this turn of events. Neither, as it turns out, is Bruce.
Give You Shelter - MusicalLuna PG-13, <1K
Tony doesn't really understand what Steve's doing.
Not What I Meant to Do - MusicalLuna R, 1K
Tags:Hurt!Tony, GEN, Team fic
Tony doesn't like to make a fuss when he gets hurt. He just wants to lick his wounds in private and get back to it. The Avengers have other ideas.
Relief - kuro PG, <1K
Tags: Fluff, GEN, Hurt!Tony, Pre-slash
Tony has a migraine attack. The Avengers mistake it for a hangover. (And Steve might have some secret skills nobody knows about.)
Smiley Sunshine Daycare - starspangledsprocket PG, 2K
Tags: GEN, AU
Steve runs a daycare along with Peggy, Angie, Sam and Bucky. Loki's first day is hard on everyone.
Kidnapping is a Bad Thing, Tony - EternalSheWolf PG, 7K, Series
Tags: GEN, Kidnapping, Team fic, Hurt!Tony, Tony's Unhappy Childhood
Tony Stark is six when he learns that nobody will come for him. If he wants to be rescued, he’ll have to take care of it himself.
The Fortified Road. - Eshnoazot PG, 1K
Tags: GEN, Hurt!Steve
But out of all the Avengers, they don’t expect Steve to fall first.
Secondhand - Nefhiriel PG, 1K
Everyone knew that Captain America must have at least one bad habit. Somewhere. Surely. But it still came as a surprise.