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Straight On Til Morning (gen)
Thor and Jane are having a baby. Tony's conflicted about the whole thing.
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arsenicjade writes the best hurt/comfort and the best Tony voice. It's a wonderful combination. Also, brief section with some of the most deliciously dark and perfect Tony/Pepper ever written. (Plus, if it were on AO3, this would absolutely be tagged with Howard and Maria's A+ Parenting.)
The Goat's Back (gen, AU)
An AU where Steve's essentially a failed experiment, corporal punishment is the predominant form of discipline and team leaders take the punishments for those under them.
Excerpt:
When the military redrew the Disciplinary Guidelines Manual in the late 90s, there had been doubt as to whether the research showing that Special Ops groups would react better to the punishment of their leader than of the individual committing the action in question was accurate. After the first few public whippings, however, the other team members forced to watch, it had proven itself so efficacious that nearly every government agency had adopted the practice for tight-knit, specially skilled teams.
Years later, when the Serum-Enhanced Soldier (SES) program finally admitted defeat due to pervasive inability to control the subjects, almost all of those who had survived the experimentation were either terminated, or given the choice of becoming unit commanders to elite units. Steve has never been able to explain why they even bothered presenting a choice, but he suspects they were simply loathe to completely waste the invested time and money if there was some, any use for the remaining products.
In any event, Steve took the second choice. To this day, he thinks it was probably the wrong one.
Further note: there is also an excellent podfic of this fanfic. It came up on shuffle three times in two days, showing that my iPod shares my love of watching Steve suffer beautifully.
Running On Empty
Steve is always hungry. (Or the care and feeding of one Steve Rogers.)
These Are Better Days
Steve's tried to watch the news, some—he has a lot to catch up on, after all—but sometimes even that's not real. “The Daily Show is funny because it's fake,” Bruce had tried to explain to him. “Fox News is funny because it doesn't know that it's fake.”
They try to be patient with him. He figures, with Thor back in Asgard, he's the closest thing to an alien they've got. But he's stopped watching the news, anyway. It gets old, after a while, when you just keep seeing your own face.
More awesome Steve fic, with bonus touches of Tony/Pepper.
So, after Tony and Steve have ripped your heart out of your chest, stomped on it, shoved it back in your chest and then repeated the whole process, read Contingencies and Clint Barton will take a turn.
Thor and Jane are having a baby. Tony's conflicted about the whole thing.
arsenicjade writes the best hurt/comfort and the best Tony voice. It's a wonderful combination. Also, brief section with some of the most deliciously dark and perfect Tony/Pepper ever written. (Plus, if it were on AO3, this would absolutely be tagged with Howard and Maria's A+ Parenting.)The Goat's Back (gen, AU)
An AU where Steve's essentially a failed experiment, corporal punishment is the predominant form of discipline and team leaders take the punishments for those under them.
Excerpt:
When the military redrew the Disciplinary Guidelines Manual in the late 90s, there had been doubt as to whether the research showing that Special Ops groups would react better to the punishment of their leader than of the individual committing the action in question was accurate. After the first few public whippings, however, the other team members forced to watch, it had proven itself so efficacious that nearly every government agency had adopted the practice for tight-knit, specially skilled teams.
Years later, when the Serum-Enhanced Soldier (SES) program finally admitted defeat due to pervasive inability to control the subjects, almost all of those who had survived the experimentation were either terminated, or given the choice of becoming unit commanders to elite units. Steve has never been able to explain why they even bothered presenting a choice, but he suspects they were simply loathe to completely waste the invested time and money if there was some, any use for the remaining products.
In any event, Steve took the second choice. To this day, he thinks it was probably the wrong one.
Further note: there is also an excellent podfic of this fanfic. It came up on shuffle three times in two days, showing that my iPod shares my love of watching Steve suffer beautifully.
Running On Empty
Steve is always hungry. (Or the care and feeding of one Steve Rogers.)
These Are Better Days
Steve's tried to watch the news, some—he has a lot to catch up on, after all—but sometimes even that's not real. “The Daily Show is funny because it's fake,” Bruce had tried to explain to him. “Fox News is funny because it doesn't know that it's fake.”
They try to be patient with him. He figures, with Thor back in Asgard, he's the closest thing to an alien they've got. But he's stopped watching the news, anyway. It gets old, after a while, when you just keep seeing your own face.
More awesome Steve fic, with bonus touches of Tony/Pepper.
So, after Tony and Steve have ripped your heart out of your chest, stomped on it, shoved it back in your chest and then repeated the whole process, read Contingencies and Clint Barton will take a turn.
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