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2020 fic recs!! [Part 2]

part 2 of my 2020 fic recs!! as before, ive limited this to five fics per month; and fics are ordered by the month they were published. This spans fandoms and ships, and hopefully you find something you like!! credit for the idea goes to @iam93percentstardust

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July

this is the start: @capnwinghead

Clark and Bruce continue raising the Wayne children and encounter a number of challenges along the way.

great minds (love alike): @starklysteve

Steve’s eyes flicks down to Tony’s knees on the floor.

“Are you – are you proposing to me with my ring for you?” Steve asks incredulously, eyes wide and confused.

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Or, Steve finds Tony’s ring for him, Tony finds Steve’s ring for him. Panic happens.

Marvels Unsolved: @iam93percentstardust

Marvels Unsolved was never supposed to be this popular. It started off as a novelty web-series about Tony trying to convince Bucky about the existence of the supernatural—he firmly believed that if science could turn Uncle Steve from an actual shrimp to the god of muscles, then magic had to be out there—and then they’d started talking about an unsolved crime from the early 20th century after filming an episode one day, forgetting that the camera was still rolling, and had ended up with enough footage to make a second episode about real crimes. They had stayed pretty unknown throughout that first season but then true crime podcasts had exploded in popularity and Unsolved along with them.

it’s a small world after all: @maguna-stxrk

“Great speech.”

Smiling at the compliment, Tony turns around. “Thank y—”

And nearly drops his champagne flute.

His world comes to a stop.

They had only spent a night together, but Tony would recognize those baby blues anywhere.

It’s Steve.

Steve from Tony’s London business trip. Or, as Rhodey has become accustomed to calling him—The Soulmate That Got Away.

you’re in my blood, you’re in my veins: @nethandrake

Tony always figured that if they ever were to break up, it would be like a blaze. Scorching and hot and all-too blinding. Intense like the two of them have always been.

Instead, they break up on a Tuesday, with the rain pelting the windowpane and the midnight silence stifling.

August

Five Times Danny said he’d marry Steve (plus one): @five-wow

Danny humphs. “Look, all I’m saying is, I think I’d probably have married you by now.”

“I’d marry you, too,” Steve says.

Or: An experiment in how many times you can say something before you have to put your money where your mouth is.

Family (You’ve Always Had It): @/SunnyQueen

A black Camaro and a scowling blond was not what Junior had been expecting.

“Hi, sir. You didn’t have to pick me up.”

The blond looked up from the screen on his phone and groaned, completely ignoring Junior's statement. “You are right, I didn't have to."

Ode To Yoga Pants: @riotfalling

OR the continued terrible mating dance of Bucky and Tony, AKA when betting on your friends stops being fun

Through The Years: @hawkbucks

Tony brings home Natasha one day, proclaiming her to be his new sister.

Natasha takes this all in stride.

The broken road that led me home to you: @just-fandomthings

A documented list of conversations between Steve and Danny via text and phone call following the events of 10x22 "Aloha." (Where, even thousands of miles apart, Steve and Danny can't go without talking to each other.)

September

someday, we’ll pass it on to you: @starklysteve

Steve smiles.

Reaching up, he flattens his hand against his son’s far smaller one, curling gently around it. “You wanna be like him?”

“Da!” Peter agrees again.

One year old, and you already know who’s the best of us, Steve pauses to reflect, all his fears chased away by a fierce pride. “Your Dad’s coming home real soon,” he promises, “you should tell him that.”

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Or, five times Peter did the repulsor pose as a toddler

+ one time he used the repulsors as an adult

Classic Sci Fi: @notdoingsohot

Bucky wakes up to Steve telling him he's lost his memory, but not to panic, it'll only last a few days. Easier said than done when the last thing Bucky remembers is fighting Hydra with the Howlies in WWII.

He tries to make the most of it however, and there's this guy... Tony Stark. It's pretty clear the guy hates Bucky's guts, which is unfortunate because god damn is he a sight.

He tries to figure out what he did to wrong Stark, but everyone just tells him he doesn't want to know.

They were right.

Blooms in Frost: @/Diomedes

Tony coughs up his first petal on the sixth of July. He has been married to the love of his life for two years.

Bury a Hanahaki corpse in earth and it will beget the most beautiful garden. All that love, it is said, must go somewhere.

Hanahaki AU: Established relationship

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A Single Thread of Gold: @lovelyirony

Rhodey doesn't believe in love at first sight or any of that cheesy shit. He just wants someone who is nice, dependable, and safe.

Tony Stark is Housing Service's little problem for the school year, and now he's stuck in Rhodey's room because he's exploded the last two dorm rooms he's been in and won't live off-campus.

high roller, place your bet: @machi-kun

“Would you kiss Stark for a hundred bucks?”

“I would pay a hundred bucks to kiss him.”

October

press my luck: @omg-just-peachy

But... Steve is almost ten years his junior, and he could be with just about anyone, looking and acting like he does. And then there’s the not so small fact of Tony’s name and net worth and the fact that, okay, Tony had paid for Steve’s grad school tuition, and now he’s worried Steve feels obligated to stay. Or something.

Or, Tony is a billionaire, Steve is a grad student, and they learn to let themselves be taken care of.

see it with the lights out: @starklysteve

Tony goes on a business trip, and he does not - not at all - get jealous of Dodger hogging his husband's chest, a territory otherwise known as Tony's pillow.

(or, Steve goes on an Instagram spree and Tony misses home)

adulthood is looking both ways before you cross the street and getting hit by an airplane: @starkslovemail

It was a perfect plan, if Peter did say so himself.

The Buy In: @dracusfyre

For the ImagineTonyandBucky prompt: Mafia AU with Tony as the Boss (except he's a really good one, making the streets safe, keeping drugs away from kids etc) and Bucky as the detective sent to go undercover to catch him out but ends up realizing he's actually doing more good than harm and they end up falling in love

trinkets of your affection: @starklysteve

Kissed him once for every year I loved him, Steve had written.

By that count, Steve owes him five more kisses now.

Tony traces the words, hands trembling, and tips back a shot of Howard's ancient whiskey. None of it burns anymore.

One day, he'll have lived more days without Steve than there are words in the diary.

For the first time since he'd woken with shrapnel in his chest, Tony fears the future.

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Or, five things Tony keeps to remember Steve by, and one thing Steve gives him to remember.

November

“Hey Tony”: @riotfalling

Steve points out that Bucky never calls Tony by his actual name. Bucky doesn’t believe him, until he does.

Remembering You is Hard to Do: @lovelyirony

“The future’s crazy, honey-bear.”

Jim looks up.

“Why do you call me that?”

“Call you what?”

“Honey-bear. It’s weird.”

“Inside joke we have,” Tony says, chest tightening. “We thought those couples that have the lovey-dovey nicknames were ridiculous.”

overheard your heartbeat (calling me yours): @starklysteve

"Tony - "

"I wish I could promise to come home this time," he feels the armor crawl back down his arm, continuing unnoticed over Steve's red gloves, then up the blue uniform as Tony fights to keep Steve's gaze firmly fixed on him.

The last eyes Tony might get to see, and he wants to be lost in them.

In the end, his entire life boils down a few simple things: "JARVIS, take care of him for me."

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Or, Tony overhears a phonecall where Steve proposes, a battle happens, and a paper ring settles some misunderstandings.

i (really, really, really, really, really, really) like you.: @nethandrake

For as long as Steve can remember, he's been crushing on Tony Stark. The thing is, he's pretty sure Tony doesn't know Steve exists. And how could he? Steve's scrawny and little. He's a nobody compared to Tony who's Mr Popular and the son of a billionaire.

Or at least he thought so until Tony swings by the bakery Steve's mother happens to own to enlist Steve's help in finding the perfect Valentine's Day card.

The perfect Valentine's Day card for someone who isn't Steve.

One Song (My Heart Keeps Singing): @iam93percentstardust

When Thor is old enough to understand what a Heartsong is, he goes to his mother to ask her why he can’t understand the language his is in. He listens as she tells him about the first soulmates who couldn't understand their Heartsong until the day they meet, excited by the thought of a grand adventure, one that will take him across the cosmos in search of his One.

He’ll search all the Nine Realms if he has to.

December

Swiping Right: @s-horne

“Ouch. Definitely a hard pass for that one?”

Steve startled at the sudden comment from the row of chairs behind him and turned around. He’d been passing the time in the airport lounge by swiping through Tinder and had gotten lost in his own world. It was almost jarring to be pulled away from the screen of hot men and back into reality where the PA was screeching and there was noise everywhere.

Adjusting to the difference, Steve frowned. Wait, he knew that face. Oh, shit… he knew that face.

“No, no, it’s fine,” the man said before Steve could get out anything other than an embarrassed sort of yelp. Waving his hand through the air, the stranger smiled ruefully. “I get it. It’s the beard, isn’t it? True be told, it was a weird winter choice that year and I knew it would come back to hurt me.”

Steve didn’t know what to say. He knew it must have shown on his face and could feel himself flushing, panicked and embarrassed all at once. What were the odds of swiping left on someone literally sat behind him?

set your flight path home (to me): @starklysteve

Tony puts down his welding torch. “I’m building you a plane.”

Stepping carefully over the gears and tools scattered about, Rhodey slowly makes his way to him.

“And when did you become an expert on how to build a plane?”

“Last night,” Tony grins.

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Tony builds a plane, and Rhodey teaches Tony how to fly it. Or he would be teaching Tony, if Tony didn't distract him so much.

I Want A Man With A Slow Hand: @thefourofswords

“Can I ask you a question?” he asked on their way to a crime scene, because no time like the present, and Danny believed in ripping off band-aids.

“Why not?” Steve replied, eyes on the road. “You’re gonna even if I say no.”

“What do you like in bed?”

Danny undertakes a very important mission to get Steve laid. For his health. Ahem.

same time next year: @omg-just-peachy

“I forgot to ask. When’s your flight home?” Steve asks, draping his arm over Tony’s shoulder and settling in against him.

Tony ignores the knot that forms in his chest at the idea of it, leaving Steve again for his own impersonal apartment, his piles of books and projects and the nights without sleep.

“Day after tomorrow.”

Steve huffs a little sigh, then brings his lips to Tony’s neck. “Well, we’ll have to make the most of it, won’t we?”

Or, four (4) Christmases with two (2) idiots who can't admit they're in love.

rearrange my heart (to fit your smile): @starklysteve

"You dare," Howard's chair makes an ugly noise as it scrapes against the stone floors, the chatter of the room shifting into hushed whispers and stolen glances. "I am your father and your King!"

"My King is my husband," Tony tips his chin up, defiant. "And I refuse to hear you suggest that my husband has been anything other than good to me."

Next to him, he feels Steve's shoulders stiffen in surprise.

Howard's fist slams loud on the table. "Your husband does not even love you!"

Tony jerks back, burned. He knows that. Knows that Steve did not marry him for love – does not need any reminder of the cold truth, of what he desperately yearns for and can't even hope to have – but the harshness of Howard's words was scalding, and Tony can't afford for this to go any further.

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Or, King Steven marries Prince Tony, Tony is pretty sure he shouldn't panic when he falls in love with his own husband, and Steve tries his very best not to cause diplomatic crises.

Keyword: try

#adi's rec list #superbat #superhusbands #winterironfalcon #mcdanno #buckytony #peppernat #superfamily #rhodeytony #ironfamily #and that's a wrap!!!

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musetotheworld · 6 years

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Hey, I know your link thing says you're always taking prompts, so I thought I'd send this your way hoping that's still the case! Anything Supercat and baby related? There's always a need for more of that in the world.

Kara nearly breaks the balcony in her haste to land, desperate to get inside. She’d been part way through her patrol when the distant sounds caught her attention, and she’d only barely managed to keep from breaking the sound barrier on the way home. Only the knowledge that would be far too risky for her identity kept her in check. There’s too much at stake now to ever take that chance.

“Cat?” Kara calls as soon as she’s inside, not bothering to change from her suit. She knows the rules, but this is an extenuating circumstance. She needs to hurry. “Cat, where are you?”

“In here.”

There’s no panic in Cat’s voice to match Kara’s, but that’s not reassuring. Not when Kara can still hear the rasping breaths in the background.In a flash she’s standing in the door of the nursery. Cat is sitting comfortably in the rocking chair, little Mia in her arms. But where Cat is calm, rocking slowly as she holds their daughter, Mia is red faced and fussy. Her breathing sounds off, raspy and uneven, loud enough for Kara to hear without her super hearing.

“What happened?” Kara asks, holding herself back to human speed as she crosses the room to kneel by Cat’s side.

As expected Cat levels a mild glare at the suit, but Kara is too focused on the baby in her wife’s arms. Six months old, and the light of her mothers’ lives.

Right now that light is whimpering softly, and Kara raises a gentle hand to trace along her daughter’s brow, brushing a lock of sweat soaked hair back from her eyes.

“Kara, she’s fine,” Cat promises, shifting her hold on Mia just enough to bring a free hand up to meet Kara’s. “She’s got a little cold, nothing serious. I gave her a little children’s Tylenol and sent Carter off for some Pedialyte about ten minutes ago, we’re just waiting for it to kick in.”Kara tries to remind herself that Cat’s been through this before, has raised two sons through the tumultuous time of infancy and into toddlerhood. She knows what a cold looks like, and what to do for one.

But it isn’t as easy to believe that when she’s staring down at their sick child, listening to the way each breath catches in Mia’s lungs. This is her little girl, so tiny and vulnerable in Cat’s arms. Their little girl, who in six months hasn’t had so much as a runny nose.

“Are we sure this is normal?” Kara says quickly, trying to seem concerned but not panicked and knowing she’s failed when Cat smiles knowingly. “I mean, she’s half-Kryptonian. And she hasn’t been sick before, even though you hear all the time about how often babies catch something. Maybe her Kryptonian half has been protecting her and something’s gone wrong.”

“Breathe, darling,” Cat says soothingly, directing their joined hands to rest over Mia’s chest as it rises and falls. “I promise, this is completely normal. We’ve kept her mostly isolated or disinfected everyone coming within twenty feet of her for the past few months, remember? Until last week, when we took her to CatCo to introduce Mia to her future empire.”

Kara remembers that trip, how happy she’d been to show off her beautiful daughter to her coworkers as Cat only half pretended she wasn’t loving every second of it. It had been their first real outing as a family, with Carter alternating between standing near Cat and holding Mia as he whispered every fun fact he could think of about CatCo and what their mother had accomplished.

“Are you saying someone at CatCo got her sick?” Kara asks, thinking back to everyone they’d met that day. They’d passed around hand sanitizer, but maybe that hadn’t been enough…

“I’m saying she’s a baby, and her immune system is about where yours is when you blow out your powers.” Cat’s voice is pointed, bringing back memories of every time Kara pushes too hard and solar flares. Most of the time, unless she’s stuck in the med bay with serious injuries, she catches at least one cold before her powers return.

Kara nods her understanding as she remembers the little details she’d forgotten until now. The little boy on the sidewalk in front of CatCo that had sneezed without quite managing to cover his mouth. The security guard with slightly glassy eyes and a nasal tone. Even the CatCo employees that hadn’t immediately flocked to see the baby could have coughed and spread their germs around. And what wasn’t a big deal to adults with fully functioning immune systems might be an entirely different story to an infant.Even a half-Kryptonian infant.

“I wish we knew more about how her Kryptonian side would affect her.” It’s a common refrain, one they’ve both voiced many times since the surprise discovery of Kara’s pregnancy.

Clark hasn’t had children yet, he and Lois both not sure they want to take that particular step just yet, if ever. But Kara and Cat hadn’t seen any reason to think pregnancy was possible for them, and hadn’t taken any precautions to lessen the chances of conception. There was just too much about Kryptonian physiology on Earth that they didn’t know, a lack that extends to how Mia will react to the yellow sun.

Cat nods in agreement, but there’s a smile on her face rather than a frown to match Kara’s. “We’ve known there would be challenges from the beginning. I don’t know about you, but I’m glad our first big one is a little cold, not Mia suddenly floating out of her crib in the middle of the night.”

“That reminds me, Alex finally finished work on that red sun nursery lamp, so she shouldn’t start that even if she does get powers.”

Alex had taken her role of aunt and godmother extremely seriously since they’d announced Kara’s pregnancy. From ensuring Kara’s medical needs were met to coming up with dozens of helpful tools for dealing with a potentially superpowered toddler, she’d worked nonstop to prepare for every possible contingency. The red sun night light was only the latest invention.

“Tell her we’ll pick it up tomorrow when we visit the DEO,” Cat says quietly, looking down at Mia. Her smile doesn’t fade in the slightest, but Kara still tenses up.

“The DEO? I thought you said everything is fine, why do we need to go to the DEO?” Extending her hearing and carefully X-raying Mia for any sign of trauma, Kara is near panic until Cat reaches out with a calming hand.

“She’s fine, Kara. I promise. But I also know you’ll want confirmation of that, and I can’t handle more than one night of you sleeping next to her crib listening to every breath. So we’ll go in tomorrow morning and let Alex give her a check up.”

Since Kara has to admit Cat has a point, all she does is nod sheepishly. She’d already been planning on spending the night in the nursery, ready to spring into action if Mia so much as coughed. Having scientific proof that their daughter is fine would go a long way towards settling her lingering unease.

“You get used to the panic eventually,” Cat offers as Kara settles into a more comfortable position, leaning her head against Cat’s leg where she can look up at both her wife and daughter. “It won’t go away, but after a while you’ll be able to hold her when she’s sick and not think of the worst things that could happen. And years after that, you’ll even be willing to let her out of your sight for hours and days at a time.”

That seems impossible at the moment, but Kara knows it’s the truth. She knows, because she’s seen Cat do it. Seen her send Carter off to a friend’s for the weekend, felt the tension in her shoulders for a moment as the door closed behind him only to see it fade with the next breath.

Not for the first time, Kara is grateful that of all the people in the world she could be doing this with, she’s lucky enough to have Cat by her side. It’s almost impossible to consider it ever being someone else, not when Cat always knows exactly what to say when Kara needs someone to lean on.

Slowly the rocking and medicine start to help, as to the constant presences of her mothers, and Mia slowly drifts off to sleep in Cat’s arms. Her breathing sounds better, and Kara feels the cold panic in her chest start to relax, finding it easier to draw her own breaths in turn.

“Do you want me to take her?” she asks quietly, having learned the hard way that their daughter is a very light sleeper. If not for the lack of evidence while she’s awake Kara would be certain super hearing was one power she did have.

“No, I’ve got her.” The words are quiet, but spoken quickly enough that Kara looks up in surprise.

Where Cat had looked so calm and in control earlier, now that Mia is asleep Kara can see the edges of worry in her eyes, and is reminded of the earlier warning that the feelings never go away. And while Cat has done this before, that doesn’t make it any easier.

So Kara leaves mother and daughter be, content to sit on the floor beside them and listen as Mia’s breathing gradually eases. Even if they can’t do anything more to help, they can still be there for their little girl. Their little girl, and each other.

#supergirl #supergirl fic #supercat #supercat fic #prompt fill

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