Marvel Big Bang 2013

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==Avengers and Related Characters: Canon Based==
♠ Title: dirty hands ain't made for shaking
Author name: turtlevenom7
Characters/Pairing: Jessica Drew, Abigail Brand, Carol Danvers (Jessica/Abigail, Jessica/Carol)
Rating: R
Summary: She's not in a good place at the moment. But honestly, neither is the planet as a whole. Following the Skrull Invasion, Jessica Drew, always a woman of contradictions, does two things.
When faced with the uncertainty of what being Spider-Woman really means, she runs. When faced with the reality of maybe being the 'most screwed-over person in the history of the universe', she pretty much just hits things.
She can't be a hero, and she can't be an Avenger. Not right now. But she can take Abigail Brand's offer of a more permanent position at S.W.O.R.D. She can take her revenge.
One lousy alien at a time.
Fanworker name: pinkelephant42
♠ Title: like setting off fire crackers at midnight
Author name:what_alchemy
Characters/Pairing: Steve Rogers/always-a-girl!Bucky Barnes, background Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, The Howling Commandos, The Avengers
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Everyone who knows the Captain America story thinks they know the Bucky Barnes story. In the 21st century, Steve is still keeping Bucky's secrets.
Fanworker name: siehn
♠ Title: Law of Diminished Returns
Author name: daroos
Characters/Pairing: Phil Coulson, Clint Barton, Darcy Lewis, Natasha Romanov, Sif, full cast of Avengers, Jotun, and Asgardians.
Rating: NC-17
Summary: This wasn't at all how Phil imagined coming back from the dead. Between training a new analyst, feeling out brewing trouble in the Earth-Asgard relations, and trying to figure out why his most reliable asset can't stand him any longer, Phil can't make heads or tails of his second chance at life. When Earth-Asgard relations come to a head they leave Phil stuck in the form of his ten-year-old self, Barton transformed into a housecat, and the Asgardian envoy stuck on Earth; everyone has to figure out how to come together and fix things, and the solution may be farther from home than anyone imagined.
Featuring mini!Phil, cat!Barton, an ensemble of Feels (and Jotun), and a journey from a solo to ensemble cast. 20% feels, 30% plot, 20% Asgardians/Jotun, 5% gratuitous mini!fic and 25% character arc by volume
Accompanying Fanwork Artist: nickygabriel
♠ Title: How to Rule the World
Author name: blakefancier
Characters/Pairing: Howard Stark/Steve Rogers, Howard Stark/Maria Stark, Howard Stark/Obadiah Stane, Howard Stark/Others, Peggy Carter, Sam Wilson, Tony Stark
Rating: NC-17
Summary: When Howard lost his company to Obadiah Stane, he also lost his freedom. For over seven years, Obi made his life a living hell. Now that Obi is dead, Howard does his best to fight his way back to some semblance of normalcy. Luckily he has Steve to help him.
Fanworker name: hildestark
♠ Title: My Lost City
Author: elise_509
Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, James "Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers (past), Pepper Potts/Tony Stark
Rating: R
Spoilers: Iron Man Three, AU Spec on Captain America 2: Winter Soldier
Summary: Both Steve and Tony return to Manhattan after their separate missions. While Steve searches for shadows of the New York he knew, Tony tries to overcome his anxiety and re-claim the place that was once his home. As they both attempt to remember how to love their city, they might also learn how to love each other.
Fanworker name: digitalwave
♠ Title: A Painted White Unknown
Author name: arsenicjade
Characters/Pairing: Natasha Romanova/Maria Hill, event Natasha Romanova/Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, background Clint Barton/Phil Coulson
Rating: R
Summary: Natasha doesn't like Maria the first time she meets her. Then things get more complicated.
Fanworker name: 51stcenturyfox
♠ Title: if you wanna fill your bottle up with lightning
Author name: fallenkalina / twistedingenue
Characters/Pairing: Clint Barton/Darcy Lewis, Kate Bishop, Jane Foster
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In the wake of poor life choices involving redheads and red cars, Clint's responsible decision making skills take another header after learning that Dr Foster and Darcy have missed their last few check-ins and winds up driving out to New Mexico with Kate.
Fanworker name: brisbanite / puffabilly
♠ Title: displacement
Author name: zekkass
Characters/Pairing: Steve Rogers/Bruce Banner, Tony Stark.
Rating: NC-17
Summary: "I'm in control," Steve snaps, and it's the worst-case scenario: Bruce can see green beginning to creep up the side of his neck, the color breaking out over his skin like a rash, an ugly, awful rash, and he never wanted to see this. Not this close, and never from the outside.
Fanworker name: holtember
♠ Title: The God Machine
Author name: winterstar95
Characters/Pairings: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Logan/Wolverine, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov (minor), Pepper Potts (minor), Rhodey (minor), Peter Parker (minor), Storm (minor), Reed Richards (Minor) – Steve/Tony, past Steve/Logan
Rating: NC-17
Summary: After the world is conquered by the mysterious Ornari, Steve Rogers and Tony Stark lead the last of the resistance against the alien horde. Together as Avengers and husbands, Steve and Tony set in motion a plan to save humanity and the Earth. The key to their plan depends on Steve hunting down the Wolverine. Bringing Logan into the plan will be dangerous, not only because of the odds and what is at stake, but also because Logan once had a love affair with Steve Rogers. Saving the world is about sacrifice, both Tony and Steve know that, but are they ready to sacrifice everything they have together?
Fanworker name: digitalwave
♠ Title: I Don't Compromise And I Don't Pretend (Most Of The Time)
Author name: nerdwegian
Characters/Pairing: Clint/Coulson, heavily featuring Phil Coulson & Tony Stark friendship.
Rating: NC-17
Summary: After Tony Stark declares himself Iron Man on national TV and refuses to join the Avengers Initiative, Nick Fury assigns Agent Phil Coulson to be his temporary bodyguard, and also convince Stark that joining forces with SHIELD would be in his best interest. After that, things rapidly pile up for Phil: Stark builds an ice cream truck (because of REASONS!) and becomes accidental bros with Phil, Agents Sitwell and Romanoff are far too nosy for their own good, and bad guys keep trying to steal the Iron Man suit! In the middle of it all, Phil meets a single dad with an affinity for archery, who may or may not know more about SHIELD than he lets on...
Fanworker name: sperrywink
♠ Title: Dressed in Silhouettes
Author name: seratonation
Characters/Pairing: Clint/Natasha, Phil Coulson, the Rest of the Avengers, Pepper Potts, Nick Fury
Rating: R
Summary: When Clint was sent to take out the Black Widow, he accidentally... didn't. Instead he takes her to the one person who will know what to do. Phil Coulson. Coulson manages to convince everyone that Natasha working for them is the best possible outcome. The only snag is that Fury puts Clint in charge of her.
Fanworker name: nickygabriel
♠ Title: Perseverating
Author name: harkpad02
Characters/Pairing: Clint Barton & Nick Fury, Background Clint/Coulson, Natasha Romanov
Rating: PG-13
Summary: This is the story of the friendship forged between Nick Fury and Clint Barton, from Day one to the present. Fury recruits Clint off the streets and comes to be one of three people Clint trusts implicitly. From recruiter to boss to wingman, Fury becomes a permanent fixture in Clint’s life, and he's grateful for that.
Fanworker name: viviantanner
♠ Title: Come Near
Author name: topaz119
Characters/Pairing: Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff
Rating: NC-17
Summary: What exactly do you do after monsters and magic?
Fanworker name: nessataleweaver
♠ Title: Cast Away (The Lingering Smell of Roses)
Author name: crowseye
Characters/Pairing: Steve Rogers/Loki
Rating: PG13
Summary: Steve goes on holiday to Europe, where he meets Loki, who gives lectures on Norse mythology. An autumn rhapsody; a story clad in a haze of old poems, legends and half-remembered dreams.
♠ Title: Higher-Order Consequences
Author name: selori_1
Characters/Pairing: Loki, Phil Coulson, Clint Barton, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov, Bruce Banner, Tony Stark, Thor, Odin
Rating: PG13
Summary: Loki is still reeling from his defeat by the Avengers, and Agent Coulson's condemnations replaying endlessly in his mind don't help. When Loki escapes from Asgard's dungeon, he has one goal: stealing the mirror that shows all realities, all universes, from Odin's treasury of weapons, and then using it to find a reality where he WINS.
As Loki moves from universe to universe, he learns more about his nature, the choices he made to become the person he is, and the choices that were made for him. He has the freedom to make any choice in all the universes, so why does he keep ending up back where he started?
Fanworker name: johanirae
♠ Title: Through A Crystal Crack'd
Author name: bigsciencybrain
Characters/Pairing: Steve Rogers
Rating: PG13
Summary: A familiar voice cries for help through the static of an old radio and Steve, disillusioned and unsure of his role as Captain America, must risk everything to save them. When he does, he finds himself at odds with the Avengers and with Asgard.
Fanworker name: hildestark
♠ Title: The Avengers: Close Call
Author name: sandrasfisher
Characters/Pairing: Clint/Natasha, Phil/Lana(OC) Steve/Jillian(OC), Tony/Pepper, Maria Hill, Nick Fury, Barney Barton, Bruce Banner, James Barnes
Rating: NC-17
Summary: The battle with the Chitauri is over and the Avengers get some well-deserved time to relax. They all go their separate ways. What will happen when one of the Avengers gets the feeling they are being watched? Will the Avengers get their time off after all or will they be thrown into chaos?
Clint, with Natasha in tow, goes to visit his sister in Portland to give her the news about Phil. Steve decides to stop at a diner along the road while driving his motorcycle cross country. He meets a waitress by the name of Jillian; what happens when she gets pulled into an adventure while trying to help him out?
Fanworker name: sumer_starlight
♠ Title: I'll Be
Author name: psalmoflife
Characters/Pairing: Clint Barton/Darcy Lewis
Rating: R
Summary: Clint knows that he's not the only insomniac in the Tower, but he's still surprised when he runs into Darcy almost every night. Clint also knows not to ask Darcy about Boston, but the pieces still slide into place.
Fanworker name: caitriona_3
♠ Title: Quid Pro Quo
Author name: kinderjedi & sullacat
Characters/Pairing: Clint Barton/Darcy Lewis, Jane Foster/Natasha Romanoff, mention of Jane Foster/Thor, Tony Stark, Jasper Sitwell, Happy Hogan, Nick Fury
Rating: R
Summary: Darcy and Clint noticed each other in New Mexico, but they don't really get acquainted until she is invited to move into Stark Tower after the events in New York. A newly minted SHIELD agent, Darcy is learning the ropes at work while Clint is getting himself reactivated. Meanwhile, they're also getting closer off the clock and finding out that neither of them has all that much experience with grown-up relationships.
Fanworker name: brisbanite
♠ Title: Our Way
Author name: blossomdreams
Characters/Pairing: Bruce Banner/Tony Stark (main pairing), Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Pepper Potts, Loki, Thor, Natasha Romanov
Rating: PG-13
Summary:When Bruce decides to go back to the Tower to start a relationship with Tony it's not as easy as he thinks when his old fears return. Tony wants Bruce to stay, but he doesn't want to push him. It doesn't help that they have to watch a god of mischief that's on house arrest either. Can Tony and Bruce put their fears aside and get together? Or will the God of Mischief prove to be the biggest help of all.
Fanworker name: last_winterrose
♠ Title: Footprints in Mysterious Fire
Author: circ_bamboo
Characters/Pairings: Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanoff, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes/Natasha Romanoff, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanoff. Nick Fury, Clint Barton, and Phil Coulson do all show up briefly, but the rest of the Avengers do not appear on screen.
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Someone is following Steve Rogers around and shooting at him and the people near him. Natasha Romanoff is following right behind him to see who it is. When it turns out to be the Winter Soldier, the question then becomes: who is the Winter Soldier, and why does he look so familiar to both Steve and Natasha?
Fanworker name: viviantanner
♠ Title: Iron Queen: One Girl Revolution [Battle Mix]
Author name: tehcrzy1
Characters/Pairing: cislady!Tony Stark/Steve Rogers, cislady!Tony Stark/Pepper Potts (unrequinted), Pepper Potts/Happy Hogan, James "Rhodey" Rhodes/OMC, various canon and hinted side pairings
Rating: PG-13
Summary: According to her press, Toni Stark is a genius, a billionaire, a philanthropist, and a slut. But all she wants is to be a super hero, no matter how bad she is at it. (This is the story about how Toni Stark tries to save the world, but first she has to learn how to save herself.)
Fanworker name: hildestark
♠ Title: Strength and Weakness
Author name: birdie_anne
Characters/Pairing: Steve Rogers/Darcy Lewis, Steve Rogers/OC, Darcy Lewis/Peter Parker, background canon pairings
Rating: PG13
Summary: Steve Rogers is out of place. He knows it, the rest of the Avengers know it, and so does SHIELD.Three months after the battle of Manhattan, they decide to do something about it - they send him Agent Emily Willett, from Agent Integration, with a mandate: brief Captain America for whatever SHIELD might need him for.Emily, however, knows that he needs more. He needs information about how to make a life in the 21st century, not just live. So, she offers him a choice: just get SHIELD's briefings, or get a real backstory - a real chance to be someone in the 21st century. What follows is an adventure that changes both their lives.
Fanworker name: supersyncspaz7
♠ Title: Don't Give Up Until He's Home Again
Author name: peaceful_sands
Characters/Pairing: Steve/Clint, Tony, Natasha, Bruce, Jarvis.
Rating: R
Summary: When Steve goes out for a jog one morning and doesn't return, Clint rallies the Avengers to find out where he is. But things do not go smoothly when they realize Steve is not the only one missing. The thing with a team like theirs though, is that they won't give up, not until they get everyone home, no matter how long it takes or how difficult to find they are.
Fanworker name: sumer_starlight
♠ Title: Not Heroes, But Friends
Author name: myownknight
Characters/Pairing: background Clint Barton/Phil Coulson
Rating: PG13
Summary: Laura Maro and Katy Morris are two of SHIELDs finest Agents. How they met, how they got there, and what bonded them is story unfortunately much more complicated then it may appear. Katy, a sole surviving sibling in the wake of 9/11, and Laura, a recently graduated and desperately underestimated women must work together when their training with SHIELD takes an unexpected turn.
Fanworker name: sandrasfisher
♠ Title: The Opposite of Trouble
Author name: ifitwasribald
Characters/Pairing: Bruce Banner/James “Rhodey” Rhodes
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Bruce has very good reasons to distrust the military, and Rhodey has very good reasons to distrust the Hulk, so neither of them is thrilled when circumstances throw them together. But it doesn't take long for their mutual suspicion to turn to mutual respect, and from there they begin to discover something together that neither of them has had in a very long time.
Fanworker name: kayqy
♠ Title: All in a Heroic Day's Work
Author Name: aftersoon
Characters/Pairing: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, Avengers Team, Maria Hill
Rating: R
Summary: Clint meets his biggest fan: Phil's Coulson's niece.
Fanworker Name: sevencorvus
♠ Title: Your Own Good
Author name: al_the_terrible
Characters/Pairing: Bruce Banner, Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff.
Rating: R
Summary: Bruce was just trying to get back to New York for Thanksgiving. But he ran into trouble crossing into Russia from Belarus, and things just went downhill from there. Somehow, he found himself as a test subject in a lab. The scientist in charge says he has a cure for Bruce’s condition. Bruce doesn't believe him. He shouldn't.
Tony and Pepper begin to worry when Bruce misses his plane back to the States, and so Tony rounds up a team to go investigate Bruce’s last known location. What they find is worse than what they’d been expecting.
Fanworker name: rubystandish
♠ Title: Something Next to Normal
Author names: renata_kedavra & _morning_glow
Characters/Pairing: Bruce Banner/Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark
Rating: PG-13
Summary: When Bruce Banner saw the headlines that Tony Stark was dead, he got on the first plane back to LA. Luckily, by the time he landed, Tony was no longer dead, but he did need help making good on his promise to fix Pepper and he figured Bruce would be perfect for the job. What nobody counted on was some of Bruce’s blood accidentally combining with the Extremis in Pepper's system to create something new.
Or, the story of how Bruce Banner learned to stop worrying, Pepper Potts learned to love being an Avenger, and Tony Stark ended up living with two Hulks.
Fanworker name: last_winterrose
♠ Title: Raise Your Weapon - ART ONLY
Fanworker name: sumer_starlight
Characters/Pairings: Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov
FanworkType: Digital/fanmix
♠ Title: Twice Upon a Time
Author name: tsaritsa_elena
Characters/Pairing: Tony Stark, Howard Stark, Tony Stark/Steve Rogers
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Tony Stark has never had an easy relationship with his father, but when Howard Stark circa 1983 time travels to the future in a freak accident, things get even more complicated, especially since Tony is dating his dad’s idol, Captain America, and Howard doesn't know. As they work toward a solution that will restore Howard to his own timeline, will Tony get a second chance at a father-son relationship with his dad, or is he in for more of the same unforgiving treatment from Howard? Time travel, Avengers missions, and a secret project of Howard’s: things at Stark Tower are about to get a little crazy.
♠ Title: Into a White and Soundless Place
Author name: mumblemutter
Characters/Pairing: Loki/Thor
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Thor remembers little from the early days of his life. Only flickers of memory from before he came to Jotunheim, and from after, only bits and pieces, some puzzles that do not make a whole.
An intense loneliness, perhaps. A profound sense of loss, but of what he knows not. Mostly, he remembers being surrounded by giants, a small pink-fleshed boy in a sea of frost and ice. And the king, the smallest of the Jotuns, holding out his hand and telling him, "You are my brother, Thor."
Eventually he left behind all but the vaguest of memories: Once he was a son of Asgard. Once he had a brother.
Now he has another one, and he is the king of Jotunheim, and his name is Loki.
Fanworker name: mieronna
♠ Title: I Just Called to Say I Tolerate You
Author Name: withthepilot
Characters/Pairings: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, Natasha Romanoff, Thor, Bruce Banner, Nick Fury, JARVIS
Rating: NC-17
Summary: After the Battle of New York, Steve exiles himself to Brooklyn, happy to be separated from the Avengers and the ghosts of the recent past. But with Clint crawling through his window every night and Tony's face on the news haunting him, he's never quite alone with his thoughts. When Tony and Pepper return to New York after the disaster in Malibu, everything Steve thought was true begins to change drastically. Also, Fury lies.
Fanworker Name: race_the_ace
♠ Title: The Dirt Still Stains
Author names: kirasha & titti
Characters/Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Discovering that his best friend is alive is only the beginning of an arduous road. Steve and Bucky have to deal with Bucky's past before they can work toward a future together.
Fanworker name: siehn
♠ Title: How The Light Gets In
Author name: singalellaby
Characters/Pairing: Natasha/Steve
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Losing his sight may mean Steve can't fight alongside the Avengers, but he's still a super soldier. Natasha just needs to remind him of that.
Fanworker name: pinkelephant42
♠ Title: From Dust
Author name: ereshai
Characters/Pairing: Thor, Odin, Phil Coulson
Rating: R
Summary: Phil Coulson is dead. Now his entire existence is being erased. Thor returns to Midgard to find things are very different.
Fanworker name: sumer_starlight
♠ Title: Proof of Life
Author name: jesseofthenorth
Characters/Pairing: Clint Barton, Phil Coulson, Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Brief mentions of other Avengers
Rating: R
Summary: Clint Barton is not a man who would describe himself as 'isolated', he just knows he is the only one he can really count on. He's not 'lonely', he just spends a lot of time alone. Comes with being a sniper. His life is good he doesn't mind being on his own.
Fanworker name: sumer_starlight
♠ Title: Sleeping with the Devil
Author name: shinysylver
Characters/Pairing: Matt Murdock/Danny Rand, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Foggy Nelson, Dakota North
Rating: R
Summary: When Mutant Growth Hormone starts showing up on the streets, Daredevil and Iron Fist team up to stop it at the source. Danny's thrilled to be out in costume with a partner again now that Luke is focusing on being a good family man... even if Matt isn't the best at playing well with others. Of course, Danny didn't expect to hook up with Matt, but then again he has a history of ill-conceived hook-ups.
Fanworker name: zephre
♠ Title: the hour of separation
Author name: enochiansigils
Characters/Pairing: Phil Coulson/Anna Montrose (OFC), Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff, Loki
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Eight months after being injured, Coulson has resumed his life. He's working again and he has a girlfriend, another SHIELD agent by the name of Anna Montrose. Everything is going well until Loki reappears and has a plan that none of them expects.
Loki kidnaps Agent Montrose, leaving SHIELD (well, all right, leaving Coulson) to call in Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton, the only agents he trusts to find the woman that is both friend and co-worker to him.
Fanworker name: nickygabriel
♠ Title: Eradicate
Author name: del_rion
Characters: Bruce Banner (Hulk), Clint Barton (Hawkeye), Happy Hogan, J.A.R.V.I.S., Harley Keener, Pepper Potts, James “Rhodey” Rhodes (War Machine), Steve Rogers (Captain America), Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow), Tony Stark (Iron Man), Thor. Brief cameos: Nick Fury, Tony’s bots (DUM-E & U). /Pairing: Pepper/Tony
Rating: R
Summary: In order to overcome his anxiety issues and worsening nightmares, Tony repurposes Extremis and proceeds to eliminate memories he can do without. However, treading the line between ‘enough’ and ‘too much’ is difficult, and Tony begins to lose touch with the things that are essential to his life.
Fanworker name: viviantanner
♠ Title: Better Living Through Pizza
Author name: shadynaiad
Characters/Pairing: Clint Barton, Steve Rogers
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Steve takes some time off from soldiering and Avengering to get his head on straight, and Clint is assigned to keep an eye on him, because apparently SHIELD believes in the blind leading the blind. Steve really needs a hobby, since modern television shows baffle him, but Clint keeps bringing him DVDs and pizza.
Fanworker name: viviantanner
♠ Title: S.A. Seekers, Inc.: Quest for the Magic Globe
Author name: kultiras
Characters/Pairing: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, Melinda May/Jasper Sitwell, Natasha Romanov, Nick Fury
Rating: PG13
Summary: In the aftermath of the Battle of Manhattan, SHIELD begins to consider what they can do to boost their defenses in the future. A tip from an ally sends Phil Coulson and Melinda May on a quest for a magical globe that may be exactly what they need to save the world. But the quest isn't that simple; there are steps that need to be taken before the location of the globe will be revealed, and it requires a team of people beyond just Phil and Melinda.
The magical treasure map they're using leads them to a team of treasure hunters, the S.A. Seekers, Inc.—Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov, & Jasper Sitwell—a trio who prove to be the key to finishing and surviving the quest. As the journey progresses, they find more than new magical artifacts. New friendships and relationships form within this group of five, and soon the magical globe and the fate of the world are no longer the only things at stake.
Fanworker name: sevencorvus
♠ Title: Hitch A Ride On The Back Of A Butterfly
Author name: torakowalski
Characters/Pairing: Female!Phil Coulson/Clint Barton
Rating: NC-17
Summary: When Loki attacks SHIELD and brainwashes Clint Barton, Phil Coulson’s first priority is to get their daughter to safety. After that, there's just leading the ground defence against the Chitauri, organising a group of brand new SHIELD recruits into a workable army, and learning to work with Tony Stark.
Fanworker name: bigsciencybrain
♠ Title: More Than Was Lost
Author name: engimaticblues
Characters/Pairing: Bruce Banner/Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Phil Coulson, Obadiah Stane, Nick Fury, Jennifer Walters
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Bruce Banner has managed to fly under the radar for this long, mostly by hiding in plain sight and trading his services for silence. Tony Stark has never lain low in his life. Their worlds are about to collide in a cave in Afghanistan.
Fanworker name: rubystandish
♠ Title: No Fear of Heights
Author name: obsessionality
Characters/Pairing: Maria Hill, Phil Coulson, Nick Fury, Ensemble – Maria/Natasha
Rating: R
Summary: Maria Hill is the assistant director of SHIELD, a high-flying member of a high-flying covert agency, whose friends and colleagues could, and often did take off, into flight. But while most of them come from similar, if exceptional, military backgrounds, not all of them have the same story. This story is about Maria Hill, her history, and the price you have to pay for finding acceptance, when you belong to a high-flying, high-risk super secret organisation like SHIELD.
Tony Stark's not wrong, entirely. You do have to be a certain type of messed up, to find a home in SHIELD, or any similar intelligence agency. Normal people did not thrive in places where sex-change forms were a normal thing and re-writing Wills was a monthly business. Maria Hill always thought she was the exception. She always thought she was pretty normal, compared to the rest of the lot. She wasn't. But while Stark wasn't wrong, he wasn't exactly right, either. SHIELD is like the ocean; what it taketh away, it often giveth back, with upgrades.
Fanworker name: kymericl
♠ Title: A Seed in Barren Lands
Author name: lizardbeth_j
Characters/Pairing: Loki/Sif (with Odin)
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Sif visits Loki in his cell, ready to confront the monster. The truth is a far more difficult monster for them all to face.
Fanworker name: zeta_tauri
♠ Title: Broken Threads
Author name: f0rcryin0utl0ud
Characters/Pairing: Steve/Loki, hints of Coulson/Clint/Tasha, Steve Rogers, Loki, Bruce Banner, Phil Coulson, Tony Stark, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov, Thor
Rating: PG13
Summary: Nothing's been the same since New York. At least, that's what Tony keeps saying. The truth is, nothing has been the same for Steve since he woke up seventy years in the future, everything and everyone he knew long since gone.
Soon it seems as if everyone has forgotten about Loki and the Chitauri as new villains crop up and life goes on with humanity more than capable of causing just as much, if not more, chaos than Loki had. For Steve though, Loki and his fate ever remain a niggling uncertainty in the back of his mind.
It's a cool, crisp October day that Steve finally learns what happened to the god of mischief.
Fanworker name: karneol_vision
==Avengers and Related Characters: AU Worlds==
♠ Title: The Sacred Band of SHIELD
Author name: msraven929
Characters/Pairings: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, background Natasha Romanov/Nick Fury, background Bruce Banner/Tony Stark, background Jane Foster/Thor, minor Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes, Jasper Sitwell, Pepper Potts, Maria Hill, Barney Barton
Rating: NC-17
Summary: The Sacred Band of SHIELD is the America army’s elite of the elite. The entirety of the small force is made up of bonded pairs that hold true to the six tenets reflected in its name: to ensure the Safety and Health of one another through a bond that is Irreplaceable and Everlasting, cemented with Love and Devotion. The idea behind the Sacred Band is simple – that you fight fiercer and stronger if the person at your side is your lover, your beloved, your bonded mate. The Band are the most talented, highest trained, and bravest fighters in all of the Five Kingdoms
Sir Phillip, son of the House of Coul and General Fury’s most trusted lieutenant, has known since he was a child that his true bonded mate exists. He refuses to settle for mere compatibility, even if it prevents his inclusion to the Sacred Band. Phil’s fascination with the travelling gypsy performer, Hawkeye, is both unexpected and undeniable. Little do they know that a chance meeting will lead them to love, family, and a plot that threatens to destroy the entire kingdom.
Fanworker name: sevencorvus
♠ Title: The Clockwork Murders
Author name: selenay936
Characters/Pairing: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, Phil Coulson and Nick Fury friendship, Natasha Romanov, Tony Stark, Darcy Lewis, Bruce Banner, Jane Foster
Rating: R
Summary: Phil Coulson has two lives: by day he's a quiet, respectable Edwardian gentleman and his biggest risk is on a hand of cards at his club; at night he's a masked vigilante, fighting to make London safer. Keeping those lives separate is difficult enough when his closest friend is the head of a special task force within the Metropolitan police. It becomes even more difficult when his latest case get dangerously close to home, bodies start washing up on the banks of the Thames, and Detective Inspector Fury's team is tasked with capturing the vigilante.
Clint Barton, Coulson's new valet, is down on his luck and inexperienced at valeting but his skills from his former life may be exactly what Coulson needs. They just need to negotiate their way through Coulson's secret life and their growing attraction to each other. And save London from a terrifying new threat along the way.
Fanworker name: ctbn60
♠ Title: the sirens and the thunder
Author name: legete
Characters/Pairing: Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers
Rating: PG-13
Summary: "Hide that," he says, forcing the words out past every instinct. "As well as you can, all right? Before morning."
Steve stares at him blankly, like he needs a moment to work this out, then swallows once, sharply. "What's your name?" he asks at last—asks as he stands there with the pelt in his hands.
And oh, he thinks suddenly, what is his name? He can't speak it, not with this mouth, he can't sing it into the air like he can in the ocean. He just shakes his head; like his nakedness, it's something he can't explain. Steve nods, just nods, his eye swelling shut and blood drying on his shirt collar, and says "we’ll figure it out."
(An AU where, instead of being orphans together, Bucky is a young selkie who is accidentally called to Steve and ends up staying around to help this poor, wretched kid not die.)
Fanworker name: kayqy
♠ Title: A Party to Die For
Author name: irite
Characters/Pairing: Pepper Potts, Tony Stark, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Betty Ross, Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, Bucky Barnes, Thor, Jane Foster, Darcy Lewis, Loki, Sif, Fandral, Volstagg, Hogun, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Nick Fury, Maria Hill, Phil Coulson, Erik Selvig
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Pepper Potts puts together an eclectic group of guests for a weekend party at Tony Stark's isolated mansion. But when Dr. Erik Selvig, the guest of honor, turns up murdered, things take a grim turn. They get even grimmer when it's revealed that one of the guests is the murderer. With the police stuck in town due to the weather, Pepper and her guests must investigate by themselves. What will they find? All human. Murder mystery AU.
Fanworker name: taibhrigh
♠ Title: (They Say) It's What You Make
Author name: selenai
Characters/Pairing: Bruce Banner/Tony Stark, some Tony Stark/Pepper Potts.
Rating: NC-17
Summary: A young Bruce Banner meets a young Tony Stark at a summer camp for budding scientific minds. In an effort to win a scholarship competition, Bruce creates a serum that will inadvertently change his life forever. With Tony's help, Bruce must contend with the effects of his transformation, as well as the typical turmoil of teenage attraction.
Fanworker name: emc14
♠ Title: see where all the follies led
Author name: haipollai
Characters/Pairing: Steve/Bucky, Sam Wilson/Sharon, Rikki Barnes/Anya Corazon, Carol Danvers/Jessica Drew
Rating: R
Summary: New York's top alchemist has a deal for the small ragtag crew of the Nomad, get him silver and save a runaway slave from torture and death.
Except silver is as dangerous and illegal to carry as runaway slaves and even harder to find.
Their best opportunity is in Bucky and Rikki's pasts from before they ran away from Tony Stark's ownership. The Stark corporation is the most powerful on the West Coast, working as both company and government but if they're going to get what they need to pay off McCoy, Stark is the place to go.
Fanworker name: giallodih
♠ Title: No Magic Would Save Me
Author name: arsenicjade
Characters/Pairing: Clint Barton, Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, background Tony/Pepper
Rating: R
Summary: Once upon a time, an angel with the unlikely name of Pepper came to the circus, and took Clint away.
Fanworker name: kymericl
♠ Title: Good Publicity (is worth its weight in tequila)
Author Name: aftersoon
Characters/Pairing: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, Pepper Potts, Avengers Team
Rating: R (Mature)
Summary: All Phil wanted was a quiet drink. What he got was a devastatingly handsome archer, one meddling boss, and a job in PR for the most destructive team of superheroes he'd ever heard of.
Fanworker Name: chosenfire28
♠ Title: Without A Net Upon The Wire
Author name: torakowalski
Characters/Pairing: Phil Coulson/Clint Barton
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Since he was abandoned by his brother and then the circus, Clint Barton has resigned himself to making his own way in the world. So when he ends up living on the streets of New York in the middle of winter, he's not expecting to be taken in by injured army veteran, Phil Coulson, or accidentally involved in an escalating war against the Russian mafia.
Fanworker name: sperrywink
♠ Title: Not Such a Compromise
Author: pookaseraph
Characters/Pairings: Tony Stark/Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes/Natasha Romanov, Carol Danvers/James Rhodees
Rating: PG-13
Summary: The death of her brother, Lt. James Barnes, has placed Miss Stephanie Rogers in the difficult position of needing to find a husband to see to it that her and her mother are taken care of. Miss Roger was not built for such a compromise, but perhaps Mr. Anthony Stark will not be such a compromise after all.
Fanworker name: _afterism
♠ Title: To Be Asked
Author name: tigerdreams
Characters/Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Tony is beginning to get comfortable in his new relationship with Steve, but after the Avengers' latest battle, he's sent reeling again when circumstances force him to confront the prospect of their future and an expectation that he had been hoping never to face: children. A/B/O, sequel to Worst-Case Scenario.
Fanworker name: last_winterrose
♠ Title: The Mountain
Author name: tryfanstone
Characters/Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Rating: R
Summary: Sixty-two days without a single blade of grass, four hundred pitons, twenty-three stoves, six down-filled suits and a moth-eaten bow-tie. Summer 1968: Tony Stark vs. The Mountain.
Fanworker name: zephre
♠ Title: put them back in poetry (if only I knew how)
Author name: singalellaby
Characters/Pairing: Carol Danvers/Jessica Drew
Rating: PG-13
Summary: No one knows why Carol and Steve came home from the war and opened up a diner in the middle of a recession, except Carol was nicknamed 'Cheeseburger' for a reason and Steve apparently got those muscles from kneading a lot of bread dough when he was a teenager. All Carol wants to do is feed people, not lose out to the Starkbucks across the road just because it has a robot barista and not think about the fact that she can never fly a plane again. But because the universe hates her, she instead gets to run around after her teenage employees (she was definitely not this sassy when she was their age!), attempt to stop Tony Stark from running Steve's baking supplies through his pocket spectroscopy machine and deal with her hugely inappropriate crush on Jessica Drew, who is far too attractive for a grad student studying spiders. And just when exactly did she sign up for her life to be a coffeeshop AU?
Fanworker name: fox1013
==Crossover/ Fusion with a non-Marvel Fandom==
♠ Title: Hawkeye and the Holograms
Author name: uofmdragon
Characters/Pairing: Clint/Coulson
Rating: PG
Summary: Clint Barton was left two things after his foster mother, Maria Hill, died. One was half of Shield Records, which Clint let Maria's business partner, Erik Thanos, run. The second was Shield Orphanage, which Clint did care about and he happily ran it with his three friend and foster-siblings: Natasha, Steve and Bruce.
When Clint discovers that Erik Thanos is fixing a Battle of the Bands to promote his new group, The Jotuns, and is refusing to give Clint any of his rightful share of the money to run Shield Orphanage, Clint decides something must be done. With the delivery of a set of rings that allow him to disguise himself as Hawkeye and his family backing him up, Clint just might have the band to beat the Jotuns fair and square.
Fanworker name: kayqy
♠ Title: Hammer & Skull
Author name: Cypher (seikaitsukimizu)
Characters/Pairing: Phil Coulson/Clint Barton, Steve Rogers/Peggy Carter, Tony Stark & Bruce Banner, Thor & Jane Foster, Natasha Romanov, Nick Fury, Teddy Altman/Billy Kaplan
Rating: PG13 for violence, deaths, and sexual innuendo
Summary: In modern New York City, the local SHIELD (Strategic Homeland Investigation, Enforcement, and Litigation Department) office responds to a call-out to investigate the death of an officer at Hammer Laboratories. Lead by Special Agent Phil Coulson, this SHIELD squad delves into the hostile history of the victim, as well as the seedy side of corporate espionage and the tense atmosphere of government-funded research.
With so many enemies, however, narrowing it down to just one suspect is no easy chore. And as the pool of suspects diminishes with each alibi, matters take a turn for the worse as a civilian and one of SHIELD's own is kidnapped! With a reluctant FBI agent and an on-the-run CIA operative providing the only clues, it's up to Agent Coulson's team to find the missing people before the suspect not only escapes, but kills the hostages.
Fanworker name: sevencorvus
♠ Title: Second Mouse
Author name:alphaflyer
Characters/Pairing: Clint Barton, James Bond, Natasha Romanoff (spot of James Bond/Natasha Romanoff), Nick Fury, M, Phil Coulson, Eve Moneypenny
Rating: PG13
Summary: The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." (Aldrich Killian)
When HYDRA is suspected to be carrying out illicit activities in Scotland, SHIELD and MI-6 are asked to cooperate. Two covert agencies on the same turf—Barton & Bond, Fury & M, Coulson & Moneypenny—what could possibly go wrong? (Oh, and who exactly does the gorgeous redhead work for?)
Fanworker name: inkvoices
♠ Title: The Impossible Avenger
Author: weepingnaiad
Characters/Pairings: Phil Coulson, Jasper Sitwell, Clint Barton, Nick Fury, William Brandt, Maria Hill, Ethan Hunt, Tony Stark, Natasha Romanoff, Clint/Coulson
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Jasper Sitwell is in Dubai on a routine surveillance mission when he runs into Hawkeye. But that can't be: Clint Barton is back at HQ. So who is this stranger wearing Clint's face and what does he want? Is there a plot to undermine the Avengers from the inside out? Phil Coulson will go to any lengths to keep the secret from Clint and, once he learns the truth, he's still unsure if he should tell Clint or not.
Fanworker name: sullacat
♠ Title: Fire on the Mountain
Authors: weepingnaiad & abigail89
Characters/Pairings: Clint Barton, Tony Stark, Natasha Romanoff, Phil Coulson, Thor, Boyd Crowder, Dewey Crowe, Raylan Givens, implied Clint/Coulson
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Clint Barton gets a call for help from his cousin, a man and a past he's been trying to forget—Boyd Crowder. Clint agrees to look into the situation. S.H.I.E.L.D. finds that there is something fishy going on in Harlan's mines. Someone has to investigate. Someone that can blend in. And that is Clint. The only problem? He can't go alone and no one else is available to go with Clint except Thor.
Fanworker name: sian1359
♠ Title: Behind the Moon, Beyond the Rain
Author name: cameron_mckell
Characters/Pairing: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark - Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Bucky Barnes, Natasha Romanoff, Bruce Banner, minor appearances by others
Rating: PG-13
Summary: He can't quite remember what happened, or how he got here, but he had to get home.
He had a date.
He couldn't be late again, not this time.
Steve's heels clicked together briefly as he turned then started walking once more.
... The Director would help him. Hopefully.
Fanworker name: _afterism
♠ Title: Redemption
Author name: snack_size
Characters/Pairing: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, Jane Foster/Thor
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Marshal Nick Fury and Major Phil Coulson have just assumed control of a SHIELD Shatterdome with three Jaegers and one pilot. As the kaiju attacks increase in frequency they are forced to work with pilots who the program has deemed unfit to jockey, including Natasha Romanov, Thor Odinsen, and Steve Rogers. They've also got to manage a newly formed K-Science division under the oversight of Jaeger engineer Tony Stark.
Relationships develop amongst the pilots, scientists and officials as they try to prepare for themselves for the next kaiju to emerge from the Breach.
Fanworker name: sullacat
♠ Title: Jurassic Stark
Author name: immoral_crow
Characters/Pairing: Tony Stark/Steve Rogers, Phil Coulson/Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov, Bruce Banner, Pepper Potts, Thor, Loki
Rating: R
Summary: In a world where DNA has overtaken the atom as the weapon of choice, Tony Stark has decided there is no future for him as a manufacturer of weaponised life-forms. Instead he decides to use biotechnology to amaze and educate the masses. Thus, Jurassic Stark – an amusement park with a difference. Instead of twee rides and tame animals he will wow the public with real-life dinosaurs. What can possibly go wrong?
Well, Steve Rogers could name one or two things. If the storm that trapped his tour in the middle of the park hadn't been bad enough, it turns out that you really don't want to make Dr. Banner angry (unless you like T. Rex that is). Oh yeah, and the Velociraptor keeper, who goes by the unusual name of Loki, seems to be both able to communicate with the raptors and intent on taking over the park. Frankly, Stark is a dick who doesn't think his plans through.
Will the team learn to pull together? Can they defeat Loki and his sinister raptor army? How many hours can the author spend researching dinosaur behaviour instead of writing? If you want the answers to all these questions and more – or if you've ever wanted Steve to kick a Velociraptor in the head – then this is the fic for you.
Fanworker name: _afterism
♠ Title: I Was Me (But Now He's Gone)
Author name: sgflutegirl
Characters/Pairing: Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff, Loki, Phil Coulson, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Thor, Nick Fury
Rating: R
Summary: Sentinel and Guide AU
Sentinel Clint Barton, and his Guide, Natasha Romanoff, are the strongest Sentinel and Guide pair employed by SHIELD. They also have a unique empathic bond that has helped them out of more than one sticky situation.
After their bond is violently ripped apart, Natasha believes Clint is dead. She soon finds out that he has been taken and brainwashed by Loki. Clint is forced to relive some of the most traumatic moments in his life while Loki pulls information from his mind.
When Natasha finally gets Clint back, will he ever be the same, or will the trauma he suffered at Loki’s hands change him and their bond forever?
Fanworker name: rubystandish
♠ Title: Once More, With Vengeance
Author name: princess_aleera
Characters/Pairing: Team fic + Coulson and JARVIS; eventual Steve/Tony, eventual Clint/Coulson, and established Bruce/Thor
Rating: R
Summary: “So, I've got this question,” Tony says when he walks into the Avengers' living room this morning, “and feel free to ignore me if, y'know, I'm talking crazy here, but have any of you spontaneously burst into song lately?”
There is a moment of total silence. Then Natasha curses in Russian and Clint bursts out with “I knew there was something off with those back-up singers!” Steve says nothing, but he blushes, and Thor claims that he noticed nothing out of the ordinary, as he tends to spontaneously burst into song anyway.
Or, the one where New York falls under a musical spell and that is not nearly as much fun as it sounds like.
Fanworker name: slashersivi
♠ Title: An Unexpected Friendship
Author name: backrose_17
Characters/Pairing: Loki/Fili, Thorin/Bilbo, Kili, Dwalin, Ori, Nori, Dori, Oin, Balin, Bofur, Bifur, Bombur, Gandalf, Bungo/Belladonna, Gandalf, mentions of Clint/Coulson, Thor/Jane and Darcy
Rating: PG13
Summary: When Loki fell from the Rainbow Bridge he landed in Middle-Earth where he was found by a most unusual creature, a Hobbit by the name of Bilbo Baggins. As he is nursed back to health by the Baggins', Loki finds himself a place to call home and people he would call family. When Belladonna dies Loki vows to look after Bilbo, so what happens when a meddling wizard arrives in the Shire to deliver a quest for Bilbo and instead just a Hobbit, he gets an overprotective god as well? No one knows what they should make of Bilbo or more importantly, of Loki.
♠ Title: Bid my blood to run
Author name: gottalovev
Characters/Pairing: Tony Stark/Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Pepper Potts, James Rhodey Rhodes, Jane Foster, Bruce Banner (as main characters, the rest of the Avengers are in support). Implied brief Tony/OFC, past Tony/Pepper and past Tony/Loki.
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Being in charge of the Science Division of the California Shatterdome is great, but contributing to the actual fighting would be better. Tony used to pilot a Jaeger with his father as a teen, but when Howard was killed he swore he'd never drift with another human again. Instead he designed Iron Man, a man-sized armor that he wants to control while drifting with JARVIS, his AI. The problem is that humans and machines are not meant to be drift compatible: will it prove to be too dangerous?
As a FYI, the Jaeger teams = Steve&Bucky, Pepper&Rhodey, Clint&Natasha and Thor&Loki.
Fanworker name: koexmoxnakushi
===X-Men===
♠ Title: A Semi-Charmed Life
Author name: karrenia_rune
Characters/Pairing: Jamie/Layla, Rictor/Shatterstar, Monet St. Croix, Guido Carosella, Theresa Cassidy, Longshot
Rating: PG-13 shading into R
Summary: Sequel to my previous story “Blessings and Curses), how the entire X-Factor crew with the addition of Shatterstar, set out for the New World in the hopes of settling down in the Virginia Commonwealth under their own terms, however unexpected dangers lie in wait for them and they must cope with being strangers in a strange land.
Fanworker name: radezki_nvrsk
♠ Title: More than Genetics
Author name: llwyden
Characters/Pairing: Logan/Kurt Wagner, Rogue, Kitty Pryde, Scott, Jean, Hank, Professor Xavier...just about every other mutant under the sun.
Rating: NC-17 for a couple sex scenes
Summary: While traveling through Canada, Logan comes across a strange mutant caged in a circus. He can get him out, but actually saving him will be a longer process, and may take an entire family of mutants. And they all might just insist on saving Logan along the way, too.
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