cap_ironman | 2016 Cap-Ironman Exchange Gifts unveiled on 12/26

It is the first day for the unveiling of gifts! Starting on December 26th, each day we will be revealing the gifts created by participants of the 2016 Cap-Ironman Holiday Exchange and Community Gifts. Over the next week the creators’ identities will be hidden, then, on January 7th, we will reveal all of the authors and artists who participated this year.

Here are today’s gifts!

Ooops? for monkiainen (MCU, Art)
NSFW - Steve and Tony accidentally time travel in the future and....

Never Eye To Eye for mrsgingles (MCU, 26,503 Words)
After the Civil War, the Avengers were back together.
How is everything going, Tony? Pepper had asked in her email.
It's fine (Tony had written back). I'm fighting with Steve all the time. Everything is going to hell. I'm okay (you know I'm always okay).

(Or: How Tony and Steve learned to be a bit gentler with each other)

Le Ciel Attendra for gottalovev (MCU, 8,317 Words)
The 3rd war against the Chitauri is well underway and Captain Steve Rogers is not overly pleased when Governor Fury throws a wrench into the works. He and his team are a well-oiled machine and they don't need anyone else working with them. Not to mention that now is possibly the worst possible time to start breaking in new team members.

When Steve meets said team members, it gets even worse.

absence makes the heart for adarksweetness (chayaasi) (Marvel, 4,835 Words)
“One night,” Tony says, and just flies himself bodily into one of the canary yellow beekeepers like a red and gold battering ram. “I ask for one measly night. One single goddamn night with my boyfriend—”

“Oh, is the boyfriend label on now?” Clint asks over the comms.

When The Machines Take Over for MusicalLuna (MCU, 2,287 Words)
In a world where some people have the names of their soulmates written on their forearms, Steve is terrified of ever meeting his. There is something really wrong about him, he thinks.

A Shortcut to Happiness for AetherSprite (MCU, 1,921 Words)
Tony teaches Steve to dance.

Accidential Romance for Steel_Wings (616, 2,247 Words)
Tony doesn’t know much of anything anymore, but some things seem obvious

I don't think you want me for MissRomanceJunkie (MCU, 2,808 Words)
When Steve becomes jealous at a charity ball what does this mean for his and Tony's relationship? Will it develop further or will it crumble around them?

A Tree in Rockefeller Center [ART] for MiniRaven (MCU, Art)
ART for the fic "A Tree in Rockefeller Center" by Miniraven!

"Steve is a tree spirit of a hundred year old pine tree and Tony Stark is a teenager studying at MIT. Tony feels that there’s something more to their relationship besides a strong friendship between a human and a tree spirit, but Steve won’t cross the line. Might have something to do with the fact that Steve’s the Rockefeller Christmas tree and is going to be cut up for parts come mid-January to be used to build houses for the poor.

Yeah... Merry fucking Christmas to you too universe.

Now if only Tony could do something to change the tides of fate…"

A Little Travel is Good for the Soul for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU/AA, 1,498 Words)
Tony was not expecting angry, argumentative versions of himself and Steve to appear in his living room one day. But now they're here, he's sure that he and Steve can help them work through their issues together.

MCU Steve and Tony travel to the Avengers Assemble universe and meet their counterparts.

Elevator Going Down for Cap Iron Man Community (Heroes United, 1,390 Words)
An alternative version of that elevator scene from Iron Man and Captain America: Heroes United.

To check out all of this year’s gifts (so far!), head over to the 2016 Captain America/Iron Man Holiday Exchange. Want more? Look at all the past entries by using the Holiday Exchange tag on the Cap-Ironman LiveJournal Community. On Ao3 you can view the 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 exchange entries in the Captain America/Ironman Holiday Exchange Collection.

When your gift is revealed, please be sure to comment and thank your gifter!

If you’re the creator of a gift that’s been revealed, you can comment back to anyone who comments on your work and it will show up as “Anonymous Author” until the creator names are revealed on the 7th, so please feel free to comment as much as you like.

We’ll be announcing all the gifts for today on Tumblr and Imzy, as well as here, if you would like to share and reblog them.

Finally, you may want to change the publication date of your work to today’s date, to help it show up in the AO3 listings for recent works. AO3’s guide is available here and there is a more detailed guide on how to do so here.

Thanks,

Laire, Salma, Tea, and Teyke
Your Cap-Ironman Holiday Exchange 2016 Team