Cap-IM BB 2019 Team: ALFA

[diskarte]

Title: you’d break your heart to make it bigger, so why not crack your skull
Author: diskarte
Artist: pineapplebreads, talesofsuspense
Universe: MCU
Rating (both fic and art): mature
Word Count: 25,473
Warnings: alcohol use
Notes: AHHH here goes!!! my first big bang!!!

thank you to athletiger for cheer reading, rina /captainstevns who helped me figure out what I was doing and listened to me yell and freak out, and pearl for helping me work through ideas. and most of all, A HUGE THANK YOU to duck for doing such a great job at beta reading (and cheering me on!) ❤️

it was also such a pleasure to work with pineapplebreads, who i am such a fan of, and talesofsuspense, whose work i discovered because of this big bang! :)

Fic Summary: Fresh from being fished out of the Potomac, Steve struggles with the revelation (and loss) of Bucky, and deals with his feelings in the only way he knows how: he doesn't. Most days, he tells himself it’ll all be okay, because it has to be.

After moving in with Tony and getting Tony to help him look for Bucky, the cracks in Steve’s veneer begin to show. He throws himself into fights, drinks too much of Thor’s Asgardian mead, wakes up and wishes he never woke up.

Steve doesn’t mean to notice the way Tony’s thigh presses against his when they watch movies together, doesn’t mean to open up to Tony about how he really feels about being Captain America and finding out his best friend is kind of not really dead, doesn’t mean to kiss him, but he does, anyway.

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Cap/IM BB: Optical Illusions

[winterstar95]

Title: Optical Illusions
Author: Winterstar
Artist: Ironycap
Universe: MCU
Rating: fic Explicit, Art: Gen
Word Count: 88335
Warnings: serious past injury (Tony), hurt! Tony, traumatic brain injury (past), migraines, serious injury (blindness), ableism, drunk driving (past), mentions of underage sex (past)

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Summary: Army Veteran and freelance comic book artist, Steve Rogers is ill prepared to apply for a job as a Personal Assistant to the dashing but elusive billionaire Tony Stark. He’s strapped for cash though, and he needs a break. His friends urge him to apply and Steve somehow ends up with the position. When he signs a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), Steve learns a lot more about the ever-mysterious Tony Stark, the inventor of the modern-day era of clean energy, artificial intelligence and other smart technologies. Tony Stark is a futurist to be sure, but there’s something he’s hiding from his past. Once Steve signs the NDA, he knows the secret and must adapt to it, giving up preconceived notions and slowly falling for his boss along the way. Tony wrestles to accept himself and needs someone to accept him – exactly the way he is. Steve might just be that person. 

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