Everything Left Unsaid

It is the fourth day for the unveiling of gifts! 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!

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One Winter Day for miramare (Avengers Academy, 2,596 Words])
It's winter at Avengers Academy. There are Frost Giants outside the walls, Asgardians on campus, and Steve can't stop thinking about Tony's blacksmith outfit.

That One Word for fandomfrolics (616, 1,753 Words)
There's a certain word Steve's been careful not to say, namely because he knows Tony has certain feelings about it. And that's fine. Isn't it?

Trust Me, I Got You for Ivorysilk (MCU, Art & 3073 Words)
N/A

Presenting Iron "Man" for lazywriter7 (Noir, Art)
My Cap-Ironman Holiday Exhange fill for this year, featuring a grumpy female Tony Stark glowering at Steve, who's not in the frame :)

Searching for Lets_call_me_Lily (616, 2,232 Words)
Tony is doing all he can to help Steve find his recently-returned-from-the-dead friend Bucky Barnes. Everyone seems to notice but Steve.

Canon divergence from Captain America Vol 5 #14.

sit with me (and look up at the stars) for fantalaimon (MCU, 1,363 Words)
Natasha wants to protect her friends from the things that haunt them--that can be difficult when they decide to face their demons head-on.

Before the clock strikes 12 for Neurotoxia (Noir, Comic)
As the hands of a clock face meet together briefly, so do they record the passage of time. And yet being those hands on a clock, they themselves are the keepers of time but aren't themselves immune to its effects. All clocks meet and all clocks stop. But time marches forward, ever onward, ever faster.

In The Cards for grue (MCU, 6135 Words)
By this point Tony really should have been used to the more bizarre twists and turns his life had taken -- especially since setting up a high profile superhero crash pad. But it turns out there are things that still manage to catch even him off guard and leave him floundering. Meanwhile the way he feels every time Steve looks at him, when his chest goes all warm and fluttery, well that certainly isn't making any of this any easier.

Compass Heading for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU, 13,232 Words)
So… It's complicated. Steve went and got himself killed on a mission, and, somehow, in the aftermath, Tony ended up getting together with Barnes. He's still not entirely sure how that happened, really, but he's not about to question it too hard. He's enjoying it too much.

Then, because the universe loves turning his life upside down, they find Steve. It's been two years, and things have changed, but Tony still cares about the asshole, and that, right there, is a problem.

Feel Like a Puzzle (Can't Find Your Missing Piece) for Cap Iron Man Community (616, 7,824 Words)
After the Civil War, after Steve’s death, after Tony deleted his brain and the Siege on Asgard ended, things were finally looking up for Tony.

He couldn’t believe his luck when Steve not only wanted their friendship back, but also asked him on a date.

Things weren't quite as rosy as they seemed, though, and soon Tony found himself dealing with villains and teammates alike while trying to figure out how to continue after forgetting the last year of his life.

My Heart Belongs to Another for Cap Iron Man Community (MCU/Once Upon a Time(tv), 17,175 Words)
Long ago, young, drunk and desperate, Tony made a deal with a fairy tale creature: his heart for someone else's life. When said creature shows up to collect his prize years later, things turn out more complicated than either of them expects, and unless Tony's true love can find the arc reactor that's now his heart, he won't have long to live.

Crossover with Once Upon a Time, but can be read without any knowledge of the show.

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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