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Contrition alone could neither save nor damn him. Only the wronged held that power. But Tony was gone, unable to answer him, and Steve wondered who else could grant him the reprieve that came through absolution or castigation.
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There is only this, only here and now. It takes Steve eleven years of transience to accept this, eleven years too late.
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An Open Palm by nostalgicatsea for magicasen
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
01 Oct 2023
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The simplest and smartest thing to do would be to kill Tony Stark. He was a danger to the Rings and to himself, the world's foremost expert in creating destruction out of nothing.
Wenwu was no fool; if you played with fire, you were bound to get burned. But that was only if you didn't know how to master it and he did. He knew how to provide the spark and how to temper the resulting flame, how to keep it from sputtering out or engulfing everything in its path.
He knew how to make it his because he knew what Tony Stark wanted and more importantly, needed.
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Once More for the First Time by nostalgicatsea for Neverever
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe
19 Jun 2023
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It was like clockwork. Get together, do a mission, part ways.
Steve wondered what would happen if he asked Tony to stay.
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Here they both were, Steve careening forward, the brakes useless and broken, Tony in the middle of the road. A collision years in the making.
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“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd—the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.” — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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Same old story. by orphan_account
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
30 Apr 2019
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“We’re toasting our regrets,” Tony explains. “Your turn."
“Oh,” Steve says.
It takes him a long minute to think of something. Or, more likely, it takes him a long moment to work up the courage. But then he turns and raises his bottle to Tony. Looks him dead in the eyes, a sad, sort of wistful smile on his face, and says, “You.”
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26 Apr 2026
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Remember all those fluffy OT6 the-Avengers-live-in-the-Tower fics?
Let's start there and end in Endgame.
They were never meant to be: the six of them who birthed the Avengers, the six of them who failed the universe.
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27 Aug 2022
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The dust settles and the stones are returned, leaving Steve more aimless than ever. In a world that doesn’t seem to need him anymore, he eventually learns that purpose goes beyond war and love is more than just a four-letter word.
Featuring two halves of a road trip, sidewalk chalk, and a man with whom Steve never expected to share a pull-out couch.
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Steve sighs, and wants to bang his head against the cabinets. “You’re welcome too, Tony,” he says wearily. “I’m not trying to keep anyone away.”
“No,” Tony says bitterly. “You just left without telling anyone where you were going, without any way for us to contact you.”
It stings, but it’s not untrue.
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04 Jun 2022
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Zugzwang by Woad
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
09 May 2016
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His package comes back marked "undeliverable."
Spoilers for Civil War.
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16 Jun 2021
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Only Dream Forever by aslightstep
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
03 Mar 2017
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"I have an equation. In the eight years since Mr. Stark announced himself as Iron Man, the number of known enhanced person has grown exponentially. And, during the same time period, the number of potentially world-ending events has risen at a commensurate rate."
"You're saying it's our fault?"
"I'm saying there may be a causality."In the wake of civil war, Wanda makes a wish.
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09 Mar 2021