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Crossovers

Avengers/Good Omens

This Long Game Is Not For Outsiders by TardisIsTheOnlyWayToTravel
Her name isn't really Darcy, of course: her true name is something much older and a damn lot more powerful.

Norse gods weren't the only supernatural beings in New Mexico when Thor was there. Clever and adorable Avengers/Good Omens fusion. There's also a sequel that reimagines the movie in this context: Against a Common Enemy

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Avengers/Star Trek Reboot

Secondhand Hope by flyakate
Avengers/Trek Reboot fusion with some good banter. In which Tony gets excited by alien tech.

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Spider-Man/The West Wing

Let Parker Be Parker by lonelywalker
In an age of costumed heroes and alien invasions, Ben Parker is the President America needs - a reassuring presence in the White House, and a hero to the West Wing staff. His nephew Peter, however... With Ben Parker in the White House, it's all CJ can do to keep his nephew Peter out of the papers. It's the West Wing/Spider-man crossover you never knew you wanted but which you totally do, because Ben Parker=Martin Sheen=Jed Bartlet and everything just falls into place once you realize that. <3

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Avengers/Arrow

Bad Altitude by Frea_O
Fun crossover where Felicity Smoak and Natasha Romanoff are trapped together on a plane that looks like it's going to crash.

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when they decided they would try to make it on their own

Elementary

The Case of the Chimerical Chelonian by Siria
"I have managed to ascertain Clyde's location," Sherlock said, and beamed at her.

Joan peered at him. "You know, you phrasing it like that makes it sound like you lost him."

"It wasn't so much that I lost him as that he chose to absent himself—"

"How do you lose a tortoise, Sherlock? He can only travel at—"

"—Striking out on his own, as it were. Hence the theme song."

Joan flopped back against her pillows. "You lost Clyde." hee! Adorable Sherlock/Joan conversation that could have come right out of an episode.

The Cupcake Mafia by Siria
"And after all, Watson," Sherlock said, clapping his flour-dusty hands, "on a most basic level, cooking is just chemistry." this is adorable.

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tell him to wait right here for me

The Middleman

Cornstarch and Coconut by innie_darling
Wendy plots to bring the Middleman and Lacey together. This is adorable

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Star Trek Reboot

Inevitability by galaxysoup
More than one friendship was derailed by the Narada's arrival. Spock!Prime and reboot!McCoy have a chat.

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i will unsettle the ground beneath you

Pacific Rim

Stories contain spoilers for the movie!

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and i'm talking to myself at night because i can't forget

DCU

the fields are cut and bleed to red by irnan
Helena Wayne, in her own home universe, never had any brothers but one, and he was so many years older than she that he counted closer to a favourite uncle. But Helena Wayne was never born into this Gotham, and when Dick Grayson laid aside the Robin costume for good he had no baby sister to promise it to; it went to someone else entirely. Helena Wayne (from Earth-2 I think?) finds herself in Gotham (pre-reboot), and ends up forming a relationship with Jason. It works for them, somehow.

sticks and stones by irnan
Dick has not really considered himself Rom in – in some ways, not ever, if he's honest. It's – it's complicated, OK, and not like his father made that many overt efforts to include Dick in that world and that life. Sometimes he wonders if something had ever – happened. Or been said. (He thinks his maternal grandparents live(d?) in Maine. One day he might get up the courage to go find out.) Though yes, he speaks Romani, Welsh Romani in fact – or he did, once.

A long time ago.

You unlearn languages so quickly when you're a kid. Dick and Damian and languages, among other things. <3

you're the lucky ones by latenightcuppa
It's not how Batman and Robin are supposed to go but they're papering over the cracks and they're making it up as they go along. Let's face it, Cass should have been the one who took on the cowl while Bruce was gone, and this story is a great exploration of why. ♥CASS♥

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the super doesn't stand for model but that doesn't mean i'm plain

Avengers

art theft shenanigans by anonymous
When he's twenty-six Steve Rogers gets a doctorate in Art History and becomes a professional art conservator, and Bucky kidnaps him for a life of crime. AU where Bucky is an international art thief who seduces Steve into being his forger. ADORABLE.

been holding it in for a while by haipollai
Inspired by a quote from Welcome to Night Vale: "Whisper a dangerous secret to someone you care about. Now they have the power to destroy you, but they won't. This is what love is." Steve gets Bucky back. *happy sigh*

Black and Blue by roboticonography
In which Pepper and Steve share a dance. This is very sweet.

Chase Into No Man's Land by flash0flight
Steve and Natasha fall in love while on the hunt for the Winter Soldier. SO MANY BUCKY FEELS. (Could use another beta pass)

Cleanliness is next to godliness (only in a very abridged dictionary) by Odsbodkins
Five Times that Steve and Bucky had a bath together set in movieverse. Exactly what it says on the tin. Sweet and funny and occasionally hot.

Couldn't Get That Boy To Kill Me by redbrunja
Kill me, she thinks, empty gun trained right between his eyes.

She is so tired.

He lowers his weapon.

Natasha hates him for that for years. Really good look at Clint and Natasha in the early stages of their relationship.

counting backwards while the stars are falling by girl0nfire
Really lovely Steve/Bucky AU where even though they didn't grow up together or serve in the war together, and don't even know each other, there's still a connection between them and they dream about it all the time. *happy sigh*

End & Beginning by bactaqueen
Bucky helps Steve recover after his return from Dimension Z with some schmoopy domesticity. *sigh* (comicsverse)

For a Rainy Day by Frea_O
Five books you can find in Maria Hill's apartment. Cue Maria Hill being awesome.

Full of Grace by Odsbodkins
Steve/Bucky AU where Steve becomes the Winter Soldier, and Bucky wakes up and becomes an Avenger, but with a happy ending, which is unusual in these sorts of AUs. Nicely done. I especially like that the Winter Soldier's relationship with the Black Widow isn't excised in the role reversal.

Going Down by cjmarlowe
The USO girls take Steve out for a ride. Hot and sweet. Oh, Steve.

keep it pure on the inside by haipollai
Steve likes it when Bucky wears the Captain America uniform. Mmmm, me too, Steve, me too.

keep me forever, tell me you want me by liveonthesun
I think I've recced the other stories in this series (if not, uh, consider them recced), but this is the one where Steve and Bucky and Natasha decide to become Steve/Bucky/Natasha and it is ridiculously hot.

Now There's a Beautiful River by legoline
"Do you know why you always were such a bad dancer?" Bucky asks softly, his mouth close to Steve's ear.

"Because I was about as tall as a Hobbit?" Steve asks and Bucky chuckles.

"No," he answers, "The reason why you were such a bad dancer is easy: you love music too much. You got so distracted by the tune and the lyrics and the voices that you kept losing track of the steps."

Steve swallows past a lump in his throat that wasn't there just seconds before. He hadn't even thought about it that way, but trust that James Buchanan Barnes manages to see something beautiful even in something as silly as Steve's two left feet. Lovely bit of domestic Steve/Bucky schmoop.

One of These Mornings by cjmarlowe
Really hot pre-serum Steve/Bucky.

Pure as the driven slush by Odsbodkins
Bucky discovers Steve's been going out to gay bars, and slowly realizes he doesn't want Steve to be with anyone but him. (set pre-war)

scenes from our mansion, after the war by moirariordan
"I was thinking we could take a vacation." Pepper pauses. "A real one."

Tony blinks. "Is that code for something? Are we being surveilled?"

Pepper takes a deep breath and deliberately catches his eye, watching his expression settle into sincerity. "We haven't had time to breathe since everything happened. And that's not a good thing. I feel - I'm not sure how I feel, but everything's different and I just - " she takes another deep breath. "You're what I'm sure of. I'm sure of us. Everything else - who knows." Really wonderful Tony/Pepper set after IM3.

silhouette, step into the streetlight by caughtinanocean
When Steve was a slip of a thing, too much bravery crammed into that slight body, too much stubborn determination—the most infuriating human Bucky had ever met, and also the best—Bucky would have done anything to protect him.

The body changed, but everything else stayed the same.

Bucky thinks, long, hard, and often, about all the years that he wasn't there to protect Steve. Steve has a secret he'd rather not share, but Bucky eventually convinces him to talk. Angsty and hot with just the right amount of emo porn to go with the regular porn.

Swan Lake and Slostivs by toujours_nigel
But it is such a lovely lie that she thinks she should be able to spend ten minutes with it, since she has no classes and only stewed beef grey as old snow to look forward to at dinner. And then there is the matter of his smile, and how he looks not ten years older than her, and how brave he must be, and how trusted if he is let wander into the decadent West to hunt down enemies of the State. It might take longer than ten minutes before she can begin to behave as though it is of no importance. Sharp look at Natasha in the first flush of love for the Winter Soldier. Oh honey.

thicker than blood by beardsley
Face to face or back to back, behind enemy lines or behind the privacy of closed doors, armed to the teeth or stripped bare. It doesn't goddamn matter. Steve and Bucky are like brothers. Except for the part where they have ridiculously hot sex. And in conclusion, brothers. (comicsverse)

this city bleeds its aching heart by Renne
While undercover married for a mission, Steve and Bucky add fake pretend (i.e., real) sex to the relationship for verisimilitude. Not because they have feelings for each other or anything. Oh, no, never that. 34k words of gloriously oblivious mutual pining and hot sex. *happy sigh*

Uncharted by DisappointMe
Surprisingly adorable for what is mostly a PWP in which Bucky helps Steve learn about butt stuff. (Could use a good line edit; the lack of commas was distracting to me.)

We Happy Few by Polexia_Aphrodite
Steve and Natasha negotiate Bucky's return and the addition of him to their relationship. Sweet and melancholy and hot. (I've already recced the first story in the series.)

Women In Garbage by Zhailei
"This is a bad idea," she says, pulling back. Mostly because one of them has to.

Clint tilts his head in agreement. "Not the worst one I've had today."

Okay, so that much is true, at least.

"Come on, Katie," he says. "Make bad decisions with me."

Well. They're a team, right? So she kisses him. Adorable Clint/Kate, with pitch-perfect Hawkeye banter.

you're my national anthem by girl0nfire
Bucky insists on giving Steve his birthday sex regardless of where they are. Sweet and hot. Steve should have ALL the sex with Bucky on his birthday.

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