Avengers kissing fest!

[such_heights]

(Me? Procrastinating on my own fannish projects? Never!)

I declare a festival of kissing for my pretty summer fling fandom. Avengers movieverse, all characters, all ships and no ships, all fanworks.

THE RULES:

01. Leave a comment with two or more characters from the Avengers movieverse who you'd like to see kiss. You can include a prompt if you like as an optional extra for the prompt-filler.
02. Reply to a comment with a fanwork in which those characters kiss. The kissing can be platonic or romantic, on the mouth or the cheek or the forehead or the shoulder or anywhere else that you like.
03. All fanworks welcome, including art/podfic/vids/icons/recs/meta/fic etc. Multiple fills for the same prompt are encouraged. Replying to your own prompt is fine. Anon commenting is fine. Coming back and posting a fill two months later is fine.

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eta: fills so far:

Bruce/Clint
by estelendur

Bruce/Natasha
by musesfool

Bruce/Pepper/Tony
by d_generate_girl
by such_heights

Bruce/Tony
by musesfool
by thingswithwings
by florahart
by estelendur

Bucky/Natasha/Steve
by hederahelix

Bucky/Steve
by gorgeousnerd
by jain
by laylee

Clint/Coulson
by sunnyrea
by meinterrupted

Clint/Darcy
by liseuse
by liseuse 2
by grammarwoman

Clint/Hill
by stevie

Clint/Natasha
by recessional (contains gory imagery)
by liseuse
by liseuse 2 (gory imagery)
by some_stars
by recessional 2
by ceridweyn_lin
by recessional 3
by recessional 4
by anonymous

Clint/Steve
by longwhitecoats

Clint/various
by ashen_key

Coulson/Fury
by emmypenny

Coulson/Steve
by estelendur
by such_heights

Darcy/Jane
by meinterrupted

Darcy/Thor
by florahart

Darcy/Steve
by musesfool
by liseuse

Fury/Hill
by longwhitecoats
by igrockspock

Fury/Steve
by jain

Heimdall/Loki
by just_ann_now

Hill/Natasha
by just_ann_now
by liseuse

Hulk/Pepper
by spicedrum

Jane/Tony
by spicedrum

Loki/Thor
by terryh-nyan
by longwhitecoats

Natasha/OFC
by ashen_key

Natasha/Pepper
by thingswithwings
by such_heights

Natasha/Rhodey
by sinensis

Natasha/Steve
by liseuse
by musesfool
by spicedrum

Natasha/Thor
by spatz

Pepper/Tony
by thingswithwings
by spatz

Rhodey/Tony
by spatz

Steve/Thor
by estelendur

Tony/team
by such_heights

Comments

[estelendur]

When Tony hears Bruce casually describe his inability to kill himself, his heart damn near breaks. One of the most brilliant scientists he's ever met - and he doesn't just say that because Bruce has done some work even he can't quite improve on at the moment - and he talks about himself like nobody would miss him if he were gone. Like it's normal to get so low you try to eat lead.

Which only seals the deal Tony had already made with himself, to bring Bruce back to Stark Industries like the lonely, lost, brilliant scientific puppy he is and just let the man loose in a lab.

So he uses some of the downtime between defeat of Loki and sending-back of Loki to have Jarvis find out the kind of lab setups Bruce used to use before the accident, so that his very own nook of R&D would be set up in a way that was familiar, yet not quite like seeing an old ghost.

Tony is very happy indeed when he leads Bruce to the nook (well, he calls it that, but it's more like twice the size of the lab on the helicarrier without even counting the large instruments) and is immediately confronted with the question "Did you set this up specifically for me?" Tony doesn't answer directly, merely points out all the instruments he's arranged for specially and the empty spaces for the ones that Bruce can special-order and gleefully watches Bruce practically have a nerd-gasm.

"I'll leave you to settle in, big guy," Tony says as he waves and leaves.

"Yeah sure," Bruce mutters, already pulling up data on a screen.

--

Tony and Bruce, oddly enough, seem to keep the same psychotic hours, wandering out of their workshop and lab, respectively (because of course Stark R&D is in Stark Tower), in the middle of the night to grab a bite to eat and a cup of caffeine to drink. So, naturally, when their nom-o'clock happens to overlap, they talk about science a lot.

At first Tony's just glad to have someone who can (nearly, he tells himself) operate on the same intellectual level. Then he notices that Bruce outright avoids talking about the Avengers, about the Hulk, about Loki, about the fact that they're in Stark Freaking Tower and there's still damage everywhere. So he tries to steer the conversation around to those topics, wanting to figure out exactly why and if there's something he can fix. They've begun to have a little overlap in their projects, and if something's bothering his science buddy-- Tony remembers that moment of heartbreak on the Helicarrier, and, surprising himself a little, swears he won't let Bruce get that low again, not if he can help it.

Of course, because he's Tony, the logical course of action is to show up in Bruce's lab one afternoon and say, "The other guy saved my life, you know," with absolutely no warning.

"Hi, Tony," Bruce says, sounding resigned rather than surprised.

"The Hulk, I mean," Tony needlessly clarifies.

"Yes, Tony, I'm aware," Bruce says, playing with data on his screen.

"So he's clearly not all bad. He saved your life, he saved my life, he helped save Manhattan."

"Tony, those were exceptional circumstances," Bruce says in his most patient you-don't-get-it-do-you voice. "Haven't we discussed this enough?"

"No, we haven't," Tony says, hopping up to sit on the desk next to Bruce. "By reason of you-" he tugs Bruce over to face him, "keep avoiding the topic of the other guy. And the topic of the Avengers. And Manhattan. And the fact that you're living in Stark Freakin Tower, or what parts of it are rebuilt. Everything even tangentially related to the other guy, you won't even touch. You won't even help me work on the Chitauri tech," and here Tony pouts. "Not that I can't do it myself, but you might think of something I haven't yet."

"Yet?" Bruce quirks an eyebrow and turns away.

"Stop trying to change the subject," Tony says, pulling Bruce close enough to lock his legs around Bruce's waist. "Don't go away. You are having this conversation, even if we have to be uncomfortably close in order to have it."

"Why, Tony?" Bruce sighs and doesn't even try to escape the leg-lock.

"I built the other guy a playground."

"You what?"

Tony tightens his grip in case Bruce tries to run away again, and adds his hands on his shoulders for good measure. "I built him a playground. So you can let him out if it gets to be too much and not worry about us trying to kill you or imprison you and he can run around and… smash things. It's walled in enough layers of the strongest alloy known to men produceable in sufficient quantity, and has enough stuff in it he can smash safely that he shouldn't try pounding on the walls too hard. The smash toys are reassembling on the same principle that sea sponges use, so he'll never run out of things to hit, and if Thor ever comes back down they can play in there safely."

"Why?" Bruce appears to be having difficulty processing this, which is good, because Tony's gesticulating means he inadvertently released him during the speech, which Tony quickly corrects.

And this is the hard question. "If you don't learn to control the transformation, if you never trust yourself-- I would be very sad if you tried to kill yourself again," he says in a rush. "And it would eat at you from inside - if you have that much power how do you know you can control it and all that, but if you practice, if you use it, you'll learn how to control it, and I made you a safe place for that, where nobody will get hurt."

Bruce looks slightly shocked, then looks around at the arrangement of their bodies and looks very shocked. He seems to come to a realization. "Do you… like me?" he asks, pulling away slightly.

"I consider you a very good friend," Tony says. "And am very grateful you saved my life. I harbor some not insignificant amount of professional and personal affection for you. And maybe your intelligence is a huge turn-on, yeah," and he grins wickedly.

"In that case," says Bruce, "Thank you for the science and thank you for the playground. Thank you for caring." He leans forward and kisses Tony on the nose.

"Is that all I get?" Tony pouts.

"I'm working my way up to it," Bruce says. "It's been a while. Now can you let me out of this trap so I can do my work? I promise I'll go use the playground later."

"Okay," Tony says, pulling Bruce in for a real kiss, gentle and kind, and releasing him. "I see you're working on that project I mentioned yesterday." He hops down and stands at the screen next to Bruce. "Here, let me show you what I've got. Jarvis, give me the relevant files."

Bruce smiles, and leans into Tony just a little while they work.

[liseuse]

Jeez, Tony, break my heart with unexpected sweetness why dontcha!

[estelendur]

^_^ thankyou!

[sylvaine]

Awww, so sweet and funny! "nom-o'clock" made me giggle out loud, as did Tony's "You are having this conversation, even if we have to be uncomfortably close in order to have it." :D

[estelendur]

Thank you! :D

I thought it was a very logical designation for "that time in the middle of the night when you go get food" :3