Hypothetical story meme

[resonant]

This is just the sort of thing I can't resist, and just the sort of thing that adds to my list of Stories That Will Probably Never Be Finished, but ... (taken from torch):

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I'll tell you something about the story I'd write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write)

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy
15. High School / College AU

I'll take any of the fandoms I've written in plus ... let's see, in the past year I've seen all three Men In Black movies, plus seasons 1-4 of Buffy and the first few eps of Angel (yeah, so late to the party that the house isn't even there any more).

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[resonant]

Oh, I totally do Avengers. Suppose we body-swapped pre-serum Steve with post-serum Steve?

Back in the 1940s, Little Steve wakes up from a dream of being squeezed to death by a boa constrictor to discover that the neck of his skivvy shirt and the thigh openings of his shorts are so tight that he's losing circulation.

Yesterday he asked a neighborhood dame named Betty to a dance, and she laughed in his face; today she gets right up off the stoop and puts her arm through his and says, "You new in town? Let me show you around." Yesterday he tried to stop a bully from beating a dog and got his face shoved into the pavement; today the same bully backs into a doorway when he sees Steve coming. Nobody recognizes him, and everybody treats him like some kind of movie star until he's ready to spit.

Until Bucky comes home from work. "You used to be smaller." "Yeah, I remember." "Tell me about it." "No idea." "Huh. OK. [pause] So. Wanna go whistle at girls?" "Nah. Let's go get something to eat."

Meanwhile, on the Helicarrier, in the middle of Steve and Tony's "Put on the suit -- let's go a few rounds" fight, Steve begins to cough, and then to wheeze, and he has a full-on asthma attack, bends double, and ... shrinks into Little Steve. His uniform is comically too big, he's about Natasha's height, he can hardly breathe -- and he's still ready to scrap with Tony.

And then Loki attacks the Helicarrier and Banner transforms into the Hulk. Tony keeps trying to protect Steve, and Steve is all like, Outta my way, Stretch; I've got a trickster god to fight. Unable to help Tony using brute strength, he comes up with Something Amazing that I can't think of right now, but in addition to being something only a little tiny person could do, it's also Terribly Clever and Terribly Brave, and they restart the engines and so on.

I'm thinking they switch back in the night, each asleep beside his handsome naked boyfriend.

If anyone says, "But if Steve changes bodies in the 1940s, it changes the entire timeline and probably there will never be a real Captain America and your whole plot will swallow its own tail and disappear," I plan to point to Loki and say, "It's his fault."

[akacat]

I love this so much! And yes, it would definitely be Loki's fault.