Res ipsa loquitur

Impersonation
Cougar Alvarez/Jake Jensen -- NC-17 -- 6100 words
"This is a dream assignment, and I am not going to fuck it up just because my teammates aren't secure enough in their masculinity," he said to Pooch.

"You ever nibble on my earlobe again, they will find your body in eight places," Pooch said, but Pooch didn't share Jensen's commitment to self-improvement.
Impersonation at AO3
Impersonation at my site

Thanks to giglet for beta!

Yeah, I'm going to be a lazy slob and not put this up on my own page till tomorrow, but it's at AO3 now:

In Which Cougar Always Looks
Cougar/Jensen -- NC-17 - 2,400 words
There were many things Cougar would have liked to unsee, but the world didn't work like that.

For muccamukk with thanks for the Reader's Guide to the Losers Comic for the Torture-Squicked.

Beta thanks to giglet and cesperanza.

Accommodations

Five reasons the Avengers don't want to live together, and five reasons maybe they do, after all.
Steve Rogers/Tony Stark -- PG-13 -- 3,600 words
Many thanks to astolat and terrio for beta.

OK, I knew I was old because my kid, who was in utero when I started reading slash, turned thirteen today. But it's been ten years since cesperanza accidentally launched 101 Ways To End Up In A Shack In Canada.

I was still a beginner back then, and I can't even tell you how much the shack challenge influenced me; the 500-word length made it possible to explore new pairings, and I learned to spot the juicy center of a story and zero right in on it. It made such an impression on me that when I was writing Breaking and Entering, and I wanted to send Arthur and Eames somewhere that represented ultimate safety and comfort, I put them in a shack in Canada completely by accident.

So now we're doing it again! The details on the anniversary celebration are here, but the short version is that everyone's invited to spend 500 or so words getting pairings old and new into shacks in Canada. (Rumor has it there are actual cities in Canada, but as I've never been there, I prefer to think of it as entirely full of shacks.)

Works in this year's challenge are collected on the Canadian Shack 2011 collection on AO3. I wrote And One Way To End Up In a High-Rise On Lake Shore Drive, a little Fraser/Kowalski story, for old time's sake.

Continued from here and going NSFW pretty much immediately; hope that's not too much of a spoiler for you.

Edited, thanks to a comment by bluemeridian, to reassure one and all that Steve continues to like Tony all the way through, though he likes some parts of Tony in a more personal fashion by the end than he did at the beginning.

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"Tony," he says helplessly. "What -- I don't understand."

It's like playing that game where you make a move and turn over all the pieces from black to white: all the things that have happened since he woke up are turning over and showing another side. He and Tony have been spending nearly all their time together for months. He's seen Tony's good sides and admired them. He's seen Tony's bad sides and either accepted them or helped him nudge himself out of them.

He *likes* Tony.

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Continued from here.

It works at first, and then it doesn't. He works out more, but it's pretty tough to wear this body out. And anything other than full-out exertion leaves his mind free to wander, which is just what he *doesn't* want.

It's probably bad to wish for another megalomaniac so soon after they defeated the last one.

When Tony comes down to the gym, Steve thinks at first that he'll be a great distraction, but he stays just as keyed up as before. It doesn't help at all. In fact, when Tony wants to spar, the idea just makes things worse. Maybe it's the similarity to dancing? Anyhow, Steve says, "No," really fast, and Tony makes an exaggerated hands-off gesture and says, "Fine, fine, no contact, I get it," and there's something stiff around his mouth like Steve's hurt his feelings.

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I want to write a story where Steve really likes Tony. Like, he really really likes Tony. He likes being with Tony. He likes spending his free time with Tony. He doesn't like it when Tony spends time with other people, and if they're not people he approves of, he'll cut them out -- he's good at that, does it with such grace that people go away feeling like something *nice* has happened to them; hey, Captain America noticed them specifically! Captain America has something special he needs done that *only they can do*!

Meanwhile, Steve gets to spend a lot more time with Tony. Because Steve likes Tony.

[this was fifteen minutes on Written?Kitten! as I try to see if I can re-train myself to write on keyboard as well as in longhand.]

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Right, yes, another new fandom.

Exactly the Way You Like It
Steve Rogers/Tony Stark -- NC-17 -- 2000 words
Two thousand words of virginity kink. You already know if that's something you're interested in reading.
On my site or on AO3

Many thanks to cesperanza and terrio for beta.

I need to make myself a Steve Rogers icon.


have some visual inspiration

Right, don't die of shock or anything, but I've posted a new (by some definitions of the word) SGA story to sga_saturday. Check it out over here!

Yes, I know, I know. I already had a fandom. Well, now I've got another one.

I've posted a new Inception story.

Breaking and Entering -- NC-17 -- 8,600 words
Eames is very good at pretending

On my website or at AO3.

Many thanks to cesperanza for a beautifully strict beta and to Laura for beta and britpicking.