#Rhodey the Raccoon

[romanoffshouse]

"Whatever it takes"

– Steve Rogers in Avengers: Endgame

[aeterna-auroral-avenger]

Avengers: Infinity's End

Two chapters today, gang, because the first is short, and I have little patience to share something I'm proud of LOL

Chapter 13 - The Hulk in Shirts [AO3 link]

Summary: Tony needs to rest, and Rory needs a team. So Rory decides to seek out another big brain to help in the operation. And she's surprised to find big brain and big brawn have turned into a more complete package deal.

Chapter 14 - They're Still Out There

Summary: The Guardians may have found where Thanos has been hiding, and a key detail has been revealed. Because of this detail, a particular heist idea is shut down by Rory herself. And it kills her to do it too.

[florida3exclamationpoints]

And if I said that even though the fat jokes in Endgame were cheap and lazy writing it was actually kinda Real because there will always be people who react to physical manifestations of mental illness in that way. But Thor got through it anyway. And he was still worthy. And I take a little comfort in the fact that none of the OG 6 made fun of him. They were all genuinely worried. Most everyone was genuinely worried. What if I said that? People are always gonna be mean but you can be ok anyway.

[antvnger]

((Aha! Great choice! Lol I’m surprised no one had asked me that yet.

ENTER ROCKET AND NEBULA IN THEIR SHIP, THE LANDING OF WHICH BLOWS LANG’S LUNCH AWAY

ROCKET [to Lang:] Thou humie—where is the one I seek, big green?

LANG The kitchen, if mine understanding’s right. The ship is wondrous, large and striking both.

NEBULA [in radio:] Be careful, Rhodey, on thy swift reentry, for there’s an idiot in th’landing zone.

ENTER JAMES RHODES IN HIS WAR MACHINE SUIT, DESCENDING SUDDENLY FROM THE AIR

LANG By heaven, most astonishing and startling!

RHODES How art thou, reg’lar-sizèd man?

BANNER [to Lang:] —I see thy lunch hath been gigantic’ly disturb’d— Share thou my tacos. ‘Tis just recompense for thinking I could do more than I could, transforming thee once more into infanthood.

The Bard’s Avengers

@ultimategamernerd @aintinacage

[agentem]

When Rhodey was taken

Okay so I don't know for sure when Rhodey was taken. No one does. Anyone who says they know is lying. The show didn't say explicitly.

But I have seen two points of "evidence" that I want to talk about.

Firstly, people are saying he did not wear leg braces in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier so it had to be before that. This is technically not true.

Rhodey does have the light up feature of the braces UNDER his pants in FatWS. Is it highly suspect that the braces got markedly better AFTER Tony (who developed them) died? Yes. But, again, technically he did have them.

If you enlarge this image, you can see the light underneath his pants in this screencap from TFATWS. It does sort of look like they forgot he was paralyzed and went back and added light spots in post. But they are there.

Secondly, people are saying when he saves Rocket in Endgame he is bleeding and the blood is red so he can't be a Skrull. (Their blood is purple.)

Rhodey bleeding in Endgame

I am still not sure how the Skrull bleeding works. I thought they had to be dead to change back, initially. But then Sonya later just shoots the Skrull in her office and he changes partially and bleeds purple.

People have also said Raava would not continue the ruse of "being paralyzed" at this point if she thought she was going to die.

I'm not sure. I don't know that the rules of Skrull blood or the rules of Rhodey's leg braces have been properly defined. So here's some "evidence", your guess is as good as mine.

[sarahowritesostucky]

I love Nat and Rhodey giving their yeses with attitude, and meanwhile my boy scout Steve over here be raising his hand and totally focused and serious paying close attention, 'cause this could be an important question.

AVENGERS: ENDGAME dir. Joe & Anthony Russo (2019)

[girll-almightty]

the what if series would’ve been so much more interesting if there wasn’t a major plot line going on with the watcher and *sighs* captain carter.

i wish they just gave us more and more hypotheticals and nothing more.

what if rocket raccoon was antman’s sidekick?

what if wanda died instead of pietro?

what if the other 50% was blipped?

what if spiderman was team cap?

what if rhodey had a crush on pepper?

what if the avengers were a rock band?

what if stucky?

what if we never heard of peggy carter ever again?

[fun-incorrect-quotes]

If the AOS team was in Endgame

Steve tightens his shield, glaring at Thanos, ready to get back into the fight, when suddenly his comm link crackles to life.

Steve shakes his head, not believing what he's hearing. Suddenly, the link is clear as day.

"On your left."

He turns to see a portal, and out walks the king of Wakanda and in flies Sam Wilson. More portals appear, and everyone has come back. Stephen Strange walks out of the final portal and Wong quickly finds him.

"Is that everyone?" Strange asks

"What, you wanted more?!" Wong says indignantly.

As Scott Lang crashes through the rubble, releasing Rocket Raccoon, Smart Hulk, and Rhodey, Steves comm link crackles to life once again.

"I was sad to see we didn't get an invite. Mind if we crash the party?"

Captain America's eyes widen. That voice belonged to a dead man. He raises his hand up to the comm. "Coulson?"

"Yeah, and some friends."

Suddenly the ground starts to shake, and a woman seems to levitate safely to the ground. "It's clear here, AC." She says through the comm. A loud whirring is heard from above, and a helicarrier descends on the battleground.

"You didn't think we'd miss this did you Cap?" Coulson said, climbing down from the helicarrier.

"Truth be told I think we all thought you were dead."

"I knew he was still alive." Tony said

"Let's cut the chit-chat, we've got half a universe to save." Agent Mackenzie says gruffly.

"Avengers! Assemble."

[ym4yum1]

Preface — My favorite Spy (5)

November, 2024.

Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5.

How did the MCU shape Natasha Romanoff's character?

In AoU, THE Black Widow — arguably Marvel's sharpest, most capable spy — had her "damsel in distress" moment while waiting for Bruce (not even the Hulk) to save her from captivity. The only female Avenger at the time, Natasha was suddenly reduced to a love interest, questioning her worth as a hero and burdened with shame simply because she couldn't procreate. Who thought this was a good idea? My husband's answer: "A man." No offense.

Now, let's consider how Natasha has evolved in the MCU.

In Iron Man 2 (2010), she flirted with Tony, but earned his respect by hacking a system JARVIS couldn't crack to free Rhodey. In The Avengers (2012), she had a deep partnership with Clint, outsmarted Loki, and found the key to close the portal. In The Winter Soldier (2014), she was as much a protagonist as Steve, building a strong connection with him, even sharing a kiss. Then, in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), the film began with her already involved with Bruce. Yet, their story happened almost entirely off-screen, undermining the narrative principle of "show, don't tell," and diminishing her existing relationships.

If I were Thor, I'd be upset at being the only Avenger left out of Natasha's supposed romantic entanglements.

Jokes aside, the "monster connection" between Natasha and Bruce felt forced and unearned, as did their "romance" — a plot device to tie together two isolated people with no meaningful payoff. Ultimately, it was a disservice to both, reducing them to simplistic, cartoonish tropes.

Then, in Captain America: Civil War (2016), Natasha was forced to choose sides, pitted against close friends like Steve and Clint while trying not to lose her Avengers family. In Avengers: Infinity War (2018), though worked underground, she continued fighting crime alongside Steve.

Finally, in Avengers: Endgame (2019), her death was framed as her "redemption". But really? By this point, hadn't she evolved well beyond her past, proving her heroism time and again — even taking on a leadership role within the Avengers? And why would Steve Rogers — one of the best tacticians ever — send two non-superpowered humans to retrieve an Infinity Stone on an unknown alien planet? The Soul Stone's demand for a "sacrifice of love" was unknown to the Avengers, yet the writers chose Natasha and Clint, who had a deep bond, without any strategic justification.

From a storytelling perspective, sending someone with resilience or cosmic experience like Hulk or Rocket Raccoon would have made more sense. Natasha and Clint — skilled spies — would have been better suited to New York than the Hulk, where stealth mattered. Instead, many of these choices felt contrived and plot-driven rather than organic character growth, making Natasha's sacrifice feel hollow and unearned — designed more for emotional impact than logical consistency. Further, the absence of a funeral added insult to injury.

Sending Natasha Romanoff to Vormir, a mission that essentially preordained her death, without any explanation whatsoever, cheapened her development. From that moment, the plot felt lackluster, the movie lost its meaning, and the MCU lost a fan. But I digress.

[bedlamsbard]

About 800 words written today, returning to my MCU roots (banter). Cut most of what I wrote yesterday but feel much better about the replacement.

Snippet from Of Home Near chapter 18.

Rocket and Nebula both swiveled to watch Ross’s entrance.  “What, this is the a-hole you kept going on about?” Rocket demanded loudly. “I thought he’d at least be interesting or something, this is just a guy, everyone’s seen one of those.” “That is a talking raccoon,” Ross said. “What’d you call me, you –” Nebula grabbed Rocket by the back of his shirt as he made a flying leap for Ross.  He hung in her grip, scrabbling at the air and shrieking, “I’ll kill you!  I’ll kill you!  Don’t you ever call me that!” “Stop that, you’re embarrassing yourself,” Nebula hissed at him.  “You’re embarrassing me!” Rocket twisted around to glare up at her.  “You don’t get embarrassed!  And put me down!” She dropped him with a thump.  “I can get embarrassed if I want to!” “Travel’s broadening,” Tony said, trying not to too obviously collapse into the nearest chair as Rhodey helped him over to it. “You should try it sometime.” Ross looked hard at him, then swept his gaze around the room, taking in the occupants who hadn’t gone out to the gate with the Avengers.  His mouth went tight, but all he said was, “The less I know, the less I have to explain in a congressional hearing, so talk fast.” “Who is this guy?” Nebula asked Tony. “The Build-A-Bear there kind of summed it up,” Tony said. “He didn’t explain anything.” “Yeah, probably for the best.” Ross eyed the three of them in disbelief, then turned his attention to Steve and Natasha, apparently under the impression that they were the only two responsible adults in the room.  Under the circumstances, Natasha couldn’t exactly blame him.  “Rogers, tell me you actually have a plan.”

[dark-mcu-ship-tourney]

Hello!

Welcome to the Problematic MCU Ship Tournament!

This blog will pit 64 different pairings against one another. All of them are in some way “problematic”- some feature a minor and an adult, others feature incestuous pairings, others still simply have questionable or potentially abusive dynamics. Many ships combine elements of more than one.

Each day, 4 polls will be posted pitting two different ships together (for a total of 8 ships per day). You are free to vote in as many or as few of these polls as you’d like.

This blog is explicitly pro-ship and anti-censorship, and obviously features dark themes. If this is a point of discomfort for you, you are free to block this blog, I don’t bite. Hate towards anyone (and anything unreasonably rude about ships or characters) will not be published and users that send it will be blocked. Nothing explicit will be posted to this blog, regardless of the ship, so minors are free to interact if they so wish.

The bracket below shows all the ships that will be posted, as well as their first opponent. After the first round has been completed, the diagram will be updated and all of the winning ships will be pitted against one another. You can also find a typed list of all ships under the cut, for users that can’t or don’t want to read my terrible handwriting.

May the odds be ever in your (ship’s) favor!

All First Round Ships:

1. Morgan Stark x Harold “Happy” Hogan

2. Morgan Stark x James “Rhodey” Rhodes

3. Morgan Stark x Tony Stark

4. Morgan Stark x Pepper Potts

5. Scott Lang x Cassie Lang

6. Frigga Freyrdottir x Thor Odinson

7. Vision x Billy Maximoff x Tommy Maximoff

8. Wanda Maximoff x Billy Maximoff x Tommy Maximoff

9. Maria Stark x Tony Stark

10. Howard Stark x Tony Stark

11. Obadiah “Obie” Stane x Tony Stark

12. Tony Stark x Peter Parker

13. Peter Parker x Harold “Happy” Hogan

14. Tony Stark x Harley Keener

15. America Chavez x Dr. Stephen Strange

16. America Chavez x Wanda Maximoff

17. Odin Borson x Thor Odinson

18. King T'Chaka x Prince T'Challa

19. Xu Shang-Chi x Xu Wenwu

20. Marc Spector x Stephen Grant

21. Thor Odinson x Rocket Raccoon

22. Thor Odinson x Groot

23. Peter Quill x Rocket Raccoon

24. James “Bucky” Barnes x Rocket Raccoon

25. Adrian Toomes x Peter Parker

26. Dr. Otto Octavius x Peter Parker

27. Dr. Curt Connors x Peter Parker

28. Steven “Skip” Westcott x Peter Parker

29. Dr. Stephen Strange x Peter Parker

30. Quentin Beck x Peter Parker

31. James “Bucky” Barnes x Peter Parker

32. Steve Rogers x Peter Parker

33. Thor Odinson x Loki Laufeyson

34. Loki Laufeyson x Sylvie Laufeydottir

35. Princess Shuri x James “Bucky” Barnes

36. Princess/Queen Shuri x Namor/K’uk’ulkan

37. Thanos x Nebula

38. Thanos x Gamora

39. Thanos x Loki Laufeyson

40. Thanos x Tony Stark

41. Clint Barton x Kate Bishop

42. Clint Barton x Lila Barton

43. Carol Danvers x Kamala Khan

44. Monica Rambeau x Kamala Khan

45. Stephen Grant x Khonshu

46. Jake Lockley x Khonshu

47. Marc Spector x Khanshu

48. Arthur Harrow x Ammit

49. Xu Shang-Chi x Xu Xialing

50. Princess Shuri x King/Prince T’Challa

51. Billy Maximoff x Tommy Maximoff

52. Wanda Maximoff x Pietro Maximoff

53. Peter Parker x May Parker

54. Queen Ramonda x Princess Shuri

55. Queen Ramonda x King/Prince T’Challa

56. Peter Parker x Ben Parker

57. Marc Spector x Jake Lockley

58. Stephen Grant x Jake Lockley

59. Natasha Romanov x Yelena Belova

60. Gamora x Nebula

61. Odin Borson x Loki Laufeyson

62. Frigga Feyrdottir x Loki Laufeyson

63. Peter Parker x Carol Danvers

64. Peter Parker x James “Rhodey” Rhodes

[aeterna-auroral-avenger]

Avengers: Infinity's End

Two chapters because it's a holiday, and the first one isn't really anything new. But this will be the last time you get two chapters at a time because things are really starting to pick up now, so enjoy!

Chapter 17 - Full Team

Summary: There's some missing Avengers that haven't arrived to the party yet, and as Rory and the rest work toward the Quantum Heist, she's going to need all the help she can get. It's about to be all hands on deck.

Chapter 18 - The Awakening

Summary: Rory knows she's somehow connected to the Infinity Stones, but she doesn't know how or why. She's just a nobody. She has no right to be there, right? Except for her unique knowledge, but even that only goes so far. What makes her so important? Something has laid dormant within her for far too long, but it's about to wake up. The tide is beginning to turn at long last.

[raccoonfallsharder]

the raccoon, the witch, & the roadtrip. part one. prepare for departure.

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angst, comfort, friendship, & fluff for @hibatasblog rocket & wanda | part 1/7 | word count: 1371.

rocket gets a very-important mission from danvers and needs a partner to go with him. enter the witch.

It is a well-documented fact (I know you know) that in the comic books, many of the marvel ladies have a thing for Rocket Raccoon. How could they not? Eyes like red beryls and pyropes, teeth and wit both so sharp they can kill long before the perfectly-aimed gravity-blast. Intuition off the charts, not to mention the things they've heard he can do with that tail...

Alas, this is not the comics. This is the MCU, some time between 2018 and 2023.

And while everything else remains more or less the same, Wanda Maximoff was not turned into ash.

“Yeah, yeah, I hear you,” Rocket says, rolling his eyes.

Wanda isn’t sure what to call him. He looks like a raccoon, but insists that he isn’t one. Maybe he’s an alien. Maybe he’s something else. Either way, he’s rolling his eyes at Natasha, so hard that his whole head rolls with them.

“Look, I got a very important mission from Danvers, and Nebs is busy right now, working with Kraglin to make Knowhere a more hospitablistic place for Snap refugees. D’you wanna fuck over a bunch of Snap refugees, Nat?”

He crosses his arms and raises a brow up at the new leader-apparent of the Avengers. If Wanda hadn’t felt so — nothing at all, actually — she might have let a smirk curl the corner of her mouth. He’s kind of a brat, and he knows how to get under peoples’ skin. When she’d been a child, she would have found that entertaining. Endearing. She supposes she’d used to have a soft spot for scrappy survivors. Then she’d had to stop having a soft spot for anything but her brother.

Then —

“Goddammit, Rocket. Go to Washington, then. I don’t care. But we still need the Benatar.”

His challenging look turns into a glower. “Fuck off, Nat. What am I supposed to do, then? Drive your frickin’ car?”

Natasha flaps a hand at him distractedly from behind her desk. “Yes, that’s fine, take the car—”

The look he gives her is withering. “I can’t reach the fuckin’ pedals, Nat. So unless you’re giving me permission to take the whole inefficient machine apart an’ put it back together to suit my needs, you’re gonna have to—”

“I can’t spare anyone, Rocket,” the Russian snaps.

“And I can’t be alone right now,” he snaps right back. Wanda’s eyes flick back and forth between them. 

Natasha grits her teeth. “You said this was a mission from Carol?”

“Yes,” he hisses, tapping one booted foot impatiently. 

She closes her eyes and sighs heavily, leaning back in her chair and pressing her fingers into her temples. “Fine,” she says at last, drawing the word out — petulantly, Wanda thinks from a great distance. “Find someone who’s willing to go with you and I’ll tell you if I can spare them.”

Rocket doesn’t hesitate. Without moving anything but his arm, he’s brandishing a single dark claw in Wanda’s direction.

“I’ll take the witch.”

Five years earlier — in the first days after the Snap, before they’d left all their hope on 0259-S with Thanos’ headless body — everyone else had belonged to somebody. Cap and Nat had each other, and Nat had Banner and the arrow-guy. Rhodey had the rich guy who thought he was a genius, and the rich guy had that other redhead. Thor had maybe lost the most, but he had Banner too, and his buddies from Sakaar. The Dora Milaje had their whole sisterhood. Only Danvers might have been on her own — but as far as Rocket had been able to tell, Captain Marvel hadn’t seemed to have a lotta close ties she was mourning.

But Rocket — Rocket had nobody. 

Again.

Nobody except Gamora’s sister, whose name he’d kept forgetting.

Of course, there was the witch. 

Disproportionate number of redheads on this planet, he remembers thinking bemusedly.

He hadn’t been able to remember her name for a while either, but unlike everyone else on Terra, she’d seemed almost as alone as he was. And he hadn’t been able to help but watch her, his eyes slanting sideways to stare at her as she’d sat by herself across the room, hands anchored around upper arms. He couldn't make out the color of her eyes — they’d seemed impossibly dark, with rage or grief or something else, something haunted.  

Except for when they’d smouldered like furious banked fires. 

She’d never said a frickin’ word, either: face blank and beautiful as a statue’s. Her silence had felt more surreal than any other stupid thing he’d encountered in space, which he supposed was probably just because he’s spent the last four years with a family of weirdos who’d never seemed able to shut the fuck up. 

Still. He’d tilted his head when the other avengers had walked past her — watched as they’d seemed almost to forget she was even there. They’d barely talked to her, and once, when they’d been ordering lunch, they’d missed her entirely.

Uh — you didn’t ask the witch what she wants, Rocket had said to Nat awkwardly, and the assassin had blinked and her eyes had hunted the whole room before they’d finally focused on the other woman — like she hadn’t even known where her fellow-Avenger was. 

No. The witch had been an outcast. And Rocket has always known something about outcasts. His whole frickin’ family — both, some small part of his brain had tried to speak up before he could smother it; both families were made of the unwanted — his whole frickin’ family had been outcasts and misfits. It had made some part of Rocket’s heart suddenly stretch in his chest. It had reached with grasping fingers, trying to hang onto something he’d already known he’d lost.

Family.

The next day, Rocket had cleared his throat and told Gamora’s sister that he was gonna go starside to touch base with Kraglin on the Third Quadrant — to see if he still exists, he hadn’t said, but he’d been pretty sure the cyborg had picked it up. 

“You wanna come, Blue?” he’d asked — wincing when his nonchalance had been too thin to be believable. But the Luphomoid had inclined her head, eyes dark and steady. When that had been squared away — surprisingly a hell of a lot easier than he’d thought — he’d  shuffled to his feet, and headed to the bench outside the compound, where the witch had been sitting since sunrise.

He’d stood in her line of vision and stared at the sky too, shifting his weight uncomfortably from foot to foot, tail trying to tuck itself underneath him. It had probably been a full twenty minutes before he’d felt her eyes on him.

“I. Uh. I heard you lost your robot-boyfriend.” The words had been as clumsy as an orloni drunk on fermented Asgardian figs, but he’d been trying.

The witch’s eyes had flared, crimson-bright. “Robot?” she’d repeated dangerously.

Rocket’s ears had flicked back and he’d taken a step away, into the grass: hands extended, palms out.

“Hey, m’not trying to be a dick,” he’d protested. “I think I might be part-robot myself.” He’d stabbed a thumb over his shoulder toward the Benatar, where he could feel  his new blue companion staring holes in his back. “Gamora’s sister’s almost all-robot, too.” 

He could also feel the sister in question rolling her eyes. 

“M’just saying,” he’d muttered at both of them, hunching his shoulders and half-turning to kick a patch of grass. “Some of us are solo now.” He’d gestured at the cyborg again. “Might be good to stick together.” 

“I was used to being solo,” Nebs had pointed out, and Rocket had winced. “You’re the one who got attached.”

His ears had flattened. “Whatever,” he’d growled. “Just thought — whatever.” He’d spun again, kicking more grass, and muttered bitterly under his breath. “So much for trying to be the captain. So much for trying to look out for the damn strays.”

“You’re the stray,” Nebula had replied with a mutinous jut of her chin — and how the fuck had she heard him? That wasn’t standard Luphomoid hearing range. 

Rocket had cursed whatever aural implants Thanos had given her. 

Then the witch had made a strange sound behind him — a little huff of breath.  A disbelieving, agonized little shred of laughter.

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During a watch party for Avengers: Endgame on Twitter, Markus revealed the idea to team Wanda with the Guardian of the Galaxy captain actually made it into several versions of the film's script. "We had whole drafts with Wanda on a road trip with Rocket," Markus wrote, "but after the Vision plot in Infinity War, nothing we came up with was anything but wheel spinning for her character." CBR

[i-am-the-hero-alfred-jones]

I'm going to write a fanfiction based on random Cards Against Humanity Marvel Cards.

Any dirty ones will likely just turn into a comedy fic lol

[ao3feed-irondadspiderson]

You're Going to Have to Fight

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62625328 by ImSupermansCousin Failure wasn't an option. They were going to set the stage in their favour. No matter how menial it was, The Avengers needed everyone they could find. They were taking the fight to Thanos. "Stark? What do you say?" They couldn't do this without him and Rodgers stood up, extending his arm out towards him, motioning for Tony to take his hand. "Will you fight with us?" - Tony Stark struggles to come to terms with Peter's death, and all the while, The Avengers desperately try their best to get him back on track because the fate of stopping Thanos depends on Stark getting better. Words: 15149, Chapters: 5/?, Language: English Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Gen Characters: Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Captain Marvel, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Thor (Marvel), Peter Parker, Nebula (Marvel), Pepper Potts, Bruce Banner, Scott Lang, Rocket Raccoon Relationships: Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Peter Parker & Tony Stark, Peter Parker & Pepper Potts & Morgan Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe) & Tony Stark Additional Tags: Depressed Tony Stark, no beta we die like peter parker, Hurt/Comfort, Everyone cares about Tony Stark, Tony Stark Needs a Hug, Overworked Tony Stark, Fainting, Tony blames himself for Peter's death, Tony Stark always finds a way, Avengers Endgame, Nebula & Tony Stark Friendship, Nebula Joins The Avengers read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/62625328

[mischief-and-tea-by-the-sea]

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies) Relationship: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark Characters: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Nebula (Marvel), Loki (Marvel), Carol Danvers, Thor (Marvel), Bruce Banner, Rocket Raccoon, James "Rhodey" Rhodes Additional Tags: Soulmates, Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Avengers: Endgame (Movie), Avengers Compound, Canon Divergence - Avengers: Endgame (Movie), Established Relationship, Established Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Loki Lives (Marvel), Tony Stark Needs a Hug, Steve Rogers Needs a Hug, Loki Needs a Hug (Marvel), Angst and Feels, Feels, Avengers Family, Use of Endgame dialogue, Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Hurt/Comfort Language: English Collections: StonyjAnUary Published: 2024-01-16 Words: 4,859 Chapters: 1/1

Summary: It's been three weeks since the battle with Thanos in Wakanda. Tony is still missing in space, Natasha has been trying to track down Clint, and Steve has just been trying to keep it together for everyone. How long can he keep it up, though? His soulmate is somewhere in the universe, but he knows Tony isn't dead. He can feel it. Still, they haven't spoken since Siberia, not once, though Tony has never been far from Steve's mind. He keeps seeing the ghosts of his team all over the Avengers Compound. Then Natasha tells him that a ship has arrived on the property - a ship that Rocket recognized as the Guardians' own.

Notes:

For the @stonyauniverse January Event Prompt: Soulmates Bingo Card: Y4 Redemption

Happens after I love you regardless