#endgame: drpepperony

[amethyst-noir]

Hey, I'm not sure if you have explained this somewhere or its something you don't wish to discuss (I apologise in advance for starting this conversation in that case). I actually have been obsessing over your works about Drpepperony on Ao3 for a while now (its amazing! Not just the ideas cause they are on point but even your writing is so beautiful, thank you soooo much for uploading them btw. It always brings me joy to read them and on sad days I find myself gravitating towards your written work.) I've realised you don't really post drpepperony anymore and I can't find anything similar on your tumblr either. Have you lost interest in the theme? I did read a post you had tagged about your account being gone and I'm so sorry for all the hurt and terror that must have caused. But yeah sorry I'm not too well versed in the tumblr Ao3 world from a creator viewpoint and I just got curious if you will ever go back to drpepperony and just to ask how you have been doing. Thats all I suppose :)

Hi!

So, first of all sorry that it took me a couple of days to get to this lovely ask of yours. Second, thank you so much! 💜 I'm so happy you like my drpepperony stories! They are such an cute OT3 but I'm sorry to say that I have lost interest, along with the whole of the MCU. I haven't kept track of any of it for a while now. (Black Widow and the first two episodes of Moon Knight were the last two things I saw of it.)

I've been writing in other fandoms until recently. Things are going on and writing is not really happening anymore. I hope it will return one day, for whatever fandom. I'd like to finish at least the 3 The Untamed WIPs I have lying around; I see no chance for the MCU WIPs that are sleeping on my computer.

While I was still holding on for a while after Endgame my love for it was starting to fade after that movie. I still have one unposted Ironstrange (not drpepperony, sorry!) story lying around, actually.

Yes, I managed to nuke my account twice in a row while trying to answer an ask a couple of years ago. That was a weird bug and I'm glad I got it back - yes, it was rather stressfull at the time and I would have been heartbroken if I had lost this blog. While my actual stories are backed up a couple of times many of the headcannony stuff is only here. I should probably change that but that requires more time, energy and brainpower than I currently have. Let's hope this site doesn't implode anytime soon.

Which brings me to your question of there being drpepperony on my blog. There actually is! I don't know if you did a bit of tag crawling here or not but I have snippets and headcanon style written things for them here. They can be found under #drpepperony and #amy imagines but you have to scroll through the Ironstrange and Tony/Stephen/Wong stuff as well. Sorry. My tagging system has never been the best. 😅

Again, your ask has made me so happy and made me smile every time I thought about it! 🥰 I'm sorry I can't give a "better" (happier) answer.

Drpepperony will always have a place in my heart but it's a fond memory by now, alongside the other pairings I have loved and written for in the past.

[iwritefanficsometimes]

I Told You We Were Waiting For Someone

So I’m trying to decide if this is going to fit into a wider universe of my in progress afterlife fic, or if it’s just a one-shot with a similar premise. I could 100% fit it in, and I think I might want to? But I’m still thinking about it

This is a really roundabout fic, and has way too much dialogue in some places, but that’s just how I write now, apparently? I did my best. I know that the style changes in a few places, and that’s not in purpose, but it’s not too jarring (I hope) so just give it a chance?

Endgame: DrPepperony, contains endgame spoilers, duh. AO3 link to come.

———————

Stephen going to Pepper and apologizing for the timeline.

Pepper forgiving Stephen and inviting him to have some coffee. “Or tea? Yeah, you seem like a tea guy.”

Morgan wants to know why his cape is like Thor’s.

Stephen tells her it’s because Thor copied him.

Morgan accepts this without question and then calls her uncle Bruce to tell him Thor is a copy-cat.

Bruce doesn’t tell Thor.

Pepper gives Stephen a standing invitation to stop by, because she’s intimately familiar with how quickly Tony can get under people’s skin and burrow into their hearts.

She doesn’t know the half of it.

Stephen stops by once a month or so, and Morgan gets used to the sight of him.

So does Pepper.

She likes it when Stephen comes by and they have a chance to talk.

So does Stephen.

“Doctor Strange, why can’t you use your magic to bring back my dad?”

The question isn’t accusing, she seems to understand that the answer must be a negative, she just wants to know why.

“Because bringing back people from the dead is a very dangerous kind of magic, and if I did it, he might not come back the same Dad you knew.”

She nods, considering this.

“So you can, but he’d just be bad.”

“Yes.”

She nods again and hugs him around the legs.

“If he wouldn’t be bad, would you do it?”

He answers too quickly.

“Yes.”

Morgan stays clinging to him for a minute before she’s satisfied with the answer and Stephen.

“Mom says you can stay for dinner. I helped mix the salad.”

Stephen smiles.

🖥

It’s not until Morgan is nearly 15 that they find the AI.

Turning him on is an accident. If they’d known they would’ve left it alone. Great timing for Tony to forget to label an AI

AI Tony doesn’t remember Morgan, or marriage, or a farm. He’s stuck so far in the past he’s almost unrecognizable.

Rhodey, Pepper, and Happy spend a lot of time talking to this version of Tony, Pre-Ultron, and they find that the more they tell him about the present the less and less he responds.

Eventually Rhodey makes the executive decision to get Friday involved.

She is understandably unsure of her own abilities, but she does her best to bring AI Tony around.

After three weeks of near constant interface, Friday and Tony emerge in their holograms, and Tony still looks down, as much as any AI can be down, but he wants to interact with Morgan.

There’s not much footage of Tony interacting with Morgan, just lots of pictures. Pepper is the one who tells him about his relationship with Morgan, so he can talk to her.

They talk for an hour, and Morgan cries into the shoulder of the Iron Man armour Tony is controlling, and AI Tony is just trying to reconcile himself with a child.

They don’t talk much after that.

Tony is less like a ghost and more like a shell.

Morgan is less like a person and more like a figment.

It makes Pepper and Rhodey both sad to see it.

Eventually, they ask Tony if he wants to go offline.

Tony says yes.

They shut him down and pack him up in a box labeled “Tony.” No one touches it for forty years.

🖥

Morgan is 55 when she’s going through her mother’s personal effects. She finds the box labelled “Tony” and opens it up, curious.

She recognizes the programming that contains an AI immediately. She knows it’s her father’s digital replica.

She puts it back in the box.

Three days later she takes the box back out again. All she has left of her father is a 50 year old hologram, every design he’d ever made, and this AI.

She turns it on.

It doesn’t recognize her, and she didn’t expect it to.

“Hey! Where’s Rhodey? Pepper? I thought we agred I was going offline.”

“Change of plans. Try the house on for size.”

“Are you making me a butler?” Tony souds entirely offended, and Morgan smiles.

“No. You’d be terrible at it.”

“I really would. So what’s the about... whoever you are?”

“I just think it’s time you got to stretch your legs, that’s all.”

“Technically speaking, I don’t have legs. I’m a string of binary code.”

“Don’t get smart with me or I’ll make you share a charging station with Dum-e.”

“He’s still around?” He asked, looking aroud him, and Morgan smiled.

“Interface with the house and find out.”

It was the only permission AI Tony needed, and suddenly things were turning on and off at random, and there were dozen things happening all around the old farm house where she grew up.

“Hey, wait a minute!”

She leaves before he can tell her what he’s indignant about. She shuts down the internet access just in case.

🖥

“It’d take a genius to figure this out. Not that you’re not a genius, Morgan, but you’re in bio-tech, and this is... not that.”

Morgan looks at Harley quizically. “Are you saying you can’t figure it out?”

“Of course I can figure it out, but it’s going to take time we don’t have.”

“What if I said I had someone who might be able to help us.”

“And you’ve been sitting on them this entire time!?”

“It’s... complicated.”

🖥

“You aren’t a little scamp any more. Hell, I think you might be older than I am. Which means I’m really old. Shit.” Tony says to Harley as he sorts through the data they’ve given him access to.

“This will never work, an AI doesn’t have the same creative capabilities as a-“

“Got it!” Tony said, displaying a hologram that... actually looked like it could work.

“Shit.”

“Yeah,” Morgan smiled. “Great work Tony.”

“Sure thing.”

Harely looks at Morgan quizzically.

Morgan doesn’t look back.

🖥

“And who are you?”

“My name’s Elizabeth. I’m ten. You’re dead.”

“Smart one. Yeah, I heard. Say, Elizabeth, shouldn’t you be monitored by someone with... I don’t know, a body?”

“No. Mom said that I’m old enough to go wherever I want in the compound so long as I don’t do anything that might get me hurt.”

“Like walk into an active training room?”

“Basically.”

“Fair. Alright, well, your mom...”

“Morgan,”

“Morgan-” He said it and suddenly things made sense. “Morgan Stark.”

“Yup, and I’m Elizabeth Stark. You’re Tony Stark. That’s Harley. Hi, Harely. I’m not supposed to be here so don’t tell Mom, okay? Thanks.”

“Elizabeth, come on. Morgan wouldn’t want you to be hanging around in here.”

“He’s right. I’m a bad influence.”

“Shut up, Tony.”

“Watch your language, sir, there’s a lady present!”

Morgan laughed. “You sound like Mr. Rogers.”

“He’s still around???”

“Barely.” Harley mumbled under his breath. “Doesn’t keep him from trying to act like he’s still in charge of everything.”

“Mr. Rogers is bossy. Mom and Harley hate it. Peter says it’s fine. I think he just says that to be nice thought.”

“Sounds like it. Who’s Peter?”

“Oh, he’s Spider Man. You used to know him.” She squints at him, like she’s wary now that he’s not remembering all the parts of the past that he should. “Before you did the snap, you knew him. You gave him his first good spider suit. And then took it away. And then gave it back.”

“Sounds like me. You gonna take her back to her mom?” Tony asked Harley, and Elizabeth whined.

“No..! Come on, Uncle Harley, please??”

“Don’t Uncle Harley at me, you know that stopped working years ago. Come on, we’re doing lunch, and you’ll want to be out of here before Morgan gets an alert.”

“I’m afraid it’s too late for that, Harley,” Friday’s voice says apologetically, and Harley sighs.

“Figures. See you around, Tony. We’ve got some stuff to talk to you about later.”

“Yeah, sure thing! It’s not like I’m being held prisoner in my own lab!” AI Tony calls after Elizabeth and Harley.

“You’re not a prisoner, boss. Just on house arrest.”

“How can you call me boss and be the holder of the keys to my cell?”

“Not a prison.”

“Feels like a prison.”

“When given free reign of the house the first time you were brought online, you broke eight different electrical appliance. For the safety of the inhabitants, you’ll have to stay here.”

“We’re not worried about me breaking the lab? I could do some real damage here.”

“But would you?”

“...No.” Tony sighed, as much as any AI can sigh.

🖥

“What’s with the secret keeping Morgan? I feel like a piece of dirty laundry.”

“Captain Rogers would have a lot to say about an AI of you. I don’t want to listen to any of it.”

“So he’s Captain, now? Lizzie called him Mr. Rogers. Like from the tv show you’re too young to remember and I never actually watched.”

“Trust me, I’ve heard plenty about it over the years.” Morgan laughed, working across from her father’s hologram, but never looking at it. “But that’s just how Lizzie is. Everyone else she just calls by their first names, but Steve started putting a fuss up about it, so she started calling him Mr. Rogers instead.” She smirks to herself. “He’s gotten fussy in his old age.”

“Fussier. He was always fussy. He just wore a righteous look and an American Ass and everyone called him a patriot.”

“Well, two out of three of those things are still true.”

“No! He lost the ass?”

“He’s over 150 years old, Tony.”

“He’s a super soldier. He’s not supposed to loose the ass.”

“You’re kind of obsessed with Captain America’s ass.”

“I used to make his suits.”

Morgan laughs and it hits AI Tony in a very real way that he is talking to his daughter. He made his daughter laugh.

💻

“Tony! Mom gave me permission to visit.”

“How’d you weasel that out of her?” Tony asked, turning his hologram away from the manipulation station, despite his mind still definately being on it. It’s great to be an AI.

“I promised to clean my entire room.”

“Oh wow. That’s a hefty promise.”

“I’m not really going to do the entire room. She ever checks under the bed.” She rolls her eyes, and Tony raises an eyebrow at Friday’s security camera.

“I’m thinking she might this time around.”

She rolled her eyes in a way that was so familiar Tony was caught off gaurd for a minute.

“Tony. Hey! Tony!” She waved her hand in front of his face and he snapped his processing power back to attention.

“Hey is for horses, young lady.”

Elizabeth rolled her eyes again, and AI Tony felt fond.

He felt.

“Tony! Why do you keep ignoring me?”

“I’m not ignoring you, Lizzie. I’m thinking deeply.”

“But you’re a computer. You have enough processing power to focus on other things and think deeply.”

“You’re right, but I’m running a little slow in my old age.”

She wrinkled her nose at him, “you don’t look that old.”

“Holograms don’t age. I’m a lot older than I look.”

She frowns. “Does that make you sad?”

Tony is about to say no, because he is an AI and incapable of feeling anything, let alone sadness, it’s all just predetermined choices and algorithms except... “yeah, it does.”

She patted the console that was closest to her like she might pat a sad cat. “I’m sorry you can’t get old like everyone else, Tony.”

“Me too.”

🖥

There’s a commotion happening that Tony can pick up even though he only has access to the mics in the lab. There’s some yelling, some smashing, and then there’s a bunch of sparks forming a portal into his lab and a weirdly dressed man with shaking hands and grey streaks in his hair is standing in his lab. Staring at him.

“Can I help you?” Tony asked, reaching out to Friday to activate security protocols and start shutting down anything and everything even remotely vulnerable in the compound.

“I think maybe I can help you, Tony.” The man says, and Tony cocks an eyebrow at him.

“Um, no offense, but I’m actually a computer. An AI. I’m not being held captive or whatever weird conspiracy theory has been floating around the internet. The real Tony Stark is dead. I’m just a copy.”

The man shakes his head and Tony keeps pushing Friday to tell her what’s going on, but he’s been bugging her so much lately that she’s ignoring him. Great.

“You’re not just a copy. You’re a part of his soul.”

“What?” Tony asked, staring at him like he was off his rocker (he was.)

“I second that.” Morgan said, glaring at the newcomer from the doorway.

“Morgan, I made you a promise years ago, that if I could bring him back-“

“He’s been dead for fifty years, Strange. Even if you could bring him back, what good would it do, aside from easing your guilt?” Her eyes are hard and Tony can tell this must be a touchy subject for her. That’s why he feels it pertinent to interject.

“Is that why I’m having feelings? Because AIs don’t usually have feelings.”

Stephen gestured at Tony like an argument had just been won and Morgan glared.

“You’re not touching him.”

“There’s a piece of his soul trapped here, Morgan.”

“He’s a computer!”

“Mom,” Elizabeth murmurs from the doorway. “Ama said she wants to talk to you.”

Morgan’s face falls into her hands and she digs the tips of her fingers into her scalp.

“Mom?”

“I’m coming, honey.” Morgan told her daughter, still frozen and clutching her head. “Tell Ama I’ll be there in a minute.”

Elizabeth left and then it was just the three of them.

Stephen was the first to break the silence. “If you leave him here, there’s always going to be a piece of his soul haunting you.”

“He’s fine right there.”

“He’s not. The longer he stays the more disconnected this piece of his soul becomes from the rest. With enough time it could break off entirely, and the chaos that comes with splitting a soul...” strange sighed. “If you’re not willing to let me try summoning the rest, at least let me send this piece back.”

“I can’t lose him.”

“I’ve been gone for a long time, honey.” Tony spoke up from where his hologram was trapped in a console. “Keeping me here isn’t really helping you anymore. It’s time to let go.”

“You’re a computer!”

“He’s a computer with a piece of your father’s soul, Morgan. It’s understandable that you’re attached, but the longer you leave him here, the more likely his soul will split. It could wrench Tony out of whatever afterlife he’s living and make him miserable for the rest of eternity.”

“Morgan.” Tony said, when Morgan still wouldn’t look up at them. “I don’t know who this guy is, but I think I might agree with him.”

“Stop it.” She said, nearly too quiet for his mics to pick up. “Stop it. Shut up. He’s.. he’s fine. It’s fine. There’s not.. it’s just an AI.”

“An AI with feelings and the capacity to be creative. You have to know that’s not normal.”

Morgan is silent for a few more minutes before shaking her head and straightening her back. “Do whatever you have to.” She tells him, and both Stephen and Tony are struck by how much she looks like Pepper in that moment. She walks away with her head held high and doesn’t even look back to say goodbye.

It hurts.

🖥

On the Astral Plane, Stephen guides Tony’s soul through the process of rejoining it’s larger half, and Tony finds it hard to believe that he, a network of processing power, can project an astral form.

“Do you see how much more translucent you are than I am? It’s because you’re only a fragment. Tony put his soul into designing this AI just in case, and you were so similar to him that his soul might not have recognized his death.”

“Ghost soul. Cool. I actually haven’t heard weirder things, which is odd, but a pleasant surprise. When do I get dead?”

“I have an incantation I can try, but it might hurt.”

“Just do it.”

🖥

“Look who’s back.”

Tony opened his eyes to see the roof of the porch of his dream house with Pepper. He sat up and was greeted with Pepper drinking an ice tea and smiled at him. Pepper, who looked as young as she had been when they’d gotten married. He knew objectively that she’d gotten older, but he hadn’t been online for her death. It was like jumping back in time to before he was an Artificial Intelligence. “You were gone for a while. Glad to have you back.”

“I put a part of my soul in the AI.”

“Yeah,” She nodded, handing him an untouched and perfectly cool glass of tea from the tray beside her. He took it without hesitation, shocked to feel the condensation, the smooth glass, the hard edge of the bottom of it. “I mean, I didn’t know that was where it was, but I knew that some part of you was still trapped there. You had that way of looking off into space sometimes, I think that was when you were over there.” She took another sip of her tea and Tony mimicked her, tasting something for what felt like the first time in fifty years. Probably because it was.

“Was I here before?” He asked, and Pepper nodded.

“You were here when I got here. Waiting for me like we were still newlyweds. Even carried me over the threshold.” She smiled, reaching out and stroking her hand down his cheek. Tony closed his eyes and leaned into the touch. “Figured the least I could do was be waiting for you with some sweet tea.”

“What did I ever do to deserve you?” He reached for her free hand and dragged her closer to him, needing to feel her solidly against him to prove to himself that it wasn’t just a dream.

“You became a great man. That makes you deserving of just about anything you want.” She followed where he pulled her, settling into his lap and wrapping her arms around his waist. “And now we just have to wait for our baby.”

“Oh god, don’t say that. I don’t want her to be here.”

“And I do?” She laughed, pulling a strand of his hair back into place. “But we all come here. She’ll come and visit us, sometime. It’ll be nice, I promise.”

“I think she hated me, at the end.”

Pepper frowned and ran her thumb over his eyebrow, calling his attention to her. “I know our daughter, Tony. Morgan may have been frustrated, you’re a frustrating man,” she laughed and kissed his forehead, pulling him into a hug. “But she loved you with her whole heart, and nothing could have changed that.”

“I hope you’re right.”

🖥

“Huh,” Tony said, raising an eyebrow at a newly deceased Doctor Strange. He and Pepper were the only ones left in their little afterlife, everyone else having reincarnated long ago and moved on to other after lives. But not them. “I told Pepper we were waiting for someone. Pep! We have a guest.”

“What?” She asked, coming out from the house, a smudge of paint on her right cheek. “Tony who-? Oh! Doctor Strange!”

“I told you we were waiting for someone. Didn’t I tell you?”

“You did, and it’s just as insufferable to hear you say it now as it was a millenium ago.” She leaned down to kiss Tony on the cheek and then looked back up at Stephen. “Won’t you come inside? If I’d known you were coming I would have had something ready for you, but Tony and I stopped bothering with food centuries ago.”

“That’s not entirely true. I still soul magic up a cheese burger every now and then.”

Pepper rolled her eyes and smiled at Stephen’s flabbergasted look. “You don’t have to just stand there, Stephen.”

“Yeah, Strange. Come sit down, take a load off. I’ll keep you company while Pepper does food.” He said, looking at Pepper for approval. She waved him off.

“He’s actually not as useless in the kitchen as he used to be, but it’s been so long since he’s done anything but cheese burgers he might have forgotten.”

Stephen felt like he was watching some kind of television show, an outsider looking into the afterlives of two souls who were obviously extremely close. What was he doing here?

“Honey, I think we broke him. Strange, you with us pal?” Tony got up from his chair, setting aside the bits and bobs he’d been tinkering with for the last 100 years or so. He came down the stairs slowly, hands outstretched to Stephen. “Stephen? Hey, did you leave a piece of your soul back on earth too?” He laughed, trying to break the tension.

“I don’t understand why I’m here.” He said finally, shrugging off Tony’s hand where it touched his forearm. Only then did he realize that his hands weren’t shaking. The scars were still there, but his hands were as steady as they ever were. When he looked back up at Tony his right arm was also heavily scarred, but his face was unmarred. He looked back down at his hands and Tony caught the drift.

“It’s pretty easy to hide scars here, if that’s something you want. I can show you. Pepper’s skin is flawless, but I’ve got a few doosies that I’ve gotten pretty good at hiding. I mean, I know scars give a man character, but not the expense of this face.” He ran his scarred hand over his unscarred cheek. “You wanna take a minute? Let’s sit down.”

Stephen followed Tony’s lead to the porch and sat down to listen to Pepper and Tony recount their experiences in the afterlife.

🖥

Souls don’t really sleep, so when Stephen opens his eyes it’s not because he’d really been sleeping. If he tried hard enough, meditation was nearly sleeping, but there was no astral form to project into while he was “sleeping.”

There was no need. The fate of the universe belonged to someone else now. As much as he hated giving the duty up, Tony and Pepper were right about him deserving a retirement.

Pepper was the first to stir, reading a newly published (on earth) book by the reincarnation of her great grand daughter. “Such talent. Honestly. I wish we had done more of the liberal arts, Tony.” She passed the tablet to Tony, who touched it and knew the entire contents of the book. Pepper still preferred the act of reading, while Tony preferred to cut to the chase.

“I hate the liberal arts, but it is a good book. Strange.” He passed the tablet and Stephen handed it back to Pepper after learning the book’s title.

“I’ll read through it later.” He laced his fingers through Tony’s and let himself play with Pepper’s soft hair. “We’ve got all the time in the world.”

There was a long pause and Stephen looked up at Tony and Pepper. They were having a silent conversation, and Stephen felt something like dread settle in his stomach.

“Pepper and I have been thinking.” Tony started before handing the reigns over to Pepper.

She rolled her eyes at Tony and then turned on her side to face Stephen completely, Tony leaning up on his elbow to give himself a better view of them. “We want to reincarnate, Stephen.” She said softly, laying one hand over his cheek. “We love being here with you. We do.” She reiterated when he looked like he was about to protest. “But everyone else we all know is long gone, back to the land of the living. We aren’t talking about any time soon, we want some more time with you here, but... We do want to go back, and we want you to come with us.”

“I can’t imagine living another life without you, Strange. What do you say?” Tony’s hand settled on Pepper’s hip, but his eyes were pleading at Stephen. “Come with us?”

Stephen looked between the two of them, momentarily lost for words before he finally said, “I don’t know how I could say no to that.”

“Ideally, you don’t.” Tony smiled, leaning across Pepper to plant a kiss on Stephen’s cheek just above where Pepper’s hand rested. “And since this is the afterlife, everything’s pretty ideal.”

Pepper elbowed Tony to get him to get off of her and leand in to give Stephen a kiss of her own, just a soft peck on unchapped lips. “I can’t wait to live a life with you, Stephen Strange.”

“Ditto.” Tony said from where he’d collapsed back onto the bed.

“I love you both.” Stephen smiled and Pepper smiled back.

“Ditto.”

[salty-ironstrange-shipper]

A new sorcerer: So what are all of your powers?

Peter: I'm very strong and sticky.

Tony: My Iron Man suit is a technological marvel.

Pepper: I make good life decisions.

A new sorcerer: That’s not really-

Stephen: No, trust me. She’s our most important member.

[eisenruvia]

At Tony's Funeral:

Thor: He was a good Warrior and friend but lost importantly, a great father.

Pepper: May we have a moment with him alone?

Thor: Of course, of course.

Thor: *leaves*

Stephen and Pepper: *moves closer to the coffin*

Stephen: *leans down*

Stephen: Listen here douchebag, I now you're not dead.

Tony: No shit asshole!

[allyanastark97]

Pepper: why is Tony crying

Stephen: it's peter

Pepper: oh my God what happened?!

Stephen: he won't stop singing Baby Shark

Tony: *sobbing* doo doo doo...

[breakingpenguinart]

drpepperony vamp au

-both Pepper and Stephen are vampires

-Tony is Tony

Pepper and Stephen both lived for centuries, and Stephen is the older one (exact age unknown). From the royal house of Potts and Strange 

They live amongst humans and make up a new identity every so often to keep up with appearances. 

Pepper actually had no plans to find a job yet in this lifetime, but Tony happened and she got attached to a human for once

Stephen is a doctor and met Tony in an event and he found him interesting as well

So Tony (pre-ironman) finds an event they would both attend and plans to introduce two of his friends to each other because he thinks they’ll have things in common. Pepper and Stephen actually met a few times in their long lifetime but are not well acquainted. 

They had no strong feelings about each other before, but now are hella possessive over Tony (”there is only space for one vampire in Tony’s life and I been beside him longer so yOU get out!” “I’ve known him first and I’ve lived on this planet longer than you have so I claim seniority rights, so no yOU”)

But they end up playing nice with each other since Tony gets happy when he sees his friends getting along. They fight over trying to get Tony’s affection, and the winner, ofc, would take him out on a date. Tony notices none of what is happening and is completely oblivious.  (He is actually trying to set them up together and thinks he is doing a great job)

maybe Stephen’s accident happens again and bc ppl had been noticing that he doesn’t age, he used that as an excuse to quit his job and hid for a few years

and then stuff happens until infinity war:

Stephen entrusts Tony’s safety and happiness to Pepper since he knows he’ll get dusted. Pepper is distraught since they actually been getting closer and was enjoying each other’s company.

And then endgame happens and Stephen and Pepper is there and they turn Tony into a vampire to save him from dying after he snapped

and they all get together at the end happily ever after 

(”wait you guys are VAMPIRES??” “Tony you found random bags of blood around the place and you kept commenting on our fangs and calling us ‘vampires’, so we assumed you knew already.” “I thought it was an ongoing JOKE!”)

[ssironstrange]

I have a question for you. If Dr. Peperony existed in the same universe as endgame would Stephen and Pepper stay together after Ton'ts death (then they would be DR. Pepper and thta makes me giggle)?

my version of drpepperony - yes, they absolutely would. Stephen would do everything he could to fill Tony’s shoes. Even if tony was way more of the father figure and stephen wasn’t to morgan, he’d do his absolute best at that role. that’s his family and theres nothing he wouldn’t do for them.

though admittedly, he might enlist christine’s help with a few things as morgan gets older.

[babywarg]

Our Time Together - Part 2 [End]

Summary: [POST-ENDGAME, BEWARE OF SPOILERS]

Tony Stark leaves an interactive hologram of himself to help his wife and child adjust to a life without him. This hologram makes an unusual request of Doctor Strange.

Pairings: Eventual Stephen Strange/Pepper Potts, Past Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, Past Tony Stark/Stephen Strange

Notes: This ran on a bit long, sorry about that! Hope you guys enjoy reading nonetheless.

Putting up an excerpt on Tumblr because it’s been more than a week since Endgame first came out in theatres, and hoping the tags are enough ^^

Still dedicated to the talented @amethyst-noir​ 💓

[Read on AO3]

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“So, your daughter now knows I give her mother roses.”

Hologram!Tony raised an eyebrow. “I wasn’t aware it was supposed to be a secret.”

Stephen shook his head. “It’s going to be a little more...complicated. Now that she knows.”

The hologram rolled its eyes and blew a raspberry. “You’re not seeing this the right way. You don’t have to sneak around anymore! You can drop by any time of day now, and she’ll recognize you as Mr. Rose Delivery Man.”

The AI’s flippancy did nothing to ease Stephen’s discomfort. He was seated in the “labrary,” leaning back in the armchair that had been Tony’s favorite, arms folded across his chest.

“Speaking of names, did you actually tell your daughter I was your ‘magic man’?”

Tony spread his arms wide. “Was I wrong?”

Stephen massaged his forehead with one hand.

“You need to loosen up,” the hologram berated. “Try to enjoy things as they come. Look, when I was alive, I was the fun parent. Someone had to be. To bring up my family in a world living in grief.”

A world living in grief - what, then, would Tony call this one? A world without Tony Stark: innovator, activist, husband, father and friend - a world without Iron Man?

“I’m not any sort of parent,” Stephen grimly countered. “And I know we never discussed it, but the truth is, I didn’t exactly have the most fun childhood, either. So I’m sorry, but I have no happy memories to draw references from.”

“Oh, and you think I did?” The hologram sounded amused. “Literally figured things out as I went along. You’re supposed to be smart, wizard, I’m sure you can do the same.”

There was a fine line between anger and frustration, and Stephen knew where he stood.

He was just tired of feeling, and out of touch with his emotions, and perhaps what he said next came out in anger.

“I only agreed to help you keep a promise. I didn’t agree to take over your role in this household,” he said to the hologram sternly. “Don’t think I don’t know what you’re doing here. Tony, you should have known better. I have my duties. I can’t prioritize the safety of two people, over the safety of humanity as a whole.”

The hologram scratched its chin, looking thoughtful.

“But you can’t exactly back out now, can you?”

***

Some more visits later, he learned: Tony was right.

There was no backing out from this.

As his watch chimed 9 PM (he’d set the alarm earlier so he could see Morgan as well, at her request), he once caught himself thinking: it was time to bring roses to his family.

My family.

Clearly, he meant the family he cared for. But the way his head phrased it still sounded wrong.

He corrected himself, but it took some effort:

Tony’s family.

Pepper had already told him she looked forward to his visits. He’d already promised Morgan she would get roses from him every day.

And, as much as he tried to deny it, to discipline himself out of it, the pleasant anticipation he felt before those visits had become knee-jerk, part of routine.

And, in the end, he still had promises to keep.

What he could do...was keep his distance.

As best he could.

[Read the rest @ AO3]

[ironstrange-is-the-endgame]

I don’t ship it, but is just me or there was a super tiny drpepperony scene in Endgame? I’m speaking about when, during the battle, Pepper sees that Ebony Maw (I think) is moving the water so that will submerge the Avengers and she says: “Am I the only one who’s seeing this?”

And Stephen says something like: “I’m on it.”

And then happens what we all know.

I don’t know, but I thought that some of you may appreciate (tagging @amethyst-noir and @ssironstrange because I know you ship it and maybe you had the same feeling about that scene)

[dakt37]

Is there anyone you ship MCU Steve and Tony with particularly?

For MCU Tony, I go for Pepperony, IronStrange, TonyRhodey, or any combo thereof (DrPepperony gets bonus points for the name alone, lol).

MCU Steve... Hard to say. I adore Steggy (and the first Cap movie in general), but I don't feel good about how it actually played out in Endgame.

[amethyst-noir]

Depressing times ahead:

When Tony snaps his fingers the stones give him a gift even while they're killing him: The memories of a lifetime with Pepper and Morgan, the memories of one with Stephen and one with all of them. Welcoming his second child, holding Stephen's baby in his arms. Helping Stephen through dark times and the beauty of their time together afterwards; getting held by Pepper, playing with Morgan and her siblings. Three lifetimes of happiness and love; decades worth of good memories to take with him.

It gives him the strength to endure until the bitter end. He can't speak anymore but he searches out Stephen while Pepper holds him and tells him that it's okay to rest now. Their eyes meet and both realize that the other knows and shares the love. Stephen has seen the same things, already knowing that they are a nice fantasy that can never become true.

Tony dies and takes the better part of Stephen's soul with him. Pepper's left with their daughter and Wong with the broken remains of Stephen.

Everything's so fucking unfair I could scream.

[iwritefanficsometimes]

Endgame really just said DrPepperony.

[salty-ironstrange-shipper]

Stephen: I told Morgan that I used to get netflix delivered to me in the mail, and I'm pretty sure she thought I was lying.

[funkylittlebidiot]

Thank you for the answer to my ask with jealous Ironstrange and sambucky. Im curious if there is DrPepperony but before iron man until endgame? Perhaps 3 of them already in relationship before Afghanistan. That will be nice. Please let me now if there is. Thank yoh again.

Hello again! I don't actively read a lot of dr. pepperony so I wouldn't really know any fics. I did a quick, cursory AO3 search and it seems there are only 113 (english) works tagged as Pepper Potts/Tony Stark/Stephen strange and most of them are one-shots. i'll leave you the link so you can look through it because i'm sure there's something you'll enjoy!

dr. pepperony

[tonystarkbingo]

TSB Mark V Roundup - Week 8!

We had a great party this weekend, thanks to our Discord and Party mods, so all the thanks and love to them!  Now go have some fun perusing our excellent content this week, and leave some love for the creators.

Collaborator : Momothequeen Card Number: #5093 Square Filled: S1 - Wish Title: Yours Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Peter Parker Word Count: 7775 Rating: Mature Major Tags/Triggers: SIM - Dubious Morality - Past Unethical Experimentation - Dead May Parker - Post FFH - Soulmates - Fluff Summary: After Far From Home Peter lost everything. Now he's running from SHIELD and has no intention to go back into custody. Ready to die Peter makes a last wish, he wants Tony Stark, his mentor back. To his surprise, the man appears in front of him, but is he really the man he once knew?

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Collaborator : Beck Card Number: 5059 Square Filled: S4 - Art Format: Digital Medium Title: Smooch ♥️ Link: Tumblr Pairings: Pepperony Word Count: N/A Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: pepperony Summary: N/A

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Collaborator : Momothequeen Card Number: 5093 Square Filled: A3 - Free Title: Hot Sand Link: AO3 Pairings: Peter Parker/Tony Stark Word Count: 5921 Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: Au /No power - Unrealistic Pool Sex - Fluff - Beach Summary: When Peter wins first place in the September Foundation's annual contest for youth and science he doesn't believe his luck. His prize? A month-long vacation in a luxurious house for 4. Unfortunately, MJ, Ned, and May are all too busy that summer to go to Malibu, which doesn't stop Peter from going alone. The people he meets there will change his life.

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Collaborator : RoseRose Card Number: 5032 Square Filled: R4 - Writing Format: Stream of Consciousness Title: Spiral Link: AO3 Pairings: Steve/Tony/Bucky Word Count: 104 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Poetry, Time Shenanigans Summary: Poem where time shenanigans change a sad ending to a happy one

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Collaborator : deehellcat Card Number: 5018 Square Filled: S1 - witness Title: To Come Down Where We Ought To Be Link: AO3 Pairings: background Pepperony Word Count: 1444 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Iron Family, Tony Stark Lives, Not Endgame Compliant, the Russos whomst, idk them, Dad Jokes Told by Non-Dads, Precious Morgan Stark, Peter Parker & Harley Keener Friendship Summary: post-Endgame au--The Keener kids visit the Stark family after the world is put to rights, and Tony is reminded once more how fortunate he is.

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Collaborator : oluka Card Number: 5101 Square Filled: R3 - Extremis Title: What You Wish For Link: AO3 Pairings: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark Word Count: 2868 Rating: Mature Major Tags/Triggers: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, suicidal thoughts Summary: Tony sees the glint of the rifle just as Steve shouts and lunges for the U.S. Marshal in front of him.

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Collaborator : iam93percentstardust Card Number: 5063 Square Filled: S4 - Handle with Care Title: Tell Me a Story Chapter 5 Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony & Rhodey Word Count: 1298 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Past Abuse Summary: Tony grows up hearing bedtime stories, told to him by the people who love him. Now an adult, it's his turn to share his stories with his children.

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Collaborator : Momothequeen Card Number: 5093 Square Filled: R2 - Soulbound Title: Mine Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Peter Parker Word Count: 1681 Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: Public sex - Anal Sex - Light BDSM - Minor Character Death - Summary: After Peter’s kidnapping by rebels, Tony has to lay a claim on His beloved soul. What better moment than a video meeting in front of millions to do so?

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Collaborator : Beck Card Number: 5059 Square Filled: R5 - Multiverse Shenanigans Title: Multitasking Link: Tumblr Pairings: Pepper/Tony/Stephen Word Count: N/A Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: nsft, drpepperony, nudity Summary: N/A

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Collaborator : Beck Card Number: 5059 Square Filled: A2 - No Modesty Title: Untitled Link: Tumblr Pairings: pepperony Word Count: N/A Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: nsft (ish), butt Summary: Tony's favorite superhero

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Collaborator : rebelmeg Card Number: 5001 Square Filled: A5 - Pepper Potts / Rescue Title: Icarus and Apollia Link: AO3 Pairings: Pepperony Word Count: 1166 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Greek Mythology AU, happy ending Summary: An Iron Man twist on the myth of Icarus and the sun... who just happens to be his lover.

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Collaborator : AriaGrill Card Number: 5035 Square Filled: Adopted - Cock Rings Title: Growing Old (And It's Problems) Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony Stark/Bucky Barnes Word Count: 783 Rating: Explicit Major Tags/Triggers: Smut, Erectile dysfunction, minor angst, hurt/comfort Summary: As Tony got older, his sexual prowess wasn’t what it used to be. Now in his 50s, he had to be much more careful in what he ate, he didn’t retain any muscle, and worst of all he started to develop erectile dysfunction. So, they compromised on Tony swallowing his pride and using help to get hard. He couldn’t use pills due to his heart condition, but ‘primitive’ penis pumps and cock rings really did the trick.

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Collaborator : Caiti Card Number: 5013 Square Filled: K5 - Natasha Romanoff Title: A Slow Evolution Link: Tumblr Pairings: Tony Stark/Natasha Romanoff Word Count: n/a Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Moodboard, Alternate Universe Summary: Distant and suspicious at first, there is a slow evolution in the relationship between these two, but eventually they make a strong connection. A thought that should worry more than a few people . . .

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Collaborator : Caiti Card Number: 5013 Square Filled: Adopted - GRRRR: Drinking Title: Neighborhood Party Link: AO3 Pairings: n/a Word Count: n/a Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Moodboard, Alternate Universe - No Powers Summary: When Darcy first suggested celebrating the fall equinox, most people thought she might be crazier. Or crazier, as the case might be. But then Tony decided to run with the idea and got Pepper on board. And that, as they say, was that.

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Collaborator : Tonks Card Number: 5026 Square Filled: Adopted - Kink: Fisting Title: Don’t Believe Everything You Read on the Internet Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony/Bucky Word Count: 1598 Rating: Mature Major Tags/Triggers: first anniversary gifts, Fisting, This Is STUPID Summary: Bucky needs to find the perfect gift for his boyfriend Tony. Luckily for him, he has google at his disposal

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Collaborator : deehellcat Card Number: 5018 Square Filled: T2 - sober Title: dressings of a former sight Link: AO3 Pairings: background Pepperony Word Count: 2402 Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Shave and a Haircut, Not Endgame Compliant, the Russos whomst, idk them, Scott Lang is a Good Bro Summary: Tony goes for a different look, with some amusing and enlightening results.

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Collaborator : RoseRose Card Number: 5032 Square Filled: Adopted - Writing Format: Past Tense Title: Taps Link: AO3 Pairings: Rhodey & Tony Word Count: 109 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Major Character Death, Hurt No Comfort, Poetry Summary: Post-Endgame poem from Rhodey's POV. Definitely sad.

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Collaborator : DarthBloodOrange Card Number: 5049 Square Filled: Adopted - Amnesia Title: Farmer Rogers Link: AO3 Pairings: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers Word Count: N/a - Moodboard Rating: Gen Major Tags/Triggers: Amnesia, Canon Divergence AU, Farm/Ranch AU, Shrunkyclunks Summary: Steve wakes from the ice with no memory of his past. He moves out to a farm, where he falls for the farmer next door.

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Collaborator : Chel Card Number: 5012 Square Filled: S3 - Ironhusbands Title: Please Know You Can Come Home Link: AO3 Pairings: Tony x Rhodey Word Count: 8173 Rating: Teen Major Tags/Triggers: Alcoholism, attempted strangulation, trauma Summary: childhood friends James Rhodes and Tony Stark have never met in person. Instead, they use what Tony calls the Shine to communicate with each other. As they grew up, their Shine diminished and they lost touch with each other, and in time assumed the other was nothing more than a figment of their imagination. After countless fuck ups and tragedies, Tony ends up as a hospice worker in a small town. He uses his Shine to ease people into death and soothe their worries, earning him the peculiar title of Doctor Sleep. It takes just one more tragedy for him to be reunited with his childhood friend, James Rhodes.

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[ssironstrange]

i’ve been sitting on the wip of “the ghosts between us” for like almost a fucking year waiting for endgame.

it was gonna be a sad and angsty fic to begin with.

and now it’s gonna be a thousand times more with all the new angst fodder this fucking movie has given me.

hahahai’llneverknowhappinessagain