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As with the previous installments, some content has been paraphrased & quoted from Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen."

Story the First: The Steel Mirror
Story the Second: The Soldier and the Smith
Story the Third: Of the Library At the Young Woman's Who Understood Witchcraft
Story the Fourth: The Prince and the Princess
Story the Fifth: The Little Robber Boy

( Story the Sixth: The Far North, and Who the Soldier Met There )

As with the previous installments, some content has been paraphrased & quoted from Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen."

Story the First: The Steel Mirror
Story the Second: The Soldier and the Smith
Story the Third: Of the Library At the Young Woman's Who Understood Witchcraft

( Story the Fourth: The Prince and the Princess )

Title: King of Infinite Space 7/7
Authors: seanchai and elspethdixon
Rated: PG-13
Pairings: Steve/Tony.
Warnings: Things are getting dark, and there's probably some language.
Disclaimer: The characters and situations depicted herein belong to Stan Lee and Marvel comics. No profit is being made off of this derivative work. We're paid in love, people.
Summary: A villain from Tony's past comes back to cause trouble for the Avengers. Maybe it wouldn't have been so easy, if thing weren't already so awkward over the events of Execute Program.

X-posted to marvel_slash.

And of course, thanks to tavella for the great beta job.


( Chapter Seven )

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Title: King of Infinite Space 5/7
Authors: seanchai and elspethdixon
Rated: PG-13
Pairings: Steve/Tony.
Warnings: Things are getting dark, and there's probably some language.
Disclaimer: The characters and situations depicted herein belong to Stan Lee and Marvel comics. No profit is being made off of this derivative work. We're paid in love, people.
Summary: A villain from Tony's past comes back to cause trouble for the Avengers. Maybe it wouldn't have been so easy, if thing weren't already so awkward over the events of Execute Program.

X-posted to marvel_slash.

And of course, thanks to tavella for the great beta job.


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Title: King of Infinite Space 3/7
Authors: seanchai and elspethdixon
Rated: PG-13
Pairings: Steve/Tony.
Warnings: Nothing. Yet.
Disclaimer: The characters and situations depicted herein belong to Stan Lee and Marvel comics. No profit is being made off of this derivative work. We're paid in love, people.
Summary: A villain from Tony's past comes back to cause trouble for the Avengers. Maybe it wouldn't have been so easy, if thing weren't already so awkward over the events of Execute Program.

X-posted to marvel_slash.

And of course, thanks to tavella for the great beta job.


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Originally posted on stevelovestony, reposted here for safety's sake (fannish politics, why must you invade my new fandom?).

Title: King of Infinite Space 1/7
Authors: seanchai and elspethdixon
Rated: PG-13
Pairings: Steve/Tony.
Warnings: Nothing. Yet.
Disclaimer: The characters and situations depicted herein belong to Stan Lee and Marvel comics. No profit is being made off of this derivative work. We're paid in love, people.
Summary: A villain from Tony's past comes back to cause trouble for the Avengers. Maybe it wouldn't have been so easy, if thing weren't already so awkward over the events of Execute Program.

X-posted to marvel_slash.

And of course, thanks to tavella for the great beta job.

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{Chapter One} {Chapter Two} {Chapter Three} {Chapter Four} {Chapter Five} {Chapter Six} {Chapter Seven}

Tales of Suspense has been updated with three new fics and a bunch of new icons. Well, two new fics and a bunch of new icons. The third fic is Avengers-centric but doesn't actually contain either Steve or Tony, because sleeping with the site mod is a good way to get around content rules.

Also, seanchai and I have a new fic up on the stevelovestony comm (finished and in beta, being posted in parts).

King of Infinite Space
Rated: PG-13
Pairings: Steve/Tony.
Warnings: Nothing. Yet.
Summary: A villain from Tony's past comes back to cause trouble for the Avengers. Maybe it wouldn't have been so easy, if thing weren't already so awkward over the events of Execute Program.

TITLE: Making the Best of It
AUTHOR: elspethdixon
WRITTEN FOR: duskdog717
FANDOM/COMIC TITLE: Avengers
CHARACTERS/PAIRING: Hank Pym/Jan Van Dyne (Goliath/the Wasp), Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff (Hawkeye/Black Widow)
CATEGORY: Het
RATING: PG
SUMMARY: The Avengers are critically undermanned, the KGB is after the Black Widow, and Hank Pym still hasn't managed to fix his damaged powers.
DISCLAIMER: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by Stan Lee and Marvel Comics. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Many thanks to seanchai for beta reading for me!
NOTES: Set during Volume 1 avengers, after Steve and Hercules have left, when the team consists of Hank, Jan, and Clint. This story takes place immediately after Hercules has taken off, when Hank can't grow to Goliath height. Like crimsonquills, I've used the telescoping timeline in comics to set this in the 1990's instead of the late 60's, when the canon I'm using was published. Um, except for how it's a 1990s where the Soviet Union still magically exists, because otherwise the Black Widow makes no sense.

(Making the Best of It)

Title: Resurrection, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 13/13
Authors: seanchai and elspethdixon
Rated: PG-13
Pairings: Steve/Tony. Also, various canon ships, including Peter/MJ and Luke/Jessica/Danny. Sharon/Winter Soldier, for your daily dosage of bondage kink.
Warnings: Denial fic. Blatant shipper fic. One non-canonical het pairing. Incredibly PG-rated porn. Terrifying amounts of snuggling and angst.
Disclaimer: The characters and situations depicted herein belong to Stan Lee and Marvel comics. No profit is being made off of this derivative work. We're paid in love, people.

Summary:Tony goes toe to toe with the Mandarin, while Steve, Sharon, Sam, and Bucky finally come face to face with Red Skull.

As always, thank you to harmonyangel and tavella for the wonderful beta job. It wouldn't be this good without you guys.

*Chapter One* *Chapter Two* *Chapter Three* *Chapter Four* *Chapter Five* *Chapter Six* *Chapter Seven* *Chapter Eight* *Chapter Nine* *Chapter Ten* *Chapter Eleven* *Chapter Twelve*


(Chapter Thirteen: And even more amazing was the day Captain America realized he truly loved Iron Man back)


Note: For a rundown of where this fic departs from current continuity, go (here).

Thank you to everyone who's been reading this fic; we hope you enjoyed reading it as much as we enjoyed writing it. We'll be archiving it over at Marvelfanfiction, so if anyone wants to read it all in one go, it'll be there in a couple of days.

Fixit fic is done! It took five months, two hundred pages, and 90,000 words, and it is done!

I spent more time on this fic than I did on my first graduate-level research project (also this spring), and I feel that it was worth it.

If there was any way to take out the gay almost-porn, we'd send it to Marvel.

*dances with glee*