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As with the previous installment, 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 )

Three ficlets in chronological order, for comics, orig fic, and a Canadian television show (three versions of something like Remembrance Day, for Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years, Egyptology!, and Marvel). An experiment in present tense, so tell me if anything sounds too clunky.

( Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years )

( Egyptology! )

( Marvel, Resurrection-verse )

Space opera AU ficlet. I took a few liberties with the original scenario, but I rhink you'll recognize it ^_~.

( It wasn't until his second month on the Iron Shell, after the disastrous mission to Vega Six had finally been wrapped up and Zemo's bid to become Warlord of his own solar system was all over but for the nasty letters from the lawyers at Hammer Intergalactic (Hammer had had substantial sums of money invested in mineral rights on the now-interdicted Vega Six) that Captain Steve Rogers began to suspect that he was being watched )

Because girl!Loki is made of win.

( There was a time, once, when they were all much younger, when she didn't hate her step-brother. )

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.


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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.

( Chapter One )

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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)