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Something Borrowed by ThisCat
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
08 Feb 2019
Summary
Izuku wants to be a hero.
No matter what anyone says, his teachers, his classmates, or even Kacchan, he wants to be a hero.
It shouldn't matter that no one thinks he can. It shouldn't matter what people think, or say, because the only thing that matters is if he can, and he's at least going to try. He'll find a way. Even if his quirk is what it is, he'll find a way to be a hero without pushing anyone else down.
...but who has ever heard of a hero who needs to borrow other people's quirks just to fight?
(Currently on hiatus for an undetermined amount of time. Sorry.)
- Part 1 of Cat's BnHA fic
Shelves: My Hero Academia
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 132,797
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
Anthology containing:
Sleeping As I Walk
“Where did you learn that?” Tony asks, voice raw.
The twiddling stops. That’s all Tony can make out from the outskirts of his line of vision. He’s not ready to lift his head from his hands yet and look at the kid.
“Um, Google?”
“Geez.” The things kids Google these days. Tony has half a mind to ask what drove Peter to search ways to stop a panic attack, but the better part of him leaves the question untouched.
---
Beneath his cavalier, sassmaster exterior, Tony’s a sensitive guy. Peter knows that. Being faced with a full-grown man in the middle of an anxiety attack, however, is a completely different story, and Peter must draw on all his own strength and maturity to offer Tony a shoulder to lean on.Soccer Mom Moment
“I’m going to tell Aunt May.”
Tony briefly halts his ministrations to pull Peter back a bit by the shoulders. “Okay, kid, first off, that’s my line. Secondly, do you really think that the woman who showed off your baby pictures to me will give a crap about me tickling your head?”
Peter deflates. “So maybe I didn’t think that ultimatum through.”
“No kidding, buddy. Now you’ve just given me source material for, oh, I don’t know, a potential bargaining opportunity. How ’bout this. I promise not to tell Aunt May about your ticklish problem”--even Tony interrupts himself with a snicker, earning a truly angsty teenage groan from Peter--“and you promise to let me take pictures of you in the Spider-Man bowtie.”
“You call this bargaining?”
“Actually, no, it’s blackmail. Always knew you were a smart kid.”
---
Or, the one where May is bedridden with a cold, she and Tony are probably conniving to embarrass Peter further than his sixteen-year-old heart can take it, and all the kid wants is a haircut before his very important bioengineering conference across the country.Time Shifting Weight
A full-body flinch courses through Peter. It’s not alarming--just a neurological tic of exhaustion that has Tony on his feet and crossing the small patch of distance left between them to sit on the nearest corner of the coffee table.
Peter opens his eyes and blinks up at Tony, or rather at the shadow that falls over his pale face, and gives a tiny wave that under any other specific set of circumstances would be downright ridiculous. “Hi, Mr. Stark.”
“Hi, kid. Wanna talk?”
Peter goes to open his mouth but hesitates. They both know he’s too intelligent to play the innocent card now. The words replay themselves of their own accord in Tony’s mind--instant kill, instant kill, instant, kill, kill--
One good look at Peter’s eyes confirms the kid is on the same page.
---
When Tony gets the alert that Spider-Man has activated Instant Kill Mode for the first time, he expects to see May being kidnapped on the footage, or maybe Ned or even MJ. The last thing he expects is to see Peter with his fingers wrapped around the neck of a random teenager. Lying in the shadows under a coffee table, Peter finally pours out to Tony the details of his troubled past.Sometimes We're Holding Angels
Peter tears his gaze from his knees to affix it with a startling alertness on her. For what feels to Pepper like one of the longest seconds in history, he does nothing but stare, slack-jawed, his mind speeding through all the possible permutations of her statement before settling on one explanation. The realization doesn’t go off like a light bulb in his eyes; it’s slow and hesitant, just on the edge of heart-wrenching in its quivering optimism.
“You too?”
Pepper knows this is the first time he’s dared--he is daring--to hope that something, something will be okay. That not everything in his bones is broken.
“Me too.”
---
Looking around at all his fellow heroes who nurse nightmares and secret panic attacks, Peter turns to a surprising advocate--Pepper--in his quest to determine if his emotional detachment is a symptom of sociopathy. Tony may not know exactly what Peter is going through, but he’ll be damned if he doesn’t try his best to make it better for him. Even if that does involve getting stuck in an underground Legoland attraction. (He always knew heart-to-heart talks would be the death of him.)Down Came the Rain and Washed the Spider Out
Tony lolls his head back with as much drama as Peter. “You’re seventeen years old. Why are you so responsible about ice cream flavors?”
“Wow. Is Tony Stark promoting irresponsibility?” Peter squints at him as he downs another spoonful.
“Don’t sound so shocked, Spiderling. I’m sure Rhodey has already regaled you with tales of the forty-seven different ways Tony Stark can collapse drunk down the stairs. Or was it forty-three? I know my record of collapsing was around thirty percent of all parties attended and fifty percent of attempts to impress a potential partner. In fact, when I was just a little older than--”
“Ew. Please just stop talking, Mr. Stark. I do not need to be traumatized today by your escapades.”
“That’s not fair. You listen well enough in sex ed to get an A in the class.”
“I listen when it’s educational.”
---
Being part spider doesn’t mean you lose your fear of spiders. Tony learns this the hard way when he hears Peter shrieking his head off in the lab and dashes in, thinking his mentee is probably getting torn from limb to limb.Fragile and Composed
“I’m not sneaking behind your back! What the--and I’m not getting brainwashed.”
“Sure. So the whole ‘we fight for our ideals and yeah, people get hurt but what matters is taking down the bad guy’ spiel is totally your idea.”
Peter gesticulates wildly with a visceral groan. “I--stop putting words into my mouth! I didn’t say it like that!”
“Oh, really. Then please, by all means, rephrase it for me. Because it sure as hell sounded like a spitting image of Captain America’s rousing pep talk about fighting for good ole Uncle Sam and his fucking outdated ideals.”
“I don’t even like Mr. Rogers.”
“Yeah, buddy, it sure sounds like you don’t."
---
When Steve Rogers shows up in Tony’s backyard a year after Berlin, there’s nothing Peter would like better than to clock Captain America in the jaw. So how does the kid end up taking advice solely from Steve about bullies and losing control at the homophobe that has been harassing him and his friend? And how will Peter begin to repair the trust that Tony now feels is broken between them?You Won't Notice the Fall
"Mr. Stark?"
Oh, frick. Not again.
"Mm?"
"Did you know snakes can get sniffles?"
"That's...an oddly specific piece of trivia, kiddo."
"I volunteered at a vet clinic in freshman year. You'd be surprised how many people own albino garden snakes..."
---
It’s T minus six hours until Tony has to get up for his special presentation at the bioengineering conference, and here he is, stuck in a dark and frigid hotel room with the blinds rattling, doing his best not to smother himself with a pillow because this kid. Just. Won’t. Shut. Up.When You Give a Super Sniffles
“I, uh...um. Yeah. I’m a grinder. I mean, a teeth grinder! I--I grind my teeth. At night. Because…” He makes an ineffective gesture with his hands. “Because that’s when people normally grind their teeth.”
Tony casts him a withering look, gets up, and returns from the kitchen with an ice pack wrapped in a dish towel. “This should help with the swelling.”
“Oh, goodie.” Peter accepts the ice pack with an eye roll. “I love using these things every day. Love ’em more than Ned.”
“Are you usually this much of an asshole when you’re sick, or is this just special treatment for me?”
“You said I’m not supposed to feed your ego, Mr. Stark.”
---
Who even gets sick on their birthday? One (1) sticky boy, apparently. Tony swears Peter Parker is a walking, (over)talking, sneezing curse because before he knows it, he, too, is sick on his birthday. Featuring tinsel scarves, way too many pop culture references to pickles, and an Uncle Rhodey who never outgrew his mother-henning days from MIT.(You Can't Stop) DNA
“Kid.” Tony busies his hands by wiping them down with one of the brown recycled napkins to pat away the phantom stickiness between his fingers. When Peter doesn’t respond immediately, Tony flits the corner of the napkin at his nose. Peter starts.
Tony’s mouth twitches involuntarily. “Pete. Look alive for a bit, huh? Why don’t you tell me how your day went?”
The boy rubs at the side of his face with a soft fist as if to erase the imaginary drool and embarrassment. “You know how my day went. Pretty much. You were there for the whole man-in-a--”
“--In-a-purple-cape-and-an-otter-mask debacle, yeah, I know. I was the one who personally promised to sue Party City for selling those abominations to the public. I was there,” Tony finishes for him wryly. As Peter’s head bobs and dips unnaturally low, Tony flicks at his chin this time with the end of his paper-wrapped straw. “I was talking about before that.”
---
A night out to Friendly's post-patrol dredges up an unwanted memory of when Howard took little Tony out for ice cream after hitting him. Though Tony Stark today may be a man, that doesn't mean the memory of the rare affection amid the abuse doesn't still confuse him.Borrow Hope to Understand
Tony may not be crying, but the warble of his voice tells a different story when he speaks up again. “He was good for me. And he was good. He was the one who helped me understand I didn’t have to throw away what I believed in because of what I had with him. I mean, granted, it took me probably another decade at that point to actually get it, but at least he got the hammer going in my thick skull.”
“You do have a thick skull sometimes,” Peter grumbles.
“I take offense at that, Underoos. I have a thick skull all the time.”
Tony can practically hear the eye-roll in the kid’s tone. “I wonder sometimes what I idolized in you as a kid.”
“A question for you to answer, kid, not me. I’m just the washed-up has-been engineer playing with million-dollar titanium alloy toys in his tower.”
“I would love to take a dissertation to your face with, like, ninety-five theses on why you’re wrong,” Peter retorts, “but I’m more invested in the story. Why did you...why do you say you didn’t have to throw away everything you believed in?”
---
Tony helps Peter in more ways than he'll ever know to come to grips with his sexuality and his feelings about Ned.Our Finest Gifts We Bring
“I thought you were upstate!” Peter says in what is quite arguably a prepubescent squeak. “How’d you--how’d you get here?”
Tony’s mouth twitches. He pockets his shades and unzips his wool pea coat with a flamboyant gesture. “Well, you see, Mr. Parker, when you’re a billionaire, you have these things called chauffeurs--”
“Well, I know that.” Peter has the audacity to frown in impatience. “Happy’s outside? He can totally come inside. I mean, if you’re staying, that is--I didn’t mean--uh.”
“Of course I’m staying. Your Aunt Panini bullied me into this,” says Tony with a wave of his hand. When Peter moves toward the door, he adds, “Happy’s not here. I flew over.”
Peter does a comical yo-yo motion, darting his head back and forth between Tony and the door. “Is it--is the suit here?” he whisper-yells with a pointed finger and more reverence than he ever showed Tony Stark himself collectively.
--
Or, the one where Tony comes over expecting to babysit Peter and help decorate over Christmas weekend, but instead learns there's yet another side to the kid's pure-hearted generosity that lives on in the face of loss, death and poverty.
Matching Converse Are for Nerds
Rhodey smiles warmly at Peter. “By the way, happy belated birthday, kid. Sorry to hear you were down yesterday with that nasty infection from your braces. Tony here has--”
“Nah-ah-ah!” Tony claps sharply in an attempt to get his best friend to shut the hell up. “This is Peter’s day. A day for Peter’s accomplishments, Peter’s wishes and, more importantly, Peter’s embarrassments. We can save the MIT stories for my actual birthday.”
“As much as I’m dying to hear how you turned MIT upside-down,” says Peter with a shit-eating grin, “I think I witness enough embarrassment from you on a day-to-day basis to tide me over till next year.”
Tony points at the kid. Actually points at him. “Colonel Rhodes, arrest this wall-crawler.”
“Right honorific, wrong profession. Sorry, Tones. The wall-crawler appreciates my hexagons. I’m Switzerland.”
“You’re not Switzerland!” Tony sputters in protest. “You couldn’t be farther from Switzerland!”
--
After Peter's brief stint with an oral infection, Tony takes Peter on a belated sixteenth-birthday shopping trip to an outlet mall. And no, he is in no way acting like an overprotective dad the whole time.
This Is a Mad Boy
In and out. In and out.
It's no trick of the light: it never was. Not the red-rimmed eyes behind broken glasses, not the tremors under Peter's skin that he chose to ignore. Not the crimson painting his kid's chest in muddy rivers now, seeping out and pooling underneath him.
His fingers are soaking. There's a goddamn metal pole impaling his kid's shoulder and all Tony can think of is how his fingers are wet.
No. No. This was not supposed to happen to a human. Peter's not supposed to be human.
--
Peter sees her in his dreams. He can hear her last scream as she hurtled down, feel the bend and snap of her spine as he shot out a web too late to halt her tumble to certain death. MJ is dead. And she's dead because of Peter.
Weeks after a Spider-Man-related accident that kills MJ and that Peter won't talk about, Tony and the Avengers are embroiled in a battle with the American Mutant Management Organization (AMMO), a group that is hell-bent on eliminating all superhuman beings with their newly developed serum--a serum that presents too great of a temptation for Peter as he struggles to process his own grief and guilt over MJ and believes he no longer deserves to be Spider-Man.
Shelves: Marvel Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 117,870
Dis(associate) by BeyondTheClouds777
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
04 Jan 2019
Summary
Izuku has a “dissociation” Quirk that lets his ghost leave his body, and it’s both convenient and inconvenient at the same time. Either way, he's going to do whatever it takes to become a hero.
- Part 1 of Izuku is a Spooky Problem Child
Shelves: My Hero Academia
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 290,430
- Status:
- Completed
Dream Sweet in Sea Major by showtiime
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
08 Oct 2018
Summary
The day of the Hero Incident ends much more horribly than anyone could've imagined, but only Izuku knows that. He thinks as long as he forces himself to push through it that he can get over it, but of course, that's not how things go. His mom, friends, teachers, and even his childhood friend-turned-rival take note of his odd behavior and try to help, but he refuses to talk about what really happened. How long and how thin will Bakugou's patience go until Izuku finally confides and accepts the help he needs?
(in this fic, Shigaraki takes more from Izuku than he should've, Katsuki comes with the class that day at the mall, and there are still finals to be taken. Plenty can happen in only five to six weeks.)
(playlist)
Shelves: My Hero Academia
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 125,193
- Status:
- Completed
I Summoned a Demon 101: an In-comprehensive guide to Corporeal Demon Do's and Don'ts by EAter
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
31 Aug 2018
Summary
Midoriya Izuku was born with a quirk: the ability to summon and bind demons from an alternate plane to do his bidding. With only a few days left until the UA entrance exam and still no offensive-type demons in his arsenal, Izuku makes a desperate venture at summoning one corporeal, a feat he had never before attempted. He'd say it was a success- but he doesn't actually know if it'll be more a help or a hindrance. Especially since Bakugou Katsuki is, well, kind of a shit.
Shelves: My Hero Academia
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 99,650
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
Severus Snape's loyalty has always been to Harry, not to Dumbledore or the Order. When he finds out that Harry is a horcrux and Dumbledore intends to have him killed, Severus goes to the Dark Lord with the information in an effort to save Harry's life, and in doing so changes the fate of the world.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 121,812
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Anthology containing:
With Arms Wide Open
5 times the Avengers helped Peter Parker, and the 1 time Peter Parker helped the Avengers
One Last Breath
Peter Parker has been living with the Avengers ever since May died a few months ago. Things are going as well as could be expected.
And then, memories of Skip Westcott come back, and Peter isn't exactly sure how to handle it.
So Far Away
It's finally Peter's sixteenth birthday, and Tony is determined to make it enjoyable, even if Aunt May isn't around to see it.
When They Call My Name
Decathlon is a big deal for Peter. Being in DC again is even bigger. Luckily, Tony was always there for him.
Lullabies
December was a rough month for Peter, and now he was expected to get through it without May as well as Ben
Hologram
Somebody in the government let Peter's identity slip to the public. Peter is then kidnapped for ransom money, but Tony isn't considered a helicopter parent for no reason
The Edge of Tonight
Nobody expected that the first time Peter called Tony "dad" would be because Tony was blown out of the sky
Far From Home
Peter's dissociation problem is only getting worse. It only took saving a little girl for him to realize this
Shelves: Marvel Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 67,145
- Status:
- In-Progress
Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail Anthology by owlet, MusingsOnBuckyBarnes
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
21 Jun 2018
Summary
Anthology containing:
This, You Protect by owlet
The mission resets abruptly, from objective: kill to objective: protect
Team-Building Exercises by owlet
Integration into adult human social dynamics requires attention and effort. Especially with this bunch of damaged bozos.
(A series of interconnected one-shots.)
Here's a great drawing of Barnes and cat Eleanor, doing what they do best: http://masykruger.tumblr.com/post/132543566312/i-love-these-fics-so-much
The Long Road Begins at Home by owlet
Oh sure, reunion results in happiness, kittens, and rainbows, because that's definitely how life goes when you've just spent 70 years as a tool of villainy. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
Truth, Justice, and the Cheating Cheater Way by owlet
Don't play cards with Captain America. Just don't. Especially if you've pissed him off recently.
Upgrade: Advanced Happiness Skills by owlet
Barnes's body does a new thing. Thanks for all the trouble, body.
WARNING: Reference to past sexual assault (not explicit)
A Chance To Try Bravery by owlet
"Changed his mind about touching," Bucky said. Just ... what?
(Takes place during Upgrade: Advanced Happiness Skills - http://archiveofourown.org/works/4806749)
Q & A with Owlet Re: The Infinite Coffee & Protection Detail series by MusingsOnBuckyBarnes & owlet
Musings asked me some questions about ICaPD! I answered them.
A minor misunderstanding, solidarity, and reunion by owlet
Barnes should know better. Lidia should charge her phone.
Shelves: Marvel Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 264,729
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Derek Hale, Beacon Hills Alpha and Dom, wakes up in a dark cell already housing another captive – a mute, traumatized sub with a cruel collar around his neck. His only goal is to get them both free of their brutal circumstances; but even as he tries to get his young companion home, a bond between them grows. Nothing comes easily: danger and harrowing echoes of their ordeal shadow every step they take.
Shelves: Teen Wolf
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 208,473
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
An alternate universe where Elim Garak went undercover as a Bajoran tailor.
Anthology containing:
Inside Out
Ten years ago, Elim Garak went under deep cover as a Bajoran tailor.
Foreign Bodies
Twelve years ago, Elim Garak went under deep cover as a Bajoran tailor.
Then Julian Bashir ruined everything.
A Night to Remember
Julian has a proposition, and Pela Serot is the biggest sucker this side of the wormhole.
Shelves: Star Trek Fics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 224,103
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
Following the events trending as #shieldfiledump and #hydragate, Steve goes hunting for the Winter Soldier, goes looking for his best friend. What he finds is a very broken man. Meanwhile, other agents of SHIELD are picking up their own pieces. Since it's one of the few secure places left, everyone heads to Stark Tower. Coulson's rather sudden reappearance to the team after three years of alleged death doesn't go entirely smoothly; especially where his former relationship with Clint and the resumption thereof are concerned. Ultimately luckily for everyone, Natasha has no patience for anyone's BS once she gets back from her post-#hydragate disappearance.
(Canon compliant through Winter Soldier, semi-AoS compliant)- Part 1 of In From the Cold-verse
Shelves: Marvel Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 175,482
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
Stiles is a troubled young hacker at odds with his father, the Chief of Police in Beacon City. After a chance meeting with a handsome but dangerous man, he learns it isn't always obvious who the bad guys are.
Anthology containing:
BORN VILLAIN
THE HIGH END OF LOWShelves: Teen Wolf
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 136,298
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Creating a safe bond between humans in the Drift is hard enough. No matter how great the need, some paths aren't meant to be taken.
Anthology containing:
That Ocean Is Not Silent
Strange, Far PlacesShelves: Small Fandoms
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 159,132
- Status:
- Completed
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