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• Playing Pretend by babayaga_rot

  Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Iron Man (Movies)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  17 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Steve Rogers/Original Female Character(s)
  • Pepper Potts/Tony Stark
  • Steve Rogers
  • Tony Stark
  • Bruce Banner
  • Pepper Potts
  • Phil Coulson
  • Thor (Marvel)
  • Loki (Marvel)
  • Natasha Romanov (Marvel)
  • Nick Fury
  • Clint Barton
  • Original Female Character(s)
  • Avengers Team Members (Marvel)
  • Steve Rogers Feels
  • Protective Steve Rogers
  • Protective Tony Stark
  • Tony Stark Has a Heart
  • References to Movie: Iron Man 2 (2010)
  • Movie: The Avengers (2012)
  • Steve Rogers Needs a Hug
  • Original Female Character(s) - Freeform
  • Steve Rogers and the 21st Century
  • Parent Tony Stark
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Denial of Feelings
  • i miss the old days
  • Strangers to Friends to Lovers
  • Slow Burn
  • excruciating slow burn
  • Original Character(s)
  • Stalking
  • Mild Gore
  • Angst
  • Fluff
  • Tension
  • POV Steve Rogers
  • POV Third Person
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Steve Rogers Has Issues
  • Everyone Has Issues
  • References to Depression
  • Claire Larson (OC)
  • Developing Friendships
  • Developing Relationship
  • Set Between Movie: The Avengers (2012) and Movie: Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

  Summary

  Claire Larson had never considered herself to be a hero by any means. She wasn't one to run into action or deny her own desires for those of others, but after she's recruited to Stark Industries by Tony Stark, she's thrown into the throng of his ambitious heroics. So, when he is called upon by SHIELD to assist them in their fight against Loki, he drags her along with him and she's forced to play the role of hero.

   

  Seventy years had passed for Steve Rogers. He had downed his plane in the Arctic Ocean in hopes of keeping the power of the Tesseract far away from civilization, and in the process lost all things he held close to him. However, when he's rescued by the international intelligence organization SHIELD, he comes to realize all of his sacrifices were for nothing. Now in the present day, Steve is utterly alone with a heart full of regret.

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  Set in the Avengers (2012) and before Iron Man 3 (2013).
  I'll be going off the canon storyline after Avengers.

  Steve Rogers/OFC

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  63,693

  Chapters:

  15/?

  Comments:

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  Kudos:

  34

  Bookmarks:

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