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1. How to Save a Life (when you're already dead) by whosthatgurl

   Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Avengers Assemble (Cartoon), Captain America - All Media Types, Iron Man (Movies)  

   • Not Rated
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   02 Jul 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
   • Steve Rogers
   • Tony Stark
   • Bruce Banner
   • Stephen Strange
   • Thanos (Marvel)
   • FRIDAY the AI (Marvel)
   • Sam Wilson (Marvel)
   • Time Travel Fix-It
   • Endgame
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Not Actually Unrequited Love
   • POV Tony Stark
   • Tony Stark Has Issues
   • Tony Stark Needs a Hug
   • Tony Stark Gets a Hug
   • Tony Stark Lives
   • Protective Tony Stark
   • Self-Sacrificing Steve Rogers
   • Steve Rogers Needs a Hug
   • Steve Rogers Lives
   • Desperate Tony Stark
   • Quantum Leaping (Quantum Leap)
   • Quantum Realm (Marvel)
   • Everyone Is Alive
   • Tony Stark Saves The Day
   • Science Bros | Bruce Banner & Tony Stark Friendship
   • Stream of Consciousness
   • Non-Linear Narrative
   • Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

   Summary

   The first time Tony Stark loses Steve Rogers, the universe ends with them.

   The second time, it's in a 1970s supply closet where a desperate embrace across impossible timelines plants the seeds of salvation.

   Fourteen million futures. One desperate gamble.

   Tony Stark has spent his entire life rewriting the rules. Time travel is just another engineering problem.

   "We don't trade lives, but rules are made to be broken."

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