A) Tony caters Nathan's for Steve, and B) it's revealed every Avenger has the serum

[ladyhatshepsut.livejournal.com]

There are two (unrelated) stories I've been searching for all week and I'm finally giving up and coming to you.  The first one has Tony catering a Nathan's hot dog feast as a surprise treat for Steve.  He either has Happy go and pick up the food or has one of the Nathan's cooks come to the penthouse.  Just becaue Steve said he missed the food, but you know Tony won't admit it.  :-)

In the second story it's revealed, probably through some old paperwork they find, that each of the Avengers had been exposed to versions of the serum that changed Steve Rogers' and Bruce Banner's lives so drastically.  Natasha got it through the Red Room as a child.  Clint and Barney were involved in test trials when they were young.  Howard was involved in the trials but Tony was not supposed to be given the serum.  When that was done behind Howard back, that was when Howard became neglectful and/or abusinve toward Tony.  Don't know about Thor; would he need it?

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[(Anonymous)]

The second one is Only Different in the Details by LadyShadowphyre http://archiveofourown.org/works/567367

[ladyhatshepsut.livejournal.com]

That's it. Many thanks.

Nathan's

[bookwyrm124.livejournal.com]

I think the first one might be the first story in The Awakenings Universes by Brooke_Lynn. Its near the end, after Tony and Steve get together, and I think it also involves egg creams?

Re: Nathan's

[ladyhatshepsut.livejournal.com]

Yep, it is Awakenings. Thank you so much. I'd downloaded the series and was tweaking it to print out someday, but hadn't touched for over a year. I remembered that one scene but every time I'd search for "Nathan" or Nathan's" Awakenings would get lost in a sea of Magnificent Seven stories. (One of the main character is named Nathan.) I totally forgot about the egg cream. But then again, I'm a west coast girl and I don't know if we even have egg creams out here.
Thanks again.