#scibfs

Tony Stark and Bruce Banner are tenured professors at MIT, who just happen to hate each other. Tony is too loud, too brash, too wild. Bruce is too uptight, too angry, too stiff. Every time they interact, sparks fly, and not the good kind.

Until one day, Tony finds out that Bruce is struggling with a violent stalker; his ex's father, General Thaddeus Ross. Tony offers help, but as they work together to unravel a web of hidden crimes that will get Ross put away for good, they start to realize that maybe this tension between them isn't the kind of tension they think it is. Somewhere along the way, they shifted from enemies to friends to lovers, and neither of them were quite sure when it happened.

"I’m a miserable man, but my god, Tony, the brightest points in my life are the days I get to see you.”

Bruce took a ragged breath, and came to Tony, holding Tony's face in both hands. Tony looked at Bruce’s hazel eyes, which were almost green because of the tears in them. 

Hello! I don't have "desperation," but I do have "desperate!" This is from my SciBfs college professor enemies-to-lovers AU, in which Ross is causing major problems for Bruce. And because I wanted to add some context, please enjoy an entire passage instead of just a sentence :)

“Stop it, dammit, you’re allowed to be angry! Jesus Bruce, the man is trying to ruin your life! He’s trying to scare you out of asking for help by intimidating anyone who tries! Listen, I’m telling you right now that I don’t scare easily. You don’t go through what I went through and not learn how to fight back,” Tony said fiercely, going to Bruce and taking him by both shoulders, shaking him a little to catch his gaze, and Bruce looked a little unhinged and a lot desperate. “I’m helping you because I want to. What he’s doing is wrong. And I don’t give a fuck about our past history. You’re my friend now, and I’m not leaving my friend out to dry on this one.”

Ungrateful

Tony lay on his stomach on the pile of blankets they’d dragged to the lakeside, and buried his cheek slightly in the cloud-soft pillow, his arms tucked under it as he watched the sunset with half-lidded contentment. It was very orange tonight; hues of salmon, peach, persimmon, and molten gold melted into each other and cast a warm, golden light over him and Bruce.  

“I feel like I could dip a paintbrush into the sky and put it on a canvas” Bruce murmured from where he sat by Tony’s hip, lazily drawing his fingertip in featherlight strokes up and down Tony’s spine. Up and down, slow and meditative.

“You sound like Steve,” Tony chuckled, stretching a bit and then thrilling when Bruce’s fingertip trailed over his hip, to swirl in small circles down the back of his thigh.

“I would paint you,” Bruce said in a distant, relaxed tone.

“You already did,” Tony said, salacious, earning him a swat on the ass.

“Now you’re just being rude.”

Tony rolled slightly, so he could look up at Bruce from his side, propping his head in his hand.

“I’d let you do it again.”

“I already did it twice!” Bruce said, clearly trying to hold back a smile.

“Not enough. I can never get enough of you,” Tony said, sliding a hand up Bruce’s leg, feeling the soft hair under his fingers grow sparse as he reached Bruce’s inner thigh.

“Ungrateful. That’s what you are.” Bruce was full-on smiling now, as Tony shifted up to all fours, crawling closer to Bruce so he could crowd into him with tender kisses and lewd whispers.

“So ungrateful,” Tony hummed, his teeth lightly catching Bruce’s lower lip, and followed him down when Bruce laid back into the blankets. “Greedy, ungrateful, ravenous, insatiable….”

“Tony…” Bruce gasped quietly, arching into Tony’s chest.

“Shh, I’ll make you feel so good, Greenbean. You deserve to be greedy and ungrateful, too,” Tony whispered into the crook of Bruce’s neck as he settled between his thighs, which Bruce immediately wrapped around Tony’s hips.

“Don’t stop…” Bruce breathed, the last word hitching in the most sublime, indulgent sigh Tony had ever heard.

Sorry for the delay, Anon! I was out of town for a couple days. This snippet is also from my Science Boyfriends enemies-to-friends-to-lovers professor AU wip. In this scene, fellow professor and newly-minted friend Bruce has just unexpectedly had to crash at Tony's place with his cat Olivia Mewton John (Ollie for short), with nothing on him but the clothes on his back. Tony of course set him up in his finest guest room with a set of his comfiest pajamas, because dammit no friend (or even coworker) was sleeping in an uncomfy-ass suit on the cold floor of their campus office on his watch.

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Tony slept well, but had been sitting at the kitchen table with Olivia, looking through data on his laptop for several hours when Bruce finally shuffled downstairs in Tony’s pajamas with the hoodie sleeves pulled over his hands like sweater paws. Tony had to take too-big gulp of coffee to cover up the fact that his first thought was hot hot cute hot omg hot wtf hot cutie wearing my clothes fuck too hot-

“Sleeping Beauty awakes,” Tony said instead, waving his coffee mug in the direction of the coffee maker on the counter. Bruce merely mumbled something incoherent, got a coffee, and sat beside Tony, staring into the distance and absently petting Olivia when she moved from Tony’s lap to Bruce’s.

“Not sleep well?” Tony said, arching a brow, and Bruce shook his head.

“Slept fine. Not a morning person,” he mumbled, causing Tony to chuckle. 

“You drink a lot of caffeine?” Tony asked, turning a bit in his chair to watch Bruce, amused at his halo of messy curls and scruff that was already coming in. 

“Usually I just rely on whatever bullshit you annoy me with during classes to get me woke up,” Bruce mumbled, giving Tony a sidelong glance with a small smile. Tony nodded sagely.

((Hi from a mod!  Yes, tumblr is quite the treasure chest of Tony and Bruce goodies these days!  So, sorry if I'm excluding anyone in this!  And if you run a blog based on Science Boyfriends, send it along to me and I'll promote it for sure!

General Science Boyfriends blogs I like are fuckyeahtruce, scibfs, and askthesciencebros, although that last one isn't necessarily the boys as a couple. It's plenty cute though!

Some of my fave blogs for Science Boyfriends fanfiction are redheadscientist, amy-banner, amy-riddle, and thesecretwritingqueen.  Although there are TONS of people writing great fic out there.  Check out AO3 for a lot of great stuff.

As far as RP blogs, there are SO many of those out there, and ask blogs that RP with other ask blogs, it's hard for me to narrow it down.  There are a handful of Bruce and Tony blogs that RP as romantically attached, but a lot of them are "just bros."  They're pretty easy to find by lurking on the Tony Stark and Bruce Banner tags though!