Question from elusivemuse89: 'Just imagine if the Avengers discovered shipping and looked up the names of each ship involving them. Bucky and Phil would never live it down.'
"Shipping Names"
"How did they even find out my name?" Phil asked, staring over Natasha's shoulder at the StarkPad screen.
"Close up, cleaned up security footage of an ID card when you bought celebratory alcohol, and someone recognized you from the flour incident," she replied dryly.
"…Please tell me you're joking." She raised an eyebrow at him, and he sighed. "Goddamnit. Call myself a SHIELD agent."
"Hey, are you in any of the ship names?" Tony called across the room. "Because Cap and me, we're Stony." Steve made a face. "Me and Pepper – which is 'canon', but not as popular – we're called Pepperony."
"Just checking," Natasha said, flicking through the pages. "Let's see. With Tony you're Phony." Tony snorted into his drink and Phil's eyes widened in horror. "With Steve, you're Capsicoul."
Steve's head fell against the back of the sofa with a thump, and Bucky burst out laughing.
"Why didn't I think of that?" Tony said incredulously.
"And…" Then Natasha's shoulders began to shake, and she covered her mouth, but it wasn't enough to disguise the fit of giggles. That was the most alarming part of this conversation so far, which had been pretty damn alarming all the way along.
"What?" he asked, wary of the answer. Natasha pulled herself together as only she could, and showed Phil what she'd found."
"The couple name for you and Bucky is Phucky," she said.
Steve choked on air, Bucky fell off the sofa, and Phil needed to sit down. Tony's reaction… well, the less said about that, the better.
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