Title: Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairing: Phil Coulson/Steve Rodgers
Categories: Alternate Universe, Strippers, First Time, Virginity, Romance
Length: Medium (7033 words)
Warnings: N/A

Author on LJ: bluetears07
Author Website: bluetears07

Author's Summary:

A skinny boy from Brooklyn needs to improve his figure drawing skills, what better place than a strip club?

Review:

I love alternate universes. I love canon, sure, but there's something magical about putting characters with defined and understood personalities into wholly different situations and seeing what they do. And nothing in Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy rings truer to me than bluetears07's excellent portrayal of Steve Rogers, “an old fashion boy born in the wrong decade.”

The shoe is on the other foot in this AU, where Steve is not the one revered but the one revering, frequenting Tony Stark's strip club to sketch Phil as he strips in order to fill out his art portfolio before applying for art school. Phil's omnipresent collector's cards are symbolically swapped out for Steve's sketches, his awkwardly forthright admiration contrasted with Steve's reticence hiding an honorable streak a mile wide.

But there's still a hint of the characters we recognize from canon, the Phil who is drawn in by Steve's courage and innate kindness and still manages to idolize Steve for it while Steve awkwardly fumbles with Phil's blatant and sincere admiration. They are, as ever, charming together, in spite of the discrimination they've both faced in their lives, and even as the story comes to a close, the author instills in us a feeling that this is just the beginning of a steadfast romance.

Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy