Universe: Movie. Steampunk/slavery AU.
Rating: R
Warnings: contemplation of suicide at one point, vague torture
Beta: Thanks to tumblr user mrs-eaves as always for support; beta'd mostly by self.
Title: The Man with the Clockwork Heart
Author/Artist: indigostohelit
Summary: His village destroyed by the northern Empire, Steve Rogers is sold as a slave to Lord Tony Stark, a man with no heart but a ticking clockwork machine inside his chest. He's been told that Lord Stark takes pleasure slaves, and bitter, grieving, and terrified, he expects nothing more of a northerner. But months pass, and Stark does nothing. In a rapidly unfolding chaos of scheming politics and a clockwork world, Steve begins to wonder what sort of man Stark is-- and whether he'd mind being a pleasure slave at all.
Pairings/Characters: Steve/Tony, offscreen Pepper/Happy
Word Count: 30,413
A/N: A de-anon from the capkink meme, finally. Thanks to everybody who volunteered to beta, and to everyone who read it way back when.

“They say he’s heartless,” says the woman in the back of the covered wagon eagerly. “He sold his heart to a barbarian demon long ago to get eternal life.”