Private Voids

Stiles clenches his hands into fists, feeling his brittle nails pressing into his palms with a calming, familiar feeling.“This isn’t my world. Everything here is different. Every person is a stranger.” Stiles says. “I haven’t… I can’t adjust.”Bucky looks from Stiles hands, to his face. He takes in the way Stiles is standing, straight, stiff, like one wrong move will cause this tentative conversation to slip away.“You know what they did to me.” Stiles says. He doesn’t ask. Bucky wished he needed to.“It wasn’t your fault.” Bucky tells him.“I know that.” Stiles says.“They gave me a choice.” Stiles continues, “Live or die. And I chose to live. Now I just need to live with that.”

Stiles gets transported to the Avengers!Verse, where Tony and the team discover him. Tony offers the tower as a safe haven until he and Bruce can figure out what the fuck happened, and how they can get him back to his own world. But Tony isn't the only one who had equipment running to find out-of-this-world occurrences. Hydra is back from the dead, in that way everybody expected but hoped wouldn't come to pass.