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FILL: Phil Coulson Plus One (1/11)

[tawabids]

This turned out quite a bit longer, darker and less domestic than I hoped.Clint stares up at the three-story cottage with its windbreak of silver-leaved poplars. He hear the distant crash of the waves on the beach just down the hill. He swallows

FILL: Phil Coulson Plus One (2/11)

[tawabids]

In the next hour he's greeted by seven people under the age of thirty and a black-haired woman he's eighty percent sure is Phil's sister-in-law. He can't tell the younger bunch apart. "I'm Lily," he's told, "I'm Michael, this is Erika," and "I'm Penelope, Harold's my partner," and "Katrina's outside, but I'm Jason."

Fuck. Clint's totally lost. Phil seems to know every one of them, kissing cheeks and gripping biceps without making a distinction between blood relations and partners. A girl at least ten years younger than Clint, with a crimson-dyed bob, cries as she shakes his hand, "Oh my God, Phil, he's practically a toddler," and a guy in an expensive suit jacket (Michael?) gives a bark of laughter, "Phil just has better taste than you, Georgie

FILL: Phil Coulson Plus One (3/11)

[tawabids]

Clint overchews his bread to give himself time to think. He and Phil talked about it, because the agreement at Stark Tower is that everybody’s identities (sans Mr Iron Attention Whore himself) stay under the radar. Steve is a public favourite and his cover is pretty well blown, but the rest of them are still blurry press shots and action figures with recycled GI Joe faces under next year’s Christmas trees. Except Natasha, who’s a Barbie mould. Phil said his family couldn’t be the exception, because three of the youngest are already cultivating a following on their blogs or YouTube channels and the rest have very large Facebook networks

FILL: Phil Coulson Plus One (4/11)

[tawabids]

He leans against the weatherboards and bends down to light it from the tip of hers, sucking in her breath with the smoke. He and Bobbi used to light their cigarettes like that when they were in bed together, before she left for bigger and better things. He hasn’t thought about Bobbi in ages. He hasn’t thought about a lot of people since he started seducing Phil

FILL: Phil Coulson Plus One (5/11)

[tawabids]

One brief conversation later, Clint is already on the phone to Stark tower as the cops pull away into the night. He turns to see the colonnaded front door standing open. Phil is there in a pool of warm light, with Mama Coulson and Georgie behind him. In his ear, Steve answers, “Clint - hey, where are you? We got a situation out on Long Island

FILL: Phil Coulson Plus One (6/11)

[tawabids]

Mama Coulson and Georgie are the ones to step forward and meet them, like a couple of growling German shepherds encountering strangers. The elder woman has swept a dark blue shawl around her shoulders and her arms are crossed over her chest. She gives Clint a long, sharp look, her brow furrowing, and then turns to her son

FILL: Phil Coulson Plus One (7/11)

[tawabids]

Clint and Phil take the Corvette to the main road and park it on the curb, perpendicular to the lanes. A minivan and a couple of sports cars go past, and then two cop cars. The second one stops to tell them get moving, but Phil flashes his ID and dismisses the guy with a few words. It’s kind of magic. The overheard conversation starts to fade from Clint’s mind

FILL: Phil Coulson Plus One (8/11)

[tawabids]

When it arrives, it's like black smoke, and crawls towards them like a towering wave of ants. Two housecats break for cover ahead of it and sprint past Phil’s kneeling form. The streetlamps have been flickering for a while, but they finally die. It’s a starry night and Clint’s eyes adjust fast, but he doesn’t even know what he’s supposed to aim for. No - there - there’s thick places in the smoke, in the heart of it where it draws ahead along the broken white line in the centre of the road. And it’s definitely sticking to the streets, which means it’s got something physical that he can bury an arrow in

FILL: Phil Coulson Plus One (9/11)

[tawabids]

Sir?” Clint asks. His hand hovers just over Phil’s shoulder blade. “You alright?” and when there was still no answer, he finally puts the hand down and feels the exertion-heated body beneath, the shuddering of muscles and Phil’s laboured breathing

FILL: Phil Coulson Plus One (10/11)

[tawabids]

They sleep in until ten, and Phil takes a forty-minute shower. Clint wonders what he’s trying to wash off, but whatever it is, it’s not showing on his face when he finally comes back into the bedroom with a towel around his waist

FILL: Phil Coulson Plus One (11/11)

[tawabids]

The sun is blistering, though there's three silken tents set up to take shelter under, each laid with enough to feed the hordes of Ghengis Khan, or at least a dozen Asgardians. There's two hundred people spread across the estate, right down to the beach. Even the children chasing each other around their parents’ legs are dressed up impeccably, and Clint feels pretty damn dishevelled in his T-shirt and jeans. At first they just wander through the crowd, Phil greeting family friends and introducing Clint as they go. But it’s Mama Coulson’s birthday, and all roads lead to her

Re: FILL: Phil Coulson Plus One (11/11)

[gabbygrl]

It's perfect in every way.

Re: FILL: Phil Coulson Plus One (11/11)

[jadesymb]

Love this, thank you :)

Re: FILL: Phil Coulson Plus One (11/11)

[entropy_house]

Truly excellent! :^) Great pacing and characterization throughout.

Re: FILL: Phil Coulson Plus One (11/11)

[ncc1701a]

Oh this is lovely. The characterisation here is wonderful.

Re: FILL: Phil Coulson Plus One (11/11)

[onemorego]

I really like how you tied canon in by mentioning Bobbi. I love little things like that.