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[workerbee73]

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Fic: lost inside this forest (1/1, R for sex)

[sugar_fey]

A/N: This is an epilogue of sorts to bob5fic and workerbee73 's 'Small Acts of Kindness' series, which is amazing and everyone should read it.

lost inside this forest“There’s a story about a princess who chained a king in her basement

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[cybermathwitch]

I see this as something she does for him fairly regularly, to bring him back down to earth after facing the darkness. I imagine he has a ritual for her as well, but I can't think what that is right now. Thoughts?

I love love love the idea of that - in the story I'm working on (which is closer to movie-verse stable-r assassins than Cronenburg Assassins) they end up using sex as a way to ground her back down into being the Natasha she's turned herself into rather than whoever she was pretending to be or whoever someone else has manipulated/brainwashed her into being. And it's intercourse between the two of them, specifically because he initially refused to have sex with her unless she dropped all her masks which freaked her the fuck out, but she eventually managed it. Which turned it into a touchstone for her - he kind of becomes a living embodiment of counter-triggers for her after awhile. So... what things could this Clint do that she wouldn't have any other associations with to bring her back?

(And now I'm wondering if I could

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[sugar_fey]

*brain explosion*

Yes. To everything ever. I would love to read this fic.

So... what things could this Clint do that she wouldn't have any other associations with to bring her back?

Movie!Clint or Cronenburg!Clint? Cronenburg!Clint I'd say ropes, or something else to do with her wrists. Movie!Clint... Strangely, I see him as being very, very gentle with her. Takes his time, focuses almost entirely on her pleasure. And he calls her Tasha, which no one else is allowed to do.

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[cybermathwitch]

Yes. To everything ever. I would love to read this fic.

::blushes:: Thanks.

I've started working on it actually. Except Steve showed up, too. I have no idea why Steve showed up. (IDEK. But it just might break him. Or just fail spectacularly. We'll see.)

Cronenburg!Clint I'd say ropes, or something else to do with her wrists.

Sweet Zombie Crickets I would give a frak-ton of anything to read that. ::swoons::

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[inkvoices]

Everything that Bee said *grins*. Sorry, I've just read all of small acts in one go and I think I've lost my ability to anything lol. But. I love the storytelling, a fitting end as an epilogue with that 'here is a story, here has been a story' vibe and also that it's fairy tale in tone and style, because fairy tales are at their origins dark and often prettied up and toned down for children, so you could say that Clint and Natasha in this verse have been that dark fariy tale, but prettied up to outsiders or not seen as they truely are by outsiders, perhaps just seen, as Coulson says, 'in love' when love is for children, a childish version of the story. And then this is twisty fairy tale, twisted from the classic. I mean, a thin fairy tales generally have in common is that there's a good girl who gets told don't talk to strangers, don't stray from the path, don't touch the spindle, don't. And then if they do, if they're bad, then bad things happen. And there's a Prince and love and a rescue. Here the emphasis is not on any bad

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[workerbee73]

so you could say that Clint and Natasha in this verse have been that dark fariy tale, but prettied up to outsiders or not seen as they truely are by outsiders, perhaps just seen, as Coulson says, 'in love' when love is for children, a childish version of the story.

OH MAH GAWD YOU HAVE JUST BROKEN MY BRAIN IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY.

**DIES**

HELLO, METAPHOR FOR THIS ENTIRE STORY.

**DIES AGAIN**

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[inkvoices]

It kind of killed me when at the end of sweet days of sugar Clint is all ramble and long document and Coulson just sums it up with 'he's in love' and I know my automatic reaction to that has become 'love is for children' but in this case I said it and then went, no, hang on, this isn't that childish kind of love and Coulson I know is being succint, but he makes it sound so much less and no, that's not it. It's that outside of view of, oh yeah, this is love, just as Loki says 'is this love' like it's an insult and Natasha calls it as one. But yeah, they are the dark side of the original fairy tale, the wild thing, the off the map, but the thing so ritualised and embedded in culture and society, so a part of how we work, that it's prettied up and gifted to children. 'This is what love is' only it isn't.

Anyway, yeah, you GUYS, the three of you made me toss words all over the place. And kill Bee! Well, it was at least 1/3 her fault ;)

Re: Fic: lost inside this forest (1/1, R for sex)

[sugar_fey]

I'm so, so glad you did, and thank you so much for letting me play in your universe! 'Tis an awesome place.

Re: Fic: lost inside this forest (1/1, R for sex)

[angela_n_hunt]

DEATHLESS FOR THE WIN.

Oh, this was fantastic. I'm in the middle of reading Deathless right now and I'm so glad I'm not the only one drawing parallels.

"He takes what he wants."

HELL YES.

*seal claps of approval*

I'll just be falling down ded over here over this and all the meta...

Re: Fic: lost inside this forest (1/1, R for sex)

[im_ridiculous]

I don't know Deathless, but I loved this. Like velvet or plunging your hand into a tub of, like, warm treacle or something. idek what i'm saying...but I think 'unf' about covers it. Also, more Cronenburg is always a good thing! :D

[sunny_serenity]

Re: Fic: lost inside this forest (1/1, R for sex)

[rayruz]

Amaaaaaaaaaaaazing. GUH.