sleep like the deadrating: g ( Read more... )

the hill
rating: pg
characters: Natasha Romanoff/Maria Hill
warnings: chose not to use
summary: She remembers the first time she heard someone say, "That is not the hill I want to die on." At the time she thought of high ground and tactics and an abiding scorn for accepting one's death as a given.

author's note: Day 7 of 12DoW.

( She remembers the first time she heard someone say, )

call and response
rating: pg
characters: Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff
warnings: none
summary: "Stay with me," the woman he has brought in asks, and Clint has only one answer he can give. (The evolution of Strike Team Delta, in three questions.)

author's note: Day 6 of 12DoW clean out.

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where your soul meets mine
rating: pg
characters: Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff
warnings: injuries
summary: Natalia Romanova has never met Clint Barton. He has never met her. But when she wakes up in SHIELD's training gym, and he in the Red Room's facilities, they learn what that kind of life looks like, sight unseen.

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graveyards
rating: pg
characters: Jane Foster, Thor
warnings: none
summary: Jane is willing to spend her life chasing after the truth. She just didn't expect she might lose it because of unknown saboteurs - or lose the starship she's worked so hard to come see.
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hawk and hydrarating: g ( Read more... )

dramatic flair
rating: pg-13 for language
characters: Clint Barton, Melinda May
warnings: none
summary: It's no surprise that the mission didn't go to plan when the agents involved were a showboating archer with something to prove and a silent one-woman army. That doesn't mean they can't find common ground to stand on, though.

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with gratitude
rating: g
characters: Clint Barton/Laura Barton/Natasha Romanoff
warnings: none
summary: You've got to keep your energy up when you're healing - and when you're taking care of the Avenger who seems to be in a constant state of injury. Or: Clint attempts to make breakfast for the two women in his life.

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three beats
rating: g
characters: Laura Barton/Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff
warnings: none
summary: It's an honest answer for a simple question. At the end of the day, you love who you love.

author's note: For edgarblackthecyborg, who prompted, "Dancing to the rhythms of the heart. =)" This is likely not what was intended, but it stuck.

( “The heart wants what the heart wants,” Laura says with a shrug, her elbows resting on the flour-dusted counter and traces of peach filling smeared on her rolled sleeves. )

hand in hand
rating: pg
characters: Wanda Maximoff, Clint Barton
warnings: possession/mind control and its emotional effects

summary: She reached out for her brother. Something terrible reached back.

Sometimes family isn't what you're born with or what you lose; it's what you choose.

( It begins, as terrible things almost always do, with darkness. )