the growing season
rating: pg
characters: Laura Barton/Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff, Cooper Barton, Lucky
warnings: none
summary: Three summers Natasha spends at the farmhouse and two she spends at home.

author's note: Thanks to inkvoices, whose 'Natasha & farming' prompt in the 2015 be_compromised promptathon ended up being the inspiration for, and only ( Read more... )

strike team delta & co.rating: pg ( Read more... )

Title: take the sky from me
A Gift For: inkvoices
Rating: pg-13
Warnings: past character deaths, [minor spoilers]
limb amputation

Prompt used: Apocalyptic AU.
Summary: The end came as an announcement, a promise, a future of burning worlds and expanding stars. The end came and there wasn't enough room to save all of them, weren't enough ships to bring everyone beyond the ( Read more... )

biohazard girls
rating: pg
characters: Pepper Potts, Natasha Romanoff
warnings: There is a character in physical and emotional distress at the start of this story, including the threat of asphyxiation. She'll be fine - I don't write death fic - but please read or avoid as you need to.
author's note: For hufflepuffsneak, who prompted "The consequences of ( Read more... )

trajectories
rating: g
characters: Natasha Romanoff/Clint Barton, Sam Carter/Jack O'Neill
warnings: none

summary: Natasha Romanoff has worn many names and faces in her life, and she has met Sam Carter while wearing three of them.

author's note: For crazy4orcas, who asked for Clint/Natasha and Sam/Jack.

( Natasha first meets her when she is Natalia, a bodyguard with a bullet hole in her side and an engineer clinging to life on the hospital bed that she guards relentlessly. )

all's fair (in love and war)
rating: pg
characters: Thor/Jane Foster, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Tony Stark
warnings: minor mention of blood

summary: This is what you fight for. This is what you yearn to feel: this moment, this passing of every second, this rush of life and the indomitable strength of the present.Thor is a warrior, born and ( Read more... )

the weight of ghosts
rating: pg-13
characters: Natasha Romanoff, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Thoy
warnings: canon-typical violence

summary: Before she is Natasha, she is Natalia. And she dreams. The Avengers are shadows, impressions, dreams linked to her by the truths that live under her skin and seep through her blood. ( Read more... )

the man or the myth
rating: g
characters: Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff
warnings: none

summary: The strong man, who has known power all his life, may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows... compassion.

Steve Rogers has been a weak man. Captain America has always been a strong one.

( Don’t buy into your own mythos, she says, in the way she once said, maybe you’re in the wrong business, Rogers. )

an apple on mondayrating: g ( Read more... )

air combat maneuvering
rating: g
characters: Pepper Potts, Natasha Romanoff
warnings: none
summary: They are talking about birds, not a boy. But there are currents in conversations, just as there are in the winds, and neither of them speak lightly.

author's note: Written for crazy4orcas's prompt of "Teamwork, Pepper and Natasha :)."

( “Have you ever seen a songbird drive off an eagle?” Pepper asks as the jet cruises towards Los Angeles, her manicured hands folded neatly in her lap. )