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peach-and-bugs · 3 years
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characters that I write for are organized in alphabetical order by fandom and by name. links will lead to my complete list of posted work for said character:
willing to write for characters: romantically (➵ ) platonically (✸) or nsfw (✧)
Character Alphabets (sfw ✸ & nsfw ✧)
Ask Box Headcanons and Blurbes
Agents of shield
Bobbi Morse ✸ ➵ ✧
Daisy Johnson/Quake ✸ ➵ ✧
Jemma Simmons ✸ ➵ ✧
Jiaying ✸ ➵ ✧
Leo Fitz ✸ ➵
Malinda May ✸ ➵ ✧
Phil Coulson ✸ ➵
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina 
Hilda Spellman ✸ ➵ ✧
Madam Satan/Lilith ✸ ➵ ✧
Sabrina Spellman ✸ ➵
Zelda Spellman ✸ ➵ ✧
Doctor Who
Amy Pond ✸ ➵ ✧
Bill Pots ✸ ➵
Clara/Clara Oswald/Oswin ✸ ➵ ✧
Eleven/Smith!Doctor ✸ ➵
Jack Harkness ✸ ➵
Missy/Gomez!Master ✸ ➵ ✧
River Song/Melody Pond ✸ ➵ ✧
Simm!Master ✸ ➵
Thirteen/Whittaker!Doctor ✸ ➵ ✧
Twelve/Capaldi!Doctor ✸ ➵
Five Nights at Freddy (movie)
romantic (➵) platonic (✸) nsfw (✧)
Mike Schmidt ➵ ✸
William Afton ➵ ✸
Vanessa Shelly/Afton ➵ ✸ ✧
Killing Eve 
Eve Polastrí ✸ ➵ ✧
Villanelle ✸ ➵ ✧
The Legend Of Korra
Asami Sato ✸ ➵ ✧
Bolin ✸ ➵
Bumi ✸ ➵
Izumi ✸ ➵ ✧
Korra ✸ ➵ ✧
Kuvira ✸ ➵ ✧
Kya ✸ ➵ ✧
Kyoshi ✸ ➵ ✧
Lin Beifong ✸ ➵ ✧
Mako ✸ ➵
Opal ✸ ➵
Tenzin ✸ ➵
The Last Of Us (Games)
Abby Anderson ✸ ➵ ✧
Dina ✸ ➵ ✧
Ellie Williams ✸ ➵ ✧
Joel Miller ✸ ➵
Tommy Miller ✸ ➵
Marvel 
Agatha Harkness ✸ ➵ ✧
Bucky Barns/Winter Soldier ✸ ➵
Bruce Banner ✸ ➵
Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel ✸ ➵ ✧
Darcy Lewis ✸ ➵ ✧
Drax ✸ ➵
Gamora ✸ ➵ ✧
Hela Odendottir ✸ ➵ ✧
Hope van Dyne/Wasp ✸ ➵ ✧
Jane Foster/Mighty Thor ✸ ➵ ✧
Kate Bishop ✸ ➵ ✧
Layla El-Faouly/Scarlet Scarab ✸ ➵ ✧
May Parker ✸ ➵ ✧
Mantis ✸ ➵ ✧
Maria hill ✸ ➵ ✧
Monica Ranbough ✸ ➵ ✧
Natasha Romanov/Black Widow ✸ ➵ ✧
Nebula ✸ ➵ ✧
Okoye ✸ ➵ ✧
Peggy Carter/Captain Carter ✸ ➵ ✧
Peter Parker/Spider-Man ✸ ➵
Sam Wilson/Falcon/Captain America ✸ ➵
Scott Lang/Ant-man ✸ ➵
Sharon Carter/Powerbroker ✸ ➵ ✧
Sylvie Laufeydottir ✸ ➵ ✧
Thor Odenson ✸ ➵
Valkyrie ✸ ➵ ✧
Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch ✸ ➵ ✧
Yelena Belova ✸ ➵ ✧
Parks and Recreation 
Ann Perkins ✸ ➵ ✧
April Ludgate ✸ ➵ ✧
Donna Meagle ✸ ➵ ✧
Jennifer Barkley ✸ ➵ ✧
Leslie Knope ✸ ➵ ✧
Star Wars 
Ahsoka ✸ ➵ ✧
Captain Phasma ✸ ➵ ✧
Finn/FN-2187 ✸ ➵
General Hux ✸ ➵
Han Solo ✸ ➵
Leia Organa ✸ ➵ ✧
Luke Skywalker ✸ ➵
Padmé Amidala ✸ ➵ ✧
Rey ✸ ➵ ✧
Rose ✸ ➵ ✧
Stranger things  
Argyle ✸ ➵
Chrissy Cunningham✸ ➵
Dustin Henderson ✸ ➵
Eddie Munson ✸ ➵
El/Eleven/Jane ✸ ➵
Erica Sinclair ✸
Jim Hopper ✸ ➵
Johnathan Byers ✸ ➵
Joyce Byers ✸ ➵ ✧
Karen Wheeler ✸ ➵ ✧
Lucas Sinclair ✸ ➵
Max Mayfield ✸ ➵
Murray Bauman ✸ ➵
Nancy Wheeler ✸ ➵ ✧
Steve Harrington ✸ ➵
Will Byers ✸ ➵
misc.
Alma LeFay Peregrine (mrs peregrine's home of peculiar children)✸ ➵ ✧
Elizabeth Corday (ER) ✸ ➵ ✧
Laura DeMille/Madame Rouge (Doom Patrol) ✸ ➵ ✧
Lily Lebowski (Crossing Jordan) ✸ ➵ ✧
Marilyn Thornhill/Laurel Gates (Wednesday) ✸ ➵ ✧
Millie Rusk/MolotovGirl (Free Guy) ✸ ➵ ✧
Miranda Croft (The Flight Attendant)✸ ➵ ✧
Dr. Olivia Octaviouse (Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse)✸ ➵ ✧
Yellowjackets
Jackie Tayler (1996) ✸ ➵
Laura Lee (1996) ✸ ➵
Lottie Mattews (1996/2021) ✸ ➵ ✧
Misty Quigley (1996/2021) ✸ ➵ ✧
"Nat" Natalie Scatorccio (1996/2021) ✸ ➵ ✧
Shauna Sadecki (1996/2021) ✸ ➵ ✧
Taissa Turner (1996/2021) ✸ ➵ ✧
Travis Martinez (1996/2021) ✸ ➵
"Van" Vanessa Palmer (1996/2021) ✸ ➵ ✧
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dreamers-arts · 4 months
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*puts hypnosis glasses on*
you want to read my fancomicccc…you want to read my fancomic soooo bad
in all seriousness this is like a massive mcu/agents of shield fix it fic. If you wanna see Nat and Yelena get the childhood they deserved, while all the bad guys get fucked over, this is the comic for you
You can read it here:
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tremorsmackenzie · 7 months
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i feel like there arent enough fics that just let daisy vent about what was done to her in 5x14. like, thats literally one of the worst things that can happen to a person, and most fics trying to deal with it just go the route of "yeah but you still love him too, so you should forgive him, and actually you need to do that if you want to heal". which. no.
obviously she does stil love him, and what happened so obviously isnt fitz's fault, but expecting daisy to just get over it for the sake of the family is not ok. and its what especially makes it so awful, because she does love him, and he so blatantly disregarded it in the worst possible way. she should absolutely rage and hate and not have to be the one who has to be understanding after THAT episode.
especially because she IS lucid enough to know that fitz isnt a villain and this isnt his fault. but that doesnt make the trauma of what he did just go away, and while everyone elses reactions are understandable and justifiable (may focusing on the mission cause if she doesnt shell break down probably, simmons just losing it a little, etc.), the end result is still that almost nobody is there and on daisys side.
not meant to be specifically calling out anyone, ive just been reading a lot of 5x14 fics and ive been noticing a theme.
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brightnote · 8 months
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Please read A Shot in the Dark before you “watch” (read) this post credits scene, cause there’s a big spoiler at the end.
A short time after the events Maria and Tony survived Maria and Natasha visited their former SHIELD associate Melinda May. It wasn’t a formal or business gathering, instead it was just the three women sitting on May’s living room floor around her coffee table with beer and snacks just chatting for awhile. Nothing like the old days when they were running around the world together battling the bad guys and saving people. As Maria recounted the story of the events she just survived to Nat and May she actually felt real relief, just getting what happened out to two people she trusted made such a difference.
As Maria finalized the story, even adding in Tony’s painkiller inspired gift, Nat and May were just had no words for all of it. It’s not like they were particularly chatty people but it was so much for Maria to keep to herself she had to tell them, she was glad she did.
“And then I got home and took a ten year shower and cried in the corner of my shower until I was so numb I could fall asleep.” Maria finalized the events and taking a sip of beer and sighing.
“Just like the old days.” May smirked.
“An isolated shower corner cry is surprisingly satisfying.” Natasha added in.
“There’s nothing like it.”
“Except therapy.” May replied in a classic monotoned retort
Maria sighed and then looked at May.
“But…that’s why I can’t return your shoes…” Maria sighed, admitting to May, the gold and black shoes she borrowed were gone for good.
“I have one pair of non flat shoes that I like. One pair…” May groaned.
“Had.” Natasha corrected.
“I know. But considering what they stepped in I don’t think you really want them back anyway…” Maria grimaced.
“You didn’t find the little dagger hiding in the heel?” May asked seriously.
“You are not serious.” Maria looked at her wide eyed.
“Why do you think I like them?” May asked not giving to her joke. “Okay, I’m not but that is what I expect you to replace them with because of your Stark tech connections.” May sort of joked, as she thought she was on to something here.
“Dagger heels, got it. Very practical.” Maria remarked
“Would have been pretty practical for you just a few days ago..” May smirked and Maria shook her head at her. “Or gun heels, I would be fine with gun heels.” May added and Natasha seconded.
“You’re corporate now, make stuff happen.” Natasha joked looking at Maria like why hadn’t she made these yet.
“Why is the grossest part of this whole story that you had to use a dirty hand towel from that creepy doctor’s bathroom?” May went back to the story for a minute, thinking about it giving a shiver.
“Because it is.” Natasha added in
“Please don’t make me think about it or I will just live in my shower until I die.”
“What do you think was on it.” May laughed, teasing, despite the trauma.
“May!” Maria exclaimed not wanting to ever think about that again.
“Probably wasn’t worse than what Maria put on it..” Natasha grimaced “probably…”
“But.. when I looked under bathroom sink I found a whole thing of unopened like hand wipes or something and I almost had a full on meltdown.” Maria admitted.
“You always look under the sink first.” Natasha threw out like it was obvious.
“Yeah, amateur.” May quipped with a smirk.
“Yeah, what was I thinking?” Maria rolled her eyes, and then she thought about it for a minute. “Well.. if you really want your shoes back they are probably still under the sink with my dress.”
“Ugh.” May groaned at the thought of this one truly magnificent pair of shoes going to waste. May lent them to her most responsible and trustworthy friend, without a second thought in the world, it just figured, but she was glad Maria was okay, she would pick Maria over anything.
“The dress was nice too.” May added in with a sigh. “My shoes did go perfectly with them.”
“Yeah..” Maria sighed along with May, not getting into the dress specifics.
“What dress?” Nat asked and Maria did not make eye contact with her. Natasha’s jaw dropped for a minute when Maria didn’t acknowledge her question and she look right at May.
May not picking up on a single cue from Maria started to describe it.
“It was like black, one shoulder, shimmery gold, it was nice it looked really good.” As May explained it, Nat’s expression really changed, gasping wide eyed a complete ‘you did not’ expression right at Maria who was avoiding the Widow’s stare.
“THIEF!” Natasha yelled at Maria, Nat’s voice cracking in the excitement of her realization.
“Oh my god.” May gasped at Maria. “Do you not own clothes or something?” May asked Maria who was shaking her head.
“You’re ridiculous.” Natasha huffed right at Maria.
“I can’t help it that you have cooler clothes than me!” Maria finally looked at Natasha.
“Shop somewhere other than Ann Taylor then!!” Natasha jokingly yelled and May laughed.
“I shouldn’t have to shop! My clothes should just appear before me so I don’t have to think about them or organize them or coordinate and they should just be …cool since I can’t just wear the same thing everyday anymore…” Maria complained
“Is Ann Taylor where you go shopping with your new corporate friends?” May asked Maria with a laugh.
“Friends? Or the women who peer pressure you into wearing stilettos in a place where the floor is so slick one misstep and you take out your whole face. It is actually a safety concern.” Maria groaned.
“All the more reason for shoe guns.” May joked
“Gun heels.” Natasha corrected
“Just be like Mr. Stark—“ May started
“Mr. Stark?” Natasha echoed with a laugh
“Mr. Stark” May continued over Natasha “as I have saved your life I would like you to invent shoe guns, they are very practical, and not at all safety hazard, unlike the situation with women’s shoes in this building now.”
“Gun heels.” Natasha interjected again.
“They would be very helpful for all women forced to wear non flat shoes and who end up in precarious situations. In fact, it would have shortened our ordeal by may hours if those existed. Please use your genius brain to invent them.” May pretended to do a fake imitation of Maria.
“Yeah spot on me.” Maria laughed rolling her eyes shaking her head like it was never going to happen.
“I thought so, but fine alright whatever. Just go to the mall with Becky or Katie or whoever and be miserable eating your mall pretzel and your Ann Taylor wardrobe.” May huffed jokingly.
“Well if they’re are pretzels I’m not going to be that miserable.” Maria smirked
“Not the cinnamon roll?” Natasha asked
“They make a cinnamon pretzel…” Maria looked at Nat
“You sure know a lot about the mall.” Nat threw out there with some side eye to Maria.
“You guys.. you get both.. a regular pretzel and a cinnamon roll and split it halfsies, c’mon. You have to have one savory and one sweet snack. Get in the game.” May clarified the process for them.
“How are you going to walk around the mall with a snack in each hand?” Natasha looked skeptical at May.
“How are you going to hold your drink?” Maria asked jokingly
“Okay… so we are strategizing how to eat snacks at the mall…” May pointed out to them. They all took a brief moment to think about how their brains naturally went to that place no matter what they were talking about.
“We’re so dumb.” May laughed to herself for a minute. Maria nodded and Natasha rolled her eyes with a sigh.
After the minute passed, Maria looked over at Natasha.
“I mean.. was that dress… really was it even yours anymore?” Maria asked about the dress again.
“Oh now you’re circling back, huh, and yes.. it was..” Natasha clarified.
“I think if you leave it at my apartment for a year it becomes mine.”
“Oh really? Do you want to play that game Hill because there’s a jacket that’s been sitting in my closet…” Natasha challenged Maria
“Oh I want that back.”
“Yeah right.” Natasha said over a hushed laugh “And.. that dress was too long for you, it was supposed to go the knee not below. Plus… it looked really good on me…for the 30 minutes that I got to really wear it.”
“Everything looks better on you when you’re seven feet tall.” Natasha shook her head. “Were you even going to tell me?”
“Only if you asked about it.”
“You were more afraid to tell Natasha about her dress than me about my shoes?” May asked squinting at Maria.
“No. Definitely not.” Maria looked at May. “I just thought she forgot about that dress…�� Maria started to explain.
“I have been working!” Natasha interjected.
“And I know you were expecting your shoes back.” Maria continued over Natasha’s interruption and explained. May pressed her lips together giving Maria a suspicious look.
“I wasn’t really expecting them back after I heard, but I appreciate you taking the time to explain it.” May affirmed.
“Maybe it was a little bit of a pretext to come hang out.” Maria admitted.
“You don’t need a pretext just come by— I mean, assuming I’m around which I’m usually not…” May sighed.
Things were really different now with fall of SHIELD and things operating on the down low. Maria and May really missed the old days, but it was kind of hard to think about it overall positively knowing what they knew now about the place they had given most of their lives to. Natasha didn’t hang onto any nostalgic institutional preservation like they did, but she did miss some of the old days too, it was just different for her.
“So uh.. did you two… break up… or.. get together? What is the status of this situationship?” May inquired, she wasn’t going to tell anyone and she always knew something was going on with them somewhere, somehow, but it’s not like they were very open people about their relationships or feelings. But they clearly never hesitated to indicate something was going on when they were alone with May, someone they both trusted deeply. Neither Maria or Natasha said anything, they didn’t really have answer for her, they both just shrugged.
“I heard Natasha commandeered a jet out of Prague when she heard what happened…” May added a little more fuel to the conversation to see what she could get.
Maria looked at Natasha with an ‘oh really’ expression and Natasha rolled her eyes and avoided eye contact with Maria.
“She cares deeply for Tony..” Maria looked back at May and smirked. Natasha raised her brows and sighed.
“Yeah, I do.” Nat answered confidently.
“You mean Maria’s boyfriend, Tony Stark?” May joked from Maria’s story about what happened. For some reason this made both Natasha and Maria laugh.
“Do you think I would like Tony?” May asked
“No.” Maria and Nat answered in perfect unison, and then the three them laughed at the idea.
“Traumatic incidents can spur some wild relationships…” May poised “I mean, he’s already giving you chest bursting alien replicas, you are practically married.” May chided
“Please.” Maria grimaced at the suggestion. She was done pretending she was in a straight relationship, even if it was to save lives.
“Oh. It’s not Tony to worry about, it’s actually Steve.” Nat pointed out after taking a drink. Maria gasped and shot a look right at Natasha shaking her head no.
“No…” Maria said with an emphatic but embarrassed tone trying to shut it down before this became the topic of conversation but it made it worse.
“Steve?” May paused as she thought about who Steve was for a minute…“Steve Rogers? Captain America!” And then May laughed like she had not laughed in years. “You have a straight girl crush on Captain America?” May said laughing looking right at Maria in delight. May sat up straight from her leaning as she learned this.
Maria stared at May her mouth ajar and then glared at Natasha.
“You have a thing for him, a weird thing. It’s there, it’s fine. He’s him. I get it.” Natasha shrugged at Maria’s glare. “It’s okay to admit it.”
“I do not! I really don’t. I don’t!” Maria said repeating herself but she couldn’t stop from smiling, mostly because she had not heard May laugh like that in years, but Maria shook her head no. She did have a soft spot for Steve but in a platonic friend way, he was just from a different time.
May looked over at Nat and Nat just nodded to May confirming that Maria did, indeed, have a cute little straight school girl crush on Steve Rogers.
“You are unbelievable.” Maria said to Nat as she watched the exchange and sighed loudly but she couldn’t keep from laughing.
“You can’t even deny it with a straight face.” Nat laughed. Nat knew the crush wasn’t real but she did think it was funny that it made Maria so flustered.
“Do you write his name on your work notes? In a little heart?” May said laughing. “Like all curly and whirly Mrs. Steve Rogers?”
“We’re green, we don’t use paper.” Maria tried not to laugh.
“I think Steve would be: Mr. Maria Hill.” Nat added in and May and Nat locked eyes both grinning and then laughing.
Maria had to cover her face with her hands as they grilled her, it’s not like this was something May and Natasha got to do very often.
“Steve freaking Rogers.” May repeated shaking her head, the idea of it made her laugh so much.
“I definitely do not have a straight girl crush on anyone including Steve Rogers.”
“Yeah, deny it again and maybe we will believe you.” May laughed
“He’s just nice, a class act, always kind and smart and very easy to work with, unlike many many other people that I have to or had to work with.” Maria tried very hard not get flustered shaking her head, looking away from them and then back at both of them when she referenced their past work associations.
“Oh. I get it.” May sighed “It’s like an admiration crush, like if Steve was twenty five years older than you, you’d follow him around to be his reliable support guy at every job forever until he died.” May joked and Natasha nodded in confirmation as May was onto something. Maria gasped.
“YEP.” Natasha confirmed verbally.
“I am..” Maria didn’t want to ruin the fun but also she did not want to dive into this conversation, she had enough of people trying to dive into her psyche lately “I am… starting to not feel that bad about ruining your shoes and clothes.” She looked at both of them with a smirk.
“At least you admit it’s mine now.” Natasha quipped right back.
As the three women took a minute to recover from Natasha’s revelation about Maria and May’s excitement. They sat in the quiet for a moment.
“Isn’t it weird to be sitting on the ground drinking and talking about boys and clothes like we’re 22 and we were ever normal?” May asked. Maria wasn’t the only one who needed a break from her reality May and Natasha needed it too. There was a time when the three of them were epic and fun. Everything didn’t have the unfathomable stakes all the time and then suddenly it just changed. Everything they went through got heavier and harder and it weighed on them more and more, there were almost never nights or moments like this.
“Ugh.” Maria groaned. “I was in such good shape when I was 22.” Maria thought about it with a sigh.
“Well..” May paused “You can take ‘Captain America’s self defense class’ to get back into fighting shape any time.” May blurted out over her own laughter which she thought was an even funnier detail of Maria’s story now that she knew about her little thing for Steve.
Now Natasha was covering her face laughing.
“I can’t believe I missed you.” Maria jokingly mumbled at May with a grin.
“But does Maria Martin, part-time designer of handbags and Stark Industries assistant miss me?” May asked jokingly, this really made Natasha laugh again. “Maria Martin definitely goes to the mall.” May chided.
“You don’t even own a purse.” Natasha snickered at Maria.
“Like we do?” May clocked back at Natasha
“Which is good, since if I had ID on me I’d definitely be .. not here right now.”
“Unless you had gun heels” May pointed at Maria “it would have been over real fast.” May joked circling back to her earlier pitch.
“Oh my god gun shoes not going to be a thing..” Maria sighed loudly at this terrible, awful, impractical idea, which she knew was a joke but she just had to shut it down.
“Gun heels!” Both May and Natasha corrected Maria.
Maria leaned back against the bottom of May’s couch. She sighed.
“I think I should probably head out.” Maria said as she got up. She could actually live here in this moment of complete safety and laughing if she stayed at May’s too long, but she new it was just a temporary regroup for all three of them. That wasn’t the norm, that’s not how things worked for them in reality.
“And you’re going with her?” May asked Natasha
“Yeah.” Natasha confirmed.
Maria and Natasha left May’s with loving goodbyes. They headed out to the sidewalk. The night air was breezy but warm, the rain from the other day had cooled off some of the summer humidity that had been building.
Maria and Natasha walked next to each other, they didn’t hold hands or act like they were anything other than two women walking next to each other.
Maria looked at her phone as they walked, she hadn’t looked it once at May’s and even silenced it, in fact she actually forgot about it for awhile which was nice. She had and anxiety inducing amount of unanswered texts from the last few days, Natasha noticed it and knew that was unusual for a women who kept her unread at 0 at all times.
Maria then winced a bit when she looked at her phone and Natasha was quick to notice.
“What?” Natasha asked
Maria showed Natasha her phone screen of 11 missed calls from an unknown number.
“What’s that about?” Nat asked
Maria just shook her head like she didn’t know.
“Fury?” Nat purposed
Maria had not heard from him and Maria shrugged but she figured at some point she might, maybe not, he was a busy guy had a lot going on.
The unknown caller rang again and Maria and Natasha stopped and looked at it, both weighing if she should answer it. Maria’s guess was that it was the FBI they always called from blocked numbers, but calling her that many times in a row meant there was an emergency or someone was dead.
Maria answered but she didn’t put it on speaker which Natasha found annoying.
“Yeah?” Maria used this as her greeting when she answered not confirming it was her since she did not know who was calling. She didn’t know what to expect after so many missed calls, had something happened to Tony now? Had she unplugged herself when Fury was trying to reach her?
“Maria, finally!” Natasha could her the man’s voice from the phone and she knew it was not Fury or Tony. Maria looked shocked and mad at the voice she heard as she recognized it instantly.
“We have a game to finish.” Yuri continued even though Maria didn’t say anything back, she just looked Natasha concerned. Maria knew she had to seen it to believe it, of course Yuri made it out.
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teenage-idiot · 1 year
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In the Blink of an Eye - 1
Avengers Age of Ultron | Quicksilver x Female Reader Fan-fiction.
*WARNING SPOILERS*
Contains strong language, sexual references and mentions of death. 'And in that moment, everything I knew or had known suddenly didn't matter anymore. It was like the world was moving in slow motion; everything around me was fading away, to nothing. It was as if my whole life had been leading up to this point in time, and now it was finally here, the rest was irrelevant. All I could focus on was this exact moment, this second in time; a snapshot of my existence. It felt like forever, but in reality it had all happened so fast. In the blink of an eye, everything had changed.'
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CHAPTER 1
My feet smacked on the hard tarmac as I ran though the dark alley. I was running for my life. I don't know who, or why but I was being chased. Maybe they were Hydra, but they didn't look like it. I knew Hydra and I knew that they didn't look like...that. No, this was different, they were different, but then again, so was I. I don't know how they found me, but they did, and now I was running as fast as I could down a pitch black alleyway at two o'clock in the morning. No matter. Either way, they were still after me.
"She went down here," I heard a voice say. It was a man's voice, of that I was certain, but that wasn't really going to help me figure out who these people were. I kept running, turning left and right at every opportunity, hoping to lose them every time, but no such luck. I could hear two of them talking behind me. I couldn't gain much from their conversation though.
"Cap, you got eyes on her?"
"Yep, she's right in front of me, but man, she's pretty fast."
I came to a wire fence, which I climbed over with ease, however there was now a building straight in front of me and nowhere else to turn. The building did have a small metal balcony though, which I could climb up and onto. It looked like an old house that hadn't been inhabited in years. I raced towards it and jumped up grabbing onto the hard, cold edge of the balcony, pulling myself up until my feet were safely on it too. Climbing over the railings I entered the house. I turned so I could see back out the way I came in. I was pacing backwards slowly, and I could see no movement from outside, but I knew better than to let my guard down. At that moment I felt a pair of hands on my shoulders. Without hesitation I elbowed them square in the jaw and whipped around to face my opponent. She was quite tall, with short, red hair and a pretty face. She didn't react to what I'd done, but instead just stood there watching me, as if she was waiting for me to fall into some sort of trap. She put her hand up to her ear and spoke.
"We got her. Second floor. I'm with her now."
She spoke in such a way that I couldn't determine whether what she said meant imminent death, or being taken away and locked up, like before. I heard something behind me, and I turned my head to see a man in a red, white and blue suit coming in from the balcony, followed by another man dressed in all black, carrying a bow. I looked back at the girl and she was no longer alone, but had another girl standing next to her. The second girl had long brown hair and was wearing a red leather jacket. They were definitely not Hydra.
I stood there for a while, turning to look at each one of them again in turn. What seemed like forever, in reality was only a matter of seconds, and I'd made my choice. I turned and ran towards the glass window, bursting through it, glass pieces shattering all around me. The fall was hard, and I tried to pick myself up, but failed miserably. I soon felt a strong pair of arms wrap around me and pick me up before blacking out.
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a/n - this is something i started writing years ago and only uploaded to wattpad originally, but i finally decided to continue writing after a loooooong break and also post it here as well! so hopefully you guys enjoy woo :)
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wordsmithcreations · 1 year
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Deke's First Christmas
Just something quick I wrote up while at work. I may add more chapters later.
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He walked past Daisy earlier who was busy singing songs with Yoyo. She called them Christmas songs but there so so many different songs and Christmas was new thing for him.
The whole concept confused him and it made no sense at all. There was this powerful person called a Santa Claus but he sounded scary. He heard Daisy singing along to the song he heard earlier about how he knew if you were bad or good and even what you were doing all of the time!
Was this Santa an Inhuman like Daisy and Yoyo? He was still wracking his brain when he found Fitz in the lab. His grandfather would know as this was the first time he heard of Santa and all of the other things.
"Bobo, what's a Santa Claus?" He was very curious as the entire team had made an effort to put up decorations here and there. There was even this giant tree the team had set up and decorated with all sorts of things.
Tired. Fitz closed his eyes and sighed. "He's a fat man in a red suit that brings you presents on Christmas." He went back to his work without looking up at his grandson.
Deke gave Fitz a very concerned expression and walked closer. "So is he real? Is he an Inhuman? Does he really know what everyone is doing all of the time? How does he visit so many houses in one night? What are his powers even like? Have you met him? Is he nice or-"
The Scottish man turned around with his hands on his hips. "Deke! Santa isn't real."
His expression changed to that of a child, well, one that just learning Santa wasn't real. "Oh." A load of questions built up shortly after his answer. "Then where do all of the presents come from? Does that mean Frosty and his reindeer aren't real as well?"
"It's Santa Claus and his reindeer, only children believe in Santa Claus because him and Frosty aren't real."
The defeated look on Deke's face made him regret the way he just broke the news to his grandson. He sighed. "You can still celebrate Christmas, give presents and get into the festive spirit Deke. Just not everything you hear is real."
His eyes light up again. "So we can celebrate Christmas? Does someone need to dress up as Santa or maybe I could dress up as him and we can give gifts to each other? I'm going to find Nana so she can help us!" Deke disappeared before Fitz could say another word. "What have I done.."
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smelly-fozzy · 2 years
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Hello, today I have decided that the amount of Agents of Shield fan fiction is simply not enough, and that we need more and that I love every single person who writes for it (and who writes in general).
Given that I am too much of a wimp to ask anyone to write more, I shall write more, because I'm just a sad little bisexual, who wishes to be held by Daisy Johnson and Robbie Reyes.
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madhare0512 · 1 year
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Title: this is my protection, you are my life (not a bad seed, just a bad influence)
Author: MadHare
Fandom(s): Marvel Cinimatic Universe, The Avengers (MCU Movies), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Relationship(s): Clint Barton/Leo Fitz/Natasha Romanoff/Jemma Simmons
Rating: Teen and Up
Warnings: depictions of violence, character death, and minor spoilers
Word Count: 8,826
Complete/Not Complete: Complete
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43509711
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fitzfangirl · 2 years
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Prompt: You know, you don’t have to be embarrassed or ashamed around me. I like you for who you are.
Fitz x reader
You were smart—number 16 in your class. You were in honors and advanced placement classes; your strong suit was math and science. You didn’t score high on your calculus and physics AP exams, but you were an ace at biology and chemistry. You continued your studies in college. Of course, that was a long time ago, so when you met your now-boyfriend and his partner in crime, you didn’t understand much of what came out of their mouths. It was frustrating. However, Fitz liked you anyway. You wormed your way into his life and he accepted you. It took some time to get over your mutual shyness before becoming a couple. You never had a real boyfriend, so you weren’t exactly in the know when it came to navigating relationships.
You decided to go back to your roots and refresh your brain. You bought some college text books and ol’ reliable index cards, nostalgic for the days when you used them to pass every class. You hunkered down in your bunk and got to work. You kept it quiet, too embarrassed to tell Fitz about your latest venture.
You had to leave at the crack of dawn for a brief mission with a small crew. It was something simple enough for a fairly new member of Daisy’s Inhuman squad to tackle. Fitz was searching for his girlfriend, but found an empty room. Strewn about your bed were open books and dozens of index cards. He flipped through them, impressed with the level of detail you put into cell diagrams, molecules, and chemical formulas. “I didn’t know your handwriting could be so neat.” He chuckled.
You returned to The Playground satisfied with your work. “Oi, y/n.” You smiled, excited to see those bright blue eyes. “Why didn’t you tell me you were leaving?”
“You were asleep.”
“But you could’ve told me last night.”
“I guess it never occurred to me. Sorry.”
“What are you studying?”
“What?”
“I saw the books on your bed. Anything I can help with?”
“No. And it’s nothing. Mind your business.” You stormed off in a huff, leaving the poor engineer puzzled by your behavior.
“Y/n,” he called, but stopped himself, knowing you well enough to leave you be. If you didn’t want to talk about something, he respected that, especially if it upset you. But what were you so mad about?
Later, Fitz entered to your room to inquire if you wanted to accompany him for dinner. He noticed your books and notes were in the wastebasket and frowned. He knew where you were hiding. Whenever you got upset, you ran straight to the firing range.
You emptied your magazine into the target and removed your earmuffs in time to hear familiar footsteps walking behind you. Unable to face him, you took a breath and closed your eyes.
“You know, you don’t have to be embarrassed or ashamed around me. I like you for who you are. And, that we have things in common and understand each other. At least I thought we understood each other.”
You sighed and spun around, ready to spill your guts. “Yeah, but I could have been so much more, Fitz. I was really smart, not as smart as the great Fitz-Simmons or the other SHIELD cadets, but I could’ve done more. I could’ve majored in biology or been a geneticist like I wanted to. I was scared to go to a university with giant lecture halls away from my family. So I went to stupid community college on a career track that I learned to hate. Even my master’s degree means nothing; never used it. Waste of money. Stupid college and stupid internship. My whole life is a waste of time.”
“Don’t say that. Everything you’ve done lead you here and I’m grateful for that. If you want to study science, do it for yourself, not for me. I’m happy with you the way you are.” You were taken aback by his remark. No one had said that to you before. You felt a twinge of guilt for your behavior toward your boyfriend.
“I’m sorry I yelled at you, Fitz. It’s just easier to yell at someone or punch something than be vulnerable, especially in front of you. I want to be my best around you, because you’re so great. I guess…I wish I was like you and Jemma,” you confessed. “I used to be the smartest person in the class. When I met you, I thought, ‘Great, I know science too,’ and then I realized, ‘I have no idea what he’s talking about.’ I was hoping to bond with you over your work but that didn’t happen.”
“We still got together, right? We bonded over other things. Your mother, my father. Anxiety and insecurities. Stupid jokes that no one else finds funny.” Your face brightened. “There’s the smile I love. That’s what attracted me to you.”
Your heart swelled at his comments. “I guess I don’t have to relearn those things.”
“Only if you want to. I’m here if you ever have any questions.”
“Thanks.” You stepped to him and kissed him to show your appreciation.
“I’m sorry if I blew you off before about my whereabouts. I didn’t think I had to tell you.”
“You don’t, but it would have been nice to know. I tell you where I’m going.”
“You don’t have to. You don’t need some nagging girlfriend asking about your whereabouts.” The annoyance in his face halted your diatribe. “Fine,” you conceded. “I’m still trying to figure out how to be a good girlfriend, you know, with communication and all.”
“It’s OK, we’re both new to this.” He changed the subject. Do you want to get dinner?”
“Sure,” you replied.
As you both walked away, Fitz was curious about something you said. “You wanted to be a geneticist, y/n?”
“Well, it was my favorite unit in bio, and I liked drawing Punnett squares.”
“Wow, you really are a nerd.”
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You mentioned in one of ur posts abt dunking on agents of shield and im so curious what writing you were talking abt (genuine question i love AOS but i’m bad at recognising bad writing lmao and i’m nosy)
under a readmore because AoS is one of the few bad shows i've ever given enough fucks about to outright fucking loathe
i made it through all of, like, two seasons before i ragequit, so i can't speak to anything it did afterwards, but i am always down to clown on those two seasons for being creepy culty police-state apologia, having one of the most egregious cases i've ever seen of "entire fictional universe contorted into a rube goldberg machine whose sole job is to frantically prop up a shambling putrid mess of protagonist-centric morality," spending its CA:TWS tie-in throwing spite tantrums at the whole movie for having the gall to suggest that Maybe The Real Tyranny Was The Post-9/11 Security State We Built Along The Way, devolving from mediocre but serviceable case-of-the-week in s1 to undifferentiated arc-plot mush in s2...
like i know the fandom likes to wank eternally about Ward, but he was at most a moderately entertaining symptom of a show that never met a jackboot it didn't want to fellate sloppy style, yet lacked the skill to even make a point except by flinging ever-more-ludicrous strawmen at the screen. its tragedy was always that the characters were just likeable enough to make you wanna scoop them up and find them a forever home on a show that was slightly less dogshit.
obviously different people watch shows for different reasons and get completely different things out of them; i assume AoS fans have their own aspects they're invested in, likely involving the characters and having very little to do with the show's politics. i'm not accusing them of anything except, like, dubious collective taste in character-centric flamewars. but i cannot watch it without going into a white-hot rage and wasting more words on it than it deserves, and my mid-2010s back catalog of stupid fucking hills to die on includes "my reasons for finding this show rancid may not be relevant to your viewing priorities, but they are an unassailably fucking valid reading of those first couple of seasons."
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My Queen
Pairing: Valkyrie x reader 
Request: I humbly request a fan fiction where female reader (if that's okay) is Valkyrie’s soulmate. The avengers saved you from hydra and Thor immediately recognized your soulmark. But hydra wants you back because you can talk to animals and turn into a small wolf but Val isn't going to lose her Queen. She had lived through reader dying and lived long enough for her return, she won’t fail us again.  - By Anon 
Word Count: 1276
The Avengers just finished taking down a Hydra base experimenting with people for their powers. Everyone thanked him once they were free and escorted by SHIELD agents to a plane. Thor is in one of the holding blocks releasing all the people into cells. Thor goes into the last cell in the block, and he freezes. He freezes because the prisoner has a mark of Asgard, more specifically, an Asgard soulmate mark that matches Valkyrie’s mark. Thor has heard many stories of Valkyrie's mate and how she was a kind and loving person who could light up a room, but that is sadly not true now. She is wearing torn-up clothing that looks like it has not been washed since she put it on, cuts and bruises are all over her body, and she is chained to the wall on a short chain. She is in the corner of the room in a ball, shaking. It is a hard sight to see for Thor because she is supposed to be a mighty and strong warrior. Who knows what she has been through for all these years locked up. 
“Y/N…” Thor says softly, not to spook Y/N. Y/N turns around slowly to see Thor and sighs in relief. 
“Y/N, it is time to come home; Valkyrie is waiting for you,” Thor says, and Y/N’s face lights up at hearing her soulmate’s name. She tries to stand up but falls right away. Thor is there to catch her. Thor breaks the chain and carries Y/N out of the building and into the Quinn Jet.
“Thor, why are you bringing one of the prisoners here and not with the SHIELD medics,” Tony asks Thor.
“We have to get back to base quickly,” Thor says, putting Y/N on the medic table and strapping her in. 
“I will get you back to Valkyrie, Y/N. I promise you that,” Thor says quietly to Y/N.
“You never answer my question, Thor,” Tony says.
“She is Asgardain and needs to go home to her soulmate, Valkyrie,” Thor says to Tony.
“We should be heading out in just a second. Let me start up the jet. Also, please don’t tell Valkyrie that I was holding you back. I am kind of scared of her,” Tony says, looking back to ensure everyone is in the jet before taking off. 
The team gets to the compound and rushes Y/N to the med bay with Dr. Cho. While they care for Y/N, Thor calls Valkryie to tell her the news. 
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Valkyrie is in her house in New Asgard, drinking in the middle of the day. This has been normal for Valkyrie since she lost Y/N all those years ago. Things have improved since she met Thor and returned to Asgard to be the new king, but the loss of her love never goes away. 
Valkyrie had already been through one bottle and was about to start another, but her phone ringing distracted her. She looks at her phone and sees it is Thor and doesn’t answer at first. Valkyrie sighs and continues to open her bottle, and her phone rings again. She looks, and it is Thor again. Thor usually doesn’t call two times in a row because she doesn’t like using phones, so it must be important. Valkyrie picks up her phone.
“What do you want, Thor? You are interrupting someone very important right now and-” 
“We found her, Val,” Thor says, interrupting Valkyrie. 
“She is here at the compound in the med bay. He found her in a hydra base today” Thor continues talking, but she stops listening after we found her. Valkyrie knows what Thor means by her; it is the love of her life that she lost all those years ago. 
Valkyrie hung up the phone and rushed to the Avenger’s compound to see Y/N. She gets to the compound, and it is silence in the air. Everyone is staring at her, not knowing what to say.
“Where is she?!” Valkyrie yells at everyone staring at her. Thor comes to her and leads her to Y/N. They walk to the med bay in silence. Once they reach the med bay, Thor lets her go in alone. Valkyrie walks in slowly, not knowing what to expect, and the sight in front of her is much worst than she thought. Y/N is lying on the bed and sleeping with machines all around her and multiple needles in her. Y/N has bruises and cuts all over her body from being a prisoner of Hydra.
“My queen, you have come back to me,” Valkyrie says, walking over to Y/N and sitting beside the bed. Valkyrie grabs Y/N’s hand and kisses it.
“You have no idea how much I miss you, my love. I thought about killing myself, but I knew you would bring me back to life and kill me yourself, so I never did it. I am so glad that I didn’t so we can be reunited,” Valkyrie says, holding back tears.
“You are right that I would have brought you back just to kill you,” Y/N says, then laughs, but her body hurts and winces. 
“My love, you are awake” Valkyrie places one of her hands on Y/N’s cheek.
“Of course I am. Did you really think that you could get rid of me?” Y/N says, turning her head so she has a good view of Valkyrie.
“I mean, I thought I did for thousands of years,” Valkyrie says, and a tear runs down her face. Y/N wipes away the tears from her face.
“Well, I am back, and why do you look like shit, my beautiful angel, I can smell the alcohol on your breath too,” Y/N says with a raised eyebrow. Valkyrie tries to speak, but nothing comes out.
“Don’t worry darling, I am back and do not need to explain yourself. We both had rough thousands of years,” Y/N says with a smile. The smile that Valkyrie fell in love with. No matter what the situation, Y/N always had a smile on her face.
“What happened to you, my love?” Valkyrie asks.
“Well, the last thing I remember was fighting in a battle with you, and I got hit. I fell all the way down to Midgard somehow. I was injured and called out for help, but no one came. Just animals came to me, and I thought they would attack me since I was down and hurt, so I shifted to my wolf. The only problem is that I only changed half of my body since I was so injured. That scared off all the animals, and I was left to freeze near a lake. I fell into the lake a froze. I don’t know how long had passed before Hydra found my frozen body in the lake and saw I had power and wasn’t part of the Earth. They have experimented on me ever since,” Y/N says, crying while telling the story.
“Well, don’t worry, my love, anymore because you are safe with me, and I will never let anything happen to you ever again, okay,” Valkyrie says, and Y/N nods her head. Valkyrie leans in and gives Y/N a long-deserved kiss.
“Also, you are a queen,” Valkyrie says after breaking the kiss.
“I know, you called me that always,” Y/N laughs.
“No, I mean you are the queen of New Asgard,” Valkyrie says, leaving Y/N speechless.
“Well, I am happy to be your queen,” Y/N says, smiling at Valkyrie.
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Diana Gabaldon spoke at the University of Glasgow's Outlander conference. Photo: Martin Shields
Diana Gabaldon recalls how first Outlander book ‘almost cancelled’
Best-selling Outlander author Diana Gabaldon has created nine beloved books and a seven-season TV series - but the franchise almost didn't happen.
The American writer told fans in Glasgow her first novel was almost cancelled because publishers could not decide what to do with it.
It took more than a year to go on sale as a debate raged about where it would sit on bookshop shelves.
The series has boosted Scottish tourism with fans flocking to Scotland to visit the book and TV programme's locations.
The author spoke at the word's first international academic Outlander conference at the University of Glasgow, which has been the backdrop for several scenes in the Starz TV series.
Expert scholars and Outlander fans have come together for events in the city, exploring themes such as Jacobite history, screen production, Scottish tourism, Gaelic and Scots, costume design, fandom, main character Claire Fraser's medicine, and witchcraft.
Ms Gabaldon - originally an academic herself - was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university in June last year.
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The drama series stars Catriona Balfe and Sam Heughan as Claire and Jamie Fraser. Photo: Starz
Speaking about her first book, she said: "It took the publishers 18 months to figure out what to do with it. I learned later that they came very close to cancelling the contract and giving me back the book because they couldn't decide how to sell it.
"This was before Amazon where a book can be classified as several things at once and people can pick off the web what they want, and they still get the same book.
"Back in the day it was only bookstores, you had to put a book on a certain shelf, the shelf had to have a label and the book also had to have that label."
She said the decision to sell it as a romance came as a shock.
"My agent finally called me up and said they had decided to publish it but sell it as a romance. I said, 'What?' that isn't what I wrote.
"He pointed out that a best seller in fantasy fiction was 50,000 copies in paperback while in romance it is 500,000 copies. So we sold it as romance."
'Too weird'
She said that the success of the books was down to readers' recommendations.
"My first editor said to me early on these have to be word of mouths books because they are too weird to describe, which is totally true and that is also true about the word of mouth.
"So that being the case it made total sense to expose the book to 500,000 people in the romance category who will go out and tell their friends and the word will spread.
"So we did that and that is exactly what happened."
The Outlander series is currently nine books, with the author working on the tenth - and believed to be the final - book.
It follows the story of a post-World War Two nurse visiting Scotland who accidentally time travels to the Jacobite era.
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Roger (Richard Rankin) and Brianna (Sophie Skelton) are main characters in the show. Photo: Aimee Spinks
It has now become one of the bestselling book series of all time and spawned the popular TV series, currently in its seventh season.
Ms Gabaldon's talk was entitled, '"Why Scotland? Why Not Mexico?" Genes, Borders, Culture and Fiction: Why They Matter and When They Don't'.
In it, she explained why she picked Scotland as the location of Outlander.
She said: "What I learned from my research and contact with Scots is that Scots are, and historically were, very literate. They wrote down things. They also have a very strong oral culture, they told their stories.
"They also have a lot of history available. Then there is the nature of Scottish history, it has a lot of heroes and heroines as well as conflict which is what you need for a good story."
The conference runs until Saturday and has seen fringe events including music concerts and battle re-enactments in the university's famous cloisters.
Transformative impact
Senior Lecturer in Gaelic at the University, Gillebride Macmillan, who has appeared in the programme, said it had been really important for the Gaelic language.
"It's so important for a minoritized language, such as Gaelic, to be seen on a world level, on a world stage, and Outlander gives Gaelic that opportunity.
"And I think it's been fantastic to hear Gaelic spoken by the actors and in the books, and also the use of Gaelic music, Gaelic song. I've been very lucky myself to be a part of that and I think it's been an incredibly positive thing for the language.
"Which I think has been born out by things such as, one and a half million people learning Gaelic in Duolingo. Obviously, many people are learning Gaelic for many different reasons, but Outlander has been one of the major factors for that."
Prof Willy Maley, professor of Renaissance studies (English Literature), at the university, said: "Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series has had a transformative impact on Scottish culture, generating global interest in the history, languages and landscapes of Scotland.
"Vivid and visceral, Outlander is an otherworldly but never unworldly phenomenon that takes a time-travelling nurse-turned-doctor and propels her from 1946 to 1743, two worlds of war that collide in an elaborate and painstaking reconstruction that make the series much more than historical fiction and more an innovative and pioneering rethinking of how we excavate and examine the narratives of the past.
"Outlander has also been a brilliant boost for the Scottish film industry."
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Remember… I think it's been fantastic to hear Gaelic spoken by the actors and in the books, and also the use of Gaelic music, Gaelic song. I've been very lucky myself to be a part of that and I think it's been an incredibly positive thing for the language. — Gillebride Macmillan
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tremorsmackenzie · 7 months
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV)
Rating: General Audiences 
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply 
Relationships: Jemma Simmons/Skye | Daisy Johnson 
Additional Tags: Fluff, Lesbian Jemma Simmons, Bisexual Skye | Daisy Johnson, Fitz ships it, queer joy, the tiniest smidge of angst, skimmons - Freeform, bioquake, FitzSimmons BrOTP 
Summary:
Moments where Jemma Simmons definitely, absolutely did not have a crush on Skye.
Set during the first half of season one.
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brightnote · 9 months
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Chapters: 2/6 Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Characters: Tony Stark, Maria Hill, Melinda May, Nick Fury, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Elizabeth | Maria Hill's Mother, Original Characters, Iron Man Armor Summary:
chapter two summary: Tony Stark and Maria Hill arrive at an undisclosed location where they are separated. Tony is treated for his injury, Maria seeks information.  (violence descriptions!) 
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teenage-idiot · 1 year
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In the Blink of an Eye - 17
Avengers Age of Ultron | Quicksilver x Female Reader Fan-fiction.
*WARNING SPOILERS*
Contains strong language, sexual references and mentions of death.
1872 words
CHAPTER 17
The next couple of days went by like a blur. Tony, Bruce, Steve and Vision had been busy going over the information we’d snatched from Hydra a few nights ago; from what I understood it contained some of their plans for the foreseeable future, as well as the names of some high profile members of Hydra who had previously been unknown to the group or the public. The four of them had kept the rest of us updated as much as possible, but since none of us were really one hundred percent on what we were dealing with just yet, they had decided it best to wait until they had come up with a plan of action before taking any further action against the organisation.
My head had been all over the place since the party. Despite everything else going on, I could not seem to get my mind off of that kiss with Pietro. It had been three whole days since it happened, and yet neither of us had talked about it or even brought it up at all. Sure, we had seen each other and spoken to one another, making little jokes and stuff as usual, but neither one of us had actually addressed the situation. A part of me felt that maybe that was for the best; that the kiss was nothing more than a strategic manoeuvre in the heat of the moment, and that there was no way on earth that Pietro felt anything more towards me like I did for him. However, that other part of my brain was niggling at me, saying ‘what if?’ What if he did feel something more?
The comments that Nat, Clint and Steve had made kept gnawing away at me. Of course Pietro and I had grown extremely close in the time that I’d been here, but in reality we hadn’t known each other for that long at all. I couldn’t help but feel that we didn’t really know that much about each other, that he didn’t really know who I was or what I’d been through to get to where I was now, and even if he did – would he still feel the same way? I had things in my past that I hadn’t told anyone. Things Hydra had done to me and had made me do that still haunted me. I wasn’t sure if I was ready to share that with someone yet, to be vulnerable like that in front of someone I cared about and face possible rejection and judgement as a result.
“What is up with you today? You’re all over the place,” Nat said as she landed another punch, this time hitting the left side of my ribcage as I winced at the sudden impact.
“Sorry,” I breathed out defeatedly, lowering my arms from their defensive position in front of my face, “I’ve just had a lot on my mind recently.”
“Oh yeah,” she smirked, “that wouldn’t happen to have anything to do with Pietro now, would it?”
I gave her a pointed look to which she simply raised an eyebrow and continued to smirk at me. I let out a sigh, glancing down at the floor and then back up to meet Nat’s gaze before deciding to divulge to her what had happened the other night. I hadn’t actually told anybody, thinking they’d probably either laugh at me or heavily tease me about it, or more likely both, but Nat had had my back since the beginning, taking me under her wing and looking out for me wherever possible. She was someone I felt I could trust, although she was definitely guilty of teasing me relentlessly from more often than not.
“Well, since you mentioned it,” I began, letting out a breath before continuing to speak, “when we were on that mission the other night, something happened.”
“Oh yeah, like what?” she spoke, quirking an eyebrow like she knew exactly what I was about to say. God, why was this so hard? I let out yet another sigh before turning back to face Nat so I could finally spill the beans.
“Well,” I started, pausing again to collect my thoughts, “he kissed me. As we were leaving, there were security guards coming our way fast and before I knew what was happening he was kissing me, and at first I didn’t understand why but then I realised it was just because we were about to get caught and needed an excuse for being there in the stairwell.”
“Oh my god,” Nat whispered, “Oh my GOD! I told you he liked you, what did I say? I knew it! I knew I was right.”
She was laughing as I tried to explain further, “It was purely strategic though! He only kissed me because we were about to be caught somewhere we shouldn’t have been and he thought on his feet and just did it. I’m sure it didn’t mean anything.”
“Well, have you guys talked about it?” she asked.
“No, we haven’t discussed it since it happened. I mean we’ve talked to each other, just not about…that,” I sighed and shifted on my feet awkwardly as I thought about the kiss again. The feeling of Pietro’s hands on my waist, my fingers tangling in his hair as he kissed me. I quickly pulled myself out of my thoughts, shaking my head as an attempt to shoo them away.
“Look, I know you don’t believe me, or anybody else for that matter, but Pietro has feelings for you. I mean, we all see it. He may have superspeed but trust me, he’s not fast at all when it comes to hiding the lovesick looks he gives you literally all the time.” She rolled her eyes playfully as I gave her shoulder a push. “But seriously, regardless of romantic feelings, Pietro cares about you. Just talk to him about what happened, I’m sure he’s been thinking about it too and just wasn’t sure if he should bring it up or not. You guys are friends after all, he’s probably just unsure of what you’re thinking and feeling and didn’t want to overstep or make you uncomfortable.”
Nat’s words hit me hard. She was right. All this time I’d been so preoccupied with how I’d been feeling and the thoughts swimming around in my head that I hadn’t considered that Pietro might be just as confused as I am, and probably wanted to talk about it and clear the air just like I did.
“How do you always know exactly what to say,” I chuckled as Nat smiled along with me. I knew she wasn’t a big hugger, but I went for it anyway and wrapped my arms around her shoulders, “seriously Nat, thank you.” 
She squeezed my shoulders in return and gave me a pat on the back, “No problem kiddo.”
My day went a lot better after my conversation with Nat. She was surprisingly sincere and sympathetic for someone with the nickname Black Widow, and the knowledge that such a badass avenger was really a big softie made me chuckle to myself as I walked to my next training session for the day. 
I finally saw Pietro at group training, and I decided that after we were finished I would pull him to the side and ask him if we could address what happened the other night. We had just finished packing away for the day and I was collecting my things when I heard a voice next to me.
“Hey,” Pietro spoke softly.
“Hey, I was actually just about to come talk to you, but I guess you beat me to it,” I chuckled.
“Well, I guess you’ll have to try and be faster next time,” he smirked, looking me up and down as he did so. Did he have to be so flirtatious all the time?
“Um,” I let out a nervous laugh, glancing at the floor quickly and then back up to face Pietro to continue what I wanted to say, “can we talk about what happened the other night?” He gave me a quizzical look and tilted his head to the side slightly, “At the party? When we kissed?”
He uncrossed his arms and shifted his position to stand up straight as he looked down at me and nodded, “Yeah, sure. Of course.”
“Well,” I breathed, unsure of exactly where to start, “I know that you did what you did to stop us getting caught, but, when it happened, I couldn’t help but feeling like there was something…more. Like it meant something more.”
“Well,” he said, mimicking my tone from before, “did you want it to mean something more?” He gazed down at me, his ocean eyes boring into mine. I decided to take a leap of faith and just say how I was feeling.
“Yeah, I did. I mean, I like you a lot you know and I think we’ve gotten pretty close since we’ve met and we spend a lot of time together and stuff and now I’m kind of rambling but I think you get the idea,” I trailed off at the end, unsure of how he would react to my somewhat confession that I just ambushed him with.
“Yeah, I get the idea,” he smirked at me and shook his head before turning and beginning to walk towards the training room doors, “oh and I like you too by the way.”
I laughed in disbelief at his behaviour, then quickly caught up to him and punched him in the shoulder, “Don’t do that! I was about to use my powers to open up the ground and let it swallow me whole, you dick,” I breathed out, looking up at him to see his eyes crinkling as a wide grin appeared on his face.
“I’m sorry I just couldn’t help myself,” he snickered as he raised his hands in defence, “did you seriously think it was a possibility that I didn’t like you back though?”
I blushed at his forwardness. Had he really had feelings for me all this time? Maybe I should listen to the others more often from now on. 
“Well, yeah, especially just then I did,” I said, a tone of amusement lacing my voice.
We looked at each other for a few moments, realising that everything was finally out in the open and we had both told each other how we really felt.
“So, what now?” I asked, still feeling a little shy and unsure on how to proceed now that each of us had said what we wanted to say.
“Now, we just enjoy each other’s’ company, and see what happens,” he said slowly, looking down and lacing his fingers with mine before bringing his eyes back up to meet mine.
“Come on,” he said suddenly, gesturing with his head in the direction of the doors, “let’s get out of here.”
I smiled and followed him towards the exit, feeling not only a huge weight off my shoulders for clearing the air, but also a massive sense of elation for having my feelings for Pietro returned. Yeah, I was definitely going to have to listen to Nat and the others more often from now on.
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a/n - i finally wrote a new chapter!! i think this is the longest one i've ever written too?? idk why i used to make them so short lol but i think imma try and make them longer in the future :) in the meantime enjoy chapter 17!
- t
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Defenders Chronicles: Highlander -- Fan-Fan Fiction
IUA Base -- 10:20 am
Janet eyed the screen that was sprawled on a wall, both arms quivering along her chest. The feed relayed a view of a faraway cave. Thirty ice robots were kneeling within. All of them were dormant, but not for long. Each would awaken in around five minutes. Then they'd march out and strike a town nearby, shooting the civilians who had yet to escape.
"We're estimating hundreds of casualties, leader," a male agent said as he eyed a computer. "The townspeople simply didn't flee soon enough."
Janet made a grumble, tightening her fists. From what she'd learned, Ming had set a bit of insurance in place: in the event that he was thwarted somehow, satellites would beam certain signals to Earth -- one at a time, gradually.
Each of the beams would reach one of his forts, bases that he'd hidden quite carefully. Then his robots would start targeting people.
Once the Gordon family had learned of this plan, they'd scurried to destroy all the space satellites, and rushed to bombard all the bases too.
This base was shielded by a mountain of rock. An aerial assault wasn't likely to work. An army wouldn't have proper space to attack.
The only solution was to send one person -- more specifically, a particular woman.
Janet's niece Sara popped up from a chair. She was on loan from a different team. "Leader!" she said, keeping it formal. "I've just received word from our agent on-site. She'll make her assault in 5...4...3...2..."
Janet eyed the screen. Nothing occurred. The agent that she'd hired hadn't shown up yet. "Where is she?" she asked, turning to Sara.
Sara sat down. She tapped her headpiece. "Agent?" she called. "Are you at the location?"
The robots awakened, rising as one. All of their eyes bore a crimson glow. Each was equipped with a small sidearm -- which they would use against the people in town.
Sara faced her aunt. "Sorry..." She squirmed. "She tends to be late."
The male worker scoffed. "Then why do people send her on jobs like this?"
Just as the robots were leaving the cave, a caped girl swung from a cable above, bowling several down like a white line of pins.
Sara grinned a bit. "You're about to find out."
The caped girl landed, taking a breath, brushing back a lock of her long black hair.
Two of the machines started shooting at her.
With very little effort, she leaned to the left -- and then to the right. The robots hit a pair of their partners instead.
She pulled twin blasters, then twirled in place, downing many robots with a bevy of shots.
Janet's jaw lowered as she studied the scene.
The girl stopped spinning, then threw her guns down. She tucked both hands deep inside of her cape, crossing her arms as she crouched just a tad. Then she whipped them out, and little spheres flew, each of them shining as they fell to the dirt.
The girl reached upward, and squeezed a small tool. A long grappling rope shot forth from her hands. The point hit the ceiling. She rose from the ground.
Moments later, her spheres exploded, frying all the robots that were still intact.
Janet and the others watched the scene in awe. It was clear now that the town was safe.
As the smoke cleared, the girl remained hanging, using her free hand to speak on a phone. "Walker to base. Mission completed." She noticed the camera, and made a little wink.
Sara cleared her throat. "Thanks a lot, Rachel."
Rachel gave a nod, then lowered herself. "I've got to go pick my kid up from school."
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Based on Defenders Chronicles: Highlander, by @amanda-multifandom.
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