two MCU fics

For intoabar 2018 - they're presently taking sign-ups for the 2019 round.

I got "Maria Hill meets Ares (Wonder Woman)":

The Check And The Balance Unpaid (2108 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Wonder Woman (2017)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Maria Hill, Patrick Morgan | Ares
Additional Tags: Community: intoabar, Power Dynamics (non-sexual)
Summary:

There was something avid about the earnestly pleasant expression on his face that was...repulsive. Some gleam in his eye, some smugness about the set of his mouth. It reminded her of Loki, back when he’d been imprisoned on the helicarrier – the sense that there was something more winding around and about and through all this. One move on a chessboard and the goal was checkmate.

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And in my Fire And Ice MCU Jaeger AU series, there's another chapter of the friendship between Maria and Pepper:

That’s What Friends Are For (6432 words) by tielan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill & Pepper Potts, Maria Hill/Steve Rogers
Characters: Maria Hill, Pepper Potts, Steve Rogers, Brock Rumlow, Jack Rollins, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Friendship, Drama, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, In Vino Veritas, HYDRA are not nice
Series: Part 6 of Fire And Ice: MCU Jaeger AU
Summary:

Pepper doesn't like Steve Rogers much.

It's actually #6 in the series, but there are 8 stories, so far. Eventually (very eventually) I'll finish the series (at least two more to go, maybe three).

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My mcu_exchange assignment will be live this weekend, I don't know if it will be identifiable (probably) but it should be fun.

And the auexchange is coming to town again!

I am debating signing up, but...I do love AUs. Yes, I know, I need more exchange assignments like I need a hole in the head. *sigh*

And this job is going to leave me with no time to write the novel I hoped to have done by the end of August.