fic:: "the wisdom to know the difference" [MCU, Maria, Maria/Steve]

There’s a lot of bits and pieces I’ve been sitting on for the last couple of months; over the last few weeks I did a push to finish as many things as possible.

the wisdom to know the difference (16562 words) by tielan
Chapters: 2/4
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Maria Hill & Natasha Romanov, Maria Hill & Steve Rogers, Maria Hill & Avengers Team, Maria Hill/Steve Rogers
Characters: Maria Hill, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Steve Rogers, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Pepper Potts, Thor (Marvel), Rocket Raccoon, Carol Danvers, Okoye (Marvel), Tony Stark, Nebula (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Avengers: Endgame (Movie) Spoilers, Canon Divergence - Avengers: Endgame (Movie), Fix-It, Endgame Fix-It, Maria Hill is a BAMF, One More Person Could Have Saved The World, Work In Progress
Series: Part 1 of The Wisdom To Know The Difference
Summary:

Maria reached out a hand, and her fingers fluttered through dust and ashes....but the pager remained.

Initially, I was hoping to get the entirety of this story out by the end of May, then I figured I might by the end of June. Ahahaha. Yeah, nope. It’ll probably be August before I get the next chapter done, mostly because so many things to write, not half enough time to write them all...

overheard in the office and other things

Someone's talking about BSG - at least, I think they are; I'm pretty sure they referenced Adama's stabbing at the end of Season 1? And then...segued into Lucifer (perhaps?) - I've never watched Lucifer, so I don't know what's the connection.

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Apparently my stomach is not satisfied with my breakfast this morning. It wants more...

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Is it weird that I can never read one of Obama's social media tweets or messages without actually hearing it in his voice, speaking in his cadences?

(That's as close to any well-wishing for the 4th July as you're going to get.)

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Query: can you think of a pop culture reference to an experiment that produced a monster, but the monster looked okay on the outside until it started doing things and then it was downright awful? My brain's first thought was 'Frankenstein's monster' but the creature seems to have been ugly on the outside and mostly badly socialised.

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Feeling down in the dumps right now. Mostly tired, I think.