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My fic for Franzi and Gecko's fic exchange - a small friends-oriented exchange. You would not believe how many times I rewrote this assignment before I finally settled on this story. Apparently I have sedoretu on the brain...

The Road That Leads To Home (1595 words) by tielan
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Laura Barton/Natasha Romanov, Clint Barton & Natasha Romanov, Clint Barton/Laura Barton, James "Bucky" Barnes/Natasha Romanov
Characters: Natasha Romanova, Laura Barton, Clint Barton, James "Bucky" Barnes
Additional Tags: Post-Captain America: Civil War (Movie), Sedoretu
Summary:
He surveys the land before them as the Wakandan plane hovers over the landscape, and Natasha tries to imagine it through his eyes.

“A farm?”

“A safehouse.” Somewhere to recover, with no lingering ghosts, with nothing to trigger his responses, even now the programming has been taken out.

The expression on his face is bleak. “And is it safe for them?”

TITLE: And Baby Makes Eight
SUMMARY: The curious tale of how the Avengers adopted Maria Hill and her daughter.
CATEGORY: Drama, Humor, Angst, Fluff, Kid Fic, Ensemble Cast, HILARITY ENSUES, Avengers as family, Action, Kidnapping, Hostage Situation, Non-Romantic Romance, Violence, Happy Ending
CHARACTERS: Maria Hill, Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff, Thor, Bruce Banner, Tony Stark, Hulk, Nick Fury, Pepper Potts, Xi'an Coy Manh, Jane Foster, Hank Pym
PAIRINGS: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers (eventually), Tony Stark/Pepper Potts (various stages), Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff (background), a reference to Steve Rogers/Sharon Carter in the past, and to Maria Hill/OMC, also in the past.
WORD COUNT: 29,610
WARNINGS: Graphic depictions of violence, kidnapping situation
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, making no money, etc., etc., etc.
NOTES: Originally from an avengerkink prompt, it got out of hand with amazing rapidity. Finally complete, with everything from cuteness to crisis.

Chapters 1-7 at AO3, Complete!

Because someone submitted All of the Avengers have asked Maria Hill out at some point on the Avengers Headcanon tumblr. And because this is me.

Part one of six - this one is Clint - and the reason I'm not posting them all at once is because I haven't finished them all yet.

( Like Fish Need Bicycles: Playing With The Big Boys )

Okay, so of course they release the fandom_stocking five minutes after I make the post about the SGA Santa. (Or near enough!)

TITLE: Shadow Of The Morrigan
SUMMARY: Contact between a person and another person's dæmon is...intimate. It's like touching someone else's soul. There are reputedly people who've been lovers for years who've never touched the other person's dæmon, although Steve doesn't see how that's possible – if you're intimate with someone, then surely—but he's distracting himself.
CATEGORY: Steve/Maria, dæmon!AU, attraction, UST, drama

TITLE: Architecture Of Trust
SUMMARY: It starts when Steve finds Maria punching the living daylights out of a bag after a mission goes pear-shaped. It ends with them naked and sweaty, panting like there's not enough air in the room.
CATEGORY: Steve/Maria, D/s, relationship, character study through sex, angst, love

TITLE: Fine Distinctions Of SHIELD
SUMMARY: They're not normal; they're SHIELD. A friendship spanning ten years, of growth and outgrowing, of unexpected twists and turns and dark horses, and of industrial building parts.
CATEGORY: Clint&Maria, friendship, slice of life.

TITLE: Even Assassins Trip Sometimes
SUMMARY: Pepper offers Natasha an apartment and a job.
CATEGORY: Pepper&Natasha, friendship, post-movie, humour (light)

Hopefully there'll be more fic in the next few days now that my brain is freed from the marvel_bang story...

FANDOM: Avengers
TITLE: Every Day, Every Day Of The Year
SUMMARY: Tony's brilliant ideas involving photoshoots, threesomes, Betty Ross, shirtlessness, and the moral decay of society through merchandising.
RATING: PG-13 for sexual innuendo liek whoa.
CATEGORY: Tony/Pepper, Tony/Pepper/Bruce, Tony/Bruce, Bruce/Betty Ross, Jane/Thor, Maria/Steve, Clint/Natasha, Maria/Tony, Darcy/Steve, Tony/Maria/Steve, Pepper/Tony/Maria, ensemble, humour, silliness, pranks, teasing, hijinks ensue, innuendo, Tony's brilliant idea, Avengers pinup calendar, my brain does this, hilarity ensues, herding cats...uh...Avengers, Pepper isn't being paid enough, Maria isn't being paid enough, cake or death, Iron Man panties, Clint as cupid, Life Model Decoys, America Needs No Shirt.
WORD COUNT: ~3800
WARNINGS: (highlight to see) None that I can think of.
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, making no money, etc.
NOTES: I'd been writing this for nearly a month, and then the marvel_bang just took over my writing, and I couldn't think enough to finish this. Once the story of doom was out of the way, it was possible to get this in! Huzzah! Anyway, the summary for this was nearly "Tony comes on to nearly everyone in Avengers Tower. It's just what he does" only Tony actually doesn't come on to everyone enough to make it really accurate. This is certainly not my usual kind of fic, but it was kind of fun to write all the same!

( Every Day, Every Day Of The Year )

FANDOM: The Avengers
TITLE: All The Perfumes Of Arabia
SUMMARY: There's no forgiveness for people like them, no absolution. The ledger drips, yes; all you can do is manage the damage.
RATING: PG
NOTES: penknife asked for "Clint and Natasha, looking back on this weird series of events after the end of the movie". I hope it's okay, Pen! I think I'm seeing the attraction of this pairing now, although I doubt they're going to be my front-and-centre. And I'd ask, "Satisfied, allisnow?" But I know perfectly well she's not. :P

( All The Perfumes Of Arabia )