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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.

MCU fic that was, for a long time, many teeny tiny scraplets.

title: Monstrous Regiment
summary: It starts with the dream of a group of extraordinary people...
tags: Peggy Carter, Natasha Romanoff, Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel), Wanda Maximoff, Pepper Potts, Jane Foster (Marvel), Phil Coulson, Maria Hill
ratings: General
warnings: Author Chooses Not To Warn
notes: Basically the premise "If the Avengers team were five MCU women and one man..." I might have changed that slightly.

A very small pool this year, but I still matched with at least one person who requested Maria & Pepper!

I admit, I would have liked to write a treat for CamrynBarnes as the only other person who asked for Maria/Steve, but simply didn't have the time. I did get a couple of hundred words into several different universes, the problem is reaching a satisfactory ending...

Anyway, my assignment for finnimbrand:

title: Travel By Bubble
pairings/characters: Maria Hill & Pepper Potts, Maria Hill, Pepper Potts, JARVIS.
tags: Alternate Universe - Fairy Tale
notes: I had such trouble with this, because neither Maria nor Pepper manage to fill the 'heroine' roles in femme-focused fairytales in any way, shape, or form - they're not the wanderers or explorers so much as the guardians and maintainers, and so trying to write them in as the heroines involved a lot of backstory and worldbuilding. In the end, I kind of said, "Ah, to heck with it," and just wrote them as the fairy godmothers, because they fit there!
summary:

“Why pink, anyway?” She wondered idly as she combed her fingers through the still-damp strands. “If we can magic the bubble into any color, why pink?”

“We tried making the bubble with all the other colours,” Maria reminded her from where she sat at the portable desk. “Pink’s the most efficient.”

And a treat I wrote for Rivulet027 because I had time and the idea took hold of me:

title: Break My Bones But You Won't See Me Fall
pairing/characters: Bucky/Sam, Bucky Barnes, Sam Wilson, original characters, (background Steve/Maria).
tags: First Meeting, Alternate Universe - Single Parents, Alternate Universe - Human
notes: So I like these two flirting. They seem the type, and they work for me. Plus, the idea of Sam as a single daddy is just too much cute, and I'm pretty sure that Bucky agrees. I kind of 'reused' the character of Pippa from 'And Baby Makes Eight', only Steve is her biodad as well as her father in this universe.
summary:

Sam doesn't hold hands on the first date. Luckily, they're about to have dinner together...

I wrote two fics for smutswap:

My assignment was for geckoholic. It was going to be a series of smutlets, except the first one kind of blew out (hur-hur) and then I ran out of time, as per usual. So instead of starting at vanilla and moving on to further kink, it kind of ended up staying at vanilla.

Presumptuous - MCU: Maria/Steve - First Time, Woman On Top
Maria Hill's opinion of Steve Rogers in bed: "A+ partner, would fuck again."

After I finished my assignment, I went looking for more Maria/Steve prompts, and found a couple of others. This one ended up being for both geckoholic and catandmouse10 because they asked for different prompts but it kind of all ended up in the same fic.

What Happens In Asgard - MCU: Maria/Steve - Established Relationship, Secret Relationship, Wall Sex, Sharing A Bed, Drunk Confessions, Fucked Against A Window, Clothed/Naked.
Asgard isn’t interested in the sex lives of its royalty, and even less in the sex lives of its royalty's visitors...

The second one is technically set after CA:CW but it's a very technical consideration.

My shipswap assignment was, again, MCU: Steve/Maria. (Hey, I'm not complaining. I just wish other people would write them, too.)

Recipient was sbarmarj and I admit, I used something I already had since she hadn't given me any prompts!

Building Blocks - MCU: Steve/Maria
Building a relationship, note by note.

This is also the next installation of Steve/Maria fic-tag that I've been playing with geckoholic (man, you got a lot of Steve/Maria fic out of me this round) whose prompt was Post-It / Sticky Notes from my cottoncandy_bingo 2014 card.

And I picked up a pinch-hit in the first round of defaults for lynndyre:

any port in a storm but only one place to call home - Persuasion: Anne Elliot/Frederick Wentworth
Something in her holds him fast, like the last line connecting a ship to shore.

...and then I saw a prompt by Rina which I ended up gifting ahead of the story reveals because the only fics being posted on the Maria/Steve AO3 feed were those not-fics by the person who's basically tag-trolling for hits and I wanted something decent on there.

Snow Falling On City Blocks - MCU: Steve/Maria
He glances at the woman beside him and wonders. “What do you see?"

Hill glances at him, a startled blink of blue eyes beneath ridiculously long, curling dark lashes. “Cover. Concealment. Cold.” The smile flickers sideways. “And, apparently, alliterative tendencies.”

Finally, about two hours before I went off to see CA:CW, I wrote metafic:

Pinky And The Brain - MCU: Maria & Pepper
"You know, if we’d been in the movie, and the script had been written by a woman who actually likes women, it would have been very different."

Yeah, it's been a busy couple of weeks.

...and with that, I am at 699 works on AO3!

Um. Wow. I was only at 600 in February last year, with No Fate. Where has the time gone? (How the hell did I manage to write 100 fics in a year - some of them rather long!)

Thankfully May is a quiet month (for a given value of 'quiet').

I have To The End Of Love (post-CA:CW fic) on the brain, which I just need to shut up the inner editors and write. It won't be very good, I think, and there'll be holes that I could drive a helicarrier through, but I want it out of my head. OUT OUT DAMNED PLOTBUNNY!

And I have a feeling I'm not going to make the wipbigbang. That's supposed to be finishing a practical acquaintance with bees and unless I'm really crazily inspired in the next couple of weeks (well, the next week) I don't think I'm going to make the snippet deadline...

Title: Paid In Advance
Summary: Maria signed up to work for Stark Industries without ever asking about her salary.
Rating: General
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill & Pepper Potts, (with a little Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson)
Characters: Maria Hill, Pepper Potts, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Steve Rogers
Additional Tags: Post-Movie(s), Missing Scene, Humor, Female Friendship, Conversations, Getting to Know Each Other
Notes: For igrockspock in the rarewomen exchange 2014.

*wonders if it would even be possible to get a ticket to see it on Friday morning*

*checks*

Hm. Cinema is mostly empty at this stage.

*books ticket*

Upside: I won't have to pass over all the reviews. ^_^
Downside: It will probably destroy all my current plotbunnies. o.o

Warning: I may come home from the movie with major FEELS. Which I will probably promptly relieve by posting (behind a cut, natch).

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 )

Oh wow. WOW.

Learning Lilith, Claiming Kali
Biological implications of being a hetero-normative homozygous-X hero – fluff, chocolate, heartache, and blood. Six stories of women of the Avengers movieverse. Betty Ross, Darcy Lewis, Jane Foster, Maria Hill, Natasha Romanoff, Peggy Carter, Pepper Potts and Sif. Plus assorted heterozygous characters of lesser note.

This is AMAZING. Beautifully written, well-thought out, very female-focused, uncomfortable and complicated and poignant and sharp all at once. Natasha and Peggy's sections are particularly moving.

I admit, I had to skim Darcy's section to get to 'the good stuff' which pretty much started with Betty Ross, who I don't even know. And I would have liked a bit more in-depth Maria, but still.