FIC: Ink & Wash (for noblealice) - NC-17

[cybermathwitch]

Title: Ink & Wash
Author: bob5fic
A Gift For: noblealice
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Language; violence; sexual themes
Pairings: Clint/Natasha
Summary/Prompt Used: What is our story now? In the aftermath of a mission, Natasha decides on a different route.
Author’s Notes: I was inspired by a request to have Natasha in stockings and suspenders (and for them to remain on

Comments

[inkvoices]

Gorgeous, gorgeous writing style and turns of phrase, all with bit to it, all with sharp edges. Guh. Of course now I know that it's you it loses a bit of that surprise factor, because of course the writing in this is gorgeous ;D

I LOVE that Clint asks, and that everything they say seems so...not blunt so much, straightforward? Easy? And yet there's so much behind what they're saying, that whilst Natasha thinks Clint will give it no more meaning that the meaning it deserves there's the whole but what is the meaning and what is the story going on. It feels like they're on the edge of something else, balanced ready to topple, and how did you even write that in there?!

We are made of paper and surrounded by fire. made me think of a song by Dessa, and the continuing reference to 'a story' and that story happening now and the feel of the relationship between them made me think of it even more: "If you're asking I can't say no/just one more chapter, our book won't close/I know it's madness to play these odds/like giving matches to paper dolls". It's like the fragility of people and how they're connected, like the thin links between paper dolls, and made out of the paper of stories, from ideas and the emphereal, and then along comes the fire, the burning days... The disposability of Natasha's mark and then her clothes adds to this, the idea of fragility and casting off or casting aside, and then “You got a change of clothes?”/“Hope so,” she says. and she puts his clothes on, You wear my things, and is this the answer??? To the fragiity of self and connections and life, to put on someone else's clothes, to see what someone else tastes like, to connect more? Just asdbaskfvdjhfal thinky thoughts <3