Kin'youbi ✎ Rare Pairs (and Crack Pairs)

[creepy_shetan]

Happy Friday, y'all~! I'm creepy_shetan, and my guest hosting responsibilities are almost finished. I've enjoyed this week and I hope you have, too. =^.^= Let's continue to share intriguing prompts and fantastic fills, shall we?

Today's theme: rare pairs. It's time to share your less-popular-in-fandom-yet-no-less-loved-by-you pairing ideas and see if you can

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Fill (2/2)

[salmon_pink]

May looks back at her with that carefully blank expression, but Darcy’s not going to be put off. She takes a deep breath, balls her hands into fists, and goes for it.

“Do you want to go to dinner with me?”

There, that wasn’t so bad.

Except May isn’t reacting. At all. But Darcy didn’t spend all that time rehearsing this for nothing, so she barrels on.

“I know you probably think it’s a bad idea, because you’re SHIELD and that makes it dangerous for anyone to get close to you and blah blah blah. But remember that part where my roommates are an acclaimed astrophysicist known for working with the Avengers and, oh yeah, an actual Avenger!? I’d say that means I’m already well aware of the risks, so don’t even try that with me.”

She stops, breathes in again.

May’s still not reacting.

“So you can’t use that as an excuse not to date me. But, uh, if you don’t want to? Date me, that is. I get that, and I won’t be upset or anything. Just saying. Because I realise I got a little confrontational there, sort of, and this isn’t exactly going as well as it did in front of my bathroom mirror.”

May just watches her.

“Okay,” Darcy sighs, managing a smile. “Good talk.”

She’s almost turned away when May says, “I’ll pick you up at eight.”

Darcy doesn’t gape at her. At least, she doesn’t gape too much. “Eight?”

“You like Italian?” May asks, her voice even.

“Everyone likes Italian,” Darcy points out. But she’s already backing away, because she doesn’t want to push this, doesn’t want to push her luck. May just agreed to go on a date. With her. Darcy’s pretty sure if she so much as blinks wrong right now, the universe will find a way to take this away from her, so she’s not going to tempt fate. “Eight o’clock?”

“Eight o’clock,” May confirms, all business, and Darcy spins on her heel and starts to quickly walk away, because she’s only got five hours to freak out at Jane over the phone and figure out what the hell to wear.

One thing Darcy does like about SHIELD, besides May, is that they’re big on keeping up appearances. That means they keep their stupidly big SUVs nice and clean, the black paint and dark windows all shiny with not a single fingerprint on them.

Which means Darcy gets a clear view of May in the reflection on the car’s window, just in time to see May’s small but sweet little smile.

RE: Fill (2/2)

[nagi_schwarz]

Totally not my fandom or ship, but so cute! The earnestness of Darcy's crush and how Melinda lets her be all nervous and freak out and then saying yes was super adorable. Way to work the tension. :)

Re: Fill (2/2)

[salmon_pink]

Thank you so much! The idea of combining Darcy's 'say whatever jumps into your head' personality with Melinda's epic pokerface was so fun for me to resist! :D

Re: Fill (2/2)

[megan_moonlight]

That was so good! I love how you wrote Darcy talking at to May, how she freaked out and May smiling in the end!

Thank you so much for writing this :D

Re: Fill (2/2)

[salmon_pink]

You're massively welcome - I don't think this ship has ever occured to me before, but I saw the prompt and knew I had to give it a try. ^___^

Re: Fill (2/2)

[megan_moonlight]

I thought of this ship right before posting the prompt, actually, so I'm not sure if anyone ever though of it before - I never really checked *lol*
But I got curious, and now that I've read your fic I'm sure I definitely ship it ;)