FIC: YOUNG AVENGERS: Tumblr drabbles.
orz I haven't posted anything since November. I've WRITTEN a lot of things, but not posted any of them because they all tend to be the middles of long, epic fics that really deserve to be written.
Title: Best Served by Kate
Fandom: Young Avengers
Characters/Pairings: No pairings featured; Billy Kaplan, Teddy Altman, Kate Bishop, Eli Bradley
Rating: PG
Warnings:: ( skip) Cartoonish/offscreen violence.
Word Count: 200
Summary: John Kessler meets an unstoppable force ie Kate's fist.
Notes Written for a tumblr prompt by usullusa.
Crunch!
The two of them sat in companionable silence for a few minutes, interrupted by Billy's sniffling to try to staunch his bleeding nose, until Eli arrived, dropping his backpack onto the ground with a suspicious clang. They really had to work on the secret identity thing, Teddy thought. Only Billy really tried, and look where that got him.
"Is there a reason Kate's beating the crap out of this dude?" Eli asked. He didn't try to interrupt her, Teddy noted.
"That's Kessler."
"That's Kessler? The douche who ..."
Billy sniffed again and dabbed at his nose. "Yup. That's him."
"Oh." Eli watched Kate kick the guy, who seemed unwilling to just stay down, which Eli knew was the only way to get her to stop. "Well that's okay then, I guess."
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Title: Kittens and Feelings
Fandom: Young Avengers
Characters/Pairings: No pairings featured; Tommy Shepherd, Cassie Lang, Jonas (The Vision)
Rating: G
Word Count: 300
Summary: Tommy never would have gotten caught if it weren't for that meddling kid and her cat allergy.
Notes Written for a tumblr prompt by dorksidefiker.
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Tommy never would have gotten caught if it weren't for that meddling kid and her cat allergy. Cassie started sniffling early on Friday evening, and by Saturday morning there was full-blown facial swelling. Drama queen, Tommy thought, with her allergic reactions and her red nose.
"It's the weirdest thing." Cassie stopped to sneeze again; Tommy thought Vision might burn out his concerned-boyfriend circuit if she kept that up. "I'm only allergic to cats, and I haven't been around any."
"Uh-huh. Maybe it's just dust or some shit," Tommy suggested, feigning disinterest as he flipped through a car magazine and didn't look toward his door. "No cats here."
"No, I don't think so." Cassie looked around again.
"Perhaps a cat managed to enter the clubhouse without our notice?"
Tommy flipped a page a little too hard, tearing it up the middle.
"Maybe..."
In the pause between conversations, a loud noise erupted. That wasn't especially unusual in the clubhouse, but that the noise was a meow was.
"Um-"
"Did that come from your room?" Before Tommy had a chance to answer Cassie, she was already standing up and walking over to his door. When she pulled it open, three mewling kittens stumbled out and stared up at her. "It did! You've been hiding kittens!"
"Those aren't mine! I don't know where they came from!" The cats put a lie to his words, though, when they immediately came over to rub against his leg. Tommy glared at them, but picked one up and put it on his chest anyway. Fluffers had a tendency to get cold if she wandered around too much.
"You realize you're not going to live this one down, right, Mr. I-don't-have-feelings?" Cassie asked with a smirk. The effect was ruined by her puffy nose, and Tommy told her so.
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Title Flirty Kaplan is my Favorite Kaplan
Fandom: Young Avengers
Characters/Pairings: Eli/Billy (AU)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 500
Summary: In which Eli is less than optimistic about the early team's chances of survival, and Billy is distracting.
Notes Written for a tumblr prompt for … tinyfist, who I've just realized I don't know an LJ username for. MY BAD. This was supposed to be porn but I had never written this pairing before and I have a Thing about writing porn my first time out.
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Billy followed the dizzy circle of Eli's path with his eyes, then sighed. Once Eli got worked up, he found it impossible to talk his new friend down again, and while Billy kinda admired that about him - the way that Eli stuck to his convictions, no matter what they were - right now it was just annoying.
"We're all going to die," Eli said, cutting into Billy's thoughts. Billy pulled his legs up and rested his chin on his knees, fully aware that he probably looked stupid curling up like a child in full superhero regalia. "We? Are absolutely not ready. Nathaniel doesn't have a clue, I'm not convinced that Teddy could actually hurt a fly, and you-"
Eli pointed at Billy, who raised an eyebrow and stared right back. Eli wasn't the only one who knew how to stand his ground. "Me what?"
"You. You can't stop being neurotic and flirty long enough to actually figure out what your powers do."
Billy, eyes narrowed, stood and stepped into Eli's space, close enough that his good sense was telling him to back off before he got pounded into the ground. Billy wasn't very good at listening to his good sense. "You like it when I'm flirty, though, don't you? Despite your complete lack of a sense of humor?"
Eli shifted, and Billy's shoulders tensed as he waited for the inevitable brush or shove-off that he knew was coming. He shouldn't have said anything - he was already telling himself that, and running damage-control scenarios before Eli even had a chance to react. When he did react, Billy's mind ground to a halt.
If someone had asked him, yesterday, what Eli Bradley might do if he stepped up his idle teasing into something a little more serious, Billy would have been hard-pressed to make a guess. Whatever he might have said, though, he could never have predicted this: Eli, stepping forward even closer into Billy's space, putting a leg between Billy's and pushing him a few steps back before their lips met.
Billy stood, rooted to the spot, while Eli kissed him. When he didn't respond, Eli pulled away and looked down at him with a mix of confusion and anxiety. The expression looked out of place on him, Billy thought.
"What?" Eli asked, and winced when Billy flinched away from the harsh tone.
"Nothing. I just - is this some kind of joke?" Billy wanted to swallow up the words as soon as they came out of his mouth, but he found that he couldn't take them back out of the air where they hung. Maybe, maybe if he could work a spell fast enough - but no, Eli is already moving. To Billy's surprise, he's moving toward him and not away.
His hand brushes Billy's hair out of his face, and smooths the lines of his forehead. Before he leans in for another kiss, he murmurs, "I thought you said I don't have a sense of humor."
Title: Best Served by Kate
Fandom: Young Avengers
Characters/Pairings: No pairings featured; Billy Kaplan, Teddy Altman, Kate Bishop, Eli Bradley
Rating: PG
Warnings:: ( skip) Cartoonish/offscreen violence.
Word Count: 200
Summary: John Kessler meets an unstoppable force ie Kate's fist.
Notes Written for a tumblr prompt by usullusa.
Crunch!
The two of them sat in companionable silence for a few minutes, interrupted by Billy's sniffling to try to staunch his bleeding nose, until Eli arrived, dropping his backpack onto the ground with a suspicious clang. They really had to work on the secret identity thing, Teddy thought. Only Billy really tried, and look where that got him.
"Is there a reason Kate's beating the crap out of this dude?" Eli asked. He didn't try to interrupt her, Teddy noted.
"That's Kessler."
"That's Kessler? The douche who ..."
Billy sniffed again and dabbed at his nose. "Yup. That's him."
"Oh." Eli watched Kate kick the guy, who seemed unwilling to just stay down, which Eli knew was the only way to get her to stop. "Well that's okay then, I guess."
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Title: Kittens and Feelings
Fandom: Young Avengers
Characters/Pairings: No pairings featured; Tommy Shepherd, Cassie Lang, Jonas (The Vision)
Rating: G
Word Count: 300
Summary: Tommy never would have gotten caught if it weren't for that meddling kid and her cat allergy.
Notes Written for a tumblr prompt by dorksidefiker.
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Tommy never would have gotten caught if it weren't for that meddling kid and her cat allergy. Cassie started sniffling early on Friday evening, and by Saturday morning there was full-blown facial swelling. Drama queen, Tommy thought, with her allergic reactions and her red nose.
"It's the weirdest thing." Cassie stopped to sneeze again; Tommy thought Vision might burn out his concerned-boyfriend circuit if she kept that up. "I'm only allergic to cats, and I haven't been around any."
"Uh-huh. Maybe it's just dust or some shit," Tommy suggested, feigning disinterest as he flipped through a car magazine and didn't look toward his door. "No cats here."
"No, I don't think so." Cassie looked around again.
"Perhaps a cat managed to enter the clubhouse without our notice?"
Tommy flipped a page a little too hard, tearing it up the middle.
"Maybe..."
In the pause between conversations, a loud noise erupted. That wasn't especially unusual in the clubhouse, but that the noise was a meow was.
"Um-"
"Did that come from your room?" Before Tommy had a chance to answer Cassie, she was already standing up and walking over to his door. When she pulled it open, three mewling kittens stumbled out and stared up at her. "It did! You've been hiding kittens!"
"Those aren't mine! I don't know where they came from!" The cats put a lie to his words, though, when they immediately came over to rub against his leg. Tommy glared at them, but picked one up and put it on his chest anyway. Fluffers had a tendency to get cold if she wandered around too much.
"You realize you're not going to live this one down, right, Mr. I-don't-have-feelings?" Cassie asked with a smirk. The effect was ruined by her puffy nose, and Tommy told her so.
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Title Flirty Kaplan is my Favorite Kaplan
Fandom: Young Avengers
Characters/Pairings: Eli/Billy (AU)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 500
Summary: In which Eli is less than optimistic about the early team's chances of survival, and Billy is distracting.
Notes Written for a tumblr prompt for … tinyfist, who I've just realized I don't know an LJ username for. MY BAD. This was supposed to be porn but I had never written this pairing before and I have a Thing about writing porn my first time out.
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Billy followed the dizzy circle of Eli's path with his eyes, then sighed. Once Eli got worked up, he found it impossible to talk his new friend down again, and while Billy kinda admired that about him - the way that Eli stuck to his convictions, no matter what they were - right now it was just annoying.
"We're all going to die," Eli said, cutting into Billy's thoughts. Billy pulled his legs up and rested his chin on his knees, fully aware that he probably looked stupid curling up like a child in full superhero regalia. "We? Are absolutely not ready. Nathaniel doesn't have a clue, I'm not convinced that Teddy could actually hurt a fly, and you-"
Eli pointed at Billy, who raised an eyebrow and stared right back. Eli wasn't the only one who knew how to stand his ground. "Me what?"
"You. You can't stop being neurotic and flirty long enough to actually figure out what your powers do."
Billy, eyes narrowed, stood and stepped into Eli's space, close enough that his good sense was telling him to back off before he got pounded into the ground. Billy wasn't very good at listening to his good sense. "You like it when I'm flirty, though, don't you? Despite your complete lack of a sense of humor?"
Eli shifted, and Billy's shoulders tensed as he waited for the inevitable brush or shove-off that he knew was coming. He shouldn't have said anything - he was already telling himself that, and running damage-control scenarios before Eli even had a chance to react. When he did react, Billy's mind ground to a halt.
If someone had asked him, yesterday, what Eli Bradley might do if he stepped up his idle teasing into something a little more serious, Billy would have been hard-pressed to make a guess. Whatever he might have said, though, he could never have predicted this: Eli, stepping forward even closer into Billy's space, putting a leg between Billy's and pushing him a few steps back before their lips met.
Billy stood, rooted to the spot, while Eli kissed him. When he didn't respond, Eli pulled away and looked down at him with a mix of confusion and anxiety. The expression looked out of place on him, Billy thought.
"What?" Eli asked, and winced when Billy flinched away from the harsh tone.
"Nothing. I just - is this some kind of joke?" Billy wanted to swallow up the words as soon as they came out of his mouth, but he found that he couldn't take them back out of the air where they hung. Maybe, maybe if he could work a spell fast enough - but no, Eli is already moving. To Billy's surprise, he's moving toward him and not away.
His hand brushes Billy's hair out of his face, and smooths the lines of his forehead. Before he leans in for another kiss, he murmurs, "I thought you said I don't have a sense of humor."