Better lock it in your pocket, taking this one to the grave.

[lithiumlaughter]

TITLE: Ubiystvo/Krov'
FANDOM: Avengers 919
CHARACTERS: Colleen "Hawkeye" Barton, Nikolai "Atrax" Romanoff
RATING: Teen [Language, past violence, descriptions of what is potentially PTSD]
SUMMARY: Secrets can be currency. Money can bleed.
AUTHOR’S NOTES: 'Ubiystvo' (убийство) is Russian for blood. It can also be used as a noun for 'assassination' or

Comments

[scribble_myname]

Whoa, oh whoa. You're way too good at yanking my heart out. I knew I'd want to read this piece before I finalized mine. Wow, girl, blow me away.

:reboots brain: :reconstituting from fangirl mush:

It's like they're eyes wide open and yet, keep their eyes shut. They can only hold so much pain before it gets shunted off to one side where they feel it, share it, hold it in their hands, but don't look, don't touch. It's standing back to back and never stop fighting. At least they don't have to look over their shoulder anymore.

Something about this just gets me. It's brutal but beautiful and love the idea of how he clings to reasons and that you covered the hearing aids. I had wondered how to work those in, and this is all just... gah. Beautiful.

[lithiumlaughter]

Aw, hun

[scribble_myname]

I aspire to do as much justice to them as you have. I'm still in shallow waters with canon and slowly building it up, but I've been trying not to dive in as deep as I did to Rogue and Gambit. Yeah, well. Trying is as trying does, huh?

I'm 710 words in and not sure I like it, but it's coming.

[scribble_myname]

And yeah, just gotta say this. I can't compliment enough the way you lay it all out there raw and yet sidestep it yourself. Brutal is how it feels when I read it. And that military backstory just slams me in the gut.

And Niko. That's where I stalled because you write him so amazing and then there's these incredible amazing fics on AO3 I've read about Black Widow and they feel right, but I'm looking at it and realizing how much his head isn't quite on straight and that I'm not sure I'm ready to skate in his perspective in just the areas I'm comfortable.

I am grateful and awed when you call me a writer you admire, but I take a lot of your work as my own standard to work toward. Our writing style fits: we both tend toward understatement, poetry, and a whole boatload full of angst and you do it so well.

So. Just needed to get that off my chest.

[lithiumlaughter]

What exactly can I say to this?

Honestly, nothing.

Thank you. Just...thank you.