Ipod Challenge 6-10
Drabble Shuffle Challenge
1. Pick your fandom/couple/crossover
2. Turn on your music player and put it on shuffle (random)
3. Write a drabble inspired by the track playing.
4. Write ten drabbles for ten songs.
Author: Merigirl
Fandom: Avengers, Thor
Pairing: Darcy x Steve
Rating: Pg-13
Summary: the drabbles are connected and tell the story of Darcy being accidentally sent back in time by the tesseract and meeting Steve.
Disclaimer: Don't own Steve, Darcy, Bucky, Phil or anyone in the Marvel Movie Universe. I'm just playing about trying to get my writing muse back. This took two days to get done but hey I wrote something.I’d blame fanmixes for my musical taste but really it’s always been eclectic. I played the song through before playing again to start writing. I wanted to get the feel of the song to pull story threads from my head to write down.
6. Oh Death- Diane Izzo
Darcy tried to keep away from Steve in the rare times they occupied the same space. They argued and shouted at each other and Bucky laughed and gave them both a shit eating grin before he ambled away on another mission.
Death came to tea that day and Captain America stumbled back from mission without Bucky. The Cap issued orders, voice rough, face pale and bruised. Darcy followed Captain Rogers into his tent silently. Without a word Darcy began unbuckling Captain America’s suit, tears silently streaming down her face as she worked until only Steve Rogers stood before her shoulders shaking with silent sobs.
Darcy wrapped her arms around Steve and for a moment he didn’t respond didn’t movie and then his arms wrapped around her, nose buried in her hair. “Lu, he’s gone. Bucky... Bucky’s gone.”
“Shhhh. I know.” Darcy whispered turning her head aiming to kiss his cheek but her lips brushed against the corner of his mouth. Blue eyes meet blue and suddenly Steve’s hands were in her hair, his mouth hot on hers, tasting of smoke, coffee and bitter salt tears.
7. Sons & Daughters- The Decemberists
Darcy woke with a start, eyes fluttering in the gloom of the dawn light filtering through the tent. She bit her lip and closed her eyes as the warm body behind her shifted and arm reached around pulling her close. “Steve.” She mouthed almost silently squeezing his arm before slipping out of his warm embrace. She put her dress on quickly, fingers clumsy on the small buttons as she watched Steve sleep. Biting her lip Darcy leaned forward and kissed Steve’s forehead.
“Lu?” Steve murmured long eyelashes fluttering as Darcy scribbled on a piece of paper and placed it in his hand as she left to find the tesseract and go back to her time.
Steve,
’m so sorry. I can’t stay. I have to go back now. I know you don’t understand. There is so much I wish I could tell you about everything. You are the kind of hero everyone should try to be. I couldn’t help but fall for you could I. I will never regret this. I have to go now. It’s my only chance before I end up changing my world forever. I love you. I’m so sorry.
Love,
Lu
8. Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby- Alison Krauss/Emmylou Harris/Gillian Welch
She woke with a start stomach rolling, cheek pressed against concrete, blood dripping sluggishly from the bullet wound in her shoulder.“Darcy!” A voice exclaimed and hands were turning her over and exploring the bullet home as she looked up into the worried faces of Dr. Selvig, Clint Barton and Agent Coulson.
“Ouch stop that!” Darcy swatted at Barton’s hands and let him help her sit up.
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“Miss Lewis, where have you been for the past 24 hours?”
“What? I was gone for months. Wasn’t I?” Darcy frowned shaking her head slightly.
“Can you can explain this?” Coulson held up a classified stamped folder and opened it up to a black and white photograph of Darcy dressed in a military skirt and jacket standing laughing with Captain America and Bucky Barnes.
“Oh.”
“Indeed.”
“I’m secretly a Time Lady?”
9. Star Spangled Man- The Star Spangled Singers (I may have laughed that this popped up but I’m not surprised at all)
“I’m not going to Seattle Bossman.” Darcy was being stubborn but she couldn’t help it.
Coulson just looked at her eyebrow slightly raised, his gaze pointedly dropping to the slight well of her abdomen.“You are too close to Dr. Foster and Dr. Selvig. We need to get you somewhere safe.” Coulson replied calmly holding out a packet of papers.
“Fine. But I still don’t see how being the liaison for Dr. Reed and the flambé boy is safe. It feels more like a punishment to me.” Coulson only smiled blandly and held the door open for her.
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Darcy watched the news in shock and horror. A man in red, white and blue throwing around a round shield as the Chitauri attacked. “What the fuck?” She exclaimed, blanching at the thought of a new Captain America. Wrapping her arms protectively around her belly she gripped her phone tightly in her right hand waiting for her boss to call her back. The call never came.
10. Heavy and Hanging- Patterson Hood
“What do you mean by texting me and telling me Coulson’s alive? Fury told me he died when Loki attempted to be the Brain. Explain this to me now Stark! It’s not fucking funny. ” Darcy accused as she stepped out of the elevator and faced the small gathering of most of the Avengers and scientists.
“Lady Darcy!” Thor boomed and enveloped Darcy in a huge hug. “You are with child this is joyous news. We must celebrate.”
Darcy huffed and wiped away a tear watching as Tony Stark grinned like the Cheshire cat and stepped aside to reveal a very pale Phil Coulson sitting in a wheelchair.
“Bossman?”
“Miss Lewis.” Coulson smiled weakly as Darcy stumbled across the room and hugged her boss.
“So where is this shiny new Captain America you didn’t tell me about Phil?” Darcy asked with a brittle smile.
“Not so shiny actually.”
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11. I Put Your Records On- The Pierces (I know it’s supposed to be ten but I wanted to finish the previous scene and I ran out of song)
“Hey Cap come out and meet Agent’s Pepper!” Tony shouted and Phil tilted his head to the left. Darcy followed his gaze looking up to see Steve Rogers in a perfectly pressed plaid shirt and pleated trousers standing frozen in the doorway.
ldquo;Steve?” Darcy whispered as the colour draining from her face as her knees gave out on her and Clint and Coulson grabbed her before she fell to the floor. “Is it him? Is it really him Coulson?”
“Yes, SHIELD found him in the ice. It’s him.”
“Louise?”
“Yes Steve it’s me.” Darcy’s voice cracked as Steve unfroze and strode across the room arms wrapping around her, fingers tangling in the long strands of her hair. “It’s....” She began but then Steve kissed her and she forgot everything but the smell of him, the taste of him and the tears streaming down both their faces.
ldquo;I thought you were lost. Like everyone else.” Steve whispered against Darcy’s forehead.
“No I used the tessaract to send me back home to my time. Got a nice bullet hole in my shoulder for my troubles.”
“You’re pregnant.”
ldquo;Well I’m reliably informed that that is what happens when you have sex with super soldiers in their tents during a war, and don’t use protection. Captain ‘do as I say not as I do’ America.”
“Lu?”
“Yes Steve.” Darcy bit her lip as she dragged Steve’s hand to her belly and reached up on her tip toes to kiss him again.
“Uh. What’s going on Steven? Agent’s Pepper? Agent? Hello earth to Captain America.”
“long story short Stark? Selvig experimented with the tesseract. It sent me back to 1943 for a few months, fell in love with a hero way out of my league. Got shot by Nazis, I really don’t recommend that, I got back home nearly 6 months ago with a broken heart and well this....” Darcy said motioning to her belly.
“Cap’s not a virgin?” Stark spluttered.
“Hardly.” Darcy snorted and grinned up at Steve as his face slowly turned red.
“My illusions are shattered.”
fin.