sleep like the deadrating: g ( Read more... )

call and response
rating: pg
characters: Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff
warnings: none
summary: "Stay with me," the woman he has brought in asks, and Clint has only one answer he can give. (The evolution of Strike Team Delta, in three questions.)

author's note: Day 6 of 12DoW clean out.

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where your soul meets mine
rating: pg
characters: Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff
warnings: injuries
summary: Natalia Romanova has never met Clint Barton. He has never met her. But when she wakes up in SHIELD's training gym, and he in the Red Room's facilities, they learn what that kind of life looks like, sight unseen.

author's note: For spyforaday, who in ( Read more... )

dramatic flair
rating: pg-13 for language
characters: Clint Barton, Melinda May
warnings: none
summary: It's no surprise that the mission didn't go to plan when the agents involved were a showboating archer with something to prove and a silent one-woman army. That doesn't mean they can't find common ground to stand on, though.

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with gratitude
rating: g
characters: Clint Barton/Laura Barton/Natasha Romanoff
warnings: none
summary: You've got to keep your energy up when you're healing - and when you're taking care of the Avenger who seems to be in a constant state of injury. Or: Clint attempts to make breakfast for the two women in his life.

author's note: For crazy4orcas, who ( Read more... )

three beats
rating: g
characters: Laura Barton/Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff
warnings: none
summary: It's an honest answer for a simple question. At the end of the day, you love who you love.

author's note: For edgarblackthecyborg, who prompted, "Dancing to the rhythms of the heart. =)" This is likely not what was intended, but it stuck.

( “The heart wants what the heart wants,” Laura says with a shrug, her elbows resting on the flour-dusted counter and traces of peach filling smeared on her rolled sleeves. )

hand in hand
rating: pg
characters: Wanda Maximoff, Clint Barton
warnings: possession/mind control and its emotional effects

summary: She reached out for her brother. Something terrible reached back.

Sometimes family isn't what you're born with or what you lose; it's what you choose.

( It begins, as terrible things almost always do, with darkness. )

the growing season
rating: pg
characters: Laura Barton/Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff, Cooper Barton, Lucky
warnings: none
summary: Three summers Natasha spends at the farmhouse and two she spends at home.

author's note: Thanks to inkvoices, whose 'Natasha & farming' prompt in the 2015 be_compromised promptathon ended up being the inspiration for, and only ( Read more... )

strike team delta & co.rating: pg ( Read more... )

Title: take the sky from me
A Gift For: inkvoices
Rating: pg-13
Warnings: past character deaths, [minor spoilers]
limb amputation

Prompt used: Apocalyptic AU.
Summary: The end came as an announcement, a promise, a future of burning worlds and expanding stars. The end came and there wasn't enough room to save all of them, weren't enough ships to bring everyone beyond the ( Read more... )