Fic: Trade in Being Your Spine [Avengers] Clint/Darcy (rated Mature)

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TITLE: Trade in Being Your Spine
FANDOM: Avengers (movieverse)
CHARACTERS: Clint Barton/Darcy Lewis, Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov if you so desire.
RATING: Mature (Sex & strong language; often at the same time. Le gasp.)
SUMMARY: Darcy buries her nose in the notch between Clint's collarbones and reflects on the fantastic seven-month sequel of their

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SAM IS SAM GUTHRIE YOU NEVER MENTIONED THIS I WAS NOT PREPARED AND DARCY TOTALLY DOESN'T REALIZE WHAT SHE'S GETTING IN TO WITH XAVIER'S DPES SHE AND YUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

Also. Alsoalsoalso THESE TWO.

The dick-measuring contest with Sam and Clint and OH SWEET MURPHY of COURSE he pulls out an arrow and does the whole passive aggressive manly-man stuff. Poor Sam.

"...and sometimes I need that to... it's like... shit, if I have to quote Ryan Fucking Gosling, we really will end this."
The fact that Clint knows he's on the verge of quoting Ryan Gosling amuses me far more than is healthy. And I love him for it.

Use of sex to induce Clint's realization that he's a decent dude? At least until he starts looking at the price of bus tickets to Fuckupistan? ILU DARCY.

I LOVE YOU AND DARCY'S VOICE AND HOW SHE IS GENERALLY RADCAKES AND CALLS HIM ON HIS SHIT AND THEY FIGHT AND THEY HAVE SEX AND IT IS SO. DAMN. WONDERFUL. Mainly because of Clint's convoy of issues and his inability to deal with them, and Darcy's insistence on poking boxes because dude, packing stuff away like that's not healthy. I love them. I love you.

"I'm the fucking love of your life, Clint Barton."
And how he relaxes right after this, and how he still has CONVOYS OF ISSUES and I HAVE SO MANY FEELS RIGHT NOW.

"Do you realise every serious relationship you've had involves a woman with a man's name? Did you want to share something with the class, hotpants? Brokeback Iowa, maybe? Illicit Kevlar on Kevlar action at the Stark's hot tub of chlamydia? Are there vids?"
Collapsed dead laughing at this. I'm not even kidding you.
(Clearly though, they're going to need to have a conversation about Jessica.)

BEST PART THOUGH?
Tumblr polls. Oh. My. GOD. Avenger tumblr polls. I lost it. I totally just lost it right there and then and I couldn't even tell you why. However, the masses have spoken and who are we to disagree?

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NGL, I was giggling to myself when I wrote "Dilated Eyes" & dropped Sam in there. Granted, I didn't think it would spawn another fic but HEEEEEEE! Darcy organizing the X-Folks. You know they'd Get Shit Done now. She has DATABASES of DOOOOOOOOOM.

Clint is confident enough in his sexuality to watch Ryan Gosling movies where Ryan Gosling is a romantic lead. He even enjoys some of them Lars & The Real Girl is one of his faves (although The Notebook strikes a chord he didn't even know he had & he'll never watch it again but if anyone asks, it's because it's too damn sappy).

CLINT HAS A CARGO SHIP OF ISSUUUUUUUUUUUUES! But one can argue Darcy has some of her own, namely the fact that her first instinct is to bolt the minute something might go pear-shaped maybe if you squint & also drink 151. Darcy kind-of-sort-of admitting that she's crazy enough about Clint to stay & make it work, & also acknowledge that she trusts Clint to make it work with her is pretty major. So, y'know, mutual calling-out of shit is mutual? Also, LAST CALL FOR FUCKUPISTAN AAAAAAAAAALL ABOOOOOOOOOOOOOARD.

Funny enough, Thor's the one who spams the other Avengers about Tumblr polls. He finds them most amusing.

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I honestly did not call it in "Dilated Eyes", actually. This was a pleasant surprise, mainly because I have such a soft little spot for Sam. But really, every single person with an X should be trembling in fear. They are about to meet the only person who loves databases as much as or more than Scott. FEEEEEEEEEEEEAR.

Oh Clint. Never change.

Fair enough in terms of Darcy. She's pretty intense, but in short, violent kind of bursts of both anger, fear, tenderness, whatever emotion. You stated it -- she really needs a filter.
Clint is intense too, but his issues are more a long, slow burn type thing.

That bus must be seriously crowded. And the amount of baggage that would have to be stored in it would be unreal. And the population of Fuckupistan in general has to be pretty high to start.

I KNEW IT. Thor, that brilliant bastard.
The question is, was it Darcy or Jane who introduced him to tumblr? Because I'm thinking Darcy, because she'd find that stuff funny. She is, in my head, the one who introduced Steve to facebook and thereby scared him for forever.
Of course, I would put nothing past Jane. She's the one who's running the book on Coulson after all...

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Oh God, Scott & Darcy would get along like FIRE. Like ALL THE FIRE. I'm already trembling in fear.

Darcy's flash-bang intensity is what attracts Clint, I think. He controls himself so much & is surrounded by a lot of people who do the same that Darcy's frankness (I think that's the word I'm looking for) is almost a relief? Or a tall glass of cool water? Similarly, Clint's banked fire is fascinating to Darcy. It's not so much his control as it is the knowledge that he has ALL THE FEELS but he keeps it close to the chest. Darcy doesn't know how to do this & feels very privileged when Clint loses control for(?) her.

The populaiton of Fuckupistan is in constant flux. Some people only visit. Some can never leave Tony Stark Remy Lebeau Emma Frost. *face-melting guitar solo*

I'm thinking Darcy, too. She's cruel like that. Jane just feeds the addiction.