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ROUND THREE
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REMINDER: THERE IS A SPOILER POLICY IN PLACE UNTIL 7 MAY.
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Alphabetize pairings. They will be archived that way!Put [RPF] before RPF prompts ( Read more... )
By the final scene, Thor is sobbing loudly (“THEY HAVE SUCH A PROFOUND BOND!”) and clutching both Steve (who seems somewhat emotional himself) and Tony to his chest, so Clint is the only person who notices the quiet sniffling sounds coming from Natasha beside him.
“Oh god, Nat,” he says, as Bruce attempts to placate Thor before he accidentally suffocates Tony against his pecs, “are you crying“Of course not. Shut up,” she tells him, rubbing at her eyes angrily. She's not crying properly, Clint realises as he examines ( ... )
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“WONDERFUL! ...BUT NOT PICKLES WITH ICED CREAM? OR CUBES OF SUGAR?”
“Just mustard right now. Sorry.”
The three of them finish eating in comfortable silence, and Thor disappears again - presumably back to his quarters to continue reading. “I'm going to go see how Bruce is getting on now,” Natasha informs Clint, and heads back up to the lab (taking some fruit with her for Bruce, who frequently forgets that food is important when he's preoccupied with something sciencey).
The mansion seems oddly deserted (Steve is, like Thor, presumably curled up in his room with his book - seriously, are the pages laced with crack or something? - and Tony is apparently in a conference call with Pepper, who is still in Japan co- ( ... )
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He has a quick shower and then, hair still wet, takes the elevator up to Bruce's lab. It's only as he enters the room that it dawns on him that he has no frickin' clue what he's letting himself in for. Up until now, this pregnancy has been a relatively abstract concept - sure, there were those two pink lines, but other than that the only real hard evidence of anything unusual going on in Natasha's body was just a lot of vomit. How will he feel, actually seeing the thing that some random unnamed guy - apparently not a very nice random unnamed guy - did to her ( ... )
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On the screen, among all the grey static, is a black oval shape. And inside the black oval there's a... well, a fuzzy grey blob, honestly. It looks vaguely like a misshapen kidney bean with little nubby appendages. Or possibly a gummy bear.
And right in the centre of the blobby grey gummy bear thing, something is flickering.
“Holy shit,” says Clint, pointing at the flicker on the screen, “is that-”
“Yep,” says Bruce, sounding far too enthusiastic for someone who has apparently done this many times before, “that's the heartbeat.”
Clint just gapes at the screen as Bruce adjusts the image, looking for different angles. He kind of wishes he'd thought to pull up a chair next to the examination table, because now his legs are all wobbly. That thing he can see on the screen? That thing is actually inside Natasha right now. And, okay, so it really doesn't look anything like a person, but it is definitely there and it definitely looks like a something. An alive ( ... )
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He's still trying to process this - any of this - when there's a knock on the door of the lab and, before waiting for an answer, Tony enters.
“Hey, Bruce, why's it so dark in here? I'm free now, anyway, d'you wanna get started on the- Hoooooooooly crap.”
Clint scrambles to check that the paper sheet is still covering Natasha (it is); Natasha makes a noise that may or may not have been something profane in Russian. Bruce remains outwardly calm (thankfully, considering he still has his hand underneath the sheet, presumably holding the toothbrush-like instrument), but he's clearly pretty pissed.
“Tony, what have we discussed about knocking? You still have to wait for an answer. You can't just barge in. This is my lab“It's my tower,” says Tony sulkily. Then he adds, somewhat more sincerely, “Sorry, I had no idea you were doing this now. I'll just, uh...” He turns as if to leave, but then stops. “Is that... Can I... look ( ... )
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... 'so that Tony can stick it on the refrigerator door'.
love you forever, Tony!
hmm, what is opgath?
blonde moment
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Heh, glad you figured it out! Tony ran out of letters. (Mostly because Thor keeps spelling out MORE HAM and such with the rest of them.)
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And I want Thor to come to my house and leave messages on my chilling cupboard. AAAAUGH SO MUCH LOVE FOR THIS.
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I imagine Thor's messages on the chilling cupboard consist largely of things to the effect of "MORE HAM PLEASE" and "SORRY I ATE ALL THE POP TARTS". Perhaps with a side of "GOOD MORNING FRIENDS IT IS A FINE DAY" and "I LOVE HEDWIG".
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Oh, Clint. I want to give you all the hugs! And Natasha to give you all the hugs- shut up, shipper brain!
I can't help thinking though- what will happen when the comments get too skinny? Will you just post the next parts further down rather than as replies?
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Honestly, I very nearly had Steve walking in on the ultrasound in progress purely for his OMGWTFBBQ reaction (plus there's definitely been a lack of Steve thusfar), but I figured he'd never barge into Bruce's lab uninvited. But yes, there will definitely be baffled Steve and Thor reactions.
Clint and Nat really do need ALL THE HUGS, bless them.
Re: comment thread, that is an excellent point (thanks for reminding me!) - I have a massive widescreen monitor so I hadn't properly considered it, but yeah, I definitely don't want to break the page for anyone (apologies if I have already!). I'll start a new sub-thread as reply to part 1 for the next section, indeed.
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