MCU catchup (6 stories)
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Civil War [also: ao3 | tumblr ]
1200 words | PG | Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanova, Wanda Maximoff
“You know they’re going to come after you,” Natasha said, eyes on the waves in the distance.
“They’re going to try,” Steve agreed. If she wasn’t going to use ‘we’ when they both knew she meant 'we,’ then he would go along with it. He hadn’t understood Natasha’s decision to side with Tony on the Registration Act, although she’d given him an explanation. Something to do with sunlight being the best disinfectant and not wanting to go back to the shadows. He wasn’t sure she believed it, he wasn’t sure he believed it, but that’s what she’d given him and so that’s what he’d go by.
Fulcrum [also at: ao3 | tumblr ]
1800 words | PG-ish | Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, Howling Commandos
Bucky really wishes that Steve understood all of the ways that this wasn't a back alley in Brooklyn, that this was war, and that Steve had a half-dozen men who would follow him to hell but he could try a little harder to keep those excursions to a minimum.
Cloud Cover [also at ao3 | tumblr ]
1100 words | PG-ish | Peggy Carter, Angie Martinelli (Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes)
It wasn't until after the war that Peggy got one of Steve's longest-running jokes.
Vise [also at ao3]
3200 words | PG-ish | Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Sam Wilson, Scott Lang
[The post-credits scene from Ant-Man]"It's a trap," Bucky says hoarsely. Steve gave him what water he had on him, but it was half a bottle. Bucky's been here for a couple of days; he smells less like piss and sweat and more like ammonia and when Steve calls Sam, he tells him to bring his PJ kit and whatever is needed for treating dehydration. "It's a trap."
"I know that, Buck," Steve tells him as he tries to pull the contraption apart with his bare hands. The factory's clearly been raided for everything from tools to copper wire and there's nothing to be used to help, no pry-bar or power tools to hand, and the angle is crap. "Not important right now."
Asunder [also at ao3]
3600 words | PG-ish | Clint Barton, Natasha Romanova, Laura Barton (Steve Rogers, Tony Stark)
Natasha chooses her side in the Civil War as pragmatically as ever, with her eyes on the long game. Clint has no such luxury because the stakes are too high for there to be any choice at all.
Lacuna [also at ao3 | tumblr]
1300 words | PG-ish | Wanda Maximoff, Steve Rogers
[Post-AoU tag] The five stages of grief are meaningless in the moment.
(Mods: there are no character tags for Wanda Maximoff or Scott Lang.)
Civil War [also: ao3 | tumblr ]
1200 words | PG | Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanova, Wanda Maximoff
“You know they’re going to come after you,” Natasha said, eyes on the waves in the distance.
“They’re going to try,” Steve agreed. If she wasn’t going to use ‘we’ when they both knew she meant 'we,’ then he would go along with it. He hadn’t understood Natasha’s decision to side with Tony on the Registration Act, although she’d given him an explanation. Something to do with sunlight being the best disinfectant and not wanting to go back to the shadows. He wasn’t sure she believed it, he wasn’t sure he believed it, but that’s what she’d given him and so that’s what he’d go by.
Fulcrum [also at: ao3 | tumblr ]
1800 words | PG-ish | Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, Howling Commandos
Bucky really wishes that Steve understood all of the ways that this wasn't a back alley in Brooklyn, that this was war, and that Steve had a half-dozen men who would follow him to hell but he could try a little harder to keep those excursions to a minimum.
Cloud Cover [also at ao3 | tumblr ]
1100 words | PG-ish | Peggy Carter, Angie Martinelli (Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes)
It wasn't until after the war that Peggy got one of Steve's longest-running jokes.
Vise [also at ao3]
3200 words | PG-ish | Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Sam Wilson, Scott Lang
[The post-credits scene from Ant-Man]"It's a trap," Bucky says hoarsely. Steve gave him what water he had on him, but it was half a bottle. Bucky's been here for a couple of days; he smells less like piss and sweat and more like ammonia and when Steve calls Sam, he tells him to bring his PJ kit and whatever is needed for treating dehydration. "It's a trap."
"I know that, Buck," Steve tells him as he tries to pull the contraption apart with his bare hands. The factory's clearly been raided for everything from tools to copper wire and there's nothing to be used to help, no pry-bar or power tools to hand, and the angle is crap. "Not important right now."
Asunder [also at ao3]
3600 words | PG-ish | Clint Barton, Natasha Romanova, Laura Barton (Steve Rogers, Tony Stark)
Natasha chooses her side in the Civil War as pragmatically as ever, with her eyes on the long game. Clint has no such luxury because the stakes are too high for there to be any choice at all.
Lacuna [also at ao3 | tumblr]
1300 words | PG-ish | Wanda Maximoff, Steve Rogers
[Post-AoU tag] The five stages of grief are meaningless in the moment.
(Mods: there are no character tags for Wanda Maximoff or Scott Lang.)