[fic] John Doe

[frea_o]

Title: John Doe
Prompt: Anxiety
Fandom: Avengers, Chicago Fire
Pairings: Gen
Warnings: Violence
Word Count: 2,613 words
Summary: A battle in midtown Chicago goes horribly awry for one of the Avengers.
Author’s Notes: Thanks to crazy4orcas for the prompt! This says it's a crossover between Chicago Fire and the Avengers, but you don't need any knowledge of the

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[hufflepuffsneak]

"You ever miss the days of garden variety terrorists?"

Natasha looked away from the targeting computer only long enough to give him the side-eye.

"Nah," he said, "me neither."

Perfection!

I haven't seen Chicago Fire, but I really enjoyed that!

[frea_o]

Haha, thank you! This came about because my sister and I noticed that Leslie Shay looked and acted a lot like Natasha Romanoff. Up to and including being the one to keep everybody's crap together. It was too perfect to resist. :)

[shenshen77]

This was awesome! And I think I might have to watch Chicago Fire one of these days... God, I miss emergency room ;)

[frea_o]

You know, I recommend it. I didn't think I was going to like it because it seemed really generic, but it ended up being fantastic writing and pretty awesome characters, Boring White Guy Protagonists aside. :) And thanks!

[shenshen77]

You're welcome! I definitely will give it a try, I miss seeing Chicago on tv ;) And I usually can overlook those BWGP if need be ;)

[frea_o]

Well, one of the BWGPs is Chase from House, so you know he's a great actor. :) And the other one is very pretty.

[crazy4orcas]

Great job with the prompt -- and it was really your idea, I'm just the enabler (encourager?)!

I liked the interaction between Natasha, Shay and Dawson. I got a real sense of Shay and Dawson, and I haven't seen Chicago Fire.

Natasha immediately straightened her head.

"Oh, don't do that, it's adorable.

Only Clint could get away with calling anything about Natasha "adorable"!

[frea_o]

Haha, you are an enabler. And it's all your fault. I decided not to go with injured Natasha because I wanted her to have to deal with the anxiety. I like the push-and-pull of her emotions, what she'll acknowledge and what she won't, and I like that the others in the group immediately recognized that she wanted to be the one at the hospital for Bruce. I just really like the teamwork dynamic.

Dawson's actually a lot more sympathetic than she is in this scene, usually. She and Shay are my favorite characters on the show; I figured that she's perturbed about the fact that Bruce began healing and if he was super-powered, she feels Natasha (who is obviously super-powered herself, or seems to be) should have told her as much. I imagine that if they were to run into Dawson and Shay in the parking lot, Clint would invite them both out for drinks, and Clint and Shay could bond over hitting on the bartender, and Natasha and Dawson would hit it off because Dawson reminds her a little of Maria Hill. :)

[crazy4orcas]

I liked the teamwork dynamic too, that they're obviously more comfortable working together and able to read each other better.

YES! to Natasha and acknowleging her emotions!

And I got the feeling that Clint was at the hospital checking on Natasha as much as he was there to check on Bruce. :)

Oh -- and I liked the surprise of something out there that could take the Hulk down.