Better lock it in your pocket, taking this one to the grave.

[lithiumlaughter]

TITLE: Ubiystvo/Krov'
FANDOM: Avengers 919
CHARACTERS: Colleen "Hawkeye" Barton, Nikolai "Atrax" Romanoff
RATING: Teen [Language, past violence, descriptions of what is potentially PTSD]
SUMMARY: Secrets can be currency. Money can bleed.
AUTHOR’S NOTES: 'Ubiystvo' (убийство) is Russian for blood. It can also be used as a noun for 'assassination' or

Comments

[scribble_myname]

Whoa, oh whoa. You're way too good at yanking my heart out. I knew I'd want to read this piece before I finalized mine. Wow, girl, blow me away.

:reboots brain: :reconstituting from fangirl mush:

It's like they're eyes wide open and yet, keep their eyes shut. They can only hold so much pain before it gets shunted off to one side where they feel it, share it, hold it in their hands, but don't look, don't touch. It's standing back to back and never stop fighting. At least they don't have to look over their shoulder anymore.

Something about this just gets me. It's brutal but beautiful and love the idea of how he clings to reasons and that you covered the hearing aids. I had wondered how to work those in, and this is all just... gah. Beautiful.

[lithiumlaughter]

Aw, hun

[scribble_myname]

I aspire to do as much justice to them as you have. I'm still in shallow waters with canon and slowly building it up, but I've been trying not to dive in as deep as I did to Rogue and Gambit. Yeah, well. Trying is as trying does, huh?

I'm 710 words in and not sure I like it, but it's coming.

[scribble_myname]

And yeah, just gotta say this. I can't compliment enough the way you lay it all out there raw and yet sidestep it yourself. Brutal is how it feels when I read it. And that military backstory just slams me in the gut.

And Niko. That's where I stalled because you write him so amazing and then there's these incredible amazing fics on AO3 I've read about Black Widow and they feel right, but I'm looking at it and realizing how much his head isn't quite on straight and that I'm not sure I'm ready to skate in his perspective in just the areas I'm comfortable.

I am grateful and awed when you call me a writer you admire, but I take a lot of your work as my own standard to work toward. Our writing style fits: we both tend toward understatement, poetry, and a whole boatload full of angst and you do it so well.

So. Just needed to get that off my chest.

[vikingprincess]

I like this one best of all three thus far - and I apologize for not saying something sooner!

(We've been repainting the kitchen. And have now discovered that the ceiling needs re-repainting. And need to get baseboards. And decided to add crown molding. Ordeal, man. ORDEAL.)

[lithiumlaughter]

A) *toes ground* Thank you! I'm just pleased/happy you gave these a chance!

B) Sweet baby pandas, that IS an ordeal. Sounds like money, time, and madness. Am I close to the mark?

[vikingprincess]

a) I will ALWAYS give your writing a concentrated read, whether I have the intelligence to comment or not.

b) My knees hurt and are bruised (hush! from kneeling on floor and/or counters to do the cutting!). But the walls and baseboards are lovely! I shall (among other things) put the kitchen back together today. We'll get the ceiling and crown molding later. After all, we did without baseboards for QUITE a long time -since the LAST time we painted the kitchen, in fact. Sometimes we're slow at completing projects....

[lithiumlaughter]

a) What the hell is it with all my flist people being so ridiculously nice to me? You guys are all fantastic. And you! You are being far too kind here and it's making me all gurgle-y and happy.

b) You know, I wasn't even thinking anything dirty about your knees, and then you hushed me, and I laughed out loud.
Nothing wrong with being slow at projects. It sounds like you're on top of stuff anyhow. I'm happy for you and all the crazy-huge stuff you're taking on that appears to be working out despite the madness. This is also one of the reasons I'm happy I rent -- my landlords take care of all that sort of thing. :)