Making the Best of It, for duskdog717

[elspethdixon]

TITLE: Making the Best of It
AUTHOR: elspethdixon
WRITTEN FOR: duskdog717
FANDOM/COMIC TITLE: Avengers
CHARACTERS/PAIRING: Hank Pym/Jan Van Dyne (Goliath/the Wasp), Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff (Hawkeye/Black Widow)
CATEGORY: Het
RATING: PG
SUMMARY: The Avengers are critically undermanned, the KGB is after the Black Widow, and Hank Pym still hasn't managed to fix

Comments

[caiusmajor]

This is lovely. I've wanted good Hank/Jan for a long time, and also good Natasha, and here it is! *enjoys!*

[elspethdixon]

*grins* Glad you're enjoying. I think this is the first and only Avengers thing I've written that didn't have either Steve or Tony in it (and no slash!).

Natasha has always been made of awesome, first in Daredevil, and now in Captain America; it's nice to have a female character who's so completely competant at and confident in what she does.

[axolotl_lan]

It really is good to read a story with sweet Jan/Hank interaction without someone whipping out the abuse card >_<

Poor Hank has such a poor view of himself. I love that dinner at the end.

[elspethdixon]

Jan and Hank are one of my favorite Marvel het ships, after Rogue and Gambit. They're so cute together (when they're not being terribly dysfunctional, that is).

Poor Hank has such a poor view of himself.

He sort of swings back and forth between low self-esteem and over-confidence -- and when he's over-confident, he makes mistakes, and that furthers the low self-esteem. It's kind of a vicious cycle.

He's doing much better since some of his issues got straightened out in volume three, though.

[megalotro]

FINALLY. I've been meaning to make time to sit down and read this properly forever!

I absolutely adored it :) So much love for Clint and Natasha :) I loved their dynamic like woah!

Hank's frustration was just so vivid - and his little competitive mental digs at Tony were spot on :)

Lovely!

-Tro