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MULTIFANDOM AU DRABBLE MEME

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♰ bandom
001. aliens made them do it! | star trek au, gabe/mikey, rated pg

♰ dc universe ( comics, films, etc )
001. robin hood was far too good | victorian gotham, jason todd as the artful dodger, tim drake & jason todd, rated g
002. untitled | canon au, in a city of batmen, an ordinary man is the hero they deserve (but can't have right now.), gen, rated g

♰ elementary
001. the political unconscious | grad school, holmes/watson, rated pg
002. invitation | soulbonded psychic wolves, holmes/watson, rated pg

♰ generation kill
001. untitled | college, one shot too many, brad/walt, rated pg
002. will it ever be enough | canon au, platoon member dies; brad/nate find solace in one another, brad/nate, rated r

♰ harry potter
001. how strange it is to be anything at all | canon au, neville longbottom: the boy who lived, gen, rated pg
002. untitled | canon au, harry is already a bitter child by the time he goes to school and never trusts dumbledore gen, rated pg
003. the long road | canon au, all was not well and the leader of the next group of troublemakers... is Hermione, gen, rated pg
004. all the stories you've told (will live on) | canon au, all was not well and the leader of the next group of troublemakers... is Hermione, albus potter, rated g
005. and she shall reign... | canon au, all was not well and the leader of the next group of troublemakers... is Hermione, gen, rated pg-13

♰ hunger games, the
001. untitled | canon au, foxface wins the hunger games, foxface, rated pg
002. untitled | canon au, foxface wins the hunger games, foxface, rated pg-13 trigger warning for non-graphic mentions of rape

♰ fullmetal alchemist
001. quest for the philosopher's stone | dungeons & dragons or other stock fantasy, roy is a squishy wizard. riza is the ranger or paladin who protects him. they go dungeon crawling., roy/riza, rated g

♰ the legend of zelda
001. another world | canon au, zelda is the hero who saves the world, gen, rated g
002. the truth of the legend | canon au, zelda is the hero who saves the world, gen, rated pg-13 contains major character death

♰ marvel ( comics, films, etc )
001. ceasefire ( mcu ) | role reversal, she's the ex-military field operative, he's the charming spy, clint/natasha, rated pg

♰ once upon a time
001. will always find | (noir) detective, snow/red, rated pg
002. still searching | canon au, When Charming's memories come back after waking up from his coma, they're his FTL memories, not the curse-implanted set about Storybrooke, charming/snow, rated pg
003. heart's a mess | canon au, graham doesn't die, graham/emma, rated pg
004. something to start on | canon au, that time red didn't eat her boyfriend, peer/red riding hood, granny, rated pg

♰ pretty little liars
001. singing in the streets | canon au, the show's title is puella magi sayaka magica, sayaka miki, rated pg

♰ puella magi madoka magica
001. untitled | "fame", any femslash, ensemble, rated pg-13

♰ revolutionary girl utena
001. artistic licence | punk rock, Just stay here and be with me/For real/Stay in yr body tonight, anthy/utena, rated pg-13
002. say the word (and i might have to stay) | punk rock, Just stay here and be with me/For real/Stay in yr body tonight, anthy/utena, rated pg-13

♰ star trek reboot
001. at his fingertips | canon au, uhura goes after kirk in the academy instead of spock, kirk/uhura, spock, rated g

♰ stargate
001. untitled | star trek au, she's always wanted her own ship, sam, rated g

♰ teen wolf
001. untited | bdsm, dom!danny and sub!jackson, danny/jackson, rated r

♰ TSUBASA: RESERvoir CHRoNiCLE
001. falling in love at a coffee shop | coffee shop, fai/kurogane, rated g
002. in a better world | canon au, SPOILER WARNING: HIGHLIGHT TO READ Valeria AU: Fay isn't born a twin, and grows up to be the king of Valeria end of spoiler, gen, rated g

♰ crossovers
001. untitled | crossover ( final fantasty vii, harvest moon, heavy rain, pokemon, street fighter ), various game characters form a badass survival team, various game characters, rated pg

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"Wow," says the American, and spins the pub chair around in his hands so it's facing towards him and sits down straddling it. "That's not pretty, is it?"

He's got a bland expression of dismay on his square, lantern-jawed face, like many a blase civilian onlooker to someone else's disaster. His eyes are on the television, where they're showing footage from the latest half-foiled subway bombing. Romanova's are too, casually, but her attention is not. Romanova is the finest thing that ever happened to the Soviet Army, and that's without the serum. Romanova can pick the wings off a monarch butterfly from three hundred metres on a gusty day. Romanova can spot the silhouette of a camouflaged man from five hundred. Romanova knows a spy when she sees one.

She's out of uniform, so she favors the man with an offhand, distracted smile. She's not worried about him, exactly. He doesn't pose her a threat. Virtually nothing does on its own, without the element of surprise. It's any American friends he might have that concern her, so she gives the pub an obligatory once-over for any tensed figures who might be watching her or falling into position; the American's just a spy, and spies are monarch butterflies themselves, numerous and short-lived and indistinguishable. It's not the spy. It's what he signifies: someone's watching her here.

He doesn't look like a spy, she thinks with distant approval. He's burly and bluff, like a docker. At least someone wasn't an idiot. He's good, too: an easy smile when he looks at her, like any unassumingly confident man with a casual interest in a woman at a pub. It's sort of appealing, she admits. Pity it's not real.

"I'm afraid I have to be going," she says and starts to push her chair out, braced for any sudden moves from him. "It's getting late. Good to meet you, Mr.--"

She waits for a fake name to be provided. It is, dutifully: "Barton," says the American spy with another one of those down-home smiles. "It's Barton. So early?"

"Rising early tomorrow," says Romanova with the thinnest smile and shrugs her loose hair back over her shoulders. He hasn't gone for a weapon and no one else in the pub has reacted. Maybe he's just reconnaissance. Either way, she's going to be on her way out.

He looks faintly disappointed, but so would the man he's playing. She's almost wondering if it's coincidence when she's about to turn to go, but when she kneels to scoop up her bag he says under his breath, "Commander Romanova. I'd like to talk."

"Post me a letter, Agent Barton," comes her short response. She fixes him with a look when she straightens up that she hopes indicates what Natalia Romanova the Winter Soldier thinks of his nerve.

He meets it steadily. All that easy longshore blokeishness is gone from his shoulders, while she's had her eyes down he's flowed into a crisp, Langley pin-straight posture: oh, he is good. On and off like a light, like a machine with a dial. She knows machinery. She's a machine too. She has just one setting. She needs just one setting.

Barton smiles at her again, a different smile this time. It's a little tired around the edges. Probably not the subway bombing. "I mean it," he said. "I just want to talk to you. I know who you are. I have a lot of admiration."

"I'm honored," Romanova says with minimal dryness. She turns to go.

"I'm not with the Pentagon," murmurs Barton, just loud enough for her to hear.

She frowns, but there's nothing stopping him from telling a blatant lie to get her attention, of course. Spies do that sort of thing all the time, appealing to people's sense of mystery to hide what's always a very ugly little prosaic truth. It's all the Pentagon, sooner or later, or it's the Secret Intelligence Service or sometimes the KGB, and what does it matter? If Barton wasn't trouble for her in one way or another he'd have been handed down with a set of orders.

Romanova snorts and looks back at him. What she sees unnerves her a little. Romanova is the finest thing that ever happened to the Soviet Army. She knows genuine concern when she sees it.

She shrugs her bag over her shoulder. "I'm sorry, Mr. Barton," she says a little louder, at a normal conversational volume, like she's turning down a casual proposition in a pub. "I've got someone waiting for me."

She does. When she turns again, she can feel his steady eyes on her back.

Edited 2013-01-05 07:29 (UTC)

...Natasha as the Winter Soldier? HELL YES. Oh, gosh, this is awesome. And yesssss, spies are not important except in what they mean, and Clint's good - he's charming, he doesn't look slick. And. *seal-claps of delight* Yessssssss, thank you so, so much!

:D Thanks! Natasha is my favorite Avenger hands-down and I ship Clint/Natasha with additional postage, and the idea of Winter Soldier Natasha appeals to me. (Presumably a brainwashed Black Widow/er Bucky is running around somewhere in a catsuit. ...I'd read about that also.)

*glances at AO3 account* Nope, no idea what you mean about Natasha being the favourite and Clint/Natasha being OTP, no idea at all *coughs*

Oh man, I totally don't need any more fic ideas, but man I want to go and write about Natasha the Winter Soldier (with the serum, taken from Stalingrad in WWII after she learned to kill there and-) and *flaily hands*

And Cliiiiint, he's just...he's tired, too, which I love, as my Clint is tired. And. Yesss. Ahahaha, you've caught me in the post-writing hangover, so this is what I'm reduced to.

(...Bucky in catsuit, hell, yeah, I'd read about that)

Edited 2013-01-05 08:24 (UTC)

YES. This is great!

eta you should link these in the second thread because EVERYONE ought to read them.

eta 2 NEVER MIND I AM DUMB

Edited 2013-01-05 17:07 (UTC)

:D Thanks!

Oh this is lovely and works so well. I love using his sturdiness as a disguise the way she uses her prettiness.

Thanks! ♥ I enjoyed thinking about how spy!Clint would play out.

I love Natasha's point of view. Her eyes on Clint, they kind of crossed purposes they are at because of what she can and cannot believe.

Thanks! I figured ~~any~~ this AU of them would be dosed with liberal amounts of conflicted camaraderie and unresolved sexual tension. ;)

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