Inside Voices

Title: The Truth of Her
Author: telaryn
Word Count: 1374
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Characters: Steve Rogers, Angela Martinelli
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: No ownership implied, no profit obtained.
Summary: Steve leaves Peggy's funeral in the company of an unexpected guest.
Author's Note: Written for hc_bingo's Round 6, for the prompt "comfort food/feeding someone". Also for a headcanon posted on Tumblr of Steve meeting Angie for the first time at Peggy's funeral.

( The older woman grinned, and Steve could tell immediately that this was the sort of person Peggy would have responded to. )

Title: Got Your Back
Author: telaryn
Word Count: 1757
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Characters: Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: No ownership implied, no profit obtained.
Summary: Clint cares for a drugged and hallucinating Natasha after an op goes wrong.
Author's Note: Written for hc_bingo's Round 6, for the prompt "hallucinations", as requested by hannasus.

( Natasha hadn't meant to kill him. )

Title: Right Thing, Right Reasons
Author: telaryn
Word Count: 949
Fandom: Avengers
Characters: Clint, Natasha
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers for events in The Avengers (2012).
Disclaimer: No ownership implied, no profit obtained.
Summary: The morning of the funeral, Natasha finds Clint has retreated to an unexpected sanctuary.
Author's Note: Written for angst_bingo's Round 5, for the prompt "waking up in bed alone".

( Wanted to be numb. Not sick. )

Title: Target of Opportunity
'Verse: Leverage/Avengers
Characters: Eliot Spencer, Natasha Romanoff, Damien Moreau and assorted others.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2280
Warnings: None
Summary: Eliot races to stop an assassination attempt against Damien Moreau, only to realize too late that coming at Moreau directly is no longer the most efficient way to destroy him.
Author's Note: I recently put up an offer for a fic a day for the first twenty days of December. Still behind, but this is prompt #15, provided by scout_lover, who wanted to see Eliot and Natasha's past. It being scout_lover, I of course set the story during Eliot's time in Moreau's service, and I think Damien might have ended up taking over the plot. Um...oops?


( Eliot spent most of the early part of the evening at Damien’s side, only leaving when Juliana insisted that he was the only one who could take care of something for her. )

Title: Hidden Legacy
'Verse: Avengers/Revolution
Characters: Miles Matheson, Charlie Matheson, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1631
Warnings: Spoilers for S1 Revolution
Summary: While heading for Lowell, Indiana to rendezvous with Aaron and Maggie, Miles is set upon by a pair of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents looking for a mythical pendant that might hold the key to setting the world right again.
Author's Notes: I recently put up an offer for a fic a day for the first twenty days of December. This is prompt #1, provided by whiskyinmind, who wanted to explore the idea that S.H.I.E.L.D. had a vested interest in finding the pendants, and that Miles had worked with them - and specifically with Nat and Clint - back in the day.

Needless to say, I have only scratched the surface with the story potential here.

( With these two, he merely sighed in resignation and laced his fingers together on top of his head. The danger here wasn’t the man on the other end of the sword. It was the woman relieving him of his own weapons – the woman who didn’t need a weapon of her own to take him out for good. )