pretend it's not monday

[topaz119]

Sunday Six, a day late. And since the canon meld in the Clint/Coulson is making my brain hurt, I let it go play with the post-rolling stone Steve/Natasha that's been knocking around for a while now.



Steve’s in the tiny kitchenette of his extended-stay hotel when the call comes through from the SHIELD dispatcher. Her voice is even but not unkind as she says, “I have a medical alert for Captain Rogers. Patching through Agent Coulson upon ID validation.”

“This is Rogers,” Steve says, his half-made sandwich abandoned as he gives the proper codes and responses. Coulson and Hawkeye were out on a SHIELD op; if Coulson is calling Steve in, it can’t be good. Steve has seen Hawkeye brush off multiple broken bones and stitch counts that number in the dozens without letting alerts go out.

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[sperrywink]

Ooohhh, tense and a cliffhanger!

[topaz119]

For not really ever getting into H/C, I'm diving into it wholeheartedly in this fandom. :D

[alphaflyer.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. My Clint/Natasha shipping heart can just (just!) take Clint/Coulson, if written by you, since you are so generally aweson and everything else. But Steve/Natasha? Based on my fourth viewing of Cap2 I'd have to suspend my disbelief right into the "Oy, vey" category...

Although I suppose if it goes along in a CLint/Darcy verse it might work? Hmm.

Wanders off, her mind boggling even as she desperately tries to get it to broaden ... ;-)

ETA: Intriguing snippet, though.

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

hah, so, I wasn't consciously thinking about S/N when I wrote rolling stone, but when I got down to the final edit and was really looking at the big picture, I kept seeing all this *stuff* between them. At the time, my brain said words to the effect of 'how innnnnnteresting, where did all that come from?' but then I got sidetracked writing Clint with everyone and their brother and never really did anything with them. I thought about it and all, but then last week I went back and read through all of rolling stone and thought, 'oh, right--if Clint's hurt, who's going to back Natasha up....?'

et voila.

kinda.

(also, I do mention the unconventional shipping thing, but maybe I should get a stamp for my intro post, sort of a 'HERE BE STRANGENESS' kind of a deal...)

[alphaflyer.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not a stranger to strangeness, exactly (I once wrote a Neelix/Chell on a dare for my Voyager board -- the term "spotted dick" hanging unspoken in the background until someone actually stuck a picture of a tin into the comments). It's just, S/N were so palpably BFF/siblingesque in that movie, that it would just seem .. odd. But hey, if you write it, I'll read it! :-)

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

I think, if I were going to write this around Cap2 canon, I start from the premise that the BFF vibe from the movie was something that Natasha worked very hard to put out there and that at some point Steve wants to know why she feels that need. (which is, hmm, not a bad idea...)

[alphaflyer.livejournal.com]

And you would explain the arrow necklace how? ;-)

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

I'd.... go with it being something that he gave her early on to remind her that somebody had her back (and she gave him something after Loki, to say the same thing.) Either that or payoff for a bet she lost, and he picked it to be super-gossip-worthy, and as much as she rolls her eyes at it, she secretly loves watching SHIELD-types notice it and be too afraid to make a comment.

OR. OT3. :D

[i-llbedammned.livejournal.com]

I like the OT3 idea.

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

OT3 is always a wonderful answer to the issue, :D

[i-llbedammned.livejournal.com]

I do love Steve and Natasha together.

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

I think they present such an interesting dynamic, which I'm really glad Cap 2 played around with. It's almost incidental whether there's a romantic/sexual element--it's more all the emotional energy it takes for those two to trust each other.