beatrice_otter: Maria Hill (Maria Hill)
2022-09-17 02:22 pm

Fic: Look Clear and Calm

Title: Look Clear and Calm
Fandom: MCU
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Maria Hill/Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov
Written By: Beatrice_otter
Written For: [personal profile] tielan  in AU Exchange 2022
Betaed by: BardicRaven
Length:
Rating: Teen
Summary: The Avengers need oversight, but Ross's plan is dangerous and unjust. Maria will have her work cut out for her, if she wants to stop it. Meanwhile, Steve has a question for her.

AN: Sedoretu is a poly marriage arrangement invented by Ursula K. Le Guin in her science fiction story "A Fisherman of the Inland Sea".

Explanation of a sedoretu )

At AO3. On tumblr. On Pillowfort. At Squidgeworld.


Pepper Potts was a very difficult woman to get an appointment with. She ran the largest corporation in the world, and did it well. And she kept it on an even keel, despite the former CEO (who was still the majority shareholder, and designer of their core product lines) being eccentric and difficult to keep on task. Many people—important, wealthy, powerful people—tried to schedule meetings only to be gently told there was no room in Ms. Potts calendar, would they like to speak to another of the company's officers instead?

But it was not usually this difficult, not for Maria Hill, who had worked closely with Pepper during her time at Stark Industries. They had been friendly; Maria would have said they were on their way to being genuine friends, and that hadn't changed when Maria's department had spun off to be the official organizational department of the Avengers Initiative and moved out to the Avengers Compound.

But perhaps Pepper didn't feel the same way, if the runaround Maria was getting was any indication. On the other hand, maybe Pepper really was that busy. It happened. Either way, Maria didn't take it personally, just kept refusing to be fobbed off on other people. It wasn't SI business, so there would be no point.

And, eventually, persistence paid off.

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beatrice_otter: Captain America (Captain America)
2016-02-21 03:58 pm

Fic Rec: Distance Between, by thingswithwings

Distance Between (11678 words) by thingswithwings
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson
Characters: Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov
Additional Tags: Hero Complex, Therapy, samfeels
Summary:  Sam's doing paperwork when aliens come through a rift in space and start attacking New York.

This is one of the BEST Sam fics I've seen.  It does a great job of capturing the inner complexities of how his history, his job, and his own issues affect him and make him the man he is.
beatrice_otter: Captain America (Captain America)
2015-08-11 11:42 pm

Fic rec: I'll build a house inside of you

I'll build a house inside of you (19199 words) by magdaliny
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Natasha Romanov, Kate Bishop/Natasha Romanov, James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers
Characters: Natasha Romanov, James "Bucky" Barnes, Kate Bishop, Steve Rogers
Additional Tags: Kid Fic, Growing Up, standard Winter Soldier trauma umbrella, violence committed by children upon children (mostly offscreen), Epilepsy, Amnesia, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Red Room, Fluff
Summary:

Natalia is stacking blocks very carefully when the adults come into the room. None of them look at her, because they're all looking at her father. He's wearing combat gear, and the hair on the left side of his head is slicked back with blood. He smells like smoke and something unnameable, sweet and dark and a little sickly in her nose.

Father is saying, “Don't be ridiculous. The only thing children are good at is disobeying.”

beatrice_otter: Captain America (Captain America)
2015-07-30 04:50 pm

Fic Rec: Hard to Say

Hard to Say (17259 words) by betty days
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Clint Barton, Laura Barton, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Natasha Romanov, Pepper Potts
Additional Tags: Post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fluff, POV Second Person, Aphasia, Humor, Hand Jobs, Clint Barton's Farm, A lot of kissing, like a lot of kissing
Summary:

“What worked for me was a nice, solid punch in the face. I’m not sure that’ll do much for you, though. Looks like you’ve been through enough already,” Hawkeye said.

***

The Winter Soldier is overdue for a reboot. His friends disagree.



What I really like about this one is that it's more about the Winter Soldier's agency and less about people doing things for his own good than a lot of Bucky recovery fics I've seen.
beatrice_otter: Maria Hill (Maria Hill)
2015-06-21 01:00 pm

Fic Rec: The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple (8367 words) by tielan
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, Maria Hill & Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers & Sam Wilson, James "Rhodey" Rhodes & Steve Rogers, Maria Hill & James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Maria Hill & Wanda Maximoff, Steve Rogers & Vision, Maria Hill & Vision, Wanda Maximoff/Vision, Steve Rogers & Wanda Maximoff
Characters: Maria Hill, Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers, Vision, Wanda Maximoff, James "Rhodey" Rhodes
Additional Tags: Friendship, Attraction, Developing Relationship, Friendship/Love, Post-Movie(s), Post-Avengers: Age of Ultron (Movie), Angst, love isn't easy, Falling In Love
Summary:

He's fast and she's weird.

beatrice_otter: Captain America (Captain America)
2015-02-05 07:54 pm

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On Tumblr, someone pointed out that given Howard Stark's now-canon background (where he grew up and his parents' occupations), he is almost certainly Jewish passing as Gentile.  And that, you know, this gives extra oomph to him helping Jarvis get Anna (his Jewish wife) out of danger and to England and later America.  (And I want to read that story, and I hope someone is writing it!)

But you know what other story I want to read?  The one where it's a Jewish holiday and Steve absentmindedly mentions it to Tony ("Happy Chanukah!" or appropriate greeting for whichever holiday it is) and Tony is baffled because he's not Jewish (not anything, really, pretty much raised atheist), and Steve is Catholic (or Episcopalian, I've seen an interesting meta on what it would mean if Steve was an Irish Protestant, but whatever he is, definitely Christian.)

So then Steve is all, wait, but Howard was Jewish, and he didn't show it, but then things were a lot worse for Jews in those days, I thought you would be public with your religion/ethnicity!

And Tony is all, no, nope, nuh-uh, no Jewish background in the family that I know of.

And Steve goes, then how/why did Howard know Yiddish?  Because a lot of the scientists on Project Rebirth were Jews, so Yiddish was spoken around the labs, and Steve never heard Howard speak it but he definitely understood what the others were saying when they were cursing people out or arguing or joking around in Yiddish, so.

And Tony's mind is blown, and he goes on an incredibly tacky orgy of self-discovery to "find his Jewish roots."