comment_fic 942-946: Avengers & Poltical Animals

Title: The old hope is hardest to be lost
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Warnings: post-Avengers 2 & Cap3; insecurity issues
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 615
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, Any, "No weapons, no friends, no hope. Take all that away and what's left?"



( He spent 25 years as a little guy and then 3 as Captain America, so when the pulse of light hits him and he's suddenly a foot shorter and wheezing, it doesn't even faze him. It's everybody else that freaks out. )

Title: the glory and the freshness of a dream
Fandom: Political Animals
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Wordsworth
Warnings: post-series; talk of suicidal ideation
Pairings: mentions of canon couples
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 685
Point of view: third
Prompt: Political Animals, TJ/+any or gen, learning to be happy again
Note: Okay, so I figured the show was set in May/June/July, somewhere in there, right? TJ tried to kill himself six months before the premiere, and that was in December. So: Juneish or Julyish


(  He's got a BA in Political Science because he thought he'd be going into the family business. He spent almost five years nearly totally clean, and he was doing so good - but he was utterly miserable the whole time, forcing himself through the motions because he wanted to be good, to make them all proud. )

Title: Lazarus smiled the smile of the dead
Fandom: Political Animals
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: pre-series
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 250
Point of view: third
Prompt: Political Animals, TJ + Doug, Doug read his journal once when they were kids
Note: Yes, that is a nod to Kings.


( TJ used to write these stories and he never wanted anybody to see them. )

Title: They say before you start a war, you better know what you're fighting for
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from "Angel with a Shotgun"
Warnings: talk of animal cruelty and violence/death
Pairings: Natasha/Clint
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 815
Point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Clint/Natasha, Angel with a Shotgun


( The few friendlies at SHIELD used to talk about Clint Barton's penchant for strays. )

Title: Climb into my arms with blood on your clothes
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from "A Glow"
Warnings: violence/death/torture; post-WS
Pairings: Steve/Bucky leanings, for sure
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 740
Point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Steve/+Bucky, Okkervil River - A Glow


( Once upon a time, there were too little boys who grew up hungry and grew up mean. )