screaming loud enough to turn back the wind

Title: I got my finger on the trigger (but I don’t know who to trust)
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Bruce Springsteen
Warnings: modern-day AU; References to violence/death; implied child abuse
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1860
Point of view: third
Prompt: any, any/any, I want to carve our initials in the bark of everyone who ever hurt you.



To be completely and totally honest, Steve never set out to become a criminal.

Title: The snow drops its pieces of darkness
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Sylvia Plath
Warnings: AU; character death
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 610
Point of view: third
Prompt: any. any/any. Rima XI, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

"I am ardent, I am dark,
I am the essence of passion;
with yearning for pleasure, my soul is full;
is it me you're seeking?"
"No, it isn't you."

"My skin is pale, my plaits golden,
I can give you sweetness without end;
My treasure is in tenderness;
is it me you're calling?"
"No, it isn't you."

"I am delusion, an impossible thing,
a vain phantom of mist and light;
I am unbodied, I am impalpable;
I cannot love you."
"Oh come, please come...!"





( Bucky Barnes died when he fell from a train in late 1944. )



Title: in the dark room putting bones into place
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: violence
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 905
point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Steve/Bucky, nobody realizes that Bucky is the only who really sees Steve's dark side


( Steve Rogers has always fought for the little guy, against bullies and tyranny and unfairness. Everyone knows that. )



Title: the greatest secret
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: none
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 175
Point of view: third
Highlander, Methos +/ Duncan, "I don't want to be the last. But I'm afraid I'll be."


( Here is the greatest of Methos’ uncountable secrets: he does not want to be the last. )



Title: to tame with kindness
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU during Avengers
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 370
Point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Loki, this won't hurt a bit


( The mortal takes down half of Loki’s men before Loki steps in, placing a gentle hand to his cheek. )



Title: hypothetical
Fandom: Animorphs
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: references to Tobias' unhappy home life
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 95
Point of view: third
Prompt: Animorphs, any, speed dial



( Red-tailed hawks that live in the woods don't have cell-phones, obviously. )

I want to write something heartbreaking and terrible. Prompts?

Title: there in the distance, not the promised land
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Richard Siken
Warnings: Violence/torture/death -- basically, if it happens in the Winter Soldier's canon backstory, it's referenced here
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1290
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author’s choice, any, It’s not a miracle we needed


( When he was a boy, Arnim Zola read Frankenstein. )

Title: more heaven than a heart could hold
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: pre-Cap 1 to post-Cap 2. Talk of health issues, war issues, torture, violence, death
Pairings: Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1290
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, a heart so big, God wouldn't let it live...



( Bucky knew that Steve was gonna die young. )

Okay, so, I’m in a class this semester where one of the required assignments is seven snapshots about our lives. They can be anything as long as they’re autobiographical. So far I’ve written about my favorite book, that time I wrote a screenplay in Chemistry, and constructional apraxia. There are four left and in class last night, we were to all consider what’s in our list and finalize the decision. My list includes: meeting Jensen Ackles, the dizzy virus, a snowball fight in Nebraska, that time I realized I was depressed, one of my observations for my thesis, and a truly sad moment when I realized I had no grandparents. Thing is, I can only have four and except for meeting Jensen Ackles, the rest are pretty sad, and the dizzy virus would be hard to write about.

Anyway, the point of this: while a couple of people recognized his name, no one in the class actually knew who Jensen Ackles was. So I googled him on my phone and then passed it around.

So, last night, I was in a pretty bad mood, okay? I hurt my knee almost a month ago and it’s been steadily getting worse instead of better and yesterday, while trying to find a doctor, it seemed that neither of the orthopedic clinics in town take my insurance. I also got my period so I had a headache and cramps, and then there was nowhere to park, I was late to class, and it was drizzling. Okay? I just wanted to burn everything down and settle somewhere in the ashes to cry.

But. I passed my phone around with pictures of Jensen Ackles and it was hilarious because each one of them looked at my phone and either gaped or said something along of the lines, “Damn, he’s fine.” I laughed so hard, it was amazing. My knee still hurt (god, it hurts so much) but everything else seemed better.

I’ve decided that meeting him is the next snapshot, and one of my classmates really wants to hear about the snowball fight in Nebraska, and I’m gonna for sure write about the realization of depression (because that was a turning point in my life), but I’m still not positive what the seventh snapshot will be. Either the dizzy virus (because I do think I have a handle on how to start that) or that observation, because it was a powerful moment about how amazing and heartrending the ability to read can be.

Anyway. I just. All of them (seven women all well-educated) looked at pictures of Jensen Ackles and gaped. I loved it.

Title: let's go break the law just one more time
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Leverage
Warnings: references to violence
Pairings: Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark/James Rhodes, Peggy Carter/Gabe Jones, Natasha Romanova/Clint Barton, Alexander Pierce/Bucky Barnes
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 14000
Point of view: third
Prompts: vary with each chapter


“Hey, babe,” Bucky says into the phone, trying to smile, “remember that favor I was doin’ Potts, was gonna be the last job before I retired?”

Steve sighs heavily. “Yeah, Buck, I remember.”

“Well, see, Hammer tried to kill us instead’a payin’ us, so…” He lets it hang there for a moment and instead of saving him from the awkwardness, Steve waits him out. “We need a thief, Stevie. They were kickin’ around names and, well. You’re the best.”


Yes, this is a Leverage AU.

Title: music you’ve never heard
Fandom: Political Animals/Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: references to addiction, panic, possibly implied past dub-con, suicidal implications
Pairings: past Methos/Kronos
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 2300
Prompts: any, any, sooner or later god's gonna cut you down ; any, any, Not all those who wander are lost ; any, any, "given the right motivation i probably could" ; any. any. one day at a time
Note: I don’t believe in that whole immortals-are-always-foundlings thing.


"You're lucky I was passing through," the man says as soon as TJ's awake.

Title: love is where yesterday is
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: violence/death/everything implied by the existence of an ex-Winter Soldier
Pairings: implied past-Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1215
Point of view: third
Prompt: It doesn't take Steve and Sam all that long to find Bucky. Mostly, because when they do find him, he's catatonic. Breathing and occasionally blinking, but nothing else. (Why, when, and where up to author.)

Steve...well, Steve doesn't handle this so well.

Bucky may not be able to be angry about what he's suffered at Hydra's hands, but Steve figures he's got enough anger for the both of them. So, he leaves Bucky in Bruce and Sam's capable hands and heads out.

This time, he takes no prisoners.

And after each mission, Steve makes sure to come back and resume his vigil at Bucky's bedside, and describes in great detail how many agents were still in the building when he collapsed it, who he killed personally because he saw their name in the Winter Soldier file, how many fewer people there are in the world who can ever hurt Bucky again.



“Cap, we could use your help,” Fury says.

“Please, come in,” Coulson requests.

“Hey, your boy smiled today,” Sam reports.

Steve speeds up the takedown and goes home to New York.