screaming loud enough to turn back the wind

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: 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: You could drown in those eyes, I said
Fandom: Highlander/Marvel movies/Leverage
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Richard Siken
Warnings: post-Cap2 and Highlander. talk of torture, brainwashing, dehumanization, and death. talk of violence against children. a mishmash of backstories for Clint. Post-finale for Leverage.
Pairings: past-Steve/Bucky, Methos/ex-Winter Soldier, (mostly?)unrequited Steve/ex-Winter Soldier, past Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers , past Methos/Kronos, Natasha/Clint, mentions of OC/OC, Eliot Spencer/Parker/Alec Hardison, Sophie Devereaux/Nate Ford
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: WIP
Point of view: third
Prompts: varies with each chapter


"And who might you be?" Methos asks the not-quite-mortal rummaging through his cabinets.

The man, who looks quite beat all to hell and worn down to nothing, long dark hair hanging dank past his shoulders, clothes fit only for burning, whirls to face him, throwing a knife as he spins. Methos, who saw the beginning of the motion as the man started to move, catches the blade and raises an eyebrow.

“That was rude,” he informs the man, who is staring at him in wonder.

Title: the caged bird sings of freedom

Fandom: Marvel movies with a little bit of comics thrown in

Disclaimer: not my characters ; title from Maya Angelou

Warnings: actor/singer/writer AU of doom written by someone who is only a writer and not even really a published one; past-child abuse (physical and sexual) for multiple characters; past-drug addiction/alcoholism for multiple characters; discussion of violence/stalking; attempted sexual assault; successful sexual assault; past -suicidal implications; past-incestuous actions, though they weren’t actually related – however, they did get together before learning that; implied trauma for basically everyone

Pairings: Thor/Loki, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Betty Ross/Bruce Banner, eventual Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes; background Jim Morita/Dum Dum Dugan, Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier, Darcy Lewis/Jane Foster, Susan Storm/Reed Richards, Johnny Storm/OFC; Clint&Natasha are platonic soulmates; one-sided Brock Rumlow/Bucky

Wordcount: 30000 and counting [WIP]

Point of view: third

Prompt: Avengers, all, the Avengers are superstars brought together to record a song to raise money for charity

Note: if Lene, Eivind, and Øyvind are talking to each other, it’s probably in Norwegian

Another note: my plan is for at least 25 chapters; length of the chapters will vary. The warnings will be updated should the need arise. What is up there currently are things I know for a fact will happen or happened at some point in the past and either being alluded to or discussed.

Yet another note: If I mention a song in here, I have probably written it already/am going to write it. Also, the movies have been sketched out. Ask if you’d like; when this is done (hopefully it will be completed), I may post an appendix with all of them, anyway. I namedrop a lot of Marvel characters as actors/singers/writers what have you.

Final note: clichéd title is clichéd -- but. Holy shit is it appropriate.



The Avengers and their various hangers-on as actors, singers, writers, artists -- all brought together by Nick Fury's SHIELD Productions for the charity extravaganza of the century.

You've got the Norwegian punk-rock band Ragnarök trying to break into the American musician scene; the pop duo Widow's Eye taking a break from their world tour; Oscar winner Tony Stark making a comeback after a massive derailment due to substance addictions; poet/screenwriter Bruce Banner trying to make a comeback due to a severe depressive episode; Sam Wilson, an Oscar contender whose star is on the rise trying to get Peggy Carter and Steve Rogers' graphic novel series turned into a movie; and finally, Jimmy Barnes, former child star who lost his way and wants to leave acting for good.

Title: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: if you recognize the character, they are not mine. The original characters, however, are. Title from Langston Hughes. Some of the quotes are from either of the Cap movies; some I made up because they seemed like things Bucky might say.
Warnings: implied bad things happening to a child in the past; everything the presence of the Winter Soldier implies; talk of violence/death/roaring rampage of revenge; Steve is hella depressed.
Pairings: pre- and post-Steve/Bucky. Natasha/Clint, Pepper/Tony, Jane/Thor.
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 24000
Point of view: third
Note: This was written for a few prompts; each is mentioned at the top of the chapter.


In the aftermath of Project Insight, the ex-Winter Soldier finds a child. She adopts him so he adopts her right back. And so begins the healing process.

Title: we all won that war
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Anne Sexton
Warnings: AU pre-canon; spoilers all the way to Winter Soldier
Pairings: implied Clint/Natasha & Steve/Bucky
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1290
Point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Clint/Natasha, Clint defected instead of Natasha



“Will you keep hunting me if I let you live?” she whispers, gently turning his face so that she catches his gaze. “You have to return with my head or me beside you, yes? What is the price of failure?”

“They’re the good guys,” he says, but he does not believe the words.

“My masters said that, too,” she tells him. “Would you like to hear a third choice?”

He laughs, the sound both bitter and desperate. “Sure,” he says. “Why the fuck not.”

She smiles at him now, a smile she has not worn since last she saw Winter, and she offers, “Come with me instead.”

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Title: while there is a soul in prison, I am not free
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Debs
Warnings: mentions of violence; mentions of unpleasant things happening to children; all I know about Natasha’s backstory I learned from fanfiction and Wikipedia.
Pairings: implied Winter Soldier/Black Widow, implied Bucky/Steve, platonic BFFs Clint&Natasha
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 805
Point of view: third
Prompt: Natasha remembers being seven and meeting a man that everyone simply called Winter. Looking at him, she never wondered why.



(  She never forgets, but she has not thought of those years in a long time when Steve Rogers finishes a portrait and hangs it on the wall in his room at Stark Tower. )