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Some Summers They Drop Like Flys (5912 words) by kvikindi
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nick Fury & Natasha Romanov
Characters: Natasha Romanov, Nick Fury, James "Bucky" Barnes, Clint Barton, Maria Hill
Additional Tags: Post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, S.H.I.E.L.D., Espionage, Childhood Trauma, Violence Committed by a Child, Racism
Summary: Natasha blew all her covers. It's a brave new world.

Natasha in the wake of CA:TWS. I feel like I haven't read nearly enough good fic about Natasha after the downfall of SHIELD, and this one is lovely.

cenobitic_anchorite

It starts with a mistake, a still-mysterious failure that drives Loki from his stolen throne far earlier than expected. In desperation, he flees down impossible roads through unknown time and space to find a new fate he can shape for his own. A life outside the destiny prepared for him - but to do that, he finds himself among humans that ultimately become the most unexpected of allies: The Agents of SHIELD, led by a man he once killed.

The SHIELD Codex is a canon-flavor genfic series with a slightly altered timeline (due to the interference of the Jotun Space Wizard), ongoing since May 2014. Each multi-chapter fic is a contained story often meant to evoke the style of an episode or short arc of the Agents of SHIELD series and may include comic book characters written in MCU style. The shorts between fics are a little more varied, but are generally vignette-flavor backstory or tie-in events.

All stories are rated PG-13/Teen, in line with the series and films. Some language, moderate comic book violence. Horror themes where noted.

In chronological order (all links go to Ao3) after the cut:

( Story links are behind this cut, yey! )

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The Velveteen Spider [DW notice | tumblr notice]
26k words | PG-13-ish | Natasha Romanova, Clint Barton, et al.

summary: Natasha Romanova thinks that accepting Nick Fury's offer to join SHIELD is the end of her old life and the beginning of her new one. In hindsight, she had no idea of what that really meant.

“You’re an idiot, Barton,” she said when he’d finished. “An amazing idiot.”

He made a dismissive noise as he shifted over to get up, presumably to go to the restroom. “Is that anything to say to your best friend?”

She looked up at him, shocked at the words. “Who says that you are my best friend?”

“You got any others?” he asked with a shrug. “Therefore, I am the best one.”

“That means you are also the worst one,” she called after him as he headed off, but she was just drunk enough for the words to float around in her mind like mosquitoes.

She remembered the conversation the next morning, when she dragged her hungover but far more sturdy self to SHIELD’s New York headquarters off Times Square to go get yelled at by Coulson in person. She could say that Barton was presumptuous for considering himself her friend, but it would probably be more truthful to say that he’d simply recognized it sooner.

That’s when she started calling him Clint, first in her head and then out loud. The first time, it slipped out and it startled her. Startled Clint, too, but he recovered and beamed at her and then continued driving like a maniac because it was the only way they were going to get out of Hungary alive unless they wanted to swim the Danube from Budapest to Vienna.

moviegeek03

Title: Cup O’Kindness
Author: moviegeek03
Wordcount: ~2300
Fandom: Marvel
Characters/Pairings: Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Assorted Avengers
Rating/Warnings: PG-13; Drunkenness, violence, language
A/N: This came to me on New Year’s Eve when I realized that 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of Bucky’s “death” and I began to wonder how Steve would handle that. This is my first full Bucky & Steve story ☺.
Summary: The last year has been hard on all the Avengers, but Steve in particular. His search for Bucky keeps coming up empty handed and all trails have gone cold. The rest of his team persuades him to let loose and relax some for New Year’s Eve. He never realized it would be exactly what he needed, in more ways than one, or that a certain friend had been watching out for him all along.

newredshoes

A stupendous find, for all of us longing for more DW/LJ icons!

easystreet has a ton of quite comprehensive MCU icon posts (tags for your browsing pleasure), including some very nice ones of the first two episodes of Agent Carter.

sholio

I See Said the Blind Man (3852 words) by latbfan
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Daredevil (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Matt Murdock & Claire Temple, Matt Murdock & Franklin "Foggy" Nelson
Characters: Matt Murdock, Claire Temple, Franklin "Foggy" Nelson
Additional Tags: Friendship, Missing Scene
Summary: Missing Scene from Matt's apartment between "Speak of the Devil" (1.9) and "Nelson V. Murdock" (1.10), or Foggy finally meets Hotty McBurner Phone.

There are a number of fics exploring this particular missing scene in canon, but this is by far my favorite of the ones I've read so far. The character voices are all perfect, and this fic has a particularly lovely take on Matt and Foggy's friendship, even during a time that's very difficult for both of them.

sholio

Posted a bit of oddball casefic for my h/c bingo square "tentacles" this afternoon.

Title: Another Day at the Office
Author:

sholio
Word Count: 2100
Warnings: a little bit of monster-slime-related ick, but that's about it
Summary: There's a kraken attacking New York. Good thing the SSR is around. (Lucky them.) Takes place after Season One.

Posted to AO3, DW, and LJ.

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I participated in tumblr's BuckyNat minibang and, in a probably foreseeable result, utterly failed to follow directions and produced a long story of pure genfic.

Blues in the Groove
31k words | PG-13ish | Bucky Barnes, Natasha Romanova, Steve Rogers, Maria Hill, et al.

Bucky Barnes is in from the cold and ready to take the first steps toward resuming his life. He has all of his memories, but Steve isn't the only Avenger eager to have someone around who remembers their past.

A tale in which there are embarrassing Captain America stories, occasional realizations, swing-dancing SHIELD commanders, missions gone awry, culinary adventures, uncomfortable revelations, trips to Queens, bromances, romances, repeated threats of arson, and the couch is a metaphor.

Featuring art by Krimsnkrams

(links to notices on tumblr and DW, but the story is posted in its entirety only on AO3 because of length and formatting)

sholio

I seem to have dived headfirst into the Agent Carter corner of the fandom now (though I haven't abandoned CA; I'm just cheerfully dipping my toe over here now!). And I come bearing fic:

Title: Black Water Rising
Fandom: Agent Carter
Author:

sholio
Pairing: gen
Word Count: 29,000
Summary: An apparently abandoned Hydra facility turns into a deathtrap for Peggy and the SSR team. Takes place post-finale; therefore spoilery.

Posted on AO3 and DW.

beatrice_otter

halfamoon stories have been revealed! I wrote a Peggy & Angie fic set in the last episode, after Jarvis shows them their new digs.

In the Apartment After the War (2778 words) by Beatrice_Otter
Fandom: Agent Carter (TV)
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Rated: Teen
Relationships: Peggy Carter & Angie Martinelli
Betaed by:

lilacsigil
Summary: When Jarvis showed them in to the swank "apartment" he's letting them use on Howard Stark's dime, Angie was incredulous. Awestruck. But not so incredulous that she lost sight of the important things.

( In the Apartment After the War )

sholio

I made a big batch of icons for Agent Carter - most characters are represented, and they are available for anyone to use. :) Icons come from all 8 episodes, so there are some spoilery ones.

http://sholio.dreamwidth.org/1002161.html

sholio

I have a fairly extensive, screencap-laden squee/meta post about Agent Carter at my journal:

http://sholio.dreamwidth.org/1001665.html

Contains spoilers for all aired episodes.

There is some very minor talk of shipping buried in the post, but as I'm primarily a gen fan, it's basically just a lot of flailing at their adorable faces with some character analysis here and there.

fabrega

aunts aren't gentlemen (7439 words) by screamlet
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Agent Carter (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Edwin Jarvis & Tony Stark, Peggy Carter & Tony Stark, Maria Stark & Tony Stark, Maria Stark & Howard Stark, Edwin Jarvis & Peggy Carter
Characters: Tony Stark, Edwin Jarvis, Maria Stark, Peggy Carter, Anna Jarvis, Howard Stark, Paul Bettany, Pepper Potts
Additional Tags: Road Trips, Flashbacks, Boarding School, Pre-Iron Man 1, Howard Stark's A+ Parenting, Smoking, Drinking, Stark Family Fuckery, Breaking the Fourth Wall, Featuring Paul Bettany as the Voice of Jarvis, Slice of Life, Kid Tony Stark, Story within a Story
Summary:

“First things first,” Tony says. “I loved A Knight’s Tale."

Tony Stark hires Paul Bettany as the voice of JARVIS, and a Stark family road trip!

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Reprise
4800 words | pg-ish | Peggy Carter, Nick Fury (Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Pepper Potts)

Nick showed up at nine and Peggy knew it was bad news because he showed up without dessert. (Sometimes the secrets kept between spymasters was that one of them had a sweet tooth and it wasn't her.) She still made tea because, despite more than sixty years in America, the British approach to trouble was still her default.

"We've found Captain Rogers."

Landsmen (also at: ao3 | tumblr)
1800 words | PG-13-ish | Peggy Carter, Howard Stark, (Abraham Erskine)

"What did he say?" Peggy asks. English is the official language of the Rebirth lab, but Yiddish is the unofficial one, the language of frustration and jubilation and anger and affection. The project is documented in English, but it is lived in Yiddish and Peggy, like everyone else not already fluent in the language, has picked up words here and there. Mostly terms of endearment, addressed to both her and the test tubes of successful experiments, and the many (many) ways to call someone an idiot.

newredshoes

Your Friend Is Most Likely Dead (7880 words) by

newredshoes
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Peggy Carter, Peggy Carter & Howard Stark
Characters: Peggy Carter, Howard Stark, James "Bucky" Barnes
Additional Tags: 1950s, Canon-Typical Violence, Spies & Secret Agents, Mindwiping, Abuse
Summary: In 1951, eight years after his first return from certain death, Bucky Barnes met Peggy Carter again. She came to learn about a Hydra weapon loose on American soil. He came because Hydra needed to run some tests.

Things you'll find in this fic: Nazi-hunters, Stark tech, the Andrews Sisters, the Lindy Hop, studio promotions, one Maryland suburb, Bucky making choices and Peggy Carter with a gun.

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Inherited Characteristics [ DW | ao3 ]
2800 words | Tony Stark, Peggy Carter (Rhodey, Howard Stark)

It's 1986, the Sox are going to the World Series, and sixteen-year-old Tony Stark has just gotten himself arrested for trying to sell nukes to the bad guys.

"Are you my court-appointed nanny here to encourage me to tell the nice FBI men everything I know?" Tony asked brightly.

The woman — older lady, closer to Dad’s age than to Mom’s, not super-rich but definitely not a civil servant — arched an eyebrow. “Don’t you watch too much television,” she said in an English accent as she closed the door behind her and crossed the room, taking the seat on the other side of the table.

"My name is Peggy Carter," she said as she sat down, leaving her fancy hat on but taking off her gloves. "I’m a friend of your father’s."

It was Tony’s turn to cock an eyebrow. “You’re a little old for one of Dad’s friends.”

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A story and its prequel, AU to both Captain America: the First Avenger and Agent Carter:

Premise: after the rescue of the 107th, Steve Rogers cashes in all of his favors and makes what deals he can to get Bucky a medical discharge from the Army, sending him home to Brooklyn and far from enemies and curious scientists both. But Steve's war goes on until it ends badly, in an exploding plane over the Black Sea. Captain America is presumed dead, his shield recovered and returned to a grieving America while his body remains undiscovered.

Shielded
1500 words | Steve Rogers

1944: Steve at war, sans Bucky.

Preserved
72K words | Peggy Carter, Bucky Barnes

1952: a new danger is threatening to unbalance the already-roiling Cold War: a Soviet assassin let loose from behind the Iron Curtain. Peggy Carter isn't sure she wants to believe that the assassin is a super-soldier because of what it could mean, but she does know that whoever it is, she'll have to break her promise to keep Bucky Barnes far from danger.

cenobitic_anchorite

Title: The SHIELD Codices: A Clear and Present Loki

Wordcount: 73,000+ over 34 chapters

Rating: 13+ for violence, some mild language, disturbing (Lovecraftian) imagery

Characters: Loki, Phil Coulson, Melinda May, Skye, Fitz, Simmons, and pretty much the rest of Season 1 Shield

Notes: The first part of a still-current series I'm working on. I plan on posting more here in the future if no one minds; one other multi-chapter is done, a holiday one shot is done, and I'm presently in the middle of another multi-chapter piece. The stories start off only slightly AU in terms of the events of S1 SHIELD and the Marvel movies, veering somewhat onto their own course now. Character behavior is intended to be canonically themed.

Summary: Loki is forced to see that all permutations of his future ultimately end at Ragnarok, and like so many iterations before him demands his own chance to unbind himself from an unwanted destiny. The odds are worse than terrible, but one path might be found in the company of his enemies: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. currently busy with enough troubles of their own.

Link here at AO3.

Thank you for reading!