little highway girl

Title: Say You Like Me, Just For The Night
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Relationship(s)/Character(s): Maria Hill/Sam Wilson
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 2100
Content Notes: none
Summary: Maria needs back up and everyone is out of town, except Sam. He wishes he knew what he's just agreed to, but Maria says details are need-to-know only. He'll just have to suit up and find out.
Author's Notes: For Chocolate Box 2017.

( He can hear her typing aggressively (the only way he's ever seen her type). )

It was a defense mechanism more than anything else, the running away. Steve had never run before. Someone told him once if he ran away he'd never be able to stop, that he'd always be running. That was then, and this is... not then at all. He could run now because he was confident he'd be able to face whatever caught up with him. Since the serum worked, he'd survived more in the few months (and the subsequent decades) than he ever thought one person could withstand. If he was still around after all that, then yeah, he was pretty confident he could take on anything.

( Except the pity. Damn. )

Clint won another round of Spider Solitaire. The night shift case worker had scarlet fever and Jan had beaten him at seven out of thirteen rounds of Rock Paper Scissors. So here he was, the third of four double shifts. He sipped his terrible coffee and started another round of cards.

( It wasn't like he was slacking off or anything. )

All That Love, All Those Mistakes

By sunspot, aka: unavoidedcrisis.
Collaborative artwork by king_stitch.
Beta'd by tsukinofaerii.

Fandom: Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Relationships & Characters: Clint/Steve, implied Thor/others, Steve/others, Clint, Steve, Thor, Jan
Rating: NC17
Word Count: 19,500
Warnings: strong language, sexual content, discussion of prostitution
Author's Notes: Written for au_bigbang '12. Many thanks to my lovely artist, king_stitch, and my fantastic and ever patient even though I so didn't deserve it beta. Thank you to road_rhythm for saving my smut when all hope was lost. Thanks always to chat, for putting up with my whining, and thanks to the AU Bang mods for another great round.

This story is basically 0% like the story I set out to write, but I'm actually pretty pleased with the direction it chose to take.

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All that love, all those mistakes; what else can a poor man make?
- Josh Ritter

After a life on the street and now a job at a run down community centre, Clint classifies himself as a hard-and-fast pessimist. Until he gets the stuffing knocked out of him by a local street gang and suddenly his life is like a bad rom-com, complete with the boy with the smile that makes his knees weak, the ever-helpful matchmaking best friend, gratuitous Abraham Lincoln, and one or more cracked ribs. Okay, maybe he's still a pessimist...

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Read the truthful account: The Inaugural Meeting of an Affectionate Devil and a Gentleman, Leading to the Formation of Infernal Intentions and the Seeking of an Address (The First Part of The Most Earnest Report Regarding Deliciously Deviant Devils, Acutely Admirable Americans and the Increasingly Inadvisable Intimacies Between Them)
As penned by the shining smith of words: tsukinofaerii
Recounted to you now by the humble storyteller: sunspot
This story bears the elements of the universe: Marvel Adventures: Avengers with a generous helping of the Echo Bazaar.
Relationships & Characters: Contains the most Romantic Liasons and Shocking Affairs between Captain Steven G. Rogers of the U.S. Armed Forces and the Affectionate Devil Anthony Stark. Also featuring the Valiant Devil, James Rhodes.
Suitable for humans and creatures: Teen and up
Length: Thirteen minutes and twenty-four seconds.
To summarize a long story short, in the interest of time: When Anthony Stark, (the Affectionate Devil) bumps into a newcomer in the Neath, he absolutely has to know more about this particularly delicious soul.
One should be aware of the following notes of concern: Exceptionally affectionate prose (fluff), occasional mentions of Violence most unsettling (mentions of casual violence), Scandalous Tails and Various forms of Deviltry. May also warn those new to the Neath of the future which lies before them (spoilers for the game)
Notes from the Teller: I am neither confirming nor denying that I picked this one solely based on the title, but if you were to ask around, I am certain you would find no one who would say that it's not the Loveliest and Wordiest of titles. None who would not be lying through their awful teeth, that is.
Credit for the the delightful musical accompaniment: incompetech.com


The crude and simple cover designed by the reader, whose talents lie in many things, but apparently not in any particular artistic endeavor.

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