trace_of_scarlet

Fic: Looking At The Stars
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe/DC comics (Batgirl)
Rating: PG
Words: 6374
Warnings: None.
Notes: Thanks to camwyn for all her help. <3 The title comes from the Oscar Wilde quote ‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.’
Summary: Phil Coulson doesn’t wake up in the same universe he died in. But he does at least find himself face-to-face with someone who’s had a similar experience... And she usually goes by ‘Batgirl’.

( When he wakes up, Phil is a little surprised that nothing hurts, and a lot MORE surprised to be waking up at all. )

Fic: If X=Y, Then...?
Fandoms: The Bletchley Circle/Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: PG
Words: 748
Warnings: None.
Notes: Beta-ed by my Eric. Follow-up to Rows and Columns and Columns And Rows.
Summary: Jean knows all about doing one's duty. So does Captain Fury.

( The SHIELD airship is magnificent: impossibly vast and futuristic, iron grey as a tank... )

Fic: Reading Out Loud
Fandoms: Marvel Movieverse/Runaways (Marvel Comicsverse)
Characters: Molly 'Princess Powerful' Hayes, the Hulk
Rating: PG
Words: 636
Notes: Set in milliways_bar, although you don't have to know the setting to understand the fic. Quotes are by JK Rowling and A.A. Milne, and if you can't tell which is which then I am really concerned.
Summary: Everyone needs a story when they're having a really bad day... Although sometimes it's more about having someone there to tell it to you.

( There is a lull as Molly closes the book, as if she stood - or, well, sat - at the eye of the storm. )

Fic: Rows And Columns
Fandoms: Marvel Movieverse/The Bletchley Circle
Rating: PG
Words: 536
Warnings: None.
Notes: AU for Avengersverse, unless Natasha’s been taking the same Infinity Formula as Nick Fury. Beta-ed by my beloved ashen_key.
Summary: It isn’t every evening that one finds an agent of SHIELD standing on the doorstep.

( The stranger is waiting for Susan at her front door when she struggles home from the shops, shrouded like a widow in the musty drizzle of London’s early autumn evening. )

Fic: Simple Mathematics
Fandoms: Marvel Movieverse
Rating: PG
Words: 527
Warnings: Some discussion of murders.
Characters: Natasha Romanoff; could be viewed as Natasha/Clint if you squint a bit.
Notes: Set post-Avengers; semi-spoilery but not particularly so.
Summary: Natasha character-study. She’s got red in her ledger, and she’ll never wipe it all out.

( She thinks: I have never been so tired, and knows it is a lie. )

Director Fury Needs This Done By Tuesday

"I just want you to know," Tony complains loudly, "that I feel completely oppressed by SHIELD's exploitation of my genius. I mean, you could at least let me pick the music!"

"Uh-huh." Coulson glances away from the TV screen (SuperNanny is currently engaged in an epic five-hour battle to make a spoilt six-year-old sit on the designated Naughty Step for biting her stepmother) long enough to eye Stark, who has paused sulkily over his workbench with a hammer raised Thor-like in his fist. "Lewis, if he keeps shirking his work, you have official permission to deal with him as you see fit."

"I - HEY!" Tony spins round to stare beseechingly at the much shorter brunette. "Guy with an electric heart-saver prominent on his chest, here!"

Darcy glares right back at him, raising the water-filled squirtbottle threateningly. "Then stop being a dumbass and get back to work!"