Copy the first few lines of your last ten fics, note any fun observations, then tag a few more friends.
Thanks for the tag @anonthenullifier ! This was fun.
Some of these are multi-chapter fics, so I went with the first few lines of the last chapter I posted.
1. Where the Passion Fruit Grows Sweet - Lemonovember 2021 (Chapter 20)
It actually ended up being a week later when Vision felt comfortable enough to admit that he truly did want to attempt a teacher student roleplay. Roleplays of all kinds were some of their favorite enhancements to a night of lovemaking.
But they had never employed this particular fantasy. Vision was not even certain where he first considered the idea. However, since she had asked the question, the prospect grew more appealing.
A knock sounded at the door. Wanda groggily shifted and tried to establish where she was and who was looking for her.
“Hey, Vision! Can we come in?” She startled upright. Why were the boys looking for Vision in her room? Oh… Vision and Vizh also sat up. They were all in Vision’s room. They had been falling asleep together before returning to their own rooms more and more lately. Shit!
Thankfully, Vision was able to answer them smoothly. “Just a moment, boys.” Both Visions quickly phased into their clothes while Wanda levitated hers into her arms. They cringed at each other briefly before Vizh picked her up and floated them through the wall.
Dave first saw Wanda across a crowded room. It was a terrible cliché, but life imitated art sometimes. He approached her and laid down a line on her. She rolled her eyes, but it was an icebreaker. They spent the rest of the night talking.
But somehow their relationship fizzled after only a few dates.
He saw her a few weeks after she had ended things with him. She was sitting at a café laughing with a tall blond-haired blue-eyed stranger. He saw red immediately. Both figuratively and literally. Their palms were both a bright crimson color. A sign of a soulmate that had been denied to him.
Something about him looked familiar, but he couldn’t place him around his simmering rage.
That night he decided to use his birthright for the first time ever. He focused on the night he and Wanda had met.
4. Four Single Men in Possession of Good Fortunes (Chapter 3)
The Diary of Lady Whistledown – Entry 1
The season has just begun. Two events have passed, and it is much like any other season. Sometimes I find the whole pageant dreadfully boring, but it can be fascinating to see the matches play out.
It is too early to determine the brightest star of the year. Lady Romanov is certainly a perennial favorite. The mystery and intrigue draw in suitors, despite her unconventional nature. The Carter ladies are also beloved by many. They ornament every ballroom. They are the only ones worthy of note so far, but time will tell.
As for the men, no one can approach the Marvelles. All four are handsome, intelligent, and possessed of significant fortunes. The one doubtful prospect is Lord Anthony. He is an inveterate bachelor, well known for bedding any woman who will have him. Somehow that does not make him an ineligible match. But any wife of his would struggle to keep him in line or have to face his numerous wanderings.
It started with tiredness.
At first, Wanda wrote it off. She only slept soundly when Vision was around. The life of a fugitive did not make for a comfortable environment. But Steve and Natasha did not let up on their training regimen. So, of course, she was run down.
Then, every part of her body started to swell. She could barely slip her shoes on. This was another easy thing to take in stride. Their life came with a lot of packaged, cheap food. A little more salt than usual could surely cause that.
Vision wished that he could tell Wanda that he had been wrong.
He had told her throughout their marriage that he would love her until the stars burned out. But here at the end of the universe, after all the stars had died, he loved her still. He loved her, and he loved their children.
He had met millions of beings, taken other lovers, lived to the fullest extent he could. But he had never forgotten his wife and children. Humanity was long dissipated into the cosmic dust that all life fell into, but his feelings were not. His love was now the brightest light remaining in the universe.
7. The Picture of the Mind Revives Again (Chapter 7)
Vision and Wanda set themselves up in an empty side laboratory. After the previous night, Vision was feeling optimistic about the state of their relationship. They still had much to work through, but they had a better foundation of honesty and trust on which to build something new.
They decided to start with a simple experiment. They separated to opposite sides of the room. Vision held up two fingers behind his back. Wanda squared her stance and he admired her strength as always.
She closed her eyes. Vision tried to empty his mind and leave it as open as possible to the touch of her powers. Wanda was clearly concentrating. Red wisps were emerging all around her. But he felt nothing.
After almost ten minutes, Wanda moved a bit closer. “Maybe the number thing is too unemotional. Maybe you should think of something more personal.”
Vision nodded in thought. Her powers were connected to emotions. It made sense that she needed an emotion to hold onto. However, he struggled to think of a memory that was suitably emotional, without being too tinged with melancholy or the love that they had not yet discussed.
Vision looked forward to Rosh Hashanah every year. He enjoyed introspection and felt it was valuable to reflect on the past year. Wanda felt the same, desiring to do better every year. They had not yet been able to prove the value to the boys.
When they had been small, the boys squirmed in their synagogue throughout the service, but they had clapped their hands at the blowing of the shofar. But now they were at the age where no part of the holiday appealed. They resented having to miss school for the day but still being made to attend synagogue. They did not want to dress up or eat the traditional holiday foods.
Vision hoped they would gain appreciation for the day when they matured a bit more. Until then, he and Wanda dragged them through it. She had no other family to celebrate with, so she wanted to instill the traditions in her sons.
Vision was sitting on the shuttle waiting to return from the lunar colony. The seconds ticked by in a most agonizing fashion. He would contemplate later how time took on such a subjective quality.
It was not difficult to determine the source. It was one Wanda Maximoff, to whom he was returning after a year-long absence. He was born of an android and something else. No one could quite quantify what he was. As such, he had never expected to find love, but he had with her. Their relationship had changed his perspective on much of the world.
He would never want to go back to the way things had been, except perhaps at this moment. He wished his perception of time might return to that of his past self, at least until he could be with Wanda again.
Wanda had never regretted becoming the Bachelorette more.
She was down to the final five contestants. She had given each of them a rose reluctantly. In truth she was done with the whole thing. She let the producers whisper in her ear to choose for maximum drama.
She wanted to ignore them as well, but she would fulfill her contract, pretend to date the “winner” for a few months and wash her hands of all of it.
Vision was the only worthwhile part of the whole experience. He was the only producer she trusted not to look at her like a piece of meat or source of income. He encouraged her to choose whomever she got along with most, to make the post-show press tour easier. But she couldn’t choose the one she really wanted, so she settled for ratings.
As for observations, I guess I tend to like to start with one pithy opening before elaborating in the next paragraph. And, this is not really about the opening lines, but I am happy with the variety of fics I’ve been posting (AUs, canon-based, canon divergence, no powers).
I tag @justanothermarvelgirl if you’re interested, and anyone else who may want to participate.
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