#chalantness

[vivilvr]

I think one of the most beautiful things in life is calling a girl mommy.

[flamehairedwritings]

okay babe, any headcanons about steve and nat and their early days and shield partners before “the winter solder”? i have a few definitive scenes i always imagine happening, like them grabbing food in a diner or nat seeing steve’s sketchbook, but i’m always curious what other people think!! what they imagine their little friendship moments would be that will eventually leas to more, because duh.

A n y t h i n g  for you. 💖

The first time they were partnered together, Nat actually laughed as she read the notification message. Then she forwarded it to Clint, who video-called her immediately and laughed with her.

Whose wild idea was this? Fury’s, obviously, but really?

They couldn’t have been more different in their styles.

Was this some kind of a message from Fury? Was she to learn from Steve, or was he to learn from her?

She always did missions alone, the majority of the time even without back up, it was too risky and, hell, she could always handle herself. If she ever did have to work with someone, it was Clint, who knew her so well and she him that they barely had to communicate.

Steve was different.

Steve liked to make plans.

Steve was a leader.

Of course during the Battle of New York she’d seen what he could do and was naturally impressed, but that had been a time when a team and leadership was needed. That was a big, wild open battle where subtlety wasn’t needed at all.

Natasha usually did subtle.

When they met at the appointed time for their briefing, he brought with him a notepad. A notepad.

Maria gave them the details and then left them to it, probably at Fury’s request, and Nat looked at Steve, who looked at her.

Well, she had expected him to dive right in as the Captain, but he just smiled and said,

“So, how would you usually go about this?”

That’s when Natasha knew she had underestimated America’s golden boy.

The mission went surprisingly smoothly, and Nat glanced at him as they stepped off the aircraft that had collected them.

“Do you want to go and get some ice cream?”

“Pardon?”

“Ice cream? Is that what you called it back in the day? Or did you call it something charming like icies?”

He gave that quiet, exasperated, mock-sigh she was beginning to delight in hearing as he smiled and nodded. “Sure. Let’s go get icies.”

It was their first in-joke that they were relentless in it.

“You know what would cheer you up?” “What?” “Icies.”

“Oh, some icies would help with that bruise.”

“Let’s see if there’s any offer on icies at the store.”

“I would just kill for an icie right now.”

Nat was rather surprised by how quickly they became comfortable around one another. 

They became paired with every mission and would always unwind after it by going to his apartment, the Tower, or one of her many apartments. They’d sit on the couch with a take-away or whatever was in the fridge and just talk or watch a documentary he’d read about.

She helped him get through his list of things he’d ‘missed out on’ and recommended a few things herself, most that got a resounding ‘no’, such as silent raves, a normal rave, and starting a YouTube channel.

Sometimes when missions didn’t go as smoothly as expected, they would sit in silence, each turning over in their mind what had gone wrong and how they could have prevented it. Then, when they would realise the other was doing the same thing, they’d look at them and smile faintly.

“… Let’s go get an icie.”

Depending on the weather and time of day, they’d take with them two spoons and go to the store, buy a big tub of ice cream and sit in the park, or go to a diner, sunglasses and hats on, and sit in a corner. They’d order something extravagant and talk or just watch the people around them, people who had no idea of the real dangers in the world, despite what had happened in New York, and quietly feel a small sense of pride that they were protecting people.

They soon began to read each other exceptionally well.

If Steve was sketching or painting, he wanted to be left somewhat alone, so she would sit close by, reading or writing up a report. Sometimes she would just glance up and watch him, watch him concentrating and working. A few times, once he’d sat back and was in the room once more, she would ask if she could see what he was working on. He’d give a slight shrug and say ‘sure’, and she’d stand beside him, looking over every single detail. She liked his drawings. A lot.

If he noted Nat was frustrated or too in her head about an issue, he would offer to go a few rounds in the training room, helping her silently work out whatever was going on.

If Stark was having a party that they’d been invited to, they’d suddenly both be far too busy and would hide in one of her apartments, taking it in turns to pick a film or play board games.

Despite their external appearance of closeness, though, Steve could still feel… something. Some kind of a barrier that stopped him from really getting to know Natasha. He knew it when he saw how she was with Barton, how there was something between them that he didn’t have with her. At first he thought it was romantic affection, but after somewhat awkwardly asking her about it and she’d laughed, for what felt like a very long time, he knew he was very wrong.

Then she told him how she and Clint had met, and it had all made sense.

He’d known there was something about her past, Loki had mentioned a few things when he’d been imprisoned, or so they’d thought, on the helicarrier, but he hadn’t wanted to ask, hadn’t wanted to pry.

He easily could have. He could have asked Barton or Fury but it hadn’t felt right to.

That part of Natasha was for her to tell.

And when she did, the barrier came down a little.

She hadn’t felt judged when she’d told him. She hadn’t really expected to, this was the kindest man she’d ever met after all, but she thought there might have been something, a look in his eyes, or a shift in how he behaved around her, even minutely. But… nothing.

That’s when she thought, quietly, hopefully, that for the second time in her life, she’d made a true friend.

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[pxrwinkle]

pls i need romanogers or thorcarol smut/fluff/anything/fan fic based on the endgame trailer

[sassaspazz]

chalantness replied to your post: Can we just talk about how soft Steve looks here

this just makes me think of like…… nat waking up and walking into the living room to find steve chilling out on the couch in sweats and a white tee and maybe his sketchbook or a paperback or something and she just…. smiles and joins him on the couch because they’ve earned a lazy day to themselves where they stay in their pajamas all day and relax in each other’s company like if that’s not the definition of a soft epilogue idk what is

OMG YES!!!

Nat would just lay on the opposite side of the couch while Steve sketches and she reads a book. Steve just turns the page and starts drawing Nat (because he can never have too many pictures of Nat in his sketchbook).

[romanoff-rogers-capwidow]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 62/? Fandom: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), Thor (Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov, Maria Hill/Sam Wilson, Sif/Thor (Marvel), Peter Parker/Wanda Maximoff, Steve Rogers & Wanda Maximoff, James “Bucky” Barnes/Helen Cho, James “Bucky” Barnes/Wanda Maximoff Characters: Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov, Sharon Carter (Marvel), James “Bucky” Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Darcy Lewis, Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Maria Hill, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Sif (Marvel), Thor (Marvel), Peter Parker, Wanda Maximoff, Pietro Maximoff, Helen Cho, Laura Barton, Nick Fury Additional Tags: Drabble Collection, James Rogers (son of Steve and Natasha), Tatiana Rogers (daughter of Steve and Natasha) Series: Part 1 of drabble collections Summary:

Collection of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (mostly Steve/Natasha) drabbles.

Drabble #62 - Steve/Natasha - She has that look in her eyes, that little sparkle in them that lures him in every damn time.

[gomustanggirl16]

“Because Opposites Attract”

So this lovely head cannon popped into my head not two seconds ago after re-reading some of @chalantness old fics so this ones for you! 

A perfume company wants Steve and Natasha to participate in the add for their new his/her’s perfume called “Attraction” and when eyebrows are raised they explain the want to brand it as polar opposites, because opposites always attract. Two different ends of the spectrum colliding. Captain America and the Black Widow, two very different people. 

Of course it’s all about the sex appeal like every other perfume. But after careful consideration and persuasion from Tony about image (But really he knows this thing between them is really coming to a head and he thinks this might just be the push they need), they both end up agreeing, if only to get Tony off their backs. 

And the perfumes an instant hit. Neither of them understands how they could possibly bring in so much marketing making the other Avengers internally face palm because they know the chemistry was can be seen between the two Avengers and the world knows it too. 

It doesn’t help Natasha with making up her mind though. Of course she knows about the tension, but she just doesn’t think its a good idea. Steve on the other starts to finally get the clue that yeah, Natasha likes him too, but doesn’t want to go there. Don’t worry he’s got a plan though.

Before either knows what hits them, they’re being asked to do different things for branding and pretty soon their faces are on every billboard and magazine cover in the world.

As they’re both standing in front of the press on their way into the Stark Gala everyone is throwing questions at them, one in particular sticks out: but do they really attract and before Natasha can really have time to answer, Steve’s lips are on hers and the sounds of the flashing cameras and lights fade away answering the one question everyone wants to know.

[milesgmoralles]

what did we do to deserve fanfics? thank you to all the writers who let me read about my ship getting a happy ending when canon won’t provide it

[hailromanogers]

To the wonderful anon who sent me a question, asking for my all-time fave fics -

Hi! U g h. I’m really sorry, once again - I’m a sucker for replying on time. And it doesn’t help at all with the fact that I’m on mobile and (also how for some reason your message no longer appears in my ask anymore), so I can’t directly give you the link of my all-time faves - but I know them by heart, so here you go! Thank you for dropping by my ask. :)

The Happiest by heyfrenchfreudiana  (just read everything on there cause she slays tbh) along with Sea Glass and Ships in the Night (it’s an Evansson fic. So if you happen to ship them - I highly encourage you to read it cause it’s by far, the best rpf fic I’ve ever read + me bawling my eyes out by how this was written was a bonus.)

This Love by myloveiamthespeedofsound

Selective Amnesia by mylifeisloki 

Splinters by thegraytigress 

Can’t Pretend by ultrona 

In Her Eyes by NatRogers

Two Halves of A Soul by xo_stardust720 (you can also read all her other fics, cause it’s just as good as this one!)

Regeneration by wantingfornothing (it’s a bummer cause it hasn’t been updated for more than a year now, but it’s still worth a shot to read!)

On The Edge of Paradise by chalantness 

Just A Blast From the Past by InNeedOfInspiration (don’t forget to read the sequel to it, A Bolt From The Blue)

Days of Future Past by daro-jesse (the first romanogers fic I’ve ever read. Which gave me all the more reasons to ship them!)

These are the only ones I have in my notes app, but I assure you - I really got a lot of fics, although I wasn’t able to note all of them. Don’t hesitate to drop by my ask or my ao3 account: natxsteve again if you want more.)  :)