#fallenau3

[kitkatpryde]

On The Take II Open II 1920′s Capone AU

God her feet hurt, Kitty grumbled as she walked back to her two room apartment. The sun was coming up, and all the speakeasy bartenders, bouncers, and....dancers were stumbling home. The...”working class” had come to take their piece of the take, and it always gave her the creeps. Capone could talk all he wanted about being a man of the people, but everyone knew he was a killer. Kitty also helped with the books so it would be her ass on the line. 

Unlike most of the dancers she worked with, Kitty wasn’t fresh off the bus from Montana, she had grown up right outside of Chicago and knew just what she was getting into, thank you very much! And she wasn’t looking to find a husband among the bathtub gin drunk grabby bastards. She really wanted to take her heels off but her feet would freeze. She sighed and pulled out her ponytail, letting her hair fall down her back. And it gave her the added advantage of being able to look around, this wasn’t the best neighborhood.

Then she saw it, the shadow on the building behind her, heard the click of some kind of shoes, Italian loafers? Her hand went into her purse and curled around her mace. Deliberately she turned around, “How long have you been following me?”

[capsrogers]

Long Distance | Stony | College Relationship AU

“Hey gorgeous. Long time no see.”

[startedfromtherootsnowwehere]

Whomping Groot || Harry Potter AU

[kitkatpryde]

Kitty and Kaz II Teacher Hating AU

They needed to provide better incentives if they wanted parents to come and actually stay at the science fairs. These kids were in second grade, nobody was harnessing the next great energy source. Kitty wandered through the classroom until she found her son's particular piece of cardboard. He had spent nearly a month watching plants grow under different colored light bulbs and charted their growth. Personally she thought it was pretty impressive. A C. That bitch had given her a C. Kitty had a masters in engineering, she should have gotten better than that. Yes, she. This project was probably more her's than her son's, he had conked out by quarter to ten, leaving her to finish correlating the data and arranging it all nice and pretty on the poster. And this wasn't the first time, usually she had to drag him kicking and screaming to finish his homework. There was just so much of it. Kitty rubbed her forehead and sat down in the tiny chairs. She was really beginning to hate this teacher. Her kid should not be this tired and stressed all the time!

[sgtbarnesthesoldier-blog]

giggle water || Bucky & Regan || 1940s AU

James Barnes was known for his charm. He was sweeter than taffy, everyone in Brooklyn knew it too. Sometimes his daddy did raise him right for he could be a gentleman when needed. He helped carry in groceries or helped clean up the yards. His father could be rough at times, but he believed it made him stronger in the end. 

He wasn’t scared to give a punch when needed Steve brought that out of him. The poor kid never knew when to back down and Bucky knew those jerks deserved it. That was how their friendship started because no one should be picked on because of how they looked or if they were different. His momma made sure Bucky knew that before her passing. 

Bucky met Regan later on in school. He somehow didn’t have a class with Steve and he was forced to make a friend. He picked her more on the fact that she was the only one who wasn’t as scared as everyone else. Bucky had only gotten into one fight and then he was known all throughout the school as the bad boy. It was stupid, but he didn’t need anyone else besides Steve. Well, and Regan if she wanted to be considered a friend. 

As the years went by Regan and Bucky’s friendship turned into a little bit more. He wouldn’t call it going steady because he wasn’t really the settling down type and he never asked. But they have been going on a few dates and maybe it would have turned into something more. Maybe if he didn’t get enlisted with the military once Pearl Harbor was attacked. His father was in the military so it made sense for Bucky to be part of it as well. That was somewhat true. He didn’t completely want to be part of the war, but this was his duty. Life would have to come after. 

He was supposed to meet Regan, but all he could think about was his new fate. Still, he tried to put a smile on his face and made his way to where she was going to be waiting. The uniform didn’t feel at all tight, almost as if it was made for him. “What you doing all by yourself, honey?” He knew she was either going to hit him or give some sort of scarstic remark. He was going to take the risk. 

[sgtbarnesthesoldier-blog]

2 + 2 = screw you || Bucky & Bruce || Tutor AU

This wasn’t the first time Bucky had been sent to the principal’s office. This also wasn’t the first time he had gotten in trouble. “Now, Mr. Barnes, you know the rules. Three strikes and you’re out, buddy.” Bucky didn’t look at the princpal and kept flidding with his fingers. “I’m going to call your father. You will wait outside and I better see you still there once your father and I are finished.” Bucky nodded before sulking his way out to the chairs. He was in real trouble now. Any call to his father was never good. 

He traced the veins on his hands as he waited. His father didn’t even look at him when he came about, his coat blowing in the wind his own feet created. He was angry, Bucky noticed by the way his face was tight and controlled. Rage was the perfect deadly sin Bucky had figured out. The talk wasn’t long and soon he was pulled from the chair and struggling to keep up with his father’s quick pace. “James, what the hell do ya think you’re doing?” It was the only thing his father said in the car and wouldn’t take silence for an answer. 

“Pa, it wasn’t even my fault. That jerk Tommy was pushing Steve. What was I supposed to do, huh?” Bucky knew his father wouldn’t understand. No one touched Steve and this Tommy fella thought he could. His father just sighed and stayed quiet the way home. Maybe he did understand or at least understood the friendship his son and Steve shared. 

The walked into the house, taking off their shoes and setting jackets in the closet. “After dinner, we’re going to talk ‘bout this school problem. You are failing classes and now getting into more fights --”

“Dad, that’s not true! Tommy was my only fight, I swear!” Bucky wasn’t going to say anything about the usual alley ass-kicking he did on Steve’s behalf. The dumb kid didn’t know when to back down. It wasn’t any of his fault. He was just protecting his best friend. 

“The principal and I agreed to a tutor. We picked one of the bests and he’s coming by after dinner.” His father argued, his arms crossed though he looked even more tired to be having this argument. Bucky mouth fell open, he couldn’t believe what he was hearing. A tutor? Some smart kid telling him what to do? He could handle Steve, but someone else? Hell no. He had turned around now and quickly put on his shoes. He wasn’t staying here. “Where ya going?” His father was tired, he wasn’t going to fight his son anymore. Things were so much easier when the son’s mother was alive. “Steve’s house. Call me when the punk arrives.” And then Bucky was out the door. He had to tell Steve even if the kid would agree with his father. Maybe they’d go out and he’d forget all about mister nerd. 

[snarkyspider]

Helpless || Kate & Peter || Hamilton AU

Peter knew that the war was the only way that he was going to climb out of the poverty he was in. Orphaned, alone in the city, and without even so much as an inheritance to his name, the only way he was ever going to be able to take care of himself was if he fought.

And so fight he did.

He’d found himself a position in the army that was of some consequence. Peter had discovered a better way to make saltpetre -- to make it keep longer and work better, so they could use less -- and that discovery had led to a quick promotion from third assistant to the Quartermaster to the General’s ‘pet scientist’.

When he got home tonight, he was going to have to burn a candle to keep working on the latest thing he was working on -- a way of refining the water around the camps faster than just boiling it. Boiling water took time and firewood, and often the army had neither to spare.

Tonight, though, he had been dragged to a high-society party in the City. Peter knew neither what to do or what to wear, so he put on his best uniform and hoped for the best. He stood to the side with some of the other soldiers, rolling his eyes at Burr and Hamilton’s antics, and quietly sipped a glass of something strong.

God, he hoped he didn’t embarrass himself here.

[snarkyspider]

My Daddy Said People Like You Are Assholes || Tony & Peter || Single Parent AU

Peter was sitting out in the hall in front of the principal’s office, scuffing the linoleum with the edge of his shoes. His backpack was with him, and he was confused and sad enough to not be reading the issue of Popular Science that was tucked into his bag, between a notebook full of scrawled images of robots he wanted to build and a pencil case that could survive a tank rolling over it.

He didn’t understand it. Flash had been being mean, and the girls had been crying. Wasn’t he supposed to stick up for people who were crying?

The mean teacher, the one who didn’t like him, had told him that what he’d done had been very wrong, and that he needed to apologize to Flash for starting the fight. But Peter hadn’t started it, not really, and when he’d tried to tell tell the man that, Peter had gotten sent straight to the office for fighting and ‘lying’. The office lady had given him a baggy of ice before telling him to wait outside, and had said she was going to call his daddy to come pick him up.

That had been -- what, 45 minutes ago? That’s what Peter’s watch said. He could keep sitting here, but the ice had melted and he didn’t feel like sitting there much longer. He quietly hopped off the chair and wandered over to the library.

At least the lady behind the counter there liked him.