So you know how Price, Ghost, Soap, and Gaz all enlisted when they were practically kids? I cannot stop thinking about how that means the military basically raised them, like they know how to dismantle a rifle blindfolded, patch a sucking chest wound, and conduct recon in hostile territory, but put them in a normal house, in a normal neighborhood, in a normal environment and suddenly it’s game over.
Which is fine, whatever- until they get assigned to go undercover in some suburban cul de sac and have to act like normal civilians. That’s when the cracks start to show.
Because they’re bad at it. Really bad. By Day Three you have already decided that the four men across the street are either undercover agents, aliens trying out human cosplay, or the weirdest polycule of gay men on the eastern seaboard. Because how the fuck do four fully grown men collectively fail to figure out how to operate a lawn mower or light a grill without a column of flame visible to the ISS?
Or: A comprehensive log of why your home insurance premium is about to skyrocket.
peds!reader who is on her emergency medicine rotation after spending most of intern year in inpatient and outpatient pediatrics. she's still adjusting to the pace of the ER, where everything is louder and faster. she asks a million questions, carries too many pens in her scrub pockets, and still occasionally gets lost trying to find supply rooms because she spent the last year living on entirely different floors.
peds!reader who's known santos since her first day in pittsburg, they met at a bar one night and quickly became friends. eventually they became roomates and took in poor whitaker.
peds!reader who is slowly started to observe that ever since frank langdon started working closely with her, everyone else in the department has decided they are witnessing “something.” she does not agree. at all. she is extremely normal about it. they are just professional friends. the fact that she immediately starts talking faster whenever he walks into a room is irrelevant.
peds!reader who talks a lot. not because she likes hearing herself speak, but because silence makes her nervous. she'll ramble while placing IVs, while charting, while walking between rooms.
peds!reader who is incredibly good with scared children. she can convince a terrified five-year-old to take medicine, talk an anxious teenager through stitches, and somehow perform an exam while discussing dinosaurs, taylor swift, or whatever hyperfixation the kid currently has.
peds!reader who discovers that frank is weirdly protective of her. not because he thinks she can't handle herself, but because he knows she runs herself into the ground trying to take care of everyone else.
peds!reader who stress bakes. after bad shifts she'll go home and make bread from scratch at midnight because kneading dough feels easier than processing emotions. her apartment constantly smells like fresh bread, muffins, or whatever recipe she found online at 2 a.m.
peds!reader who never quite understands how she became so important to langdon, and she can't help but think that maybe, maybe she should start listening to the others...
Content/Warnings: Eventual smut. Classism. Sexual Harrassment (Not Valarr). Slight possessive tendencies. Slight stalker-ish tendencies. Class differences and power imbalances.
Warnings will be updated as the story continues.
Valarr Targaryen, a perfect and flawless man, from a family of the highest nobility. He was the prime example of what a man of his status should be, polished and civil. He was by definition perfect, that was fact. Then there was you, a law student who struggled her way from the bottom in hopes to make it to the top, intelligent in every way other than feeling. These were two lives that should have never crossed, should have never become entangled and yet, they did. A boy and a girl, one intent on feeling and the other devote to the safety of fact.
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
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bucky barnes ˏˋ°•*⁀➷
˗ˏˋ short reads ˎˊ˗
✧ margin of error → you skip the med bay after a mission that left you bleeding to keep bucky from finding out you’re hurt—not realizing he’s home early.
✧ promise without ceremony → bucky gave up on marriage a long time ago. but one day, when he pulls a bullet from your leg, he accidentally proposes.
+ secret deleted scene!
✧ tactical comfort → when your period hits early during a mission, you try to power through it. but, bucky notices everything, and he refuses to let you suffer in silence.
+ secret deleted scene!
golden hour → bucky asks you to move in after coming home from a mission.
somatic memories → bucky wakes from a nightmare about you and finds the apartment empty, convinced the worst has already happened.
half-light → 18+ you end up using your safeword with bucky for the first time.
night shift → you’re a nurse living below bucky, and when he shows up bleeding in the middle of the night, you’re the only person he trusts to stitch him back together.
shelter → bucky comes home late from a storm with groceries, a guilt complex, and a kitten in his jacket.
dress rehearsal → 18+ minutes before a gala, bucky finds you spiraling in front of the mirror and decides there are better ways to remind you you’re worth every second of the spotlight.
interim measures → (thunderbolts/bucky x reader) after officially moving into tower, the team is still figuring out how to coexist. game night helps!
pressure points → bucky never misses a tell and hiding an unexpected injury during a mission debrief forces both of you to confront what the two of you are really doing.
something worth holding → you bring bucky flowers for his birthday, and what starts as a simple gesture turns into something far more significant.
under the snowfall → snowed in at a safe house, you start a snowball fight with bucky, sam, and joaquin, and chaos quickly follows.
five times he almost did → five times bucky didn’t say "i love you", and one time he did.
˗ˏˋ long reads ˎˊ˗
✧ hold fast → a mission goes sideways, forcing you to cross a frozen lake. the ice doesn’t hold, and when you go under, Bucky is the only thing between you and the dark.
✧ comms interference → the team knew something was off about you, the one who kept hijacking their comms and saving their asses with pop music. what they don’t know is that you’re bucky’s secret wife.
✧ blood upon the snow → you’re bleeding out alone in the snow and your brain does the only mercy it has left: runs every version of bucky barnes you’ve ever known in hopes that the real one makes it in time.
✧ proof of return → you die and come back every time. But when a mission pushes your limits and you don’t return right away, Bucky’s worst fear threatens to finally be true.
habits of the heart → you and bucky both know what it means to wake up haunted after a nightmare. over time, taking care of each other through it becomes second nature.
✧ a place to land → after a night out goes violently wrong, you call bucky—without knowing what you’re even asking for. he shows up anyway, until you finally start to believe you’re safe.
high water → you’ve stopped keeping track of the bruises. bucky hasn’t—and he doesn’t say anything, not until the patterns start looking too much like his own.
sound check → bucky’s never been one for live music or crowded bars, but the first time he hears you sing, he’s ruined for anything else.
into the void → inside the void, nothing is real, but the trauma is. as memory turns to ruin, bucky is found by the only person who ever made him believe he could survive what was done to him.
what stays → after disappearing for days, you didn’t expect bucky to show up at your door again, let alone help you through the spiral without judgment.
fault lines → after getting laid off from your job, you're doing everything you can to keep it together. bucky refuses to let you go through the unraveling alone.
the shape of a life → you didn’t plan to become a guardian overnight—and you never planned to ask bucky for help. he wants a future you’re not sure you believe in.
no way but through → a snowstorm swallows the world whole, leaving you and bucky stranded in the middle of nowhere during a mission with no way out.
a love letter to stone → you were bucky’s fiancée in the 40s, spending decades at his grave, never moving on. when he finally comes home, you’re already gone.
salt in the blood → you live in a fishing town far from the mess of global conflicts, until a stranger with a metal arm shows up at your dock asking for a boat.
˗ˏˋ double features ˎˊ˗
✧ aftershock | new avengers!bucky x pregnant!reader
you find out you’re pregnant days before a mission and decide not to tell bucky. but when everything goes wrong in the field, he’s left putting together the pieces until you wake up.
part 1 | part 2 | secret deleted scene!
˗ˏˋ series ˎˊ˗
a seat at the table | congressman!bucky x journalist!reader (ON HIATUS)
journalism was supposed to be about the truth. politics was supposed to be about power. when bucky barnes—former assassin, reluctant congressman—leaves you with more questions than answers, you find yourself caught in a different kind of story. leads into thunderbolts*
part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5
✧ point of impact | civil war!avengers/bucky x transported!reader
in your world, the avengers are fiction—comics, movies, nothing more. when a lab experiment goes wrong, you wake up mid-civil war with no way out and no script to follow.
part 1 | part 2 | part 3
bob reynolds ˏˋ°•*⁀➷
˗ˏˋ short reads ˎˊ˗
the quiet that follows → (thunderbolts/bob x reader) you can dampen emotions, and you do it to keep the team steady. they try to show up in their own clumsy ways, bob just does it the quietest.
better than before → you’re head over heels for your boss, congressman bucky barnes, but when you move to assist the new avengers, you meet bob.
steve rogers ˏˋ°•*⁀➷
˗ˏˋ long reads ˎˊ˗
a place to burn → you and steve were lovers until the accords split the team. now three years after the snap, a failed mission forces you back into his orbit, where five years of silence finally demands an answer.
{'x Reader' works currently include: Isaac Night (Wednesday), Angus Tully (The Holdovers), Bosco Leroy (NYSM:NYD), Emperor Geta (Gladiator II), Johnny Storm (Fantastic Four: First Steps), Eddie Munson (Stranger Things), Steve Harrington (Stranger Things), Gator Tillman (Fargo), & Walter "Keys" McKey (Free Guy) - open to other suggestions as well!}
If you have anything you’d like to see from me (one-shots, character-wise, etc - don’t hesitate to send me an ask !! i love hearing from you all!
Completed Multi-Chapters:
Unraveled (Isaac Night x Reader) Series Masterlist - Completed
Hurt You To Heal You (Isaac Night x Reader) Series Masterlist - Completed
Holding All Your Baggage (Angus Tully x Reader) Series Masterlist - Completed
Small World, Ain't It? (Gator Tillman x Reader) Series Masterlist - Completed
So Much I Wanna Do (Eddie Munson x Reader) Series Masterlist - Completed
City Girl (Gator Tillman x Reader) - Series Masterlist - Completed
Tethered (Walter "Keys" McKey x Reader) - Series Masterlist - Completed
In Progress Multi-Chapters:
Magic In Your Sighs (Bosco Leroy x Reader) Series Masterlist - In Progress
Would That Be a Bad Thing? (Emperor Geta x Reader) Series Masterlist - In Progress
We Were Friends (Gator Tillman x Reader) Series Masterlist - In Progress
Character-Specific Masterlists:
Joseph Quinn Character Masterlist - includes Eddie Munson, Emperor Geta, & Johnny Storm
Joe Keery Character Masterlist - includes Steve Harrington, Walter "Keys" McKey, & Gator Tillman
