I have a mighty need to know about the softball dads AU.
This fic was inspired by the many years my kid spent playing rec league softball, and it SHOWS in the writing.
Basically Bucky is coaching his niece’s softball team and meets Dad!Clint, who’s got a spitfire pitcher of a daughter who couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn at the plate. Shenanigans ensue.
I think it’s about half done? And then the kid stopped playing softball so the inspiration kind of trickled off but I hope to get back to it someday! It’s got quite a lot of words!
And yet, somehow, here he was. Roped into not just taking Addyson to softball, but now coaching her team. Apparently it was a thing. There were only a certain number of teams, and with so many families moving with regularity, the rec league was always desperate for a coach or two every season. Becca had mentioned it in passing - “Oh you’d be perfect Buck, you played in high school” - which had led to Addyson begging him to coach and-
Yeah. Here he was. Coaching for a 10U team as though he knew anything about girls’ softball.
Well, he had the handbook, and he’d played varsity baseball and it couldn’t be that different.
Then there was this draft. The team Bucky was taking over for - the Falcons - had come in last in the league during the previous season, which meant Bucky got first pick of every round, just like a real draft. So he was eyeballing all the girls on the field as best he could, looking to round out his team. Addyson’s team. Whatever.
Addyson could hit. Man could she hit. Bucky’d made sure of that before tryouts started. She’d knocked the ball literally over the fence two nights ago, her face beaming with fierce pride, Bucky not far behind.
But the poor kid couldn’t throw for shit, and Bucky was having a hard time teaching her. She caught ok - Bucky could help with that - but he’d been a lefty before he’d lost his arm, and his prosthesis didn’t give him the kind of fine motor control to allow him the accuracy he was used to having. Plus, Addyson was right-handed.
Most of the coaches’ kids pitched. Every coach had a kid and they coached their kid’s team, and as far as Bucky could tell, every single one of them pitched. Addyson couldn’t play pitcher. So Bucky needed a pitcher, badly.
He had his eye on a couple of likely candidates, including the tiniest ten year old he’d ever seen. She was the smallest kid on the field, petite and blonde, with a little upturned nose and bright blue eyes, and fierce as fuck. The murder-glare on her face when she threw the ball was so belligerent it was endearing. And man, the kid could throw. She’d struck out every kid put in front of her, the balls she threw nearly always landed in the receiving players’ gloves, whether it was a pitch or a toss, and when they didn’t it was because the other kid couldn’t hold onto the ball, not because the throw was bad.
She could catch too, throwing herself into the ball’s path fearlessly, a far departure from Addyson’s scrunched up face every time a ball came her way.
Then they put the kids up to bat, and Bucky discovered his favorite little blonde couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn.
She swung at every single pitch, no matter how wide or high or low it was clearly going to go, and stared at it in amazement when it didn’t go directly over the strike zone.
Sorry kid, not every pitch is gonna be as perfect as yours, Bucky thought with amusement.
For the WIP game, please tell me more about Moonhawk. I have become strangely invested in this ship, considering I know very little about your moon dude.
Don’t encourage me, I’ll talk about moonhawk ‘til the cows come home. I have three pieces of fanart of them and they’re my most treasured possessions. Love my lil moon dude.
This particular moonhawks is my favourite genre of moonhawks: Ronin Clint styled post-Hawkeye Freefall who’s a little lost and self-destructive vs a Moon Knight who’s not entirely sure what to do with someone more self-destructive than himself.
Clint’s trying his damndest not to be left alone with Moon Knight because they keep having inevitably messy rough sex right after the high of beating up bad guys because neither of them have an ounce of self-control. They do not take off their masks. I am pleased by my own self-indulgence.
Thank you so much, everybody! I have tears in my eyes, you are all so absolutely wonderful and supportive, thank you so much <3333
(I couldn’t have done it without you all! Thank you so much!)
All my replies to your replies are under the cut (You guys are the absolute sweetest, there’s so many of them omg!!!)
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Clint hits the mattress with a muffled thump, sweat sticking his hair to his face - it’s also sticking Bucky’s hair to his face and he swipes at it halfheartedly. His fingers end up on Bucky’s cheek instead, softer than he means for it to be.
Usually, he’s got his nails digging into bare skin, trying to cause as much damage - as much evidence - as he can. It inevitably fades after an hour or two, but there’s a kind of vicious satisfaction in leaving the marks there in the first place. It’s not like Bucky can judge him, he does exactly the same thing, except Clint comes out of it making excuses to the team about Ivan and his thugs showing up.
This isn’t- it isn’t meant to be like this.
Clint’s not supposed to be dragging his fingertips across Bucky’s jaw just to feel it, he’s not supposed to be laying soft and pliant on the bed as Bucky pushes him into the sheets.
This isn’t that kind of relationship, he says to himself firmly.
He keeps repeating it to himself like a mantra, fills up the tension with the routine biting comments and insults. It’s become enough of a routine that Clint almost works on autopilot, half-heartedly pulling hair and remembering to bite instead of just pressing his mouth to Bucky’s skin.
This isn’t that kind of relationship, he thinks again as he looks around for his pants, ignores the sinking feeling in his stomach. Some part of him is tempted to roll back under the sheets, bury his face in Bucky’s chest and stay there. He doesn’t even like Bucky, the fuck is he doing? Maybe the sex broke his brain.
He’s expecting the usual fuck off already, Barton, you’re not getting a round two that Bucky normally flings at him, if he’s feeling nice.
They’re not even friends.
Instead, he gets a hesitant, “you could- I mean. You could stay.”
It’s far too easy to give in to the request, too easy to curl up next to Bucky and wonder what the fuck they’re doing here.
“I still hate you,” Bucky mutters, but when his fingers curl around Clint’s hip they’re unexpectedly gentle.
“You’re not exactly the man of my dreams either, Barnes,” Clint says, and it’s only now he’s realising how much of a lie that is.
Clint x Loki NO THANK YOU - from my perspective Loki is Clint’s abuser so I Just Cannot with that ship.
also Thorki and Starker - and I dislike those because of the incest/underage things. And if people like them that’s fine like ship what you like, but it’s a no from me dawg.
31. What’s the nicest thing someone has ever said about your writing?
Oh my god I don’t know anytime anyone says anything nice I CRY, but I guess anything that compliments my style or the nuances or particulars of my writing is a personal fave.
44. What ship do you feel needs more attention?
OBVIOUSLY IT’S WINTERHAWK
But also can I get some WidowWinterHawk up in here?
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Type of fanwork: fic
Pairings: Winterhawk (Bucky/Clint), Amerihawk (Clint/Steve), Ameriwinterhawk (Bucky/Clint/Steve). I've done one Ironhawk (Clint/Tony) and I would be willing to do more if we talk first. I like Clintasha as a platonic pairing. Basically, I love Clint and am willing to talk about other pairings with him.
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