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Title: all around [reminders of you]
Author: Sydney Redfield
Fandom: Captain Marvel; MCU
Pairing: Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau
Rating: Gen
Disclaimer: This isn’t real. I own nothing.
Summary: The first year is the worst.
A/N: I had this little thing in my head, about their first Christmas without Carol so... here it is. Unbeta'd and hopefully not terrible. (It’s angsty af but it does have a happy ending)
Hi, I love your writings! Your Maria feels like a serious but genuine person with some dorkiness and I love how you capture her character. If your still taking prompts, how about 65“ Do you treat all your hookups like this? “
Hi!! Thank you so much for this prompt and I’m so, so sorry this is SO fricking late! Life has been a mess for the past few months, but hopefully you’ll like this.
Blackhill. Spoiler free, but the font/layout is gonna be a mess from mobile because this site is just dead set on messing up everything I post. Sorry!
“Do you treat all your hookups like this?”
When she starts to come back to hersenses she’s tied to a chair and her left temple is bleeding from thestrike that knocked her out.
Regaining conscience, the first thingshe feels is the pain of the growing headache.
She doesn’t remember exactly whathappened but she knows she was at a bar. She had a drink, got in acab with someone. Then, they got into an apartment, the details onthat are kind of foggy. She remembers some kissing, then eventuallythe woman sliding off her jacket, Maria frowning at something on thecoffee table.
“Here’s how this is gonna work,”the blonde woman says, a knife in her right hand and a lighter in herleft. “You’re gonna tell me how you found me and why they sentyou.”
“Do you treat all your hookups likethis?”
The blade is warm when it pressesagainst her neck, but it doesn’t cut, it doesn’t break the skin justyet.
“Strike one.”
“Okay, first of all, if I was tailingyou I wouldn’t have let my defenses down and I wouldn’t be tied to achair right now, so that should be the first indicator that I don’tknow what the fuck you’re talking about.”
The blade pulls back a millimeter ortwo, encouraging her.
“Second, if you’re referring to mestaring at the picture on your coffee table, that’s because this isobviously not your apartment,” Maria points out, eyesdarting to the happy little family depicted on the framed picturesaround the room.
The woman retracts completely and walksover to the couch, putting knife and lighter down on the table andinstead retrieving Maria’s blazer.
“Third, since I’m now tied to achair, I’ll go ahead and assume you’re not an accountant.”
“I found the badge in your hiddenpocket, Agent Hill.”
“Being a government agent isn’t acrime, and you didn’t exactly ask for my surname did you?”
“I saw you in Berlin two days ago,with Barton and Coulson. Assumed you followed me over to France.”
“You were in Berlin? No, wait, wewere tracking-“
Oh, this is almost too good to be true.They were tracking Black Widow in Berlin and she led them over toFrance. Could it be she recognized Maria and revealed herself becauseshe thought she’d been made?
“That a blonde wig, Lucy? That’s notyour name, though, is it?”
The woman smirks and raises her chin alittle, an eyebrow slowly moving up.
“So you picked me up in a bar andbrought me over for a little torture, uh? I guess maybe you dotreat all your hookups like this, then… Natalia, is it?”
“And she’s catching on,” the womanwhispers, making the walk back to the table to retrieve her knife.“So what does S.H.I.E.L.D. wants from old little me?”
Maria is still evaluating her options,no chance of backup or rescue in sight, no wiggle room to discard thefabric restricting her wrists, not really a whole lot she can do tomake it out alive from this situation, actually.
“Parley,” Maria says curtly.
“Now, Agent Hill, would that be theoffer or a request? Because if you want a parley with my boss, you’restaring at her.”
“No, I want you to have a parley withmy boss. He’s got this idea into his thick skull that you’d be a goodasset to have on our side and he’s not an easily dissuaded man.”
“Nick Fury wants a parley?”
The woman discards her wig, then hercolored contact lenses.
“Well, Agent Hill. Sell it to me,then.”
She goes ahead and starts changing outof her dress and into a spare combat suit in front of Maria, whilethe agent stares down at the floor between her feet.
“It’s a chance to do some good,repair some of the damage you’ve done with the Red Room and all that.You’ve already been doing it, we’re offering our assistance andresources, and of course he has some requests as well, it is ajob offer after all. He’ll pitch it better, I’m sure.”
“What makes you think I’ll accept tosee him?”
“Because, Miss Romanova, I’d be deadif you hadn’t already made the decision to talk to us. We’re the goodguys, and the question I’m posing is, are you one of us?”
Black Widow walks to her smirking,shaking her head, lips red and a wicked sparkle in her eyes as shecrouches down in front of the chair Maria is tied to.
“Oh, Agent Hill,” she says, and theblade is back at Maria’s throat, “I’m most definitely not.”
The knife slides slowly around her neckand down her back, raising goosebumps through the shirt she’s wearingwithout cutting through it. With a flick of her wrists, the ropesaround Maria’s arms cut loose.
“Let’s go then, we don’t want to makeyou boss wait too long.”
Natasha saunters ahead of her, hipsswaying, the deadliest prettiest thing Maria has ever laid eyes on inher life.
Following our poll for the 15k followers celebration, I’m pleased to announce the organization of the MCU FemShip Week from September 18th to September 24th!
This week will focus on every kind of relationships between female characters of Marvel (in movies and TV, X-men included). It’s meant to celebrate the canon relationships, but also to stimulate your imagination: what would happen if your favorite ladies had the chance to meet? or what would happen in another universe? another era? (so yes, AU are absolutely welcome!)
This event will accept any kind of content (gifs, graphics, fanarts, fanfics/drabbles, headcanons, videos, etc...) to be reblogged on womenofmcu as long as you add the tag #MCUfemshipweek (in your first 5 tags so we can see it, remember!) and you respect basic rules of respect (no stealing gifs/works from other people, no hate, etc...).
The themes for the week are:
Day 1 (Monday 18) - Favorite FemShip from the movies
Day 2 (Tuesday 19) - Favorite FemShip from the TV series
Day 3 (Wedneday 20) - Nemesis
Day 4 (Thursday 21) - Friendship
Day 5 (Friday 22) - Femslash
Day 6 (Saturday 23) - Family
Day 7 (Sunday 24) - Team
NB: if you see a gradation from days 3 to 6 or even 7, it’s on purpose. I’m not saying you should do Enemies to Friends to Lovers but... you’re welcome to think about it. ;)
