Another combo post for @ficreadingchallenge. Got everything in just under the wire last night!
Every Breath You Take (Scars Edition) by @reremouse
18k | Mature | WinterHawk
Scars tell a story about where we’ve been and what we’ve experienced. Soulmates only meet after that life experience has been lived. That doesn’t necessarily mean they’re ready for it.
Shortly after the takedown of Project Insight, Steve turns up at the tower with a quieter Bucky looking for a place to recover himself. It’s a solid plan, at least, until Clint walks right into Bucky, triggers their soul bond, and pretty much tosses Steve’s entire Bucky recovery plan out the window. Bucky is probably not ready to further complicate his life with a soulmate, so Clint does the only decent thing and retreats to his apartment in Bed Stuy. Maybe he should have consulted with Bucky first.
A story about soulmates, friends in a tower, enemies in tracksuits, Steve looking out for Bucky, Tony looking out for everyone, the Winter Soldier on his own mission, and Clint.
You and Me (Telepathy) by @badacts, @drgrlfriend, @flawedamythyst, ghoulguy, @quicksillver
The telepathy had felt like something of an afterthought to the whole brainwashing experience, which was why Clint didn’t bother mentioning it to people.
“An evil alien God took control of my mind and made me kill a whole bunch of people, then tried to take over the world,” was pretty much enough without “oh, and as a side effect, I now have a mental connection with a Norwegian-American astrophysicist,” on top of it.
For His Eyes Only by @aurevell
A spymaster’s work is never done. Until evening, when Peter lets his hair down—literally and metaphorically.
And one last bonus fic for the free space because I'm absolutely in love with it!
7/? | 28k | Explicit | FeydPaul
The threads the Bene Gesserit weave are intricate and ever enduring, schemes within schemes, contingencies within contingencies.
Jessica gives birth to a son instead of a daughter despite explicitly given orders. It should have altered the path forced upon her, the sacrifice that was to be made of her child in the hands of a brutal and violent house. Instead her choice triggers a dormant Bene Gesserit gene engineering not witnessed for millennia.
