These Endless Days (Are Finally Ending in a Blaze)
Following the events of Civil War, the Avengers are disbanded, scattered and in hiding - and not coping all that well. The rise of anti-superhuman feeling continues, and it's not only the Avengers who are feeling the effects. Steve Rogers and team are about to discover a whole other world, and with it comes what might be the biggest threat they've ever faced.
Whispers from the Hellmouth
“Whole town, devastated, on the whim of a child.”
A New Threat
Agent Riley Finn, waiting in the shadows of the Hagia Sofia with his recon team, takes a deep breath as he watches Captain America dust a vampire.
The Carter Girl
“Carters are Watchers,” he intones, and Peggy turns to face him, fascinated against her will to hear her father’s words from her little brother.
Conversations with the Dead
“We’re not super, Xander,” she says, a brief flash of annoyance colouring her eyes before she rolls them at him. “We’re nothing like the Avengers.”
Death of a Slayer
He had had such high hopes for this one. Had thought that she had been the key, the girl that he had been waiting for, the one to fulfill the prophecy. And yet, as they all had before, death had claimed her. This one was the same as all the rest.
The Things You Never Knew
“Last set of people I ‘had to meet’ turned out to be Nazis,” Steve returns flatly, but she’s been in the game long enough to be able to detect the note of underlying interest running through him as he says it.
Behind Enemy Lines
“What is - what is your work?” Peggy asks, curiously. “What could the Council possibly want with a scientist?” Erskine sits back in his chair and rubs at his chin, feeling the beard that has grown there over the long months he has been kept at Kastel Kaufmann.
Confessions of a Sinner
“Vampires, right,” Scott yawns again, waving a sleepy hand in Steve’s general direction. “Tennis vampires, or-” He pauses, hand out-stretched towards the kitchen counter, frozen in the act of reaching for what passes for a clean mug these days. “Wait, what? Like Dracula? Bleh, bleh, bleh?”
City Under Siege
She has strength enough to focus on the task at hand, to despatch the three vampires that come at her fast, one after the other with teeth bared and bloodlust in their yellow eyes. As they explode into dust at the point of her broken chair leg, the men who watch at the window are silent, but their eyes see all.
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
The girl wakes in a new sort of darkness, gasping for air that is thick and heavy and does not fill her lungs the way she needs it to. For a moment or two she feels as though she is more than one person - that in one body exists more than there should, a jostling within herself - themself? - she shakes her head, blinking into the gloom and the feeling starts to recede.
Got a Secret, Can You Keep It?
“I’m guessing you all recognise Steve,” Maria says, nodding toward him as she speaks.
“Don’t you, uh, usually come with real shield action?” Xander mimes throwing an over-large frisbee, and the little redhead - Willow, Steve reminds himself - beside him puts a hand to her face with a grimace.
The Chosen One
“Here’s to making history,” Erskine says, nudging the small glass tumbler back across the desk toward her, and raising his own.
“A history no one else will ever know the truth of,” she says, ruefully, as she toasts him in kind.
The Will of the People
“We don’t need your kind here,” a grey haired man steps forward out of the crowd. With a sinking feeling, Kennedy notes that he’s carrying an honest-to-God torch - the preferred accessory for all the best baying mobs.
Little Eva
“Remind you of anything?” Peggy asks, looking across at him as they stand in front of the uninviting grey wall, the bunker door falling slightly ajar.
“Feels a lot like Azzano,” Dugan notes. “Out of the way, hidden in a forest, so lots of cover and hard to see from the air. Exactly the kind of place you’d look to hide your bodies.”
Friction Burns
“Hey, I’m not the one running around dropping whole cities from the sky,” she says, raising an eyebrow toward the captain, who shakes his head whilst his fists clench at his sides.
“I mean, we did blow up an entire town,” Willow murmurs.
“Miss Summers-” Steve begins, and that’s as far as he gets.
The Potential
“We have come to offer you a place at our school,” he says smoothly. “It’s a very special school, for very special girls. Girls who have potential, who are gifted - smart, and athletic. Who aren’t the same as everyone else. Although-” and here he pauses, flicking his eyes over the girl, still cradled in her father’s arms. “-it’s only for brave girls.”
Lies and the Other Things That You Told Me
“And you,” Sam straightens, looking up at Maria. “You knew, too, right?”
“I didn’t know it was you,” she answers, arms folded over her chest. Her face is closed, measured, almost calculating - like she’s trying to weigh all the probable outcomes of this scenario at the same time.
Inheritance
She can’t put her finger on what’s changed. It’s like her blood is fizzing under her skin, and somehow it makes her feel stronger, even though she can’t understand why it would feel that way.
Coming up:
We Didn't Light the Fire
A Tangled Web, Indeed
Red Sky in the Morning
Sliding Doors
