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Perestroika, The Avengers [Natasha/Clint], pg13, 1560 words.

It isn't Bruce who scares Natasha, not the Hulk. What scares her is seeing how fast someone can be unmade. (trigger warnings for mental abuse/violation and depictions of triggering)


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The Quality of Mercy, Avengers (Natasha/Clint), pg-13, ~950 words.

The sharp knife, the transparent lie: these are the things people like them call mercy.

And Our House Will be Called Evil Bitch Cottage, Once Upon a Time (Regina & Emma), pg-13, 2360 words.

Good daughters and evil bitches: sometimes the character you were born to play is not the story with your happy ending. Sometimes it's just a fixed game. Emma and Regina have a conversation.

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Inspired a bit by Mary Oliver's poem, "Dogfish". (Thanks, redbrunja, for posting it!)

Excerpt:

 

You don't want to hear the story

of my life, and anyway

I don't want to tell it, I want to listen

 

to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.

 

And anyway it's the same old story - - -

a few people just trying,

one way or another,

to survive.

 

Mostly, I want to be kind.

And nobody, of course, is kind,

or mean,

for a simple reason.

See Me Angry, The Avengers (Bruce Banner | The Hulk), pg-13, ~1360 words

Bruce Banner's greatest secret is that he's always angry. It's almost funny that nobody ever guessed that.



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Stillborn, Once Upon a Time (Regina), pg, 1665 words.

Regina will never be a mother; this is just one more thing Cora has taken from her.


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shadows crossing, Once Upon a Time (Belle/Rumpelstiltskin), pg-13, ~6,000 words.

Companion/prequel fic to we rise as we fall, wherein Mr. Gold and Belle spend a lot of time in Storybrooke doing a bad job of avoiding each other, try not to invoke a dreadfully unhappy ending on themselves, get into trouble, and generally refuse to resolve any of their problems in the most mutually irritating way possible.

“I thought they refused to talk to each other,” says James.

“Please,” says Emma, “they were always very distinctly not talking to each other. They’d go out of their way to end up in the same place and not talk to each other.”

we rise as we fall, Once Upon a Time (Belle/Rumpelstiltskin), pg-13, 10,355 words.

After the curse is broken, Belle and Rumpelstiltskin are the only ones still awaiting their happy endings. But love takes work, and happy endings are not inevitable, even outside of Storybrooke.

And everyone lived happily ever after.

seasons turning in waltz time, Once Upon a Time (Belle/Rumpelstiltskin), 2,000 words.

They dance around each other as the months turn winter into summer. 


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Double Vision, Once Upon a Time (Belle/Rumpelstiltskin), g, ~4400 words.


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The Vagabonds of Heroism, Once Upon a Time (Belle/Rumpelstiltskin), 935 words.

Belle has grown up with stories; she knows how they work, and how she will be the questing hero. But the stories are not always enough.

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