Prompt Me Some Fiction at Ficlet O’Clock

[scribblemyname]

So, it’s that time again. I have a hankering to write some ficlets, and my current docket seems too overwhelming.

1. Give me a number between 1 and 10.
2. Name a storyworld, fandom, or character.
3. Ask a question.

I will answer your question in a ficlet of the number of sentences specified in #1.

The Number of Fear {Divergent}

for lithiumlaughter

He must stay brave to keep the name.

Revelation {Avengers/X-Men Movieverse}

for xenokattz

That wasn’t anger in Natasha’s eyes, but betrayal.

 

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Revelation

[scribblemyname]

Rogue hadn't meant to brush into the man walking down the street at the exact moment she was pulling off her glove to adjust it (sometimes, a glove was an obnoxious, impudent thing with a mind of its own), and she certainly hadn't meant to find herself standing slack-jawed over said man lying passed out in the middle of the street, too jarred by his mutation to drop immediately to his side in consideration of his well-being. Which is, of course, how she found herself waking up who knows how much later in a bed with very expensive, high-quality sheets with a raging headache and still able to see at a level that should have been impossible and hear everything around her, down to the faint breaths of a woman maybe three feet away.

"This is worse than Wolverine on a good day," Rogue muttered then forced herself to sit up and look in the woman's direction. Forget bleary-eyed, the detail was astounding. "Tasha?" she asked, then frowned and nearly slapped herself. "Sorry."

Natasha studies her for a long moment before firing off rapidly, "Rogue Marie D'ancanto, recently graduated X-Men with the ability to absorb and utilize mutant powers via touch, thus rendering victims unconscious, right?"

Rogue was torn between disbelief and the mutant Hawkeye's laughter in her head and opened her mouth to say something before slapping it closed for real this time and wondering how in the freaking world she got into these things. That wasn't anger in Natasha's eyes, but betrayal, because she had already figured out what Hawkeye was warning Rogue desperately not to say: he was a mutant and he'd never told his partner.

Re: Revelation

[lithiumlaughter.livejournal.com]

A) Your icon collection never ceases to amaze me.

B) You're not the only one who theorizes that Clint's a mutant too. It could be xenokattz who somehow got it in my head (somewhere, at some point, she wrote a ficlit about it,if I'nm not mistaken), but the idea that his heightened senses of sight and hearing are a mutation FITS. I like him as a badass normal, but Clint as mutant is a delicious idea.
And poor Tasha. The fact that Rogue uses Clint's name for Natasha is a shot to the gut. An even harder one is that last sentence. NRGH.

Re: Revelation

[scribblemyname]

A) Be Compromised comm. I check out the new sets and occasionally swipe one that really delights me.
B) I admit, I'd never thought about the issue before the prompt, but then I went for the one who could be unconscious and still pack a whollop somehow. I do love the ambiguity and intense relationship between Clint and Natasha, regardless of whether it's platonic or romantic, and I was hoping it would come across there.

Re: Revelation

[xenokattz.livejournal.com]

*LOVES ALL OVER IT*

That wasn't anger in Natasha's eyes, but betrayal, because she had already figured out what Hawkeye was warning Rogue desperately not to say: he was a mutant and he'd never told his partner.
-- Right in the pheeeeeeeeeeels. Movie!Clint & Natasha have such an intense relationship it doesn't matter if you read it as romantic, sibling, or platonic. It's just THERE, & it's solid. I love how the fact that Clint doesn't tell Tasha about his mutation is even more PHEEEEEEEEEEEELS than the fact that Rogue is now privy to many of their secrets.

Re: Revelation

[scribblemyname]

:hugs: So glad you liked it. And yes, on Clint+Natasha. That. I love relationships with meat to them, that aren't about sex or lust or romance or any of that, just real relationships between real people.