scribblemyname | MCU Ladies Ficathon Treats (Reply)

I suppose it's time to do that thing again, this time for the treats.

I admit, writing some of these was terrifying. Let's start with the really, really easy one.

Playdate

"Playdate" was written for

frith_in_thorns because she asked for anything Peggy Carter, and one of the things I walked away from the finale with was, to me, a fascinating outsider POV of Peggy. Dottie Underwood (whose real name is not provided) seemed to treat Peggy as the only real possible threat, someone to essentially play the game with on her own level. Considering Dottie's upbringing (and Peggy's competence), this was not an unreasonable viewpoint. The double drabble was more an exploration of that take on Peggy, the US Black Widow if you will, than anything else. And if I managed to poke around Dottie's psyche a bit while I was at it, what can I say? :bats eyelashes:

Playdate (200 words) by WriteItSmall
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Agent Carter (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Dottie Underwood, Peggy Carter
Additional Tags: treat, Double Drabble, Spies & Secret Agents, Character Study, Canon-Typical Violence, outside pov
Summary:

Peggy Carter was like the other girls Vdova used to play with. She knew how to fight, how to spy, how to underplay expectations, and she was the only woman agent the SSR had, which meant she was their best.

Women in Espionage 101: Five Lessons Taught by Peggy Carter

I wrote "Women in Espionage 101: Five Lessons Taught by Peggy Carter" largely because I wanted to write something for

tielan because 1) her ficathon and it was kind of my thank you and 2) I just really like writing for her, okay?

tielan is the reason I love Maria so much and she turned me onto and collabed on the most incredible Maria fic ever (and I imprinted hard on it for Natasha too, I'll admit), "Counterfeit and Counterpart." So when she mentioned continuity with Peggy and Maria and the boys club aspect of SHIELD and how they dealt with that and then the working out of their SHIELD work, let's just say I squeed and went hunting for a quote I remembered about history (and didn't find) and started building on the idea of the legacy Peggy passed on and what Maria did with it.

Let's just say I had a lot of feels about Peggy already from Agent Carter and I just dumped them in with my feels about Maria and how people dish so much unjustice on her for doing her job and disagreeing with Fury and not liking the idea of the Avengers. But she wasn't entirely wrong. So out bubbled this little fic and a lot of things I wanted to acknowledge as good in Maria that I think get bashed too often.

Women in Espionage 101: Five Lessons Taught by Peggy Carter (1010 words) by scribblemyname
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Agent Carter (TV), Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Maria Hill, Peggy Carter
Additional Tags: treat, Friendship, SHIELD, Spies & Secret Agents, 5 Times
Summary:

"Never underestimate a woman," Carter told Maria on her first day of working for her. "Not yourself or anyone else."

Deep in the Throes

This fic, this fic. "Deep in the Throes" was my first treat planned for

frith_in_thorns and the last finished. To use Yuletide terms, I was chased by bears the whole entire time.

Okay, it started out nice with some snippets from the beginning and end and one in the middle. Hurt/comfort, developing friendship, Maria being the one to comfort her. The first real scene I wrote was Natasha leaning on Maria in the corner of the bedroom.

How did she get there? Deprogramming. My serious headcanon for a while has been that Maria did that for Natasha, and if I was a good girl, I'd do the research to figure out which story gave me that, but I won't because it would take some digging.

Nice little idea, mix in a little of the stuff still churning back in my muse from "One More Day," and then next thing you know, the entire story kind of explodes on me and I'm trying to figure out how I got in over my head.

I still don't know how well the third chapter turned out because it's not my specialty to say the least and this fic made me grow and stretch and work as a writer, and I couldn't even try to keep my style out of it because writing like me was the only way it was going to get finished at all. But it did get finished.

I ended up really mixing in the song "Who Will Save You Now?" that was already percolating another Natasha fic in my head, and that I'll probably still write. I had to keep playing that song to get back in tone for the fic and to help me brainstorm, and I tried to stick to it thematically, which helped a lot.

The recipient was particularly not interested in Clint as a character, so I had to work with his obvious importance to her recruitment while generally minimizing his presence, which worked because it helped me focus on Maria.

So that's the story of this story. This story. I'm still exhausted from writing it and still haven't read the whole thing in another one sitting because yeah. I was so done.

Deep in the Throes (8915 words) by scribblemyname
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Agent Carter (TV), Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Maria Hill & Natasha Romanov
Characters: Maria Hill, Natasha Romanov
Additional Tags: treat, Agent Carter Reference, Brainwashing, Backstory, deprogramming, Natasha Romanov Joins SHIELD, Developing Friendship, Developing trust, Hurt/Comfort, Medical Trauma, Nanites, Multiple Personalities, Red Room
Summary:

"Coffee always makes me feel better." It was Nespresso, the good stuff that Maria didn't share with anybody, even Coulson, however often he begged.

Natasha looked between her and the coffee, then finally set her book on the blanket and took it.

Where Maria Hill deprograms an asset and gains a friend.