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[scribblemyname]

Drift - Jemma/Bucky

When I got sick, the first thing to go was my ability to read anything longer than 3K or so words. I ended up watching Andromeda, a show I loved growing up and had never seen all of or all in order. I'm through season 2 now, btw, and I discovered I love it better than Star Trek. It hits my embarrassment squick less frequently, though I haven't the faintest idea why.

So that said, when my first idea for a Jemma/Bucky fic started fighting me (see Stay by the Wayside below), I realized I needed to get a story written on time and it wasn't going to be Stay. I combed through hiddencait's letter (and I'm pausing to mention here I squeed so hard when I got assigned to her) and tried epistolary (no), fantasy courtship (whoa, no), and coffeeshop au before I noticed space AU again and thought, at least I know I can write space cultures.

What immediately flew off my pen was an Andromeda fusion. I had a ball and everything fit in so easily because I'd been inhaling this 'verse and knew just how it worked. And it's ensemble. I could fit everyone in there. And I could make Jiaying/Cal + Skye happy and healthy. And I got to nod in the direction of Clint/Natasha. And I got to write Fitzsimmons and gluten-free baking. :grins: I love this little story.

Drift (4518 words) by scribblemyname
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Jemma Simmons
Characters: Jemma Simmons, James "Bucky" Barnes, Agents of SHIELD Ensemble
Additional Tags: Space AU, First Meeting, Rescue, Hydra, scavenging, Team Dynamics, Team Bonding, Identity Issues, First Kiss, Developing Relationship, Andromeda Fusion AU, Friendship
Summary:

And Jemma thought they were just here to scavenge the HYDRA space station for new parts and technology her fingers were itching to crack with her partner, Fitz. "This isn't what I signed up for."

"Isn't it?" Fitz looked at her with surprise and an expression that saw right through her. "He came to us for you. He asked for Simmons not Fitz, and you know you only work with the biological components."

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Reading Volumes - Clint/Natasha

I knew I could write pretty much anything Clint/Natasha quick and easy and fun and decided on treating to find something for the pairing. Library AU stuck out at me of all the AUs on the prompt and I just stuck them in a library and went for it. Mutal pining is one of my favorite things and deaf Clint or even Deaf Clint is seriously another. It was a total mundane AU, so I got to work in all the lovely if life had been better scenarios like ballet with Dottie and James and competitive archery, eventually Olympics with Clint. I had fun with this one.

Reading Volumes (1087 words) by scribblemyname
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov
Characters: Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov
Additional Tags: Library AU, ballerina au, Alternate Universe - Modern: No Powers, Archery, First Meeting, Mutual Pining
Summary:

He loved her taste in books. Clint would shelve the materials she left out on the tables, thumb running over the spines as he read off title and author and just wondered for a moment who she was and what kind of person would read through books like To Kill a Mockingbird on the heels of Asimov's Foundation Trilogy then move over to romance novels and economics tomes. She was eclectic in her interests and focused in her reading, plowing through volume after volume in sequence.

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SHIELD School for the Gifted - Steve/Maria, Pepper/Tony

I wrote the second story first. I didn't know there would be a first story when I wrote Steve/Maria having a professional disagreement and she runs the school and he runs the training and there's Extremis Pepper commiserating over significant others and Skye angsting over her powers off-screen. And Wanda and Pietro floating around in there because I really just wanted to write something for tielan (she's another one I love to write for) and when I read her letter, I kind of wanted to write everything so combined it all in one fic. Superhero school for Steve/Maria, neighbors Pepper and Maria, and bonus Wanda and Maria interacting.

Plus, sentient kitchenware. It should be a whole new trope on its own.

The Fine Art of Compromise (1178 words) by Remember When
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, background Pepper Potts/Tony Stark - Relationship, Maria Hill & Pepper Potts
Characters: Maria Hill, Steve Rogers, Wanda Maximoff, Pepper Potts, Inhumans Cameos
Additional Tags: established relationships - Freeform, Superhero School AU, compromises, Marriage, Negotiations, friendships
Series: Part 2 of SHIELD School for the Gifted
Summary:

"They'd remember it at least." Pepper gave that longsuffering look and smile she usually directed toward Tony when he wasn't deserving of much, much worse.

Maria swore she only kept the man around for the convenient maintenance work a mechanical genius could provide and Pepper. Mostly Pepper.

The Way to Be a Good Neighbor (946 words) by Remember When
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Maria Hill & Pepper Potts
Characters: Maria Hill, Pepper Potts, Minor Steve Rogers, Minor Wanda Maximoff
Additional Tags: Neighbors, Superhero School AU, Friendship, Tony Stark Gets Underfoot, Sentient Kitchenware
Series: Part 1 of SHIELD School for the Gifted

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Stay (By the Wayside) - Jemma/Bucky

This fic rammed into my brain from the first time I read hiddencait's letter, precisely because all the AUs she picked made me go, hm. I had offered Bed and Breakfast AU with the idea of challenging myself but I hadn't really thought through any ideas with this pairing.

So I decided to do something different and actually go through the general likes and incorporate. I was originally going to have shower sex and maybe wall sex and definitely huddling for warmth, but yeah, in the end, it didn't happen, and I don't even care because there was makeup sex and semi-canon-compliant (aka canon divergent) bed and breakfast where his story is still the same, just Jemma's running a B&B safehouse instead and I ran away with that. I had to bounce of geckoholic because total AU sounded more reasonable but she gave me the thumbs up to go for it, and I did, and I'm glad I did. I liked the idea too much to let it go.

Then I had to take a break and work on other exchange fics due, which lost me my great inspiration and I had to get reinspired. This was submitted as a treat literally 1 HOUR before the collection opened. I almost didn't make it in time. But I did. :grins:

Stay (By the Wayside) (4937 words) by scribblemyname
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV), Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Jemma Simmons
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Jemma Simmons, Leo Fitz, Melinda May, Phil Coulson
Additional Tags: Bed and breakfast au, SHIELD Safehouse, First Meetings, Developing Relationship, Identity Issues, Angst, Romantic Fluff, Makeup Sex, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:

Jemma runs the SHIELD safehouse, the Wayside Bed and Breakfast. James is looking for safe places as he avoids the one person who remembers who he used to be. In each other, they find reprieve from the world after the fall of SHIELD.

Comments

[tielan]

You're a writing MACHINE, hon. :)

[scribblemyname]

Until I'm asked to write longfic. I know someone who writes novels in days. Always keeps me quite humble.

[tielan]

Yeah, I know what you mean...