Title: ...and we are nowhere, but man, we're alright
Author: topaz119
Pairing/Characters: Clint/Natasha, Sitwell
Length: ~4400 words
Rating: Mature
Notes: Written for the Hometown Challenge--I've lived in a lot of places (hi, Army brat) but DC is always in the running for one of my favorite places to be.

Summary: Clint doesn't care where they take their leave, only that they take it together.

Link: AO3

Posted mostly because everyone in this bar is awesome, and I am SO thrilled to bits about the wonderfulness of my Secret Santa fic! Just hope whoever gets mine likes it even half as much!

Now, to explain....

New Year’s Day: it’s stinking hot outside (Australian, remember) and I have nowhere to be, so I ended up not working on a story but somehow idly starting up a typing session that turned into stream-of-consiousness smut starring Clint and Natasha.

A few hours later: these have barely been edited – I’ve moved some punctuation, and substituted some synonyms, but that’s all - and probably still count as a first draft. I have now re-read them and added some reflective notes about how the two and a half ficlets formed, and tried to work out where some of this stuff came from!

Now: There’s no plot and nothing resembling an ending, but I thought I’d toss them out anyway, because this has actually been both fun to write, and quite interesting to analyse. The half-ficlet really does need some more work first – unless someone wants me to put it up for unfinished fic Wednesday?


I'm pretty sure these will both be mined for an actual story later; even re-reading this entry in preview, I found myself coming up with adjustments - rearranging the order of some of the paragraphs, for example. I use the word 'good' far too much, and some sentences run on so much they're downright Arendish. But I thought it might still be interesting to my fellow scribes?

Just a warning: in case the above didn't make it clear, both these ficlets are NC-17

The Night Garden

(mental image; Natasha and Clint on a summer’s evening, sitting on a swingset / outdoor cane couch, in a messy but lush garden)

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Heading Nowhere Fast (Companion to above)

Mental Image: Clint and Nat driving in the middle of nowhere.

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Title: Pas De Deux
Author: hiddencait
A Gift For: lar_laughs
Rating: T
Warnings: Past/off-screen noncon and forced prostitution, language, some violence
Pairings: Clint/Natasha, Thor/Jane
Summary/Prompt Used: It wasn’t that Clint didn’t like her, but damned if the dancer wasn’t way too much of a diva for his taste. And really, he didn’t have to like her. He just had to keep her alive.
Authors Notes: A huge thanks to fringedweller for a super-last minute beta. Also giving credit where credit is due – Tasha’s backstory was inspired by Mercedes Lackey’s Reserved for the Cat, and the fight scene in the hallway was totally out of love for all of River Tam’s fight scenes in Serenity. Browncoats forever yall!


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( Pas De Deux )

Titles: n/a
Artist: daxcat79
A Gift For: sgteam14283
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Pairings: Clint/Natasha


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Title: "This was all I was meant to be."
Artist: toscaterrier
A Gift For: bob5fic
Rating: PG
Warnings: Implied nudity?
Pairings: Clintasha
Brief Description/Prompt Used: Since the prompt was so open-ended, I went hunting around bob5fic's journal for ideas and found this part of 'The Equilibrists'. Admittedly I read it out of order from the rest (and later went back to work through it all), but it was lovely and I wanted to try something based on the fic. I think I went through about four tries before finding one I was happy with; this is based off the last section of part twelve. (The title is pinched from the last line, too.)
Authors Notes: I had some difficulties with this; hopefully they don't show. I haven't done digital in a while. :P Hope you like it, though!


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Title: Train
Author: Jacedesbff
Pairing/Characters: Clint/Natasha, Clint/Bobbi
Length: 1500+, Chapter 1 of 3
Rating: PG-13 for sexual situations
Notes: This was inspired by a ficlet I read forever ago in which something similar happened at a party. I have absolutely no idea where I read it or who wrote it. I've never forgotten it, though, and it led to this. If you know what/where it is, please let me know as I would love to credit the author. :D

Summary: It's like watching a train wreck. You can see it coming, but you can't do a thing to stop it.

Can the train be derailed or will it continue to its inevitable conclusion?

Link: At AO3