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04 January 2013 @ 08:50 pm
ALL THINGS FRIDAY: Presents! (Assassins & spies are so difficult to shop for!)  
*koff*   *koff*

Um, is this thing on? *taps mike on the kareoke stage*

*SQUEAL!*   Ooops, sorry! Guess it is!

Hello, everybody! Welcome to the first All Things Friday hosted by Me - Vanessa, AKA TaleWeaver. I hope the time zone thing hasn't confused everyone? It's Friday evening down here in Australia, anyway. Is everyone feeling the love in this bar tonight?

*roar rattles the windows*

Wow, we've got a ton of great people around here! But then, we all know this is the very best bar!

Anyway, tonight's topic... well, it's pretty obviously inspired by the awesome Secret Santa that's been running around here. (hey, I think Koren M's still got a few presents left to hand out, even!) And it is still technically the twelve days of Christmas, so today's topic is....
GIFTS THAT NATASHA AND CLINT HAVE GIVEN EACH OTHER
(or joined forces to give to someone else)

What kind of things do they give each other?
Ranging from the practical, to the sentimental (for them), to the stuff that makes Coulson facepalm once he’s out of sight behind a closed door.

What occasions are gifts given for?
Do they get hustled into the Helicarrier Secret Santa (where everyone dreads getting Nick Fury, because they always wind up getting him something black)? Do they get each other birthday presents, or to celebrate the anniversary of the day they met / their first mission together / first kissed / XXX / 50th time one of them saved the other's life / admitted in public they were married? Or is their gift giving of the sporadic but constant 'I was hiding out from a hit squad in Paris, found this in a little shop on the Left Bank, thought you'd like it' variety?

Have they ever done the 'couple' thing and joined forces to give a present to someone else?
Maybe Coulson found a wheelchair with 'Agent on Board' on the back and holsters for guns, coffee and paperwork along the sides waiting for him once he was out of MedBay for that nasty stab wound? Has Colonel Fury found an anonymous package on his desk, and opened it to find a collection of eyepatches decorated according to holiday themes? (ie a heart for Valentine's Day, a four-leaf clover for St Patrick's Day, a skull and crossbones for International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and so on). Did Tony get a box of pamphlets for erectile dysfunction aides the first April Fool's Day after Natalie Rushman started working for him? Or did a former head of the KGB get a rocket-launched grenade down his chimney on the anniversary of the day Nat escaped the Red Room?

Heck, you could even write / rec something about how difficult they are to shop for!

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[identity profile] shenshen77.livejournal.com on January 5th, 2013 08:31 am (UTC)
I really, really like this idea. It is so 'them' - with their history I imagine it would be really hard for either of them to allow intimacy of any kind. Like really letting another person in, allowing them to see and feel the real Clint, the real Natasha...

Which would make it all the more special for the other to be granted that access or allowed to experience something they never had the chance to when they were younger or before they met.

I always have this picture in my head of Clint making Natasha feel young, carefree and foolish (in a good way), allowing her to find levity in her otherwise pretty dark world. For my Natasha has issues on top of issues :D But she in turn will let Clint feel safe, allow him to let go, so it's a pretty even relationship.

And in my headcanon Coulson is included in this :) He earns their trust and friendship and get's invited into their little exchange. Oh, and this comes with a rec too :D

Aggie2011 on ff.net (http://www.fanfiction.net/u/610564/Aggie2011) has a pretty awesome collection of h/c fics going, all focussing on Clint's backstory and his rise in esteem in SHIELD. Between her multichapter stories she set the 'Milestone Series', a story for every anniversary of Clints at SHIELD. He and Coulson give each other gifts to commemorate the day that Coulson brought him in. And once Natasha joins SHIELD, she also joins them in this...
inkvoices: avengers:past behind you hug (C/N)[personal profile] inkvoices on January 6th, 2013 05:40 pm (UTC)
Which would make it all the more special for the other to be granted that access or allowed to experience something they never had the chance to when they were younger or before they met. Exactly!

The more I think about it, the more I think this, as in non-material gifting, is a thing anyway, because isn't that what people who love each other do? We might spend hours searching for the 'perfect' gift, but people may do that for people they don;t like as well, and for all kinds of people, but the people we care about are the ones that we give our time to, our truths, our best and worst...

I have no problem at all seeing Coulson as included :) Ooo, and rec! *adds to bookmarks*
[identity profile] shenshen77.livejournal.com on January 6th, 2013 07:02 pm (UTC)
Yes, I couldn't agree more!

The best gift my ex-boyfriend gave was him accompanying me to a comic convention where I got to meet my favorite artist and her husband, which was just awesome! He did not care for the comics at all, it was 200 km away and he had an exam at uni the next day. THAT, my friend, showed me that he really loved me, all of me :)

And yes, sharing truths and the bad times, that is where love shows its true face.

As I said, those are more focussed on the Clint and Coulson friendship, so Nat only plays a role once she is also recruited, but they are really fitting, I think.