The feels I'm feeling from this ATTF!!! AHH. I need to write something.

Hahahaha, yes! Bring the cute!

SURE DUDE, PROMPTS AND FICS. GO GO GO!!!

The first thing I thought of was this:

http://browse.deviantart.com/art/Clint-and-Natasha-3-371772656

Clint and Natasha as lions -- I may have recced this before, but it fits with both cute and cuddly :)

Hakuna matata!

I'm in a rush to get out of work early, but I'll be back!

Oh, I remember seeing this before, it's so cute! Thanks :D

HAKU- OH MY GOD THAT IS SO DARN CUTE. I LOVE IT!!! *gleesplodes*

And if you fill one, just comment with "FILL" in the subject line of that particular prompt thread. Please do include warnings and ratings, thanks :)

First kiss doesn't turn out how they anticipated. ;)

I would love to see some cuddly assassins being cuddly. Clint wakes from a nightmare, sweating and heart pounding... Nat is there for him, calms him with her presence and well, cuddles :D

I'm sorry, did someone ask for prompts? Because I can totally do that.

Kidfic Prompts:

They planned for one kid, not for quadruplets (with cameos from other characters babysitting?).

OR

Natasha has memorized thirty different lullabies in six different languages (because her kids are going to be multilingual, dammit!). Clint knows two lullabies; the only one he remembers his mother singing to him and Enter Sandman.

Other Prompts:

Falling in love over the course of a dance.

The wedding was a disaster, but the honeymoon was amazing.

Bodyguard AU.

And I'll stop now. I haven't been saving up prompts for months, or anything. :P

Natasha's always had a soft spot for cats. She has vague memories of having one as a child and is pretty sure they're true memories and not Red Room fabrications. When she comes across an abandoned litter of kittens she just can't help but rescue them.

Clint thought it was just a weird quirk of hers, but everytime they've had to share a room he notices her fingering the blankets on the beds. The first time she ends up in medical and he sees her fingering the rather coarse blanket she's covered with, he thinks he gets it. He goes out and finds the most ridiculously soft blanket he can and gives it to her.

I can't believe I didn't think of this before, but what does Natasha do when Clint have a horrible week, and vice versa?

I was talking to frea_o about this ATTF yesterday, and since she won't be around today, she offered to write something based on a prompt I gave her. My prompt was "Sleeping next to natasha isn't so wonderful as everyone thinks". Here is frea_o's wondeeeeeerful ficlet! :)

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The first time somebody asks, he says she kicks in her sleep.

The look at him in shock that he would actually answer that question; Clint shrugs. “What?” he asks. “She does. She kicks in her sleep.”

There’s a long pause, so Clint sighs and hikes up the leg of his sweatpants to show the rather impressive bruise purpling up what feels like the entire bottom half of his shin. None of the trainees are actually squeamish enough to look grossed out, but there is definitely more respect lurking in their eyes. Clint rolls the pants leg back down and orders them to run a few more laps or something productive so that SHIELD won’t fire him as an instructor or whatever.

The next group to ask is Accounting. They fear her, but in a different way than the trainees do.

“It’s not easy. She’s always armed and she’s twitchy,” Clint says, and shows them an scar low on his ribcage. “Fast, too. I talked in my sleep once, she gave me this with her favorite knife. I learned to shut up pretty quick.”

Now it’s not respect on his audience’s faces, but horror.

Time passes. People get used to it—it being somehow both a miracle that threatens to blow him away a little more every day and yet feels completely right—but questions still come up. Sometimes he keeps it mundane: she keeps the room like an icebox and needs four different blankets. Other times he drops hint about leather and riding crops, or shows off fresh and old wounds alike. By the time six months of cohabitation have gone by, there are so many stories floating around SHIELD that Clint doesn’t bother to keep them straight. It catches up to him the night he comes in from a mission and starts stripping in the dark.

Natasha rolls over and he can feel her eyes on him, even if his vision hasn’t adjusted well enough for him to see her yet.

“So I stabbed you, huh?” she asks.

Clint pauses with his shirt halfway over his head. “For talking in my sleep. See?” He taps his ribcage.

“You got that in Calcutta, you dork.” Amusement leaks into her voice as she moves over to let him have his side of the bed. She always sleeps there when he’s away. Luckily his mission tonight was quick: in, arrow some bad guy in the throat, out before the late night shows start.

He climbs into bed and she turns onto her side so that they’re face to face. By now, his eyes have adjusted and he can see that she’s smirking, which makes him smile. “How’d you find out?”

“Sally, in Accounting.”

“That rat.”

“The IT department seems to think I can’t sleep without choking you a little bit.”

“Your hugs are a little on the strangle-y side.” Clint nudges her nose with his, which always makes her laugh. “But it’s strange how fixated everybody around this place is about you and sleeping. So what’s a few white lies to keep their lives interesting?”

“You’re kind of a terrible person sometimes,” Natasha says, her tone thoughtful. “Sleeping next to me is amazing.”

He grins. Modesty has never been a problem for her. “You kick in your sleep.”

“You snore when you sleep on your stomach.”

“You’re a covers hog.”

“You’re a bed hog. And you like to cuddle.”

He gives her a wounded look. “Well, yeah, I’m a cuddly guy.”

This makes her laugh again as she tugs him toward her. When she kisses him, her lips are curved up in a smile. These moments, he thinks as his fingers find the hem of the shirt she’s been sleeping in and tug, are why he won’t ever really tell the truth when somebody asks what it’s like to share a bed with the Black Widow. Because really, sleeping next to Natasha isn’t always restful or even wonderful. But he still likes it.

AWWWWW! All the feels!
I love Clint's wild stories and Nat's reaction to finding out. All the banter is just what the doctor ordered and cuddly assassins being cuddly??? I love it :D

Thanks for this wonderful gift, Frea <3

I am pretty much out of it today (but I will write if there's a way to make myself); instead I can give you awww inducing things I've worked on (you could easily call me Miss Babyfic.)

My fanfic writing for this pairing started with a story called Kobayashi Maru (http://archiveofourown.org/works/465017), which is a rather big babyfic and should provide you with aww moments featuring entire team. I wrote several stories in that same 'verse, and you can find them here (http://head-on-home.livejournal.com/tag/kobayashi%20verse), and an additional one that's only on AO3, called Effects of maternity (http://archiveofourown.org/works/484209); in which Natasha is a badass mommy. Other baby and kid fics? Only human (http://head-on-home.livejournal.com/17204.html) where I tried to flip a trope of Natasha not wanting a baby on its head and Learning to play the song in your heart part one (http://head-on-home.livejournal.com/20908.html) and part two (http://head-on-home.livejournal.com/20993.html), in which natasha decides to keep an unplanned pregnancy, and Clint decides he will help her as much as he can. Only it's harder than he expected. (That one is slightly unconventional approach to babyfic, because Clint isn't the baby's biological father, and no, Natasha didn't cheat on him, and it's more complicated than it seems based on this summary.)

There's another kidfic series I was working on called Random numbers (http://head-on-home.livejournal.com/tag/series%3A%20random%20numbers), which was Castle/Avengers crossover and Clint had a kid with... well, go and check it out if you want. It's not finished, and maybe I should really go back to that thing. :D

Among other works, I can offer you Adagio, allegro (http://archiveofourown.org/works/826531) for awwwws. Cuddling while playing a cello, why not?

Edited 2013-06-21 07:01 pm (UTC)

Just read your Castle/Avengers fic, very cute!! I have never seen that show but I like fics where Clint has a kid (I've read a few where he has adult-aged daughters)...I think I like them because he just seems like a guy who would have had a kid at some point lol.

It's such a fun (sometimes) challenge to write these two as 'cute' without going OOC... finding that balance between snuggles and snark, especially when they're both so well-suited to deep, dark angsty angst.

When I get stuck on my current WIP, I tend to plot out/write sappy little codas that there's really no place for in the story, but that are part of my personal headcanon. Maybe I'll post them as one-shots after the main story is finished (which, at this point, I'm just hoping will be some point before Avengers 2 comes out *headdesk*)

Bad week??? NOOOOOO...Hugs and cuddles and snuggles and...hiddles? To both you lovely ladies!!!

+1 to this post. Have all the hugs.

I've mentioned this before, but Nat in palazzo pants in IM2. Cuteness.

Ooohhh I need to screencap that. She looks amazing there.

Have cute baby Natasha and Clint, with Avengers and SHIELD people, from Skottie Young Varient covers:







(And I'm not sure if this last one is from him, but it's definitely based off his work at least:)



For more aww just do a google image search for skottie young baby variants or take a long at his tumblr. I love this artist's variant covers, and his X Babies Vs A Babies comic :D

Edited 2013-06-21 10:30 pm (UTC)

Purrrrrrfection ....

I don't have time to think of a prompt (I may steal one of the above ones and write something on the plane). So here is a sad/cute piece from a five-times fic I did a while back (Five Times Clint Barton Losed His Train of Thought). Awww in a different sense ...

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He is lying in bed, the frayed teddy bear soft under his chin. Tomorrow is a big day in school, they’re having a race and all the first graders are allowed in and Teacher says the way Clint can run, he could maybe do real well. He can run like the wind even though he’s small, and it feels good when he does, the wind on his face and in his hair and his feet on the grass. And even Petey Doyle who’s such a big bully and mean and in Grade Three can never catch Clint like he does Barney even though they’re both older than him -- Clint can run faster than any of them and he can climb trees, too, to get away.

He looks at Teddy, and Teddy agrees that running is something Clinty is good at, almost as good as he is at throwing pebbles into tins from real far away. Too bad they don’t have that as a race, he would sure win and then maybe Daddy would be nice to him for a bit and …

… then he hears Mommy scream in the kitchen and they’re fighting again and there’s a large bump like something’s crashed to the floor and Mommy screams louder and then Daddy shouts in that slurry way he gets when he comes home from work late and there’s another bump and Clint grabs Teddy and they pull their blanket over their head and he just wants it to be silent again. He scrunches his eyes shut and he isn’t thinking about tomorrow any more at all.

Awww!!!! That is so fricken sad!!! Poor baby Clint :(

I bring a ficlet/Drabble/Whatever!!

Read "Who's the Sappiest?" over at my LJ (http://slytheringurrl.livejournal.com/49874.html?fullversion=yes)

Oh, awesome! This is really cute :D I like that it's almost all banter, very nice!

Um, I have this? I think it qualifies, since it's pretty much the fluffiest thing I've ever written. :p http://archiveofourown.org/works/834149

I think that definitely qualifies :D There's angst but also a lot of fluff and feels :) I love it, thanks for sharing!

Sorry I'm posting this so late to the party, hopefully there are still some stragglers hanging around!

http://archiveofourown.org/works/746638 -- In Which Natasha Is Temporarily a Cat by TardisIsTheOnlyWayToTravel -- Summary: It’s up to Clint to say what they’re all thinking.

“Natasha. You’re a cat.”

Natasha hisses, because yes, she's worked that out for herself.


http://archiveofourown.org/works/433362/chapters/734595 -- Getting to Know You by QueenRiley -- Summary: When four of the Avengers are affected by Asgardian technology and turned into children, Tony is left to care for them. *pure crack kid fic!* -- Notes: Brief mention of potential child abuse, but nothing is graphic or described really


http://archiveofourown.org/works/440315 -- The Pixar Movie Thing (or, Clint and Natasha Have a Movie Habit) by eiluned -- Summary: Clint and Natasha developed a habit of watching Pixar movies together. Let's go through the last fifteen years of their movie watching history.


http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8334531/1/Pretty-as-a-Purl -- Pretty as a Purl by Liliththestormgoddess -- Summary: Natasha Romanoff: super secret spy, Avenger, killer of men and courter of death. She also liked to knit.


http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8324752/1/the-american-dream -- the american dream by rollingplains -- Summary:Because they're not always above the law.

Edited 2013-06-22 09:20 pm (UTC)

Awesome, thanks for these!