Prompt: Clint blames Maria for introducing Natasha to knitting. She says it calms her nerves but she's one of the calmest people he knows. The odds are good that he's going to get a sweater for his birthday. Why is he so bothered by that? (Originally from lar_laughs)

Bribe: I would make them chocolate cookies, from scratch. Also a pony.

Edited 2013-10-04 02:11 pm (UTC)

Arts and Crafts and Homicide (http://frea-o.livejournal.com/50378.html), rated PG-13, warnings for juvenile jokes about masturbation. Clint tries to figure out why he doesn't want a sweater. Sitwell...does not help.

I would prefer milk chocolate to dark chocolate.

Thank you! :) And I think that can be arranged, whenever I'm back in your part of town.

Prompt: Technology AU. Natasha is a master hacker, brought up to be one, used as one, maybe now independent. Those people who can damange water pumps, make traffic go crazy, bring down banks and nations, all with computers? That's the Black Widow. Clint is the hacker - hacker is such a dirty word, I prefer... - who works for the 'good guys' (the police, SHIELD, you name it) and once he sets his sights on something he never misses, his code always works, to unravel the bad guy's work, to fix things, to strike at the weak points of another's code and bring it down.

Then Clint is assigned to track and trace, and bring down, the Black Widow.
(Originally from inkvoices)

Threat: I would tie them to a chair and force them to watch Ben Affleck’s worst movies marathon.

Edited 2013-10-04 02:13 pm (UTC)

Prompt: Soulmate universe AU, where Clint and Natasha are NOT soulmates (mine!).

Bribe: I would do their taxes for them. The US versions of taxes, even.

a babylon for us (), rated PG-13, warnings for adultery and a brief, NSWFish section.

It's exceedingly domestic, but I took the idea of an AU and ran with it. I hope someone writes you a more canon version! :)

the link won't work ... :-(

*headdesk* Thanks, LJ and HTML, for once again letting me down. Try this one:

http://sweetwatersong.livejournal.com/17641.html

Thank you! *tackle hugs* I shall find something sufficiently nice to do in the future :)

You're welcome! Writing for prompts is enough of a reward for me, so whatever you want to do is fine. :)

Prompt: Unlike how everyone thinks of their relationship... Natasha is the one who fell first. (via undyinglovee)

Treat: I will learn, and sing for you, every song from the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

I like this one ... I may need to do it, but not until November ...

YESSSS. I'm having real trouble finding stories where Natasha falls first. And I really, realyl want them.

I LOVE stories with that take. And they're definitely hard to come by!

Do you know of any? Because I tried to go on a search and all I could find were ones that were really vague and implied.

There was actually a whole discussion about this in this comm once. Now, of course, I am spurred to go find it. (The thought is a bit daunting.) In the meantime, a few that I can remember:

American Cultural Parameters - http://archiveofourown.org/works/752648 - the funny part is that during the aforementioned discussion, I didn't think of this one at first. And I wrote it. Which is funny for SO many reasons. :-) I wrote it because I wanted more stories where she liked him first.

Hyperfocal Distance - http://archiveofourown.org/works/987348 - just came out this week. Journalism AU in which she clearly caught on long before he did. :-)

Looking for You or Anyone Like you - http://archiveofourown.org/works/458311

Those are the ones I can think of off of the top of my head. Any others you know I'd love to hear! :-)

Edited 2013-10-07 12:21 am (UTC)

I genuinely cannot think of more that those. And even those are, to me, not quite right. Because she always turns to Clint and says she loves him and he's like well I've not slept with/seen anyone since a long time before you; ergo Clint fell first. But they are by far the closest. Maybe I'll try to write one at some stage...

There is one that I believe fits what you're describing, but it's a background element of the plot. It's "Oxycodone Days" and "Into the Fire", both on FF.net and AO3 (I can't look up the links at work.) Natasha describes how she spent "nine months trying to get out of the friend zone" and finally got him to see her that way. I didn't recommend it initially because it is a background element of the plot. Also, while I really, really like the characterizations of Clint and Natasha, that of Tony is so off-putting that I have a hard time recommending it. I mean, Tony is just a...well, let's just say he's truly unlikable and (IMO) wildly OOC. Back to the initial point, though, the relationship between Clint and Natasha developed from what you are describing.

Like you, though, I would really like to see (or write) one where she falls first and has to do something about it. I think what has become fanon, though, is that there is no way she would like him and he wouldn't (a) catch on pretty quickly and/or (b) not have already been attracted to her. The nice thing about the above-mentioned fics is that the author sets up characters that make that believable (although I would darn-near kill for a prequel that goes into more detail.)

As long as we're throwing stuff out there, what kind of situation/background can you envision where that's the case? Wait a minute, I did kind of write that in "Train" (on AO3 under my name). (And why do I keep forgetting that I wrote these things? I mean, seriously - I am clearly getting old.) It has Clint hung up on somebody else, and he doesn't come around until the current girlfriend tells him she won't marry him unless he gets another partner, her reasoning being that Natasha is in love with him. He refuses to break up with Natasha (partnerly-speaking), so he dumps the girlfriend and ends up deciding to see what could be there with Natasha as he'd never really considered it before. So it kind of is what you're talking about (I think). Sorry I can't link to it, but I try to avoid going on fanfiction sites using the elementary school server. :-)

Anywho, love to hear your thoughts. Because I do think it's a plausible set-up. It just has to have good exposition.

Ah. I rmemeber Oxycodone Days. And yes, the whole thing read as rather OOC to me too. Aah well.

In my mind, Natasha starts of with a sort of... not hero worship, but something similar based on the fact that Clint gave her a chance. And its all mixed in with hope and gratefulness and protectiveness and everything, and its all normal and fine until one day she just realises that its been there from the beginning, she just hadn't twigged. But for him, he saved her because he saw the good and the potential, but it wasn't anything more than that. I mean, sure, she's attactive, but he's a professionsal and he's known attractive women before.. So he's her friend and parter and confidant and then...

Well I don't really know, because as you said, it's fanon that he falls first, and its difficult to get away from that. But I think you could do it it, you just have to think it through properly. And be more awake that me now when you do it. :P

I hope it's okay if I start pondering this, too. I really love the concept and would love to see it written out. :-)

Haha of course! Far be it for me to tell people not to think/write about stuff. The more the merrier! That way something may come of it. :D

OMG YES. This is the prompt I want above all others. And I want like 20 stories that follow this.

In-n-out burger for life!

Prompt: Fairy Tale AU: "A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brother's cousin's friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesn't matter that she didn't ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or to not know how men breathe until they stop doing it." (via sugar_fey)

Bribe: homemade raspberry pavlova, with cream. :D

Edited 2013-10-04 09:13 pm (UTC)

Ooh. I like that one. Have you read ashen_key's the water and the wild? It's pretty close to the meat of your prompt (and also dark, with graphic depictions of violence). http://archiveofourown.org/works/478786?view_adult=true

Yes I have actually! But it's totally worth a reread. :)

"By the time he arrived outside Stark's lab, there was smoke seeping out from underneath the door. The hand-drawn sign stuck to the door said 'There Be Dragons.' He turned to Tony, who was wheezing and covered in soot.

"Please tell me that's a joke."

Stark just looked at him, and something in his eyes hit Clint like a punch in the gut.

"Tony?"" he said carefully. ""Where's Natasha?"

___________

Okay, a while ago (at the Ottawa Comicon in May, to be exact) I acquired this print of Black Widow by an artist whose name I forget, but it's on the print -- as is his signature. I was going to auction it off for charity, but being me, never got my act together on that.

SO.

You write me that story? You get this: :-)


(http://s1294.photobucket.com/user/AlphaFlyer/media/DSC_0521_zpsf3353071.jpg.html)

Prompt: Natasha always knows what she wants. (Originally from sugar_fey)

Bribe: A manicure and a hand massage with sparkly nail polish.

One of my own prompts -- The first time she initiated an embrace wasn’t what he expected. She was desperately clutching him, fists curled into his shirt on his back, violently shuddering, and with her face buried against his neck.

I'm thinking drugs. No, not as the bribe or threat! But that Natasha was drugged.

Although, due to my recent cold, I do have some pretty decent cough medicine, but I'm not sure I want to give it up.

My bribe: I'll post a couple of the most adorable puppies playing with a kitten photos you have ever seen.

Happy Friday everyone!

Good prompt!

The bribes don't have to be real! But real always helps.

And I was totally just about to post "drugs" as one of my bribes, but given all the stuff with the NSA, I didn't want people to think I was serious :)

Ahahaha, I was going to post drugs too (since I'm a pharmacist), but decided not to in case the DEA wants to go sniffing around. ;)

Prompt: Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. ... - N’tima

Originally from anuna_81

Bribe: A fruit hat. Obviously.

You know, I'm staring at this prompt, I know exactly why I prompted, and really want to see it filled :) So happy you pulled it out. I would love to fill it myself. Do I get a fruit hat then?

A fictional fruit hat. And maybe a nice present, if I'm ever in your neck of the woods or vice versa.