16 March 2014 @ 10:40 am
FIC: The Skies Over Manhattan -- Chapter 5: Clouds (rated T; warning below)  
Title: The Skies Over Manhattan
Author: [livejournal.com profile] alphaflyer
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Chapter 5 deals with issues relating to loss of control and choice; swearing throughout.  Some spoilers for the later episodes of Agents of SHIELD
Pairing/Characters: Natasha/Clint, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, Thor, Bruce Banner, Nick Fury, Phil Coulson
Summary:  Two master assassins, a demi-god, a super soldier, a man with breathtaking anger management issues and a billionaire in a flying suit. They're supposed to be on the same team ...
A series of adult (as in, grown-up) conversations as the Avengers get to know one another beyond fighting side-by-side.  Initially written in early 2013, this story was complete until it was obvious that Coulson Lived -- and then one more conversation was needed. Chapter 5 crosses over into Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Word count: 40,000

A/N:  Finally -- it's done.  Working on this chapter has been like standing on shifting sands, and so I decided to settle it in the small cracks, filling in some things left open, those unexplained gaps.  Much of this will without doubt be overtaken by more revelations -- but like Phil Coulson’s memory, thoughts and conversations are shards of time and space; you may see a picture only when you step back far enough.


The Skies Over Manhattan -- Chapter 5:  Clouds


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[identity profile] angela-n-hunt.livejournal.com on March 16th, 2014 09:13 pm (UTC)
This is fantastic. Great work!
[identity profile] alphaflyer.livejournal.com on March 17th, 2014 01:00 am (UTC)
Thank you so much! That means a lot coming from you - I can't remember how exactly it happened (google is a mysterious power), but it was your Powerpoint of Bee + Bob's Teenage Makeout fic that brought me to this comm a year and a half ago... :-) so - Thank YOU.
[identity profile] angela-n-hunt.livejournal.com on March 17th, 2014 02:21 am (UTC)
Really?!

I wish you could see the enormous silly grin on my face. That PowerPoint is still one of my all time favorite silly things I've ever made. I'm so glad it brought you to the comm!
[identity profile] alphaflyer.livejournal.com on March 17th, 2014 02:27 am (UTC)
Yup. Really truly. Like I said, I have no idea how it popped up when I googled (or what I was googling in the first place) but there it was, so I looked at it, thought it was hilarious, then I looked at the link for the fic, and then ... Well, and next thing I knew, I'd met other people who wrote Clint/Natasha stories and didn't think that was a strange thing to do with their time, and then I started writing more of those stories myself (and the occasional Bond crossover) and getting sad messages from my Voyager readers why I wasn't finishing that WIP ...

All your fault.

And I thank you for it. :-)
[identity profile] angela-n-hunt.livejournal.com on March 17th, 2014 01:57 pm (UTC)
Hee!!! My fault! My fault! I've never been so glad to have something be my fault. LOL

You are most welcome. :D
[identity profile] morrighangw.livejournal.com on March 17th, 2014 12:32 am (UTC)
EEE, yay!! What an awesome way to wrap up this story. And hah, Skye meeting Clint and Natasha would be HILARIOUS.
[identity profile] alphaflyer.livejournal.com on March 17th, 2014 12:55 am (UTC)
Hmm. I may have to write that at some point! It's been done, probably, but ... ;-)

Oh, and thanks!! :-)