"When are you going to stop owing me?"

You're who you are when no one's looking.

Edited 2014-08-04 06:45 pm (UTC)

Pacific Rim AU

::paging sweetwatersong::

What do you think? Because Reasons? ;)

speaking of which, I still totally have that printed out and hanging in my cubicle at work. It makes me smile all the time.

Edited 2014-08-05 02:59 pm (UTC)

And because I always love seeing what people come up with for this: AU put Clint and Natasha in your place of work.

They'd make adorable members of the IT department.

WW2 AU in which Clint and Natasha are two kids evacuated to the country from London during the war. Clint from the poorer side of life and Natasha an immigrant kid.

I'm thinking along the lines of Goodnight Mr Tom or the Chronicles of Narnia, but go for whatever you like :)

Bedknobs and Broomsticks!!!

Clint is a comic book artist. Natasha is a red-haired comic book writer. (Inspired by Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick, heh)

Edited 2014-08-04 06:52 pm (UTC)

GOOD GOD WANT.

Training with each other's weaponary, because you never know when it might come in useful.

Adore this.

After his parents die, after Barney, after the circus, after everyone has left him behind, this is the moment when an aimless Clint Barton might turn to crime or join the army or become a vigilante and so embark on a journey that will lead him to SHIELD and the Avengers. But he doesn't, because a woman catches his eye and he has nothing better to do right now, he's drifting and directionless, and he finds himself following her. And that might lead him straight into a life of crime, or trouble, or a sting, or something else entirely. And eventually it might lead him to SHIELD and the Avengers after all, but it's a whole different kind of journey.

Love, love, love.

You have a knack for marvelous prompts.

Natasha is a your guide somewhere (you choose). Educated with a passion for history, a gift with languages, flawless directionality, skilled at getting groups of people to follow her lead and go where she wants them to go...and entirely fed up with tourists. They're the bane of her life.

Clint is a tourist.

Bwhahahaha.

SHIELD was formed to protect against the supernatural. The Great Strangeness began in the wild places and is slowly spreading across the globe, leaving people changed in its wake, or at least those who survive as villages become forests and creatures destroy lives. Humans flock to the cities, populations becoming concentrated, like gathering around campfires in the dark.

Clint has arrows dipped in holy water. Natasha has silver bullets. And one of them has a secret.

I saw Great Strangeness and "changed" and I thought... FOX and the Gone-Away World. :P

You know the backstory some people have for Clint where he joined the army after the circus left him behind, since he was penniless with nowhere else to go and had a certain skill set, and then he was recruited out of it for SHIELD?

Natasha is the one who joined the army.

At the end of Cap 2 Natasha dumps everything SHIELD knows about her online, admitedly with a whole bunch of other stuff, and then there's the Capitol Hill thing.

Steve feels he should read it and follow the news so that he can have Natasha's back, so he's not in the dark and can help. Tony doesn't read it so much as like all things online it gets absorbed into his knowledge banks, and he doesn't see the problem since so much of his own life is so very public. And Pepper and Bruce get a dose as a side effect, although Bruce also looks through everything (with JARVIS' help) to check for information on himself, so he gets some things on Natasha mixed in with that. Thor has things announced to him by Darcy when in London ("This is so awesome, have you seen this?! Wow, you get to fight with Black Widow!") So by the time things are straightened out everyone pretty much knows what there is to know. Natasha's...not sure how she feels about it all.

Then she finds out that Clint hasn't looked at any of it. (Because he only cares about what she cares to tell him, or because she should tell her own stories, or because only here and now matters...any reason you like.)

:sniffs:

After she joins SHIELD, and they've made sure she's not the enemy, and they've partnered her with Clint, Natasha ends up spending a lot of time around Bobbi Morse (aka Mockingbird) (and other people who have been Clint's lovers?) because she just doesn't get Clint and she figures Bobbi must. After all, she married the guy.

Natasha and Bobbi friendship fic. Bobbi still loves Clint, she's just not in love with him and they quit because being together was bad for them both.

Bonus Clint being very concerned about this growing friendship because he just knows these two together could lead to world domination, or SHIELD domination at the very, very least. Bonus bonus Maria not being concerned because she knows neither of them want leadership roles.

What little I've seen of the comics, I adored the Bobbi/Natasha friendship. I'm on board with both Clint and Maria. :grins:

It's the journey, not the destination. Dystopian road/journey fic, AU or not.

He walks the dusty road at the edge of a wilderness with arrows on his back. The holy water evaporates off of them in a faint hiss audible to the ears of monsters. He comes to a stop beside a patch of color, a woman sitting, teeth clenched around her canteen, her hair a riot of red curls.

She drops the canteen into the dust beside her and squints up at this intense, quiet man, sharp like an arrow in the dark. "Where are you headed?" she asks.

His teeth flash white and his chuckle is as dry as the wilderness around them. "You really have to ask?"

She doesn't. The answer is nowhere. There is nowhere to run, nowhere to escape the Great Strangeness creeping over the earth. They don't need to run.

It is a short distance to his car. New tires, she notes.

(rest on AO3)

Clint was a time travel operative [for a future version of SHIELD/any other organization from a different time] who fell in love with Natasha while on a mission and chose to stay in the MCU timeline with her. Every day, he can feel the tug of the timeline to get him back to where he belongs and chooses to stay.

Doctor Who AU. The Doctor (any) picks up a young man with a bow and arrows (which the Doctor doesn't like, no weapons, but the lad is good on a tightrope and in tight places and that is definitely useful) either on Earth (past/future) or another planet. Then he gets in a spot of bother and ends up stopping an assassination and then inviting the young assassin lady along for the ride as well (because really her life isn't going to be worth living if she goes back to the Red Room having failed), although really it's Clint who persuades her. And then adventures and/or domestic life on the TARDIS happens.

Emphasis on becoming friends, maybe pre-Clint/Natasha. I just really like the idea of the Doctor rescuing them from their lives, only really they rescue themselves and each other. He's just the ride and a friend.

Possibly this isn't actually an AU and then they join the adventures, and magic wasn't anything they ever trained for they do have a healthy amount of experience with aliens, futuristic technology, and general weirdness.

oh this sounds amazing :D

One of them finds the other's mislaid journal and reads it, then tracks the writer down through several countries.

Natasha meets Clint when he's still working at a circus or carnival and ends up joining him there with her own act. I'd love seeing her work with the big cats, but frankly, I'm wide open on that front.

ALL THE CIRCUS AUs!!!

Ahem. Nope, I do not have a problem *whistles innocently*

AU inspired by Natasha's info dump at the end of Cap 2 and Fifth Estate (but not with people being that atagonistic to each other thanks): Natasha and Clint start an eqiivalent of wikileaks (in a 'verse where there is no wikileaks), beause they've seen so many bad things and this is a way that they can see to make it right. They seem to collect a group of strange people around them as they go, people like Tony who does genius code, people like Steve and Bruce who're disillusioned and just want to do some good, and nutters like Thor who just lets them live at his place in Iceland for months on end, who even does that?

(And strangely enough I just went to wikipeadia to link to the Fifth Estate and I did not know that Renner was rumoured to have been in the film lol).

Maybe time will tell you
Why I got so much hell to sell you
Please, please understand me
Oh you can't just dance around me
Maybe your work will love you
When I'm just not there to hold you
Maybe your pride can be your companion (x (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBkfHv6kc5o))

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It don't feel right, but it's not wrong.
It's just hard to start again this far along.
Brick by brick, the letting go,
as you walk away from everything you know
When you release resistance
and you lean into the wind,
till the roof begins to crumble,
and the rain comes pourin' in,
And you sit there in the rubble,
till the rubble feels like home
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nashvillecast/howyoulearntolivealone.html

Get out your guns, battle's begun,
are you a saint, or a sinner?
If love's a fight, then I shall die,
with my heart on a trigger.

They say before you start a war,
you better know what you're fighting for.
Well baby, you are all that I adore,
if love is what you need, a soldier I will be.

I'm an angel with a shotgun,
fighting 'til the war's won,
I don't care if heaven won't take me back.
I'll throw away my faith, babe, just to keep you safe.
Don't you know you're everything I have?
...and I, wanna live, not just survive, tonight.

Sometimes to win, you've got to sin,
don't mean I'm not a believer.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/cab/angelwithashotgun.html

I can hold my breath
I can bite my tongue
I can stay awake for days
If that's what you want
Be your number one

...
I can do it

But I'm only human
And I bleed when I fall down
I'm only human
And I crash and I break down
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/christinaperri/human.html

Mass Effect AU- Clint and Natasha are assigned to help Commander Shepard and the Normandy on a mission and get a chance to fight alongside the (in)famous First Human Spectre. (Bonus points if one of them's a biotic and wows Shepard/someone else from the crew with their skills)

Soulmarks AU where Clint has an hourglass on his back over his heart and Natasha has an arrowhead on her front over her heart.

They come from different cultures though that interpret these marks differently. Soulmarks is just one theory on what they mean.

Natasha recognizes Clint when he has an arrow pointed right at the arrowhead mark.

light through an open door
rating: pg-13
characters: Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff
warnings: canon-typical violence, gore
summary: Love and life I will divide / Turn away 'cause I need you more / Feel the heartbeat in my mind // We found love in a hopeless place. She has an order she has never been able to carry out. When she finds her soulmate, she will kill them.

author's note i: For scribble_mynames's prompt at the be_compromised 2014 promptathon: "Soulmarks AU where Clint has an hourglass on his back over his heart and Natasha has an arrowhead on her front over her heart. They come from different cultures though that interpret these marks differently. Soulmarks is just one theory on what they mean. Natasha recognizes Clint when he has an arrow pointed right at the arrowhead mark." This is Natasha's story - Clint's may come later, if I can get him to cooperate. :) Many thanks to cybermathwitch for beta'ing and informing me the promptathon hadn't closed while I was in the wilds!

author's note ii: Title and summary lyrics from We Found Love by Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris.



Natasha stares down the shaft of an arrow, the pieces falling into place, and hesitates.

-

She is born blank, blameless, a sheet for the world to draw upon. She has no soulmate, no mark that could tell her whose path her feet may walk beside, no compass to follow her choices. One of the many, one of the few, whose life lies in her own hands.

It is not until she is taken by the Red Room at seven years of age that the bruise blooms on her chest and spreads into an arrowhead.

Natasha is never sure if she should thank them for that.

-

There are missions, and targets, and people she learns to woo and wreck with careful precision. From the beginning, she always looks for the sign that could tell her who would pull her fate alongside theirs.

It does not appear. (http://sweetwatersong.livejournal.com/29533.html)

Edited 2014-09-01 02:22 am (UTC)