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be_compromised2021-07-31 04:01 pm
[CLOSED] Summer Promptathon 2021
GUYS GUYS IT’S TIME FOR THE SUMMER PROMPTATHON.
(image modified from fanart by sketchbuggy)
Can you believe this is our tenth summer promptathon??? Nope! Me neither!
TIMELINE
TODAY: Prompting starts! GO, GO, GO
SUNDAY 8th AUGUST: We open for fills! (You can also continue prompting)
MIDNIGHT SUNDAY 26th SEPTEMBER: Promptathon, both prompts and fills, ends at midnight in whatever your timezone is. THE PROMPTATHON IS NOW CLOSED
HOW PROMPTATHON 2021 WORKS
> Step One: Leave Prompts
Prompts can be anything – simple or elaborate, words or pictures, songs or poems, lyrics or phrases, anything that inspires a fanwork. Use your imagination. Go wild!
We welcome ALL THINGS MARVEL, though we ask that Clint and/or Natasha turn up in there somewhere, individually or as friends, lovers, spouses, partners, in gen fic, ANYTHING. That means we do welcome other characters and pairings (and threesomes or moresomes).
Leave as many prompts as you want. We’re serious. Keep coming back. We want as many prompts as we can possibly get. Just make sure each prompt is in a separate comment.
Also please warn if your prompts contain spoilers/speculation relating to Black Widow 2021 and/or Hawkeye TV.
> Step Two: Squee
Been wanting to jump into the fandom but not sure where to start? Now’s the time. Newbie or a lurker? Here’s the perfect opportunity to say hello! Promptathon is a fun, no-pressure environment. If all you want to do is post prompts and share in the squee, you’re more than welcome! And by squee we mean chatting in the chat thread, replying to prompts to chat about prompts, and just lots of excitement all over the place.
For additional squee, there is also the be_compromised Discord Server, where you can chat about Promptathon (or anything else) in a more chatroom-style place. Click here for an invite.
> Step Three: submit fanworks like there’s no tomorrow!
The usual Community Rules apply. There’s no length requirement on fanworks submitted. You can create drabbles or epics, vids, art, fanmixes, anything at all; it’s just all about getting creative! You can fill as many prompts as you want, and prompts can be filled multiple times by whoever wants to fill them.
Please warn if your fills contain spoilers/speculation relating to Black Widow 2021 and/or Hawkeye TV.
HOW TO POST FILLS
- Respond in a comment to the prompt you are filling. Please post the entire work in the comment if it's short enough OR post a link, and consider posting the first section as a teaser. Please don't post works directly to the comm - we’re all about one-stop shopping, so keep everything in this main promptathon post. We'll do a masterlist of fills at the end.
- Label your fill/comment in the subject line with 'FILL', your title, and a rating. Example: FILL: 5 Times Clint and Natasha Were Awesome (PG). When filling in the subject line, you may need to view the comm in its original style (if you don't already). Just make sure you can see a subject line when responding with your submission. This makes it A LOT easier for us to make that masterlist and for people to spot your fills.
- Make sure to include a rating and warnings OR 'choose not to warn' at the start of your fill, as per the comm rules. Help us out and make sure folks know what they're clicking on :)
- Please put anything NSFW behind a cut or link.
- And once again, because this is a thing we can now say (!); please warn for Black Widow 2021 film spoilers and for Hawkeye TV spoilers! Not everyone has Disney+/can get to the cinema.
If you have any questions about anything please feel free to ask! We have a questions thread as the first comment to this post, though you can also PM a mod or ask on the Discord server.
OKAY THEN BEST BAR EVER, LET’S GET PROMPTING!
FILL: We Did Our Job, PG, swearing
Half a decade gone yet everything was the same. Same pictures on the walls, furniture in the exact same spots, his motorcycle still in the barn, untouched. It was somewhat surreal.
A commercial ended and the news flashed on drawing Clint’s attention. The GRC was making a big announcement today about how they would bring order to the nations.
It was a joke. Millions of people snapped back only to be displaced from their homes and jobs. Loved ones had moved on, lives had changed. The Avengers were so desperate to get back those they lost, they never thought about the consequences beyond the return.
Cameras panned outside of the GRC facility, showboating food lines and care package pick up centers. Where were all of these people going to sleep tonight?
Clint looked around again and felt guilty. He was part of the reason for this mess.
Hawkeye’s phone rang, startling him
“Are you seeing this shit?”
Bucky. Never one for pleasantries, Clint was thankful the surly soldier was still around.
”Yeah…”
“Listen, man. I gotta take off. Can you look up something on Zemo for me?”
“What is it?”
Bucky began rattling off the list of details needed on the Raft. Clint knew the prison best having been held there himself.
But Barton stopped listening a minute in. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a flash of red curly hair on the screen, one of the workers handing out food but her face was blocked.
He fumbled for the remote to rewind but accidentally changed the channel instead.
Shit...
Clint flipped back but the news had gone on to another story.
“You got all that?” Bucky asked.
“No problem.”
He hung up and flipped through the other news channels but none covered the soup kitchen lines. Clint sighed and rubbed the back of his neck, not sure what he was looking for.
The back door banged open. Clint stood and called out.
“Lucky?”
The golden retriever bounded into the kitchen jumping excitedly around Clint’s legs.
“Whoa, what’s up with you, boy? You find a squirrel outside?”
“Yes, he did and it’s your turn to clean up the dead body this time.”
Clint’s neck snapped up.
“Nat?”
She smiled, walked over, set a bag on the counter and draped her arms around his neck.
“I’m sorry, I meant to be back before you woke up. We didn’t have eggs so I got us breakfast from J. J.’s.”
Clint bent and kissed her once, then twice, pulling her close for a third long drawn out kiss.
She tilted her head back and looked up at him with a lopsided smile.
“I’ll get you pancakes more often if I get a greeting like that every time.”
An emergency news report blared from the living room. The Flagsmashers had blown up a building killing several innocent people.
“We have to help, Nat.” Clint stated flatly, staring at the wreckage on the screen.
She grabbed the remote and switched off the TV .
“We did our jobs, we got everyone back.”
“No one could’ve predicted what's happening. This is chaos, we have to help.” He forced her to face him.
“No. We. Don’t.”
“Natasha,” Barton matched her stern tone, “you can not keep me locked away in this house forever.”
“Watch me.” She growled.
They squared off almost western style until Nat’s shoulders sagged and she began trembling.
“You don’t know what it was like. You were holding my hand and then... you were gone. NOTHING.”
Natasha sank to her knees, her breath coming in short raspy gulps. Clint dropped to the floor and gathered her in his arms.
“There was no enemy, no bad guys to go after or hunt down. You disappeared Clint! I won’t lose you again. I won’t risk you out there with those zealots, I don’t care.”
Clint scooped his wife up in his arms and carried her in the living room, nestling her on his lap in the recliner. She curled into him, trying to control her ragged breathing.
He held her, kissed the top of her head and ran his hands soothingly up and down her arms and back.
“I’m sorry.” He said into her hair.
Barton felt useless, not knowing what to do or say to ease her fears.
He looked around the room, his thoughts from earlier coming back.
“How did you do it? How did you keep this up for so long? The House? The Avengers?”
Hawkeye was so overwhelmed with the time skip, he hadn’t thought to ask her until now. When he ‘returned’ it was like he never left.
After he and Nat’s long separation during Tony and Steve’s epic fight and Clint’s imprisonment at the Raft, Natasha refused to leave the farm during Hawkeye’s house arrest when the Avengers went to battle with Thanos.
They both deserved one break between wars.
One sunny day, Clint and a short, curly haired Natasha were walking Lucky and the next thing he knew, Lucky tackled him, licking and slobbering all over his face in the rain.
Hugging Lucky off, Clint looked up to see Natasha with longer hair and blonde ends. The rest of the day was a blur of her hugging him and crying trying to explain what happened.
For the next two months she didn’t let him out of her sight.
“How could I not?” She asked, cupping his face. “Bruce said there was a chance... I would have waited ten years, it didn’t matter how long.”
She wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Anytime I tried to change the house, or put something away, it was like giving up on us. I couldn’t do it. There was no other choice, Hawk.”
She crumbled against him and began to cry. He engulfed her in a bear hug and squeezed tight burying his face in her hair.
He couldn't imagine Natasha disappearing into dust in front of his eyes. It would have destroyed him.
And the rare chance she came back? Fuck, he probably would’ve locked her in a cage never to come out.
But still, they were Avengers.
His phone rang. Barton sighed and held it up to show her.
Sam this time.
Natasha stiffened in his arms, knowing she couldn’t stop him if he felt obligated to leave.
“Yeah, Sam.”
“Clint? We need your help, man. I need eyes in the sky in D.C., fast.”
Clint looked at his wife and wiped the tears from her eyes with his thumb.
“No problem. I’ll have Kate on the way in an hour.”
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