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Here's a great little fic that explores Natasha's and Pepper's friendship post-Iron Man III. (Spoilers, obviously)
Probably Not On Purpose by Frea_O

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(main Avengers fic recs post)

WIP update: One of my favorite Darcy fics is now complete and that final chapter was worth the long wait:
she blinded me with political science by thingswithteeth
Summary: Darcy watched the Avengers defend New York from over two thousand miles away. She could look out her window if she wanted to watch the aftermath. She watches the news instead, and realizes one very important thing: the Avengers have a bit of a PR problem.
Darcy/Bruce and ensemble; friendship/romance/science bros; rated M; 61,743 words

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and, Rarewomen is now open!

The Children's Hour by OracleGlass
Summary: "The Avengers Homeschooling Initiative. Fury will shit bricks."
When a simple mission somehow goes awry, the Avengers are left to tend to a pair of tiny former SHIELD agents while they try to find a solution.
Gen; Clint, Natasha, team and others; kid fic/(tiny)spies and secret agents/friendship; teen; 7371 words

Nobody Puts Dummy in the Corner by Frea_O
Gen w/bg canon pairings; team & bots; humor; 4785 words
Summary: Natasha is the last Avenger to move into the Tower. For Tony's sanity, that's probably a good thing.

“Oh, Natasha’s moved in?” Steve asked, sounding pleased. “Excellent, I didn’t realize that was today.”
“Can we focus on the more important fact that she’s currently breaking into my lab?” Tony asked, pointing an accusing finger at the screen. When a second figure appeared on the screen, he let out an annoyed squawk. “With backup?”

Adorable fic. :o)

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Work is done! I finished late last night after all. Now I gotta find a bouldering partner for today and have some fun outdoors. (Probably would be even more fun if it was more than ten degrees out but at least it's not wet.)

I'm reading so many enjoyable WIPs at the moment that I figured I'll have another theme post.

It sounds like this fic is already written in full and just being edited peu a peu. Updated fairly regularly. I like the writing style and the characterizations, and she does interesting things with Darcy's backstory. Uses a trope I'm normally not fond of but sells it so well, I'm totally on board.
Living Someone Else's Life by andacus
Darcy/Clint & ensemble; post-Avengers; eventually long and rated M (~5000 words atm)
Summary: Wherein Darcy is just trying to live her life in the midst of all this chaos (And, boy, is there ever chaos.) but the universe... well, the universe is one twisted bitch.
Or the one where Darcy's mother chooses the very worst time to have a heart to heart about her father.


This one started posting recently... an eventually novel-length fic, estimated 80,000 words, which explores Nat's and Clint's history. The writer says the whole story is already outlined. The first three parts are out, and I like it a lot so far. If you love to read about spies in action (with crazy mad UST), check it out.
Defining Points, Prologue (ch.1, ch.2) by avenging_archer
Clint/Natasha and SHIELD; backstory/spies and secret agents; rated R; novel length WIP


This one gets updated very regularly, at least one chapter/week.
The B-Team by twistedingenue
AU plotfic with Natasha&Clint, bit of Clint/Dary, Pepper, Jane, Coulson, Rhodes, Sitwell, Bucky, Avengers team in the background; ~26000 words atm
Summary: Alternate Universes are rarely better than your own. This one is no exception. Clint and Natasha find themselves in a universe where the Avengers don't exist, SHIELD is holding on by the barest thread, and the only people able to keep things together are a very different group of unlikely heroes.

Natasha and Clint take a wrong turn and end up in a universe where others had to step in for the Avengers. I'm really enjoying seeing them all in the roles they got tossed into.

A Hero's Work by hazellazer (Marvel comics)
Gen w/ Kate Bishop/Cassie Lang and Hawkeye; teen; 1305 words
Summary: Kate Bishop has always tried to hold her own against the big kids, which is probably why it takes Clint a little too long to realize she's been acting out of sorts.

What Tony’s Learned in Six Months of Dating Pepper that He Never Knew in the Decade They've Known Each Other by Margo_Kim
Tony/Pepper; humor; rated G
Summary: What it says in the title, in list form.

Snippet:

• Pepper sleeps naked


• It’s very nice


• She has freckles everywhere


• That’s very nice too


• If you play connect-the-dots with the freckles on her back, you can draw a satanic pentagram


• Pepper does not find that as funny as Tony does

fic recs:
Chess Pieces (or five times Clint and Natasha didn't sleep together and the first time they did) by hazellazer
Nat/Clint; five things/backstory; mature; 8406 words
Summary: Clint Barton trusts Natalia Romanova, even when he probably shouldn't.

Whisper Me Your Secret by eiluned
Nat/Clint; romance/ h/c; mature; 4688 words
Summary: All of her was focused on dragging Clint to cover, his hot blood on her hands, the labored sound of his breathing, and the sudden, shocking realization that she was in love with him.

fanart rec: Avengers movie poster. Love the art style.

BOHICA by domarzione
Gen; Clint, Natasha (bg Coulson, Fury, Steve); backstory/spies and secret agents; teen; 6339 words
Summary: Clint Barton, in transition.

Natasha Romanova lets him live the first time they meet because she can’t believe her competition is carrying a quiver.
“I will not kill Robin Hood,” she tells him as she leaves him lying on the concrete floor of a warehouse in Trieste, a knife in his thigh and a cut in his forehead that keeps flooding his eye with blood. She’s holding his Glock in her hand. “Even a bad Robin Hood such as you.”

The Honey is Sweeter than Blood by netla
Gen; Thor and team; friendship/character study; 1975 words

Summary: If you had asked Thor what he would miss most before he moved to Midgard, he’d have said the company of great friends, the assuring presence of his family, the grand vistas and expansive palace grounds, and the rush of adventure in beautiful lands.

If you asked him after, he’d say the food.