rec(s) of the day

Avengers rec: I found this AU really fascinating.
set fire to the third bar by themonkeytwin
AU; Clint/Natasha (subtext); rated PG; 4500 words
Summary: It was a strange thing, to know you were living a life that wasn't quite your own.
Clint never ran away, never became Hawkeye. Doesn't mean his path doesn't cross with a certain redhead's. Happy endings are very much in the eye of the beholder, though, so don't hold anyone's breath (unless you want to).

Ghost Protocol rec:
Underline Everything (I'm A Professional) by vulpesvortex
Brandt/Benji and team; rated teen; 5097 words
Summary: He’d thought that he and Benji had been doing well, spending enough down-time sacked out together on couches watching Firefly re-runs and bantering over the comms on missions, long nights spent on stake-outs and break-ins.

(A fill for this prompt on the ghotocol kinkmeme, which asked for Benji having a physically affectionate friendship with another guy and misreading Brandt's jealousy as homophobia.)