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apples falling all around you by coffeebuddha
Fandom: THE AVENGERS
Pairing: Darcy Lewis/Various, Darcy Lewis/Bruce Banner
Length: 3703
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
coffeebuddha
Author Website: at AO3
Why this must be read: Because if there was ever a character primed and ready to become the next Little Black Dress, it's Darcy. She was created for the movie and by virtue of being awesome [and her actress being awesome] people pretty much fell in love with her. There are hundreds of fics where Darcy winds up with SHIELD, but this is one where you can see what SHIELD takes from her and what she uses [good advice here from Natasha, Maria other exceptionally awesome ladies in their own right] to fill in those holes.
Excerpt“Would you like a job,” Phil Coulson asks her about a week after the dust has settled in New Mexico, and it doesn't sound like a question at all. She's been calling him nonstop for the past six days trying to get as much information—any information—that SHIELD might have on Thor as she can, and Coulson's apparently gone past annoyance into grudging admiration. “I could use someone with your particular skill set.”
“My skill set is making coffee, not burning the poptarts, and the ability to recite all of The Communist Manifesto from memory,” Darcy points out, because it's not like she can squish a robot or imitate bird calls or anything. She's not all that impressive, really.
“That and the complete inability to take no for an answer,” Coulson says. “That's something we can pretty much always use more of around here.”
Darcy thinks of Jane—pretty, tired, paper thin Jane—who's already been without Thor longer than she had him. Jane, who doesn't see her, waves her away when she tries to help, is so buried in her research and her pain that her world has narrowed to a laser fine focus that Darcy can't touch. How can she possibly leave her?
How can she possibly stay?
“When do I start?”
(“You can really quote all of it?”
“I felt like 'The Princess Bride' was just a little overdone, you know?”)
apples falling all around you
Pairing: Darcy Lewis/Various, Darcy Lewis/Bruce Banner
Length: 3703
Author on LJ:
coffeebuddhaAuthor Website: at AO3
Why this must be read: Because if there was ever a character primed and ready to become the next Little Black Dress, it's Darcy. She was created for the movie and by virtue of being awesome [and her actress being awesome] people pretty much fell in love with her. There are hundreds of fics where Darcy winds up with SHIELD, but this is one where you can see what SHIELD takes from her and what she uses [good advice here from Natasha, Maria other exceptionally awesome ladies in their own right] to fill in those holes.
Excerpt“Would you like a job,” Phil Coulson asks her about a week after the dust has settled in New Mexico, and it doesn't sound like a question at all. She's been calling him nonstop for the past six days trying to get as much information—any information—that SHIELD might have on Thor as she can, and Coulson's apparently gone past annoyance into grudging admiration. “I could use someone with your particular skill set.”
“My skill set is making coffee, not burning the poptarts, and the ability to recite all of The Communist Manifesto from memory,” Darcy points out, because it's not like she can squish a robot or imitate bird calls or anything. She's not all that impressive, really.
“That and the complete inability to take no for an answer,” Coulson says. “That's something we can pretty much always use more of around here.”
Darcy thinks of Jane—pretty, tired, paper thin Jane—who's already been without Thor longer than she had him. Jane, who doesn't see her, waves her away when she tries to help, is so buried in her research and her pain that her world has narrowed to a laser fine focus that Darcy can't touch. How can she possibly leave her?
How can she possibly stay?
“When do I start?”
(“You can really quote all of it?”
“I felt like 'The Princess Bride' was just a little overdone, you know?”)
apples falling all around you