AU Meme - Day 6 - Mythical Creature
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redfiona99Fandom: Marvelverse
Characters: Black Widow and Hawkeye
Rating/Warning: Gen fic, vaguest of vague spoilers for the Black Widow film.
They're in Budapest again, she's in Budapest again. Well, she says again, it's only the second time since she left the Widows, and the first time since Clint decided she was worth taking into SHIELD's fold.
The night is hot in that odd, humid way Budapest sometimes is and she cannot sleep. She should, it will be a long day tomorrow (they always are), and she knows it is safe to sleep because Barton is on watch and nothing will get past him.
Still she cannot sleep.
She swears she hears the rapping of a raven on the window. She has looked once, and seen nothing, and Clint is starting to look at her like she's mad.
He must have heard her moving about, as quietly as she's shifted. "There is no bird." He'd asked her what she was looking for, and fool that she was, she'd told him.
Still she hears the rapping, although Clint swears there is none. She knows it's a Nachtkrapp, come to peck at her sins, although if anyone else said that, she'd call them fanciful.
She shifts again, hoping that the change in position will let her sleep, even if she knows it's a forlorn hope. One of them ought to sleep, and since she's front of house all day tomorrow, it should be her.
"You might as well come over," he says.
"Won't I distract you?"
"No more than you shuffling over there does." Which, fair point.
He's built himself a nest near the window, as comfortable as he can be - nothing reflective, nothing flapping, clear view over most of Pest.
She sits next to him, and he slings an arm over her. It ought to be annoying or encroaching, but it isn't, because it's Clint and he knows why a raven might come for her, because the ravens might come for him too.
As you've possibly guessed from this one having a title, I think I might tidy this up and actually post it when the meme is done.
Day 1 - Hogwarts - Meta
Day 2 - Zombies
Day 3 - Medieval
Day 4 - Spies
Day 5 - School
Day 6 - Mythical Creature
Day 7 - Fairy Tale
Day 8 - Futuristic
Day 9 - Aliens
Day 10 - Fusion with another fandom
Day 11 - Slice-of-life
Day 12 - Deserted Island
Day 13 - Buddy Cops/Detective
Day 14 - Allegiance-Swap Original instructions say bad guys are good guys and vice versa
Day 15 - Sex-Swap
Day 16 - Superheroes
Day 17 - Animal Transformation
Day 18 - Wild West
Day 19 - Idols/Bands
Day 20 - Trading Places
Day 21 - Fantasy
Day 22 - Horror
Day 23 - Pre-21st Century
Day 24 - Apocalypse/Dystopia
Day 25 - Time travel
Day 26 - Dopplegangers
Day 27 - Twins
Day 28 - Cross Over
Day 29 - Pirates A bit more of the Jericho/Regal with Barrett lurking fic for Opera
Day 30 - Crossover
Characters: Black Widow and Hawkeye
Rating/Warning: Gen fic, vaguest of vague spoilers for the Black Widow film.
They're in Budapest again, she's in Budapest again. Well, she says again, it's only the second time since she left the Widows, and the first time since Clint decided she was worth taking into SHIELD's fold.
The night is hot in that odd, humid way Budapest sometimes is and she cannot sleep. She should, it will be a long day tomorrow (they always are), and she knows it is safe to sleep because Barton is on watch and nothing will get past him.
Still she cannot sleep.
She swears she hears the rapping of a raven on the window. She has looked once, and seen nothing, and Clint is starting to look at her like she's mad.
He must have heard her moving about, as quietly as she's shifted. "There is no bird." He'd asked her what she was looking for, and fool that she was, she'd told him.
Still she hears the rapping, although Clint swears there is none. She knows it's a Nachtkrapp, come to peck at her sins, although if anyone else said that, she'd call them fanciful.
She shifts again, hoping that the change in position will let her sleep, even if she knows it's a forlorn hope. One of them ought to sleep, and since she's front of house all day tomorrow, it should be her.
"You might as well come over," he says.
"Won't I distract you?"
"No more than you shuffling over there does." Which, fair point.
He's built himself a nest near the window, as comfortable as he can be - nothing reflective, nothing flapping, clear view over most of Pest.
She sits next to him, and he slings an arm over her. It ought to be annoying or encroaching, but it isn't, because it's Clint and he knows why a raven might come for her, because the ravens might come for him too.
As you've possibly guessed from this one having a title, I think I might tidy this up and actually post it when the meme is done.
Day 1 - Hogwarts - Meta
Day 2 - Zombies
Day 3 - Medieval
Day 4 - Spies
Day 5 - School
Day 6 - Mythical Creature
Day 7 - Fairy Tale
Day 8 - Futuristic
Day 9 - Aliens
Day 10 - Fusion with another fandom
Day 11 - Slice-of-life
Day 12 - Deserted Island
Day 13 - Buddy Cops/Detective
Day 14 - Allegiance-Swap Original instructions say bad guys are good guys and vice versa
Day 15 - Sex-Swap
Day 16 - Superheroes
Day 17 - Animal Transformation
Day 18 - Wild West
Day 19 - Idols/Bands
Day 20 - Trading Places
Day 21 - Fantasy
Day 22 - Horror
Day 23 - Pre-21st Century
Day 24 - Apocalypse/Dystopia
Day 25 - Time travel
Day 26 - Dopplegangers
Day 27 - Twins
Day 28 - Cross Over
Day 29 - Pirates A bit more of the Jericho/Regal with Barrett lurking fic for Opera
Day 30 - Crossover
