"There's a war on, and she has the link to give away his location to his enemies in her boot, and she's pressed to his chest like he's the only thing in the world, kissing him hard with his hands in her hair, hard and hungry. Last meal."

  [ Steve and Sharon, at war ]

  Canon - between the panels in Captain America #22
  For - kink_bingo, filling the rough sex square

"Let's say for now that I'm an acquaintance of SHIELD. Captain Jack Harkness is the name. Came all the way from England to do my little scan."

  [ Tony Stark gets a lot of unexpected visitors these days ]

  Spoilers - vague for Doctor Who 3.12

"All of which goes to say, I met somebody just now who has exactly this same problem. Not the brother. The memory. The elevator. Pink-haired creep, butterflies, revolution, the lot. And here I thought I was eight years out of this shit."

  [ eight years after the revolution, Kozue takes Shiori for a ride ]

  For - kink_bingo, filling the bukkake square

"Sloth reaches round, slides two damp fingers along her collarbone, slick over her skin, to circle the ouroborus high on her chest, red stamp on white skin."

  [ Lust is forgetting her nature ]

  For - kink_bingo, filling the mirrors square

"Except this time his helmet's off, and Steve's naked, and Jan isn't buzzing up over him, Thor isn't looming at the foot of it, and he's pretty sure they'll be fighting in about five minutes."

  [ gratuitous Civil War fix-it ]

  Spoilers - Civil War
  Canon - AU from beginning of Secret Invasion
  Beta - Mattador of the Hot Pants

"I mean--it's big. Bigger than you can possibly imagine. What we're making..."

  [ Obadiah Stane, and Howard Stark, and the Manhattan Project ]

  For - nevacaruso and cahalith, by LJ ficlet request

"Okay, how about what happens if Doom invades while we're hippying about off-grid?"

  [ Steve and Tony go camping, and bears are the greatest threat facing America ]

  Canon - New Avengers, pre-Extremis
  Beta - Tavella

"There's a chain of leaves round her neck, green and black, dangling from a golden vine."

  [ years after Ohtori, two of the Black Roses find each other ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 20
  For - shellsong, by LJ ficlet request

"I think we have a new favorite word, dear."

  [ of course Tony Stark had a lab bench when he was two ]

  For - neotoma, by LJ ficlet request

"But then Steve pounces and brings him down to grappling, and it's all muscle and grip, and Tony doesn't stand a damn chance."

  [ Steve discovers a few things during a spar ]

  For - kink_bingo, filling the bondage: held down square

"You don't go calling out a Queen of the Hellfire Club unless you know exactly, exactly what you're asking for."

  [ Tony Stark takes his war angst to Emma Frost ]

  For - kink_bingo, filling the silence square

"Go teach your children, eat your candy, preen your bird and bury me. But we were brilliant together, Albus, and not even you can change history."

  [ a correspondence between Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald ]

  Spoilers - bk. 7
  Beta - Mattador of the Hot Pants
  For - Blogathon 2007, to benefit Heifer Project International
  Ref. - author's notes - art by Black Adder

"Trying to keep the most idiotic scientists I've ever met--right, well, second most idiotic, nobody can quite top Big D--from creating a miniature black hole in the core, that's what."

  [ Jack finds the Doctor, again, and it's pretty much the usual ]

  For - taffimai, by LJ ficlet request