He hears nothing but one thought, screaming at him above the din of his own panic – the girl in the photograph was the woman he knows as Natasha Romanoff. And he's trapped in the Red Room. - some red room drama, some stevenat angst, and some good old-fashioned knifing. aka my take on the post-civil war/pre-infinity war saga

The worst ones are always about her. Those run his mind in slow motion, forcing him to relive even the most minute details of the days they were carefree and alive and happy, at least as much as they could be. He starts seeing flashes of vivid red hair and brilliant green eyes everywhere, and in his dreams, they're inescapable. - or, steve runs into natasha in the past

Clint points at her. "You were deprived of a proper American childhood. I am restoring that happiness to you." "First of all, I'm Russian, and second of all, I was deprived of a childhood, period." - or, natasha's first holidays at SHIELD

"Look at us. Two loners, doing okay on Christmas Eve." "Doing more than okay on Christmas Eve." "To us," she declares, raising her glass. "For making it through December." - or, a stevenat christmas

a collection of one-shots based on tumblr prompts

"I speak fourteen languages," she hisses, slamming the manual down next to her, "and the instructions are in none of them." or, nat and steve go to ikea

Three billion people. Not back, yet, but she's giving them a chance. A chance they otherwise wouldn't have. The work she's done the past twenty years, the pain she's gone through, was all for something like this. Incremental bits of progress, baby steps toward righting the world. All of that was important, but it all fades in the face of this, today.

She's quiet, staring into his eyes, drinking them in for the last time, and it really, really, hits him all at once— He's leaving. Pepper, Morgan, Peter—he's leaving. When that was the one thing he had sworn never to do. "Tony," Pepper says softly, and he clings onto her voice like it's the scrap of hope he'd built in that cave, a million years ago. "Look at me."

semi-au where nat goes undercover and everyone else (especially steve) try to cope

some new year's day fluff