erynalasse Asks:
I’ve been casually wandering back through Yonder and skipping especially to the bits with Nat and Loki and Steve, and I just love the way you write them and their chemistry, as friends (with benefits) or as a threesome. MCU writers could take notes.
And then I just got the new chapter alert, so talk about funny timing. Please keep up the good work, and remember to look after yourself too! -sends virtual hugs-
bedlamsbard Said:
Aww, thank you! Steve and Nat were always written to be friends with benefits (slash in a relationship), though I think the closest it comes to being confirmed on the page is in that last chapter (Yelena is in this story entirely so I could put the “Did you have sex in this bed?” crack in there), since I cut them sharing a bed or even clothes from the very beginning of Yonder 3 (the scene where Nat can’t sleep). In retrospect I would have been more explicit about the relationships (since post-Horizon the opening scene especially reads like Loki had a bad breakup with them, which I eventually logicked out and it’ll get explained in the sequel), but it was my early days MCU and I was terrified of losing readers by having a ship in that fic, especially one as weird as Steve/Loki/Nat, or even Steve/Nat which is still relatively rare. Which I definitely would have done, since I’m the only fic writer I know who loses readers by writing shipfic.
Someday my hell semester will actually end and I’ll be able to just lie on the floor and scream for a few days! not yet tho.
Rhodey looked at Steve and Natasha, and Bruce just behind them. “We all knew this was coming,” he said, not sounding particularly apologetic. “Vacation’s over. Time to saddle up.”
Loki scooped up his boots with one hand. “Well, you lot have fun, I’ll keep a candle lit in the window for you –”
“Not so fast,” Rhodey said, putting a hand out to stop him. “You’re an Avenger too, remember? Time to earn a living.”
Six months after the Snap, Earth is slowly putting itself back together, or at least trying to fit its shattered pieces into a semi-functional whole. For the Avengers, who have spent that time cloistered in New Asgard keeping an eye on King Loki and his people, this means new and old enemies, familiar faces, and coming back to the world – or not.
A prequel to On Yonder Hill. (Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanoff, Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanoff/Loki)
Chapter 6: Cold Upon the Mountain
61K, AU, WIP
Chapter preview:
Natasha and Steve were still sitting on the floor surrounded by dead drones when Agent Woo and Bruce arrived at a run a few minutes later, the DODC agents just behind them. Woo had his sidearm out; Bruce had one of Tony’s spare repulsor-gauntlets spread over his palm and wrist, though at some point it had been painted green and black instead of the familiar hotrod red and gold. They all skidded to a stop when they saw Natasha and Steve.
“Holy shit,” one of the Damage Control agents said.
“You fellas want to secure the place while I brief my team?” Steve said, suddenly all professionalism despite the fact that he was sitting on the floor covered in blood. “Nothing else attacked us, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t still here.”
“Uh – yes, sir.” The agents moved away, clearly all too happy to leave the mess to the Avengers.
“Good news, bad news time,” Natasha said as Steve finally levered himself to his feet and then held his hand out to her.
“Good news,” Steve said as he hauled her upright, “the drones are all dead.”
“Bad news,” Natasha said, sliding her baton back into her harness, “got attacked by drones.”
“Good news,” Steve said, “Howard Stark’s bag of magic tricks still works. Bad news: he never fixed the problem where it fried all our kit, not just the bad guys’.”
“Good news,” Natasha said, “found out what Hammer and Sterns were after.”
“Bad news,” Steve said, “it was the Project Rebirth files.”
CHRIS EVANS as STEVE ROGERS
AVENGERS: INFINTY WAR (2018) dir. JOE & ANTHONY RUSSO
(via stevenatsource)
If you ever feel like an idiot, remember that Tony thought that his and Steve’s ‘friendship’ (reluctant coworkers) was equivalent to Steve and Bucky’s friendship. Also, remember that Tony is still considered a genius by many people.
you’re in his dms, I’m jumping into the river from an exploding helicarrier to save him and he spends the next two years chasing me. we are not the same
(via cacchieressa)
well it turns out I got everything I needed for Horizon 5 from spot checks on CACW so I didn’t actually have to sit through it, but now I’m just pissed off because I did sit through it!
Fuck it. (insp.)
Death is only the beginning.
23 YEARS OF THE MUMMY
RELEASED ON MAY 7, 1999
(via foxtrovert)
If there’s one thing I will never understand it’s Lord of the Rings fans wanting to be an elf in Middle Earth. I mean, sure they’re graceful and pretty but they live too damn long and having to witness an eternity of stupidity from the species around them. Like, imagine being Elrond and basically witnessing a cringe compilation of the human race. Nope. No thanks.
I’ve been witnessing a cringe compilation of the human race my whole life. Elrond is not special.
(via cacchieressa)
I’m rewatching Captain America: Civil War and honestly Earth is so lucky that the events of Infinity War didn’t happen in the middle of this movie, though tbh that sounds exactly like something I would write.
Natasha Romanoff
Captain America: Civil War, 2016Dir. Anthony & Joe Russo
(via stevenatsource)
1400 words written today – went up to campus to (a) return some library books and (b) figure out where this fight scene is actually taking place while simultaneously trying to remember what this campus looked like in 2018 (what, you’ve never wanted your institution of higher education to be attacked by robots?), worked on a fellowship app I don’t feel particularly sanguine about, finally started rewatching CACW, which is just…not an enjoyable experience. Horizon 5 up hopefully tomorrow, but I wanted to finish CACW first to make sure I don’t actively contradict anything (though I think I’ve done enough spot-checking to be pretty sure I haven’t, but I haven’t watched the movie in full since last year some time). anyway, that’s not happening tonight because this movie is very long and very uncomfortable and I am making it longer by the fact I keep stopping it to heckle it on Twitter.
Snippet from The Horizon Line 6.
The blade end of Loki’s polearm punched through its throat and carved downwards. Natasha flipped back to her feet just in time to see the robot rotate the upper half of its body, slotted metal revealing an orange glow from inside it, and send a blast of energy towards Loki. It hit the god straight-on and knocked him backwards. Loki landed in a crouch a few feet away, looking annoyed but not harmed; Natasha didn’t see anything more because the robot had swung an arm out towards her, something like a repulsor glowing in the palm of his hand, and she had to dodge aside. The hole Loki’s polearm had made closed up with a snick-snick-snick of metal and Natasha thought, shit.
She could see Steve bashing his way through another batch of robots – the ones that stayed down when you hit them right – but there were apparently two kinds out here tonight.
“Enough of that,” Loki said, on his feet again as Natasha ducked another blast from the robot and shot it with her widow’s bites to see if that had any more affect. It didn’t.
Loki brought the shaft of the polearm down around the robot’s body and grabbed it with both hands, his heels leaving divots in the picturesque cobblestones as the robot tried to pull away. Its torso rotated around and it spat energy at him; Loki flinched as it hit him in the face, but didn’t release it.
“Help Steve, I’ll deal with this,” he said, his head jerking backwards as it blasted him again. “It’s made from the Destroyer; it’s my responsibility. Ow. I am King of Asgard and you will listen to me, Garmr gnaw your bones!”