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    Life Makes Love Look Hard by

    Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe  

    30 Jul 2015

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    Bruce watched the little boy scribble a moment, then looked back to his mother. “May I ask what you are doing back here again?”

    Her expression turned wry. “Neil here is an avid Iron Man fan.”

    The boy looked up. “I’Man!”

    “That’s right,” his mother said easily. “So we come here for lunch to watch and see if he takes off from the Tower.”

    “He certainly knows his stuff,” Bruce commented.

    “We take our superhero knowledge very seriously.” She smiled at him a moment, then he saw her swallow and she added, “I’m Violet, by the way.”

    Violet. It suited her. Soft and pretty and old fashioned. “Bruce,” he said, offering her his hand.

    She shook his hand, hers all but disappearing under his fingers. “Would you like to join us for lunch?” she asked quietly.

    Feeling oddly shy, he said, “I’d like that very much.”

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    Heart of Steel by ,

    Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Thor (Movies)  

    09 Jun 2015

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    The tech arrived a few minutes later. He was tall and lanky, with curly hair that needed a trim going in every direction. He looked like the kind of guy you could have ordered from the Nerd Catalog. "Hi," he said. "I'm Cal. Have you rebooted it?"

    Oh and now there was going to be the twenty computer-illiterate grandma questions. "Yes. I have rebooted it. I've also drive to reboot to disk."

    He came over to the desk and she could see by the direction of his eyes he was checking the power was plugged in. "Did you try mounting it in Target Disk to another machine?"

    "Yes," Darcy said. "It worked great, I got my data, and I decided to call you up here just for shits and giggles." As soon as the words came out, she knew the brain-mouth filter had once again failed. But instead of being upset at her rudeness, he looked over at her and grinned.

    Still, she made an effort to sound pleasant when she said, "Seriously, man, what's the code word to get the tier two tech support?"

    "Snark is a good start."

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    Pomegranate Seeds by

    Fandoms: Devil's Cub - Georgette Heyer, HEYER Georgette - Works  

    11 Apr 2026

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    He could not, she realised, drag an unwilling bride to the altar, but if he succeeded in transporting her all the way to Dijon she felt that she would be then in so much worse a predicament that marriage with him would be the only thing left to her.

    In Paris the quarrel between Mr Comyn and Miss Marling reaches a much more satisfactory conclusion. With no preux chevalier to offer her his hand in marriage, Miss Challoner does not succeed in preventing Lord Vidal from carrying her off to Dijon.

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    Progress Report by

    Fandoms: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe  

    09 Jun 2019

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    Ms. Warren has some questions for Tony Stark regarding the exact nature of Peter's internship. She gets invited to the lab to see for herself.

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    I Would Lay My Armor Down by

    Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies)  

    29 May 2020

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    “Where’s Happy?” Morgan asked after a minute or two, determinedly moping out the window.
    “He’s got the flu,” Peter said slowly, still turning the puzzle over in his head. “Didn’t you get your dad’s text?”
    “I didn’t look.” She shifted. “Why’d he send you?”
    The accusation in the question stung. He’d spent over a decade as the object of Morgan’s blind affection. Losing it now, without any warning and no explanation, made his whole perspective shift off-kilter.
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    Or, Morgan's angry with Peter, Peter's oblivious, and Tony's self-sacrificial streak goes a little too far.

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