The Girl Who Flew
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The Girl Who Flew by thepaperwitch
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
09 Feb 2026
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Saoirse “Shay” Quinn is a brilliant, secretive SHIELD engineer whose quiet life of blueprints, wards, and late-night equations ends the moment Maria Hill shows up on her doorstep at 3 a.m. Loki has arrived on Earth, and SHIELD needs the mind behind the Helicarrier and the Quinjet on deck now.
Dragged into a world of gods, betrayals, and impossible physics, Shay finds herself working alongside Bruce Banner, crossing verbal swords with Tony Stark, and standing far too close to Captain America—a man whose gentle hands and soft-spoken encouragement unsettle her more than any alien threat. Their connection sparks in the spaces between system checks and training drills… a feeling she refuses to name.
But Shay carries a secret even SHIELD couldn’t fully catalogue: magic in her bones, kinetic shimmer under her skin, and nightmares she can’t outrun. As she’s pulled deeper into SHIELD, and closer to a certain super soldier, her powers, her past, and her heart threaten to break open in ways she never prepared for.
Set between Avengers and Winter Soldier.
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- Part 1 of The Girl Who Flew
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Spotlight by thepaperwitch
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
19 Mar 2026
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After walking away from SHIELD, Shay Quinn does what she’s always done best: she builds something new.
Partnering with Tony Stark, she helps launch a next-generation aerospace firm designed to change how the world moves. For the first time, Shay isn’t a ghost in the machine. She’s visible. At the same time, she’s falling into a relationship with Steve Rogers. Loving Captain America is not a private thing, no matter how much they try to make it one.
This is a story about loving someone who is already a monument, while becoming one yourself. Shay doesn’t want to be a witness to history. She wants to shape it.
This time, she isn’t working in the shadows.
This time, the world is watching.
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- Part 2 of The Girl Who Flew