ClawsandEffect
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Natasha Romanoff's life was one long, continuous traumatic experience. She learned early on that trusting anyone or anything only led to pain.
As fate would have it, she crossed paths with an archer in a Belgrade alley, and it changed everything.
He offered her a way out. A second chance. Freedom.
If only she can trust that it's real.
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Clint Barton wasn't planning on bringing home a traumatized assassin the way other people would adopt a cat. It just kinda happened that way.
He is in no way qualified for this. She needs professional help, not some circus brat with a bow.
Trust is hard.
But maybe he can teach her how, the way someone once did for him.
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- Part 1 of Trustworthy
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Widow's Bite by ClawsandEffect
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Supernatural (TV 2005)
18 Oct 2025
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Natasha REALLY wants the hot toy for this Christmas season, and braves Black Friday to get it.
Tony doesn't understand why this is so important to her, but he wants to.
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After the car accident that awakened Alex Myers' nearly dormant mutant abilities, he was searching for a purpose.
That purpose finds him in the form of a job offer from the Black Widow.
Now he has to balance commitments to both SHIELD and the X-Men.
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Penance by ClawsandEffect
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Ghost Rider (Marvel Comics)
28 May 2025
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While tracking down a possible enhanced, Strike Team Delta has an encounter with the last person they want to be anywhere near.
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Fated by JoLRose
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Supernatural (TV 2005), Marvel
14 Oct 2025
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When the Avengers cross path with the Winchester siblings, there's only one outcome – sheer devastation. Long-buried truths get unearthed from the graves, the limits of sanity are tested, and the deadliest nightmares come to life. In the midst of it all - James 'Bucky' Barnes, an infamous former assassin known as the Winter Soldier, who is still grappling with the concept of freedom, and Abigail Winchester (OC), a hunter of creatures that dwell in the darkest shadows. Was this a doing of fate or a mere coincidence?
I plan to take my time crafting this narrative because it is my first crossover, and I want it to be dark, dramatic, emotionally intense, and filled with terrifying horror and suspense. Because it is an alternate universe, the plot will not adhere strictly to the canon of either fandom. The major focus will be on the Avengers, but it will cover both sides of the crossover through multi-povs.
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15 Oct 2025
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Hissing Hatred and Healing Hearts by normalisoverrated
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Black Widow (Movie 2021)
20 Oct 2025
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America wasn't like the sitcoms Wanda watched as a child. There were no laugh tracks, falling was painful not slapstick, everything didn’t come out OK after 20 minutes, and the guy in the hospital didn’t go home at the end of the episode. If the Avengers were one big, happy family, then Wanda wasn’t a part of it.
Steve and Sam didn’t trust her and they were right to. Natasha was perfectly professional, as if Wanda hadn’t locked her into her worst memory and walked away. Clint had to return to his family and the other boys were rarely around. And Pietro, the life always sprinting parallel to her own, as crucial as oxygen, lay unnaturally still and silent, his mind closed off.
And then, one day, Natasha brought her daughter to work. And for the first time in four weeks, Wanda felt hopeful. Wanda was good with kids. Really good. And the others adored Steffie. Maybe if the kid warmed up to Wanda, the others would too.
… That wasn't precisely what happened.
Or how Wanda and Steffie hate each other until they don’t, and their sharp edges cut until they stitch.
(Can be read without reading the previous fics in the series, but you'll miss some of the context and humour.)
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03 Oct 2025
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Bruised and Burned but We're Bold and Brave by normalisoverrated
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Black Widow (Movie 2021)
18 Dec 2023
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“You were pregnant.”
13 years ago those words had broken Natasha’s heart and numbed it to ice. 13 years ago Madame told Natasha they’d killed the child in her womb during her graduation ceremony. 13 years ago Dreykov forced Natasha to watch as the Winter Soldier was wiped of all memory of her.
She’d had cause to curse the Red Room a thousand times over but even she hadn't seen this coming. She'd never imagined Madame lied. She hadn’t considered Dreykov would want to keep the Winter Soldier’s child.
When Steve asked her to look for Bucky, she didn’t expect to find him. She wasn't prepared to find a 10 year old with red hair, green eyes, and her James's features.
She thought she’d lost her child forever, before she even had her, but it was all a lie. Now suddenly she’s mother to a traumatised 10 year old girl more familiar with guns than hugs. Her child has spent 3 years frozen in cryogenic storage and the other 10 training as a Widow.
And Natasha would go to the ends of the earth and fight any monster to protect her daughter but even she might not be up to the task of protecting her baby girl. Because the Red Room is still out there, and Dreykov will stop at nothing.
Set after CA:TWS
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30 Sep 2025
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through the shadows by ilovescarjo
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
11 Oct 2025
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One night at the Avengers Compound, one gala, and everything changes. For Natasha Romanoff, the evening sparks a descent into fear, pain, and memories she thought she had left behind.
(updates are very random and sporadic!!)
Bookmarked by ClawsandEffect
13 Sep 2025
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Body of Evidence by ShannonXL
Fandom: Black Widow (Comics), Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Winter Soldier (Comics)
25 Apr 2016
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"I blew all my covers. I got to go figure out a new one." Natasha's life is an open book, but there are still pages missing. To find out who she was, before the Red Room, she must travel the world and find the chapters that Hydra has hidden.
But her sisters aren't as dead as they once were, there's a copycat program on the loose, and the Winter Soldier might be playing her just like she's playing him. Half-truths are as deadly as bullets.
What's real? Whose orders are she following now? And with the trail of blood decades long behind her... can she ever really be 'good'?- Words:
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Bookmarked by ClawsandEffect
07 Sep 2025