LittleRedCosette
Fandoms
- Inception (2010) (22)
- Marvel Cinematic Universe (14)
- The Avengers (Marvel Movies) (7)
- Marvel (5)
- The Old Guard (Comics) (5)
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There's gilding in the rafters, it's the sunlight breaking in by LittleRedCosette
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Comics), Marvel
08 Nov 2025
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Steve Rogers wakes up in April 2012, and for the most part wishes he hadn't. What is there left for him in this bright, vulgar, dazzling new future?
The fight is over. Any hopes of belonging to a team he can rely on are through. He's too late to give Peggy Carter that dance he promised her. He'll never see Bucky Barnes again.
Only one of these things turns out to be true.
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- Part 3 of Cherries in the After
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does she not return, faith everlasting? by LittleRedCosette
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movies 2020 2025)
07 Nov 2025
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Three months after the team decide not to exile Booker, they are resting and recovering in Barcelona.
Unfortunately, not everybody has the same idea what resting or recovering looks like.
Or, interludes in the recovery of wounds that don't leave physical scars.
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- Part 2 of demeter's daughter (whetstones)
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In 2012, SHIELD Agent Clint Barton goes missing following the defeat of the Chitauri and the invading God Loki.
In 2013, Virginia “Pepper” Potts is rescued from a terrorist cell, freshly infected with a drug called Extremis.
In 2014, SHIELD is brought to its knees by HYDRA, ripped out at the root by Captain America and the Black Widow.
In 2015, the Avengers take back a HYDRA Fortress in the heart of Sokovia’s capital.
These things are not unrelated.
Or: The Winter Soldier isn’t the only familiar face in HYDRA’s arsenal.
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He's got a one way ticket, paid in advance by LittleRedCosette
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Comics), Marvel
19 Sep 2025
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SHIELD Agent James Barnes is about as content with his lot in life as it's possible to be. A heck of a lot more content than he ever expected he could be, really. He has a team he trusts, and a decent handler. He has a sense of self. He has a therapist who knows better than to push him about his self-care routines, and a purpose in life that might not leave much time for socialising, but at least doesn't involve helping HYDRA take over the world against his will.
Trust Steve Rogers to come along and turn his life upside down for the second time.*
In other words, twenty years after Bucky Barnes escapes HYDRA's clutches, another frozen supersoldier is brought in from the cold.
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- Part 2 of Cherries in the After
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This Nightingale, a Shrike by LittleRedCosette
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel
04 Sep 2025
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Navigating a new relationship and mourning a lost one, recovering from grievous injury and trying to get his clearance reinstated, forging alliances and holding enemies at bay.
Clint Barton learns that sometimes, the best way to keep his most important promises is to break them.
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Recent series
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Cherries in the After by LittleRedCosette
Fandom: Marvel, Marvel (Comics), Marvel Cinematic Universe
08 Nov 2025
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In 1942, James "Bucky" Barnes lies to an enlistment officer with less than scrupulous morals.
In 1945, he falls from a train in the Alps.
In 1991, the Winter Soldier is sent on a mission to kill Howard Stark and steal a fresh batch of super-serum, and instead finds himself in the saving graces of Peggy Carter.
In 2012, a frozen Steve Rogers is found buried in the Arctic ice, and wakes up to a world he is wildly unprepared for.
- Words:
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- Works:
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- Bookmarks:
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rafinesque: honor to whom honor is overdue by LittleRedCosette
Fandom: Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe
04 Sep 2025
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“You want to know why Fury recruited me to SHIELD, Cap?”
Steve flinches, first, maybe at the title. Tastes like pyrite to speak it, too, doesn’t feel right on his tongue, not here, not now. Then he nods his head, and somehow manages to make it look like a no but Clint, he tells him anyway, because he has to. Steve deserves he truth, now. God knows, he’s had nothing but lies so far.
“Because HYDRA got to me first. And I didn’t exactly say no.”
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In the aftermath of Loki, with SHIELD cracked wide open by his own two hands, Clint Barton will do whatever it takes to make amends.
- Words:
- 103,396
- Works:
- 2
- Bookmarks:
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demeter's daughter (whetstones) by LittleRedCosette
Fandom: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Movies 2020 2025)
07 Nov 2025
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A story about four people who are pretty sure they're doing OK, all things considered, and one Nile Freeman who knows better.
You called the moon inconstant, but does she not return, faith everlasting? How else might she reveal the face of love? In leaving, she speaks her truth. In returning, fulfils it. And when the tide exhales her long held breath, they are as they were, and will be again.
- Words:
- 26,855
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- 2
- Bookmarks:
- 13
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Your daughters shall be soldiers, Your sons their patron saints by LittleRedCosette
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
05 Jul 2024
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Here's how a man like Steve Rogers goes about befriending a man like Clint Barton. And here's how he loses him, too.
(1) Steve Rogers
(2) Steve Rogers
(3) Tony Stark
(4) Sam Wilson
(5) Steve Rogers
(6) Bucky Barnes
(7) Natasha Romanov
Next instalments (8/9): Steve Rogers, Clint Barton- Words:
- 160,408
- Works:
- 7
- Bookmarks:
- 96
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there i will be buried by LittleRedCosette
Fandom: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
14 Nov 2023
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But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.” – Book of Ruth: 1:16/1:17
In 1974, Nicolo di Genova goes missing. In 2019, Nile Freeman dies and then wakes up. This is what happens after.
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Last drinks for the patron saint of bleeding hearts by pushdragon
Fandoms: Inception (2010)
28 Jan 2019
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Never again, they tell him. Eames can never go down into another dream, unless he wants to stay there forever. He does his best to walk away.
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In the sniper's nest, Nicky is both the priest and the executioner. Even immortals need a confessional.
(Or, how Andy dies.)