20 Works by MercuryAlice
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Time gives perspective. Helen drops in on James during her time playing catch up to her main timeline.
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“Why is a raven like a writing desk.” He asks in a self-satisfied tone as if utterly sure he’s about to come out victorious. He’s mistaken.
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Selkie had no business being in tanks in pubs. Was only right that he put Dolores back with her own.
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Again he becomes the stick to Arvin’s carrot approach; going back to being the ton of bricks threatening to tumble down on those unfortunate enough to be disloyal, while Sloane pretends not to be the far more dangerous snake that he truly is. It’s another return to normalcy, however smoke screened it was. He watches Sloane turn back to Rambaldi like a drug addict turns back to heroin, and there’s something less about him.
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Object Permanence by MercuryAlice
Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars - All Media Types
03 Apr 2016
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She was a woman detective, for chrissake, was a woman running a speakeasy so far out of the believable? The Captain certainly looked as if she belonged, one leg crossed over the other and perfectly at home as she seemed to take immense pleasure in making the man opposite her look as if he’d rather be anywhere else in the world.
That was who she needed to talk to, then. Her.
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‘You’re supposed to want to be the coffee grounds.’
She didn’t, at the time. Her split second reaction had been an identification with the egg. Forced into boiling water and hardened by it, irreparably. Something weak and able to be cracked, made diamond under the blistering heat of circumstance until it was was impenetrable. Something that could have its skin cracked and peeled away and still retain itself.
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Rather than arc up at the slights, he became the poster child for the customer service employee who took it all in silence and then one day very calmly picked up a rifle and systematically murdered everyone in the vicinity. On the bright side, Lucien had no intention of being in that vicinity when that particular vision for the future came to fruition. The reactions he craved were far less spectacular.
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Legal Assassin by MercuryAlice for StongeOfTheGalaxium
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types
12 Feb 2015
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He is the pen that whets itself in red and scrawls a signature on the dotted line of misplaced attention seeking. Always they seem to wonder why. And always it is a lie. They both know why, at least he has the grace to be honest about it.
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Cinder Rain by MercuryAlice
Fandoms: The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)
29 Jan 2015
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Eyes open, and it all becomes dust again, raining down in delicate cinders that catch on his lashes in a blackened mockery of snow.
He is-- called up.
He is-- tasked.
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Chicago AU.
Miss Lisa Prince, in the Press Conference Rag. Notice how her mouth never moves. Almost.
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- English
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- 591
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Oats In The Water by MercuryAlice
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
09 Sep 2014
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“You stupid fucking cunt.” The words wash over him and he can’t help but agree. He doesn’t answer except for a grunt and it earns him a hit to the head which he welcomes because it distracts him from staring at the bleeding chunk now missing from his left forearm. Well that settled that, then. He was royally fucked, and more to the point, dead.
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Done and dusted by MercuryAlice
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
09 Sep 2014
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Rumlow/Rollins - #40 'exes meeting again after not speaking for years au'
It was only a little car bomb, and it wasn’t like Brock was in the fucking car at the time.
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Danke Schoen, Darling by MercuryAlice
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Agent Carter (TV)
08 Sep 2014
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“The only person you’ve ever been love-struck for is yourself.”
“Someone should put that on my headstone.”
“I plan to.”
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Happiness is a knife at your throat by MercuryAlice
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
03 Sep 2014
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It’s broken furniture and cuts and bruises, not a fucking relationship.
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Bring on last call by MercuryAlice
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
31 Aug 2014
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Brock clicks his tongue, a condescending sound that makes him bare his teeth in return. It’s a nice change. Familiar. It makes him want to punch his teeth in. More than usual. Which is wonderfully even footing to be on. It hasn’t escaped him that the rest of STRIKE-- barring Cap, who didn’t know any better-- had been on edge for weeks because they hadn’t been at each other’s throats anywhere near as much as usual; safe houses after missions had been left with furniture intact, it was downright alarming if you knew the difference.
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Unspeakable Debt by MercuryAlice
Fandoms: Iron Man (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
18 Apr 2014
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Steve Rogers isn't the only one Peggy Carter holds claim over. A look back at her influence in Tony Stark's life.
In the long, piercingly clear view allowed by hindsight, it increasingly occurred that debts like that aren’t eligible to be paid in full.
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Move. Lay down. Rest. For now, as the dust settled a little between rounds, she was almost grateful for the instructions. It was better than freezing entirely and never moving again without even realizing.
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- English
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- 1,102
- Chapters:
- 1/8
- Kudos:
- 17
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- 713
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As ever, for England by MercuryAlice
Fandoms: Skyfall (2012) - Fandom, James Bond (Craig Movies)
10 Aug 2013
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Every time he became even fractionally self-satisfied, something untoward happened. A building collapsed, a vintage Jaguar had an unfortunate run in with a semi-automatic weapon, someone had the audacity to get themselves killed before he got what he needed from them. As had been proven time and time again, a self-satisfied Double-Oh-Seven for more than a maximum of thirty seconds put everyone in the vicinity at dire risk.
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Wait for the cough. It was coming. He could feel it, as he could feel his pulse jump under his finger tips more than it should when he cared to check; could feel his skin heat even as he felt colder. Wait for the cough.
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A one-shot glance as the curtains draw to a close on Lestrade's life; the last one standing at the end of everything.
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- English
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- 306
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- 26
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