17 Works by em2mb
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Now Lydia sees the white room clearly, Stiles sitting cross-legged on the nemeton in his lacrosse jersey, squinting at a chessboard.
That’s when Lydia realizes her vantage point makes her Stiles’ opponent — and she has him in check.
Her instinct is to push her own king into danger, but Stiles grabs her wrist. “Come on, Lydia,” he says dryly, a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. “Chess might not be your game, but surely you know that’s against the rules.”
Lydia tries to squirm away from him. “But you’ll die,” she insists, his grip tightening so much she’s certain his long fingers will leave bruises.
“Say it, Lydia,” Stiles urges. “Checkmate. Checkmate. Checkmate — ”
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Five months after the nogitsune tears through Beacon Hills, Stiles' humanity leaves the McCall pack vulnerable. Post-3B. -
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“Could he have done it?”
Hardy stares at her. “Miller, I just told you his alibi.”
“I know, and I’m asking you, could he have done it?”
Hardy pinches the bridge of his nose. “I don’t know. Maybe?”
A year after closing the Winterman case, Hardy must investigate another rape: Miller's.
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It's Too Late Tonight To Drag The Past Out Into The Light by em2mb
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
14 May 2021
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“Yet it won’t change the future, what I do in the past,” Steve says as Bruce slides the drawing back across the coffee table. He stares at the dark scribbles with an intensity that unnerves Bruce.
“I mean,” Bruce says lightly, “I probably wouldn’t kill my grandpa if I were you.”
After Tony dies, the Avengers try to assemble. Problem is, they're so broken.
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“Oh, don’t you act like I want to spend a week sleeping next to Jack Thompson,” Peggy scolds.
“Could you stop saying his name in our bedroom?” Daniel grumbles, and it occurs to her it might make it worse for him, the fact that it’s Jack.
For a diplomatic mission in West Berlin, Peggy must go undercover as the wife of a junior attaché. Plot twist: it’s not Daniel playing her husband.
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Nick realizes too late the target isn’t President Carter, but Director Carter. If he shouts, he’ll start a panic, and she might still get shot. But he’s not sure how else to warn her from ten feet away.
Until he catches Chief Sousa’s eye.
Trouble follows Peggy and Daniel to the inaugural ball.
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“Hi,” Sharon says cautiously.
The deep voice on the other end is instantly recognizable. “Merry Christmas, Agent Carter.”
Sharon reminds herself that Steve wouldn’t know how hard she worked to separate herself from Peggy’s legacy, that she once threw a knife at a classmate who made that joke at the Academy, that no one at S.H.I.E.L.D. dared to call her that ever again. “Merry Christmas, Captain Rogers.”
After the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D., Sharon wonders if she ever knew her great-aunt at all.
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- Part 5 of Agent Carter Christmas Shorts
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Peggy excuses herself. Not that anyone can hear her over the din, but her son’s dark eyes are already heavily-lidded, and this she doesn’t need to see. She retreats to the kitchen and drains her rocks glass in a single gulp, leaning back against the sink. Peggy closes her eyes. Her first Christmas without Daniel.
“I know why I’m hiding out in here,” a familiar voice jokes, “but the wolves think you work for the phone company.”
Grief, Peggy finds, comes on when you least expect it.
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- Part 4 of Agent Carter Christmas Shorts
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Michael watches his father cross the kitchen, peer through the blinds and shake his head at the snow for the tenth time that hour. “Was he this bad when you were pregnant?” Michael asks his mother, handing her a cup of tea.
Peggy’s eyes flicker up from the report she’s reading at the table to follow her husband across the room. “Worse,” she says grimly. “Remember, I was on bed rest with your sister.”
Peggy and Daniel's son isn't a spy.
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- Part 3 of Agent Carter Christmas Shorts
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Peggy groans and buries her face in the pillow. “Remind me why we had children again?” she asks, voice muffled.
“Because we wanted them,” Daniel reminds her, pulling the covers up strategically before their 7-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter can burst through the door.
The Sousas take their children to visit Santa.
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- Part 2 of Agent Carter Christmas Shorts
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It doesn’t escape his notice that she’s wearing a festive tea-length emerald green dress, though she’d sworn up and down when the package from Howard’s seamstress arrived that she had no use for holiday maternity frocks, as she intended to have this baby well before Christmas, thank you very much.
Peggy tugs on the wide end of her husband’s necktie. “Daniel Sousa,” she says, threat implicit as she executes a perfect four-in-hand, “if you think you’re leaving me in this house alone – ”
The Sousas attend a wedding.
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- Part 1 of Agent Carter Christmas Shorts
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Hell Is Empty (All The Devils Are Here) by em2mb
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
23 Oct 2016
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It’s two weeks before Maria’s allowed to leave the med bay, two months before she’s cleared for light duty. She’s nowhere near 100 percent, but lying to get back out in the field is a time-honored S.H.I.E.L.D. tradition.
Still, as she sits straight-backed and tells the psychiatric exactly what she wants to hear, Maria wonders if anyone stopped to consider just how many of these evaluations she’s signed off on.
A botched mission. A long road back. Maria Hill recovers.
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Would You Still Love Me If The Clocks Could Go Backwards? by em2mb
Fandoms: Agent Carter (TV), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
07 Aug 2016
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“The least of our problems?” Peggy repeats. Evidently her husband’s gone mad. “The least of our problems? Daniel, need I remind you there’s no such thing as a trivial quantity of Zero - ”
That’s when Steve Rogers enters the room.Peggy blinks. Just how hard had she hit her head?
All Peggy wanted was to spend a relaxing weekend in Malibu with her husband. She probably should have specified in what year.
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How The Muscle, Bone And Sinews Tangled by em2mb
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
29 Jul 2016
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“Where’s Barton?” Natasha asks. Surprisingly, a quick scan of the room shows no signs of Clint having been there. She doesn’t see his bow, or his boots, and the pad of hospital stationary hasn’t been folded into paper footballs for flicking into the trash. She frowns. “Coulson, where’s Clint?”
Red. The color of his blood-stained hands.
Written for Summer 2016 Clintasha Week, “Colors.”
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There's New Grass On The Field by em2mb for frommybookbook
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
24 Jun 2016
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“I thought you hated baseball,” Clint says as they ride the Metro to the game.
Natasha shrugs, which is about as close as she ever comes to expressing an opinion. “I want to see Steve’s face when he realizes a beer costs $17.50.”
Five times Clint and Natasha went to a baseball game, and one time ... well.
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Possession Is Nine-Tenths Of The Law by em2mb
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
17 May 2016
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It’s not until Clint steps out of the shower that he realizes Natasha’s stolen the spare sweatpants from his locker.
Five times Natasha stole clothes from Clint (and one time he let her).
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“What can I say?” Daniel says. “I’m a sucker for red lipstick and strong women.”
Dottie slaps him so hard it echoes. Daniel checks his teeth with his tongue, just to be sure. “I’ve killed men for less,” she hisses.
“But you’re not going kill me,” Daniel points out. “Not while I’m still useful.” While he’s pushing his luck, he figures he might as well ask, “So what’s the plan?”
“Why would I tell you?”
He detects a sour note in her voice. “Thought I was doing you a favor.”
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“I have lived a life. My only regret is that you didn't get to live yours.”
The man who would become Peggy Carter’s husband isn’t even named in Captain America’s story. But to Peggy Carter, he was everything.
A look back at her life with Daniel Sousa.
(Minor spoilers for 2x04, “Smoke and Mirrors.”)