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The cold metal of the gun barrel presses harder into the spot between his eyes.
“Witnesses aren’t a luxury I can afford, O.X.E,” The Widow muses in fluent English, velvety as a cobra’s dance, strike imminent— she squeezes her thighs iron-tight around his windpipe, heels locked together, the hand clawed in his hair yanking it back, making sure it tilts far back enough for him to get a good, hard look at his executioner. She cocks her head. “So, why do you keep testing me?”
There’s a multitude of reasons for tracking down a target— suspicious activity, a reason for intervention, a tip-off, a shadow-op, a direct order— All of these are realistic players in this messed up game of chess; this deck of cards he’d been saddled with by his circumstances and all the powers that be, the people who insist he does good so much, he becomes it.
This particular assassin, however?
“Morbid curiosity,” Bob answers.
The gun fires.
Best to get it inside your head now, Mr. Reynolds. There’s nothing more disarming than a person you would die for.
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Only Looking for a Charger by mint_candelabra
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), New Avengers (Marvel Comics)
11 Aug 2025
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The team’s had enough of Ava’s wandering, but all she wants is to find her charger. Also known as: the tale of how she quit phasing through walls and began dodging the reading room
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Yelena was looking for someone to help her shoot some “unusual” videos, and Bob desperate for money. They hit it off instantly.
Junkie! Bob x Killer! Yelena
(What if they had met before the Thunderbolts* happened?)
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Learning to Breathe by Sebena
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Comics)
01 Jan 2026
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“Would you ever do it?”
“Do what?” She responds, lining up her next shot.
“Get married to stay?” Bob clarifies.
The cue scratches the table hard enough to rip the felt lining.
With Yelena's visa about to expire and her impending return to Mother Russia approaching, Bob offers her a way to stay with her sister. All she needs to do is marry her best friend for a year. It's a nearly perfect solution once all their friends agree to keep the secret. Now, all they have to do is avoid falling in love with each other.
Or the marriage of convenience between Bob and Yelena that no one asked for!
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Yelena sees Bob start to rise, to reach for the latch securing the back doors, and – she lunges for him, grabs his arm, and pulls him back before she can think twice about it.
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Bob's heroic sacrifice is slightly delayed – and he’s unceremoniously dragged into the back of a stolen OXE truck and carted away by the Thunderbolts. With their erstwhile savior in such rough shape, it only makes sense that they stop for the night at a motel along the way, just until he’s well enough to call on his newfound powers again. Yelena doesn’t like the idea of leaving him alone until he’s fully recovered, and there aren’t enough rooms for each of them anyway, so the solutions seems obvious: she’ll stay with Bob and look after him as needed. It’s only logical, isn’t it?
And this desire to stay near him… well, that’s natural too, right? It’s just… concern, that’s all.