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Summary:

There’s a lot of good, and just as much that’s bad—but Kate Bishop is having the time of her life.

Or, a collection of deleted scenes from the universe of coming up beneath the clouds and the ones who get it done, in 100-word drabble form.

Notes:

Exactly what it says on the tin: these are outtakes from this series’ universe, in which I've probably invested the most time in all my years of fic writing despite my ambivalence towards the source material. All in 100-word drabble form, as I really need practice paring down my writing and this is as good an excuse as any.

Chapter 1: Google Scholar (April 2028)

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Kate is two pages into her paper for History 462, skimming a foreign policy article from 1988 that could be a potential source to cite in the paper. As she scrolls past a grainy group portrait of aging men in uniform, their jackets bristling with medals, her eyes latch onto a name in the caption. A name she’s seen before, but now she knows of the person—monster—behind it, and that knowledge burns Kate with a sudden, furious hatred.

 

She stares into the broad, mustached face of General Dreykov and longs to put her fist through the tablet screen.

Notes:

Here is the rough timeline for this universe, which can serve as touchstones for anyone who wants to place the drabbles in chronological order:

-Yelena’s birth year: 1989

Ohio (Black Widow): 1992-1995
(Natasha 8, Yelena 3 in 1992)

-Kate’s birth year: 2002

-Natasha defects between 2007-2008.

-Iron Man 2: 2010

-The Avengers: 2012
(Yelena 23, Kate 10)

-Black Widow: 2016
(Yelena 27, Kate 14)

-The Blip: 2018-2023

-Hawkeye: December 2024
(Yelena 35 [30], Kate 22)

-coming up beneath the clouds: May 2026-May 2027

-the ones who get it done: October 2027-December 2028