When the events of Civil War are carefully averted, the Avengers never disbanded, the Sokovia Accords were signed, and Steve Rogers finds himself working to capture rogue enhanced persons and send them to the Raft. Not what he wanted, but it's the price he paid to protect Bucky. He's drowning, but so is Mab. (Steve/OC) follows AU of "Who is Alice Shaw?" and "Reaching in the Dark".

Time. Space. Reality. It's more than a linear path. It's a prism of endless possibility, where a single choice can branch out into infinite realities, creating alternate worlds from the ones you know. I am the Watcher. I am your guide through these vast new realities. Follow me and ponder the question... "What if?" One-shots, related to WIAS/RITD/OVOH, but not canon to those!

Firefighters are a different breed of human. We run towards fire when everyone else is running far, far away. We put our bodies in harm's way to protect strangers. Sometimes we pay a fatal price. So what kind of fresh hell is it to ask us to sit on the sidelines, and ask strangers to protect us when they have no earthly reason to care? The kind where you've already died. [Hiei/OC]