This is the short, rather untold story of Captain America and Iron Man's first meeting as Steve Rogers and Tony Stark, the quickly ensuing relationship, and a very important poker game as told from the eyes of Steven Rogers, a.k.a the First Avenger, Clinton Francis Barton, also known as the world's greatest marksman, and Fury, Nicholas J, director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
She reached for a boy she suddenly realized that she loved. She reached for a slim canister, containing the breath that he would never take. She reached for him, grabbing at his collar and pulling him up, holding him tight as if he was that breath. And last, she reached for the hand of a dead man, clutching another. While she reached, Jemma Simmons prayed.
John Winchester remembered vividly seeing his little Sammy tottering into Dean's arms. So when he died, and a part of his spirit lingered, he watched his youngest take his last steps into the arms of his oldest, a mirror-image of the event roughly 20 years earlier.
John Watson has a secret. A secret Sherlock Holmes knows. A secret that Sherlock Holmes is denying and has been since he first met Jim Moriarty. And when he reveals it to his closest friend and his lover, it disrupts Sherlock's plans for Reichenbach. And John Watson will fly.
Contrary to all of the times he had almost died, faked his death, and pretended his was dead, Gabriel the Archangel hadn't ever actually died before. He wondered, while he was alive, what awaited him after death. After death, in Gabriel's twisted afterlife, he found a new home, because Heaven sure as Hell wasn't anymore.
Curiosity, Loki Laufeyson told himself. He was just curious about the fate of the two strange figures he'd spied at Budapest. It was only curiosity that sent him on a mission to recover his ha- Barton. It was just curiosity - not attraction to the archer, that was sure. Curiousity. Clint Barton didn't have much of a choice. He thought he'd been in heaven. And then he'd seen Loki.
He remembers, but they don't fit. He remembers but he has to ask. He remembers, but he is almost sure that he made him up inside of his head.
Charles is gone. Erik can believe it, of course, because that is his luck, and his dear Charles' luck. They knew it would happen, of course they did, because they are X-Men and they are Brotherhood. When Charles dies, Erik has to say good-bye.
Greg Lestrade has had a long life. He's been kissed by girls and boys. He's been on dates, some successful, some not. He's made vows, and he's broken only one of them. He's had children, and he sees two of them very frequently. He's been shot. But he's never, ever bought an umbrella.
Please don't say you love me, 'cause I might not say it back. There is a (mandatory) party that Fitzsimmons are attending, but a broken-down car, stupid jokes, a stolen kiss, a song, a brief dance, and love later, Fitz is alone, and Jemma, the brilliant biochemist had, for a moment, missed something important.
... and the One Time Tony Turned Around and Gave That Deaf-Ass Archer a Taste of His Own Medicine.
There is a feast, a feast of starlight, and they will meet there someday
Dean wipes off mirrors. It has become habit, wherever he is- Sam's hospital room, the bunker, various motels. He always finds himself wiping the steam and dust and grime off of mirrors. He kids himself why he does it, because he knows why he really does. He does it because he expects to see Cas standing behind him. But he never does.