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“Nancy?” her brother asks. Over his shoulder she can see that Mike’s hand is still tangled with El’s. “What?” “This feels…” he stops, and when Mike starts again it’s quieter than the wind, quieter than El’s breathing. “It feels like we’re a family.” Nancy bites back a giggle. What, so Hopper’s the dad and Joyce is the mom and the rest of them are all brothers and sisters? Like they’d be so lucky. Lovely coda to season 2.

Lyrical and lovely look at how Nancy weaves her way into the Byers family. (s2 spoilers)

Eleven and Hopper and breakfast. Oh heart.

Sometimes Bucky wishes he could zip himself into Steve’s jacket, all the way up over his head. Tuck himself into Steve, warm and dark. Steve would let him. Steve wouldn’t have to worry about him, not when he’s so close. Daisypuff would be there too, all of them stacked in together like a nesting doll of suspicious bitey assholes. And Bucky could just close his eyes, and relax his grip, and deal with absolutely nothing that isn’t petting Daisypuff or getting pet by Steve. I enjoyed this a lot (2nd in a series; I also recommend the first story).

When Barnes stumbles into a small town in Maine at summer's end, he's been running a long time and doesn't expect to stay. But as weeks pass, he starts wondering whether all this time he hasn't been running away from, but towards something - the kindness of strangers, quiet fields, and a curious, yellow-eyed goshawk. Bucky takes up falconry during his recovery. Soft and lovely.

He was determining his own protocols. It was an ongoing process, and kind of a mess. Bucky slowly learns how to be a person again. Lovely.

After finding himself alone for the first time in decades, the Winter Soldier learns how to be a person again. Mostly through caring for an orphaned kitten, countless rounds of YouTube roulette, and stalking Captain America. Or: Bucky Barnes, accidental millennial. I enjoyed this a lot.

Bucky writes during the war, and it helps him find his way back after. Lovely

Eliot, Parker and Hardison steal themselves a Winter Soldier. Oh heart.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Really lovely version of Steve and Diana's night together.

Exactly what it says on the tin, with demon!Vicky and vampire!Eleanor making life exciting for watcher!Chidi and slayer!Tahani.

Eleanor watches the tape. Sweet and hot.

Tahani and Eleanor break into Michael's office and get drunk. Really nails the voices.

"C'mon, Buck," he says. "Do you remember... we used to climb onto the roof on the nights it got too hot to sleep. Up over the fire escape." Bucky stays just behind him as they work their way upward. "I don't remember," he says, not unkindly but wanting to be honest. "I don't remember much." I don't know if I'm him, he wants to say. I don't know if the shape of me fits with the shape of him - with the shape of you. One morning, I'm afraid you'll look at me and realize I'm a stranger and your friend is dead and then where will I be. He can't see Steve's face in the dark so they just climb. Steve gets captured and experimented on, so the Avengers pull back together to rescue him. tightly plotted, suspenseful, and full of feels. Heed the warnings, though.

Natasha vets Sam before the start of CATWS. Quite thoroughly. *g*

When they lay together at night, skin to skin and legs tangled, Chirrut's habit was to run his hands down Baze's back—to listen to the sounds of the temple and the sleeping city around them, to feel the alleys and streets and by-ways and squares in colours and etched lines beneath his palms. It was the kind of mantra that would have scandalised their old masters, but it made smiles come as readily as prayers to Chirrut's lips. Baze's faith burned bright for years. NiJedha and its temple stood for a thousand generations. And then: gone, all of it. So sad and lovely. *sobs*

Anakin, Ahoska, and Rex have some downtime after a mission. Aw, this is so soft and sweet.

When Inej woke later, startled awake by the scrape of rope against her wrists, she looked across to find his hands gripping hers in his sleep. The sight of their fingers tangled together made her want to weep, or scream, or laugh. Here were two of the deadliest people in the Barrel, holding onto each other in the middle of the night like children afraid of monsters under their bed. Those children had died a long time ago. They had become monsters themselves and raged wars because of it. But Inej had learned from her years on the Wraith that even the sea, great and furious and wild as it was, grew calm. It ebbed and flowed under the call of the moon. It lulled into soft pushes and pulls. Was this how you learned to love being a monster? By holding another monster between your hands like they are walls, like you might fall apart if you let go? Inej returns to Ketterdam, harder and darker after three years at sea, but she and Kaz find their way back to each other anyway.

Jessica helps Foggy clean up Matt's apartment. *sniffle*

Leia crashes and is injured and has only her father's Force ghost for company as she tries to get herself in a better position to be rescued. As you can imagine, she's not happy about it.

Adam and Ronan miss each other. Oh boys.

Steve leaves Diana pregnant. Her family grows over the years. Lovely.

Luke gets some guidance from Chirrut. Oh heart.

Beth lives! Jo marries Laurie! it is the Little Women AU OF MY HEART.

This is the way Etta is going to die: trapped between a bed and Diana Prince’s breasts. there's only one bed! Etta will just have to soldier bravely on! ♥♥♥

Baze and Chirrut throughout the years. Oh heart.

After Malachor, Ahsoka haunts Vader. (Well, she did say she wouldn't leave him again!

Sharp and melancholy look at Diana and Steve in the past, and Diana and Bruce in the present

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