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  1. Public Bookmark 10

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    Navigating a new relationship and mourning a lost one, recovering from grievous injury and trying to get his clearance reinstated, forging alliances and holding enemies at bay.

    Clint Barton learns that sometimes, the best way to keep his most important promises is to break them.

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    02 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 57

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    “Achilles, you know I love you entirely,” I say. “You know nothing could ever, in all the world, change the depth of my feelings for you.”

    I hear the huff of his breath, the beginnings of relief. Something in his face cracks, goes soft, and I know in a moment he will step forward and kiss me, and it will be so much harder to say the next thing once that has happened.

    And so I shift back, take a step away from him, and force the next words out, even though to shatter his hopeful expectations will bring me more pain than even the thought of Briseis in Agamemnon’s hands— “but I cannot stay while you persist in this.”

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    Patroclus makes a different choice, and it changes everything.

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    01 Nov 2025

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  3. Public Bookmark 21

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    “You want to know why Fury recruited me to SHIELD, Cap?”

    Steve flinches, first, maybe at the title. Tastes like pyrite to speak it, too, doesn’t feel right on his tongue, not here, not now. Then he nods his head, and somehow manages to make it look like a no but Clint, he tells him anyway, because he has to. Steve deserves he truth, now. God knows, he’s had nothing but lies so far.

    “Because HYDRA got to me first. And I didn’t exactly say no.”

     

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    In the aftermath of Loki, with SHIELD cracked wide open by his own two hands, Clint Barton will do whatever it takes to make amends.

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    14 May 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 74

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    In the aftermath of Loki, with SHIELD cracked wide open by his own two hands, Clint Barton will do whatever it takes to make amends.

     

    In which Clint Barton is, in parts: a spy, a sniper, an Avenger, an agent, a good man, a liar, a protector, a killer, a friend, a lover and he has no idea how to be all of them at once.

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    06 Oct 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 78

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    Clint has been struggling with the effects that the attack on New York had on him. And after being on probation from SHIELD, he just wants to get over it.

    Enter Sargent Bucky Barnes, ex assassin, super soldier, Cap’s best friend, Alpha, and, according to Bruce, his possible True Mate.

    Or a story about grappling for control, dealing with the past, and accepting what cannot be changed.

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    True Mates -ish AU.

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    07 Apr 2024

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    Winterhawk