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ysabetwordsmithThis story belongs to the series Love Is For Children which includes "Love Is for Children," "Hairpins," "Blended," "Am I Not," "Unworthy," "Eggshells," "Dolls and Guys," "Duende," "Saudades," "Querencia," "Turnabout Is Fair Play," "Touching Moments," "Splash," "Coming Around," "Birthday Girl," "No Winter Lasts Forever," "Hide and Seek," "Kernel Error," "Happy Hour," "Green Eggs and Hulk,""kintsukuroi," "Little and Broken, but Still Good," "Byzantine Perplexities," "Up the Water Spout," "The Life of the Dead," "What It Means to Me," "If They Could Just Stay Little," "Anahata," "When the Wheels Come Off," "Against His Own Shield," "Coming in from the Cold: Saturday: Building Towers," "Coming in from the Cold: Sunday: Shaking Foundations," "Coming in from the Cold: Monday: Memorial Day," "Coming in from the Cold: Tuesday: Facing Fears," "Coming in from the Cold: Wednesday: Coping Techniques," "Coming in from the Cold: Thursday: Digging for Answers," "What Little Boys Are Made Of," "Rotten Fruit," "Trying to Find Prui," "Life in Quicktime," "Sunday Dinner," "Cafuné," "Fatherboards and Other F-words," "The Artists Among Us," "Keep the Homefires Burning," "Their Old Familiar Carols Play," "Fluffy," "A Leg Up," "Wabbit Season," and "A Painful Process."
Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Phil Coulson, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanova, Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Betty Ross, JARVIS.
Medium: Fiction
Warnings: Missions, Missions Gone Wrong, Bugs & Insects, Major Character Injury, Injury Recovery, Cold, PTSD, Flashbacks, Hurt/Comfort, Minor Roughhousing.
Summary: After the mission to shut down drugrunners in Brazil, the Avengers recover in the Tower.
Notes: No Sex, Intimacy, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Herbalism, Friendship, Team as Family, Avengers Family, #coulsonlives.
[Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13]
"Coming in from the Cold: Saturday: Revisiting the Past" Part 8
When Clint finally came down to the common kitchen, he was still off-kilter from all the insect bites. At least he wasn't scratching himself anymore. He didn't look happy, though.
Tony set down a tall glass of what looked like dark green sludge. "Here, drink this," he said. "It tastes like ass, but it does a great job of flushing toxins out of the body."
Bruce appropriated the glass and took a sip. "Yeah, that'll do. Tony, how do you even have this recipe?"
"Old news," Tony said with a shrug.
Phil recalled the palladium incident and his own ... less than laudable behavior. Doubtless he owed Tony another apology for that, and now, Bruce as well since he'd have to clean up after both of them.
"You and I are so having a talk about this later," Bruce said.
Tony looked away. "Whatever. I just thought, you know, Clint looked a little hungover from the bug bites ..."
"Are you sure this crud will work on whatever bit me?" Clint asked, edging the glass away from himself.
"Yeah, it's kind of an all-purpose scrub," Tony said. Then he made a face. "You know how, if you stand too close to a fire ant hill, you wind up with ants in your pants?"
"Everybody who's been to the southwest knows that, Tony," said Clint.
"Well, it turns out if you're Iron Man and you have a bunch of battle damage to the suit, you can't feel the ants crawling up and some of the alerts are compromised. So that's how I know this stuff works on insect venom." Tony moved the glass firmly back in front of Clint. "Chug, don't sip."
Clint gave in and downed the glass. Then he shuddered. "That is vile. That is worse than Nyquil. I hate you right now."
"And here I'm trying to do you a favor. You'll thank me when you're back to normal by tonight," Tony said.
Bruce chuckled. "Now you know how I feel."
The final timer went off, and Phil moved the ham and bean soup onto the table. "Lunch is served," he announced. "JARVIS, please summon everyone who's not already here."
"Message sent," JARVIS said. "Some other members are ... occupied at the moment."
"Thank you," Phil said as he ladled soup into his bowl. Then he crumbled a biscuit over the top.
Betty scurried in. "Sorry I'm late," she said. "I thought I'd bring a salad. JARVIS told me that things got a little mixed up today." She set the salad bowl on the table and pried the top off. Inside lay mixed greens topped with blueberries, pecans, and some kind of crumbled cheese.
"That looks delicious," Phil said. He took one of the small plates that he'd put out for biscuits and brownies, repurposing it to a salad plate. The crisp leaves made a wonderful contrast to the rich hot soup.
Then they heard the sounds of an argument approaching and the unmistakable meaty smack of someone's hand against someone's head. "OW! What was that for?" Steve yelped.
"That was for you dying, stupid!" Bucky snapped.
"What do you --"
"Did you even try to land the plane?" Bucky said.
Steve sputtered a protest.
"No. Don't even. I can't deal with this shit," Bucky said. "I'm gone two weeks and you take a nosedive in the Arctic."
"Bucky ..." Steve said as his brother towed him into the kitchen by his shirtfront.
"No, we're finding someone to teach your dumb ass how to fly a plane." Bucky shoved a chair between Clint and Natasha, then unceremoniously dumped Steve into it.
"I'm not --" Steve popped out of the chair, only to hit Bucky's metal fist with a resounding clang. He dropped back into his seat.
"Stay. Put." Bucky glared at him. Then he turned to Natasha. "I will, of course, pay you for the instruction time."
"JARVIS has my rates," Natasha said smoothly, though her eyes twinkled.
Clint finally lost his battle for silence and burst into laughter. "He's got you there, Steve," said Clint. "Don't expect Natasha to go easy on you, either. She's a tough grader."
This was true. Phil enjoyed watching her put the new recruits through their paces at SHIELD. But those who qualified for her classes came out of the grueling regimen as devastating pilots. Clint, with his naturally three-dimensional thinking, helped with certain parts of the training.
Phil had no doubt that Bucky had looked up those facts before dumping Steve on them.
They had told Bucky earlier about what had happened to Steve, but it hadn't necessarily stuck -- so much got lost in the Winter Soldier's patchy memory. Phil would bet that today's version made it into permanent storage, though.
"Yeah, yeah," Steve muttered. "JARVIS, put it in my schedule." He rubbed his head with one hand while reaching for the soup with the other.
Crisis concluded.
With that out of the way, everyone turned their attention back to lunch. The soup, despite its revision for last-minute preparation, tasted delicious. The biscuits went well with it. Steve applied himself to a mixing bowl full of it, along with biscuits slathered in apple butter. He skipped the salad, but that was okay. Clint, still affected by yesterday's mishaps, ate with more caution. He did use pepper jelly on his biscuits in attempt to drown out the green stuff that Tony had given him, though.
* * *
Notes:
Remember Tony choking down that green sludge in Iron Man 2? It turns out that there are legitimate green smoothie ingredients for detoxification of harmful things, up to and including heavy metals. This recipe includes chlorella and spirulina along with dark leafy greens. It'll help -- but nothing is going to kill that flavor. :P
Enjoy a recipe for Blueberry Toasted Pecan Mixed Greens Salad.
Bucky's tantrum comes in part from this comic, which a fan recommended back when we were first discussion how Bucky would respond to finding out what happened to Steve. The cyclic memory issues mean that Bucky has probably heard the story before, but can't always remember or process all of it at once, so he keeps looping through different bits over time -- hence the tone of exasperation rather than grief or panic.
[To be continued in Part 9 ...]
Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Phil Coulson, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanova, Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Betty Ross, JARVIS.
Medium: Fiction
Warnings: Missions, Missions Gone Wrong, Bugs & Insects, Major Character Injury, Injury Recovery, Cold, PTSD, Flashbacks, Hurt/Comfort, Minor Roughhousing.
Summary: After the mission to shut down drugrunners in Brazil, the Avengers recover in the Tower.
Notes: No Sex, Intimacy, Non-Sexual Intimacy, Herbalism, Friendship, Team as Family, Avengers Family, #coulsonlives.
[Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13]
"Coming in from the Cold: Saturday: Revisiting the Past" Part 8
When Clint finally came down to the common kitchen, he was still off-kilter from all the insect bites. At least he wasn't scratching himself anymore. He didn't look happy, though.
Tony set down a tall glass of what looked like dark green sludge. "Here, drink this," he said. "It tastes like ass, but it does a great job of flushing toxins out of the body."
Bruce appropriated the glass and took a sip. "Yeah, that'll do. Tony, how do you even have this recipe?"
"Old news," Tony said with a shrug.
Phil recalled the palladium incident and his own ... less than laudable behavior. Doubtless he owed Tony another apology for that, and now, Bruce as well since he'd have to clean up after both of them.
"You and I are so having a talk about this later," Bruce said.
Tony looked away. "Whatever. I just thought, you know, Clint looked a little hungover from the bug bites ..."
"Are you sure this crud will work on whatever bit me?" Clint asked, edging the glass away from himself.
"Yeah, it's kind of an all-purpose scrub," Tony said. Then he made a face. "You know how, if you stand too close to a fire ant hill, you wind up with ants in your pants?"
"Everybody who's been to the southwest knows that, Tony," said Clint.
"Well, it turns out if you're Iron Man and you have a bunch of battle damage to the suit, you can't feel the ants crawling up and some of the alerts are compromised. So that's how I know this stuff works on insect venom." Tony moved the glass firmly back in front of Clint. "Chug, don't sip."
Clint gave in and downed the glass. Then he shuddered. "That is vile. That is worse than Nyquil. I hate you right now."
"And here I'm trying to do you a favor. You'll thank me when you're back to normal by tonight," Tony said.
Bruce chuckled. "Now you know how I feel."
The final timer went off, and Phil moved the ham and bean soup onto the table. "Lunch is served," he announced. "JARVIS, please summon everyone who's not already here."
"Message sent," JARVIS said. "Some other members are ... occupied at the moment."
"Thank you," Phil said as he ladled soup into his bowl. Then he crumbled a biscuit over the top.
Betty scurried in. "Sorry I'm late," she said. "I thought I'd bring a salad. JARVIS told me that things got a little mixed up today." She set the salad bowl on the table and pried the top off. Inside lay mixed greens topped with blueberries, pecans, and some kind of crumbled cheese.
"That looks delicious," Phil said. He took one of the small plates that he'd put out for biscuits and brownies, repurposing it to a salad plate. The crisp leaves made a wonderful contrast to the rich hot soup.
Then they heard the sounds of an argument approaching and the unmistakable meaty smack of someone's hand against someone's head. "OW! What was that for?" Steve yelped.
"That was for you dying, stupid!" Bucky snapped.
"What do you --"
"Did you even try to land the plane?" Bucky said.
Steve sputtered a protest.
"No. Don't even. I can't deal with this shit," Bucky said. "I'm gone two weeks and you take a nosedive in the Arctic."
"Bucky ..." Steve said as his brother towed him into the kitchen by his shirtfront.
"No, we're finding someone to teach your dumb ass how to fly a plane." Bucky shoved a chair between Clint and Natasha, then unceremoniously dumped Steve into it.
"I'm not --" Steve popped out of the chair, only to hit Bucky's metal fist with a resounding clang. He dropped back into his seat.
"Stay. Put." Bucky glared at him. Then he turned to Natasha. "I will, of course, pay you for the instruction time."
"JARVIS has my rates," Natasha said smoothly, though her eyes twinkled.
Clint finally lost his battle for silence and burst into laughter. "He's got you there, Steve," said Clint. "Don't expect Natasha to go easy on you, either. She's a tough grader."
This was true. Phil enjoyed watching her put the new recruits through their paces at SHIELD. But those who qualified for her classes came out of the grueling regimen as devastating pilots. Clint, with his naturally three-dimensional thinking, helped with certain parts of the training.
Phil had no doubt that Bucky had looked up those facts before dumping Steve on them.
They had told Bucky earlier about what had happened to Steve, but it hadn't necessarily stuck -- so much got lost in the Winter Soldier's patchy memory. Phil would bet that today's version made it into permanent storage, though.
"Yeah, yeah," Steve muttered. "JARVIS, put it in my schedule." He rubbed his head with one hand while reaching for the soup with the other.
Crisis concluded.
With that out of the way, everyone turned their attention back to lunch. The soup, despite its revision for last-minute preparation, tasted delicious. The biscuits went well with it. Steve applied himself to a mixing bowl full of it, along with biscuits slathered in apple butter. He skipped the salad, but that was okay. Clint, still affected by yesterday's mishaps, ate with more caution. He did use pepper jelly on his biscuits in attempt to drown out the green stuff that Tony had given him, though.
* * *
Notes:
Remember Tony choking down that green sludge in Iron Man 2? It turns out that there are legitimate green smoothie ingredients for detoxification of harmful things, up to and including heavy metals. This recipe includes chlorella and spirulina along with dark leafy greens. It'll help -- but nothing is going to kill that flavor. :P
Enjoy a recipe for Blueberry Toasted Pecan Mixed Greens Salad.
Bucky's tantrum comes in part from this comic, which a fan recommended back when we were first discussion how Bucky would respond to finding out what happened to Steve. The cyclic memory issues mean that Bucky has probably heard the story before, but can't always remember or process all of it at once, so he keeps looping through different bits over time -- hence the tone of exasperation rather than grief or panic.
[To be continued in Part 9 ...]
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Date: 2020-02-04 06:45 pm (UTC)I used to eat these... well, I called them algae balls. Almond butter, a handful of healthy seeds, cacao, kelp, and spirulina. I pretty much enjoyed them, but they did have an, uh, distinct aftertaste. Emphasis on the "stinked."
Bucky! That's one way to deal with it. *laugh* now, does he write down that he's done this, or does Steve need to keep reminding him...
Good thing Steve is reinforced. I could see that kind of rough handling raising more than eyebrows applied to other Avengers.
Thoughts
Date: 2020-02-04 07:28 pm (UTC)That's a good word for it.
>> I used to eat these... well, I called them algae balls. Almond butter, a handful of healthy seeds, cacao, kelp, and spirulina. I pretty much enjoyed them, but they did have an, uh, distinct aftertaste. Emphasis on the "stinked." <<
Heh, yeah.
>> Bucky! That's one way to deal with it. *laugh* now, does he write down that he's done this, or does Steve need to keep reminding him... <<
I think it may stick this time. Bucky's memory of his post-rescue life is better than pre-rescue. Still patchy early on, but he's healed enough that he'll probably remember it now. If not, people can remind him.
>> Good thing Steve is reinforced. I could see that kind of rough handling raising more than eyebrows applied to other Avengers.<<
Depends on the person. Clint is used to roughhousing, and comfortable with Bucky. Betty would probably just elbow him in the throat and keep going. Bucky and Natasha have a complex relationship that rotates through different facets, but sparring is one of them.
Tony or Bruce: instant doom. 0_o We've seen the former already -- Bucky doesn't even have to bop him, just mention it.