Story: "Up the Water Spout" Part 1
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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," "Eggshells," "Dolls and Guys,""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," and "Little and Broken, but Still Good."
Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Natasha Romanova, Phil Coulson, Clint Barton, Betty Ross, Bucky Barnes.
Medium: Fiction
Warnings: Mention of human trafficking and nonconsensual drug use. Slightly offstage sexual violence. Dubcon/Noncon.
Summary: Sometimes the Black Widow needs to hunt, and sometimes she needs help settling her personality afterwards. Uncle Phil arranges an extra ageplay session.
Notes: Hurt/comfort. Family. Fluff and angst. BAMF!Black Widow. Black Widow is creepy. Spiders. Coping skills. Asking for help and getting it. Hope. Nonsexual ageplay. Caregiving. Competence. Girl stuff. Toys and games. Gentleness. Trust. #coulsonlives
This story returns to the main storyline of "Love Is for Children." The first few chapters show Black Widow considering and carrying out a mission, then after that it's pure ageplay. It fills a square in the Plot Challenges Bingo Card 7-4-14:
Situation: Crime pursued by vengeance
Setting: Red Light District
Complication: Everything Is Spiders
I also have a list of photogenic scenes from the whole series for fanartists to consider, a series landing page, and anarchive of images. The perk story "Brotherlove, Brotherlust" Part 3 is still open for participation.
A note on feedback: While it's not necessary to comment on every post I make, remember that I don't know who reads/likes things if nobody says anything. Particularly on long stories, I've discovered that I get antsy if there's nothing but crickets chirping for several posts. So it helps to give me feedback at least once, even if it's just "I like this" or "This one doesn't grab me." First and last episodes are ideal if you rarely feel inspired to comment in the middle.
Anonymous commenters: You don't have to specify exactly who you are, but it helps to have a first name or a username from some other service, so I have some idea of who's saying which and how many different "Anonymous" folks there are. You can just type some kind of identifier at the end of your comment.
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, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20.
"Up the Water Spout" Part 1
Natasha Romanova was growing restless, and that was never a good sign. What the Red Room had done to her could not be entirely undone. It could be ameliorated somewhat. It could be directed toward legitimate targets. In between those, she could control her urges, or satisfy herself if necessary, but that only worked for so long. There were dark places inside herself that she needed to revisit. Therefore Agent Coulson tried to make sure that she got adequate opportunities to go hunting.
He was gratified when a suitable one arrived in his inbox. A few deft touches of symbols on his desktop opened a line. "Agent Romanova, I believe I have a mission for the Black Widow," said Agent Coulson. "Please come to my office to discuss it."
She arrived within five minutes, slipping silently through the door to perch on the very edge of a chair. "Reporting for duty, sir."
Agent Coulson passed her a Starkpad with the relevant files onscreen. "We have a location on Dartmouth. He's in a red-light district not far from Hell's Kitchen, running call girls through a hotel and controlling them with drugs sourced from AIM," he said. "Daredevil doesn't want to tangle with him again." Their last encounter had involved an air horn. "Neither does Spiderman." That one had ended with Dartmouth losing more than a bit of skin to escape the webbing, but he'd also bounced Spiderman off the side of a bus. "So he's all yours if you want him."
The Black Widow took a dim view of men who controlled women with mind-altering substances. She licked her lips. "I want him."
* * *
Notes:
Black Widow has been portrayed in various ways, but always as a femme fatale. Her predatory nature in canon is somewhat modeled after the black widow spider. In this series, I posit that the Red Room's training had some deep effects on her body and mind, some of which have been reduced but not removed by Phil's efforts.
Hell's Kitchen is a bad neighborhood in Marvelverse New York, the territory of Daredevil. Because he is blind, he uses his other senses to compensate, and that leaves him especially vulnerable to sonic attacks. The same area was historically a bad neighborhood in local-New York, although gentrification in recent decades has changed that; thanks tothnidu for this reference.
AIM is a supervillain organization made of mad scientists.
Spiderman is another New York superhero.
[To be continued in Part 2 ...]
Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Natasha Romanova, Phil Coulson, Clint Barton, Betty Ross, Bucky Barnes.
Medium: Fiction
Warnings: Mention of human trafficking and nonconsensual drug use. Slightly offstage sexual violence. Dubcon/Noncon.
Summary: Sometimes the Black Widow needs to hunt, and sometimes she needs help settling her personality afterwards. Uncle Phil arranges an extra ageplay session.
Notes: Hurt/comfort. Family. Fluff and angst. BAMF!Black Widow. Black Widow is creepy. Spiders. Coping skills. Asking for help and getting it. Hope. Nonsexual ageplay. Caregiving. Competence. Girl stuff. Toys and games. Gentleness. Trust. #coulsonlives
This story returns to the main storyline of "Love Is for Children." The first few chapters show Black Widow considering and carrying out a mission, then after that it's pure ageplay. It fills a square in the Plot Challenges Bingo Card 7-4-14:
Situation: Crime pursued by vengeance
Setting: Red Light District
Complication: Everything Is Spiders
I also have a list of photogenic scenes from the whole series for fanartists to consider, a series landing page, and anarchive of images. The perk story "Brotherlove, Brotherlust" Part 3 is still open for participation.
A note on feedback: While it's not necessary to comment on every post I make, remember that I don't know who reads/likes things if nobody says anything. Particularly on long stories, I've discovered that I get antsy if there's nothing but crickets chirping for several posts. So it helps to give me feedback at least once, even if it's just "I like this" or "This one doesn't grab me." First and last episodes are ideal if you rarely feel inspired to comment in the middle.
Anonymous commenters: You don't have to specify exactly who you are, but it helps to have a first name or a username from some other service, so I have some idea of who's saying which and how many different "Anonymous" folks there are. You can just type some kind of identifier at the end of your comment.
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, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20.
"Up the Water Spout" Part 1
Natasha Romanova was growing restless, and that was never a good sign. What the Red Room had done to her could not be entirely undone. It could be ameliorated somewhat. It could be directed toward legitimate targets. In between those, she could control her urges, or satisfy herself if necessary, but that only worked for so long. There were dark places inside herself that she needed to revisit. Therefore Agent Coulson tried to make sure that she got adequate opportunities to go hunting.
He was gratified when a suitable one arrived in his inbox. A few deft touches of symbols on his desktop opened a line. "Agent Romanova, I believe I have a mission for the Black Widow," said Agent Coulson. "Please come to my office to discuss it."
She arrived within five minutes, slipping silently through the door to perch on the very edge of a chair. "Reporting for duty, sir."
Agent Coulson passed her a Starkpad with the relevant files onscreen. "We have a location on Dartmouth. He's in a red-light district not far from Hell's Kitchen, running call girls through a hotel and controlling them with drugs sourced from AIM," he said. "Daredevil doesn't want to tangle with him again." Their last encounter had involved an air horn. "Neither does Spiderman." That one had ended with Dartmouth losing more than a bit of skin to escape the webbing, but he'd also bounced Spiderman off the side of a bus. "So he's all yours if you want him."
The Black Widow took a dim view of men who controlled women with mind-altering substances. She licked her lips. "I want him."
* * *
Notes:
Black Widow has been portrayed in various ways, but always as a femme fatale. Her predatory nature in canon is somewhat modeled after the black widow spider. In this series, I posit that the Red Room's training had some deep effects on her body and mind, some of which have been reduced but not removed by Phil's efforts.
Hell's Kitchen is a bad neighborhood in Marvelverse New York, the territory of Daredevil. Because he is blind, he uses his other senses to compensate, and that leaves him especially vulnerable to sonic attacks. The same area was historically a bad neighborhood in local-New York, although gentrification in recent decades has changed that; thanks to
thnidu for this reference.AIM is a supervillain organization made of mad scientists.
Spiderman is another New York superhero.
[To be continued in Part 2 ...]
Thoughts
Date: 2014-08-27 08:19 am (UTC)Ah, now you're skipping ahead a bit. ;)
>> I'm curious about why Phil would send her on something this personal, but I assume we'll hear that soon. <<
Because she can only go so long without it -- and this is probably the longest she has gone since joining SHIELD. I don't think she went on a straight-up hunt after the Battle of New York. She's gotten plenty of combat, and chances to question captive villains, but it's not quite the same for for her. The Red Room made her into a honeytrap, and while both Natasha and Phil have worked on undoing that damage, it is far from all fixed. The best they can do is aim it at legitimate targets, so she can control the urges at other times.
I have, somewhat, damped down the amount of graphic violence and sex in this series. But I don't like to nerf characters. Black Widow's power lies in sex and violence. Game Night is actually helping a lot, but it's a slow process of shifting her away from some pretty creepy stuff.
>> If we ever have a Black Widow movie and it doesn't touch on the damage done by the Red Room, I'm going to be very upset. Not that I actually think we're going to get a Black Widow movie. <<
I think we'd be very lucky to get any Black Widow movie at all, let alone one that dealt seriously with the aftermath of extreme child abuse, sexual assault, PDSD, etc. I'd watch the hell out of it if we did. But one reason I write what I write is because maintream entertainment just won't go there. I think my best trauma recovery series is still Path of the Paladins.
>> (I've been around, I just haven't had a lot of words; maybe I'll have more words for this one.) <<
I hope so.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2014-08-28 02:43 am (UTC)But Phil would know her better than I do, of course.