disposable delinquents
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Walker Vs Ghost (No, Not That One Though) by zarahjoyce
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
01 Sep 2025
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"What is it with building on old cemeteries, anyway?" Walker asks, crossing his arms. "Like. More often than not people would find out some asshole company demolished a decades-old cemetery just to, I don't know, erect a building on it or something. That's got to be a violation of some shit, right?"
"Okay, I don't know about buildings and cemeteries and shit," Ava says, looking ill, "but one thing I do know is that I don't like hearing you say the word 'erect.'"
Bucky, Yelena, and Bob raise their hands.
"Agree," they say in chorus.
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A normal dinner with the New Avengers
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- Part 1 of disposable delinquents
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running interference by zarahjoyce
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe
05 Sep 2025
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Bucky doesn't even flinch. "This isn't negotiable," he replies flatly. "Ava is a no-go, and I need you to step up." He doesn't speak loudly, but the tone he uses effectively cuts through John's protests anyway.
And he absolutely hates that he knows that.
The room goes quiet, except for Alexei's chair squeaking as he shifts uncomfortably. Bob coughs quietly on the side. Yelena busies herself watching her nails, but John knew better than to think she was not at all listening.
And Ava---
Ava doesn't say a word.
"Great. Fine. Whatever," John says, snapping his briefing folder closed. He could pitch a bigger fit, but at the end of the day, a mission was a mission.
And he was a soldier.
Still, he twists to face Ava, who's refusing to look at him, and pointedly tells her, "You owe me for this. Big time. And trust me, I intend to collect."
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You know nothing,
Jon SnowJohn Walker(and Ava would like to keep it that way actually)
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- Part 2 of disposable delinquents
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Bucky Barnes Has Left the Chat by zarahjoyce
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe
08 Sep 2025
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Ava: Don't we have a group chat already?
Bob: Uh, yeah.
Bob: But Yelena wanted me to make an unofficial group chat, so
Bob: Sorry guys
John: What do we even discuss here that we can't discuss in the official one?
Yelena: Ew, Bob, you added Walker? I told you to invite only the cool ones
Yelena Belova removed John Walker from the group chatSeries
- Part 3 of disposable delinquents
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disappointed faces (of your peers) by zarahjoyce
Fandoms: Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Marvel Cinematic Universe
27 Sep 2025
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Bucky doesn’t bother hiding his scowl. “You set us up,” he says flatly.
Val glances at him like he’s a student asking why the sky is blue. “I'm positioning you. Big difference."
Yelena tightens her grip, her knuckles whitening. “No, you're using us. Again."
Val shrugs. “Using you, saving you. It's all semantics, honey.” Her tone is sugar-sweet, but her eyes are practically knives digging into all of them. “The world’s safer, Bob’s breathing, and you’re all alive. And look, no police swarms coming to make arrests." She throws a particularly meaningful look Ava's way, making her tense. "You’re welcome.”
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Forming the New Avengers isn't easy.
Not if Ava has anything to do about it.
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- Part 4 of disposable delinquents
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Bucky tugs off his jacket and tosses it onto a bench. He rolls his shoulders, the metal arm glinting dully under the light in the center of the room.
And Ava’s brain scrambles to catch up.
He never spars with any of them. Never. Yelena teased him about it once or twice. Walker challenged him outright more than thrice. Alexei provoked him almost daily during lunchtime. The answer is always the same flat, boring no. So Ava never even bothered asking.
And now… this? With her?
She narrows her eyes, almost accusingly. “Why?”
“Well,” he says, “you can’t exactly hit Walker right now. No matter how much you want to.”
She just stares at him.
Bucky shrugs. “You wanna work out the noise in your head? Don’t use the bag. Hit something that hits back.” His mouth twitches. “That’s me.”
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sparring fic just because idk
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- Part 5 of disposable delinquents
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The Alpine Situation by zarahjoyce
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
07 Oct 2025
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Ava goes back to her seat. Every now and then, she checks the floor to see if the cat has somehow made its way there without anyone noticing it. It felt.... disconcerting, rubbing itself on her like that. Certainly wasn't a feeling she liked, that's for sure.
When she looks up, she catches Bucky's eye somehow.
"Don't worry," he tells her, almost smirking. "She doesn't bite."
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Alpine does, however, know how to commit attempted murder.
Ava learns this firsthand when she comes to with a furry, fluffy body just lying comfortably on her head, nearly suffocating her in the process.
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The New Avengers bring their pets to the Tower.
And Ava finds herself adopted by Bucky's cat.
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- Part 6 of disposable delinquents
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The Walker Special by zarahjoyce
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
11 Oct 2025
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John watches her take out a container and a tub of mayonnaise from the fridge, deposits both on the middle kitchen tower, then rummages the cabinets for some sandwich bread.
He keeps watching as she slathers an absurd heap of mayonnaise onto the bread, pops open the container - which was packed with boiled chicken strips - layers them over the mayo, and caps it with the other slice.
And John knew he should keep his mouth shut, but then he blurts out, "Wait. That's it?"
She glances at him, brows furrowed. "What's it?"
"I mean--" He points at her abomination of a sandwich and adds, "--that's what you're going to eat?"
Ava looks at the bread in her hands and asks, "What's wrong with it?"
"Uh, it's bland?" he replies, moving closer to the counter now. "It's tasteless? It's fucking boiled chicken and mayo, Ghost Lady. And you didn't add any seasoning either! What do you think it's gonna taste like?"
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John makes Ava a sandwich.
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- Part 7 of disposable delinquents
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Still, she finds it in herself to inquire, “So what do you do? When things get bad?”
“I walk. Clean things. Run. But mostly?” He raises the book in his hand. “I read. Especially at night. It helps calm the noise, sometimes. Makes it easier to handle.”
Ava raises a brow at him. “Tolkien does that?”
Bucky replies, “Believe it or not, yeah. I like the story. The way Bilbo just keeps going with the dwarves. Little guy, big world. A dragon at the end. They keep walking, anyway.”
She looks at the cover, the creased spine, and frowns. “Sounds exhausting.”
“Probably was,” he admits, closing the book to study its covers, “but they still made it.”
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Tolkien, tea, and a moment between Ava and Bucky.
(which she does NOT spend rage-baiting him. maybe)
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- Part 8 of disposable delinquents
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Each had their way of filling the Watchtower with noise: John with his clatter of weights and chatter, Yelena with her biting comments and loud music. Alexei with his booming laughter and forgotten stories of the past, Bob with his soft words and nervous mumbling.
Ava, though? She kept moving like silence made more sense to her. A quiet shadow drifting between rooms, keeping her distance from them most of the time.
And Bucky noticed.
He told himself it was habit. Old instincts flaring to life. He’d learned long ago that patterns revealed people, and he used that knowledge to deal with them.
Still, there was something about her that pulled at him in ways he couldn’t name.
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Bucky, Ava, and memories that refuse to fade.
(Tumblr fic prompt)
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- Part 9 of disposable delinquents
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trick or threat by zarahjoyce
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
31 Oct 2025
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"...are those supposed to be cookies?" Bucky - ever the most courageous of their bunch - asks her outright.
She glares at him, almost mutinously. "What do you think? Obviously, they're baked goods."
"No, no." Yelena shakes her head at her. "Those are not baked goods. Those are baked bads. There isn't anything good in that tray, Ava."
"Oh, I'm sorry. Didn't realize I'm in the presence of a Michelin chef." Ava just raises her chin at Yelena. "Please. Like you can do any better?"
"Well, yes. Very, very easily. I mean, if that's the baseline--"
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Ava bakes cookies.
And it's a sentence that never should be repeated (unless for very specific, murdery reasons)
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Response to GhostWalker week alternate prompt: Domesticity
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- Part 10 of disposable delinquents
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tethered by zarahjoyce for chrissywakingup
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
04 Nov 2025
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“—Ava. Ava, hey. Look at me.”
And she tries to meet his eyes. But the flickering’s getting worse, the hum in her chest feeling like a broken, discordant note ever spreading outward. She reaches out to him with her half-phased hand, voice catching somewhere between breath and fear.
“I can’t—”
His own - Bucky’s flesh one - grabs for her shoulder in an attempt to ground her. Or at least, it tries to - except the hand goes right through her body. A look flashes across his face, and she recognizes it well: shock. Followed closely by confusion, then helplessness.
For one wild moment, her stomach drops. This is it. She’s disappearing for real.
Except Bucky doesn’t stop moving. Tries again, fails, tries again to touch her. “—shit,” he hisses. “Wait. Hold on.”
For some reason, he switches hands. His other arm — the one made of vibranium — moves through the haze of her body this time.
And somehow, it connects.
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Response to Tumblr WinterGhost fic prompt: mission injury
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- Part 11 of disposable delinquents
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That’s the great thing about a free day; the hours are hers to spend however she pleases. No scheduled briefings with Val, no Yelena or Walker yelling in her ear. Just… this. Existing. Like how she imagines a normal person would, on the regular.
Ava starts walking again.
But it doesn’t take long before she hears the quiet footsteps behind her. Light, but measured. Familiar. The kind she hears every day back at the Watchtower.
She fights off a smile before it can even take shape.
Then she glances over her shoulder to confirm her suspicions.
Of course.
Bucky himself stands a few paces back, hands tucked into the pockets of his jacket, looking casual, almost tourist-y. And yet there’s a certain look on his face that’s too obvious to be ignored. Like he’s just waiting for her to discover him.
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aka I needed to write something ~domestic and ended up planning a series of WinterGhost dates oops
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- Part 12 of disposable delinquents
- Part 1 of a cup of
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point of collapse by zarahjoyce
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
21 Nov 2025
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But as they slowly make their way out of the ruined structure - four of them limping, coughing, and bruised - Ava stays behind for a moment.
Just watching them.
Remembering the split-second she was standing in the open space - alone - after the building came down on them all.
It digs under her ribs like a hook.
I– I should have been able to phase them along with me.
The idea takes root in her brain. She turns it this way and that, and the longer she ruminates on the thought, the more it feels like an urgent need.
Especially after today.
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Ava tries to grow her phasing powers.
It does not go well.
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- Part 13 of disposable delinquents
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The Winter Bandit by zarahjoyce for SunsetMaiden
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
27 Nov 2025
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So! After collecting all thirty-five mistletoes, Bucky tucks the box under his arm, making sure anyone - particularly those named Alexei - doesn’t see him walk out of the common room with it. He’s not particularly keen on explaining his reasons for committing a Christmas crime, after all.
Besides, Bucky has a plan.
For once.
And the plan is… admittedly very selfish.
(But also involves putting Alexei’s money to good use, so. Win-win.)
So what if, tonight, he wants to greet his girlfriend under a mistletoe?
…Or, you know. Thirty-five mistletoes, to be exact?
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- Part 14 of disposable delinquents