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• Shelter the Shattered by Kangofu_CB

  Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies)  

  • Explicit
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  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  03 Aug 2025

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  • James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton
  • Clint Barton & Natasha Romanov
  • Natasha Romanov (Marvel)
  • Original Child Character(s)
  • Bobbi Morse
  • Brock Rumlow
  • Brock Rumlow's Strike Team | Strike Team Alpha Members
  • Phil Coulson
  • Kate Bishop
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Found Family
  • SHIELD Agent Clint Barton
  • SHIELD Agent Natasha Romanov (Marvel)
  • Clint Barton & Natasha Romanov Friendship
  • early aughts fashion and technology
  • I definitely gave Bucky an undercut for my own personal enjoyment
  • Clint Barton Feels
  • Clint Barton Needs a Hug
  • Kid Fic
  • Clint Barton's Farm
  • now featuring a llama
  • mention's of clint's traumatic childhood
  • Deaf Clint Barton
  • Bucky Barnes & Natasha Romanov Friendship
  • weird strike team delta shit
  • Jewish Bucky Barnes
  • a mildly shitty teacher who also is kinda anti-semetic but fuck her very much
  • a slightly more than mildly shitty cop
  • switching i guess
  • tattooed pierced and otherwise Extremely Hot James Barnes
  • I won't be taking questions
  • humiliation perpetuated by a well-meaning but clueless five year old
  • I do not like Brock Rumlow and it shows
  • a new addition you say?
  • foster care slash witness protection slash adoption slash look you gotta build this family somehow
  • Kate Bishop is a gift
  • Hearing Loss
  • Lip reading
  • I have taken some liberties dear reader
  • not many but a few
  • Sign Language
  • Pidgin Signed English
  • Comic Book Science
  • The Thirsty Women of Waverly
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Gunshot Wounds
  • the ambush in odesa
  • if you have ever wanted to punch Rumlow in the face BOY DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU
  • Natasha is a terrible patient
  • Date Night
  • the Waverly gossip mill
  • Dancing Lessons
  • Swing Dancing
  • goading as a love language
  • borrowed some comic lore for Natasha
  • accidental llama acquisition
  • Tony Stark as Iron Man (Marvel)
  • working on that tortured past thing
  • look i'm not SAYING there's a big gay wedding
  • but i'm not not saying that
  • A Bar Fight
  • because honestly it's not a winterhawk wedding if there's not a bar fight
  • Phil Coulson is a GIFT
  • Maggie Olson meddles but only for your own good
  • one (1) rock ballad reference
  • and a big gay Jewish wedding (sung to the tune of partridge in a pear tree)

  Summary

  Love is a place you can live.

  You build it yourself.

  Series

  • Part 5 of Barton's Halfway House for Ex-Brainwashed Assassins

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  English

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