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  1. Public Bookmark 44

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    Skye is a bundle of dark hair and almond eyes and a mouth that runs a mile a minute. Phil and May are the foster parents who take her in.

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    23 Dec 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 7

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    May breathed out a long, slow exhale and nudged into park, staring sightlessly out the window. Her phone pinged with a text. Simmons, probably. Checking in. She wouldn’t trade what they had now for this world or any other, but she missed it, sometimes, the bustling base. Always having something to do, defensible walls.

    The text was headed hi May. May stared at it for a long moment, keeping her palms wrapped around the steering wheel. She didn’t feel much like May, right then. Melinda, maybe. For once. Just a woman sitting in her car with an aching thigh and a switchblade in her pocket, feeling every single one of her fifty-two years. Exhausted with not doing a damn thing. She hadn't felt this way in so long.

    She felt like Agent May, like she would never, ever be able to be anything else.

    May shut her eyes hard and then opened them again. She muted the radio and pulled back onto the road, driving steadily towards home.

     

    Or: May, Coulson, and Daisy, and moments from a day or two in the building of a new life. A story for learning to trust that the good things in your life are going to stick around, and for the days when even those good things are still a little bit hard.

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    09 Oct 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 38

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    “Hello?”

    “Jessica, hey.” She could hear the relief in his voice even through the phone, maybe a smile. “Are you home?”

    She tilted her head, glancing toward her shuttered blinds. He didn’t seem anxious, so she could assume nothing terrible had happened. She answered in her normal deadpan. “Why? You got more ‘doing the right thing’ wisdom to bestow upon me?”

    Luke's chuckle filled her chest with warmth. “No, nothin’ like that. Honestly, I think we all could use a break from that.”

    “All?”

    “Yeah, uh…” he sighed, “Danny came to visit me at Harlem’s Paradise, and he also brought Matt.”

    “Hi, Jessica!” Danny, probably standing right next to Luke, cheerfully exclaimed.

     
    AKA The Defenders spend some quality time together, for once.

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    08 Oct 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 85

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    The forecast called for at least a foot of snow, and it was already ankle deep by the time Jessica ended up in a narrow side street in Hell's Kitchen, freezing her ass off and watching Matt fall off a fire escape.

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    08 Oct 2024

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    "Is that..." Matt started to say, closed his mouth, opened it again, and shook his head.

    Colleen, sitting on the couch, put her face in her hands. She looked tired.

    Matt tried again. "I'm assuming that my senses are letting me down right now and that is not, in fact, a dragon?"

    "It's totally a dragon!" Danny said, beaming up at them. The green, slinky thing in his lap stretched and yawned like a cat before burping out a puff of fire. "Isn't it awesome?"

    "Sweet Christmas," Luke said.

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    08 Oct 2024