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New chapter up– chapter 4, in which a meeting finally occurs.
Full of Grace, the sequel to the Bucky/Natasha fic Ora Pro Nobis I wrote for a challenge whose name at the moment escapes me, is sort of slowly taking shape now. I wrote a lot sort of in the margins as I was trying to squeeze out updates on various other projects, and it’s become a repository of many things I excluded as possibilities in my other MCU series.
Its being written more or less in scraps of free time, formerly, has done both good and bad things for it– good, in that it has taken shape much more organically than I normally let these things happen, bad in that I doubt very much I’ve managed to prune out red herrings. I’m bad as it is about structure, but generally I manage to pick out themes as I go, and this is no exception, it’s just more… me than usual.
Anyway. Here’s how the plot’s shaping up, as I’ve been absolute crap about writing summaries henceforth. It’s been an exceptionally low-traffic story for me, and I think there are many factors, but the fact that I’ve not sat down and described it accurately in any way is probably a big contributing factor. If nobody knows what the fuck it is, they’re not going to be interested in reading it.
In Ora Pro Nobis, an escaped Winter Soldier remembers his name and much of his past, and comes to Natasha for help, since he remembers having an intimate affair with her during their mutual Red Room days. She has no memory of this, but helps him anyway, and finds that while no particular memories return, she does feel she knows him better than their scant prior time together would warrant. She winds up freeing him from the electronic trackers HYDRA is using to hunt him down, with some help from her friends, and they escape out into the world together.
In the continuing series, we stay in Natasha’s point of view as James tries to rebuild himself a life and an identity with this woman who doesn’t remember him but perhaps cares for him anyway, and tries to figure out who he can trust and how he can keep himself safe in this unknown new world. Natasha struggles with whether he’ll even fit in this new life she’s painstakingly built herself, and who she can trust– and whether she can trust herself.
An important supporting character is an AU version of the OC from my other series– Lakeisha, the PR girl, here never got talent-scouted by Pepper and is still working a series of dead-end jobs, but she’s still a genius. Just, here, nobody knows her online alter ego is really the girl behind the cash register on the convenience store night shift. And her online alter ego is absolutely obsessed with the mystery of the Winter Soldier. (And makes a fair proportion of her income helping YouTubers become stars. Especially attractively-haunted tramatized veterans with disconcerting Elvis impersonations.)
I have a lot to say in this story, and I’m willing to say it just to myself but I appreciate every single person who joins in for the ride and tells me so. If you like the sound of this, hop on board!
New chapter up– chapter 4, in which a meeting finally occurs.
Full of Grace, the sequel to the Bucky/Natasha fic Ora Pro Nobis I wrote for a challenge whose name at the moment escapes me, is sort of slowly taking shape now. I wrote a lot sort of in the margins as I was trying to squeeze out updates on various other projects, and it’s become a repository of many things I excluded as possibilities in my other MCU series.
Its being written more or less in scraps of free time, formerly, has done both good and bad things for it– good, in that it has taken shape much more organically than I normally let these things happen, bad in that I doubt very much I’ve managed to prune out red herrings. I’m bad as it is about structure, but generally I manage to pick out themes as I go, and this is no exception, it’s just more… me than usual.
Anyway. Here’s how the plot’s shaping up, as I’ve been absolute crap about writing summaries henceforth. It’s been an exceptionally low-traffic story for me, and I think there are many factors, but the fact that I’ve not sat down and described it accurately in any way is probably a big contributing factor. If nobody knows what the fuck it is, they’re not going to be interested in reading it.
In Ora Pro Nobis, an escaped Winter Soldier remembers his name and much of his past, and comes to Natasha for help, since he remembers having an intimate affair with her during their mutual Red Room days. She has no memory of this, but helps him anyway, and finds that while no particular memories return, she does feel she knows him better than their scant prior time together would warrant. She winds up freeing him from the electronic trackers HYDRA is using to hunt him down, with some help from her friends, and they escape out into the world together.
In the continuing series, we stay in Natasha’s point of view as James tries to rebuild himself a life and an identity with this woman who doesn’t remember him but perhaps cares for him anyway, and tries to figure out who he can trust and how he can keep himself safe in this unknown new world. Natasha struggles with whether he’ll even fit in this new life she’s painstakingly built herself, and who she can trust– and whether she can trust herself.
An important supporting character is an AU version of the OC from my other series– Lakeisha, the PR girl, here never got talent-scouted by Pepper and is still working a series of dead-end jobs, but she’s still a genius. Just, here, nobody knows her online alter ego is really the girl behind the cash register on the convenience store night shift. And her online alter ego is absolutely obsessed with the mystery of the Winter Soldier. (And makes a fair proportion of her income helping YouTubers become stars. Especially attractively-haunted tramatized veterans with disconcerting Elvis impersonations.)
I have a lot to say in this story, and I’m willing to say it just to myself but I appreciate every single person who joins in for the ride and tells me so. If you like the sound of this, hop on board!
