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  1. Public Bookmark 37

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    "I'm getting to know you, aren't I?" she asks, and he should be annoyed by this. His Tuesday evening ritual involves peace and quiet, not making conversation with a bartender, no matter how attractive she is. Instead, he's charmed.

    "You're always here on Tuesday nights, same time, same order," she says with a smirk. "I could call you Scotch and Pretzels, but 'Tuesday' is a little simpler."

    "Or you could use my actual name," he counters with a smirk of his own.

    "I could. But where's the fun in that?"

    "Oh come on, you can even be on first name basis, that's a privilege not everyone gets," he tells her. "Phil," he says, and she grins.

    "Daisy," she says in response, shaking his hand.

     

     

    Coulson only almost dies in New York. Instead, he's reassigned to a SHIELD desk job. Meeting Daisy, that's all chance.

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    15 Sep 2026

  2. Rec 74

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    SHIELD receives the tip that an upper class gated community might be harboring HYDRA fugitives.

    Skye and Coulson go undercover to investigate. Undercover as a married couple. Everything goes exactly as anyone can imagine.

    (Written for the Skoulson RomFest 2k14 - Prompt: Undercover)

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    13 Sep 2026

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    We know one story. But that is all it is; one of many. These are some of the others.

    (Or; ways in which Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker Fall from the Light.)

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    29 Aug 2026

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    Roy folds his arms, glaring. "All right, what the fuck is going on here? Why have you suddenly decided to fancy me?"

    "I haven't suddenly decided, I've always fancied you. Just didn't know until today that you'd be up for it."

    Roy reminds himself sternly that he cannot murder their star striker the day before a match. "Just because I'm interested in blokes doesn't mean I'm interested in you."

    Jamie looks confused. "It doesn't? But..." He gestures at his face as if it's incontrovertible evidence, then down his body like a closing argument.

    Roy cannot murder him. The media would be intolerable.

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    20 Aug 2026

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    Jamie's behaviour changes dramatically after they start doing the one-on-one training sessions. He used to be such a brash little bitch when he and Roy played together, and since his return to Richmond he's been more of a whiny little bitch, but now he's hardly acting like a little bitch at all. Roy doesn't know what to do with it.

    "Is it just me, or has Tartt been almost tolerable lately?" he asks one day in the coaches' office. "Fucking weird."

    No one says anything for a minute, and Roy has mentally moved on to planning next week's drills when Beard says, "Roy, everything that kid has ever done was to get your attention."

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    20 Aug 2026