District Marvel

Who: Scott and Natasha
What: A phone call
Where: Scott's apartment
When: After Scott gets back from Eight.

( His first thought had been that it was funny, Natasha clearing out his mail. )

Who: Clint and Natasha
What: Texts
When: Train on the way to D7.

( (1) unread messages )

Who: Natasha and Tony
Where: District 7, Victor's Village
When: Over a pleasant weekend.
What: Stane isn't going to get a chance to murder Tony, because Natasha is going to do it for him.
Warnings: Non-sexual nudity, some light non-graphic violence, description of symptoms of depression in the opener.

( Bringing Tony with her to District 7 had served a couple purposes, the first being that she really did have to show her face back here at least a few times a year. )

Who: Scott and Natasha
What: texts
When: The afternoon of Clint's surprise field trip to Eight.

( (4) unread messages )

Who: Bucky Barnes, Natasha Romanoff
What: A brief narrative, and then a package.
When: Sometime after Steve accidentally tries to matchmake them over texts, before Peggy's visit.

( There had been something circling Bucky's head for days. )

Who: Natasha and Steve
What: Texts
When: Early in the AM, a few hours after this

( You have (6) unread messages )

Who: Tony Stark & Natasha Romanoff
What: A delivery.
When: A couple days after Clint's party.
Warning: Image NSFW.

( nothing says 'i'm sorry' like ... )

Who: Jessica and Natasha
What: Texts
When: Couple days after the anniversary hoopla.

( (4) unread messages )

Who: Tony and Natasha
What: Texts
When: After whenever Bucky and Steve stride-of-pride out of her place; after talking to Clint.

( (2) unread messages )

Who: Clint and Natasha
What: Texts
When: Immediately following his party; he may not see them til morning.

( (4) unread messages )

Who: Natasha, Bucky, and Steve
Where: Natasha's penthouse-also the car on the way there.
When: Immediately following Clint's anniversary party.
What: Keeping up appearances, selling the lie, everything is gross, etc.

( If it were up to Natasha, she would have simply shoved Steve out the other side of the car doors and directly into oncoming traffic. )

Who: Everyone!
What: Clint Barton's 20th Anniversary Extravaganza
Where: On the grounds of the Barton Luxury Hotel, that used to be Clint's arena
Warnings: Simulated (and flashbacked) Games violence. Recreations (and flashbacked) child murders. Mentions of cannibalism via blood-drinking (god this game is dark)

( Clint could make out some familiar faces against the glare of stagelights, the shapes of arrows everywhere, the color scheme that matched the desert )

Who: Scott and Natasha
What: Churning the rumor mill.
Where: Scott's place
When: A few days after Natasha's, ahem, incident.
Warnings: Dad jokes, probably. And all that awful prostitution stuff, I guess.

( As far as sorry I brought up your estranged wife/sorry one of your clients has weird fetishes dinners went, this one wasn't so bad. )

Who: Tony Stark & Bucky Barnes
What: Texts
When: After Tony gets back from D2 and back into the gossip pool.

( you have (3) unwanted messages )

Who: Tony Stark & Natasha Romanoff
What: Texts
When: Same as above.

( guess who )

Who: Clint and Bucky
What: Texts
When: The day after this
Warnings: Deals with forced prostitution, self-injury and how much their lives generally suck

( (2) unread messages )

Who: Clint and Tony
What: Texts
When: Same time, regarding this
Warnings: Deals with the mess in Eight, so probably violence and stuff

( (3) unread messages )

Who: Clint and Natasha
What: Texts
When: Simultaneous to this
Warnings: Same as Bucky's

( (3) unread messages )

Who: Bucky, Natasha (Backstory Thread!)
Where: The Capitol
When: A few days before Bucky goes into the Arena
What: Bucky and Natasha have a brief meeting he won't remember later.

( Every second of every day since they'd called his name and changed his whole world, Bucky had people managing him. )

Who: Clint and Natasha
What: More drama aftermath!
Where: Clint's place (his house is v. popular)
When: A couple days after ALL THE DRAMA
Warnings: Forced prostitution, (faked) violence against women

( Natasha had been born practical; Clint had known that since before he'd even met her )

Who: Claire and Natasha
Where: Claire's office in the Capitol hospital.
When: A day or so after visiting District 8.
What: Keeping up appearances, selling the lie, continuing to be gross, etc.

( As much as Natasha generally liked Claire, visiting her office now felt like nothing so much as a necessary evil. )

Who: Bucky and Natasha
What: Texts
When: A few days after her visit to District 8.

( (3) unread messages )

Who: Bucky and Natasha
Where: District 8 - Bucky's home.
When: A day after texting.
What: Owed debts.

( Natasha liked being owed. She did not like owing in return. )