The Fall

By ealachopairgorm

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Réa, a half-human, half-Seraph, has spent her entire life locked in a tower, haunted by visions of a man in p... More

1. I can't leave.
2. Oh good, you figured out the seatbelt.
3. I'm currently taking all of his money.
4. Tony is in space!
5. Your talent for horseshit rivals my own.
6. I am inevitable.
7. Oh, I'll get that arm.
8. Technologically-advanced, formerly-secret country in Africa.
9. No, I don't have six wings.
10. Vormir
11. So drop the arrogance, Doctor.
12. Honestly, I'm just as curious as you are.
13. Sergeant Barnes
14. You're not a monster.
15. You glow.
16. I'm proud of you, kiddo.
17. These pastries are delicious!
18. Myah, it's me!
19. I've never had a hair-trigger for getting turned on.
20. You always did have a thing for redheads.
21. Yeah...beautiful.
22. Don't stop.
23. Staring into familiar eyes as black as my surroundings.
24. Tá tú chomh milis.
25. Box wine and daddy issues.
26. Without blowing my cover.
27. Even more beautiful.
28. We have some serious shopping to do!
29. 'Operation: Hottie Seraph' starts now!
30. Excellent work.
31. I don't think you understand what 'careful' means.
32. ...Or, rather, too little?
33. Sin So Sweet
34. It's you.
35. Spun sugar and raspberries.
36. Oh, great, the bitch brigade is joining them.
37. She saved me.
38. Do you need me to move the seat up?
39. Eat all the things, nap all the naps.
40. Things shift between the two of us.
41. That's more like stripper attire than fitness wear.
42. Well, I guess slutty angels are a fetish.
43. Don't you dare go easy on me.
44. Can you just go, please?
45. And you're not reading into things.
46. Let's have that chat now, Barnes.
48. I do want to kiss you.
49. Yep! Happy dance!
50. Carlo and his flirting.
51. You're...you're magnificent.
52. Soulmates. How quaint.
53. Wolfie
54. Asta e, frumoasă.
55. Liar.
56. She called me 'her Bucky'.
57. I am FURIOUS, RÉALTA!
58. Anthony Edward Stark, you just yelled at her!
59. The acquisition must wait.
60. A Réa-shaped lump.
61. All it can do is delay it for a while.
62. Miss I-Own-All-Four-Railroads-And-All-Three-Orange-Properties.
63. Some people would consider forty-five minutes plenty of time.
64. So then have me.
65. Practically pouncing on the device.
66. F.R.I.D.A.Y. is taking a short break.
67. Have you found her?
68. I close my eyes and bow my head.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
69. You're awake. Excellent.
70. I'll be seeing you.
71. Get a cot ready.
72. How bad, Thor?
73. It's almost time to get our girl back.
74. What if he stays over there?
75. Bruce, that's enough.
76. YOU WHAT, STEVE?!
77. I...I think she's waking up.
78. ...but you said he's your soulmate.
79. To make sure she's really here.
80. You don't need that kind of stuff in your head.
81. You finished Jane Eyre?
82. F.R.I.D.A.Y., shut it down!
83. The dark, broken Cолдат.
84. Maximoff cracked almost immediately.
85. I should have protected you.
86. Don't read into it, Réa.
87. I can't keep this from her.
88. Ice settles into my veins.
89. Twenty nine days.
90. Bucky...I need Bucky.
91. I missed her birthday.
92. I...I missed you.
93. I know where Rumlow is.
94. We had a deal!
95. ...Maybe he was just insane.
96. He shouldn't have to touch me.
97. One step forward....
98. 'BEST BIG SISTER EVER'?!
99. I have all of that on camera.
100. S.H.I.E.L.D. sent a team.
101. And I...I need Bucky to be okay.
102. Can I...can I hold you?
103. I love you.
104. I love you, too.
105. Thank you...Dad.
106. So, let's get 'Operation: Seduce the White Wolf' in gear!
107. Where are you going to work your magic, Nat?
108. I'm a bit-a lot-surprised.
109. So, remember that scene in 'Never Been Kissed'?
110. I just want to be yours.
111. You're holding back.
112. You never have to hide from me.
113. Heart, mind, body, and soul.
114. A blue tree!
115. Keep up the excellent work.
116. I'm, um, well...worked up.
117. Eager, are you?
118. Am de gând să mă căsătoresc cutine într-o zi.
119. ...I know they're called 'irrational thoughts' for a reason.
120. Everything I do is with you.
121. I like to meddle.
122. Unless you have other plans....
123. Swan Lake!
124. Поцелуй меня.
125. Réa, get out of your head and come here.
126. The Avengers went to the ballet.
127. Twister.
128. Tá mé ceart anseo, mo chroí.
129. 'You know what's coming.'
130. Morgan H. Stark
131. Is tú grá geal mo chroí.
132. Do it again.
133. Way to almost ruin the surprise.
134. Humans have the clairs.
135. So sweet it's nauseating.
136. Ares.
137. What's his face ever done for you?
138. Safe, and beautiful, and loved.
139. You're my favourite Avenger.
140. My strong, brave, incredible Réa.
141. I didn't expect a lot of stealth from you.
142. I don't know if that was the right call.
143. Maybe it's not supposed to make sense.
144. Spaghetti!
145. Game on.
146. What was it you said to me?
147. Drenched.
148. Let me hear you, doll.
149. Appreciate the fine art.
150. Can't even put on their own shoes.
151. Axe throwing?
152. I think I'm going to be sick.
153. Scrub.
154. Raw.
155. Whatever you need.
156. One deeply-buried, heavily-encrypted file.
157. I...I can't do this.
158. Silently asking for a hug.
159. You're in no position to make demands.
160. ...Her sacrifice means nothing.
161. Which is why you deserve this.
162. Do you find this amusing?
163. Maelstrom.
164. But this is breaking you.
165. Let me see you.
166. That's the highlight reel.
167. Now you know...
168. ...the couch is right there.
169. Comfy?
170. ...it's always been you.
171. Oh god, I need a pen...and a notary!
172. Third love?
173. I'll let the Guinness Book know.
174. Fondue-d?
175. Beth.
176. You felt that too?
177. Wake up, sleepyhead!
178. Mo Mhac Tíre Bán, Mo Chosantóir
179. Go back to sleep!
180. Guy, girl, both...?
181. Mica mea stea de mare...
182. You're so pretty like this.
183. Soundproofing
184. Alphonse
185. Te simți uimitor.
186. Fifth and Fifty-First, please.
187. Friends
188. ...'Cause I have a plan.
189. A stór mo chroí.
190. January Eighteenth
191. I fall.
192. Geallaim.

47. Pepper already tells me I shouldn't meddle.

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By ealachopairgorm

JULY 21, 2018 — AVENGERS COMPOUND — TONY

I watch Bucky leave my office. As soon as he's out of super soldier hearing range, I speak to F.R.I.D.A.Y..

"F.R.I.D.A.Y., please make sure that Bucky finds Réa. Unlock doors if you have to...within reason, of course."

"Yes, Mister Stark."

"Thank you, F.R.I.D.A.Y.," I say. 

I move to my desk chair, sitting down and propping my feet on the desk.

'I hope my theory isn't wrong. Pepper already tells me I shouldn't meddle; if I'm wrong about the two of them, she'll never let me hear the end of it. But my gut tells me I'm right,' I think, hoping my meddling pays off.

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