New fic: Dream of Caramel

[gwyn]

Dream of Caramel: or, A Recipe for Disaster (17031 words) by gwyneth rhys
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes & Clint Barton
Characters: Clint Barton, James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Pepper Potts, Thor (Marvel), Tony Stark, Darcy Lewis
Additional Tags: Cooking, Longing, Big Eden (movie), Clint Barton Is a Good Bro, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Team Moron
Summary:

But none of that explains why right now Clint’s pants are literally on fire and Barnes is pitching an entire five-pound bag of pastry flour straight at Clint’s crotch with his metal arm.

Comments

[batdina]

ok. there goes my night's sleep. (sorry also about Olive. meant to say so yesterday. it sucks no matter how it happens, but yeah. bad bad bad.)

[gwyn]

Hope you got some sleep.

like, who ever thought there were banana barons?

[kore]

oh my god, I was so depressed and this made me REALLY LAUGH.

CLINT. "How do I friend? Tasha would tell me how to friend. Shit, it's bad if I'm his only friend, better not fuck this up. Coffee. Coffee would help me not fuck this up."

(AWW APPLE CAKE)

“What’s...happening...with his face?” Clint whispers to Bucky. He looks like the waxworks figure of Captain America at that creepy Madame Tussaud’s.
“It’s his figuring things out face. Give him a couple seconds.” They wait.

I laughed and laughed. As in "What the heck is so funny?" inquiries were made.

“So, what do I do? Just set fire to the top?”

CLINT I ADORE YOU

"Gently, like the trigger on a Colt Python .357, okay?"

BUCKY I ADORE YOU TOO

At least Clint can be Bucky’s buddy as a nice fat fuck you to all those slimy, world-domination Nazi traitor sons of bitches he’d trusted, and if that means playing along with this ridiculous cooking scheme, then so be it.

And then I was practically in fucking tears dammit. BROTP REVENGE. LOVE IT. COOKING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE. FUCK YOU RUMLOW.

OMG THE ROBOTS I love the robots and especially when they are also Bucky bros.

It’s so cute you could vomit.

YES IT IS.

Bucky says, “He was always like that, though. Everything pissed him off, even when we were little kids he’d rail about the injustices in the world and why were people acting like things were fine and ignoring what was in front of their faces. I mean, he was the only kid in the world who could hold forth on the anti-union violence that had happened when we were still only babies or tell you what everyone was fighting about in the Spanish civil war. He got a job at a newsagent’s I think mostly so that he could read the papers, not so he could make some money.” He smiles indulgently at Steve. “He was Captain American long before that was even a jingoistic phrase in Senator Brandt’s head.”
“But what about you?” Pepper asks. “If you were so close...”
“Hell, I didn’t have the time to be indignant. I had two little sisters and a brother and had to help my mama out with them when I wasn’t in school or playing sports or working. Whereas Steve was abed so often, he had time to read all that stuff and listen to the radio programs and get all worked up.”

ohmygod Bucky (sorry you are not getting coherent comments here but at least maybe the incoherence communicates some of the delight)

BRUCE RECOMMENDS MATEWAN AND NORMA RAE. BRUCE I LOVE YOU FOREVER TOO.

ANTHONY EDWARD STARK NO (of course it's Tony who completely blows undercover)

“Were you this dumb about Agent, you know, Carter? Did you dick around about her, too, and long for her and believe she couldn’t love you back and oh the tragedy?”
“I don’t--that’s none of your business.”

CLINT YENTA IS THE BEST YENTA.

She rubs Bucky’s back. “We just want to make sure that you’re here with us for good, and no one’s ever going to hurt you again. Never to be lost again, to Steve or to us.”

PEPPER //cries

BANANAS oh God I love what this fandom does with bananas


This was so great! It really did cheer me up. Thank you so much. <3

Re: like, who ever thought there were banana barons?

[gwyn]

I swore I would not go to there about the bananas, I really swore, but never say never I guess. When I was plotting it out I just couldn't find anything else that worked as well as bananas in that scenario and I can totally hear Bucky telling Clint all those things.

I think Bruce and Steve would absolutely bond over politically liberal movies about important events like Matewan and Norma Rae. They would have so much fun (for values of fun that include being outraged and disgusted).

Glad I could make you laugh in spite of the depression. Cooking well really is the best revenge in their case, and I love the phrase BROTP revenge. ♥

[ranalore]

I knew from the additional tags this would be absolutely awesome, and I was right. Mutual pining and food porn and Bucky and Clint in a kitchen and banana jokes. Perfection.

[gwyn]

I told kore that I really wanted to not go there with the bananas, but they ended up being what I needed for this. I'm so glad you enjoyed it--honestly, writing something like this ends up feeling like no one else will like it because it's so much a part of your id that you can't see how anyone else could get anything out of it, but I'm happy that people have. I just love Clint and Bucky together, I think they ought to have more adventures.

[kore]

I just wanted to say -- today I was rereading my bookmarked fic to cheer myself up, because I was having the shittiest day re stress (weather, finances, now I'm getting sick apparently) and this still made me laugh and laugh. It's so hilarious, and tender and touching underneath, like one of Bucky's fancy desserts or something ("You could, say, marry a guy if you were so inclined" CLINT <3).

[gwyn]

Sorry it took me so long to reply to this, I was so focused on getting ready to go. I'm so glad that this made you laugh. I know what it's like to need that. And that is so sweet of you to say--man, I loved writing that line for Clint. I could really hear MCU Clint saying that, you know?

[kore]

Aww it's OK! I know you were going off to VVC and focused on that, no worries.

I could hear MCU Clint saying like EVERY line you wrote for him, it was great. (I love MCU Clint* and I love Fraction!Clint too, altho apparently I'm in the minority there....)


*well at least pre-AoU.

[kore]

(also that is a GORGEOUS icon)

[mackiemesser.livejournal.com]

That was very cute!

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Thank you!