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kdheart, litra, night_inscriber and opalsong 
Title: in every one, a red balloon
Fandom: Avengers
Author: RC_McLachlan
Selected By: glitteryv
Reader: kdheart
Edited By: dapatty
Formatted By: Litra
Pairing: Loki / Tony
Rating: Teen
Length: 33:44
Summary:
"Is this a crisis?" Tony asks. "Are you having a crisis? This is a crisis-free zone."
Loki jerks his hand. The balloon cheerfully bounces in response. "I am not having a crisis."
"You sure? Because from where I'm standing, it looks like a crisis, and those aren't allowed. They're prohibited. Verboten. Actually, just get out."
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kdheart I'll start with the Thor/Welcome to Night Vale crossover not!fic that I threw at
sarshi after The Dark World came out. I'm probably never going to write this, but if anyone wants to, be my guest :D
Basically, Darcy is the voice of Night Vale, completely unfazed by the weirdness of the town. She’s survived her internship at the station and is now going through interns at the usual rate… except one. He turned up one day - literally fell out of the sky, but it’s Night Vale, so it didn’t really surprise anyone - and they haven’t lost him since. His name is Loki and he is tall, dark and handsome, with a surprisingly British accent for someone who claims to be not of this world, but who is Darcy to argue? Also, he might have some plans to take over the world, but haven’t we all gone through this phase at one point in our lives?
So, yeah… Loki is that one intern that doesn’t die, and Darcy’s cool with it. They’ve lost enough already and it’s nice to have some eye candy around the station :D
Also, there’s a new scientist in town. Her name is Jane, she’s an astrophysicist and she is perfect from her hair, tied in a simple and practical pony tail (I mean, someone that smart shouldn’t really concern herself with such lowly things as fancy hairdos!), to the tip of her tows, wearing very sensible sports shoes (all the better to run from the municipally mandated yeti invasion on Saturday). And Darcy wants to ask her out, but she just turns into a puddle of inarticulate mush when she’s around her, so she just goes on and on about her perfection over the radio, certain that Jane is too busy to listen anyway.
And Darcy is definitely *not* taking advice from Loki on this. The last time she did, she ended up accidentally going out with STEVE CARLSBURG (yes, I’m keeping him and I have no idea how his name is supposed to be spelled) and no one wants a repeat of that. No one.
There’s also a new man wondering aimlessly around town. A tall, blond man. Very well built. *Very*. Apparently he’s the reason Jane came into town, before she got distracted by Night Vale’s Night Vale-niess. And Loki’s been acting strange since he wondered into town as well.
You know what? Darcy’s had enough of this. She’s asking Jane out for coffee and whatever happens, happens. And she’s setting Loki up with this Thor guy. He’s kind of cute, once you get past the ‘everyone around her is obsessing over him’ part and she’d rather lose an intern because he eloped, than because Station Management ate him.
And now, the weather :)
Oh! Oh! Listeners! Jane is even cuter once you get to talk actual words to her! And she loves coffee and much as Darcy! And she’s agreed to a second date! (well, a first one, since this wasn’t technically a *date* date)
Since I’m probably never going to actually write this, I give you the podficcer!Darcy Avengers AU (as twitted at kalakirya a long time ago)
Darcy is a podficcer and Jane writes fic and they’ve known each other’s work since before they met
And Jane is into Stargate and Xena and a bunch of older fandoms. She ran into Darcy when she recorded one of Jane’s old faves
But Darcy mostly does Iron Man RPF and Jane’s not too keen on RPF… But it’s mostly crack and Stark made *himself* into a character, so…
She eventually lets her guard down and doesn’t care if they’re RPF or M-rated anymore - it’s usually for language anyway
And Darcy does a fucking awesome Tony Stark! She loves the one about the Bunny Invasion of California
And she lets her guard down and listens to Darcy read while she’s busy in the lab… Until that one podfic…
It’s so hot and well written and her colleagues poke fun of how crimson she turned for weeks
Eventually, when she’s going over the applicants for the position of intern she notices this Political Science major
And there’s something very familiar and comforting about her… It takes a while to realize it’s the voice
It doesn’t actually click until they’re in the middle of the desert and Darcy’s very loudly complaining about coffee in the other room
The cracky Iron Man fics were written by Coulson as therapy every time Tony got on his nerves. He’s really fond of the bunny podfic
The explicit one was Pepper’s. Tony discovered fan fic while googling himself and kept making Jarvis read it to her
Then he ran into podfic and was very pleased with Darcy’s impression of him. So Pepper wrote one to see what happens
It made for a very interesting bedroom experience and led to Tony’s decision to adopt Darcy if he ever found her.
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