An unfortunate fact dogging Peggy's heels is that she needs Senate approval for non-Stark funding for SHIELD. Howard proposes marriage; Peggy agrees. Peggy proposes tracking a criminal to Leningrad; Howard agrees. Also, feelings.
One night only — this is the only way they meet, with her bruises on his body, with his old name at the back of her throat, choked. He's broken away from what he used to be, but what he is now, there's no name for — just a warm shape in the dark.
The possibility that keeps him up at night is that Meng Yao came into his service an honest man, and over time changed into what he sees before him now. That, as his ambitions rose and his world grew grander, he reshaped himself and discovered the things he was capable of, all the while looking like his familiar self, but transforming under his skin into something Nie Mingjue could hardly recognize.
The Brides have their hooks in Jonathan, less pleasurably than before. Written for Elise, prompt "naked".
At Blackmoor Gwen waits, without her bridegroom.
Parker and Hardison pretend to be married for a job.
Kreizler conducts an inquiry.
Kaz and Inej, back in Ketterdam.
Teenage dirtbag malcontent heirs, like ships that pass in the night.
Jack gets sick. Phryne puts him in her bed.