Kate Bishop enjoys a relaxed and well deserved Christmas with the Barton family and stays with them into the new year. But once she returns home to New York, she finds that someone had been waiting for her to get back from her holiday vacation. A certain Black Widow assassin. • • • Yelena Belova spends Christmas Day cold, miserable, and alone. The loss of Natasha sits heavy on her chest, and now that she has nowhere to elsewhere channel her anger and grief, Yelena has no choice but to rot in it. Or perhaps she can make an effort to befriend the newest Hawkeye. ---- Disclaimer: no art showed or used is mine unless specifically stated so, including the cover art. All memes are made by yours truly, though. :)) <3 Trigger/content warnings: mental illness, medication, depression, anxiety, talk of character death, fight scenes, blood, gore, weapons, injuries, the Red Room, nightmares, angst, alcohol, harassment, intoxication, drugs, talk about/implied adult content, death, PTSD, trauma, assault, talk of overdose, talk of suicide, talk of self harm, talk of sexual assault, men being horrible, stupid lesbian pinning. This is a wlw romance I'm so soft for them ❤️🏳️🌈 ---- Release date: 24th of December, 2023 Status: ongoing Updates: currently paused -- #3 in the gxg tag?????? #2 in the wlw tag #4 in the archery tag #5 in the lesbianromance tag #1 in the yelenabelova tag

This is the sequel to From Russia with Begrudging Acceptance. I highly recommend reading that one first or else you'll be very lost. Or Kate Bishop is adjusting to life on the farm, being an Avenger, saving Widows and planning to marry the love of her life. Yelena Belova is focused on finding out if that Quinjet transmission was from her sister and if it was how to bring her home. You'll laugh, you'll cry... you'll probably hate me. It'll be fun.

Post Hawkeye. Kate and Yelena are working through what comes next for them. They help each other figure things out. Friends to lovers. Slow burn. Yelena isn't asexual in this story. If you don't like it, don't read it.

Kate kisses the most popular girl in school at a party, and wants nothing more than to do it again. KateLena college AU.

Kate booked a flight to come home after 3 days spending the holidays at Clint's. The one constant question burning her mind was how would she pass the time in a huge empty home since she turned her mother in Yelena on the other hand knew she hadn't completed her mission to kill Clint. It didn't feel right, for once she couldn't do it. But she was left with a bittersweet taste. She longed to know more about her sister. This is a story about how two seemingly different people emabark on a journey of discovery about themselves individually and each other. And what better time to do so than holiday season in New York?

Kate returns home after spending the holidays with Clint and his family and is welcomed back by a familiar face. Nothing could have prepared her for the emotional turmoil she is soon to go through ... Takes place right after Hawkeye. [Also posted on Ao3]