When Dr. Daniella Vale leaves behind the sun-soaked life she once shared with her unfaithful husband, she trades California warmth for Pittsburgh steel. Determined, brilliant, and newly free, she steps into The Pitt-one of the busiest trauma centers in the country-with a single promise to herself: never shrink again. What she doesn't expect is him. Dr. Jack Abbot is a legend in trauma surgery-cold, relentless, impossible to impress, and infamous for keeping the world at arm's length. Fellows fear him. Nurses respect him. Residents avoid him. But when Daniella arrives with sharp skill and a quiet fire in her eyes, the man who has forgotten how to feel finds himself... noticing. She's sunshine with edges. He's winter with a heartbeat. Thrown together in a world where every second matters, Daniella becomes the only person capable of softening Jack's defenses-and the one woman he knows he shouldn't want. She's younger, freshly healed, and far too bright for a man who's convinced his heart is past saving. But in The Pitt, where life and death collide, even steel can bend. And sometimes, the coldest hearts warm first.

In which a kaiju-slaying prodigy is sent to Gotham and accidentally bonds with a sarcastic sidekick named Robin. Dick Grayson x OC Young Justice x Kaiju No. 8 Crossover

The Winter Soldier has always had one job: take orders. Suddenly his orders change from the usual brutality and violence that he's used to, and The Winter Soldier has to do something he's never done before. He has to protect someone. • • • OC/Bucky Barnes Relatively slow burn + shared trauma bonding Warnings: canon typical swearing. Slightly more than canon typical violence, and otherwise mature themes. In honor of the Thunderbolts movie (which I still haven't seen oop--) I'm finally posting this which has been in my drafts since before Endgame came out.

Idena Andrysiak teaches long division, sings songs about the days of the week, and brings extra granola bars to her classroom of third graders. She is not the kind of person who gets hunted by mercenaries or ends up under government protection. But when a building explodes near her and a very grumpy ex-assassin shows up to drag her out of the wreckage, Idena learns the hard way: she's involved in something she doesn't understand. And now she's stuck with the Thunderbolts. A chaotic, unstable team of morally grey "heroes" who would really prefer she just stayed out of the way. They don't know how important she really is. Neither does she. And one of them might just be falling for her.