flowerparrish:

this is mainly for @exhalesimon who asked me for a list, because I realized I love too many Winterhawk fics to just text them. But everyone’s welcome to share in the joys of this ship!! It just sort of worked out that it’s my top 20 winterhawk fics, but they are sorted in the order in which Katey needs to know them rather than like, if any are “the best” (they’re all the best – as are a lot that didn’t make it onto this list). 

1. Complications by flawedamethyst 

Clint’s got a plan to retire and go find himself a simple life at his family’s old farm. Simple is good, right? Easy to remember. Simple is why he doesn’t really mind that his soul-print has never activated, because a soulmate could only add another layer of complexity to his life.

And then the Winter Soldier turns up at his archery range on the Avengers base, and simple slips through Clint’s fingers.

Post Age-of-Ultron (minus Clint’s wife&kids) Soulmate AU.

Massive thanks to Chucksauce for betaing.

2. What do you mean we left Clint on Mars? by sara_holmes

“What do you mean we left Clint on Mars?”

Cap’s incredulous voice cuts through the stunned silence of the cockpit, loud and shocked. He’s standing there with his cowl in hand, gaping at the holo-screen at the front of the jet. Next to him, Tony is standing with his hands on his head, mouth hanging open in a similar fashion. Over on the other side of the cockpit is Jane, who has both palms clapped across her mouth like she’s trying to hold back hysterical giggles.

For his part, Bucky is just staring at the screen like he can’t quite believe what’s going on.

3. Silhouette by mariana_oconnor

After a mission in Mexico goes wrong, SHIELD Agents Barnes and Rogers are given the job of hunting down the notorious Hawkeye and the Black Widow, the only problem being: no one even knows what they look like.

On the other side of the law, Clint’s enjoying messing with their new SHIELD shadows, especially seeing how close he can get to Agent Barnes without him realising, but he makes the mistake of getting attached, and that makes everything more complicated.

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