Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

flvffs asked: fuck you fuck ur fucking justice otp im crying now fuck all the feelings u just made me feel how dare

BUT IT WOULD BE SO GOOD.

Highlights of The Fucking Justice OTP include:

• Steve Rogers, man out of time in the most literal sense, talking quietly with Diana about what he missed.  The history books make it all sound like a horror show, and Diana tells him about a woman in Indonesia who sheltered fifteen orphans after a tsunami, about the ingenious ways that people escaped from the Soviet Union or over the Berlin Wall, about the people who have stood up and fought and died for freedom and honor and love.  Diana tells him all the little stories that never get as much attention as the atrocities, all the thousand tiny reasons she still fights for humanity.
  

• Diana Prince is the latest hiree at Stark Industries and her job is the local mystery.  They’re pretty sure she’s a secretary except for how she wanders into the labs from time to time and critiques the practicality of Tony’s inventions.  Steve hears someone call her ‘sweet cheeks’ and grins to himself when he hears the sound of Diana spraining some asshole’s wrist.
  

• DIANA GOES WITH STEVE TO VISIT PEGGY.  IT COMES TO LIGHT THAT PEGGY’S FRIEND DIANA IS ALSO THE WONDER WOMAN FROM VELD, THIS TAKES STEVE A MOMENT TO ADJUST.  (It takes him much longer to reboot his brain from the BSOD he experiences when Peggy fondly reminisces about the time she and Diana went ass-kicking together–Peggy’s words.  He would have paid all the money in the world to watch that.)
  

• Steve idly braids Diana’s hair when they’re watching movies together, because Diana likes having her hair played with and Steve doesn’t sit still well.  One time Diana is Steve’s date to a red carpet event and she gets asked who did her beautifully classic chignon, with tiny braids looping back above her ears like a diadem, and she informs the entire world that Captain America can braid hair.  He starts braiding interns’ hair when he gets called onto talk shows.
  

• WONDER WOMAN. WITH.  THE AVENGERS.  
• She and Natasha have very different perspectives of being trained to fight from childhood.  (Natasha reminds Diana of Antiope.)  
• Tony is genuinely very alarmed by Diana because she’s…so genuine?  Like, he doesn’t really know how to cope with someone who doesn’t put up a front of sarcasm and prickly behavior.  
• Clint and Diana agree on a lot of things, and he finds her kind of restful–she’s not a blind optimist, but she has hope, and it’s something Clint has sorely needed in his life.  
• Bruce finds her kind of unnerving because she gets along really well with the Hulk, who thinks she is The Greatest.  
• Bucky shows up and Diana is exactly what he needs on his worst days, someone who’s simultaneously very calm around him and utterly invulnerable to even the worst of the Winter Soldier’s violence.
• Sam thinks Diana is the Bee’s Literal Knees, but he’s easily as enthusiastic about her friends throughout history, which Diana is also pretty thrilled with, because HER FRIENDS HAVE BEEN WONDERFUL.
  
• Thor is OVERWHELMED WITH DELIGHT when Diana handily whips his ass during a sparring match, and starts introducing her with “This is Princess Diana of Themyscira, the mighty Wonder Woman–she bested me in battle!”  Also one day during a battle the world is treated to the sight of Diana, in all her armored glory, raising Mjolnir high to call down the wrath of…well, Diana on the enemy of the day.

• Diana could bench press Steve and tbh he’s into it.

ANYWAY. THE FUCKING JUSTICE OTP Y’ALL.

littlestartopaz asked: For the fic you'd never write: Diana/Steve Rogers "Running Parallel, but Never Meeting (Until Now)"

(YES GOOD)

AO3 summary: By the time she sits down at his table, Steve thinks he’s aspired to be this woman for his entire life.

Actual summary: As a little boy in New York, Steve hears from his mother, who was a nurse in the Great War, about the people she worked with.  A man in a greatcoat, his sleek black hair tied into twin braids, runs into them one day and she hugs him and introduces him (the Chief, Stevie, he kept us all smiling) and he tells Steve fantastic stories about a woman who could charge a trench all on her own.  

Steve grows up and remembers her and tries to join the Army and gets the 4F stamp a lot before Erskine finds him.  He asks Erskine, curious, about what inspired the super soldier formula, and Erskine tells him about his sister’s daughter, who lived in a little village in Germany and who saw a woman in a black cloak and armor demolish an entire occupying battalion.  (Diana hears about the man who saved a child by using a taxi door as a shield–no sharp edges–and she smiles as she lays out a map and tries to decide where to go, where the war needs her most.  This…this is a worse war.)  Steve thinks about the woman, about the shield the Chief described (the Chief is in his sixties, now, but he still keeps the soldiers smiling), as he breaks into a HYDRA prison with a dinky tin shield, and again when he picks a vibranium disc rather than Howard’s high-tech alternatives.  (Diana hears about Captain America and laughs a little–they have started to call her Wonder, the Wonder Woman, so she can’t laugh too much–and wishes that the war didn’t need her so much elsewhere, so that she could meet him.)  Steve and the Howlies pass through a little village in Germany one day, and there’s a picture in their tavern, in a place of honor, like a shrine, of a woman in armor looking stern and triumphant, with a much-younger Chief at her shoulder, and it makes Steve smile.  (Diana wanders to the States, after the war is over, because she has heard the tragedy of Steve Rogers and she wants to see the place that produced that man, and she meets a woman with sad eyes and dark curls.  They talk about their respective Steves and kick some ass and maybe one time Peggy kisses her and maybe Diana kisses her back.)

Diana arrives from her job in London (it’s hideous, but she’s used to it) three days after the Chitauri destroy a huge portion of New York.  She works for two weeks straight, moving debris, searching for the missing, reuniting families, doing whatever she can to help, sleeping for as little time as she can manage.  The Avengers are out helping too, and she smiles to see them, even when Tony Stark treats her like something of a fool and Dr. Banner mistakes her for a patient.

She goes to an old diner that she remembers from the last time she was here, in Brooklyn (Peggy always said to start in Brooklyn, in New York), and sees a blond head propped on a fist and she smiles, slipping into the booth opposite him.

“Hello, Captain Rogers,” she says, and he startles to attention.

“I’m sorry, ma’am, I–oh my God,” he blurts.  “You’re her!“