They are SHIELD, but just barely. They are a little too wild - having come in from the cold, or run away from the circus - a little too strange to be trusted. Their bodies fit together like broken jigsaw pieces; unyielding and jagged-edged, making love like they make war. They are watched, always, by the people who use them, because they are double-edged swords, the willing dogs of Fury, but who never quite came all the way into the fold. Side by side, still and silent, they can unsettle presidents and warlords alike, but never as much as they unsettle each other.

(Source: experimentallycanthropy)

teddykaplan:

AU Meme ~ the Avengers - John Hughes Film

They were five S.H.I.E.L.D. agents with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday in isolation together for breaking countless agency rules. At 7 a.m., they had nothing to say, but by 4 p.m., they had bared their souls to each other and become good friends. To the outside world they were simply the Jock (Thor), the Brain (Peter), the Playboy (Tony), the Soldier (Steve), the Scientist (Bruce), the Mystery (Natasha) and the Jackass (Clint), but to each other, they would always be the Avengers.

(Source: bartonesque)