#Philip j Coulson

[nelsonlover666]

If there is one universal truth it is that Philip J Coulson listens to the kinks

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

What’s up everyone. Now that law school is over (woo!), I have time to write out what I’ve wanted to do with this blog since its inception. It’s the first…FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ROYAL RUMBLE!

For this first Rumble, the theme will be: Sci-Fi Protagonists

Same rules as the actual Royal Rumble. We have 30 entrants, wrestlers are eliminated after being tossed off the top rope, and it’s until the last wrestler standing.

“But what if the character has powers? Won’t that give them an unfair advantage?” “Will how long a character has been in the ring affect the vote?” My answers to those questions are…the show is scripted so it doesn’t matter. The winner will be decided up to the (Tumblr) masses. In addition, I’ll do my best JR/Michael Cole impression provide commentary to let everyone know how the match is turning out.

Here are the first 10 entrants (in order):

1) James Holden - The Expanse

2) Ben Song - Quantum Leap

3) Phil Coulson - Agents of SHIELD

4) Ronon Dex - Stargate Atlantis

5) Kara “Starbuck” Thrace - Battlestar Galactica

6) Spock / Kelvin Timeline - Star Trek reboot series

7) Mork - Mork and Mindy

8) Sabine Wren - Star Wars

9) Spike Spiegel - Cowboy Bebop

10) Philip J. Fry - Futurama

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The next 10 entrants (11-20)

[rainintheevening]

So we're just NEVER told what the J in Philip J. Coulson stands for?

[cosmicqvake]

I just wanna know how 7x09 goes from being this goofy, hilarious take on Groundhog Day, with moments like Daisy and Jemma casually DYING on the floor, with Deke proceeding to have a mental breakdown over it (because HELLO he just watched Daisy and his nana dramatically drop dead on the floor), while Coulson groans with annoyance about how much of a pain in the ass it is. And, of course, “phlebotinum”, and Enoch casually destroying everybody, and Coulson slowly but surely losing his mind, some cute Dousy moments too, among other absolute gems.

Then you get straight up gut-punched by conversations like Daisy and Coulson’s, about the irony of the time loop being a metaphor for his fear of the inevitable future where he will have to watch every single person he cares about die because someone “decided he should.”

Like wow. Hit me right where it hurts, why don’t you? (I could make a whole post about that conversation alone.)

Not to mention the power of Enoch’s last scene:

“Does it hurt?

It does, a bit. But it's not the physical pain that troubles me. I am acutely aware that in my thousands of years observing humans, I never used to feel lonely. I've been alone many times. To be candid, I preferred it, but it wasn't until I met this particular team of SHIELD agents that being alone meant feeling lonely. And I don't care for it. So, I am feeling, as you might expect, some anxiety now…

You don't have to. You're not alone. Daisy and I will stay with you right up until the end.

That is very kind of you. But, it's that last part, isn't it? You can stay with me up until the end, but you cannot come with me at the end. I will have to leave you and I will have to do that alone and I can't help wondering when that happens, will I feel lonely?

I can say with some authority that you're not wrong. Dying is lonely. But the feeling is temporary, at least for the person dying. The ones who are left behind… less so. I guess that's the one advantage to going first.

Yes. It's different watching your friends go before you, isn't it? I've been through that as well. It can be harder to stay than to leave. I'm sorry, Philip J. Coulson.

Enoch, the team will carry on the mission. We will survive because of you. Thank you.

You are most welcome. But Agent Johnson, while your friends will indeed survive, the team will not.

What do you mean?

I have seen the future. Carry on this mission and cherish it for it will be your last mission together.

That's not possible. Enoch, this is my family.

Of course. Yet, this is the nature of families. I have seen it countless times on countless worlds. People arrive, so we celebrate, and people leave us, so we grieve. We do what we can with the time in-between but the cycle is always there. No one escapes it. Not even me.

Which means you are not alone. You are apart of that cycle.

Like every other living thing.

Fitz... he was my best friend.

And you are a good friend to Fitz. You are a good friend to all of us.

As I have always...”

Like holy SHIT, man. I am on the FLOOR. It never fails to get me each and every damn time. I resonate on such a deep level with that entire scene, and it honestly affects me so greatly, even to this day. The emotional chokehold that it has on me is unmatched. Someone put the entire thing on my grave tbh.

I could go on about it forever, but basically, 7x09 is just my favourite episode of television ever, and I can say that wholeheartedly. Hats off to everyone who worked on that episode (and every episode let’s be real) I swear. It will forever hold such a special place in my heart.

[hunter-and-bobbi-official]

This is Hunter... my dad wanted to name me Richard, they decided on Richard Hunter. Then realised- that would make (eventually) my nick name Dick.. and hence Dick Hunter- so they just called Lance. Lance hunter.

"I have friends in here- Bobbi says that we should make it our Joint account and so I did"

"Make sure to add my name in your url!"

"Don't worry I won't!"

Anyway my friends on here

Daisy and Sousa. @daisy-skye-johnson-quake @i-am-not-that-old

Mack and Yoyo: @the-shotgun-axe-man @dutch-braids-4-lyf-and-4-evah

May and coulson: @melinda-qiaolian-may-the-cavalry @trading-cards-owner @philip-j-coulson-official

Also FitzSimmons joint blog: @fitzsimmons-officialblog

What happened since leaving S.H.I.E.L.D: I got a job around illegal stuff- worked as a fake lawyer, fake police guy, fake tax guy, as well as fake IT guy just to get information. Mostly it. Bobbi and I got married barely a few months after FitzSimmons and do not have human children. We have a cat Asteroid destroyer... I think you could guess who named her. She's just a few days old.

[daisy-skye-johnson-quake]

This is Daisy or Skye or Johnson or Quake, God I have a lot of names.

I can fight, I can sing, I can dance but most Importantly i have a really good stance. Sorry I'm bad at rhyming, forget I said that.

I have quake-ing powers which means I can create vibrations or just impacts that are strong enough to push people down. I can also absorb energy which unfortunately makes my nose bleed, learnt that the hard way. I can fly but like not really high, actually it's more of a jump, I can jump really high.

I have had enough bad hair-dos to finally let my natural hair breath.

I have a half-sister Kora, she has light powers and can create or absorb them. I also have a boyfriend, who just doesn't want to propose to me for some reason. He's Agent Daniel Sousa but don't tell anyone cuz he's not supposed to be in this timeline. I- well we as in S.H.I.E.L.D, Stole him from another timeline. But that's a story for later.

I am fully straight and in a relationship. One of these days I'm gonna get him to make an account and come here.

Boyfriend: Agent Daniel Sousa, stolen from the past, cuz I fell in love with him. @i-am-not-that-old (accomplishment)

My Family: (not biological) Jemma Simmons and her husband Leopold Fitz, their daughter Alya, she's around 12-14 I'm guessing. I can never get that kids age right. Their family blog @fitzsimmons-blog

Alphonso (Mack) Mckenzie, he's practically my brother at this point. I like to tease him and call him Alphie (he hates it, but i love it) @the-shotgun-axe-man

Philip J. Coulson, kinda my dad also my friend don't really know. His blog @trading-cards-owner

Melinda Xiaolin May, she is kinda strict so I don't tell her she's like my mom. But I definitely think of her as one. @melinda-qiaolian-may-the-cavalry

This is who to imagine

[trading-cards-owner]

Oh my god... uhhhhh

@philip-j-coulson-official

Again??? I’m too old for this

[themculibrary]

Long Fics (2) Masterlist

part two

add it up (ao3) - leftennant darcy/loki, jane/thor, pepper/tony E, 125k

Summary: Loki and Darcy have been dancing around each other ever since they were paired up as a team at S.H.I.E.L.D. by Nick Fury. When they both end up up in his apartment after saving the world, things finally hit the boiling point.

a few tricks up my sleeve (ao3) - notapepper leo/jemma T, 70k

Summary: Take two competing performers on the birthday party circuit in a small town. Add a pinch of false assumptions, a dash of miscommunication, and a smidge of sexual tension, and presto! One hot, fresh, snarky, fluffy Kids’ Entertainers AU, comin’ right up!

Aim (ao3) - visiblemarket clint/phil M, 61k

Summary: Clint “Hawkeye” Barton takes on a contract for one Philip J. Coulson. It all goes downhill from there.

(And uphill for a while. Then downhill again. Mostly downhill, overall).

better when i’m with you (ao3) - thelilacfield wanda/vision T, 69k

Summary: He’s had a number of firsts. Virginia Reed, his first crush. Wanda Maximoff, his first kiss. Eve Simon, his first heartbreak. Mandy Fournier, the first girl who said yes when he asked her to dance. And he’s becoming increasingly certain that Sam Wilson is his first love.

Vision writes a letter each time he has a crush so consuming he can’t forget it. They are tiny pieces of his heart, written out for his eyes only, a way to say goodbye.

Until the day they’re sent out.

Bucky and Steve's Excellent Adventure (ao3) - blue_beans bucky/steve, peggy/steve M, 132k

Summary: Six months ago, Steve set out on a final mission to return the infinity stones to their proper timelines, and returned a minute later having lived out a life of peace and contentment with Peggy Carter in the past. He died in his sleep a few days later, surrounded by his friends. Or so Bucky assumes. He wouldn't know, he'd been busy being locked up on the Raft while the government decided whether or not to pardon him for the whole Winter Soldier thing.

What with the court-mandated therapy and the constant surveillance by alphabet agencies and the crushing weight of his past, he's not sure if giving him a chance at "normal life" is more cruel than the alternative. But he's doing fine. Great, actually, so don't ask. He didn't have a nightmare. Especially not that strangely disturbing one about Steve...

Casual Encounters (ao3) - MoreThanSlightly (cadignan) steve/bucky E, 66k

Summary: “You have never once been careful in your entire life.” Bucky huffs out a laugh. He looks away. “Maybe I’m offended you didn’t think to ask me.” He says it like a joke, but he can’t bring himself to laugh again.

“Bucky,” Steve says, scandalized. “You’re my friend. I’m not gonna use you to experiment sexually.”

catching bullets in our teeth - anothercover clint/natasha M, 77k

Summary: Retirement, it turns out, is not a thing that Clint is adjusting to very well. Or, you know, at all. It didn’t occur to him that when he dropped the team, it would mean he’d lose Natasha, too.

[Begins pre-CACW, through the events of it, and into the aftermath. Otherwise known as: the slow-burn divorce fic we didn’t know we needed.]

Chitauri Apocalypse (ao3) - Del_Rion happy/pepper, jane/thor, mentioned pepper/tony, benny/claire M, 96k

Summary: Iron Man never fell back through the portal. The Avengers must deal with the loss of their comrade and move on – until Earth once again comes under an attack from the Chitauri and their new-found weapons that decimate everything in their path with unmatched power and intellect. As cities and nations collapse around their decreasing resistance, the heroes of Earth must find a way to defeat their enemy before there is nothing left to avenge.

darkness will be rewritten (ao3) - princessironspider natasha/tony N/R, 104k

Summary: Peter is Tony’s biological child.

Natasha Romanoff has been married to Tony Stark secretly for years.

What would the movies be like if this were the case?

Deep Freeze (ao3) - Kadorienne bucky/loki/steve M, 198k

Summary: As atonement for his crimes against Midgard, Loki is sentenced to fight alongside the Avengers. In time he finds love with Steve Rogers, but then Steve’s first love, Bucky Barnes, returns from the dead. The solution is something he hadn’t dared to hope for.

G.I. Joes and 2AM Diners (ao3) - OhCaptainMyCaptain steve/bucky E, 100k

Summary: They look nothing like what they used to. Time and life have completely changed them. But as they sit there in silence, eating two halves of one cupcake, letting Brooklyn remind there where they came from, and enjoying a sky full of stars… They are those same little boys, somewhere deep down. For just a second, you’d be able to see them again.

And Bucky thinks to himself that maybe it’s little moments like these – fleeting as they may be – that remind him why life is still worth living.

i won’t let go of your hand (ao3) - Charlie_Balle maria/natasha N/R, 258k

Summary: Yelena Belova was seventeen when her sister broke her out of the Red Room. She was seventeen when her sister brings home the man sent to kill her. She was seventeen when she became the youngest SHIELD agent known to date.

Just Another Guy With A Bow (ao3) - myrmidryad clint/natasha, clint/phil, darcy/steve, jane/thor N/R, 94k

Summary: Clint’s life is a steady progression from point A to point B, but it’s everything that happens between those points that make the story interesting. Things like joining the circus, losing Barney, finding Barney, stumbling into SHIELD, trusting Coulson, making a different call when he’s sent to kill the Black Widow, and becoming part of the dysfunctional Avengers team.

Life in the Margins (ao3) - Jupiter77 druig/makkari, gilgamesh/thena, ikaris/sersi T, 98k

Summary: In one of the reviews of Eternals, the film critic commented that Makkari and Druig had a romance in the margins of the movie. This story explores the margins.

on a wednesday, in a cafe (ao3) - TaraLy gilgamesh/thena T, 111k

Summary: Thenamesh Coffee Shop AU. No angst, no plot, only love (and food).

Pieces of Echoes (ao3) - geekymoviemom steve/tony, happy/pepper T, 334k

Summary: When weapons designer and SHIELD consultant Tony Stark and his son are kidnapped following a routine weapons demonstration, newly defrosted World War II hero Steve Rogers is sent to find them.

But what begins as just another mission, a way for Captain America to reintegrate back into society, quickly warps into something more as betrayals are discovered, harsh, long-buried truths are finally brought to light, and Tony and Steve come to realise that their biggest allies are each other.

stress relief (ao3) - romanoff steve/tony E, 84k

Summary: They don't love each other. They barely even like each other.

The Last Stand (ao3) - fantasiesdreaming layla/marc T, 78k

Summary: “Mind if I sit here?” asked a voice, its owner already settling into the space on the bench next to Marc.

“Layla,” he uttered without thinking, and shit. She had been shuffling through her bag at the edge of the table, but now she stiffened.

“Do I know you?”

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The precanon Marc backstory we’ve all been waiting for. Featuring Marc struggling to deal with his past and mental health as he meets, falls in love with, marries, and eventually leaves Layla.

The Simple Life (ao3) - niniblack pepper/tony T, 56k

Summary: An AU of The Game Plan, set right after Civil War and featuring a very lonely Tony Stark with poor coping mechanisms; a very young Peter Parker who is losing track of how many lies he’s told; and a very busy Pepper Potts who is starting to see her ex-boyfriend in a new light.

To the end of the line (ao3) - Holdengrey0 steve/bucky G, 85k

Summary: After a mission gone wrong, a jet carrying Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes crashes in the Canadian wilderness. With winter starting and the temperatures plummeting, will the team find them in time?

New feelings emerge between the men, a whole world looking, an injury, and all sorts of challenges they have to face. How will it end?

[oh-to-be-a-murderer]

So I have 2 OCs I've been thinking of for quite a while now. Should I make accs for them?

• Melina (Melody) Berry

-Aged 17

-She/her and asexual

-Very bubbly but knows exactly when to be mature. Weirdly high idea of social cues and rules. Is Obsessed with dancing and can't live without it.

-Had been worked on by Hydra but rescued as hostage by the Avengers. Had been placed beside the maximmoff twins on their last day at the cell

-Thinks of Captain America as her idol

•Charlie Axil Willburry (previously Kristina Axilla Willburry)

-Aged 14

-He/him woman that prefers male pronouns, hasn't changed appearance, just cut hair really short basically trans

-Is a BRAT, Can not take no for an answer, is gonna argue until his tongue falls off but weirdly listens if you yell just loud enough

-Son of a former Hydra scientist and has an embarrassingly low pain threshold, will cry at the slap on the wrist

-Idolises no one apart from Philip J. Coulson

@charlotte-rogers-barnes

(Sorry if it feels like I stole your name! I didnt, I was brainstorming this and just now realised yall have the same name)

[alirhi]

Tonight, lil sis's dog (not the puppy we got in July, there was a dog she had from 2015-2018 but life forced her to give to our friend so he would have stability) died. 10 days shy of his 10th birthday.

I did not like him when I knew him. He was a hyperactive pain in the ass who destroyed my and our older sister's belongings. That is the only thing lil sis remembers and accepts about the me/Coulson (doggo) dynamic. She has it in her head that I hated him and wanted him gone. No. Never. Gone from my presence because he irritated me? Yes. Gone from this world and her life? Hell no. I didn't hate Coulson. I love all animals. I just didn't like him. She failed him in that he was almost completely untrained and had severe attachment issues and acted out. That wasn't his fault. I just didn't want to be around him and have more of my stuff destroyed.

No, I am not feeling the grief anywhere close to how hard it's hitting her. Coulson was her baby and having to leave him states away when she moved back to the coast ate her up inside. But I didn't hate him, and I didn't want him to die. I haven't seen him in a very long time, and I'm a little surprised by this, but though it pales in comparison to hers, I am grieving for this hyper, obnoxious pain in the ass.

I just keep thinking about the day Marvel (fostered by lil sis at the time, settled forever with big sis and still vibrant and healthy today) got away from us and, out of sheer frustration because I couldn't catch her, I said "Coulson, go get your sister!" He took off like a shot, grabbed Marvel's leash, and dragged her back to where lil sis and I stood, stunned and impressed, on the steps of the house.

Then there was the day Marvel (ever the escape artist when she was young) got off the run and, well, ran. I heard Coulson yipping in distress out back, looked, saw only one dog, and freaked. I was the only one home. So I put Coulson on a leash and hit the streets. I only had to say it once: "find your sister." He took me down the path she'd taken when she ran off. Clearly thinking this was a very fun game, Marvel came barreling out of the woods nearby and very nearly got squished by a Mack truck as she raced over to us. Coulson got extra cookies that day, once I came down from my panic attack.

He used to crawl into bed with me, under the covers, squish himself between me and the wall, and steal half my pillow. It was uncomfortable, it was too hot and there wasn't enough room for us both, but it made me laugh despite his stink lol

He was derpy, but not stupid. He was destructive, but loving. He was annoying, but he was a good boy.

RIP Agent Philip J Coulson (yes that is exactly what my sister named him lmao). 11/02/2014-10/23/2024 You'll be missed, good boy.

[philip-j-coulson-official]

So? This is supposed to be like an introduction to. My name is Philip J Coulson and I am an active member of S.H.I.E.L.D. I enjoy working with those guys. So I asked Diasy and apparently there is a timeline where I died and came back as an LMD... bad call Simmons Simmons but honestly... not that bad! Well here I am alive and well. We had enough serum to kill both Talbot and revive me. Also like I said I love my work family.

Here's my Daisy @daisy-skye-johnson-quake

[the-shotgun-axe-man]

Alphonso (Mack) Mckenzie

Married to Elena (Yo-Yo) Mckenzie, happily. We have a daughter of two years, her name is Aivee. Elena kept it, she had an aunt of that name who she adored. Also a son Flint Mckenzie. He's adopted.

My wife's blog : @dutch-braids-4-lyf-and-4-evah

Don't have any powers, just a shotgun-Axe, but my wife does, she can run like really fast.

My Family consists of me, my wife, my kids and their aunt, she lives with Fitzsimmons but still comes to visit every other day. She's @daisy-skye-johnson-quake

The family of @fitzsimmons-blog

I respect the former director Philip J. Coulson. He has taught me more than I could ever learn by myself.

@trading-cards-owner

Nothing else honestly, I'm pretty plain and boring.

This is us!

[rainintheevening]

Not Dead

(A Saving Grant Ward AU)

"Come on, Hill." Grant's face hurts, and he's tired. "Why'd you pull me out of the field? I mean, it wasn't for a history lesson."

Maria Hill looks away for a moment, takes a deeper breath than maybe necessary, says quietly, "You'll have to ask Coulson."

Grant stiffens, the cold finger of her words tracing still-tender scars, and he thins his lips, answers sharp. "Phil Coulson is dead."

Her gaze drops, and so does his stomach. A breath, as if to speak, before she sighs, shakes her head.

"Actually, no."

It isn't Maria who speaks, no, it's a voice he knows, the voice of his conscience and his comfort, a voice he's not supposed to be hearing, and he's on his feet before his training takes hold, keeps him from backing away.

There's a ghost in this room, stepping out of the shadows, Coulson looking him in the eye.

"I'm... not dead."

For a moment the world turns upside down, he can't breathe, his vision greys... Before he catches himself, turns away sharply. "Don't," and no matter how dead he tries to keep his voice, he hears the tremor. "Don't do this to me."

Maria avoids his gaze, crosses her arms over her chest, glares at the man who can't be Coulson. "Coulson! You were supposed to let me ease him into it."

Coulson sighs, like he used to sigh when he'd forgotten to buy the right kind of hot sauce on wing night, and was about to go get the keys and drive to the store right then, because Grant wouldn't eat his wings without it. An apology. "Sorry, I just couldn't wait to see you again. Also I think there's a bulb out back there. I wasn't trying to be that dramatic."

Grant snorts, he can't help shaking his head as he looks back at the man whose response to finding out an angry customer had hit Grant over the head with her purse was show up at her house and tell her she'd go to jail if she ever shopped at Walmart again. "Even got someone who talks like him," he says, anger starting to smolder in his gut. He was done, done his grieving, he'd sworn to live and look forward, to honour his dad's Coulson's legacy.

Phil is worried. He's been worrying over how to tell Grant since... Tahiti, he thinks, but, no, it had been too peaceful there to be worrying. So, at least since Fury had lifted the lockdown on him.

He remembers the day Lady had been killed by a car, the limp body in Grant's arms, and how Grant had screamed for him, called him 'dad' for the first time.

"Try to go easy on him," Maria had said.

He'd raised an eyebrow. "How so?"

She'd stopped in the hallway, frowned at him. "Coulson, he had to bury you. The only person he cares about, and he had to bury you. He took two weeks' vacation after the funeral."

Phil had frowned then too. "He took time off?"

"Yes! Two. Weeks. Disappeared, off the radar. No one knows where he went, or what he was doing. He's never said."

So yes, Phil's worried, watching the tense line of Grant's shoulders, the way his eyes say he doesn't believe yet, and he's getting angry about it.

"Grant," he says, and the other man startles. "I'm sorry. But it is me. No tricks, no lies."

Phil moves forward slowly, as if trying not to frighten a skittish animal. Grant says nothing, watching him with those burning eyes, until he reaches out, grips Grant's upper arm gently but firmly. The other man flinches, hard enough to make Phil's hand slide down to his elbow, but just as quickly he's bringing his own hand up to grab Phil's sleeve. His grip is fierce.

"See?" Phil says, trying to smile. "Real."

"You're dead," Grant says, firm. He can feel the warmth in the hand on his arm, pain gathering in his throat. "You died." And his voice cracks.

He wants to believe, he is believing.

"I was. I did. For seven minutes." Tiny uncomfortable shrug. "Didn't stick, I'm afraid."

Grant blinks in the face of a tombstone (PHILIP J COULSON) chiseled with words he'd agonized over, how to sum up the man who had saved him long before saving the world (A HERO GOING HOME). He'd run his fingers over sharp-edged epitaph (PSALM 91:4), glad when it cut, when cold stone drew warm blood.

He blinks again, stares into worried hazel eyes, grips flesh and bone, and oh...

"It's been seven months!" Anger, fresh pain erupting through the layers of cooled magma. "What the hell, Dad?!" He rips away, stalks across the room, turns back to glare. "You couldn't be bothered to call, to tell me?! In seven months? I thought– I thought I meant something to you!"

"Grant, you do, I swear." Guilt settles heavy on Phil's heart as he steps forward, reaching. "Fury had me on lockdown, and then you were in the field, and I didn't want to do this until I knew we'd have time."

"I buried you!"

Maria was right, Phil thinks. Grant stalks back toward him.

"And you wanna know what I did after? I put a gun in my mouth, because of you!"

Grant's in his face now, and Phil's stomach drops like he's just been pushed out of a plane.

"You know that place where we used to go fishing? That creek? Yeah, that's where I went. And I put a gun to my head. Because I couldn't– I couldn't– I didn't want to live without–"

There are tears in his eyes now, dampening the fire, and Phil reaches up, lays hand gentle on muscled shoulder.

"But you did," he says softly. "You did live. I'm proud of you, son." He puts special weight on the last word, deliberate. "And now we get another chance. I doubt I can make it up to you, but I want to be here for you. Will you let me at least have that?"

Grant's always been tall, chin up, spit blood, graceful in a cold sort of way. Phil thinks Rose is the only other who has seen that guard truly come down. It's falling now, Grant's head dropping to hide welling emotion, shoulders slumping under Phil's hands, and then it's as if Grant himself is falling, falling and reaching, but he's already caught, and Phil pulls him in, holds him tight as he crumbles.

Grant's grip on him is painfully fierce, but he takes it, he'll take anything for this man he'd watched grow up, from a messed up kid, to a hopeful young agent, to one of SHIELD's best.

"I'm sorry," he whispers. "I'm here."

Tall man, bent and bowed into his dad's embrace, Grant hides his face against Coulson's neck and sobs.

Maria slips out, leans back against the door, knuckles a few tears out of her eyes. She still thinks Coulson is making a mistake, selecting someone he's so close to for his new team; he's always avoided working with Grant for that reason. But any man would be changed by facing death, she figures. Not to mention facing things he didn't even remember. A wince at the thought of Grant finding out what had been done. Well, as long as all went according to plan, neither of them ever would.

Grant doesn't cry for long; that's never been his way. He lifts his head, eases back, takes Phil's offered handkerchief.

"You still carry these?" he asks hoarsely, blows his nose.

"What do you think I mop the blood up with?"

The same pointed humor, the way they always joked about close calls, and Grant's lungs feel like they have more room in his chest. He hands the crumpled cloth back, smirks at Coulson's little nose wrinkle. "And that's what saved you."

Coulson chuckles, the air in the room lifts. Grant's still unsteady, still taking it in. But he believes now.

"So how much time have we got?" he asks, sticks his hands in his pockets.

"Plenty." Phil smiles up at him, sun coming out to warm him again at last. "I'm putting together a long-term team, and Fury, well, he owes me plenty. So I get to pick anyone I want."

"Except her." Grant jerks his head toward the door, and he's grinning like an idiot, but he can't help it. On a team with Coulson? For the foreseeable future? Oh, he is so ready.

"Anyone I outrank," Phil corrects himself, eyes laughing back. "You'll be getting a promotion to Level Seven—already have actually since you know about me."

"I'm in."

A raised eyebrow, and Grant tries to settle, temper the excitement in his tone. He's supposed to be cool, after all. "Sure. Count me in. And don't worry," he adds, "I'll make sure not to call you 'dad' in front of the team. Don't want to ruin that cold-hearted reputation."

A full on chuckle from Coulson, and Grant can't help it, he steps back in for one more hug, to feel the solid flesh and bone and beating heart against him.

"Yes, that reputation," Coulson mutters, hugging him back.

When they emerge, all banter and business, Maria lets herself relax. Maybe some things can be normal again.

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A Perfect Day

A Perfect Day https://ift.tt/qto3cMs by cakeisnotpie A day in the life of Philip J. Coulson Written for Day 5 of Clint Coulson Appreciation Week 2024 -- Fluff Words: 2971, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Clint Barton, Phil Coulson, Natasha Romanov (Marvel) Relationships: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson Additional Tags: Curtain Fic, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Romantic Fluff, Quiet, honestly this is just as domestic as you get, Domestic, Domestic Avengers, sometimes it's the simple things, Comfort Food