The Darkening Sky - Chapter 49
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Female Character(s), Lewis Nixon, Richard Winters, Harry Welsh, Ensemble Cast
Additional Tags: Alternate History, Women Being Awesome, Women in the Military, World War II, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
“Some will say that it is a sad state of affairs when a country asks its women to go to war. But there is nothing sad about patriotism, and from coast to coast, America’s women have answered the call in record-breaking numbers, happy and willing to serve in all branches of the service - including, if the posters are to be believed, an entirely new co-ed parachute infantry unit.“
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She would be glad when they stopped moving forward.
Billie had been glad to see the back of Landsberg - they all had.
But every drive forward now pushed them deeper and deeper into the unknown. They were in southern Germany now - or Bavaria , as Webster hastened to correct. Hitler had held his rallies in Munich, recruited his first Brownshirts here. This was the birthplace of National Socialism, and resistance was growing more fanatical, more desperate. Nixon informed them that many of the remaining units in the field had been given last man orders, charged to hold on and hold out at all costs. Speirs informed them that Winters didn't want the battalion taking unnecessary risks.
It's a war, Billie wanted to say. Isn't risk what got us all here?
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Peter refusing to accept Tony’s money so Tony getting creative, I present to you
Tony breaking all of Peter and May’s things so he can replace them with better ones, examples include
Tony putting a fork in the toaster while it was on under the pretence of taking the bread out
well how was I supposed to know it doesn’t go in there? Friday usually makes me breakfast
Mr Stark you literally built an empire off of your technological genius-
Look kid, I’ll just get you a new one
Tony casually leaning against the fridge and knocking it over
I’m really buff kid I don’t like to talk about it
Tony testing out his thrusters in Peter’s living room, results include a destroyed television and a hole in the wall it was mounted on
Good thing we have spares in the basement
Spare whats? Walls?
Spare TVs, underoos. The wall I’ll have rebuilt- it was looking a little shaky anyways
That wall has stood perfectly fine for sixteen years-
Friday I’m gonna need you to send one of the spare plasma screens and two guys to install it, thanks
Tony straight up throwing the microwave out through the kitchen window
MR STARK-
Pete, do you know how detrimental microwaved food is to your health? I’ll get you a new one
WON’T IT STILL BE DETRIMENTAL
My own technology kid, you don’t look this young at my age just like that
Tony blasting a hole through the washing machine
So noisy these things. How do you stand them
Oh my God-
Pepper just bought a washing machine we don’t need, funny thing that
Tony setting the apartment on fire
I’d love to hear you explain this one Mr Stark
Irrelevant, also you can just move into the state of the art apartment at stark towers what a coincidence that it’s empty
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