#verse; linda carter; to give back to the left out unseen and forgotten; (ss; thefleetsfinest)

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AFFILIATE VERSE / Into the Mel-verse if you are feeling groovy

set in a heavily canon divergent 616 timeline w/ spiderverse movies worked in / some of this like the leonard stuff is canon across all verses @thefleetsfinest / @crisispider / @hopeburns

anyways, here's a bunch of headcanons and notes that i have for what i have developed with MEL MY BELOVED BESTIE; and if it's chill, i will probably default to this verse being my main / primary. so if you're groovy, i'd like to write in this verse.

💜💙 freefall happens a little differently, in that linda and clint never dated, but they are friends mostly because linda is dating @thefleetsfinest and leonard adopted a stray alcoholic (clint) that is how that is going

💜💙 linda and clint still attend the gala together, or more linda runs into clint at the f.e.a.s.t. charity thing (leonard is probably in attendance too / linda still calls tony small dick energy and then kisses her doctor boyfriend) and both are squinty eyes at him the entire time

💜💙 Clint is actually injured going to Linda's clinic when Spiderman and Captain America confront him, and Linda still goes to defend him; partly because she will not have that happening right outside of her clinic. it definitely one of the leading causes where she wants some space from clint

💜💙 Clint still brings Bryce to Linda's apartment, and Bryce dies, and that's why Clint gets banned from her apartment. Linda calls Leonard to help with clean up, and Leonard helps Clint in the direct aftermath

💜 He goes to Leonard all injured after The Hood, and than he decides to go sober with the help of Leonard

💜💙 clint is still currently banned from linda's apartment, but she has mostly forgiven him for covering his ass and the whole dying kid in her house; it's fine he is leonard's friend, she can forgive him over time

💜 leonard mccoy is clint's aa sponsor, across all open verses, when post freefall happens; clint's living on leonard's couch as he gets sober and starts to put his life back together, there may have been some snuggling involved, because when you are sad and pitiful, sometimes being held is nice and lenny is a good friend.

💙 Clint and Leonard tend to go to aa meetings in Brooklyn, but if ever needed they have popped into the usual place that Tony and Carol end up. The first time that happened was so awkward for Clint.

💜 The first four people, on Clint's long list of amends and apologies, is to Kate, Bucky, Natasha, and Peter Parker.

💜 Now let's get on to talking Peter Parker ( @crisispider ). After apologizing to Peter, the two had always been friends over the years, but they become closer friend again. Clint is surprisingly there as Peter is going through the details of a divorce, or co-parenting, and being a single dad.

💜 Clint is roughly one year sober, and only doing small investigative, vigilante/hero work, not always directly in NYC (legal troubles), and that is when Luke has become Mayor (tbh i do not know the timeline between 2020 to 2022/23 comics well) when he gets the offer about the Thunderbolts, he is not at all sure about it and still has major issues with this

💜 Clint and Peter have been becoming closer friends, since Clint apologized, and it's once Clint has joined the Thunderbolts, that is when Clint and Peter start to flirt a little more, and one thing leads to another, that leads to feelings and a relationship. Clint's been a Thunderbolt for the city for some time now, in a relationship with Peter for some time. About a year probably.

💜 Peter and part-time Mayday move in with Clint at some point down the line, making the Spiderman and little Bug mainstays in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn. The neighbors at Bed-Stuy absolutely love Peter B. Parker, and he's a big help at fixing things and making thee apartment labeling make sense

💜 Clint and MJ are buds, pals, friends; he loves her. The Barton-Parker-Watson family is so good and wholesome. Kate Bishop is also a part of that, DUH, Peter gets Kate in Clint's will. Kate and Peter have such a funny friendship.

💜 Eventually, Clint does get back in good graces with the Avengers, and even returns to the Avengers in the time of emergencies. He can be both a TB and an Avenger sometimes as a treat.

💜 Clint's even visited Spider-society once, because Peter vouched really had for a bring-your-boyfriend to work day.

💜 Clint's best friend, outside of his other best friends. His non-superhero friend if he has to be specific is Leonard, he loves harassing his doctor, needs him as his sponsor. has become more of brother to him than barney is, and is his best friend. they just get each other. and he swears if leonard gets hurt.

💜 Leonard makes Clint cry more than he'd care to admit to, like when Leonard and the Mccoy family adopt Clint as their own, and treat him like family. It makes him cry and stop he knows it's okay to cry Peter, he's till crying though and its ugly. He also just loves Leonard a lot.

💙 Linda and Leonard start dating before Freefall takes place exact timeline uncertain. this happens after Leonard wises up. She cares a lot about him, and was just giving him space to adjust to moving to New York and involving himself in superhero lives. They are so close with each other, and really it was a matter of time.

💙 The Night Nurse Network is a thing, with Linda's clinic being a whole location, and she's got her rolodex of associates. She's got help now, she's not the only doctor/physician acting as more than half of NYC's hero population's pcp and emergency doctor. She has @thefleetsfinest and @hopeburns (when she's not in space) who both can be ran into and seen around the clinic, as well most importantly, everyone's favorite waiting room buddy, Leonard's corgi Luna. there's three doctors/nurses are the night nurse clinic now.

💙 As Clint would put it, the crush era between Linda and Leonard was unbearable (and since clint was drinking at the time / he drank to that) as Leonard would deny any time he got jealous that Linda was trying to date and get out there. Linda absolutely hated that time, as most dates were just not interesting or went poorly, and she did not really want to be "getting out there", plus Leonard was right there and really they were both unbearable and oblivious to each other's interest in the other!

💙 Linda always ends up back at the clinic after her dates (the one time with the lizard girl), and most of that she ends up hanging out with Leonard after all her dates, cause he's more interesting (and the ideal guy)

💙 Linda's friends include Jessica Drew (and Carol by extension), Stephen Strange (they get coffee, he's a pest once he knows about leonard too absolutely awful), Laelynn (by extension her girlfriend Luce), and Leonard (by extension clint and peter are around a too), and than there is Danny and Luke as well.

💙 Speaking of Jessica Drew, Linda absolutely adores babysitting Gerry when given the chance. To add to that, she starts watching Mayday Parker as well which she really doesn't mind, because of Leonard doing a favor for @crisispider and Clint.

💜🧡 Clint and Peter watch Greer's kid William sometimes, which naturally Clint is like "Oh my pal leonard can watch him too" which sorry Leonard you didn't like those curtains did you anyways. So Greer has Clint or lets Clint's friend Leonard watch William.

💙💜 So Linda and Leonard babysit, just as Clint and Peter will baby sit all the super kids they know.

💙 Linda was more nervous about Leonard meeting her mother, than about meeting the Mccoys or Leonard meeting the rest of her family. This is mostly because of the fact that her mother was unpredictable in how her opinion could be swayed. It wouldn't change anything, but it'd be preferrable if she was Leonard-favorable.

💛 Wasps and spiders may be natural enemies (which may not be true), but Nadia has said she has arguably warmed up to @crisispider but like Miles is still the cooler Spiderman

❤️ Luce (i know i need to add her) is absolute buds with @crisispider it happens mostly because she quips back to at least half of Spiderman's jokes with quotes in specific voice, and they usually grab a bite after a tough day of heroing. That and they get the whole secret identity.

❤️ Luce is Newark's vigilante, but she'll end up wherever a lead will take her which is more often than not over the water to NYC. She tries to avoid being in Manhattan, minus the Night Nurse clinic which is currently in Manhattan, because every superhero and his mom defends Manhattan. She'll go defend Staten Island if she has to over Manhattan (that's a joke she'll kick names and take ass anywhere, wait a minute)

❤️ LUCE ABSOLUTELY CAN NOT PROVE LEGAL ADVICE ! She knows why are asking @crisispider so go pester a lawyer! She is just a paralegal, and it's in her opinion that like hawkeye should not.

FUTURE PLANS AND EVENTS

💜 THE WURM -> don't worry about :) -> it's not a cosmic threat :) -> all in your minds :) -> it's my blog, so of course, this would happen in a meddium length hawkeye run :)

💜 A few relapses for Clint, superhero shit is tough but he always gets back on and it never lasts long. his sobriety lasts longer.

💜 Oh about that Wurm ;) The avengers are clint's team :) oh and Clint plus the team save the day :) so you think :) and things are fine until the Wurm comes back to eat Clint I mean what :)

💙 Linda has to relocate the clinic, which actually ends up being more upsetting than she'll care to admit. It happen, it's happened before, she's always moved when needed. This time it's more because Danny Rand had bought the last building to remove rent as an issue for her. She knows it was a give back thank you gift, these things happen, it is still absolutely a stressful and massive plan when she moves her clinic out of the Lower East Side. She tries to find a place near the same area and still in Manhattan, but rent is a bitch. She manages to find a place in Turtle Bay, between 2nd and 3rd.

💜 Clint and Peter get married ! There is going to be a wedding. The proposal? Has not been worked out. But there is, of course it's gonna end up a big thing, spiderman and hawkey are big heroes!

💜 Clint's best man is . . . complicated. It ends up being co-best man Kate and Leonard. He had to narrow down groomspeople to a limit number of four. Figuring out who is. . . . still tough.

💙 The meeting of the Carters and Mccoys was something, which to date may be the most stressed that Linda has ever been to date. It goes well, mostly.

💙 Linda and Leonard will get married too, and Linda wants it family and friends, and keep it small and quiet. As much as it can be when there are already a few superheroes who have to be on the list ( stephen plus clint and peter)

💜 Clint is Leonard's best man for his wedding with Linda. IT IS VERY EMOTIONAL. and Clint's speech is great (awful)

💙 linda's dress is a little decade inspired, just below the knee in leg, with some umpf to the skirt, off the shoulders or at least neck bare, good for dancing, very simple. the more exciting part of this is really the lace she is wearing underneath.

💜 Peter is gonna have a second kid with Clint. They are gonna be girl dads time two.

and just. so much more. so much. i love this affiliate verse. so much. also like. peter has the whole of spider society stuff. going on. and clint can't even wrap his head around some of it.

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@hexsreality rolled a 6 and got Linda on MUSE ROULETTE !

❝ I don't think Stephen quite knows how favors work, but he said that you were needing help ⸺ and referred me, as a favor. I'm not anything special, I'm just a frail pathetic nurse, he definitely oversold, and I've no idea about magic. ❞

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@thefleetsfinest -> i am not sorry at all to anyone, i am going to be obsessed and binging these two -> no seriously im gonna lovingly be a menace to mel about them forever -> [continued]

The nerves are NOT FOR THE DATE; or well, they were about it, but had nothing about the gentleman she would be meeting. He was fine, and wasn't too weird about setting up a date. Linda hates idea of ratings and scales, but he was maybe a five or a six. Not very high, but it was the internet and she couldn't judge through a phone. So she was giving it a shot.

There are NERVES, but they come from the fact she still has NO IDEA what she's doing with herself. Why DID she ever let the Sorcerer Supreme and Jane Foster, Asgardian goddess or whatever she was these days, TALK HER into dating at all?

SHE LIKED HER LIFE ⸻ most of her days and nights spent in a nurse's uniform in her private clinic, most of the friends she did have being the superheroes she treated, and she liked that. AND OKAY ⸻ some days were more lonely than others when she went home and rough days could be draining. THAT WAS NORMAL.

Her social life was fine, and she had Leonard! He's been incredible. Helping with the clinic itself as a doctor, to being company around this place and a fast friend; to bringing in sweet tea and letting her get little lost in his eyes as she sipped tea and listened. Everyone loved his dog, Luna, coming into the clinic and hanging out. He works well with supers and powered alike. You had to be a special kind of caring, along with vaguely threatening and tough when a patient need a nudge. The Hawkeyes and a handful more come to mind.

He's incredible.

There's a lot more about Leonard. . . . SIGH.

SHE FEELS SILLY GOING ON THIS DATE. Her second since she broke up with Stephen years again, and now she does see the problem in that. THERE'S WHERE THE NERVES ARE COMING FROM. Linda feels silly even presenting herself, she knows she looks good or fine; Linda knows she was a beautiful woman in her forties and dresses were fitting on her, always liked being soft and feminine.

YET ⸻ now she was standing in front of Leonard, in her sundress, shoulders exposed and hair down. HE DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING ⸻ AND THAT GIVES HER BUTTERFLIES. Linda can't help the involuntary urge to brush part of her hair back, tuck behind her ear and over her shoulder. To which she does do.

It's the fact that he was staring at her, HIM LOOKING AT HER. Oh, those were the jitters she was suppose to be having. BEING SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME. Take someone's breath away, and than it's Leonard, he's looking at her. Her smile on her face is genuine, a real smile because those were feelings one gets when they want to be seen, to be noticed. Jitters, because she wants to be pretty for her date and she's FEELING THEM NOW.

She's applied sunscreen, but maybe she should have gone with a sunhat or covered shoulders. . . . YOU LOOK DOWN RIGHT STUNNIN' ⸻She laughs soft, fluttery and she is a little nervous. feeling shy, ❝ Hush, maybe I should have gone with a sun hat if we are outside; it'd be rude to wear sunglasses and I put on sunscreen. . . . But. . . . ❞ Like she was actually worried about skin cancer. She's stalling.

LOOK PERFECT JUST THE WAY YER ARE ⸻ She knows she was stalling, rambling on herself with fussing about the sun, the dress, hat or not hat. She did her hair half up for this. ⸻ Who was she seeing again? And why wasn't it Leonard?

He really had been an amazing additional to the Network and specifically her clinic. There had been worry he was slowly burning himself at both ends, two jobs with one being paid and than this free private clinic being all volunteer, but she really didn't have time to voice that concern with him; as if Linda didn't burn at her ends either.

LET'S FACE IT I'M A LOST CAUSE A' THIS POINT.

Now hold on, ❝ No, no you aren't. ❞ That was silly, and no way was one date equating to a social life. OH! That should have been one of her counter arguments when Stephen had been teasing her about having less of a social life than he had ("well, that's because you're a man-whore" had really been the sentiment she wanted to respond). ❝ You aren't a lost cause at all, you'll be next ⸻ you're still finding your feet here. You'll find them and get there. ❞ Her gaze softens as she looks at him, a smile offer and Linda does mean that. Just don't go too far away when you do.

Leonard was in no way a lost cause, and Linda had seen a lot in her life that could have been. He was no way near that, and maybe he was a little lost but who hasn't been? There's plenty of days she doesn't feel enough and then on that thought; Leonard would find his way. They were friends now, and she believed in him. Had she mentioned she thought he was handsome and incredible?

Linda's short heels click on the linoleum floor, crossing over to where Leonard was standing behind their front desk counter. GO ON GET GOING ⸻ Linda goes to pull him into a half hug as her goodbye and thank you. Those butterflies still there, inhale and exhale, oh gosh. ❝ For the record, your prattling on is always welcome. ⸺ Okay, okay, I'm going and I'll talk to you later, alright? ❞

She'll definitely text him after the date, tell him all about it if it went as horrible as her last one or if it went well enough. Linda doesn't really predict it going anywhere, but she'd try getting back out there at the very least. It'd be good for her well being. SHE'LL BRING HIM BACK SOMETHING. Treat him to some good food picked up on her way back, it really was the least she could do until she could figure out more she could do FOR HIM.

❝ Thank you, Leonard. ❞ And she was out the door for her date. That thank you for him meant a lot; and Linda had never envisioned her being Night Nurse going on to become what it was today. He was invaluable addition to that. The clinic was in safe hands, his hands.

Mhh, his hands.

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@thefleetsfinest -> based on hawkeye: freefall issue six

This might be one of the worst FUCKING nights in a long while, and she doesn't think that lightly at all. She has been through a lot in her life, seen and done a lot as a nurse, as a practitioner. That was her job, has been ever since she started on a nursing program.

Blood she was used to; she could handle being covered in it. The side of medicine that she was in now was a lot of mess and carnage. THAT WAS NOTHING.

Tonight fucking sucked when the entry door at her apartment building was kicked in. The callbox button buzzed repeatedly, and LINDA! IT'S AN EMERGENCY! LET ME IN!

It was late, the clinic closed for that rare night because everyone needs a break and no one came in today; that's signs to take the night off. She should have known that. She should have known.

HELP. HE'S DYING! ⸻ I'M CALLING AN AMBULANCE! THERE'S NO TIME. ⸻ HE HAS TO GO TO A HOSPITAL, CLINT! HE CAN'T! HE HAS WARRANTS!

The, BOY, because he looked young (had to be a teenager), looked pale, limp, and there was blood everywhere. BLEEDING OUT. She orders Clint to put him in the room, than go wait in the other room. INTO HER OWN HOME. He didn't try the clinic, he didn't try meet at the clinic.

He brought a CHILD to her own home. First glance assessment, and he should have been brought to a hospital where there would be a lot more equipment, a lot more staff that could do something. Linda knows she is no damn miracle worker, knows the limits of her abilities and her clinic. There's been plenty of GREAT FEATS that she has done, that she has achieved, to help and save lives.

HOW MANY WAS THAT ⸻ One, two, three. . . . Eight or ten arrows through the kid's body.

She was in the other room with him, and he tries to talk but it was too much. DON'T TALK. Two things she learns is he was seventeen and his name was Bryce. Knowing the amount of arrows doesn't help, whoever turned a child into a pincushion and knew how to make that DEATH long and painful.

Thirty minutes, and there was little she could do. This wasn't her clinic, didn't have her tools or supplies, and even than she would have needed blood; which a hospital could have provided. She should be sleeping in bed, but now she's covered in blood glad she pulled on a scrub gown.

YOU BROUGHT THIS INTO MY HOUSE, CLINT. MY HOUSE.

She chewed Hawkeye out, and than he stormed off. Linda knows she should have called someone, called or done something. Turned him out, because now there's blood everywhere and the coroner is coming to collect and she's alone. WORST FUCKING NIGHT. It's in her house.

She's angry, livid, and exhausted. Emotional as well, and she has to wait for the coroner. HURRY UP, SO SHE CAN START SCRUBBING CLEAN.

There is someone to call; someone that comes to her mind and he should be off from work, unless surgery went long but Leonard's always upfront with her that she can need him even if he hopefully has gone to bed already. THE TIME ON HER MICROWAVE TORMENTS HER. She doesn't want anything to happen to Hawkeye, but she hopes she doesn't see him for a long while when the anger wears off.

A dead seventeen year old with ten bloody arrows pulled out, everything's a mess and SHE FEELS LIKE A WRECK. Please pick up, please pick up.

[ ☎️ ] ⸻ ❝ Leonard, please. ❞

First word from her lips, when the phone picks up and there's no barrier between her and her emotions. A heavy sigh, tired and all torn at ends, can't worry about anything else now.

[ ☎️ ] ⸻ ❝ I'm F-FINE. ❞

Tight tone of voice, forced out because she was fine. Linda wasn't hurt, just frustrated and wound up.

[ ☎️ ] ⸻ ❝ I'm sorry for the hour. I have a coroner on their way and I hope it's fuh- fast. The entry door is busted in, so just come right up. Please, and wear your scrubs, there's lot of blood to deal with. ❞

Linda knows she wasn't explaining well, but can she be given some slack? She's tired, and angry, and overwhelmed. She needs the help, at least she can ask for that. Linda just NEEDS HIM.

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❝ We make a really good team ❞

Leonard H. Mccoy & Linda J. Carter @thefleetsfinest

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Smash or Pash + Laelynn ( Linda )

@hopeburns

❝ Thank goodness, you are not actually an employee, because I'm not about to go down as an HR violation like some purple clad idiot we know. ⸻ You are a gorgeous woman, Laelynn, and you're a literal life-saver in a pinch, so you know, SMASH in a friendly way. ❞

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smash or pass + Clint ( for Linda )

so linda & clint both follow a canon divergent main setting; as i have canonized mel's leonard mccoy (thefleetsfinest) // but i will still answer this

❝ Hypothetically speaking, if monogamy was not my thing ❞ and it very much was.

❝ So, bearing that in mind, SMASH, he's the outlier in my previous types for sure, but there's something about a show-pony of a cowboy, that makes a woman curious at least. It'd be a total romp I'm sure of, but I see enough of him as it is. He's the reason we can't have nice things, and he's banned from my apartment so in the end, it wouldn't work out. Leonard can keep him, though. ❞

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"Please, I'm begging you, help him!" With Peter's arm wrapped around her, Mary Jane was almost afraid of how quiet he'd gotten within the last few minutes. "Please." ~for Linda Carter

Night Nurse Office Hours are Always

There is so often days like these ones, where she wishes that was better systems than the one she had to set up herself for people like Spiderman to come to. Being underground could only get any patient with any of the connected clinics and medical personnel associated with the Night Nurse Network so much. It's days like these where she is reminded how much she wished they could go to hospitals with all the equipment and full staff teams, get the immediate help they need.

As a worried woman comes rushing in shouting, Linda's up in an instant from reading her correspondence with Claire Temple about what supplies she was needing and passing along information.

However, there is the flip side that was incredibly humbled and grateful that she had her clinic and network up and running, for moments like this as the redhead seems so clearly distraught, but at least she had this clinic to bring her superhero to. ❝ Blood type, and is there anything you can tell me that'll help me treat him? ❞ She always asks, even if it's a suit she recognizes and possibly has coded charts already started on. Spiderman has been in her clinic specifically over a dozen times. Asking is part of that promise that this was all in secret, in private.

❝ Help me get him to to the room on the right, than I'll takr care of him. ⸻ ❞ Just from first assessment on sight, this was going to be a long night ahead of them. Linda's second assessment as she gets arms around Spiderman is that she can feel how labored his breathing is just on her hand that's wrapped around his waist and resting over his stomach. Nightingale give her what she needs to help him.