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For my beloved, far-distant brain-twin and co-author of For Want Of A Nail. Love you, darling!

May 23 - “Apart from being sexy, what do you do for a living?” Skye/Remy, for @ladywinterlight

“And this is Mr LeBeau,” Coulson indicated the tall man who’d entered the room with him. “He’s going to be consulting with us on the training of Inhumans for the Secret Warriors team.”

Daisy, at the back of the room with her arms folded, ground her teeth. 

Elena, standing beside her, gave her a startled look. “Didn’t you know Coulson was bringing in a consultant?”

“Not until last night. He’s right, though. We do need someone experienced with different kinds of power, I just - I was surprised that he pulled this guy’s name out so quickly. When I asked him about it, he admitted that he’d considered asking LeBeau to lead the Secret Warriors.”

“He did not think you were ready,” Elena realised, pursed her lips in a silent whistle. “Ehhhh. I see why you might resent him.”

“Plus he's too good-looking. Bet he thinks way too much of himself,” Daisy muttered sulkily, watching as LeBeau kissed Jemma’s hand, making her blush and giggle. “I don't even know what he can do.”

“He could do quite a lot of things to me, I would not mind,” Elena snickered.

“Oh God, you too?” Daisy said disgustedly as Elena abandoned her to go and be introduced.

Determined not to be charmed - even May was grinning foolishly! - Daisy folded her arms tightly across her chest and pasted on a tight, false little smile as Coulson said;

“And this is Daisy Johnson, the team leader. Daisy, Remy LeBeau.”

He gave her a smile and offered his hand to shake with a challenging look, obviously daring her to be rude and refuse to shake in front of Coulson.

Challenge accepted.

“So apart from being sexy, what do you do for a living?” she snapped, in the most abrasive tone she could manage.

“Daisy!” Phil said, shocked at her rudeness, but Remy held up a hand to hush him, his eyes fixed on Daisy.

She was just beginning to squirm a little uncomfortably under his hell-cored gaze, wondering just what his power actually was, and wishing she'd swallowed her resentment far enough to ask Coulson, when he spoke again.

“Whatever I have done before, it seems I shall now devote my life to making you happy.”

“What?” Astonished, she stared at him, unfolding her arms without thinking. “What did you say? Coulson, did you put him up to this?”

“To what?” Phil said blankly as Remy began to unbutton his shirt.

“Even if he had, how could he have anticipated what you would say?” Remy inquired, pulling his shirt open to reveal her words scribbled across the most perfectly defined abs she'd ever seen.

“I think we got off on the wrong foot,” Daisy said, starting to feel a bit ashamed of herself as the others crowded in around to look at Remy’s bared chest, Elena snickering and nudging her.

Two words: Google Docs.

This would absolutely not have been possible without Google Docs, or definitely not so efficiently as we’d have had to keep mailing chapters back and forth.

Being in vastly different time zones was actually a benefit in some ways; sometimes I’d write until I got stuck, go to bed, and wake up the following morning to find that @ladywinterlight had written another half a chapter!

When we were both awake at the same time - morning for me, afternoon/evening for her - we quite often tag-teamed, writing in short sections, maybe making notes at the bottom. We didn’t worry about identifying Who Wrote Which Bit in the main story, but if we made notes we used colours to identify the text; purple for Winter and red for me. We then copied the notes, which were often a sort of brainstorming session, over to a separate Planning document.

We made the decision to try this in late March, I believe, and the first 30 chapters were written before we started posting. We had the fic planned up until the then-current canon point but had to wait until S2 ended before we could figure out the remainder.

Planning kind of depends just how detailed you like to plan, and how much your friend does. Winter is probably more of a organised planner than I am; I tend to write by the seat of my pants, but we really had to know where the story was going, writing in tandem.

Today’s new post is a Steve/Skye/Jemma soulmate short story. Requested by one of my AO3 readers.

A Skye/Loki Soulmates Short. :) No picture again, because this week apparently hates me. But I hope you enjoy the fic!

Branching out a little bit. This one is Jemma/Sif as requested by @reprehensiblewombat! 

No picture this time; I didn’t have the opportunity to make one. But if someone wants to, I’ll post it in the chapter!

Ooh, a new soulmates short fic! 

What if Professor X had sensed Skye’s presence, alone in the cabin, and sent one of his people to try to help?