#wildinkling

A non-deadly Hanahaki fic in which characters try to get each other to fall in love without falling in love back. 

They’ve got a deadline: exams, when Hanahaki will get them out of it. They’ve got dates planned. 

And, well, it doesn’t seem to be working. (Either the characters stay as friends and end up doing really nice things for each other, or they’re both falling in love. Oops.) 

I realize that the implications of the last ask also mean that an unconscious or injured Deku could be rescued by his ghost buds, but the flying image was cooler in my head 2/2

Oh, a fine question. 

I had several versions of the first part of the story. Different things happened -- Darcy escapes the bunker on her own, makes her way off the base, stumbles to a farm and passes out in the yard. They take care of her for a bit. Peggy, investigating the “break-in” eventually tracks her down. 

In another version Jack Thompson comes up to investigate instead of Peggy and Susa, Darcy gets herself arrested and Howard eventually springs her because he’s curious why she keeps asking for him. Etc. 

I was making it too complicated. 

And, that’s kind of why I didn’t put Jane in. So many characters, I have to think what I can do with each of them, and even then sometimes I can’t find room to do as much with them as I’d like. Bid Time Return could’ve used more Angie, amiright? 

I think if Jane did get caught up ... oh good lord, can you imagine Howard? I mean, he has his faults, he’s definitely a man of his time in a lot of ways, but I think he’s a man who’d be far more intrigued by an intelligent woman than dismissive. He would drive Jane insane. Peggy and Darcy would have to sit on Jane to keep her from killing him. 

I think for as difficult as things were for Darcy, if Jane was there, they’d be a big comfort to each other as they tried to adjust and figure things out. Darcy felt quite alone in a lot of ways, isolated in her thoughts because she didn’t feel she could safely share them. But, Jane knows everything, so they would have had each other to bounce thoughts and theories and worries and fears off of. That would have made things easier for Darcy, she’d probably have been less morose. She might even have managed to keep the secret about Bucky for longer. Until, you know, the warehouse. But, still!

Peggy would have had her hands extra full with Jane and Howard science/engineering mania and Darcy “imma go hunt down hydra, guys!” lunacy. 

Jarvis would have Jarvised as Jarvis does. While he’s not exactly unflappable, he’s been in enough weirdness just working for Howard on the average day, that he soldiers on while he’s flapping. Bless him. 

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