Matt came in for a bagel. He found so much more.
(or the fic where Foggy and Karen run a bagel shop and Matt is 'selfish' in wanting them both)

What if ten-year-old Matt Murdock never met Stick? What if Natasha Romanov, rouge agent, former assassin, and deadliest woman on the planet met a runaway child one day and, despite her reservations, found herself befriending him? What if the Black Widow adopted a little blind boy with preternatural abilities because she knew she could help him when no one else could?

Featuring running, fighting, cooking, dancing, intrusive archers, some inadvisable parkour, and an overabundance of paper cranes; building a family is never easy.

Matt and Foggy meet freshman year at Columbia, but they're entirely mismatched as roommates. This is the story of how they go from misunderstandings to pining to something else.

Instead of diving head first into the avoidance pool, Will allows his empathy to grow - taking him further from the constructs of society. He uses the slip into other killer's heads to perfect his craft.

As a cover, Will goes through the process of becoming a chef and takes to the profession like it was meant to be.

When a chance encounter throws them into each other's path, can Hannibal really avoid the call of good food and "special" proteins?

(The answer is no - no, he can't)

“You’re not going to try to discourage me, Will?”

Another glance, a pursing of lips. “... No. I can see the determination in your face. You know what you want and you have the means to obtain it. Most clients think they know what they want- until they hear how long it will take and how much that work will cost. We’ll work out some numbers, of course, and draft a contract. If you’re willing to be patient with the piece then I’m willing to give it my best go.”

A small, pleased smile spread across the psychiatrist’s face. “I think this is the start of a beautiful partnership, Will. I look forward to working with you.”
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Or the one where Hannibal has found a lost treasure and Will has given up on police work and has turned his talents to restoring oil paintings.

Will Graham is consulting for the FBI on the case of the Minnesota Shrike, but things complicate and everything goes wrong. When he kills Garret Jacob Hobbs, something happens to him and he starts having hallucinations with the known serial killer Hannibal Lecter, who has been imprisoned on the Baltimore State Hospital For The Criminally Insane for three years. Or, at least, Will thinks they’re hallucinations.

Clint is more than a little surprised when his latest tenant turns out to be the infamous Winter Soldier. But James seems to be recovering and Clint is more than happy to help any way he can. And if that means taking down the Red Room for the second time, so be it.

After a mission in Mexico goes wrong, SHIELD Agents Barnes and Rogers are given the job of hunting down the notorious Hawkeye and the Black Widow, the only problem being: no one even knows what they look like.

On the other side of the law, Clint's enjoying messing with their new SHIELD shadows, especially seeing how close he can get to Agent Barnes without him realising, but he makes the mistake of getting attached, and that makes everything more complicated.

Enterprise is safe to fly another day. All thanks to Captain James T. Kirk's sacrifice. He's made peace with his death, even though it breaks his heart one final time to see the hurt in Spock's eyes. Still, the last thing he gets to see is the face of one of his dearest friends... until his eyes snap back open. Not in a hospital. In a shuttle as it lands at the Academy.

“Once you exit the shuttle you are free to return to your dorms. Those of you who are new, you’ll follow me to registration and physicals,” a vaguely familiar-looking officer says, and Jim’s heart stops in his chest. Surprising, considering it shouldn’t be beating at all.

“Hey, if we get out of here, let’s go to a museum on our next shore leave. Have you ever seen da Vinci's notebooks?”

“I have not.”

“I'll take you,” Jim vows, “We'll find out where they are and we'll go there.”

When yet another away mission goes awry, Jim and Spock are left stranded on a hostile planet with nothing to do but talk. What follows is a conversation about art and literature, life and death, love and friendship.

Spock is a child of two worlds. What if Nero had come for Earth first?

A rewrite of the 2009 movie with several key changes, continuing on past where the film ends.

"It was overcast at Silverstone, that afternoon. It was cooler than last year, the wind from Friday had died down significantly, and the likelihood of seeing rain was slim to none. Conditions were favorable, and Steve had had good runs in practice and snagged P2 to start. Max had officially made her test debut for the team Saturday too, and Erica, despite her age, had gotten to be her race engineer; Max was going to get elevated out of testing and dev within the next two years and make motorsport history, and Erica was going to be the youngest race engineer in F1 history shortly there after, mark his words."

In which Steve started racing go-karts at ten, and never looked back.

Steve Harrington went missing, presumed dead, at age 15.

Half a year later, Eddie and Robin find him waiting tables in Indianapolis’ queer neighborhood, not at all concerned with how an entire town still thinks he’s lost.

or

Steve gets kicked out, finds family who loves him, but still somehow ends up hitting a demogorgon with a nail bat.

stories set in a world where steve goes with joyce, hopper, and murray to the russian facilities beneath starcourt, and doesn't return.

"On the twelve month anniversary of Vecna/Henry/One’s final, crushing defeat, Steve stands in his childhood bedroom with a hammer he borrowed from Hopper and methodically pulls every single nail out of the bat he’s been hanging onto for half a decade.

He leaves his hair and the pile of nails in the bathroom sink. He grabs his duffel and his car keys and the Upside Down-version of Eddie’s guitar that he’d gone back into Hell for when the real one fell into the earth, and leaves Hawkins behind in the rearview mirror."

I heard we're all into punk Steve right now so here's punk Steve.

Only a very few people in the world know that the celebrated and reclusive poet Jack Allen is just Kansas mechanic Dean Winchester, a high school dropout with a few bucks to his name. Not that it matters anymore; life has left him so wrung out he never wants to pick up another pen.

Until, that is, a string of coincidences leads Dean to audit a poetry course with one Dr. Castiel Novak. The professor is wildly intelligent, devastatingly handsome...and just so happens to be academia's foremost expert on the poetry of Jack Allen.

Castiel is adopted by drag queens who think he is a veteran with PTSD and an abusive ex boyfriend. They're not wrong.

A man named Cas wakes up in 2003 with no memories, but he's able to piece together a few things:

He leaves his hair and the pile of nails in the bathroom sink. He grabs his duffel and his car keys and the Upside Down-version of Eddie’s guitar that he’d gone back into Hell for when the real one fell into the earth, and leaves Hawkins behind in the rearview mirror."

For his part, Dean's still (not) dealing with Sam's departure to Stanford, and figures distracting himself with a bit of mystery and intrigue is as harmless as it gets, right? Right.

Or, A Love Story in Three Beats

“These records belong to my father. Waverly gave me his address, some nice house in the suburbs. Asked me if I wanted it for myself,” Gaby admitted after New York.

“I was youngest KGB agent ever qualified. My comrades...were not pleasant about it,” Illya confessed as he stroked his scar in Amsterdam.

“I was going to keep the watch,” Napoleon let slip while in Istanbul.

Two years of missions, from trafficking rings to spy hunters, attempted kidnappings, underground boxing matches, and sanctioned bank robberies. The three of them have found sharing secrets helps.

The traveling and the teamwork are nice, but the steadily building sexual tension none of them know how to acknowledge keeps causing a spike in their plans while working for a company that has barely gotten its feet under it. The best they can do is scramble.

Illya hopes for a new start in London where he can be his own boss, running a second-hand bookshop and in absolutely no danger of assaulting a manager (again). It's been months and with the exception of a fat cat, he hasn't made any friends. Staring longingly out his shop window at two of the most beautiful people he's ever seen definitely doesn't count as making friends, but everything changes one morning when the handsome gentleman needs to borrow a phone...

There is a reason the crowd is so huge for such an early game in the tournament. The newly crowned World Chess Champion, facing off against the American hot shot who some say is the only one who has a chance of beating him; it is a rivalry that the chess media—hell, even the media media—has latched onto with gusto. A little Cold War, fought right here over this chess board.

(or, an AU set in the world of competitve chess tournaments during the late 1960s. When secret, late-night training matches between sworn rivals turn into something more, both men are forced to confront what is truly important to them.)

Mark Watney survived 549 sols stranded on a barren desert planet barely able to sustain life. But a 211 day trip home, stuck in the Hermes?

With this crew, he never stood a chance.