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sequel for the Daisy & Yelena series is out!!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58919488

finished full first draft of daisy & yelena sequel!!!!!

huge supporter of annoying younger sibling Yelena rights

let her be obnoxious!!!

"He’s done something.  He’s done something so that she can’t hurt him.  Is this what happened to Yelena?  Is Natasha under his control right now?  She doesn’t think she’d be able to think like this, but he hasn’t given her a command yet, has he?  That’s what Yelena said.  She wouldn’t even know if she was under his control."

This is from a part I just wrote in my daisy & yelena sequel! 'hurt' came up 23 times... but this was the latest.

i have an evil henchman whispering in my ear (desire to make my beloved characters do evil things to each other).. but im being so strong (i can’t handle the emotional damage from it so I can’t write it)

THEYRE WEARING THE SAME FUCKING NECKLACE STYLE

immediately Need this in my fic. she picked that necklace bc of Daisy absolutely no other reason. It’s canon to me now.

no absolutely they just cannot be apart. red string of fate except its just wrapping around their bodies, melding them together. their drift compatability is off the charts.

them comparing traumas and thinking the other's is worse!! AUGH. them both being like She's Everything!! She's the Best Thing to Me.

longer thoughts:

with writing this sequel and this little short fic, i've been realizing that i see melina as having had a huge impact on yelena, esp w the way that she leaves and comes back into yelena's life. she 'dies' on one of the worst days of yelenas life, basically sacrificing her life to get the girls into the plane. and because she dies and shes not like alexei where he visibly hands them over to the red room, literally convincing nat to go back, i see there being a lot less resentment toward her for putting them there. esp also bc she seemed like a very caring mom, explaining things, patching them up, etc. so when she comes back into yelena's life, not only alive, but entrenched in the red room? and not only entrenched, but literally testing the mind control tech? oh boy. and on top of that, she's also like this was never a family. yelena snapped in black widow at that, not at anything nat said. brutal.

also, their reunion with the new context is... yeah. yelena having no idea if daisys ok with what happened, but she has to take a leap of faith anyway, and she's so rewarded for it. she probably went expecting rejection, hoping only for some tech support, but daisy accepts her with open arms and she feels so comfortable there. it's true to me now. what was i originally thinking? no clue. only this remains.

AHAHAHA self indulgent aus of aus my beloved.

I assume you’re speaking of this moment and oh boy do I see your vision.

Skye like: wow showing my bestie all the good things about the world and we’re having a ball out on our own

Lena: fuck all these widows coming after us and I need to take down the red room while keeping Skye safe. Cue intense assassin stuff.

Skye goes to the shower and comes out like hey I heard some noises, u ok?

Yelena, having just chucked three unconscious widows out the window: yeah girl I just fell over.

But backing out of that au, yeah I’m def thinking of doing a prequel bc all this talking and thinking about it is making my writing hands itch. Ty for the interest bc with every ask I get more and more excited about the idea :)

Fun fact: I was also briefly considering an after endgame fic. Yk, when nat dies? Just thought that could be fun… but then I was like Jesus Christ no I cannot put these poor girls through that, it would have to be an au of this au bc that is Not canon to me.

yeah absolutely it’s more than just assassination. i guess in my mind, i tick the assassin label onto yelena (bc greatest child assassin and we know she’s killed so many w the comments about her body count) and the spy label more on someone like nat, but it could be easy enough to say that she was doing some spy shit at the time that was mysterious but not horrible and finding out things would be much more agreeable to ms. freedom of information skye at the time. a secondary source for other more murdery information also def makes sense.

if i write this prequel or even in the sequel, i’ll see if i can throw some of this stuff in!

omg young skye and yelena together would be so fun. sorry for your agony that they couldn't, i am similarly distraught. was thinking about writing a prequel (can you believe the audacity, i haven't even finished the sequel yet) about them but the emotional devastation of having to rip them apart would absolutely kill me so we shall see about that.

yeah the whole assassination thing was something that i hadn't fully considered in terms of what skye would be cool with when i offhandedly wrote that oneshot. i'd now imagine that yelena would have deliberately misled her for as long as she could (ie. "help me break in here for this information and no that people died wasn't me, it was a coincidence lol") and that skye was kinda naive and really wanted to believe that she was just stealing info and similar things. yelena at first was just using her as a resource and prob knew like yeah skyenet is cool with this sort of stuff only. but i think skye kinda charmed her and they kept talking and talking until yelena was like oh shit i care about you and you made me believe in the good in this world and i dont want to do this anymore. and skye after a bit maybe was wavering btwn like hmm i can read between the lines here, im not stupid, but also ive talked to you so much and i believe that you are good and i believe that you dont have to do this and then she learns about the actual situation that yelena is in with the red room? and shes like oh youre a whole ass victim. this is not your fault.

and yeah a situation where skye has to choose to save yelena over someone else (a target?) or something? bc the red room would kill her? could be both a demonstration of love but also kinda jarring for skye to make that decision and so even moreso something for yelena to be like omg skye cares about me so much. good god anon you're giving me ideas.

anyway. yelena coming out of the red room. im thinking she sorta tracked daisy while she was there, in a way where she was keeping tabs on the rising tide, shield etc. she doesn't want to draw interest to daisy after all but she wants her to be safe and to know about her. when she gets out, literally the only support she has could be daisy or natasha and she thinks that natasha abandoned her. she literally does not have a good relationship with a single other person in the world. she was in the red rooms hands since she was a Baby (this is so sad). so yeah theres a lot of courage that she has to reach out to daisy when she hasn't been heard from in ten years and to try and trust that she'll help, but there is absolutely a sense of 'i have no one else.' daisy is her first and basically only stop. but also. daisy taught her how to live once. and i think that absolutely she was thinking, oh daisy can help me figure out life. And! also being like hey, wtf is daisy up to shes kinda going crazy and maybe she needs help too. (this all being on top of, she just wants to see daisy again). so many reasons.

they are absolutely pairbonded kittens.

this is them. i don't make the rules. if i separate them again... you have my permission to kill me.

tysm for your ask and support, you're giving me so much motivation and thoughts to write about. i'm so glad you enjoyed the fic!

god i love blackhill i love nat & yelena i love all three of them, you're so real for this spiral

daisy & yelena background is definitely something i've been thinking about. i wasn't able to really include it bc the fic was all in daisy's POV but i think that their interactions when they were younger is what "saved" yelena, where she was close to pulling a nat and leaving because of daisy (except then obv got brainwashed...).

daisy helped her see the beauty in humanity again bc she has so much compassion and yelena, who would've been pretty damn burned out by the red room at that point, would be able to feel some companionship in a way that we dont see btwn the widows bc of the competition btwn them and really latch onto daisy and to some extent, trust her with being a human in a way that she couldn't with other widows. so of course when she gets free she wants to go back to someone who made her feel real and alive, someone who she trusts.

them exploring the cities was something that i tried to put in thinking of yelena in hawkeye- she explicitely asks kate abt seeing the sights in new york, so i wanted to adapt that to this fic! she wants to have new experiences! she wants to live and explore! and of course it added a nice lighter component to an otherwise emotionally heavy fic where daisy also gets to just live for a little while, which she absolutely does not do ever. get this girl a work-life balance.

daisy using her powers is always such an interesting thing to think about. she hates it at first. she believes they're a gift. she sees the destructive nature of them. she fully believes that she breaks the world apart. she believes that they're all of what she is. she doesnt care if it hurts her. all in the seven seasons and often at once.

but also overwhelmingly we only see her use them in battle situations. and she can do so much beyond that! def i think s4 shes only using them when necessary for her self-assigned murder mission so branching out is a whole different thought for her. id like to expand on this a bit in the next fic bc her powers are Always on my mind but... we'll see. cant have everything 😭 even though im the one writing it.

but me getting into daisy's head for this whole fic was: how can i help lena, how can i make her feel better, how can i help her succeed. wait a fucking second why am i going through emotional growth? none of that. let me focus on yelena. noo the emotional growth is getting meeeee.