fic: Freezer Burn, Chapter 23

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Freezer Burn: chapter 23
by Domenika Marzione (miss_porcupine)
Genfic; PG-13-ish
Avengers/Captain America ensemble; a mashup between the movies and the 616-verse.
LJ tag | ao3

Summary: The adventures of Steve Rogers, defrosted soldier, who is missing time but not really all that lost. He's got a surprisingly broad knowledge of lettuces, a working grasp of modern technology, and may or may not be using both to mess with his teammates and save the world.

"Are you going to go down to Medical by yourself or is Thor going to carry you like a sack of potatoes?" Steve asked as he picked up his shield and ruck. Next to Steve, Thor put on a bright smile at the possibility and Clint glowered at him, but it was lost in the stream of troops passing by and through them.

"If I go down to Medical, they are going to find all of the other things that are wrong and I'm never going to get cleared for field ops again," Clint grumbled.

"They won't do a psych eval," Steve promised. "Everything else is more or less fixable with duct tape and aspirin."

Clint picked up his pack with his good(-ish) arm. "I liked you better before you'd mastered sarcasm."

"I mastered sarcasm in the 1920's," Steve replied mildly. "You shouldn't trust everything you see on the newsreels."

Notes: this story is updated in segments on LJ and those segments are bundled into chapters for AO3:
On LJ: part forty-two | part forty-three
On AO3: Chapter Twenty-Three