"Bruce"
"Christmas in Calcutta?" Phil said, leaning against the doorframe. "It's alliterative."
"Yes," Bruce said, shoving things into his backpack.
"Is it true?"
He paused, not looking at Phil. "Yes."
"Are you going just for a holiday?"
"You know that I'm not," Bruce said, nearly tearing a hole in his bag as he shoved his penknife inside. "After what he… what we did, I can't stay."
"Then I'll go with you."
"No, Phil."
"Christmas is time for family to be together. I won't let you be on your own."
He eyed Phil shiftily. "Are you sure?"
"Yes, Bruce."
"…Well, okay, then."
My new Christmas fic! I won't be writing as many as I did last year, that's for darn sure. But keep an eye out for my Lump of Coul Exchange fan fic.
Okay. Each chapter will be a different rare pairing involving Phil Coulson, and will be 100 words long (not including title and author note). Partly because I don't trust myself to get things written on time the closer it gets to Christmas, and partly because I like to challenge myself. That's the appeal of three-sentence fics. ;)
How do I categorise a rare ship? If there are fewer than 150 fan fics for that pairing on Archive Of Our Own (the most accurate way to track tags) at the time of posting, that makes it a rare pair.
Please review! Here's your Christmas Coulsmash.