Hey, this one is shorter... I kinda ran out of ideas. If you have any, I'm taking them. (I'm also saying pairings again, because I have some I need to write and might as well, ya know?)


Bucky didn't actually have any marks, other than a bruise and a cut and a scar that encompassed his right shoulder. He wasn't sure what they were, or why the wouldn't leave.

Loki had three, all in different languages (and one of them he had hidden from Thor for most of his life, it seemed).

Bucky found out that the cut was a mark when he was about eight years old, and pulling a big, burly boy off of a small, sickly thin one. This was after the burly one punched him so he could get back to his fight.

Loki met the one who spoke Asgardian when he was what would be ten, in Midgardian years. She liked him for him, not Thor.

Bucky meets The Scar, as he calls it, after he's just fallen down a mountain and his arm was halfway mauled. He forgets.

Loki meets the one that speaks in Jotun when Thor has been exiled and Odin is being an awful father. He's not sure what to make of her, not even when she bares him children.

Bucky meets the bruise years upon years later, when he's tailing her because she is in pictures with the lady who's in pictures with the man, who is in pictures with The Star Man.

Loki meets the one who speaks Midgardian English when Thor brings him on the planet. She is drinking milk out of a bowl like a feline, only she moved the bowl, not her head. She looks ridiculous.


Loki had envied Thor for many, many things. Marks had never been one of them.

Knowing how much Thor had wanted a mark from day one, Loki had hidden his third mark. As soon as he realized his boasting was harmful, he'd put the last mark on lockdown.

Nobody but he knew of it.

Thor should be grateful to have him as a brother.

And yet, no one seemed to notice all he did for them.

All except for Sigyn.


Bucky was happy to sit with Steve. Steve always seemed to think that he didn't want to relax with his friend, but he did.

Bucky didn't realize that it would ever be the other way around, him wanting to be far, far away from even the thought of annoying Steve.

Bucky didn't know how to express that he was worried that Steve would run him off, even though when they were young, Steve always managed to make the words come out.


Since birth, Phillip J. Coulson had exactly four marks. They're rather concerning to his young self.

CB says to him, If you're here to help me, I'd really rather you not, okay? I know what I'm jail for, and I'll take the chair. It's orange in color, and it spins around his leg.

TS says to him, Wow, you are so boring, you must be able to go anywhere and just blend in, and nobody could describe you, huh? Electric blue letters, right on his palm.

NF says to him Man, this job is crazy shit. Once you go insane, you're never going back! If the words themselves didn't put him off, the black letters and imposing font definitely did.

SR says to him, No, no, I get. Don't worry, I get like that too, just not... around myself. It's black, too, and confusing to him, but he doesn't think too much about it until he's meeting Captain Freaking America.


Wade Wilson had wanted Logan, the hot piece of Canadian ass, to be his soul mate the time they worked together.

Alas, said hot piece of ass had one mark and it wasn't him.

Wade didn't actually have any marks, or at least he didn't think so.

Then, he met Spiderman, and the exact words the other guy - it has to be a guy, right? I mean, c'mon, nobody is that flat-chested - said imprinted themselves onto his shoulder, two days after they were said. Hey! That one was mine! C'mon, man! - PP

But PP though? God, it was so much better than Logan's ass. Well, it almost was, okay? Can't blame a guy when he's been on a dry spell for just months.

Anyway.

Wade looked into it... and guess what? PP is some teenaged photographer.

Eh. It coulda been Victor's hairy ass.


Grant Ward had only one mark - and he hadn't thought about it since he was just a kid, listening to his mother and father fight senselessly about nothing in particular.

It says, Woah, are you protective? Please tell me you are. and there's no initials. It spans his back in silver lettering. It came when his father was beating him.

John says, after he's killed his father and ran from his mother and brother, after he finds himself in the woods because he's an escaped convict, that whoever says that doesn't care about him. John says he knows everything about marks, even though Grant never sees any of John's and knows that whatever-slash-whoever made marks has given no one knowledge of them.

Grant doesn't pay much mind to it, even after John found it and gave him a lecture.

Then, he goes to SHIELD, or HYDRA as it is behind closed doors, and gets put on Coulson's team.

Then, he meets Skye and everything is different.

(So what if he starts dropping hints that something's not right?)

(And, he gets another mark. It's on his upper thigh, in bright, eletric blue. It says, Welcome to the team, I'm Leo, this is Jemma, but most people call us Fitzsimmons. - LF)