This morning we were strangers and tonight we're only friends

Challenge #3

In your own space, put some favorite characters into an AU, fuse some favorite canons together, talk about your favorite AU/fusion tropes, or tell us why AU/fusions aren’t your cup of tea. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I think I shall just rec some favorite AUs and/or fusions and spread some cheer that way.

strange we've never met before and then (51614 words) by gareth
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Men's Hockey RPF
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carter Hart/Nick Suzuki
Characters: Carter Hart, Nick Suzuki, Cale Fleury, Cole Caufield, Brendan Gallagher, PK Subban, Montreal Canadiens Ensemble, Philadelphia Flyers Ensemble
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Lawyers, Not Hockey Players (Hockey RPF), Under-negotiated Kink, enemies to idiots to lovers, Beer League (Hockey RPF), what? you can hate people and still think they're hot, missionary so we can continue our argument from before, bad law jokes
Series: Part 1 of two friends like us
Summary:

sure, it’s frustrating that he’s got at least a hundred active cases he’s keeping track of at any given time. but this is what he signed up for when he became a public defender.
there’s really no reason he should constantly feel like he’s going to claw his way out of his own skin.
that’s actually a lie, but nick is getting really good at lying to himself.
the problem is, of course, that nick keeps accidentally hooking up with carter hart.

or: the lawyers au. nick’s a public defender. carter’s a prosecutor. it goes downhill from there.

I love lawyers AUs written by lawyers. For one, I find the amount of bending over backwards to caveat and/or annotate lawyer fanfic writers do hilarious. For two, Take Your Fandom to Work Day has always been a competence kink thing for me. And for three: apparently lawyers write really good mystery/romance. And in this one, the sex is hot and the hockey is cute and the lawyering is funny. So all to the good.

Motion Practice (184790 words) by the_wordbutler
Chapters: 17/17
Fandom: The Avengers (2012), Marvel (Comics)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, Jane Foster/Thor Odinson (background), Natasha Romanoff/Pepper Potts (background), Steve Rogers/James "Bucky" Barnes (background)
Characters: Clint Barton, Tony Stark, Phil Coulson, Bruce Banner, Thor Odinson, Maria Hill, Natasha Romanov, James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Nick Fury, Loki Laufeyson, Wade Wilson, Darcy Lewis, Jane Foster, Pepper Potts, Peggy Carter, Zebediah Killgrave, Barney Barton
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Legal Drama
Series: Part 1 of Motion Practice
Summary:

When Clint Barton takes a job prosecuting traffic offenses and DUIs at the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, he's pretty sure his life is finally going in the right direction. But the problem isn't the direction: it's where he ends up.

See, here is another lawyer AU! This one set in the DA's office, for fairness. (Because the other fic has a lot of shit to talk about the DA's office.)

Anyway, I have to head back to work myself now (how come no-one writes therapy fanfics...oh wait, they do and/or because fucking your clients is a huge ethical violation and no one cares about how therapists act around other therapists, even though the answer is "we use a lot of dark humor, like a lot"). Anyway. Rec me Take Your Fandom to Work Day stories, or lawyer AUs, or therapy AUs!