Unsent Letters 2024: Written & Received

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Yes, I'm late with this....

That said: My gift-writer and I both went for MCU prompts this time out. My gift was one of two really excellent Yelena-and-Natasha stories written for this exchange:

Bringing Her Home
Author flipflop_diva
Fandom: MCU; Black Widow (Movie 2021)
Rating: teen
Category: gen
Warnings: no archive warnings apply
Words: ~1100
Relationship: Yelena Belova & Natasha Romanov
Characters: Yelena Belova, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Steve Rogers
Additional Tags: Post-Avengers: Endgame; (Movie) Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence; Post-Canon Fix-It; Natasha Romanov Lives; Sisters; Little Sisters; Letters

Steve was the one who brought the letters to her, folded gently and stacked carefully and tied with a thin red ribbon. He told her he found them in one of the metal safes that had originally been in one of the offices at Avengers compound in upstate New York. One of the very few things to survive the destruction caused by Thanos and his army. Almost like it was fate.

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My contribution was (this being me) a crossover; in this case, an exchange mostly involving Dr. Stephen Strange and Elementary's Joan Watson. (It's a small multiverse. I had, in a previous Unsent Letters entry, established that she and SG-1's Dr. Janet Fraiser were in med school together at Columbia; here, it turns out that she and Dr. Strange overlapped during their residencies.)

A Strange Correspondence
Fandom: MCU, Dr. Strange (Movies)
Rating: G
Category: gen
Warnings: none
Words: ~4400
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes & Joan Watson (Elementary); Stephen Strange & Joan Watson; Sherlock Holmes & Stephen Strange
Characters: Joan Watson, Stephen Strange, Sherlock Holmes
Additional Tags: Musical, Songs, Stealth Crossover

Sometimes, even a Master of the Mystic Arts needs to call on others for assistance.