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Steve's body is not the only thing affected by the Super Soldier Serum.

Long before Manhattan, Phil Coulson made his two favorite superspies promise him something during the clusterf*** that was Budapest. If he ever died, they were to find the cellist and make sure he didn't do something stupid. They were more than a little surprised when they succeeded. A/N: To those who have been following - I made a few adjustments to the timeline, but nothing major. Can stand alone.

After Tony Stark declares himself Iron Man on national TV and refuses to join the Avengers Initiative, Nick Fury assigns Agent Phil Coulson to be his temporary bodyguard, and also convince Stark that joining forces with SHIELD would be in his best interest. After that, things rapidly pile up for Phil: Stark builds an ice cream truck (because of REASONS!) and becomes accidental bros with Phil, Agents Sitwell and Romanoff are far too nosy for their own good, and bad guys keep trying to steal the Iron Man suit! In the middle of it all, Phil meets a single dad with an affinity for archery, who may or may not know more about SHIELD than he lets on... Written for Marvel Bang 2013.

Phil Coulson has two lives: by day he's a quiet, respectable Edwardian gentleman and his biggest risk is on a hand of cards at his club; at night he's a masked vigilante, fighting to make London safer. Keeping those lives separate is difficult enough when his closest friend is the head of a special task force within the Metropolitan police. It becomes even more difficult when his latest case gets dangerously close to home, bodies start washing up on the banks of the Thames, and Detective Inspector Fury's team is tasked with capturing the vigilante. Clint Barton, Coulson's new valet, is down on his luck and inexperienced at valeting but his skills from his former life may be exactly what Coulson needs. They just need to negotiate their way through Coulson's secret life and their growing attraction to each other. And save London from a terrifying new threat along the way.

Phil is still dead to most of the world, including the Avengers. It's a decision he's learned to live with... until he learns that Tony Stark just got engaged.

This wasn’t at all how Phil imagined coming back from the dead. Between training a new analyst, feeling out brewing trouble in the Earth-Asgard relations, and trying to figure out why his most reliable asset can’t stand him any longer, Phil can’t make heads or tails of his second chance at life. When Earth-Asgard relations come to a head they leave Phil stuck in the form of his ten-year-old self, Barton transformed into a housecat, and the Asgardian envoy stuck on Earth; everyone has to figure out how to come together and fix things, and the solution may be farther from home than anyone imagined. Featuring mini!Phil, cat!Barton, an ensemble of Feels (and Jotun), and a journey from a solo to ensemble cast. 20% feels, 30% plot, 20% Asgardians/Jotun, 5% gratuitous mini!fic and 25% character arc by volume