Rating: PG
Summary: Phil Coulson is not about to let SHIELD or a minor case of temporary deadness stop him from finding out why he can't go back to his family. It's probably going to take a while, though. And if he happens to put together a team and save some lives getting there, so be it.
Characters/Pairings: established Phil Coulson/Tony Stark/Pepper Potts/Darcy Lewis (off-screen); otherwise mostly gen with some tiny little pre-sedoretu for another group
Warnings/Tags: weird relationships, sedoretu, AU-canon, rarepairs
Spoilers: Captain Americas 1 and 2; Thor I & II; The Avengers; Iron Mans 1, 2, and 3; Agents Of SHIELD — Basically everything. The Agents Of SHIELD spoilers are the biggies, though.
Disclaimer: The characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and all that comes with them are the property of Marvel Studios, ABC, or both. No money has changed hands, and no copyright infringement is intended or implied.
Author’s Notes: This is the sequel to my MCU sedoretu fic “Compatible Weirdness” and is going to start into the Agents Of SHIELD story. (If you have not read “Compatible Weirdness,” I recommend doing that before reading this, because you will probably be making a lot of question mark faces if you don’t.) This is going to have a slower pace, and it will start off mainly canon-compliant, but not totally (this will be less and less true as I get further along). Coulson’s got to find a way back to his family, after all. Most likely, I will post these at something like one fic per episode.

To be honest, I wrote “Compatible Weirdness” because I wanted to write this story. Or rather, the story that this is the first installment of. The Phil-figures-out-how-to-get-his-family-back story. But I needed to write the groundwork Phil-has-a-family story first. As you read through “Compatible Weirdness,” you’ll have noticed that I didn’t deviate too much from the canon. A line of dialogue here, a scene or two there. But overall, things fell out like they did in the films. Which was deliberate. Adding sedoretu and sticking Phil, Tony, Pepper, and Darcy in one is not a massive change…at first. So the first ripples of change are small. But then Phil died, and his having a family motivated him to find out that he was really, properly dead much faster in this story than he did in canon. Which is a fairly big ripple. And that’s going to make more ripples. This installment pretty much runs along the same lines as the show, but the next one does not. So, if all you’re looking for is perspective-shift + sedoretu, I can’t help you. From here on out, things are going to start being different.

Please bear in mind as you read this, that the story can only know what the narrator character knows. And while Phil does his best to be honest with himself, he doesn’t have everything figured out.

Also, if you haven’t been watching Agents of SHIELD, you really ought to start. Really.

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( The UnTeam )

Compatible Weirdness - Chapter 6
Disclaimer and general author's notes are in the first chapter, which is linked at the bottom.

Author's Notes: This chapter took longer to get out than the others. I just wasn't liking the way it looked in the edits. So I went through and fleshed out some parts. This is the longest chapter in the story, but it works much better now.

( Tesseract )

Chapter One - First Meetings
Chapter Two - Three
Chapter Three - Falling
Chapter Four - Darcy
Chapter Five - Balance

Chapter Seven - Tahiti