Emergency (Clint/Natasha)
It was sudden, so sudden. But she refused to show weakness.
When Clint went under, she knew. She knew she couldn’t grieve. She had to be strong.
SHIELD agents tried to look at her, to see if she would crack. But she’d seen things die too many time, and Clint deserved to be alive. So she was going to get him back that way. He’d shown her his tears, she had to make it up to him
He’d saved her. Natasha had to save him
He was warm with her, in a capacity that didn’t make her uncomfortable.
It wasn’t his fault. They wouldn’t talk about what they were going to do if (when) she got him back.
She’d seen people die way too many times, and he deserved to live.
Red Room was her personal hell, but Clint Barton was her heaven. He was enough, he was always what she needed to keep going. To turn from that little girl they had trained to this woman with a free mind now.
The red in her ledge wouldn’t be added to because of Clint