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This is my first chapter fic, so please enjoy :D I don't own the Avengers, i just am a huge fan XD


Chapter 1

They sat in the rafters of the abandoned lab, legs dangling precariously over the edge. They were talking, chatting, anything that made them feel even vaguely normal when-

"Hey, Clint..." Natasha interrupted his story of an agent with a wife half his age.

"What?"

"Let's play a game," she said with a fiendish grin. Clint smiled and rolled his eyes. The two of them had VERY different ideas of fun. "So this is how it goes. We've known each other for a helluva long time, so now we're gonna write down five things we know about each other, okay?"

Clint breathed a sigh of relief. Maybe they weren't so different after all...

"Okay," he said. He got up and extricated a piece of paper and two pencils from a pile of arrows, bows and heaven-knows-what-else. He ripped the paper in half, with laser-sharp precision and gave one half and a pencil to Natasha.

"No peeking," she grinned, punching him softly on his shoulder when he started to sit down beside her. Clint muttered something and proceeded to sit back-to-back with her.

"1...2...3...go!" she announced.