Clint Barton was bored. Very, very bored. The entire tower seemed to know this and did not care. He was, at that moment, lurking in the air ducts above Agent Coulson's office, where the agent had just left to go to lunch with Natasha, who'd said that Clint was not to be present in the area or she'd shoot him. As he sat in the air duct, an idea came to him.
Causing trouble was both very appealing and seemed to come naturally to him. He smiled to himself as he unscrewed the vent covering to snatch Coulson's stapler off his desk. He knew that Coulson disliked Agent Sitwell and decided that Sitwell's office was the perfect place to hide the stolen stapler.
Later that day, it was unclear to him if or how Coulson had retaliated but he heard the man arguing with Agent Sitwell outside Coulson's office. After some choice remarks about Coulson's relationship with Clint, the archer had taken all of Sitwell's pens and hidden them in Coulson's desk.
Clint returned to the air duct above Agent Sitwell's office and he smiled to himself, waiting and watching.
