Budapest Trending
Safe houses compromised. Covers blown. Budapest trending. This was not quite any of the scenarios they imagined. Spoilers for Winter Soldier.
Barton heard the steady sound of her sandals hitting the wooden deck as she approached from the house.
"In case you didn't know, Tash, Budapest is trending. Seems most people believe my version in the report. Sorry, Babe."
He caught her hand a second before it popped him in the back of the head and pulled it around to kiss her palm.
"Be glad I feel a bit guilty about blowing your cover, your mission, and risking your life. Otherwise I would break your hand, Bird Brain." She moved around to the side of the large lounge chair and eased down next to her partner.
She looked at the website he had up on the Stark tech tablet in the hand not holding hers. "Which conspiracy site are you on? If these are the people that buy your version of Budapest, then I am not worried." She grew more serious and pulled the tablet away, so she could access their Cayman Island accounts.
"With Shield gone, the Avengers will be called in to save the world, and my guess is that it will be sooner rather than later. Won't give us a lot of time to create a new network of safe houses and covers." He twirled one of the bright red curls around his finger.
"I know," she sighed. "I'll start working on that now. This won't be the best job I've ever done, but at least we'll have something in place until I can be more thorough."
"Stark would probably be more than happy to help."
"Yeah, and never let me live it down. I hate that we took him up on this place."
"Technically Pepper's offer. His island. Tash, we really didn't get a chance to talk last night when you got in."
She logged out of their account and placed the tablet on the table with Clint's beer. She slipped into his lap and wrapped her arms around his neck, "I didn't think either of us were in the mood for talking."
He placed a soft kiss just below the arrow dangling around her neck. "Tash, I saw the bullet hole. You heal fast, but the mark is still there. What happened? How is Steve? And before I forget, who is the guy with the wings in the news footage? And where can I get a set of those, by the way?"
"I'll start with simple. Winter Soldier shot me, but I am fine. The flying ace is Falcon, a friend of Steve's named Sam Wilson. Now, here is the slightly more complicated. Winter Soldier is Steve's best friend Bucky who was turned into a Hydra weapon. Cap's a bit rattled, but I managed to get my hands on a file for him. My guess is he and Sam are tracking down leads now."
"Shit."
"An understatement."
"You get in the worst trouble without me."
"Me? Please, Barton, how many times have I had to come in at the last moment to save your ass?"
He eased her head toward his for a kiss, whispering just before their lips met, "Hello, Budapest is trending. The whole world knows I'm your hero, and you only have your self to blame."