"I can close it," Natasha told her fellow Avengers through the headset. Loki's scepter was shaking in her hands, trying to get through the energy bar.

"Can anybody copy? I can shut the portal down," she said as she looked at Loki's scepter in her hands, waiting for the sign of one of her teammates so she can connect the scepter with the tesseract.

"Do it!" she heard the leader yell.
She gripped the scepter a bit tighter and brought it to closer to the tesseract already, when Stark interrupted her.

"No, wait!" he screamed. Steve responded before she even could say a word.

"Stark, these things are still coming," he yelled back to Tony.

"I've got a missile coming in, it's gonna blow in less than a minute." he said calmly, even though you could hear the panic in his voice.

"And I know just where to put it.."

"Stark, you know that's a one way trip.." Steve said.

A one way trip. Natasha knew what that meant. Stark was going to fly into the portal to place the bomb over there. But that would mean that he wouldn't make it back in time. She saw the Iron Man suit coming near, holding the bomb. He flew up and Natasha's eyes followed the flying suit. This would be the last time that she would see Stark. And then everything happened really fast. Before she could even blink, Stark made it through the portal. And then he was gone.. She kept looking at him while he flew to his own death, and she suddenly felt nauseous. Natasha saw the other dimension lightening up, which meant that the bomb was wasn't he back yet? Did he..

"Come on, Stark.." Natasha whispered. He had to get back, he had to make it. Her eyes kept staring at the sky, trying to catch a glimp of Tony somewhere.

"Close it," Steve said quietly, almost whispering.

She tried to swallow her nauseousness away, stared at the sky for one more second, and then took the scepter steady in her hands while she brought the tip to the heart of the energy source, and she closed the portal. The portal closed and the gape in the sky got smaller every second. Right at the very last second she saw the Iron Man suit falling through the sky. She smiled, she was glad that he was still alive.

"Son of a guy.." she could hear Steve whisper.

But then she realised that Tony was unconsious, and if Tony was unconsious, his suit didn't work as well.

"He's not slowing down," Thor said. He noticed it already as well. She heard him swing with Mjolnir, ready to fly to Tony.

But then The Hulk catched Tony out of the sky, and she couldn't see what happened next from her point of view. She was wondering if Tony was okay, when she suddenly heard the Hulk roar, which was probably audible for everyone in New York.

She laughed siently when she heard Tony's reaction, which meant he was okay.

"Tasha?"
Natasha turned around and saw Clint standing there, panting while pressing a hand on his bleeding chest.

"Clint!" Natasha said as she hurried towards him. She put one of his strong arms around her shoulders to support him and carry his weight with her.

"You're bleeding, are you okay?" She whispered while looking worried at his face. She could see that he was in pain.

Clint nodded, while his face showed even more pain from moving his body, even though it was just a looked around her and decided that she had to place Clint on the ground. His bleeding would've gotten much worse if he took a few more steps.

"Here, you should sit." she said while she slowly dragged him with her on the floor, inch by inch. When Clint was finally on the ground, he rested his head in his neck while panting and looking up to the sky.

"That was one hell of a battle.." He sighed while turning his head to Natasha.
She smiled at him while taking a seat next to him and resting her head on his shoulder. Now they were finally done with the battle, she realised how tired she was.

"Yeah, it was.."

As she and Clint started up the car, Nick Fury's voice entered her ear through her headset.

"Agent Romanoff, Agent Barton?" he said.

"What is it, Director?" Clint responded.

"Well done with this whole Loki situation. As you saw earlier, he has been send back to Asgard. He will be punished for his actions over there. As a thank you, we want to give all the Avengers a few days off to another country, as a small vacation. You deserve it."

"But sir, we can't just stay away. We have work to do," Natasha responded confused. They never got vacation, they were always working.

"Yes you can. It's an order for you two to take a vacation. You've been working really hard for SHIELD, and since it's only been a day since Barton is back with us, I suggest you two rest. It's been a few though days."

Clint and Natasha looked at each other for a second, before Clint responded.

"Thank you sir. So, where will we be send to?"

"Budapest," Nick Fury responded.

It was like I could hear him smirk. Of course they sended us to Budapest.. The place where we had our first mission together.

"Alright then," Clint said with a small nod.

"Your flight departs in two hours, agent Romanoff and agent Barton. Enjoy your vacation and we will see you again in a few days."

When Fury finished talking, Natasha heard a soft noise, knowing that Fury had disconnected. They both sighed and looked each other in the eyes.

"So, Budapest eh?" Clint said with a slight smile on his face.

Natasha responded by smiling back at him. He took one hand of the wheel and took Natasha's hand in his. He was finally himself again, in his own Barton-way. Even though he'll probably feel guilty for the rest of his lifetime for the amount of agents he killed, she knew that she would help him get through it all. The city has been saved, Loki is gone, and she realised this was the first time since a few days that they were alone again. There were no fight on their minds, no Loki inside of their heads, no killings. Just them, on their way to Budapest.