A/N – Just to tell everyone, now, this is no way, shape or form, an official response to a challenge at norsekink at livejournal. In Round 1, because Round 1 is closed. It is, however, an unofficial response.

I couldn't resist.

So, here's the challenge:

I want Clint flirting with our favorite SHIELD agent relentlessly. Like, every time they see each other or work together Clint just shamelessly hits on and teases Coulson and Coulson tries his damnedest to ignore him. But I don't want Clint doing this just cause he's joking around, thus eventual awkward wooing of Coulson.

The Rating is for: Swearing and slash, aka male/male, homosexual, relationship…eventually. For now it is a male hitting on another male.

I got inspiration from the response you'll find there. Go to the fill list and search tags for Hawkeye/Coulson, and you'll get a majority of my challenges.

To Pursue

Chapter One: Speech

Clint "Hawkeye" Barton had joined S.H.I.E.L.D. mostly because he was bored. He would admit that willingly, as he wanted new challenges. And then he was put under the most boring man in existence; one Agent Phil Coulson, who was stoic, for the most part, and never, ever, seemed to loosen up.

Seriously, the guy needed to get laid.

Hawkeye would never be able to tell anyone what it was that drew his notice first. Mostly because, one day he was just doing as he ordered, quietly mocking Coulson, when someone slammed into him with a shout of, "Get down!"

Someone was pressing very nicely into him, just as an explosion made him go partially deaf. He blinked up, only to see it was Coulson. He blinked a bit and realized…the guy was kind-of cute in a very oddball kind of way. However, he also noticed something else. On same base level, he realized he was already attracted to the guy.

'I am in deep shit,' he thought and then smiled.

"Normally I'd buy you a drink before we got his far," he commented and Coulson immediately got up, shouting orders.

And Hawkeye grinned.

He always loved a challenge.


Hawkeye observed, his keen eyes watching, before he made his move. He had to be subtle, because Coulson was not a man that would enjoy being accosted. Hawkeye liked accosting and being bisexual just made it easier for him to read people, his sharp eyesight not missing a beat.

He started with the little things.

Hawkeye began as getting to know Coulson. He began to hang around the other man more and Natasha shook her head, but let him do as he was pleasing. With a single word of warning about tormenting the 'poor agent.'

At first, Hawkeye didn't understand what she meant.

He learned quickly.

Agent Phil Coulson was the source of most of the jokes and most of the disrespect in S.H.I.E.L.D. Well, not uber-disrespect, but enough. He was often talked behind his back when they thought he couldn't hear them, but if Hawkeye could hear them while trying to bug Coulson into eating, then the agent could too.

The man stayed up all hours to make sure everything was filed away properly and Hawkeye found the man's stamina was shocking.

And when trying to discover what made Coulson tick, Hawkeye got to know the man behind the mask quite well. He could soon be heard joking back over the intercoms.

And that was how it started, Hawkeye's flirting.

He started with joking over the comm., aiming it toward Coulson. The first time he did it, Coulson sighed, and told him that the comm. was not for office jokes.

By the thirty-seventh time he did it, he could hear the tiny thread of amusement in Coulson's voice.

Victory.

However, the man was completely clueless that this was Hawkeye's version of subtle flirting.

Time to step it up a notch.