"Its just like Budapest…"
"You and I remember Budapest very differently"
Budapest had haunted Natasha for quite some time. It was a time in her life when things had just started to turn good for her. She had escaped red room, she now worked for a company that supported the greater good and maybe, just maybe…she had made a friend. Clint Barton had saved her, he had renewed her life. Sure, she still had red in her ledger, but Clint was the beginning of her wiping it out. Budapest was a time when she didn't fully trust Clint, she had been saved and brought to S.H.I.E.L.D only a month before and her guard was still up. Budapest, for her was the real beginning.
LANDING ZONE: 3:45am, BUDAPEST
Director Fury paced the hanger waiting for the aircraft to land, this mission was of upmost importance. Failure was not an option. If this mission went according to plan, one on biggest war lords in Budapest's crime world would go down and the stolen military weapons would be returned, a war in Budapest would be avoided and they would all be back at S.H.E.I.D drinking coffee and planing new baddies to kill by the end of the week. Clint Barton, Hawkeye was one of the best agents S.H.I.E.L.D had ever seen, and he was leading the mission, he did not want to get in the way of that man and a target, but he was a little spectacle of his latest choice. About a mouth ago Barton was sent to Russia to kill the notorious black widow…now I don't know if the Russian vodka got to Barton's head or something…but you don't normally welcome the women you were sent to kill back to base and offer her a job. That's exactly what he did. All he said to me was 'I don't kill good people, trust me'. I assumed Barton was mad or something but then I thought it over…if the Black Widow was on S.H.I.E.L.D's side…they might have a chance of bringing down Red Room for good, and this would brighten up director Fury's day. This was Agent Romanoff's first mission for S.H.I.E.L.D, I was interested to see how it would go.
"Sir, we've got the aircraft ER436 coming into view."
This was it, Operation Budapest was underway.
FLIGHT ER436, 3:50am BUDAPEST
'ladies and gentlemen prepare for landing, when we touch down operation BUDAPEST begins.'
Clint Barton looked over at the red head sitting in the chair opposite him; she was securing her hand guns in her belt, preparing to begin the mission. Clint wasn't sure exactly why he had speared Natasha's life, but it was one of the best decisions he had ever made. Natasha reminded him of himself. A person who had lost there way, was caught up in something they didn't want to be apart of to the extent where they just wanted to die. Barton had gotten a chance; he had found a new direction. When he saw Natasha on the top roof of the warehouse back in Moscow, he saw himself, before S.H.I.E.L.D., before Agent Barton. Natasha needed a new start; her past didn't matter to him, only her future because he saw something in her eyes that no one else saw. Fear
