Alright guys- I decided after people enjoyed the comic book Clint for AoU I would bring him and Kate into the first movie. Enjoy.

All rights belong to Marval and Matt Fraction (If I owned them I would have given Hawkeye an actual role in the avengers)

Clint was very bored. He had been approached by Fury about doing a job for SHIELD which just consisted of him watching a team of scientists looking after a mystical cube. In his eyes this meant he would be paid for doing nothing. At the start of the deployment he had watched the scientists intently, assessing what they were doing, and did a basic hack on their files and phones to do a background check. After he was confident everyone was clean, he retreated to a perch where he could watch from a distance for the rest of the time. He pieced together the conversations by lip reading the people below but most of it was technical stuff he didn't completely understand.

To make the time pass until this job was over, Clint had been messaging Kate for the last few days. It started with a view of the room and escalated to sending each other selfies, trying to have a conversation through facial expressions. This was very difficult and led to hilarious consequences but made the time pass quickly.

As he spent his time messaging Kate, he made sure he kept an eye on the mysterious cube which had made the whole room start to panic when it had turned on by itself. He had been vaguely briefed on the history of the mysterious object, but by the confused look of the scientists no one knew what it did, or why it had turned on and was trying to destroy the building. Fury's voice came over his radio, commanding

"Barton, report"

He had seen the director enter of course, but he did not expect his tone to be so disapproving.

Coming down from the perch he explained what had been happening with Selvik and his team and the 'misbehaving' tesseract.

"If it is being tampered with it is not coming from this side" he told the director.

Clint's phone went off, with a selfie from Kate, but the text tone which he had forgotten to turn off rang out throughout the building as a snippet of the benny hill music. Kate had stolen his phone and set it a while ago and Clint had not got around to changing it back. As it rang out again the whole room turned around to look at the archer who ignored it and stared at Fury, inside wanting to laugh. The laugh he had been holding in was let out when Selvik himself looked up and gave Clint the most suspecting look he could.

At the same time the tesseract exploded, knocking them all off their feet and opening a portal at the end of the room. Never being far from his bow, Clint quickly retrieved it and nocked an arrow. He would not give up without a fight. Seeing the man who appeared out of the portal made his laugh intensify, as he was dressed in old fashioned clothes with what seemed like reindeer antlers on his helmet. Taking out his phone he quickly snapped a photo, Kate would never believe this.

Clint's laughter was subdued when the strange man started to fire on them. Seeing the scientists in danger, Clint quickly directed them out of the room and raised his bow to defend them. But this act only made the reindeer man take an interest in the archer.

Loki came closer to him and tried to direct the sceptre at his chest, Clint, instinctively gave a high kick to Loki's head. This disorientated Loki long enough to allow Clint to stab an arrow in his leg. To Clint's annoyance it did not make any difference to the God as he just stood there as if nothing had happened and he pulled it out with ease. The momentary shock was all Loki needed to get the sceptre close enough to take over Clint's mind.

To Clint the next few hours were very hazy as they escaped, helping Loki to leave the compound before it dissipated. The only thing Clint was sure of was after they had escaped he had a moment of clarity which allowed him to quickly send Kate the picture of Loki with a message asking for her help and telling her to go to fury.

A few hours later Kate was in Clint's apartment practicing her shooting. At first she thought the message from Clint showing the man wearing a stupid costume was a joke, trying to wind her up, but once she replied and did not get a message back within 10 minutes she started to think something was wrong. Firing off another shot it split her first arrow in the bullseye as usual, Clint had taught her well. It broke her heart that her high spirited friend and mentor was under some maniac's control.

She knew there would be others worried about him. His friends from SHIELD, who would always give him Jobs would be worried, but Kate was concerned that they might not be worried about his actual wellbeing. Captain America, who Clint had befriended while the soldier was getting adapted into the 21st century, would probably be on his way to kill this evil idiot already. Kate would always say Clint annoyed the soldier into leaving the SHEILD base, to get away from his age jokes or popular culture references, but she knew there was an amazing level of respect between the two and Steve would always be the only one Clint would ever listen to, not that that meant he would never stand up to the soldier when the situation needed it. Even Stark, who Natasha had introduced to the archer and there was a constant stream of banter with, and Pepper would be worried. Clint was a good man who could not stop helping people, it was a great part of his nature that he could not walk past someone in pain without giving help. However everyone who knew what his life was like, knew that whenever Clint got involved something would inevitably go wrong. Everyone just wished he would be given a break.

Splitting the second arrow on the bullseye Kate heard the door to the apartment open and before the door was even opened fully there was an arrow sticking out of the doorframe narrowly missing the person entering. Kate was not trying to kill the person who was entering, but just give a warning that she was very angry at SHIELD for letting her friend be taken.

"Kate bishop?" Hill asked timidly.

"What has Clint got into this time?" Bishop asked rhetorically. "Lead the way Miss Hill" She said in a commanding way, picking up her bag and placing a quiver on her back. She knew Hill was aware of who she was and that nothing would stop her from finding her friend. Hill would probably also know about the texting and the final picture message sent. Hill led Kate to a Quinn jet on the roof.

I am sorry if Clint or Kate are out of character for this chapter- I promise it will get better. Thank you for reading.