So…I just saw The Avengers and since then this crazy idea got stuck into my head. I know it's not the original Hawkeye story, I read that one on the net. But frankly Jeremy Renner plays a different type of Hawkeye, a more realistic one and I love it…so I saw SWAT again, read some things about the new Bourne movie (in which Jason Bourne doesn't show…although I would have loved to see Matt Damon and Jeremy Renner in the same movie, guess you can't have everything) and started this. Not sure if it's a one-shot, this depends on what crazy idea comes to my head…so I hope you enjoy this

I apologize in advance for all the misspelling, I write this at about 2 am in the morning and my English is not so great anyway

Disclaimer….I don't own anything and specially not Jeremy Renner so don't sue me

The moment Nick Fury had read the file he realized he needed the best man to handle this asset. He needed Coulson for this.

When he was given the mission to create from scratch S.H.I.E.L.D. the first person he enlisted was Coulson. The man was the best in his field. He was loyal, dedicated and a damn good handler. He remembered the first time he had met Coulson was during an extraction mission. The agent had managed to turn a hostile ex Mossad turned weapons and drug dealer in what proved to be a very loyal and valuable CIA asset in a record time of 30 min.
During that time the S.H.I.E.L.D. initiative didn't even exist in the mind of its creators. Fury had been impressed and asked that the agent to be transferred under his command.
When S.H.I.E.L.D. was initiated Coulson had been directly involved in the whole process specially with recruiting new agents. Most where people he had worked with before and knew personally. CIA, FBI, Interpol, US Army even police officers. Those where the people he trusted. Still even if those where good with lots of training and experience he needed specialized field agents. People with that kind of expertise where not so easy to find even with his resources.
So when the Outcome files reached his hands he immediately recognized the potential gold mine he possessed. Lots of files where classified and lots of information was deleted before. There where reports that had been completely erased or grossly falsified.
The truth was that he knew very little about the program and most of it he knew from the press releases that followed the scandal. Officially the program did not exist and all the Intel related to it where supposed to be destroyed. Well, supposedly.
After the scandal had erupted in the press and all the dirt had come to surface everyone cut their losses. Allot of people where thrown to the sharks even if they where not related at all with the program.
The man that started all the craziness disappeared like a shadow. He was a dead man. The guy managed to piss off some very influential people and break down almost entirely the Agency like a house of cards. Lots of people lost everything, their jobs, freedom even lives.
Two whole years had passed since the scandal, the press had gotten tired of the story and everyone thought Aaron Cross was dead. He couldn't be alive after all this time and considering that at least 8 different agencies where out looking for him officially, and who knew how many unofficially
So when Coulson brought him the file he was more then surprised.
Apparently the man almost every secret agency in the world was looking for had been captured in a very remote area near in Brazil. There had been couple of "incidents" with the Brazilian authorities but the details where unknown and most of the rumors that where circulating around the incident where so far fetched Fury was sure they where only fantasies. What he knew for a fact was that the man had killed in almost 2 hours time more then 100 people in what appeared to be madness driven massacre against a general with heavy connections with a local drug cartel.
He just invaded a twenty room mansion at the outskirts of Salvador and started to shoot; and didn't stop until every single person there had gained more then half their weight in bullets.
The fact that he had been captured afterwards was only stupid luck. Cross had been wounded and attracted the attention of local authorities. By the time they captured him he was almost dead anyway. He could have just died in a Brazilian prison that day but one of the police officers was actually an informant for the Agency. The general had been one of their assets so the guy that killed him was bound to attract some attention. SHIELD agents had intercepted the transmission. An extraction team from the Agency arrived in six hours; the SHIELD team arrived in less then three.

Of course the guy was almost dead when they got him. He'd been shot in the leg, somewhere in the left lung and one bullet got stuck inside his brain. It was a miracle he was still alive. They couldn't operate the head wound until they brought him in a secure facility in US. It took the team almost 4 hours to deliver. At the end they thought they where delivering a dead body.

From the moment he was awake he didn't say anything. The doctors said that the head wound could have caused a total shut down of the brain. He was a vegetable in their opinion. They fed him, walked him, he didn't respond to any stimuli.

But Fury knew that underneath that, Aaron Cross was very much conscious and just waiting for the perfect opportunity to escape. So he waited, slowly decreased the security, not to drastic so to not raise any suspicions, just left a small opening and waited for the other man to make his move.

Two weeks after he was brought back Aaron Cross escaped, or at least tried. Although still wounded, with a limping leg he succeeded in stealing a guard's uniform and actually walking outside the hospital doors.

Fury was very much impressed.

And now waiting behind the double mirror outside the interrogation room, he sends his best man to break him and turn him Aaron Cross into a SHIELD asset.

Coulson had a troublesome customer this time.

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