Damaged
Written for the prompt : Avengers, any character, "damaged" is relative and to be filled in only five sentences.
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Damaged
Clint knows he's never been what you might call spotless, but his part in this cuts deep; hurts in a way nothing has hurt him in years; yet he knows nothing he did was by real choice.
Natasha knows she has earned her name, earned her reputation but listening to Loki stirs up the depths of what she buried so long ago.
Bruce is well aware of what is hidden inside, of the damage he can wreak without thought, but he's being offered a chance to make it all mean something.
The Avengers are a sum of all their parts, good and bad; not one of them is damage free, not even Steve or Thor.
Yet Director Fury has found a way to harness their potential for the greater good.