Clint's POV
Clint watched in awe as she got up from the ground, hair blowing in the wind, a look of determination on her face, cursing himself for having judged her kind not even hours before meeting her.
He closed his eyes for a moment as as the pain from his newly healed wounds finally subsided, and a new sensation set in, it's like he felt a jolt of electricity running through his veins, energy lifting every fiber of his being in a manner that was completely foreign to him.
A crack of thunder caused his eyes to snap fully open as he was pulled from his thoughts a thousand miles away, eyes now alert searching around for the woman with fierce determination in her eyes.
Turning to look at the ledge of the brick wall he saw he standing tall in all her glory, glowing with pride that soon started to fade as she fell back, with speed he didn't know he had in him he bolted, catching her unconscious body before she hit the ground.
The moment his skin touched hers, he felt that electric feeling once again, only the aftermath left him with an overwhelming need to protect the one in his arms, by any means necessary.
He wasn't sure if it was because she had saved his life that he felt so strongly, or for reasons unknown, he pulled her tightly against him, heightened senses listening to her quickened heartbeat as she recovered from harnessing so much power.
Aurora's POV
"Thank you." Her eyes fluttered open, she took a shaky inhale as was startled by the sound of his raspy voice, feeling the warmth of his breath on her face, she looked up and was met with an intense pair of green eyes, staring intently at her.
The look on his face said it all as he was still trying to register all that had happened in the last five minutes, searching her eyes as if they held any answers.
Her eyes melted into his , she immediately felt that same pull that he did, blanketed with the feeling of safety, feeling this intense need to make him feel it too.
"What the hell was that?" The little voice inside her head pulled her attention from her little staring contest, composure once again regained she quickly turned away, not wanting him to see the blood rushing to her cheeks, caused by the way that he was looking at her.
That same fragrance taking over her senses once again, only now the intensity of it was heightened, the intensity created by a wooden smell being added to what she had previously detected.
'No- no- no, just five more minutes…. Su aroma- es increìble !" Aura pleaded for her to stay nestled in his warm embrace, knowing full well that Aurora wanted to stay in the comfort of his arms as well.
"I think I'm okay now." She murmured, lifting her still aching head from his chest.
Getting the hint he set her back down on her feet staying close at her side incase she passed out again, the mischievous demon within her, intensifying the dazed feeling in her brain, making her knees buckle within her.
Feeling the instability of Aurora's stance, Clint stood right there beside her, arm wrapped around her torso, pressing her up against his body for support.
They fell into an awkward silence, neither of them knowing what to do or say, that is until a smart ass decided to yell over the com, causing both of them to pull away from one another and straighten out.
"Okay - now that was bad-ass! But why couldn't you have done that before that before they wrecked our only means of transportation?" Aurora chuckled at the off-hand compliment Tony was offering up.
"We were kinda busy up here Tony." Clint jumped to their defense, veering at the woman who was trying very hard not to look him in the eye.
"Well if you two are done with the roof top quicky, would you mind joining us down here so we can call for another jet?" Aurora's eyebrows shot up to her hairline as she turned to look at Clint who was also blushing ten shades of red, both of them chuckling nervously.
"Yes- tin man we do mind!"
"Is he always this charming?"Aurora asked.
"Believe it or not this is him being PG." Clint answered, getting over the embarrassment of being put on the spot like that.
"Aye por que no me soprende eso?(Why am I not surprised?)" She muttered out, slowly offering her hand out to Clint, he looked at her hand and then up to her as if asking what he was supposed to do.
"It's faster than the stairs." He have her a curt not before reaching out and accepting her hand, lacing his fingers in with hers, he studied the concentrated expression on her face as she took a small breath and closed her eyes, picturing their destination in her mind.
In a manner of seconds the background behind her from being on the rooftop, changes to being back in the valley, yards away, surrounded by his team.
"So she likes it rough ey Legolas?" Tony asked as he saw the blood all over her white dress, the quickly let go of each others hands as Aurora walked over to Fury, glaring at Tony along the way.
"Do you kiss your girlfriend with that mouth?" Tony raised a brow at her question- wondering how she knew that he had a girlfriend, stopping in her tracks turning to face Tony with her arms crossed.
"How do you know I have a girlfriend?"
"Most males don't carry the scent of red apple and water hyacinth." She said wiggling her eyebrows.
"I'd say by the intensity of the scent – and how it's meshed along with your own scent that you two probably mated right before being called into action." Her face twisted into the most beautiful smirk as she snickered at a dumbfounded Tony opening and closing his mouth as he tried to think of a comeback, speechlessness taking over at this woman's ability to be savage in other ways than just animalistic.
"Your father would have been proud of you today young lady." Fury said with a conflicted smile, wondering if it was too soon to cut the humor out of the atmosphere.
Aurora's lip trembled, tears building up burning the corners of her eyes, rather than break down completely she forced the emotions at bay as she bit her lip, she walked over to Fury as he reached out to embrace her.
Another silence set in, no awkwardness this time, just a moment of silence as they honored the the fallen, hearts going out to the woman before them as she embraced the last person on this earth she had known as family.
"Orgulloso de que?(Proud of what?)The witty banter or the ass kicking?" She asked with a teary eyed chuckle, wiping the corners of her eyes dry, she shook off the heartbreak so she could save the breakdown for a more private setting.
"Both." Fury, Tony and Natasha said in unison, causing Aurora to widen her smile.
"Sorry to change the subject but -I was loading up the jet when the portal was opened, we can take her to HQ." She said as she turned her attention to her smart watch, typing away at on the larger than normal screen.
Before anyone could ask any questions about what she was doing, the ground beneath them started to rumble, as the ground right in front of the house opened up, raising up a platform carrying a large black plane onto their level.
"She's prepped and ready to go."
They wasted no time in gathering their belongings from the wreckage from their ride to Galicia, and loading into the jet that stood before them in all of it's splendor, walking up the ramp that opened up on the back Aurora led them through the cargo end of the aircraft, passing through an aisle of wooden crates, luggage…. And who could've missed the matte black Chevy Tahoe strapped and anchored down to the metal as they walked by.
Leading them up a flight of stairs to the passenger portion of the aircraft, the silence continued as they walked through the aisle of 60 seats split down the middle into two rows of two, feeling the weight of Aurora's grief on their shoulders as they sat down and attempted to make themselves at least somewhat comfortable during the ride.
Not letting her head hang even for a second in front of her passengers Aurora made her way to the pilot seat, waving her hand in front of the controls to awaken the red lights - recognizing her facial features.
"You sure your up for flying?" Fury asked walking up to inspect her toys.
"Segura.(I'm sure)" She turned her head and nodded before sitting down and strapping herself in.
Flipping all the right switches and pressing all the right buttons to ensure a safe ride to her new normal, Aurora took one last look at the place that her and her family had called home for the couple of years, one last look at the place where she had lost so many loved ones, she set the path of their destination.
"Todos listos?(Everyone ready?)" She called out asking those behind her.
"We're set to go ." Fury answered after looking around to see that his team was ready for take off.
With the flip of one last switch, the jet began to hover, pulling up the controls higher and higher bit by bit, Aurora leveled the jet out until it was parallel 100 feet above the roof of her safe haven, before finally pushing forward; speeding into the navy blue night.
A couple hours into the flight and they were already flying above international waters, another few hours out of from there destination, by then all of her passengers had fallen asleep, evident by the calmness in their heartbeats and breathing patterns, she waited until she was sure that everyone had fallen asleep to finally find herself a place for herself to mourn.
Pulling up the menu on her screen she found the right modules to get her baby flying on her own, only she forgot about the volume and the british voice that went onto her speaker.
"Autopilot engaged."
"Aye que la verga. (Dammit)" She cursed under her breath for not lowering the volume beforehand, so she slowly swiveled her chair, turning to see if she had woken anyone up.
Seeing as everyone still seemed to be off in dream land, she breathed a sigh of relief, she pulled at her hair tie and let her hair down, enjoying the sudden feeling of her hair being loosened, she let her head fall into her hands and massaged her scalp.
She chewed on her lip hard, trying to keep it from trembling, she sucked a shaky breath in as she felt herself slowly start to crack into pieces, feeling extremely exposed at the sleeping audience before her, Aurora flipped her hair back behind her as she sat back up.
Not feeling satisfied with where she was sitting, she pulled herself up from her seat she quietly made her way to the end of the aisle, walking down the stairs into the cargo area, she pulled a blanket out from her duffle bag and tossed it onto a large group of crates.
As soon as Aurora passed the aisle that Natasha was 'sleeping' in, the red heads eyes snapped open, veering beside her to make sure no one else was woken up by all the noise, she crept up and out of her seat, heading down to follow her friend.
Pulling out her phone and Beats headphones from her duffle, she hopped up onto the blanketed crate and made herself comfortable, just as she was about to blast her ears with some much needed musical therapy, she heard footsteps coming down the cargo stairs, coming to invade her little nest.
Natasha came walking around the corner, a bottle of beer in hand, draped with her own throw blanket.
"They think of everything on these flights don't they?" Aurora let out a small chuckle, nodding her head agreeing with her.
Not knowing what to say for fear of breaking down, Aurora just kept her silence, setting her cell and headphones down beside her.
"You know- you saved my best friend back there." Natasha said quietly as she hopped up to sit next to Aurora.
"Did I?" Natasha nodded.
"Mind telling me how you did that?" Aurora chuckled.
"Same way I saved you…... por lo menos( for the most part)." Aurora took the bottle from Natasha's hand and gave it a quick swig before making a disgusted face.
"Ugh- I don't know how you humans drink this stuff." She quickly handed it back, this made Natasha laugh, knowing that her friend was deflecting giving an answer.
"Out with it Cortez." She said a little louder than she meant to.
Back up in the passenger section of the jet, most of the team was out cold save for the archer who had been quietly listening to the girl's conversation from his own nest.
"You know how canines lick their wounds?" Natasha raised an eyebrow at her use of the word canines.
"Yes."
"Well - wolf demons can heal wounds with their saliva, our own- as well as others." She said quietly.
"So you licked him." Aurora laughed at her lame interpretation.
"When you put it that way it makes it sound perverted."
"Well I'm sure it was enjoyable for both parties." Aurora rolled her eyes and chuckled.
"Well considering he's still walking after a fatal blow like that – los dos estamos contentidos. (Rest assured both parties are pretty content." Natasha snickered.
"I guess I'll have to have to talk to him about the side effects of drinking demon blood then." Aurora nodded at Natasha's statement.
"Unless you want to do the honors."
"I think I'll leave that up to you Araña. (Spanish word for spider.".
"I'm sure he wouldn't mind hearing it from you Loba (Spanish word for wolf)." Clint couldn't help but smile at Natasha's relentless teasing, which could be considered on point with Tony- only Natasha was a bit more subtle.
"Wait- best friend.. Is that the guy you're always talking about? I thought he was your boyfriend." Natasha shook her head.
"No- just a really good friend….. I'd actually been hoping you two would meet, after you joined SHEILD." Natasha smiled and gave her short eyebrow wiggle, causing Aurora to raise her own eyebrows at Natasha's intentions.
"Who says that would have been a good idea?" Aurora asked, avoiding eye contact with the woman sitting beside her.
"Judging by how conflicted you looked when you were ogling him, I think Aura would agree that it would have been a very good idea." Clint chuckled to himself recalling the way Aurora's eyes lingered on him when they were on the field, and not to mention that hot and heavy staring contest they were having up on the roof. He tried not to get too full of himself as Natasha called the girl out for what he suspected.
"Okay- this woman is officially our new best friend." Aurora looked down at her lap, smiling at Aura's reaction.
"I both hate and love that I told you about that, but it makes things that much easier for when your friends start asking me if I have multiple personality disorder, that way you can explain it to them." They broke out into a fit of chuckles until finally the tears that had been threatening to fall, flowed against Aurora's control- streaming down her face.
"Oh no- here come the water works….. can't ……hold it in anymore…." Aura whimpered as all this sentiment let her lose the control on their grief.
"How is it that on the day that I've just lost everyone in my life that I've ever held dear, realized that I'm the last of my kind, y no me siento tan sola? (That I don't feel completely alone?)" Her whisper voice cracked as she choked back a sob.
"Because you aren't alone….as annoying as some in this group might be- …..once you're in- you're family." Natasha wrapped her arm around the girl she had grown so fond of over the years, crying on the inside for her.
"They don't know me Tash." Aurora said in a grim tone.
"Not yet- but they will." That's what did it for Aurora, opening the floodgates to her silent, she held onto the red head as if life depended on it, taking care not to use so much force in the process.
Clint sat in his chair listening to the woman's silent sobs as she mourned the loss of her family, his heart aching as he felt helpless to help the woman that had just saved his life.
Aurora sobbed silently until she had nothing left and the exhaustion from the days events and from sobbing so much had given her the privilege of a dreamless nap.
As un-luck would have it, she was only awarded a couple of hours of sleep, she opened her eyes to find that she hadn't dreamt it all, that the scenario of nightmares had come true, taking a deep breath she slowly shifted herself away from Natasha trying not to rouse her from her deep slumber.
Grabbing her phone from the top of the crate she hopped down, walking back to her duffle in the hopes of finding a few things that would make her feel better, flashing the front facing camera towards herself she rolled her eyes at her state of facial affairs.
Her make up could survive the sweat dripping from her brow during battle with an alien invasion, but when it came to withstanding tears- she resembled something more like a raccoon rather than a wolf thanks to her smoky eye that had run all over her face.
Not wanting to wake anyone up by using the bathroom she instead chose to wake them up by rummaging through her duffle as she searched for her make up removing wipes, even without make up on, Aurora's facial features were of the fiercer variety.
What with eye brows thick and shaped to perfection every time she got them done, intense chocolate brown eyes that darkened her glowing tan complexion, and blueish thick black curly hair that added to the glow of her appearance, she hardly needed make up.
Once she had her face wiped clean and hair swept up into a messy bun, she focused her attention to the bloody disaster that was once a white body con dress, diving back into rummaging through her duffle she rejoiced as she found a black, long oversized sweater dress she could throw underneath her suede jacket.
Sliding her arms out of the sleeves of her jacket she tossed it on top of her duffle and walked over to the other side of the taller crate so to form at least some barrier from her and the rest of the people aboard, feeling anew in a fresh article of clothing she tossed the bloody dress onto one of the many crates and slid back into her jacket and headed back up the stairs to take her place piloting this flight.
She smiled to herself as she walked through the aisle, sad considering all that she had lost, but looking on the silver lining that Natasha had put into her head, feeling some semblance of security with the people that came to her rescue.
An especially fluttering feeling enveloped her when she laid eyes on a fast asleep Clint sitting in the back in the furthest row of the jet, that same fluttering feeling confusing the hell out of her as she wondered what all these foreign feels were coming from.