Chapter 2: beginning of a partnership?

[[quick note: in this story loki still tried to destroy the earth but were stopped by the avengers. Other than that most things are different. hill and romanoff are only in their early 20s. Fury found Romanoff and got her out of the widow program instead of Barton a year before before iron man 1. Romanoff and Barton weren't partners for long (that's why its not mentioned much) and were NOT apart of the avengers. Hill is not second in command but is still high ranked. I will explain all this through out the story. I just wanted the clear things up before people got confused. Thanks and enjoy:)]]

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After Fury had told the two agents of their partnership. The agents weren't very willing to accept it. Before being made partners agent Hill and Romanoff had never actually worked together, but they had heard and seen the outcome of each others missions and were equally impressed with the other and were both considered great agents.

[ Present time]

Romanoff's alarm clock shows 5:40am, if she don't leave soon she'll be late meeting agent hill in the gym . Sighing deeply while walking over to the small fridge and grabbing a water out in the room that she had be allocated by shield, it was not a small room though it definitely was not what one would considered big either but it had everything you needed (a bedroom, small kitchen and a bathroom).

Romanoff doesn't particularly care about being late (or even turning up) to meetings or going through bullshit protocols , but fury made it very clear that if she didn't meet with agent hill today he would make sure for the rest of her time at shield she'd be doing paperwork because apparently she needs a new partner. Shuddering at the thought of that she quickly get everything she need and leave the room.

While romanoff makes her way down the corridor she can't help but think that this "partnership" that the director has come up with between her and agent hill is a disaster waiting to happen. Hill is the type of agent who has to be in control and has to complete missions following protocol, sticking to rules and always follows orders. So how the fuck were hill and romanoff meant to work together?!

Romanoff is the complete opposite, barley follow the rules, orders or protocols during missions which is why hers and agent Barton partnership kind of worked (they both got into the same amount of trouble, other than that the partnership wasn't anything to boast about) but both Romanoff and hill have the highest completion rates for missions (which is probably why she gets away with not doing what I'm told) but through two completely different methods.

Taking a right then two more lefts down the corridor romanoff comes to a stop in front of two large wooden doors. Letting a deep breath to try and make herself relax and not as frustrated, when she relaxes enough she opens the doors and walks through.

[15 minutes before romanoff walks through the doors]

Agent hill arrive at the gym ten mutes before the meeting time which is at 6am, its a force of habit for her to be early to meetings. Although Hill is not sure whether or not agent Romanoff will actually turn up so this might just be a waste of time. Hill walks through the two large wooden doors into the gym and makes her way to the sparing mats, face the door and wait, god Hill hated waiting. She looks at her watch again to see that its 5:55am, only five more minutes . . . GREAT! She thinks sarcastically, Hill has been on edge since the meeting yesterday and can't help but think that this new partnership is going to be a disaster and probably going to get herself killed during the process. . .which is just fantastic she thinks bitterly.

watching as the last ten seconds of 5:59am tick by, ..2 as the last second goes by hill looks up at the door again and waits for agent Romanoff to grace her with her presence.

[meeting starts]

Agent Hill sees the doors in front of her open and agent Romanoff walks through leisurely like she's not late at all. This is going to piss me off if romanoff makes this a habit Hill thinks to herself knowing that it most likely will be.

"hill" Agent Romanoff greets as she walks over and stands in front of Hill, looking at the other agent with no emotions in her eye or voice. "your five minutes late, agent" Hill say in a slightly annoyed tone, she really does hate being made to wait. "i got stuck in traffic" Romanoff says shrugging her shoulders. " you live on base" Hill deadpans as she is starting to already wish that romanoff was just a no show.

"details" romanoff says with a smirk and a mischievous glint in her eyes. making Hills life difficult on purpose. Agent Hill knows that agent Romanoff is baiting her on purpose just to piss her off. But Hill is not going to give the other agent the satisfaction and decides to move on. Although romanoff is doing a good job at pissing her off. "fury wants us to start training together so we can get to know each others fighting styles and get them in sync before we go on missions" Hill says getting back to the reason we are here, and hopefully to get the other agent to co-operate with her.

romanoff can't help but find it funny and shows a slight smirk when hill talks in her authoritative voice she uses when talking to agents under her command when she's had enough of their nonsense. Romanoff breaks out into a larger smirk since she knows it'll definitely annoy Hill ."I'm surprised that you can still fight at all considering you spend most your time behind a desk" romanoff says like its a well known fact around S.H.I.E.L.D, although she knows Hill is a highly skilled agent.

Agent Hill narrows her eyes at what agent Romanoff had just said, and gives the agent her trademark disapproving look that lets Romanoff know that Hill is unimpressed. Hill is pissed at Romanoff thinking she just some useless person behind a desk."i can assure you, agent Romanoff that I'm perfectly capable at fighting regardless of what you think my job description is" Romanoff knows she achieved her goal to piss Hill off, as she can see Hill clenching her jaw even after she has stopped talking. "whatever you say Hill, ill believe it when I see it" Romanoff says like she's already bored of being here.

Hill just ignores the comment and decides to bring up the other topic fury had also mentioned. "fury also said that we should try get to know each other, even to become friends in order to make this partnership to work" which she herself wasn't entirely sure how to get to know the other agent or even if the other agent ever would open up to hill.

Romanoff looks towards hill confused. "get to know each other? And what become friends? I was brought up and trained to as an assassin! Not sit around and make friends with everyone" not understanding the point of becoming friends with the other agent or even how to, romanoff has never had someone you would call a friend.

Hill can see the confusion all over the other agents face as romanoff obviously is having a hard time with the concept, which makes hill realise that the other agent probably has never had a friend or knows how to be one, which makes sense considering how she was raised. Though no one apart from fury knows the full story but there has been rumours.

"agent making friends in this line of work is hard and dangerous, but when being partnered up with someone you are going to have to trust them with your life and will make it easier if you get to know them" hill says in a slightly softer voice hoping that will make the other agent understand.

Romanoff just stares at hill trying to understand what she just said, and sees the other agents point but it goes against everything that she has long been taught. "hill, sorry but I don't think we'd ever become friends" romanoff states.

romanoff sees hill flinch slightly and emotions she's not sure what flicker in hills eyes at her words and wonders if her statement was too harsh. But even though she says that it wouldn't, would it be such a terrible thing if it actually could happen? Becoming friends with hill? And having someone she can rely on. Romanoff ponders on those thoughts for a while and when she gets even more confused she pushes those thoughts away. And continues to stare at hill, waiting for her to say something back.

Hill watches as the other agent just stares at her. she can see that its not quite going through to romanoff how important it is for them to trust each other. Hill must admit that she's was a little hurt at how quickly the other agent had said it wouldn't happen, and wondered why it hurt her rather than annoyed her. hill quickly dismissed the thought. hill hoped that they could work something out. "you might be surprised at what can happen" hill says trying to persuade the other agent and give herself some hope that they aren't doomed.

Romanoff know hill means well but, she still has her doubts about the whole getting to know each other thing. "hmm maybe" romanoff vaguely answers hoping hill gets the hint.

Hill takes a deep breath taking the hint from romanoff, turns around and steps into the middle of the training mats then turns back to face the other agent who is just staring at her. "agent, I know for a fact that getting to know each other won't work unless your willing to try with me and I'm not going to push either. So how about we move on to learning each others fighting styles. the sooner we get started , the sooner we can do things we much rather do"

END OF CHAPTER 2 !

thanks for reading :)