Intervention Part 2
Author: Couple of scenarios ran around in my head for this one until I grabbed ahold of this one. Also
wanted to have a fun little fight between May & Clint, cuz they're two of my fav characters in SHIELD.
I own nothing & nobody. Except for Clint & May having known each other when they were younger.
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May leaned against the door frame of what appeared to be the Avenger's Rec Room.
Sneaking in had been surprisingly easy.
Sneaking up on her prey, however, was not.
He had tensed when she had appeared, realizing she was not one of the Tower's usual residents.
It had been a subtle shift, one that wasn't noticeable unless you looked for it.
His eyes slid to her & his muscles tensed.
He shifted his weight just a little bit so that he could be a little bit quicker on his feet.
None of this surprised her.
He was one of SHIELD's top agent's & one of Fury's personal favorites.
And since he was one of their elite, he reacted to the potential threat... just not quite how she had expected him to.
Clint was a marksman & skilled with projectile weapons but he preferred hand to hand when it was just him against one person.
But he did also like to fight dirty & have an edge on his opponents.
So... maybe having a pool ball thrown at her head shouldn't have surprised her as much as it did.
She ducked the pool ball & dove to the floor to avoid the pool cue that flew at her like a javelin.
Also an unexpected attack.
"Anything I can put my hands on can become a weapon. Or did you forget that May?" Clint asked.
May blinked up at him & smirked, snatching the pool cue off the floor. She & Clint had sparred many time in their younger years, early in their careers with SHIELD.
"Maybe I did." she chuckled as he grabbed another cue & gave it a twirl.
There was a bit of the young man she had known over a decade ago in the haunted eyes of the man who stood before her.
They both had changed... a lot.
"Jarvis, where is Clint?" Tasha asked, not spotting her lover amongst the gathered Avengers.
"In the fourth floor Rec Room fighting the intruder."
"What intruder!?" Tony snapped.
"The one who over-rode my commands so that I was not to alert anyone to her presence except for other members of SHIELD sir."
"Damn it! Why do SHIELD members hate me?" Tony groaned, glaring over at Natasha.
"Probably because you hack their systems constantly." Bruce offered.
"Not helping." Tony said.
"Bring up the survelliance feed." Tasha said, ignoring them.
A screen popped up to show Clint using a pool cue as a bo staff against a woman in a black body suit. A SHIELD logo flashed on her shoulder as she moved to block a hit aimed at her legs by Clint. She was fast & agile but Tasha knew Clint was toying with her.
"Who is she?" Steve asked.
"One of ours." Tasha said, turning on her heel to leave.
"Why are you here May?" Clint asked as May landed hard on her back.
"I came because of Coulson." she panted, staring up at the man towering over her.
Clint had put her through her paces & he wasn't even winded.
Either she was out of practice or he had some new training regimen.
Considering he was probably expected to keep up with Iron Man, Hulk, Thor & Captain America... she was willing to guess the latter.
"Coulson is dead." Clint growled, pressing the end of the cue against her throat. He cocked an eyebrow at the dark bruise on the side of her neck.
He knew that kind of mark anywhere.
May had a toy hidden away somewhere who she was allowing to mark her.
Interesting.
"No... he's alive. Fury moved heaven & earth to keep him alive." she gasped.
Clint's eyes darkened & he put more pressure on her throat. She knew how much faith in & respect for Fury Clint had.
"Give us proof May." came a sharp voice from the doorway.
Natasha... of course.
The pair were never far apart.
"Natasha you actually buy into this?" Clint asked, glancing over his shoulder.
"This is May. She knows you could kill her with just the right amount of pressure in the just the right place. Why would she lie to us? Why would she break into the Tower, over ride Jarvis & hunt you down to do something like this?" Tasha asked, setting a hand on his arm gently.
"I have proof. We landed at the SHIELD medical base twenty miles out earlier. One of our team was shot twice in the stomach." May whimpered, staring up at them.
"Clint please... I need to know." Tasha pleaded, looking up at him.
"Only for you." he sighed, relaxing under her touch & tossing the pool cue away.
May crawled away, rubbing her throat & watching them carefully. She had forgotten how vengeful Clint could be.
"May. If you lie to us or are lieing to us now, your life is forfeit." he warned, turning his attention back to her.
"Of course." she whispered.
Clint was a SHIELD agent to the core.
Everything about him that the outside world saw & knew was a lie.
But within SHIELD, he lived by his own set of rules.
One of those rules: be completely honest with him. At all times.
He was also not a very forgiving person.
So if that rule or any other rule of his was broken...
God help whoever broke it.