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Not Betad, every mistake is my own.

Note: English is not my first lanuage.

After the battle of New York Clint left. The team thinks it's because of the guilt from what loki made him do. But is it ever that simple?

Clint-centric, but features the team

'Barney happened.'

From the way Natasha stiffened at that, Steve figured it had to be bad. He looked at Bruce and Tony. They appeared just as clueless as he was. Steve had always known Clint kept his secrets close to his chest.

'Who is Barney?' Tony asked the question after a moment of silence.

'My brother.' Clint voice was a whisper again.

'So he isn't dead as we suspected.' Natasha said.

'No, but he blames me for everything.' Clint whispered.

'Hold on.' Tony interrupted. 'Let the rest of us catch up. So you have a psycho brother who wants revenge. Why? And why didn't you come to us?'

'Barney betrayed Clint. A confrontation ended with one of Clint's arrow's in Barney chest. It was self defense.' Natasha summed up, shot, quick and to the point. She glared at each of them, daring them to question it further.

'I couldn't come. I still can't be here. He knows things. Things that could destroy the Avengers. Destroy S.H.I.E.L.D.'

'And in order for him to keep quiet you do, what exactly?' Bruce finished cleaning the wounds on the archers back.

'I stay away.' Clint said. They all knew that wasn't the whole truth. Even Tony could see that the archer was holding something back.

Natasha frowned. Clint was usually better at hiding things. She moved to crouch before him. She took his head in both her hands and stared into his eyes. The others were wondering what she was looking for, when she spoke up.

'He is destroying you and you're letting him. Is that part of the deal? Our lives in exchange for yours?'

Clint looked away, but everyone could see the tears in his eyes. 'I have been following you. As close as I dared. Last time he caught me. He had a sniper trained on your back.' Clint sounded broken. 'He said I needed to be taught a lesson. I jumped at the sniper and he had one of his men throw Steve of the building. Next thing I know I'm tied up and.. well my back happened. I didn't even know Steve was alive until this afternoon.'

'Your brother was responsible. Tony caught Steve.' Bruce told him.

'Yeah, I saw him fall.' Tony shrugged.

'Now you understand. I have to leave. I can't anything happen to you because of me.' The words were empty. He couldn't even get up at this point.

'You. Are. Not. Leaving.' Natasha pronounced each word carefully. 'We can take care of ourselves. We take care of each other.'

'And S.H.I.E.L.D. can go to hell.' Tony added cheerfully.

All eyes turned on him. 'What? It's not like they have done much for us lately. Or ever.' The last part was said under his breath.

'S.H.I.E.L.D. aside what are we going to do? We can't let this Barney terrorize Clint any further.' Bruce asked.

'We kill him.' Natasha's tone was deadly. Nobody messed with Hawkeye on her watch.

'How do we find him?' Steve's tone was just as deadly. It froze Clint's spine and made him feel treasured at the same time. He gave a watery smile.

'I know trust doesn't come easy to you. You can trust us.' Bruce saw the smile.

'So how do we find Barney?' Steve, always the leader, asked.

'You don't. He'll find us. He'll know by now I disobeyed.'

'You didn't disobey. Hulk knocked you out when he went to catch you.' Tony's cheerful mood returned.

'What?'

'Yes apparently you tried to run. But since our black widow ordered him to get you, he did just that.' Tony smirked.

Clint, suddenly a lot more awake, looked from Natasha, who smiled and refused to feel guilty, to Bruce, who was wearing a similar smile.

'You deserved it. Leaving us like that.' They both heard the unspoken leaving me like that.

'I guess.' Clint just shrugged. It hadn't been the first time he was knocked unconscious and he doubted it would be the last. Natasha just smiled at him.

'You said he knows things. Things about us. Do you know what?' Bruce pulled them out of the happy moment.

'Just some things. He knows who the Cap really is and threatened to expose him. He knows of your enemies Bruce. He threatened to bring General Ross here. He knows of enemies of Nat. You can't escape them all at once Nat.' He stopped her before she could speak.

'What about me?' Tony looked around, Bruce looked shaken and even Steve seemed to have lost his momentum.

'Everyone knows your weakness Tony. It's Pepper.' Natasha told him.

'Yes, you haven't been very stealthy. Still to know Steve identity and threaten me with Ross, that is classified information. No one should know that.' Bruce was thoughtful.

'No one but S.H.I.E.L.D. Which means they have a mole. Which is also the way to destroy S.H.I.E.L.D.' Steve looked angry.

Tony pulled out his tablet. 'I can hack and track everyone who has had access to our files.' The billionaire typed away on the tablet.

'We have a problem.' Tony looked thoughtful.

'What?' Everybody asked at the same time.

'The last person to access our files. The only one to check all the files is Coulson.'

No Coulson isn't alive in this story. This chapter is mostly talk.

Things are going to happen soon. I hope :)

I just watched the Incredible Hulk. More Bruce in the future.

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