AN: I think the second chapter I did kind of sucked, so I hope this one makes up for it.
"Nat?"
He was surprised to see the green eyes he's been used to waking up whenever he gets knocked out in missions. Shocked to see the same red curls he'd always run his hand in. But what shocked him the most was the four words she told him.
"Should I know you?"
"Nat, this has to be a joke. And not a very good one, I tell you. Not a very good one." Clint said, even though his brain wanted to tell him that she was saying the truth. That she didn't, in fact, know him.
Her only response was to give him a questioning look. Clint had no idea what to say, it had never occurred to him that Natasha getting amnesia would ever happen in their lifetime. Which he now thinks is incredibly stupid since they were in a dangerous field of work.
And then out of nowhere, a man came out of nowhere and grabbed Natasha on the wrist.
"Nat, we have to go"
In the corner of his eye, he saw, what looked like, a metal wrapped around the man's left arm.
"Barnes?!"
Bucky ignored him and grabbed Natasha on the wrist and said, through gritted teeth, "Nat, we have to go". Bucky turned and started to walk away with Natasha in tow.
"Bucky! Tell me what happened to Natasha! Why doesn't she remember me?!" Clint wanted to punch the guy. He continued to follow them.
Bucky stopped walking, which caused Clint to almost bump into him.
"Shut it, Barton. I've decided to do something. I just can't let the Red Room send more assassins to come after her. Just lay off, okay. If you hadn't taken her in and brought her to S.H.I.E.L.D., she wouldn't be into so much trouble."
"What do you mean 'you've decided to do something'?" Clint asked, as his eyes darted to a bandage sticking out of Natasha's hair. He didn't want to believe what his mind is telling him. That maybe, just, maybe…
"Did you shoot her, Barnes?!" Clint screamed, rage starting to boil up inside him only waiting to go off.
Bucky, again, ignored him.
"Bucky, did you shoot her?" he asked, with a firm voice that anyone who knew him knows that it meant he was angry. Like Hulk-angry.
A cab stopped right in front of them, and Bucky whispered for Natasha to get in. Bucky turned to Clint, and said, "So what if I did? What could you do? You're no match for what the Red Room could do, Barton"
And with that, Bucky got in the cab and slammed the door.
He sat down in the roadside, with his head resting on his hands. 'I'm stupid', Clint repeated in his head. He knew it was stupid to not think of what might happen once he took her in to S.H.I.E.L.D. to be an agent. He hadn't thought of the Red Room ever sending assassins to go and force Natasha to return to them.
"She is their best assassin, of course they'd take her back", he muttered to himself. "That was a stupid move, Barton. That was a stupid move"
But he still couldn't hide the fact that taking Natasha in was also the best thing he's ever done in his entire life. He has never found anyone else who could understand him better that Natasha. She's an assassin. He's an assassin. Maybe that was why they understood each other. Because they both have blood on their hands, which they both wanted to wash off.
She's always told him that she had much more red on her hands than him. But he didn't want to treat her like a monster, even though he knew she treated herself that way.
If she were here, he knew she would tell him, "Get your ass off the pavement, Barton. Sulking won't do you any good"
And, as always, she would be right. So Clint got up from his sitting position, and brushed the dust off his pants. He took out his phone and dialed Hill's phone. As soon as he heard Hill's voice, he said
"I need info on The Winter Soldier. A.S.A.P."
AN: so hopefully that would make up for the last chapter I posted. So I want to thank the people who've been reviewing and who've been reading this fanfic. I'll try to post much longer chapters soon. Before anyone asks, I think this story would probably fit between the Avengers and CATWS. :D And I just wanted to say that Bucky here loves Nat. I loved their chemistry in one of those chapters in Black Widow vol. 5. And I'm sorry I ship 3 people with Nat. idk what I'm doing. See you next chap. :D
