Clint was pushed out of the room and had the door closed in his face. He sighed and turned around to see Tony and the rest of the Avengers sitting or standing right outside the door. He gave a small nod, hoping they hadn't seen him struggling with the nurses.

"Legolas." Tony said in greeting. He stood up and whacked Clint's arm, and then paused and began scrutinizing Clint's swollen bruise where he had hit him the day before. Clint's reflexes took over at how close Tony was standing, and before he even knew he had done it, Tony was spinning into the wall.

Tony groaned and rubbed the side of his face. "Forgiven, though I just might not invite you to my next celebration."

Steve frowned and stood up offering his seat to Clint who sat down wearily. "Sorry, Stark." He said, rubbing a hand across his face. "Just haven't been myself lately."

"You alright?" Steve asked, crossing his arms and glancing at the nurses and doctors that kept popping in and out of Natasha's room. Clint nodded silently.

"How is she doing?"

Clint winced. "Internal bleeding..."

Everyone's faces fell immediately, and Banner nodded, taking off his glasses, "So her blood pressure probably went up drastically. Most likely because of stress or shock...anything like that happening to her lately?"

"Yeah..." he paused, "She'll be killing me for saying this later." He winced inwardly thinking, "What if there is no later for her?"

"Barton?" Steve asked. "What is it?"

"Her memories from her early past...they are coming back to her. She was hallucinating back there in the gym. She didn't see me. She saw a person she had killed."

Tony nodded thoughtfully. "But why would her memories be causing this condition?"

"She isn't sleeping." Clint said simply. "I can hear her walking by in the hall all night long. I can't remember a time when I didn't wake up and hear her walking up and down the hall."

Bruce rubbed his chin. "So you think she isn't sleeping because of her memories, and therefore the lack of sleep and the stress and shock of the memories is contributing to this."

Clint nodded.

"So know what?" Steve asked.

"To recover faster, it would make the most sense to make it as easy as possible which means trying to block out her memories." Tony looked up at the ceiling for a minute, whispering to himself, and then walked out of the room.

"Where are you going?" Steve asked.

"Out for coffee." Steve and Clint looked at each other.

Bruce shook his head. "He means his lab."

The soldier and the archer both sighed. Tony was a real enigma, and the only two who could solve him were Bruce and Pepper.

"Agent Barton, you can see her now."

The three stood up and walked to the door. Who cared if the nurse had just called Clint?

-AVENGERS ASSMBLE-

Natasha zoned in and out of consciousness, not opening her eyes but just listening to the confused mess of voices and beeps.

"Doctor, she is regaining conscious again." The voice sounded far away.

"Put her under again." This voice was much closer and then she felt a cold hand on her forehead.

"What temperature?"

"101.7 It's lowered a bit."

She felt a sharp sting in her arm, and then the voices began to fade away slowly.

-AVENGERS ASSEMBLE-

Clint and the other two opened the door and walked in. The many doctors in the room nodded at them, but did not stop with their work. Clint watched as they took various blood samples, took temperatures, wrote down her heartbeat, and many other things. His eyes fell on Natasha's limp hand that was hanging off the bed. It was so pale, paler than before and there was blood on it from where she had touched her bloody chest. He took it and massaged it slowly.

"Do you know what's wrong with her?" Steve asked.

A nurse looked at her clipboard before answering. "From all the signs we have been picking up on, we think her condition mainly has to do with an extreme amount of stress and shock. When her blood pressure spiked, a blood vessel burst, and that's what caused the internal bleeding."

Steve and Clint exchanged glances, and then looked at Banner. He gave them a half smile and then looked down at his feet.

"Tell them, Banner." Clint said.

Banner nodded. "We already figured out the internal bleeding was caused by severe stress and shock. Partly why this happened was lack of sleep. Barton says she is hardly ever sleeping because of memory issues. I think if she is able to block out the memories, it will help to solve the other problems."

A doctor turned to Clint. "Are you sure she hasn't been sleeping? We haven't been picking up on many signs of fatigue."

Clint shrugged. "She's the Black Widow. She is at the peak of human condition. She could go for weeks with just three hours of sleep and act like she had slept fine her whole life."

The doctor nodded. "That's definitely a lead."

Banner frowned thoughtfully. "Another thing that is rather odd is how fast these things occurred. She was fine right before that incident in the gym, so what caused her body to suddenly react like that over a small bit of exercise?"

"Actually, I don't think she was fine." Clint said quietly. "She was in the gym almost all day with me before that incident, and she wasn't doing half as well as she usually does."

"So you think she was trying to hide her condition?"

"Would make sense. If she told anyone about it, she would consider it a sign of weakness."

The three doctors in the room looked at each other, confused. It almost looked like the three superheroes could solve her problem without any need for a medical staff. One of them coughed awkwardly, "We just did everything we could for her, so we will be going back to the other hospital."

Clint and Banner nodded, and Steve stood up politely from his chair as two of the nurses walked out of the room.

Steve sat down again, and they were all silent for a while, thinking about various things. Suddenly they were jolted from their thoughts by a blood curdling scream.

"Natasha!" Clint yelled.