The next day saw Clint finding more information out about Viper whilst Steve kept an eye on Jamie. It was currently two in the afternoon and she had yet to surface from her apartment. The curtains were still drawn at the window and no one had come and gone from the apartment building. Clint sighs into the cellphone at his ear before ending the call, throwing a glance to Jamie's window before lowering his gaze to Steve.

The man was currently sat on the steps of the apartment building, his body angled towards the direction Stark Tower could be found, a sketchpad on his lap and a pencil in his hand, if anyone but Clint was to look at the super soldier it would seem as though he was doing nothing but harmless drawing. But Clint kept catching the small flickers of movement his head made as Steve cast his gaze to Jamie's apartment before looking back forward.

Clint felt sorry for the man being stuck outside but it was Steve's idea, something about the apartment being too stuffy and also doing all the chasing of information wasn't something Steve was good at. Clint didn't argue and instead picked up the phone to ring SHIELD and get them to dig up all they could on Viper. Plus with Steve outside keeping vigil they would know when Jamie was on the move so Clint could activate the GPS system he'd managed to install last night.

Clint had remembered that Jamie had a bad habit of leaving her key in the lock when she locked up on a night, so he'd gone over and managed to figure out which was her apartment based on location of the windows. Kneeling down in front of the door he grabbed the Miniature GPS device and tag it to Jamie's keys using a pair of tweezers and extremely steady hands. It was one of Stark's inventions and could attach to anything and everything and couldn't be removed until the GPS was turned off by the remote Clint had. So as long as Jamie took her keys with her on every journey they would know where she was at all times.

The only downside was if yesterdays adventure had made Jamie want to flee she wouldn't take her keys with her which meant they had to somehow tag something she was guaranteed to take with her. The task seemed easier said then done but Clint was going to break into Jamie's apartment whilst she went out and see if there was something he could tag, basically he was going to snoop.

"The phoenix has risen" Steve's voice comes in over the earpiece in Clint's ear, humor dripping in every word

"Got it"

Clint hits the button on the GPS and walks over to the window, not knowing when he actually moved away, to see Jamie walking down the street away from the two buildings. Movement below catches Clint's eye and he sees Steve stand up and quickly head inside the building. Within minutes Steve's in the apartment placing down his sketching tools.

"She looks like she's headed for a run" He comments

"You're the fastest one here" Clint murmurs "I'll direct you to where she is. Then i'll head over to her place and see if there's something else i can tag"

The soldier nods and turns heading back out the apartment, Clint grabs the tablet bringing it close and opens the application showing where Jamie is. After telling Steve her location he waits for confirmation of Steve finding her, whilst waiting he walks over and grabs the things he needs for his current job.

"I see her" Steve says down the earpiece, his voice steady with no sign of breathlessness "She's a fast little thing"

Clint smirks but doesn't answer as he grabs the backpack he's just packed and heads out the apartment locking the door behind him. He walks steadily down the stairs and across the road, his head swiveling from side to side, his eyes scanning everything to see if there is any danger or anyone waiting in the wings for Jamie's return. Seeing no one he heads inside the apartment building and up to Jamie's number.

Double checking that no one can see him he drops down onto his hunches and quickly picks the lock, the old metal clicks loudly letting Clint know he's suceeded. With one more glance down the corridor he slips inside the apartment, shutting the door quietly behind him.

His eyes glance around the apartment Jamie calls home to see it could be called anything but a home. There are no personal features at all, bare walls, bare floors. The only semblance that someone lives here is the Laptop on the table and the clothes piled in the corner.

Noting nothing worth tagging in the living room he works his way towards the bedroom, pushing open the door he chuckles as he sees the bed in a mess.

"Still the same Jamie" he whispers to the empty room

His eyes roam over each corner of the room before his eyes land on the cell phone on the bed side table, he smirks and walks over. Clint takes off the backpack setting it on the bed and unzips it, his hands pull out the box which holds the mini GPS's devices and grabs hold of the cellphone. he grabs one of the GPS's and sticks it to the phone near the speaker.

"Steve" Clint says pressing down on the earpiece to activate it

"Yeah"

"I've tagged her phone but I'm going to see if there's anything else. Just in case she disposes of the phone"

"Okay" Steve replies "She's showing no signs of wanting to come back yet so you should be alright"

"Right"

Clint moves around the room trying to find anything else. He spots a walk in wardrobe in the corner and walks over pulling open the thin wooden doors. He spots her uniform from the day before as well as the leather jacket she'd been wearing. As he glances at the sleeve he sees the damage from the bullet but no blood which confirms his previous suspicion, the jacket took all the damage.

Shaking his head he looks over the other items and notices a duffel bag, the only bag in the whole cupboard. With a smirk he walks back to the bed and grabs the other GPS device before walking back over to the bag, placing the device inside one of the pockets.

"I'm done" he says to Steve

"Roger that"

Clint tries not to laugh at the pun included in that sentence and instead closes up the wardrobe and grabbing the backpack heads back into the living room and over to the laptop. Dropping down into the chair opposite he presses a button waking it up, reaching into one of the pockets of his bag he grabs a USB stick and inserts it into one of the slots.

He opens the file included on the stick and installs the virus which will sit on the computers hard drive and copy every file and search history currently on Jamie's laptop to the laptop currently sat on Clint's bed, as well as any new files she opens or stuff she does.

When he'd checked in earlier Fury had changed the mission a little bit, instead of bringing her straight in they had to try and learn as much about her as possible. They also had to try and find out as much as they could about Viper and why the hell Viper wanted her dead. None of Jamie's history showed her ever interacting with them.

"Hawkeye, we're doubling back"

"Five minutes"

"Hurry up" Steve groans "she's sprinting"

Clint curses as he waits for the virus to finish installing. When its done he grabs the USB and darts from the chair and out the apartment. Making sure the door clicks behind him, he heads down the hallway in the opposite direction to the one he came up and down the back stairs. Working his way round the building and back to front doors.

As he's about to leave he notices Jamie come to the bottom of the stairs, lowering his head he walks past her and almost curses as she knocks into him and drops to the floor. He carries on walking out the door, hoping and praying she didn't catch a look at his face. If she did things were about to get a whole lot worse.

"Watch where your going asshole" the familiar British twang shouts behind him

He pretends to walk down the street nodding at Steve as the man passes him, after a few moments he turns back and runs in the right direction and into the apartment building and up to the apartment. Steve was stood in the doorway holding the door open.

"Cheers"

Clint heads in and over to the table placing down the backpack before pivoting on the balls of his feet and heading into the bedroom. He grabs his laptop off the bed and walks into the main room to see Steve taking generous gulps from the bottle of water in his hands.

"She tire the old man out" he chuckles

"She's fast" Steve comments "And also knows how to loose someone. She changes paths quickly"

Clint nods folding himself into one of the chairs and booting up the laptop. Once awake he clicks on the application activating the virus and watching as all the files from Jamie's laptop installs.

"Do you think the files from SHIELD are on her laptop" Steve asks settling himself into the chair opposite Clint

It was times like this Clint was reminded that Steve hadn't done a mission like this,he kept asking questions to make sure he was doing the right thing and wasn't going to compromise the whole mission.

"If she has she's dumber than i knew her to be" Clint replies "But to be honest I believe she's hidden it somewhere"

"Knew her to be"

Fuck, Clint hadn't realized that he let that slip and with one quick glance up to the soldier he could see it was a conversation that wasn't going to be dropped anytime soon. He sighs and stands from the chair walking over to the fridge, he pulls it open and grabs one of the beers flicking off the lid as the fridge door closes.

"You need to tell me what's going on Clint" Steve says, his tone taking on a commanding quality

"I know where Jamie was when she dropped off the radar five years ago"

"Where?"

"With me" he sighs watching as the soldiers eyes widen

"She was with you?" he questions slowly "How long?"

"Four years"

Steve nods and Clint sighs walking over and dropping into the chair he previously occupied. His gaze steady on the soldier in front of him waiting for the barrage of questions that were undoubtedly to follow.

"Do you think Fury knows?"

The questions takes Clint for surprise but he shakes his head in reply "No one but Natasha knew me and Jamie were even together"

"So what tore the two of you apart"

"Secrets" Clint scoffs "Looks like there was more of them than i thought"

Steve nods and a comfortable silence settles over the partners. Clint had to hand it to the man, he wasn't one to pry. He hadn't asked the questions that Clint thought he would, instead he'd asked the ones that needed to be answered for the sake of this mission. If it had been Tony or even Bruce, Clint knew he wouldn't have heard the end of it until he told them the whole story.

"Will you be able to bring her in"

Steve's soft question breaks the silence and Clint stops mid drink to look at the soldier, his thoughts whirling. He'd taken the mission without thinking whether he could actually hand Jamie over. Yes Fury said they just wanted the information off her but what happened after she handed it all over, she was a killer and there was no way SHIELD would let her get away with it.

"We'll see when that time comes"

Clint places down his beer bottle and pulls the laptop towards him as the screen flashes to let him know all the files had been downloaded and the virus was fully active. He opens the first one he clicks on to see it's a mission dossier, the pictures included those of Jamie's would be killers last night.

Shrinking the file to read later, Clint clicks on another and as it opens his eyes widen as he sees its a list. On one side is names and places and on the other are dates. Looking at the first one he notices that Jamie would have been eight at the time, scrolling down the rather long list he sees the name of the three guys from last night added on the end. Its then that he realizes what it is, it's Jamie's kill list.

Some assassins were known for keeping them so that if they were ever questioned by their bosses on a certain kill they knew who they were on about. Clint didn't need one, he had all the paperwork to back his up but for someone like Jamie this was probably needed.

"Look at this"

"What's the dates mean?" Steve questions glancing at Clint briefly before returning his eyes to the screen

"A kill list. It shows the name and date of every kill Jamie has ever done"

"According to the top date she would have been eight years old"

"I know" Clint nods "I saw that too"

Movement on the tablet next to him catches Clint's eye and he looks over to see the GPS has activated, jumping up from the chair he walks to the window just in time to catch Jamie walking off down the street.

"Come on"

Steve stands up at Clint's words and after grabbing his leather jacket off the hook on the wall, also the gun lying on the table near the door the two of them head out to follow Jamie. As Clint walks down the stairs he pulls his phone from his pocket, opening the program for the GPS he walks in the direction Jamie went.

"There she is" Steve says pointing

As Clint looks up he gets another look at the tattoo covering Jamie's back, she had a total of ten tattoos but out of them all that was his favorite. It covered the whole of her back and stopped just before the curve of her ass. It was the type of thing you could spot anywhere if you were looking for it. Clint wondered why she had it on show, if she knew people were after her she would have covered the one thing that could lead them right to her.

Unless she wants to be found.

Clint groans silently as the thought crosses his mind, it would make sense. She had the mission dossier, no doubt stealing it off the men last night. She would know that more were apart of the mission and would be looking for her.

"Keep your eyes open, there could be trouble" he comments to Steve who nods in reply, his eyes planted firmly on the woman half a foot in front of them

The two of them trail behind her silently blending easily into the hustle and bustle of the New York streets, every now and then one of them would look around to make sure they were the only ones trailing Jamie before their eyes landed back on the woman in front of them.

After around two miles of walking, Jamie slips inside a bar and the two of them follow inside, Steve walks to the bar to get the drinks, whilst Clint walks to the bar of the bar to one of the tables partially hidden by shadows, he sits in the darkest corner, his eyes planted firmly on Jamie as she orders a drink further down the bar to Steve.

Once Steve has his and Clint's drinks he turns and heads to where Clint is seated, sitting in the chair further down on the opposite side so he doesn't obscure Clint's view. Thanking Steve for the drink the two of them settle in to no doubt watch Jamie get drunk.

After around an hour of nothing happening Clint watches as a dude walks over and drops into the seat opposite Jamie, their heads connecting as they hurriedly talk. He indicates to Steve who turns in his seat to watch the interaction just as the guy pulls out a brown envelope and handing it to Jamie who nods with a smile. The guy stands hurrying out the bar after that.

"She's planning to bolt" Clint mumbles "That envelope no doubt holds her new identity"

"Good thing we tagged her today then"

Clint nods and stands as Jamie heads out the bar, Steve follows and the two of them fight through the throng of people. Once outside they look up and down the sidewalk but don't see Jamie. Clint grabs his phone and notices she's five minutes walk away and heads in the direction, the GPS pointing him. He stops as he notices it shows Jamie in a alley and leans against the wall before leaning around the corner.

The sight that greets him gives him a sense of deja vu. In the alley with her was three other guys, Jamie was in the middle fighting the best she could, Clint could see the assassin she was trained to be showing in her actions. Before Clint could blink two guys were on the floor, one with a broken neck and the other gripping his arm where Clint could see the bone was broken and sticking out of the skin.

Jamie kicks the other guy away causing him to hit the ground, he soon picks himself up and grabs a knife from his boot charging at Jamie blindly, she laughs before grabbing the wrist with the knife twisting it, she grabs the knife with her spare hand and drives it into the guys throat.

Just as his body drops to the ground four shots ring out around the alley, Clint grabs the gun behind his back as the civilians on the street begin to scream and cause chaos on the sidewalks. As Clint looks at Jamie he sees her grab her stomach before moving her hand, her white top now stained red. Steve having just noticed the same thing runs towards Jamie as she falls to the floor, his arms catching her fall. Clint walks into the alley more cautiously, his eyes scanning the area looking for the shooter.

"Clint she needs the hospital badly"

Clint turns to face Jamie as he notices no one in the alley to see Steve sat with her head in his lap, his hands pressing down on Jamie's stomach in hopes of stopping the bleeding. He looks to the entrance of the alley to see a male peering round the corner, his eyes planted firmly on Jamie as fear flashes across his face

"Call an ambulance"

The guy nods and pulls out his phone with shaking his hands. Clint turns his head and walks over to Jamie and Steve, dropping down to his knees, his hands joining with Steve's in hopes of stopping the bleeding. Steve's calm voice fills the alley as he tries to keep Jamie awake, Clint nearly says something as he hears the name Marie but remembers that was the name she was going by at the moment.

Clint looks down at her face to see her eyes fighting to close, after taking a shuddering breathe her eyes pop open again settling on Clint's face, he hears the small gasp that leaves her lips as their gazes lock.

"Clinton"


End Note - Has anyone else seen the new Clip for Avengers: Age Of Ultron that's just been posted today. It looks good, so does Hawkeye and his cupboard of toys.

I love the idea that d0ct0rwh0l0ckf4n sent me, as you can see my dear I did as you wished. I hope it's exactly what you wanted. I do hope you keep dropping me ideas, i love them.

Also people it shows i listen to you, so shoot your ideas at me. I'll see if i can fit them in.

Also if you see any mistakes let me know, I don't have a beta and Punctuality is soo not my strong suit. How the hell i got a good grades in English I'll never know. Anyway let me know guys. It would be soo helpful.

Also someone messaged me asking what Clint and Jamie's shipper name would be. I couldn't answer but do you guys have any ideas.?

And last question i promise, i mentioned the other Avengers, should i include them in the story at some point. I think if things went really wrong Clint would call them in to help, what do you think?