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A/N: Do you guys think I rushed the last chapter? Made the time skips a little too much, a little too far apart? I'll probably put more time skips in this one and the next chapter too, depending. I'm not quite ready to start hitting the major film crossover parts, as you can probably guess I'll have her in part of the Ironman, Hulk, Thor, Captain America stories (obviously with Cap it's going to be after he gets out of the ice, or when he's thawing out or is that technically the same time structure?) and let's not get into Coulson's stalker tendencies please, Cap's still having nightmares (hell, Harriet's still having nightmares and we haven't even hit that part yet)

Edit (03/06/2012) – To the anonymous reviewer who wondered why S.H.I.E.L.D would show themselves to a community that views them as inferior, does anyone in S.H.I.E.L.D/Avengers look normal? No, and how it doesn't make any sense, this is fan-fiction, crossover fan-fiction, when does any of this make sense? Oh and thank you for reviewing, I really wish you would have signed in and then this wouldn't have been public. I hoped you liked the story even with this anomaly that didn't make sense

Harriet Coulson: Avenger

Chapter 3

It was few days after she arrived that she found Severus had to leave once more due to Dumbledore wanting his favourite pet to come home (so did Voldemort), Harriet had laughed as she commented that the world was Severus' pets not the other way around, it took a few minutes until Severus' mask cracked (and he scared the same recruits Fury had scared a few days previously, they had to be given medical leave). After the snarky man had left she found herself with nothing to do, she'd contacted the exams board the day before and with international mail it was going to take a long time (probably only a week but with nothing to do it would feel like a long time).

She'd also hacked the mission assignments and had found the Natasha was in Sweden, Clint was in Egypt and her father was travelling all over America doing Fury only knew what (because she'd been caught by the boss man himself before she could find out), which left her alone for the next few weeks, or months, and she really didn't want to spend too long in Fury's care (he was creepy when he smiled) and she wasn't qualified to go on missions. So with a sigh she went back to her room and collapsed on the bed, her face turned towards the wall that had a collage of pictures from her childhood and the different schools she'd gone to. Her eyes sought out one from last summer, where her father had taken her to New York (and unsuccessfully tried to keep her away from the Stark Expo) where they'd seen the sights and also kept off of Fury's radar.

The picture was of them both stood outside the Empire State Building, wearing 'I 3 NY' t-shirts and smiling stupidly, Harriet smirked, they'd looked like a couple of tourists even though Phil Coulson had been there loads of times, and she'd been there for a day trip with Salem Academy when she was 11. Getting up she moved to touch the picture before shaking her head and leaving the room, she needed to practise because she was sure that Clint would be back in a few weeks and would want one of their "friendly" competitions (just so he knew she was keeping up with her practise and to give him a dose of healthy competition as everyone else sucked at archery)

~~^v^~~

Clint Barton loved heights, he loved them because he could see everything, he could also map the routes those below him would take as well and that was a really good thing to have as a talent if you were an S.H.I.E.L.D agent. So he was surprised to find that it took him a few days to realise he was being followed by a little girl, the one that had been there for a long as he had. He still remembered the first time he'd seen her, big green eyes looking up at him from the ground before she'd ducked behind Coulson and disappeared into one of the rooms that Fury would have been found in. That had been four years ago, and he'd heard that at the time she'd just begun walking and had separation issues.

He realised that one of the reason's he hadn't noticed was because he wasn't where he normally was (meaning he was on the ground instead of up high) and he'd only noticed because of the big green eyes he'd seen ducking behind one of the pillars in the archery grounds. Of course, he'd shook it off but when he'd seen those same eyes watching him the next time he'd been there he'd known he had his own little stalker.

So as he settled once more in his 'nest' as Fury had been taken to calling it, he watched the 6 year old move about without anyone on the ground noticing, not even when she walked right in front of them in some cases. He followed the girl's progress towards the archery range and with a tilted head he followed, his blue eyes watched as the girl began setting up her own bow and a quiver of arrows.

Clint had continued to watch as she'd fired off a few, getting more and more frustrated as the time went on and she still couldn't hit the mark, he even smiled when she finally did get the target, even if it was just the edge.

"You know, it's not nice to spy." Clint jumped and found himself looking right into big green eyes, backing up he realised he'd been so out of it he hadn't noticed that she'd stopped and climbed up to talk to him.

"Everyone does it." Clint replied quietly as he watched the girl settle beside him.

"True, I'm Harriet." Those big green eyes captured him and he replied with a smile and his name, in return he got a big grin before she left and completely disappeared. It took Clint a few moments to realise he was alone and that she'd left him to clear up, with a chuckle he left his high advantage and began to clear the area until he could do his own training, getting the centre of the target every time.

~~^v^~~

Hawkeye was glad when he could finally return to base, he'd missed not seeing his friends (even if he couldn't stand Natasha and Harriet was 7 years younger than he was) although he knew from experience that Natasha would be on a mission which meant that Harriet would be alone as Coulson would have been making sure that Fury was kept up to speed and sane. Looking out of the window of the quinjet he thought back to the little girl who he'd taught archery and who'd loved heights as much as he had, he chuckled as he thought of how she'd be driving Fury mad as he knew she'd been back for a few weeks now.

Within a few minutes he could see the main base of S.H.I.E.L.D and the smoke rising from one of the buildings, as soon as the jet touched the ground he was jumping from it along with his weapons, rushing around the buildings and past other operatives. When he finally arrived at the burning building he could see a group of agents working to put out the flames while Fury stood shouting at Harriet, he grinned as he watched her bored expression and wondered what she'd done to set the building on fire.

"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? DID YOU REALLY THINK THAT HAVING A DUEL FOR YOUR EXAMS WAS A GOOD IDEA?"

"I have to be in a duel to show what I can do, how was I supposed to know that I'd set the building on fire? The judges said that they'd put wards up to stop it."

Clint frowned; he thought that Harriet wouldn't take her exams until she was near the end of her final year, as he moved closer he knew the exact moment that he'd been spotted because Harriet ignored what Fury had begun to say and was running towards him.

"HAWKEYE!"

He grinned as he put his things down quickly, and as he straightened he felt his friend slam into him nearly knocking them both to the ground. As he squeezed he realised how much his friend had grown over the past 10 months, the girl was now only a few inches shorter than him (and had more curves than he wanted to see on someone who was like a little sister to him), and he also noticed that her hair was longer and straight instead of curly.

"Hey! You got a name yet?" He asked when she'd finally let go of him.

"Fire starter comes to mind." Fury muttered as he went past, giving up on reprimanding Harriet now that she'd have a distraction, Clint just laughed as Harriet stuck her tongue out at the one eyed man.

"No, but I should have one soon, I'm not going to school next year and am doing my exams." She waved her hand at the dying fire behind her, and he noticed a few robed wizards to the side talking, "I know I'm going to pass and then that means I'll be joining you on missions."

"God help us all when you go on your first mission." Clint grabbed his gear and linked arms with Harriet as they walked away from the mess behind them and towards Clint's rooms, laughing and joking along the way. It was definitely good to be back home.