A/N: Hey guys, so, here's chapter 4. I'm sorry it's a little bit on the short side, but, i'll try and make up for it in the next chapter.
Pepper sat on the couch with her lap top, trying desperately to keep her mind off the more recent turn on events in less than twenty-four hours. At some point in the middle of the night, Fury had called them, waking everyone up. Loki had been spotted in the heart of the city with a group of people, men and women alike, who Thor had figured out were friends of their father that had been exiled more than ten years earlier, and one was a mortal. She was worried for them, especially Tony, but knew deep down that the others wouldn't let anything happen to him, even Natasha, despite how much he annoyed the assassin. The twenty-eight-year-old got up upon hearing gun shots, not too far away from the Avengers Tower-formerly called Stark Tower-and that gave her a lot of anxiety.
"Well, either they found him, or they got into trouble with the authorities...again..."
Meanwhile, Natasha was caught in a shootout with one of Loki's men, both used abandoned taxi cabs for cover, neither particularly felt like dying tonight.
"Nat! You have one of them coming up behind you!" Clint said into the ear piece. Turning around, she sent the woman flying into a wall with a swift kick to the face, breaking the girl's nose in the process.
The next thing Natasha knew, a loud gun shot rang out, and she fell to the ground, clutching her leg and stomach in excrutiating pain. The last thing she remembered was Clint, Tony, and the others rushing to her side.
"We need a med evac for the Black Widow ASAP." He said into the ear piece, and tried to stop the bleeding in Natasha's leg.
"It hurts." She said, trying to keep on crying.
"You're going to be okay." Tony said, "JARVIS, alert Pepper of the situation and tell her all of us will be home soon."
"Right away sir."
Clint kissed the redhead on the forehead, trying to keep her from slipping into unconsciousness.
"Tasha, keep your eyes on me, don't fall asleep. You'll be fine. We'll have you fixed up at SHIELD and you'll be back at the Tower before you know it. Just listen to my voice."
However, she wasn't listening, no matter how much she tried, the assassin couldn't stay awake, even if her life depended on it, which it did. She was tired and all she wanted to do was take a nap.
She let her eyes slip shut, and everything went black.
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