Chapter 6: A Magical Place Called Budapest

"Clear!"
"Again!" the voice yelled.
"Clear!"The lone bleat continued.
"one more time Clear!" The slow steady beat of a heartbeat began.

Sunlight streamed in through the window arousing Natasha from a very deep slumber that she had been in. Feeling groggy and very drugged up almost barely even able to lift her head off of the pillow. raising her head weakly she looked over and saw that the clock on the wall read 10.25 am. so it was morning and she was definitely in a hospital. The question though was how the hell had she even gotten here. The tonly thing she could really remember was getting stabbed in the side, followed by a lot of pain and then everything after that just becomes a blurry mess.

The door to her left opens abruptly startly her. turning her head abruptly a slight flash of vertigo takes over before its gone. her face paling slightly as she felt a little sick to her stomache but decided at that moment to push the nausea down and focus. Barton stood in the doorway looking right at her with a quizzical stare as he walked in looking slightly disheveled. Also kinda hot which was really unfair to her she probably looked a wreck... wait what did she just think inwardly slapping herself for think he was hot she tore her gaze back to his face and frowned. Going over to the table

closing the door behiind him she opened her mouth to speak but all that came out was a hoarse croak. Going over to the table he picked up a glass of water and handed it to her "here" he said as she grabbed it from him her fingers brushing his slightly which made her shiver for reasons she didn't even want to think about. swallowing the water slowly as she chugged down the glass in less than a minute finally setting the glass down she took a deep breath.

"where the hell are we" she croaked her voice still up and still not saying anything he went over towards the curtains pulling them aside farther so she could see out side he looked back smirking at her as he said. " welcome to Budapest, I've heard its a magical place or so im told." he said plopping down on one of the empt chairs with a sigh.

"you look tired" Natasha mused looking at his eyes which looked like he hadnt slept in a few days as well as his clothes which looked like they had a few wrinkles in them." Yea well thats all your fault. you almost died you know your heart stopped and everything. There was so much blood" he said hoarsely shaking his head as he looked away from her. smirking at him she teased "Awww was the little hawk worried" she grinned at him smirking but suddenly froze as he slammed his fist onto the table in aggravation.

"Damn it Nat is this a joke to you do you even care about your life you could have died does that even mean anything to you god you are the most selfish person in the world dont you even know that there are people who care about you, who would lose it if something happened to you!" he roared his face almost red as Natasha stood frozen her eyes wide in shock and surprise.

"No clint there has never been anyone like that in my entire life. The red room never allowed connections like that" she whispered her head hanging low as her hair fell in front of her face. " well you dont have to worry about that anymore because I care about you Nat... congratulations looks like you made your first friend before you know it you'll get tons more that will care about you just as much as i do trust me" He said grinning at her with a smile that made her insides turn upside down. what the hell was happening to her?

Friends huh? for some reason that she couldnt explain that word didnt exactly sit well with her it almost made her uneasy but as of right now she didnt exactly know why. The sound of hurried footsteps drew her attention away from Barton. Glancing towards the door as it burst open and Coulson came barreling in almost out of breathe. Standing up fast Barton knocked over the chair frowning. "what is it whats happened?" Barton said looking at Coulsons face for any sign of what was going on.

"The Director, Fury he's just arrived and he looks pissed, worse than he did during the dubai incidient" Barton to her right collapsed in his chair groaning as he threw his hands up covering his face. Frowning she glanced at Barton "how long was I out for?" she said frowning. Realizing at that point that she should've asked that question almost right after she had woken up but somehow she had forgot.

"about 3 days?" Barton mumbled through his hands letting out a sigh. The reaction from her that followed wasnt pleasant at all. "What?!" she screamed jumping out of bed. which of course was a mistake due to the injury that hadn't even come close to healing. Falling out of bed ungracefully she hit the floor hard grabbing at her side which throbbed with untold agony as she almost blacked out a second time from the amount of pain she was now experiencing.

"What are you insane?! why the hell did you just jump out of bed you cant be moving yet? are you crazy?!" Barton yelled jumping out of his chair to rush to her side. knealing next to her, he wrapped his arm around her waist gently pulling her up and into his chest holding her there for only a second as he slowly brought her back to the bed to help her get in. "This is bad I havent checked in with the red room for 3 days. They'll come after me now like they did with Alexei" she mummbled ignoring the fact that Barton had pulled the covers back over her.

"The Red Room won't get you not while your at shield" Coulson said glancing at Barton with a frown on his face. He Clearly hadnt like what he saw from Barton but Natasha didnt really understand why nor was she going to be concerned with it. " why the hell is fury coming here?" Barton said looking over at Coulson now with a worried expression on his face. " Oh I dont know maybe its because you spared your targets life when you were suppose to kill her or maybe its the fact that you started a fire in Saint Basils Cathedral." Coulson let out a deep sigh rubbing his eyes tiredly. " This time you royaly fucked up Barton" He mummbled Glancing at the Natasha. The red head currently occupy the bed.

The door burst open with a sudden force at that moment that it slammed into the wall as a man stepped in with a scowel on his face and an eye patch covering one eye. Glaring directly at her fiercely. She met his gaze completely unwavered almost glaring back. Tearing his gaze from her he yelled " Coulson, Barton both of you out in the hall now!" he snapped pointing his finger towards the door. At that moment she almost laughed at both of the agents as they looked like kicked puppies except she realized now probably wasn't a good time to laugh even she could read the atmosphere when she wanted to.

"Are The Both Of You Out Of Your Minds?! do you know the mess that I had to clean up because of you two! this is Dubai all over again... No This Is Worse Than Dubai. And now because of you we have to deal with the red room I dont have time for this shit... Really Barton you started a fire in a cathedral and almost burnt it to the ground what the hell were you thinking you Jackass I should fire both of you. Your suppose to be his handler Coulson so incidents like Dubai dont happen again... Where the hell were you. All you had was a simple Mission kill the Black Widow. How did it turn into this cluster fuck?!"

Natasha winced glancing towards the door as she let out a smirk. Looks like someone is in trouble she thought. She could hear both Barton and Coulsons voices in the background saying something but their voices were too muffled to hear. Not that it mattered though because a second later the door was thrown open as The director strode in glaring at her. "You! Follow me" He said snapping his fingers. frowning at the gesture that reminded her of someone call a dog before she could even retort Barton pushed passed the director turning to face him. " sir she cant move yet her inguries are still too great she could pull her stitches open if she moves now" he said holding his hands out towards fury. who gave him a fierce death glare.

"Alright fine if your so worried about her why dont you carry her Barton so she doesnt pull any of her god damn stitches there you see what I did I solved all our problems now move your asses" He yelled whirling as he strode out of the room as Barton turned and faced Natasha who at this point had just given up on carring. As scary as Fury was he was still no match for the fear that came with the people from the red room. She could definitely deal with Fury's anger.

Glancing at Barton who was walking over to her slightly nervous as he twisted his hands together " hey... do you mind" he said waving his hand over her. Letting a smirk slowly stretch across her lips. " sure go ahead" she said pausing for a second before deadpanning . "but if you drop me I'll kill you and no one will ever know" grinning at him. This time it was Bartons turn to grin. "You wont do that you like me too much Nat" he said scooping her up into his arms completely surprising her.

Ignoring him she frowned feeling a blush coming on from being this close to him. why the hell did he exhibit a reaction like this from her she had never had this problem before and its not like this is the first man she had been around. She has been around other men who were red room agents and yet this man did weird things to her. He also felt very warm she could feel his body heat radiating off him. Resting her head on his chest as he carried her out she let out a sigh. Not even paying attention to the direction that they were headed.

Grabbing the door handle Barton pushed open the door at the end of the hall. Raising her head fury was already waiting in one of the empty seats as Barton set her an the chair across from fury . {so this is the interrogation part of the evening is it} she thought smirking inwardly to herself. "Natalia Romanova or do you prefer Natasha Romanoff I am not sure which one you go by anymore" So he knew her real name not that she was actually surprised she had been Natalia for so long in the red room and Natasha had always been an alias but she didnt want to be Natalia anymore. she didnt want to be the red rooms puppet and Natalia was only ever going to remind her of the red room in truth and she had known this for awhile, she wanted more that anything to be Natasha Romanoff the fearless Black Widow. " Natasha... Romanoff thats the name I want that other name doesnt exist anymore shes dead" Looking up into fury's eyes waiting for a reaction he smirked "good" he said.

"I guess Barton was right about you although he could have brought you in more quietly" he said turning to glare at Barton who grinned sheepishly. "That was my fault I..I didnt know what I wanted I thought I had No choice. I ran several times but... Barton never stopped chasing me I guess Im tired of running... Sir" she said that last part almost hesitantly as if she wasnt sure she was aloud to say didnt even know what was going to happen to her now but honestly she didnt care.

"Well Barton always was stubborn. He never knew when to give up I guess that isnt always a..." An explosion sounded in the background shaking the whole facility. Barton who had been standing up stumbled over his eyes wide "what the hell?!" fury said standing up and knocking over his chair in the process. The door burst open as Coulson barelled in panting " The... red... room they found us they must be... here for Natasha" he said in between gasps. Flinching she looked towards fury who had turned his attention back to her wondering if he would give her up.

"Do you want to be an agent" he said looking her dead in the eye "what... what are you talking..." glaring he slammed his hands onto the table "I said do you want to be an agent its a yes or no answer" "yes... yes I do" she blurted without even thinking "Great you step out those doors your an agent of shield and since Barton brought you in he can be your partner... Good luck with that" he said grabbing her hand and shaking it. Barton smirked at her leaning over as he said "I should warn you ahead of time that every partner i've ever had has quite after their first mission with me just ask Maria hill about mine and hers first mission together The Dubai incident she quite right after that" he said smirking. There it was again the Dubai incident Natasha needed to remind herself later to ask Barton about it because it was really driving her nuts.

"This is our first Mission together and I havent quite yet" Natasha said smirking as she looked up at him "Well give it some time" he said "Or maybe you were just waiting for the right partner" she said pushing herself up and ignoring the pain as she strode towards the door turning abruptly to look at him. " well Barton what the hell were you waiting for?!" she yelled pushing open the door as the sound of gunshots could be heard in the distance down the hall. " So demanding" he teased urning him a slap on the back of the head."

"Yea I think those two will work well together" Fury murmured to himself."Either that or they'll kill each other first" Coulson said beside him smirking as Natasha and Clint both rushed off into the battle. Despite the fact that neither of them were actually armed with any weapons. Fury and Coulson looked at each other frowning as they came to the same conclusion. "Do you think they'll be alright without any guns or weapons" Coulson said frowning. Shrugging his shoulders fury turned "I'm sure they'll be alright and if not well there is always more where they came from" he said smirking as somewhere another explosion rang in the background.