Hey everyone! I'm finally on winter break! I hope you guys like this chapter and I'm very happy with how it turned out. Enjoy!


Natasha burst through her hotel room door and flung the arrow tip onto the bed. She pulled out her phone from her back pocket and unlocked the screen to scroll through her contacts. She found Tony's name and tapped the screen to call him. The phone rang a couple times before Tony answered it with a grunt.

"What, Spidey?" Tony griped. "Do you know what time it is?"

"Yes, I do. Do you think I fucking care?" Natasha snapped.

There was silence on Tony's end as he absorbed Natasha's snarky comeback. After a couple seconds, there was the sound of rustling of sheets and a sigh from Tony. "Alright Red, what's going on?"

"I need everything you can find on the Catacombs of Callixtus," Natasha said. "I'm not talking history and who's buried there. I need maps, government documents, anything that will give me an insight into the inner workings of these catacombs."

"Wait, did you find him?" Tony asked suddenly.

"No. Yes. Well, not quite," Natasha stuttered. It was strange. The Black Widow did not stutter. "I found one of his arrow tips in the catacombs so I'm pretty sure that's where he is."

"And if he isn't?" Tony inquired nervously.

"Then I go back to the beginning and keep looking," Natasha said matter-of-factly. She wasn't going to leave until Clint was safe. Whether she left Italy alive or not didn't matter to her.

Natasha heard Tony let out a deep breath and then a grunt. She heard the sound of footsteps across the floor as he most likely made his way out of the room. "I'll see what I can find, Spidey. Just hang tight until then," Tony said.

"Got it, and thanks," Natasha said before ending the call. She chucked the phone onto the bed before collapsing on top of the bed herself. She dug the heels of her hands into her eyes as she tried to keep herself from doing something drastic. She knew the Catacombs of Callixtus had to be the place where Clint was being kept but since she had no idea what they were like aside from what she saw on the tour, she couldn't just go in there without a plan.

Unable to sit still, Natasha grabbed her phone and stood up from the bed. She gathered up her hotel room keys before digging around in her bag to find one of her guns that was stowed away in the undetectable compartment. She pulled it out and then loaded it before shoving it into the inside of Clint's jacket.

Without thinking, Natasha slipped on Clint's jacket and then headed out the door of her hotel room once again to head back to the Catacombs of Callixtus to do some much needed surveillance.


Clint was pissed.

Yelena Belova had been in the Red Room with Natasha when they were younger. Though both Yelena and Natasha were an equal match, Natasha was always the favorite so Yelena lived in her shadow. When Natasha's loyalty to Russia disintegrated, Yelena was forced to step up and fill Natasha's shoes. They were big shoes to fill and Yelena was usually punished for not living up to what Natasha fulfilled.

Years later, it seemed that Yelena was trying to get revenge on Natasha. How Yelena knew that capturing Clint would draw out Natasha, Clint wasn't sure. What Clint did know was that SHIELD had been duped. Clint had been set up. There wasn't really a nuclear weapons production going on deep in the catacombs. The radiation had been coming from a small production of the Super Soldier Serum that Yelena had been trying to concoct to enhance her body. She wanted to be stronger, faster, and smarter than Natasha when they eventually came face-to-face. She wanted to end Natasha.

Alessandro Bosco, however, did exist and he just so happened to be Yelena's husband. He was also the man who planted the fake details about the nuclear weapons being developed in the catacombs. The Super Soldier Serum they were trying to develop gave off enough radiation to pass it off as nuclear weapons. However, the serum they were developing could be considered a weapon all on its own once injected into someone.

So as Clint sat in the empty room, tied to a chair, he couldn't help but be pissed. He was being used as bait. And he wasn't being used as bait for just anybody. He was being used as bait for Natasha. Clint knew Natasha far too well and apparently so did Yelena. Capturing someone she was close to was a surefire way to make Natasha hell bent on getting them back.

"So Clint," Clint heard Yelena say from the shadows. Clint turned his head to the right to see Yelena emerging from the darkness, playing with the tablet in her hands. She looked up from the tablet and her gaze met Clint's. "May I call you Clint?"

Clint just glared at the blonde.

"I'll take that as a yes," Yelena said. "How long do you think it will be until Natasha comes to find you? I suspect it won't be very long. She looked pretty determined when she found that arrow tip of yours that I placed in the catacombs."

Clint clenched his jaw to keep himself from saying anything else. Clint noticed Yelena opened her mouth to say something but she was interrupted by her husband, who was screaming at the top of his lungs that the most recent experiment for the serum hadn't worked.

"Oh for fuck's sake, you dumb fuck! Can't you do anything right!" Yelena snarled as she set the tablet on a small table before disappearing from the room.

Clint could hear Yelena switch to Russian as she continued down the passageway to assist Alessandro. Her voice echoed throughout the empty and vast rooms as she continued to yell at Alessandro until Clint heard a sickening smack. Yelena had most likely struck Alessandro across the face.

Clint, not amused with listening to the lovers' spat that was going on, diverted his attention to the unattended tablet on the table at the other end of the room. Clint had been tied and bound in the past and he had managed to get himself free. However, those were times when his captors kept him unattended for extended amounts of time. This time around, Clint wasn't quite sure how long the lovers' quarrel was going to last so he had to work fast.

Over the past two days, Clint had been slowly trying to free his hands from his binds so the ropes around his wrists were a little looser than they had been on the first day of his captivity. He began maneuvering his wrist in hopes that he could slip it out of his binds. He struggled with the ropes for a few more minutes until they felt loose enough for him to pull his hand through. He hissed when the ropes burned against his skin as he pulled his hand out. He shook his hand to take his mind off of the pain before turning behind him to free his other hand.

When both hands were free, Clint reached down and untied the ropes to free his feet. Within seconds, he was at the table on the other side of the room. He snatched the tablet off of the table and began searching for some form of communication. He found the Skype app and he quickly logged on with an account that he used for emergencies. Searching through his contacts, he found Tony's name and tapped the screen to request a video call with the billionaire.

Clint's eyes anxiously flitted between the tablet screen and the passageway that Yelena had disappeared down moments ago. Clint had begun to drum his fingers on the tabletop as he awaited a response from Tony. Unfortunately, Tony didn't answer the call and Clint swore under his breath.

Clint scrolled through his contacts again and found Pepper's name. He tapped the screen once again to make the video call and he started drumming his fingers on the tabletop again. The call rang three times before Pepper's face appeared on the screen. She looked like she had woken up only moments ago for she was still in an old and faded Led Zeppelin t-shirt. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes as her eyes focused on the screen in front of her. When she saw it was Clint looking back at her, her eyes widened in shock.

"Oh my God, Clint! Are you alright? Where are you? Has Natasha found you yet?" Pepper shrieked.

"Shhh!" Clint hushed. "I'm being held hostage in the Catacombs of Callixtus. I need you to get Tony and quick!"

Pepper nodded as she got up from where she was sitting and rushed through the penthouse apartment of Avengers Tower to find Tony. The blur of the colors on the screen as Pepper rushed throughout the apartment made Clint queasy. It probably had something to do with the concussion he had sustained, combined with the fact that he hadn't really had anything to eat in days.

Anxiously, Clint looked back up at the passageway to find it empty and he breathed a sigh of relief. He just hoped Yelena couldn't hear him from where she was. Then again, the catacombs were empty and vast. Sound definitely traveled and when it did, it was amplified. Clint wouldn't be surprised if Yelena already knew that he was getting in contact with someone.

"Tony!" Clint heard Pepper say from the tablet. Clint turned his attention back to the electronic device to see a blur of colors before Tony's face came into focus.

"Legolas!" Tony exclaimed. "Has Spidey gotten you yet? If that woman went and did something drastic behind my back, so help me God - ."

"Stark, no! I need you to get in contact with Natasha if you can and tell her that Yelena Belova has me hostage," Clint said frantically.

"Yelena Belova?" Tony repeated.

"Yes, Yelena Belova. She'll know who it is. There's no time to explain now," Clint said.

"Okay," Tony said with a nod. "How long do you have until she returns? I can try to get a pinpoint on your location and give it to Romanoff."

"I don't know but if you can, hurry the hell up!"

Tony nodded silently and began to tap away on the screen. Clint started to nervously drum his fingers on the tabletop again as he kept an eye out on the passageway. It didn't take Tony long to pinpoint Clint's location but when he did, he frowned at the screen.

"Shit Katniss, you're in there pretty deep," Tony said. "But I don't have a lock on how to get you out yet. Romanoff was asking for maps of the catacombs and I'm working on it."

"Wait, you've been helping her?" Clint asked.

"Yeah, you didn't think I'd let her go without some sort of communication link between us," Tony said. Clint guessed that the infamous Tony Stark had a heart after all. "You know, in case something went wrong," Tony added.

"Just tell her," Clint said. "I don't think I can get out of here by myself if I'm really deep in here."

"Will do, Legolas - ."

"Tsk tsk tsk," Clint heard from the passageway. He tore his gaze away from the tablet to find Yelena standing in the entrance to the passageway with a gun pointed straight at Clint's chest. Clint tensed at the sight of the gun and he knew there was no way out of this. He knew Yelena wouldn't kill him; he was the bait after all. But the fact that she had every intention of shooting him was something Clint didn't doubt.

"You've been a bad, bad boy," Yelena said just before she pulled the trigger.

The bullet hurtled towards Clint, lodging straight into his right shoulder and sending him flying backwards. The tablet fell from his hand as he fell to the cold, hard ground. His body connected with the stone ground and his head smacked onto the stone, causing him to see stars.

The last thing he saw before he blacked out was Yelena standing over him with a sly grin on her face that convinced him this was just the beginning.


I am the worst, right? Damn cliffhangers!

I have an idea for another fic BUT it is not Avengers. I've been reading some of The Town fics (2010 film which starred Jeremy Renner who plays our amazing Clint Barton/Hawkeye) here on Fanfiction and I've been slightly inspired to write one of my own. Of course it will be about Jem (Renner's character). I was just wondering if anyone would be interested in reading it. Let me know please! I'm scared to publish it because The Town doesn't have many fics on here so I feel like not many people read them.

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