Chapter 7

I do not own The Avengers in any way.

A/N- Yay! More flashbacks! This particular flashback takes place while Alaina is knocked out. I love this one!

After watching Natasha and Loki talk, Alaina stayed in the control room.

Suddenly, Alaina got a tingling at the base of her spine.

That meant trouble or Clint was near.

There was suddenly an explosion.

"Clint. It's Clint", Alaina said over the ear piece.

"We can't be sure", Fury said.

Minutes later, Fury came running into the control room.

"Tasha?" Alaina asked.

"I'm fine Birdie", she said, "Little banged up, but fine".

Suddenly, a grenade went off and Alaina was knocked to the ground.

Fury and Hill started to shoot at Loki's men.

Alaina was without a weapon.

One of the bullets hit her in the shoulder.

She gasped. 'Damn that hurt', she thought. She grabbed her shoulder and felt the blood covering her hand. 'My bow. I needed to get to my bow', she thought.

Alaina got up and tried to make her way out of the control room.

Suddenly, another explosion went off in the control room.

Alaina looked up and saw Clint.

Another arrow connected with one of the computers and all the screens went dark.

Fury shot up at Clint.

"Don't!" Alaina yelled.

Clint's eyes locked with hers.

She watched as he took something off his neck and tossed it to her. She looked down and saw her feather and talon necklace.

The helicarrier started to fall out of the air.

Alaina tried to get up to go after Clint, but she was thrown to the side, her head hitting the edge of a computer. Alaina felt blood rolling down her forehead.

Agent Hill walked over to her. "Stay awake", she said, "Mockingbird is down. Repeat, Mockingbird is down".

"Clint", Alaina managed to gasp.

"I got him Birdie", she heard Tasha say, "I got him".

"Hawk", was the last word that left her lips before she slipped into unconsciousness.

Alaina was walking back to her room, when suddenly she was grabbed by the throat.

A scarf was placed around her neck and it started to tighten.

She dropped her bow and tried to get the scarf away from her throat. Her vision was slowly going black and she was gasping for breath. She scrambled for her bow or something. Her attacker just kicked the bow away.

Suddenly, she was on the floor and so was her attacker. She stumbled to her feet gasping for breath. She looked and saw an arrow protruding from his back. She looked and saw Clint standing there holding her bow. She stormed over to him and snatched the bow from him. "Dammit Clint! I had him!" she growled.

"You looked like you were doing so well", Clint spat.

"I was!" she yelled.

Clint grabbed her neck and kissed her.

She relaxed into the kiss.

"I love you", Clint said, "I love you like Orion loved the goddess Artemis".

She grabbed him and kissed him. She grabbed his tie and dragged him into her room.

Clint woke up to small kisses being placed on his chest. He opened his eyes to see Alaina's pure blonde hair.

"Good morning", she said.

"Had you ever…?" Clint asked.

She shook her head. "You were the first", she said. She moved up his body to kiss his lips. "I'm going to talk to Coulson and Fury today", she told him.

"Really?" he asked, lightly kissing the marks left by her attack.

"You could soon become Agent Barton, field agent", she said.

"What about us?" he asked, "Will it be okay?"

Alaina shrugged her shoulders. "I don't think it matters", she said.

Clint leaned up and kissed her, murmuring, "My Artemis".

Alaina returned the kiss, whispering, "My Orion".