It took only five minutes for Natasha to daze out during a conversation with Clint Barton.

But to relive her memories from the Battle in New York, it was more than just those five ticking minutes. The memories she had before was hardly changed, only the Accords and the events after it got affected too much that her status from being a Fugitive got changed to Probationary Avenger- two years suspension, except if a mission is in dire need of her skills, for letting the Winter Soldier escape. She got that verdict with the help from Tony Stark and his ability to persuade the officials and most definitely Ross.

Her glassy eyes faded and life returned to it, blinking rapidly she found Clint in her view, waving a hand in front of her face. She remembered that she was on a weekly visit with Clint, part of the agreement with Agent Barton's House Arrest.

"Nat, you okay?" Clint asked, "You spaced out. In a weird way too."

Nat decided to keep the question stretch a little longer, looking near the kitchen she found a calendar. "Three days…"

Clint followed her gaze, looking at the calendar and then back to Natasha, "-Of what?"

"It's been three days after the snap. We actually delayed it." Natasha stood abruptly, surprising Clint, from the table. "Where are Laura and the kids?"

And as if on cue, Laura returned from upstairs, stepping down towards them. "I just put Nathaniel to sleep, Nat, Lila and Cooper are still in school. I told you that before."

Natasha then hugged her, surprising both the Barton couple. Laura returned the hug nonetheless and giggled, "What has gotten into you, Natasha?"

"I'm glad. You and the kids are –"She bit her lip, avoiding to say the word 'alive'. "-doing well."

"With Clinton here tied to the house, it's quite well." She smiled.

Natasha looked back at Clint and gave him an incredulous look, probably for her little slip of the tongue. "Can I borrow Clint for a second? We'll only be outside." Laura nodded at her request for a private talk.


Clint shrugged and followed her towards the garage. "Uh, what was that? You're hiding something and very lousy at that too. Have you gone rusty with your two year vacation?" He asked immediately after entering the barn.

"It's more like a short-term effect from time travelling." Natasha quipped.

"Uh-what?"

"It's hard to believe it. But I time-travelled along with five others, twice at that too. Back and to." She paused, letting Clint understand, he just nodded to continue.

"Do you remember those irrelevant reports about 'Silver tongue' talking to himself? Guess what, there is someone behind pulling those strings, and that someone is called Thanos, and he's on the move. " Nat paused again and Clint gestured to go on.

"He is after the infinity stones."

"Like the one on Vision's head?" Clint asked and got a nod as an answer.

"From my Timeline, he got all of it, and eradicated half of all life in the universe."

Clint gaped and then said, "Hold on- you lost me at 'eradicated half of all life', is that even possible? "He paused thinking back to the power their Asgardian friend possess and then Wanda's abilities, "Oh who am I kidding, of course it's possible. And then what happened?"

Natasha stared solemnly at him, "Half. Wanda, Sam, T'Challa, that spider-kid, the Winter Soldier, even Thaddeus Ross, and your family. Clint."

Clint paced back and forth, thinking. "And what do we do to prevent that from happening? Again? I'm still having a hard time believing this. Are you our Nat? or the Nat from that timeline?"

Natasha thought deeply and gave a quick answer, "Both. I have my old memories, and I have this memories."

"So do you have plan? I won't be helpful with being on House Arrest."

"Tony is probably coaxing Ross to relieve you from your arrest already, we need everyone on this." Natasha pulled out her bugged phone and then turned it off, removing the case and crushed the little device inside it.

"Did you actually let them listen to that? " Clint asked, "Who are they? The WSC? CIA?"

"CIA. It was part of the agreement, I visit you, they listen, see if you're actually behaving."

"And you had that since when? The last two years?"

"There was one time, and then now. Don't worry I always remove them after I visit you, I'm not letting them get what they want." Natasha smirked at that. "It was just a tease, to let them know something big is coming."


In the Office of the Secretary of State, an agent rushed inside carrying a two page paper and a USB stick. "Sir! We received an urgent message from the CIA. It's a recording not long ago from Clint Barton and Natasha Romanov's conversation. Sir."

Ross smirked and grabbed the papers, reading on to it while waving the agent away, his face easing to form an ugly frown. The doors shut closed when he stood up to call him back, fortunately, the agent was still near and returned to the office.

"Yes, sir?" The agent asked.

"Who did the CIA sent these too?"

"The other recipient was the World Security Council, sir." The agent answered swiftly.

"Tsk!" Then suddenly Ross slammed the papers on his table and muttered a 'you may leave.' to the poor terrified agent. Ross reached out for his phone and dialed Everett Ross. It rang, and he picked up.

"Explain yourself, Everett!? You are going to make the WSC panic for an unexplainable threat." He shouted aggressively at the phone. He was angry not because of the WSC knowing, but more on the WSC convincing him to regroup the rag-tag of lose canon individuals, rebuking the agreement made on the Sokovia accords all the while tarnishing his dignity. He's got little left now especially with Stark's stubbornness when operating on a mission and another rouge avenger left lose under his supervision.

"It was considered a world-wide threat, Sir. Priority is to the World Security Council. It was in the Accords, as an accompanying organization, the CIA shall give the reports to the concerning parties based on the designated threat." Everett swiftly replied back, hiding a grin from Thaddeus Ross.

"This is an empty threat." Ross sighed. "They could be lying, they are formerly spies of SHIELD. You are making the WSC panic for an unidentified threat. "

A knock on Thaddeus' door took his attention away from the phone and another agent stepped in, "Sir, the World Security Council is calling for you."

And Thaddeus Ross fiercely pressed the end call button, dropping his anger on Everett Ross, and pinching the bridge of his nose while letting out a groan.


Sharon Carter observed her superior dropping the call with the Secretary of State. "Why did you sent it to the World Security Council, Sir? It could have been just lies. Based on the Accords, we shouldn't have sent it at all with no supporting material. It was, in fact, an empty threat."

"Yes, but it's been two years since Iron Man had soloed Avenging. And on these past two years, not one mission was other-worldly. So if it's true, I don't think Iron Man alone could handle an alien armada." Ross answered, sitting down on his chair and fiddled something on his personal phone.

"Are you trying to regroup the Avengers using this?" Sharon asked gesturing to the recordings on the screen on the desk.

"Well it's better than throwing inexperienced soldiers to fight aliens. And with what? Our weapons? US military weapons can't even compare to Wakanda anymore, especially since weapon upgrades went down when both STARK weapons and HAMMER Industries shut down."

"But there's no proof yet, you're picking a fight with the Secretary of State, sir." Sharon reasoned out. "You'll get yourself fired."

"Yeah, I might get fired, but Thaddeus Ross will be busy fending off the WSC with his accords anyway so he might forget about it." Everett Ross glance back at her and smiled. "Glad to have you back on the field, Agent."

"Uh huh, and when the world is possibly ending too." Sharon sighed dejectedly.


Natasha and Clint returned to the house and the communicator that Tony gave her beeped. She placed it on her ear and spoke, "What is it, Stark?"

"The Boss is calling you for a meeting, Ms. Romanov, along with the Vision once you find him, and also Sir Fury..." It was FRIDAY, and Natasha simply said yes.

"Stark?" Clint asked.

"It was FRIDAY. Tony is asking for a meeting, unexpectedly, he's letting Fury in it too."

"That desperate, huh?"

"And we need Vision. I forgot about him, we still have no clue where to look, and he's one of Thanos' target too as long as the Mind Stones sits on his head." Natasha replied at him waiting for a response.

Clint gave her a look, "You think I know?"

Natasha continued to stare, as if giving him the puppy dog eyes.

Clint sighed in defeat, "I don't know. Well I'm not sure, but I do know where Wanda is hiding, and he might be there too."

"Where?"

"Somewhere in Europe." Clint answered vaguely.

AN: Sorry if I wrote Thaddeus Ross badly, I don't really have a grasp on his character. And about the World Security Council too, lol. Politics. You might have also noticed Clint isn't as mad at Stark as he was at end of Civil War, it's because of Nat's visits with him, Tony somehow managed to put Natasha into visiting Clint as an agreement in his House Arrest, making Natasha do the surveillance instead of five to ten authorities running around Barton's farm and disrupting the peace, also the reason why Natasha always bring in bugged phones every visit to handle information.

Thank you for reading.