A/N: I needed to strengthen the relationship between Natasha and Daisy sooooooo this happened.

Bonding

A week after Pepper and Tony announced their engagement, Clint was asked by Coulson to come to SHIELD base in order to begin to train one of his team members as a sniper. He had left early that morning, but would be back in time for dinner.

Kate was spending time attempting to teach the twins how to shoot a bow and arrow (as Clint has stated that he would only help them refine the skill once the basics were learned, as he does not feel he is a good teacher).

Natasha found herself in the training center as well. She, for once, headed towards the normal exercise equipment. She did enjoy jogging every once in a while.

"Hey, funny seeing you in this part of the training room." Daisy grinned at her as she took place on the treadmill next to Natasha, carefully setting her incline and speed. "Usually you are all-"she threw her hands in the air and began gesturing "Knife throwy, and ass kicking, and you know- gun and widow bite wielding!"

Natasha laughed. A real laugh that made her eyes tear slightly before she smiled and reached over to grasp Daisy's arm lightly. "Well, I cannot really do what I normally do. Clint is away training Coulson a new sniper. And Kate is teaching Wanda and Pietro archery. And I am wanting to get my heartrate up a bit so, target practice of any kind was kind of a no go. So here I am!"

"Well, if you still would like to… I could always be your sparring partner." Daisy said hesitantly.

"I think that would be great. Do you have your arm guards down here? I personally like going all out." Natasha was smirking as she slowed to a stop on her treadmill.

Daisy smiled back at her "I do actually. Tony built me two sets. A battle set and a practice set. I keep the practice set in my locker."

"Good. Go grab them. I will go grab a set of Widow Bites. Tony likes keeping the armory down here stocked with all of our preferred weaponry." Natasha said before she turned and headed off towards the armory.

Daisy simply smiled as she turned towards the lockers.

It was only a few minutes later when the two women met on one of the sparring mats. Daisy was strapping on her gauntlets and Natasha was turning on her Widow Bites.

"How much of a charge do you want me to set these at? Since, you know, you are going to be the one taking the zap." Natasha was smirking as she fiddled with the bites.

"Up to you. Remember, I, not quite unlike Clint, have developed quite a tolerance to electrical shock due to being shocked so many times." Daisy smirked as well. "It took me a while to get Lincoln to spar without using his powers."

"I will go with medium strength then. That is what I used to use on Clint." Natasha said simply as she powered up her bites with a click. She easily dropped into her beginning stance and motioned for Daisy to come forward.

Daisy grinned as she dropped into her own stance and they began slowly circling one another, both carefully watching each other's hands.

Natasha was the first one to move. She turned into a kick, aiming for Daisy shoulder, but ended up landing back on both feet as Daisy ducked out of the way and made a sweeping motion with her own leg.

"You are quick." Natasha was smirking again as she leaped out of the path of Daisy's leg. She snapped he fist out and made contact with Daisy's side and her bite immediately charged and zapped her, but the other woman remained standing.

"I have had some pretty good trainers." Daisy responded as she held up a hand and let out a quake that had Natasha stumbling backwards slightly. As Natasha attempted to regain her footing, Daisy yet again dropped and swept her foot out and Natasha went tumbling to the ground, much to Daisy's delight.

Natasha laughed "Something everyone struggles to remember is that the fight is not over when your opponent is on the ground. You must have them fully restrained in order for the fight to be truly over." As she spoke she grabbed hold of Daisy's ankles sending electrical shocks into both of her Achilles tendons. Daisy fell down to her knees in an instant and Natasha immediately shoved her to the ground and straddled her and pinned her wrists to the mat.

Daisy laughed as Natasha got off of her and stood up.

"I think I just got a little excited over the fact that I actually got you on the ground." Daisy was grinning as she stood up as well. "I really have not gotten over the entire fangirling over the fact that I actually get to work with the Avengers."

Natasha smiled as she yet again began laughing genuinely. "Daisy, you do realize that we all consider you to be an Avenger?"

Daisy blushed slightly "Yea, I know. It's just taking me a while to adjust to that new job title." She shrugged as she sat back down onto the mat, fiddling with the straps of her gauntlets as to not look Natasha in the eye.

Natasha sighed lightly as she sat down next to Daisy and put a hand on her knee. "We are all Avengers for very different reasons. We all bring something different to the table."

"But what do I bring?" Daisy asked frustrated "I mean, you are a master assassin and an expert at espionage, Clint is the worlds best marksmen, Tony is a freaking genius engineer, Steve is fucking Captain America, Bruce turns into the HULK, and Bucky is a Super Solider. The twins even make more sense than I do. I mean Wanda can literally read minds and Pietro is faster than a bullet…"

Natasha rolled her eyes "Daisy, you are a well-trained and rounded Agent of SHIELD. You are also an inhuman who has impressive control over her powers. Powers that, I might add, are incredible." At that Daisy finally looked up and made eye contact with Natasha "You are our Liaison with SHIELD and our voice of knowledge about a whole race of people. This is all not to mention the fact that you can out hack Tony." She grinned at the younger girl.

Daisy smiled slightly before yet again looking down at her hands "I let my team down when I was a SHIELD agent. Hive controlled me. I did stuff… Horrible stuff… And then Lincoln took my place in the Quinjet. I should have been the one that died. I was the one that betrayed the team. What if the same thing happens again?" Daisy asked without looking up.

Natasha remained silent for a moment, letting Daisy's confession fully sink in. "You are not alone in being mind-controlled. Loki controlled Clint for quite a bit of time before his attacks on New York in case you forgot. And while it is not exactly the same thing… Bucky lived for decades being brainwashed by HYDRA. I was brainwashed by an organization known as the Red Room for my entire childhood. It took SHIELD an entire year to deprogram all of my brainwashing and for me to be considered completely defected from the Red Room as well as the KGB."

Daisy looked shocked as she opened and closed her mouth searching for words to say.

"I didn't tell you all that to make you feel bad, Daisy. I am telling you so you know you have people to talk to. You are not alone. We are a team. And if you become compromised the only thing that is going to happen is we are going to try our damndest to uncompromise you." Natasha spoke firmly, remaining next to Daisy for a moment to let her words hang in the air before she got up again "I am going to go and see if Kate has finished her archery lesson with the twins. I think they all could use some knife throwing practice. Feel free to join us if you would like too." And with that Natasha sauntered off towards the shooting range.

It only took a moment before Daisy was up on her feet and walking towards the shooting range as well, a small smile on her face.

A/N: I hope you liked that! Reviews make me happy!