Grumbling quietly to herself as she walked into the apartment, Clint smiled softly as she realized Clint was sleeping, heading for the bathroom. Quietly shutting the door behind her she stripped down to her sports bra to undo the binding on her ribs, wincing a little as she saw the darkening bruises over her ribs. The only saving grace that kept her from sulking was the fact that she'd picked up her custom made bow.

Much like Clint's, it was a compound fold-able bow, made on a slighter scale for the slighter woman's build. The man had taken great care to make sure the string could be so easily pulled that it barely took effort, with a 5 pound resistance, but loosed a arrow with enough force to punch through bone.

Glancing up at the knock on the door she smiled slightly as she shrugged one of tony's dress shirts on, as it hurt to much to pull a t-shirt over her head. Cleaning up as she listened to Clint ramble.

"Cat?Cat I'm really sorry, I shouldn't have laughed. It was really stupid of me, I didn't mean it...I was just...I was panicked because I thought you were going to be mad at me for taking advantage of you again...I was already upset because of something the stupid shrink said and I was worried you were going to hate me, and I had a minor psychotic episode and well...the LOOK on your face...I'm really sorry..."Clint sighed. "I swear I wouldn't have laughed at you if I wasn't so fucked up in the head...I'll let you play with my magic cards?"

"...You'd seriously let me play with your cards because you laughed at me?"She said looking amused as she opened the door, looking at him.

"Yes...no...you can look at them for ten minutes."he decided. "But you can't take them out of the protective packaging!"He was so obsessive it was cute.

"Okay."Catalina smiled looking amused he was so obsessed, she didn't care if she got to look at them, she just liked teasing him. Flushing as she looked at him she stepped closer, biting her lip as she stared at the man in front of her. Before raising a hand to touch his face, drawing him down for a gentle kiss. A nervous one before darting back, studying his reaction. "For that bow, I'd forgive about anything. It's amazing Hawk."She muttered willing to forgive him for laughing because well, Tony...and frank...and Bruce...not to mention Steve, had all laughed when she'd ranted at them.

Clint smiled looking pleased he'd gotten kissed before blushing brightly, looking down and fidgeting. "I really...uhm...kinda...Ireallykkindalikeyoualot."He stated in a furious rush before cursing Jessica under his breath, muttered about how he wasn't emotionally repressed, and that he could to admit he was falling in love with his trainee, and that Jessica could go leap off a burning mountain and die.

"A burning mountain?I like you to."Catalina snickered a little wrapping her arms around him, before wincing, yelping as she stepped back, "bloody hell..."She cursed slumping a little, rubbing a hand over her face. "I need you to rebind my ribs."

"Hey, I know better then to think she'd just jump."Clint muttered before frowning a little, tugging tony's shirt up to look at her ribs, ignoring the tantalizing view and gently probing the bruised area. "There aren't any breaks, I think it's just a bad bruise. Hurts bad enough as it is I here, I'll get binding."He said as he went to step out of the bathroom, before looking at bruce as the man appeared down the hall. Taking one look at the man's face he frowned a little, "What's wrong?"

Bruce silently handed the newspaper in his hand over, wincing as Clint simply walked away.

"Wha-?"Catalina looked at the good doctor as he stepped into the room, before reaching for the paper Clint had handed back to him. Mumbling a quiet curse before following Clint into the living room, paling slightly at the sight of clint completely destroying the furniture.

Studying the man for a long moment she hoped that everyone else was intelligent enough to stay away, because she trusted Clint not to lash out at her, she wasn't counting on the same rules for everyone else. "Hawk?You promised to help..."She said walking further into the room, moving gingerly, subtly exaggerating how hurt she was, counting on his obsessive need to make sure she was okay, to shift his focus to her instead of the reporter who seemed intent on committing violent suicide.

Clint snarled at the girl as she stepped closer, but slid calmly off the couch and gently pulled her into a hug, burying his face against her neck. Relaxing he slumped into her a little and took the first aid kit from her, making her sit down before starting to wrap her ribs. "Sorry...I'll buy you a new one...I had to kill something, and I don't think the hulk would have been happy if I'd gone after Bruce...The shrink said I should go after things that don't bleed...so I did..."

"Yea, well, I don't think Bruce would have appreciated it either."

"Eh. Bruce would have been fine, I couldn't have hurt him...granted, I would have ended up in the hospital next to Tony for trying though..."

Clint studied her for a long moment, "I'm sorry the papers are saying such stupid crap about you...it's all my fault."

Catalina winced a little as her eyes filled with tears, looking away from him. She'd worked hard to have a reputation as a archer, worked hard to be his equal, but at the end of the day, she'd been reduced to Tony stark's newest conquest. "W-what?It's not your fault. I'm the one who got drunk with him at his party."She pointed out sighing quietly, shuddering as his fingers brushed against her skin, closing her eyes and enjoying the simple touch.

"No, it's my fault. If I hadn't made such a scene about it, you never would have been noticed...or did you think every women Tony flirts with or sleeps with ends up in the news?"He asked lifting a eyebrow because honestly, Tony slept with so many people, it was impossible to keep up.

"Well...that's true...though he probably makes the paper every time he gets his ass kicked."

Clint hesitated for a moment before leaning forward pressing a kiss to her bandaged ribs."There, how's that feel, better?"

Catalina gasped lightly as his lips brushed over her ribs, bolting to her feet, already twisting to drive a knife home before she checked the instinctive move even as he slid away. "...sorry..."Having not expected the kiss, it had startled her into reacting without thinking.

"You're so cute that you actually think you can hurt me. Come on, you need painkillers and a long nap. We'll even put in Hansel and Gretel:Witch Hunters since you've been after me to watch it."Clint teased a little, because he'd never admit it, but he loved watching movies with her. Before he hadn't really found the movies interesting, but watching her watch them was amusing...even if he'd had to have Tony get a tv for him, as he hadn't had one before despite the billionaire's complaing about it.

"...you're being awfully cheeky for a man who already owes me time with his cards."She muttered before heading to the bathroom to get painkillers, offering Bruce a small smile as the doctor silently made his exit before heading back to the living room.

"Come on. We're sleeping down here tonight, you can't get up the rope with bruised ribs."Clint said tugging her towards the small cot and tv in the corner, trying not to make a face. He hated sleeping 'below' it made him feel all exposed, but he'd do it for her. Quiet as she put in the movie he smiled as he laid down, snuggling her as the movie started."...you know, this guy looks familiar..."

"Kinda looks like you...not as cute, but bristling with weapons and awkward."She teased looking amused as she rested her head on his chest, content to just rest in his arms, trusting him to keep her safe.

"He doesn't look anything like me!...those weapons though...I do like that...I wonder if there's a way to replicate that crossbow..."he wondered. Typical, he was more fascinated with the weapons then the pretty girls on the screen. Amused as he glanced down at the woman sleeping on him, pressing a kiss to her forehead as he drifted to sleep himself.

Tony shifted a little, leaning back into the pillows as he read the paper, glancing up at the super soldier as he stepped into his bedroom. "Did you see today's tabloids?Pepper picked them up for me."

"I saw them."Steve said looking concerned before sighing softly.

Which one do you think's going to kill the reporter first?"Tony said smirking as he looked at the paper in his hands, knowing that both assassins were going to lose their minds when they saw the papers, the rumors that were flying about the love triangle in Stark tower, not to mention the way to personal pictures of them together. Oh yea, it was going to be a interesting tim to live in Stark tower.

"I don't think they've seen it yet. They're not going to be happy. Fury is...well, furious, for reasons I don't fully understand. He seems to get a little weird when it comes to Hawkeye, have you noticed?"

"I know. Clint's been with SHIELD since he was nearly a kid. Fury pretty much raised him. It is weird."Tony agreed before sighing.

"Seriously?Fury can raise people?...well..that explains some things about Clint."Steve said amused.

"Weird right?"

"Uh-huh...Anyways, I've been avoiding the tower, I don't want to be there when Clint explodes. He's much better now, but I don't think he's going to handle this well. Someone's going to get hurt, and I don't want it to be me."Steve sighed shaking his head.

"Someone is, and for once I think I can live with that. If the paparazzi want to stalk two people who make a living out of shooting people, they deserve whatever they get."

"Cat got herself injured again."

"I know. She stopped by to visit before she headed back to the tower. Seems Clint laughed at her for snapping a bowstring on her breast and pissed her off enough to not pay attention during training."he snickered a little.

Steve winced a little. "I can't imagine her being to forgiving for that."

"She wasn't...until she saw her new bow...and well, she's in love with the idiot. It makes her forgiving."Tony said smiling a little as he leaned his head into Pepper's hand, enjoying the feeling of her playing with his hair. They had a odd relationship, but he loved his wife, even if he had issues with admitting it.

"I haven't seen the bow yet, is it really so amazing?"

"It's state of the art. It's like..."Pepper paused thinking before smirking. "It's like if you just went to Verizon and picked out a factory issued phone, compared to a hand crafted, work of art built specifically for you by Tony."

Steve raised his eyebrows at that, looking thoughtful. He understand that now, he might not know bows, but he'd seen some of the phones Tony crafted with almost no effort. "How are you feeling anyways? Any word when you get to go home?"

"Tomorrow. I'm hoping by the afternoon so I can see the therapist. Just think, everyone in the tower can see the same woman."Tony smirked looking pleased with the idea of flirting with someone in the tower instead of having to go out of his way to find her.

"You let him get away with this?"Steve said smirking at pepper a little as the woman played with Tony's hair. Looking amused as she just shrugged."...Tony, is Pepper some sort of weird human cyborg?"

"No, not a cyborg. Just a pervert who enjoys punishing me for being a flirt."Tony snickered as pepper burst out laughing.

"Don't make me punish you while you're already hurt Tony. You won't like it nearly as much."Pepper warned with a smirk, not about to mention that Tony didn't just 'flirt', but Steve's old fashioned morals wouldn't be able to handle a thing like a 'open' relationship. After all, Tony wasn't the only one who slept outside their marriage, Pepper was just more subtle about it.

"...That's just unkind. Just because I was to stupid to realize he was in love with her, doesn't mean I should be punished forever more...Though life will get interesting when they realize it."Tony pouted, but the laughter in his ruined the effect.

"Even if he wasn't in love with her, do you really think he would have let you fuck his apprentice Tony?I mean really, that's just common sense. He would have handled it better if he wasn't insane though."Steve said snickering a little. "He was thinking of buying you something nice as a apology for..."he Steve stopped, adopting a confused expression. " for 'flipping his lid all over your ass.' whatever that means."

"Your non-grasp on slang amuses me."Tony snickered shaking his head a little before shrugging. "Well, he'll think of something amusing. And happy. Maybe porn."

"T-"

"Tony Stark?"A large man poked his head into the room, his smirk curling his lips and even dressed in a tux, it was obviously he was ripped enough that Pepper nearly swooned at the sight.

"yes?"

"Compliments from Clint Barton. He's already paid...anything 'extra' will be up to you."The man winked at pepper even as he turned on the music on his phone and started stripping right there in the room. Just for tony.

Tony snickered rubbing a hand over his face, smirking as he watched Steve flee to the corner of the room and stare with wide mortified eyes, yet wasn't able to look away. "I', going to kill him...if he was going to get a stripper, he could have at least got a female."He whined before frowning at his wife, nudging her. "No, you can't look. I can't have sex, you can't go admiring the pretty boy."

Pepper giggled looking at him, shooting Steve a look in amusement before looking down at tony."But he's so pretty."

Tony rolled his eyes as he tossed the stripper a tip, waving a hand towards the door. "Go. Before my wife jumps you, and I feel the need to beat you up for it."he grumbled even if he looked amused.

"Thanks mate."The stripper smirked, tossing tony a wink. "Shame all the cute ones are straight."He complained as he walked out.

"...I...I think I need to see a therapist."Steve muttered as he staggered out the door.

Pepper snickered,burying her face in tony's shoulder as she curled up on the bed next to him, "I think he's the only one who didn't know he was gay. I mean honestly, he's so obvious about it, between watching you and Clint, and he doesn't even seem to know it...he's like a little kid."She snickered. "I bet you a hundred bucks Clint made sure Steve was here before he sent in the stripper."

"I'm surrounded my idiots. Steve not knowing he's gay, Clint and Cat not knowing they're in love, Fury not knowing he's a bastard...idiots."Tony grumbled good naturedly before shaking his head. "He is a little kid, and I'm not taking that bet. It's a fool's bet."

A/N:I'm sooooo sorry!I finished this weeks ago, then my computer crashed and by the time I got it fixed and got the chapter rewritten and everything, weeks had past. And I'm so sorry!Anyways, I hope you enjoyed, and see you next time.^^