Alright you guys, here it is...chapter 11! Just a quick disclaimer, I do not own the lyrics to the song (which you will find out what it is when you read this chapter). I will just say that they belong to Coldplay.

Several days following the meeting with Natasha's parents, Clint insisted that they hang out at his house every day. Clint always feared that Natasha's parents would be home more often now that they've met him to make sure he wouldn't do anything to Natasha that they didn't like. Either that or he feared they rigged the house with cameras and recording devices. Both scenarios were equally terrifying. It took a lot of persuasion to get Clint to finally return to her house for breakfast in the morning, but Natasha eventually coaxed him into falling back into their daily routine.

Before Clint knew it, it was the last week of October and November was just around the corner, which also meant that Natasha's sixteenth birthday was just around the corner as well. Clint had no idea what to get her. He couldn't just get her something out of the blue now that they were dating. It had to mean something.

"Why don't you sing her a song?" Steve suggested one day at lunch. Clint had asked Thor, Steve, Peggy, and Jane what they had thought he should get her. Clint realized that this would be the only chance he had to talk about it since Natasha was in the chemistry lab finishing up an assignment with Bruce Banner and Dr. Selvig.

Clint snorted a laugh. "Come on Steve, I haven't sung since pre-school. I probably sound like a cat getting strangled by its owner now."

"You'll never know until you try," Peggy said, slightly giggling with giddiness. She was clearly on board for this idea.

"We'll help you," Jane chimed in.

"Come on Clint. Natasha will love it since she doesn't know you can sing," Steve said.

"Yes she'll be surprised but we don't know if I can still sing," Clint said.

"If you could sing before, you can still sing," Jane said. Clearly she was on Steve and Peggy's side of the argument.

"Puberty works in strange ways, Jane," Clint protested.

"Come on, it will be romantic," Jane whined.

"What will be romantic?" Natasha said as she and Bruce slammed their backpacks onto the table and took their seats

"Uh, if I did this," Thor said, as he dipped Jane, still in her seat, and planted a long, passionate kiss on her lips. He pulled her back up so that she was seated in an upright position, but she looked like she was about to pass out.

"Y-yeah, that was r-romantic," Jane said, her voice shaking.

Steve and Clint quickly changed the subject and it stayed that way until the bell dismissed them from the lunch room. Clint grabbed his backpack and tried his hardest to avoid Steve, but he felt a tug on his backpack that kept him from moving forward. Clint turned around and he was face to face with Clint and Thor.

"Don't think you're off the hook Clint. You will sing a song to Natasha for her birthday, and we're going to help you," Steve said.

It was hard to get together with Steve and Thor to prepare this performance for Natasha's birthday, which was in a week. If Clint wasn't at football practice, he was with Natasha. Clint couldn't just make up an excuse to not hang out with Natasha because she would know something was up.

Clint, Steve, and Thor had one chance during the week before Natasha's birthday to work on this performance. It was a Tuesday night. Natasha was working late and it was the only day of the week that Clint, Steve, and Thor didn't have football practice. Peggy and Jane also volunteered to lend their musical instrument playing abilities to the performance.

It took nearly an hour for the group to decide what song Clint would be performing for Natasha. Peggy and Jane threw in a couple sappy love songs into the mix while Steve and Thor tried to convince Clint that "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith would be the perfect song to perform. Clint shot all of these ideas down because he had decided it would be better to perform a song from a musician Natasha liked.

It was hard to choose because Natasha liked all kinds of musicians. Florence & the Machine was her favorite artist, but Clint knew he would never be able to hit the notes that Florence Welch could so that music was completely out of the question. He listed several other artists that Natasha liked, which included Lana Del Rey, Sleigh Bells, and Sara Bareilles, but none of them seemed to work for him.

Eventually Clint narrowed the list down and finally decided to perform "Fix You" by Coldplay. Clint certainly felt like the song fit the situation. Ever since Clint came into Natasha's life, it seemed as if he had made everything better for her, as if he had fixed everything broken in her. Her family and financial situation could never be mended, but he certainly made her feel like a better and happier person.

They had managed to get permission from the music department to use the auditorium and musical instruments for rehearsal; they would have to find their own means of performing the song on Natasha's birthday. Upon Clint's song selection, the group quickly erupted into rehearsal. Jane was slightly skilled in the guitar. Peggy was positioned at the piano, while Steve was on bass and Thor was on drums.

They rehearsed until 10:00 at night and by that time, they were exhausted. Clint's voice was sore, and Steve had a headache from Thor's incessant drum playing. As they walked out of the auditorium, Clint couldn't help but worry if Natasha would think it was stupid.

"Stop it Clint," Steve said, punching him playfully in the shoulder. "She's going to love it. If it has anything to do with you, she'll fall in love with it."

It was a chilly night on Natasha's birthday, and Clint shivered inside the gazebo for many reasons. No doubt Natasha would be mad at Clint since he had only sent her a "happy birthday" via text message once she had sent him one herself telling him that her parents had gotten her an iPhone for her birthday. He didn't call her and he ignored the rest of her text messages for fear that if he answered them or called her, he would spoil the surprise.

Clint had enlisted the help of Bruce Banner to transport her to the park where Clint would be performing her birthday song. Bruce was supposed to tell Natasha that Clint was running late for the birthday dinner Clint was supposedly taking her to, and he would bring her to the gazebo on the outskirts of the park.

Clint didn't quite know why he had chosen the gazebo in the park as the location for the performance. It would be 8:00 by the time Natasha would arrive so the park would definitely be deserted. The gazebo was located under a willow tree by the small lake. It felt so serene and beautiful so it seemed that that was the reason he had chosen it. However, Clint decided that the scenery wasn't complete without a trail of rose petals. Before they had gone to the park to set up for the performance, the group stopped by a local flower shop and bought several dozen roses to pluck the petals from. All of them were used with the exception of one perfect rose which Clint would present to Natasha upon the conclusion of the song.

Clint shivered again and glanced at his phone to check the time. It was 7:55. Bruce would be arriving any minute with Natasha. Sure enough, a couple minutes later and right on time, Clint saw a pair of headlights slowly coming around the bend. The group took their places to get ready with the music as soon as Natasha stepped out of the car and started walking towards the gazebo.

The car came to a halt and Natasha stepped out from the passenger side. From what he could see, Natasha was dressed in a pair of black tights and a red dress peeked out from underneath her black coat. She made her way towards the gazebo – which was illuminated by a couple strands of white Christmas lights Clint had dug out from storage in his garage – and she heard the first few bars of a song begin to play.

Wait, Clint thought. I'm not ready. Oh God, I'm not ready for this!

Clint was frozen with fear, so he couldn't manage to tell Steve, Thor, Peggy, and Jane to stop playing. However, Clint didn't quite know what he was doing when he started singing the first few bars.

When you try your best, but you don't succeed

When you get what you want, but not what you need

When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep

Stuck in reverse

It was pure adrenaline. He had never performed in front of anyone before. Sure he had played in many football games but that was a different kind of adrenaline rush. This was just him and only him, front and center.

And the tears come streaming down your face

When you lose something you can't replace

When you love someone, but it goes to waste

Could it be worse?

Natasha wasn't quite sure what she witnessing, but she had to admit that she felt her heart skip a beat when she heard Clint open his mouth and sing. She didn't quite expect what came out but what she heard made her weak in the knees.

Lights will guide you home

And ignite your bones

And I will try to fix you

Coldplay? She thought. Is he singing Coldplay? Oh God, this just makes it ten times better!

And high up above or down below

When you're too in love to let it go

But if you never try you'll never know

Just what you're worth

Clint was completely into this now. His heart was practically beating out of his chest, but he powered through it. This was for Natasha and only Natasha.

Lights will guide you home

And ignite your bones

And I will try to fix you

Natasha crossed her arms across her chest. It wasn't because she was cold or she was experiencing disappointment, she was trying to hold herself together.

Tears stream down on your face

When you lose something you cannot replace

Tears stream down on your face

And I…

She thought she was going to collapse right then and there on the gravel, but she held herself together. She held herself up because she wanted to see the rest of this. She needed to see this.

Tears stream down on your face

I promise you I will learn from my mistakes

Tears stream down on your face

And I…

This is it, Clint, Clint thought to himself. It's almost over.

Lights will guide you home

And ignite your bones

And I will try to fix you

The last few bars of the song petered out and Clint grabbed the rose from on top of his backpack. He stepped down from the gazebo and slowly started to walk towards Natasha who looked like she was on the verge of collapse.

"Are you okay?" he said when he approached her.

"Yeah," she said, her voice cracking. She cleared her throat and continued, "Yeah, I'm fine."

Clint smiled and handed her the rose. She accepted it and smelled it, inhaling the intoxicating scent.

"So, I take it we're not going to dinner?" she teased.

Clint chuckled. "No we're not, unless you really want to."

"No," she said with a slight smile. "Did you really do all this for me?"

"No, I did it for Bruce," Clint joked.

Natasha wrapped her arms around Clint's neck and looked up into his eyes. She would never get tired of those blue-grey eyes.

"I loved it," she said.

"Yeah?" Clint said, surprised.

"Did you think I wouldn't?" she said, arching one of her eyebrows.

"I just thought you'd be mad at me since I practically avoided contact with you all day."

"Given recent circumstances, I think you're forgiven."

"Good, so I guess that means I can do this…" he trailed off as he leaned in to kiss her full on the lips. Clint brought his hands up to cup her face with her hands; he knew how she liked when he did that. They grew deeper into the kiss, hardly breaking away because they didn't want it to end. It wasn't until they heard Steve's voice from behind them that they broke away.

"Get a room you two!"

They broke away from the kiss and Natasha giggled.

"Happy birthday Nat," Clint whispered and gave her one quick peck on the lips before leading her through the trail of rose petals to join the rest of their friends in the gazebo.

I'm just going to say this. "Fix You" by Coldplay is the song I was thinking of when I was brainstorming this fanfiction so that's why it's called Fix You haha.

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