"Hey Clint?"

Clint turned around as he heard his name being called. "What do you want Tony?"

"The answer to a question," Tony replied.

"What question?" Clint asked, he started to get the feeling that this was going to end badly for him somehow.

"This one: Why do you keep tapping your ears?"

Clint looked at Tony confused, "What do you mean?"

"Like just now," Clint stopped his hand where it was and noticed that it was touching his ear. He quickly lowered his hand and turned to look at Tony.

"It's just a subconscious thing," Clint replied, he did not see what the big deal was. So what, he touched his ear all the time, apparently, it's not like it mattered.

"Yes I gathered that when you didn't know what I was talking about. But why do you do it? Come on you must know," Tony asked as he sat down on the sofa next to Clint.

Clint thought for a moment, he was not sure why he touched his ear. However as he started to think about it he came to realise that there was a reason, "It's because my hearing aids move around a bit in my ear so I push them back into place," Clint wondered how he had never consciously noticed that.

Tony nodded as if that was the answer he was expecting, "Do you want me to fix that?"

"Why would I trust you to fix anything? Last time you set fire to half of your lab," Clint retorted.

"Hey I fixed them didn't I?"

Clint relented, "Yeah you did. I don't have any spare hearing aids, how long will this take?" He didn't particularly want to spend hours unable to hear anything.

"I'm not sure, not too long hopefully," Tony held out his hand expectantly, "Come on, you know you'll end up giving them to me anyway."

Clint decided it was best not to argue, he was right and Clint always gave in in the end. He took the hearing aids out of his ears and handed them to Tony before turning around and heading for the door. He almost reached the doorway when he felt a tap on his shoulder, it was Tony.

Clint sighed and signed 'What do you want?'

Tony quickly signed 'Thank you' before leaving the room and Clint stunned in his wake, he could not believe that Tony Stark had just thanked him. He shook his head and walked off, he was going to go to his room and sit there until Tony returned with his hearing aids.

'Damn SHIELD, taking my spare pair so I can't hear anything until Tony is done,' Clint thought as he walked through the corridor.

He had almost reached his doorway when he felt another tap on his shoulder. He spun around expecting Tony to be stood there but saw that it was in fact Steve who was saying something but Clint could not hear him, obviously, and he was talking too quickly for Clint to read his lips.

Clint quickly waved his hands in front of Steve's face before pointing at his ears in an attempt to tell him that he could not hear. Luckily Steve managed to catch on pretty fast and started to sign instead.

'Where are your hearing aids?' Steve asked, he knew that Clint would never willingly be deaf for any period of time.

'T-O-N-Y' Clint spelt by way of answer, he figured that it was pretty self-explanatory.

Steve nodded before signing 'You want to watch a movie with us?'

Clint decided that Steve probably meant that the other avengers were going to watch something and he was invited but he was quick to point out 'I can't hear the movie,' This seemed to make Steve think for a moment, the avengers were hoping to all hang out and watch a movie, or 'catch Steve up on modern movies' as Tony had once called it.

Clint stood there as Steve tried to find a solution before he came up with an idea 'S-U-B-T-I-T-L-E-S' Steve spelt.

Clint laughed 'I know that, I don't like making people watch movies with them.'

Steve looked confused 'We don't mind,' Clint was about to tell Steve that he didn't feel like it and just disappear into his room until Tony was done but the look on Steve's face made him change his mind.

'If you are sure,' Clint signed. Steve's face lit up and he turned around and started walking towards the living room where the movie was set up. Clint hated it when he had to use subtitles, the last time he watched a movie with subtitles the person he was watching the movie with got so fed up of them popping up at the bottom of the screen that they stood up and left before the movie was halfway. The only reason he was deaf at that time was that SHIELD had not yet made him his hearing aids and the person decided to take his mind off the long wait by watching the movie. Needless to say when they left his deafness was very much on his mind. He knew that they were annoying so he just gave up and avoided any television or movie when he could not hear anything.

The two men reached the living room and moved to sit down on the unoccupied sofa. Clint watched as Steve started to talk to the others. He was still slightly rusty on his lip reading but Clint tried to decipher what was being said none the less.

"Tony's got Clint's hearing aids so he can't hear us right now. Is everyone alright with putting subtitles on?" Clint thought that that was what the Captain said at least.

He looked around the room to see how the others were responding and saw that they were all nodding in agreement. Bruce picked up the remote and went to the menu of the film and selected subtitles before starting the movie. JARVIS automatically dimmed the lights as the movie began, Clint relaxed back into his seat and began watching the film and reading the subtitles.

Natasha tapped him on the shoulder, she knew about what happened the last time he watched a film with subtitles. She had asked him why he avoided watching films when he was deaf and Clint told her, she quickly went and yelled at the person who had done that to him. She subtly signed 'Are you okay?' to him, she didn't want the others to know that there was a problem.

Clint responded in the same manner 'I'm fine,' Natasha decided to not push it any further and turned to look back at the screen. Clint also switched his focus to the film, it was Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring and Clint loved that movie. He was the one who suggested that it was added to the list of films that Steve and Thor had to catch up on. He suggested it mainly because he was fed up of Steve and Thor's looks of confusion every time Tony called him Legolas.

Clint soon got absorbed in the movie, he barely even noticed that he was reading the subtitles as he got drawn into the story. When the Fellowship reached Moria he broke his gaze away from the film and looked around at the other avengers who were watching the movie with him. Steve was watching with a look of amazement in his eyes as he took in the visual effect, Thor had a similar look but he also looked excited for the next fight scene. Bruce was sat watching the film but he had seen it before so did not have the same look on his face. Natasha looked rather bored but Clint realised that was probably due to the amount of times that he had made her watch the trilogy with him.

Natasha realised that someone was watching her and quickly turned to look at Clint. Clint looked so happy at that moment as he once again looked around the room before looking back at Natasha. Natasha smiled at him before turning back to the movie, she pretended to hate it but she didn't mind watching it as long as it made Clint happy.

Clint returned his gaze to the screen as the Fellowship got trapped in the mines of Moria. He jumped slightly when he felt a hand on his shoulder before swinging around to see who it was. Tony was stood behind him, smiling at the sight of the team all engrossed in the film. Tony held out his hand and Clint grabbed his hearing aids and put them back into place.

Clint grinned when he could hear again and noticed that the hearing aids felt much more solid in their place in his ear.

"Did I fix them?" Tony asked quietly, trying not to disturb the others who were watching the film.

"They feel good."

"Do they feel like they might fall out still?" Tony sounded slightly worried that his adjustments would not be enough to fix the problem.

Clint smiled at Tony, "They feel secure. Thank you Tony, you did a good job."

"Good," was Tony's quick response as he moved to sit on the sofa next to Clint.

"You can take the subtitles off now guys," Clint said as he shifted sideways a bit so that Tony could have more room.

Bruce, who had the remote, quickly paused the movie and returned to the menu to turn off the subtitles. "We don't mind you know. They aren't too bothersome," Bruce said as he switched the DVD back to the movie.

The avengers all started to concentrate on the film once more but Natasha quickly leaned over and whispered in Clint's ear, "You can trust us. We don't mind when you can't hear us and we'll do whatever we can to make you comfortable when that happens."

"I know," Clint whispered back, his eyes still glued to the film, "I know."

A/N: There is one more chapter to go now I think. I hope you enjoyed that :)