"John"
"You're a crack-shot."
John Watson spun, hand going for his gun. He panicked when he found it gone, and stared at the stranger in his chair, playing with tinsel and eyeing John up and down.
"Agent Romanov intercepted it," he said. "You have quick reflexes."
"Who are you?" he asked. "You're not Santa."
"Phil Coulson. I work for… the government."
"American?"
"Yes."
"…A spy?"
He smiled. "Romanov?"
John turned, and a woman returned his gun. Coulson joined her at the door, and gave him a card.
"If you get bored with the clinic, call me," he said.
And they left.
Okay, not much in the way of a pairing, per se. So I added the bit where Phil is ogling John. After all, John keeps claiming to be straight – which he probably is, but it's entertaining nonetheless – so it's not like we could dive straight into slash territory. This kind of made sense to me, that's all. (Oh, how I wish this could be canon.)
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