Title: Come Home to Me
Pairing: Bonnie Bennett & Clint Barton (TVD/Marvel Crossover)
Rating: T
Word Count: 549
Prompt: "I'm not ready for you to not be here."
Song Recommendation: I Will Return by Skylar Grey
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Bonnie knew things were bad. If she's noticed one thing over the last year she's spent with Clint and all the missions he's gone on is that the worse things are the more he calls.
She knew he was heading off with the Avengers soon, back to Sokovia for the second time, this time for a not so simple mission as retrieving a magical sceptre. A 'simple mission' that nearly killed him. She swears if he comes back she's never going to let him life that one down.
Bonnie shook her head. Not if he returns, when he returns.
Always when.
He always comes back and this time will be no different.
She tries to calm herself and wait for his call.
She knows he will.
The silence in the safe house Clint made her promise she'd stay in until he or one of the others deemed it safe was maddening. She refused to turn on the TV, she didn't want to hear any more news about Ultron or what Clint was about to fight against. She didn't even want to think about what he was going up against.
Instead, she settles for nursing a long forgotten and now cold tea on her lap and staring at her phone, willing it to light up with Clint's face (a secret snap she got of him while she was watching him torment other agents with his new arrows).
It could have been minutes or hours that passed until her phone finally went off.
Her tea fell to the floor as she jumped to grab the phone from the coffee table and answer it.
"You at the safe house?" his voice came floating through the little speaker of the phone.
"Yeah," Bonnie said and stood from the couch. "Where are you now?"
"Just about to head off," he told her and Bonnie found herself reaching for the necklace he gave her on their six month anniversary. "This isn't gonna be a good one, Bon."
"You'll be fine," she said, trying to reassure her more than him. "You'll find Nat, you'll all get out of there alive and you'll come home."
He was silent on the other line for a long moment. "I love you, Bonnie."
She felt the first tear fall and shook her head. "No," she said and wiped the stray tear away but it was quickly followed by another. "No, don't say it like that. Don't say it like you're saying goodbye."
"I just need you to know that in case-
"No," she cut him off. "I do know that and nothing's going to happen to you."
"Bon-
"Nothing's going to happen to you because…" her voice broke a little and she didn't try to stop the next few tears that fell, "because I'm not ready for you to not be here, Clint."
There was silence between them before Bonnie broke it.
"Now you need to go and finish this and then come home to me, because I know you will."
"Dinner, tomorrow at eight o'clock. I promise," he said after a slight pause between them. "Cap's signalling," he told her.
Bonnie swallowed a lump in her throat before answering. "Okay. Go kick some robot ass, Hawkeye."
She could hear the smile in his voice when he said, "Yes, ma'am."
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Snaps if you can guess what the prompt quote is for!
So I may have gotten a little inspiration for this scene from Mia & Brian's phone call in the latest Fast & Furious movie and I stole the whole Clint calling Laura "Ma'am" but I'm an annoying shipper and refuse to accept the family storyline in AoU.
Hope you enjoyed!
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