It's the early days of their partnership while he's still Barton and she's still Romanov, but the charge is undeniable. Set a few years before the events of the film, no spoilers.

Clint and Natasha are fighting. Naturally, it's the others who suffer.

Tony Stark pulls a slightly curved metal plate from his pocket like an abused handkerchief.

The five times they meet. Pre-movie, slightly AU

Office!AU for all the team. Clint keeps stealing the office doughnuts in the name of love. Steve Rogers leads his crack team of data analysts to doughnut-winning glory. Well, that's the plan.

One day, Tony breaks the one commandment the entire house had agreed upon: Don't Touch My Coffee Mug. In his defense, Steve's was just too American too resist. Rated T for language.

A headcanon turned mini ficlet as to what happens when that blasted emergency alarm goes off in Avengers Tower at some ungodly hour of night, and how each hero reacts.

"It must be because you're both assassins that you can't love normally." —ClintNatasha.

"In the two seconds directly after he extended his legs in front of him to breach the window and before his boots made contact, Clint had one thought: 'well… this is a bad idea.'" Filling in the blanks during and after the battle.

Even Tony knows when it's time to admit defeat. Movieverse. Tony, Clint, hints of Clint/Natasha

What no one seems to remember is that Tony Stark created that armor. Iron Man would be less than nothing – literally – without Tony and his genius. Leave Tony alone, however, with access to a half-decent workshop and he'll revolutionize the world. Or, Tony is over protective and doesn't really care.

So Coulson's been hearing rumors that somebody found something in the Arctic bearing a striking resemblance to his favorite superhero...but Nick Fury's in no hurry to let him in on it. Kind of adorable Coulson fanboying. Pre-Avengers and technically, pre-Captain America. R&R!

They're six seriously screwed-up people who all have something to learn. Unfortunately, the only ones they have to learn from are each other.

There's a difference between surviving and living. Natasha/Clint *NOW COMPLETE*

Just a little tag to the movie. Spoilers for the very end of the movie the fabulous shawarma scene . Whump for everyone! Hurray! And possibly a little bit of BlackHawk

Pepper finds, that at a time when people with extraordinary powers are coming out of the wood work, the ordinary, every day man, will always have a place of honor among heroes.

They don't become a team overnight. First they have to eat shawarma, watch movies, and play rock, paper, scissors.

or, Four Times Clint Barton Spoke at a Wedding and One Time He Spoke at a Funeral.

Agent Clint Barton, codename Hawkeye, is sent to kill a target known only as the Black Widow - but Clint makes a different call. / For Lalin. Warnings for language and violence.

After her uncle is taken, young Natasha Romanov ends up in state's custody at a group home. She can tough it out alone... but somehow fellow resident Clint Barton becomes the reason she doesn't have to. A high school AU.

Kink meme fill, no pairings. "And yet he thinks that maybe this is the moment that defines them as a team – the one where Barton has a goddamn seizure in the shawarma joint and the rest of them panic and run around like headless chickens."

Natasha Romanova was almost eight hours into her third day in Ekaterinburg when she noticed that she had a tail. clintasha. BlackHawk.

The most comfortable shirt she owns was his. Well, is still his.

Or, Everyone Knows Coulson Is Secretly A Ninja. Last Chapter: Who Doesn't Want To Hug Captain America?

The Avengers are perhaps the most extraordinary group in existence. What happens when two geniuses, two assassins, one super-soldier and one god try something normal, like staying in a hotel? Sure, they can save the world, but can they save housekeeping from early retirement?