Patchwork Road
By Rey

Chapter summary: When desire wars with necessity, an undecided Clint is the casualty.

19. Conflict

"I could heal your leg, if you would let me."

The offer – Loki's offer – rings in Clint's ears, haunting his every waking, lucid second.

What does that puppet master – or is that puppet mock master? – want as payment? Is there any nefarious, probably long-term hidden goal that twisted thing wishes to achieve by doing this?

But otherwise, could Clint himself live and work and all with a lame leg? What would he do if his enemies came a-calling? He managed to escape this time only by sheer luck and desperation!