Patchwork Road
By Rey

Chapter summary: An epic showdown with a rival super sniper is interrupted and ended so summarily by a third party. What a wound to one's pride! Worse to Clint, it's Loki who does that.

20. Freeze

Clint's would-be assassin has been found out, and caught. And, true to his quality as a top-mark sniper, his assigned murderer – or maimer? – is yet another top-mark sniper, by the code-name of Winter Soldier.

He is pleased – and, secretly, relieved – that at least one of his enemies is down. He is much less than pleased, however, to find out that Loki is the one who has downed the opposite assassin sniper, by literally freezing the said assassin solid. From afar no less, which is usually Clint's type of warfare; without the literal freezing part, of course.