9. Unknown past / before we know each other
Once, in an attempt to soothe the sharp attitude of her shoulders he placed a hand against her spine. His intentions were platonic; he had known her for only a very little time. Still, she shuddered away from him, her eyes wide with some unnamed fear. Roy had felt hurt, but he had understood the message; Hawkeye could not shrug off her stiff bearing, could not ease herself into the other, gentler self that she kept tucked neatly and secretly away in the other hemisphere of her brain.