Compromised
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Summary: Badass assassin spy ninjas. A match made in subterfuge, or something like it, but not really, because Elle Potter was supposed to be retired, and Clint Barton was no ninja. Elle(fem!Harry)/Clint. AU.
Rating: M for language, violence, mild adult themes and character death.
Author: tlyxor1. .
Compromised
Prologue: Summons
July 10th, 2012
The call arrives at a quarter to three in the morning. She's just been woken from a sound sleep, she's tired, and she has no desire to learn what tragedy awaits her on the other end of the line, but all the same, she sits up in her bed, picks up the handset and presses it to her ear, indisputably terrified.
Apparently, she's a glutton for punishment.
Or maybe she's just a realist.
"Potter residence," she begins, tremulous, but she bolsters herself quickly, because Elaine Potter, or Nightshade, in some circles, has never been weak. She won't start now. "Elaine speaking."
The voice on the other line is familiar, brusk and stern, blank of warmth, and kindness, or any such display of emotion - of weakness - because he cannot allow for anything less. Not in his line of work and position of authority.
Elle doesn't expect anything else from her lover's boss. Hers too, she admits to herself.
"Barton's been compromised." Fury pauses. "We need you."
And Elaine doesn't really have time to hesitate. "I'll be there."