Chapter 9

(Just a talk nothing offensive)

Once Natasha and Mark came back to the Stark tower they were still holding hands and talking. The elevator dinged signaling that they arrived at their destination. The top floor where all the other Avengers are. They stepped foot on the floor and someone cleared their voice. They looked at a very un-amused Clint Barton. Natasha looked at Mark then to Clint.

"Alright then I'll be um...in my room." Natasha said feeling awkward.

She turned around and let go of Mark's hand. She didn't give Mark a kiss on the cheek. Once Nat was out of sight, Clint looking at her then to Mark. Still having a blank face.

"Alright Mark. Let's have a very important talk." Clint said directly at Mark not breaking eye contact.

"Fine." Mark said with a bored tone.

Mark went to sit on the couch and Clint stood in front of the opposite couch.

"Alright Mark. First of all you can't date Natasha behind OUR back. We protect her and she is our only female assassin and avenger member of this team." Clint lectured.

"Who's we?" Mark asked with a smirk.

"The Avengers NOT including you." Clint talked back with also a smirk on his face.

"I will become one." Mark replied looking at his fingernails.

"First of all no you won't. Second of all if you do I bet you will be the bait for ANY upcoming villain. Third of all you really need to train I rather make you a house cleaner than an ACTUAL Avenger. The only thing you'll avenge is yourself." Clint pointed out.

"Pfft...and Natasha." Mark replied.

"No...once you break her heart." Clint responded.

"I'm there for her." Mark exclaimed.

"Since when? Probably in your dreams! Your there doing anything you want with her." Clint replied. "Anyways like I said. If you are going to date Natasha then you better make her happy. We all made her happy and safe. If I see that she's frustrated and angry I'll blame it on you. First things first. If she's upset about something you have to train with her to lose all that stress. That also means you have to keep up with her punches and kicks. She's going to turn you into a dead fish.

Also if you do fail on the stress free training I'll be there for her. Second of all DON'T and I mean DON'T call her Nat or Tash or Tasha, or Naty! She doesn't like it when somebody calls hers those nicknames. The only people that can call her those nicknames are Bruce and I got it pinkie! Third don't ever kiss her on her lips without my permission! Got it Markia!" Clint lectured more.

"Why pinkie?" Mark asked bored.

"Is it really that important?" Clint asked bored to his question.

Mark nodded and Clint sighed.

"Your shirt is pink." Clint responded.

"Why Markia?" Mark asked more.

"Markia, you are a little girl that's why." Clint responded more.

"Can I kiss her now?" Mark asked raising on eyebrow.

"Nope." Clint responded.

"Too bad..can't stop me!" Mark screamed.

Mark threw a cushion at Clint who Clint easily dodged it and brought out his bow with an arrow 1 second after the cushion throw.

"WHAT THE HECK! WHERE DID THAT BOW COME FROM?" Mark asked frightening since the weapon was pointed directly at him.

Clint was still holding the weapon with the arrow glaring at Mark.

"No more questions Mark. So how about you just pretend nothing happen and go watch a movie in your room." Clint ordered.

Mark only held his hands in surrender and nodded slowly. Clint pointed his head to Mark's door and Mark slowly got up. Clint followed Mark still with the bow armed but let it rest making the arrow point at the floor. Still alert if Mark will make a move. Once Mark got in his room Clint quietly and gently told Mark to lock his bedroom door. Once the door was locked and Clint was now alone standing outside Edger's bedroom he put away the weapon and walked to his room.

That night Natasha was having a nightmare of her past. Her first thought was too sleep with Mark but her door opened slowly with a looking sleepless Clint.

"Nightmare?" Nat asked.

"Nightmare?" Clint asked the same question.

They both nodded and Clint went to Nat's bed and swung his arm around Nat's waist. The two assassins finally feeling safe and nightmare free slept in a peaceful sleep.

Around 6:00 A.M. Mark decided to wake Natasha up for a walk to the park. He got out his door looking at the halls for a sign of the Archer. He saw no sign of him and quietly went into Black Widow's room. He then found something that made him angry. He saw the girl he loved and the man he hate together sleeping peacefully. He was about to push Clint off but what he didn't know was that the assassins are light sleepers. Clint opened his eyes revealing dark blue eyes. He got up extremely careful not to wake up Natasha. Since Natasha knew who was in bed with her she just kept sleeping. Mark was about to charge at Clint but Clint held up a gun.

"Don't make this worse for you Mark, we don't want you in the infirmary with a bleeding arm right?" Clint asked and threaten.

Mark only nodded slowly was about to leave quietly. Welcome to Clint's assassin side.

CAW CAW! Clint wins the vote of the BEST team!

Oh No! Clint is turning into DARK SIDE CLINT! As in Assassin Clint. What will Clint do? What will Mark do to save his life? What will Natasha's reaction be? Will she date Mark or leave him as another junior agent?