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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Not meaning to rush you, Tony, but I have a deaf archer to attend to, so we are going to leave now," Natasha said quickly, before leading Clint to his room./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Yes, sir," Natasha sighed, while looking at the door, and hanging up the phone. "Come in. You should know what is going on." She sat by Clint while the rest of the team filed in. Steve rushed to Clint's side, taking his hand and placing a light kiss on top of it. "Well," Natasha began in both sign language and English. "Clint lost his hearing on a mission in Budapest, when he was caught in the blast of one of his sonic arrows. To minimize the chances of him becoming vulnerable in the field, SHIELD hired the best doctors to create specialized hearing aids for Clint and implant them in his ears. Unfortunately, they couldn't figure out how to power them without using batteries. They used long lasting batteries that have only died twice in the four years he's had them. The last time they died, the doctor put them back in wrong, so now, to replace the batteries, he has to have surgery."/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Well," Clint said, in slurred speech, caused by his lack of hearing. "Let's get to SHIELD and get my ears fixed." He then stood, took Steve's hand, and left the room. Everyone followed the couple and loaded into cars to head to SHIELD headquarters./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""What do you need, Tony?" Steve said testily. Clint put a soothing hand on his arm, instantly calming Steve./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Well, I was thinking..." then the world went silent for Clint./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"He panicked, quickly leaving Steve and rushing over to Natasha, who was looking at him worriedly, as well as everyone else. When Clint reached her, he quickly spoke with her using sign language, telling her something was wrong with his hearing aides./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Not meaning to rush you, Tony, but I have a deaf archer to attend to, so we are going to leave now," Natasha said quickly, before leading Clint to his room./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"All of the other Avengers sat in stunned silence for a few moments before sprinting after the assassins./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"They got to Clint's room to see Clint in tears, looking at Natasha with questioning eyes, while she was speaking on the phone frantically./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Yes, sir," Natasha sighed, while looking at the door, and hanging up the phone. "Come in. You should know what is going on." She sat by Clint while the rest of the team filed in. Steve rushed to Clint's side, taking his hand and placing a light kiss on top of it. "Well," Natasha began in both sign language and English. "Clint lost his hearing on a mission in Budapest, when he was caught in the blast of one of his sonic arrows. To minimize the chances of him becoming vulnerable in the field, SHIELD hired the best doctors to create specialized hearing aids for Clint and implant them in his ears. Unfortunately, they couldn't figure out how to power them without using batteries. They used long lasting batteries that have only died twice in the four years he's had them. The last time they died, the doctor put them back in wrong, so now, to replace the batteries, he has to have surgery."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"They sat there in stunned silence, no one knowing what to say. Clint was the first to react, breaking into a new round of tears and collapsed into Steve's arms, causing everyone in the room to wonder what was going on with them./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Well," Clint said, in slurred speech, caused by his lack of hearing. "Let's get to SHIELD and get my ears fixed." He then stood, took Steve's hand, and left the room. Everyone followed the couple and loaded into cars to head to SHIELD headquarters./p