My big author note is at the bottom. I know this is a little different from the others seeing as the one who is being insulted isn't even there for the most part, but it all works out in my mind.
Disclaimer: If I owned the Avengers I would include Antman and Wasp in the next film because I love them.
Natasha prided herself on being an enigma. She remained aloof and secretive, never revealing more than necessary and played her cards extremely tight to her chest. It has always been this way and it will always be that way, which is what she told herself over and over again so she doesn't put down roots and doesn't get attached. She's wrong though. All of a sudden someone who is just like her, lost in a way, is holding a arrow right at her forehead and instead of doing what he is told, he offers her the one thing she never thought she would have a second chance, an escape.
To this day she doesn't know what made her accept the offer from a stranger who by all accounts should have killed her. Since that moment, where time seemed to freeze and she was saved, she hasn't looked back.
Clint becomes her rock, the one reliable ally in the messed up world she tries to protect and save. Then though people seem to slip through her cracks in the wall she puts up. She slowly finds herself opening up to them and being honest in ways she never thought were possible before Clint. She finds herself sitting through movie nights after saving the world with her team. A handful of people who know her weaknesses, her faults, and even the way she takes her coffee and through all this they stand beside her no matter the cost.
This is why on this glorious Friday, she is beyond furious.
She had been reporting to Fury for their weekly debrief on what has happened and getting files on the next assignment when she passed by one of the game rooms. She was trying to locate her two fellow Avengers who were doing repairs on the flying base from the last attack on the ship, but stop when she heard some interesting comments being said. True to her occupation no one heard her walk by or see her placed outside the room where she heard and saw everything.
"Woo Bulls eye!" Cheered one of the seven agents that were in the rooma dn all were participating in the game. The dart indeed had hit the center of the dart board, but that's not what made Natasha's blood boil. They had an image tacked up on top, the dart piercing the nose of the face.
Clint's face. It was an image of when he was possessed his eyes that certain shade of blue that for the week after haunted Natasha's dreams.
"Isn't this a little barbaric?" One of the smaller agents piped up. "He was possessed, it's not like he purposely meant to kill anyone."
"Please, "Hawkeye" has always been a loose cannon, he refuses to listen to orders. He had this coming for a long time." One of the two girls in the room said. In fact if Natasha remembered correctly (and she always did) she's pretty sure Clint rejected that girl's come-ons last Valentine's Day.
"He didn't even kill one of the world's best assassins; instead he befriends her and brings her back here. Like a Russian spy could be trusted. He probably just fell for her charm just like he did Loki's." The man, who throws out his opinion like he's God reborn, lands a dart right into one of Clint's eyes. At this point in time Natasha has heard enough and she slinks away.
"How does Fury manage to find you people, I mean all you need is a basic engineering degree to put this together." Tony shakes his head in disbelief and waves to an approaching Natasha from where he stands reconfiguring the helicarrier's hardware from the last attack on the ship. Bruce looks up from the hard drive he's inspecting and nods in her direction.
"Everyone out." The coldness of Natasha's words startles all the workers in the room and makes them freeze for a moment before hastily leaving. Tony looks amused and Bruce was wondering what trouble Tony was in now.
"Tony," Tony's smile seemed to be glued on as he waited for her to do something bad to him. "Pull up the footage from the game room on deck three." Tony and Bruce let out a sigh of relief.
"Yes I can do that, why might I ask this footage is so important you cleared out an entire-" He's cut off as the current images of what is happening appear with sound, on his touchpad and he frowns instantly. "I see." He hands the pad over to Bruce who lets out an unconscious growl at what he watches.
Bruce then begins to type something into the pad very quickly and all of a sudden screams can be heard from the pad. Tony and Natasha quickly look over to see what the scientist has gone and Tony lets out a loud snort.
The seven people in the room are now covered in water and are continued being drenched by the overhead sprinkler system along with being sprayed by the walls with the chemicals found in fire extinguishers.
"Not enough." Natasha says.
"Oh most definitely." Tony smirks and Natasha can practically see the horns on his head.
The next day the stupid seven, as Tony called them, were awakening every hour on the hour by a shrill alarm that went on for five minutes. When they eventually got up, each time they touched something metal it shocked them.
Then they were called in for training. The training was them being target practice for the Black Widow. When that was done three flinched at any movement, three were in hysterics and one had passed out. They were then called to help in the docks where they spent the next five hours lifting boxes of weights into the ship as directed by Captain America. After that was done, the Captain then said oh wait that's wrong they're needed on Deck C this is Deck F. By the time all of this was over, the seven (the one had been woken up by the shrill alarm) were about to fall asleep as they stumbled to their rooms.
When they came to each of their rooms though they were greeted with men in hazmat suits. Their rooms had somehow become exposed to gamma radiation and they weren't allowed in.
The next day Natasha sat on the sofa next to Clint and the other Avengers scattered around the room as they watched the morning news to see what new cover ups S.H.I.E.L.D. came up with. They had pulled up old news feeds once and it had become a drinking game, whoever laughed during one had to do a shot. Tony and Clint sucked at constantly giggling like girls over the stupidity of it all.
They had just sat through the first ten minutes, when they all except Natasha who barely flinched, let out a very manly yelp as a man with an eye patch appeared on the television screen.
"What the hell?" Tony screeched as he moved to grab a pad and stop his worst nightmare from coming true.
"I'll be brief Mr. Stark. I would just like to know why I have seven agents who claim to have been traumatized by my team." Fury's glare as always was impressive.
"We have no idea what you're talking about Director."Dr. Banner stated in a calm controlled voice. Clint just looked confused as hell.
"Yes well, next time you seek to defend Agent Barton's honor, come to me and I will deal with it." With that Fury left and the news continued to play.
Clint looked at his team who all had innocent looks about them. "Do I even want to know?" The smirk Natasha wore, told him that he was probably better off not knowing.
Hey so two more chapters! I'm excited. First things first though, I would like to express my gratitude.
I currently have 315 e-mails in my inbox, and the cool thing about that I went through it all deleted all those that don't pertain to my stories. So I know for sure I have 315 e-mails that vary from reviews to story alerts about all my Avengers work. That's more feedback I have gotten for anything ever! So I would like to take a minute to thank you all.
At first I was planning on e-mailing you all back, but it got confusing because some of you guys favored or alerted multiple stories and I didn't want to fill your inboxes expressing the same thing over and over again, so I'm thanking you all right here!
HOME: I have 51 one favorite stories for this and I love you all, my first work thats litered with grammatical errors is apparently decent. I really thank you all for that, also for my 5 reviewers those made my day hearing you're feedback. And for those 3 who alerted my story, I'm sorry that's completed, but I love you anyway! :D
IN WHICH A DEATH IS GREATLY EXAGGERATED: This is officially as of right now my most favorited story ever with 56 I mean I love you people so much its awesome having this much appreciation. I thank you all. This story is probably done too just so you know, I did have 6 alerts and I'm sorry but chances are this one is complete. And to my 15 reviewers you guys motivated me to write another story which brings us to my next work.
FOR THE FIRST TIME: Honestly I wasn't sure about this one but for the 25 faves, 5 story alerts and 6 reviewers I love you all. I will do another chapter I think either on scars (one reviewer suggested that and I love it) or something about Hawkeye's background since my focus was mainly on his part. I will note I'm leaning to the first part. Also for those who pointed it out I now have added Steve to the pile at the end.
A SECOND START FOR THE THIRD TIME: The only story I actually wrote with couples part of the story. So I would like to thank my 6 reviewers and my 13 favoriters and my 6 alerters it was great. I'm going to write another either with the girls of the Avengers plotting something evil or someone punching the General, maybe both.
Finally, last, but not least
TOOTHPICKS: I love you guys so fucking much! This story has gotten more reviews (36) and more alerts (39) then anything I have ever written ever in the history of my life. It makes me so happy. Super duper happy you people motivate me to actually complete this and its grand. Also I can't forget my 33 people who favorited this story, I love them.
I like to thank the 3 people who favorited author me that was fantastic and also the 7 of you who author alerted me. I love you. I love every last one of you.
And lastly to the one person who reviewed this story simply by saying "I love you"
I would like to say "And I love you random citizen!" (whoever can name where that's from gets a free cookie from over the internet)
For any of you that actually stuck through and skimmed my rambling I would like to remind you to review! Please! I love you all! I haven't said that enough I think...