Clint held out his hand to Jade, and she took it with a smile. The party was bustling around them with talk and dancing, everyone was having such a good time, not a care in the world. Clint slowly walked Jade to the dance floor and swiftly made their way to the center of the people. Clint stood to face Jade and slowly placed a hand on her hip and grabbed her hand with his other, pulling her in closely to him. Jade placed her free hand on Clint's shoulder and the two began to sway along to the music.
The night grew darker and by this time Jade had her head resting on Clint's chest, even with her heals she was still a whole head shorter than him. "Thank you." Jade whispered not moving to look at Clint.
"Don't worry about it." Clint answered back well staring out through the large picture window, across the street to where a floral delivery service van had pulled up and five men dressed in black overalls jumped out of the back. Scanning them the largest one seemed to be motioning orders, Clint smirked, the leader that's the one he wanted to take in the rest had to go. The men started to head towards the building the party was in, pulling away from Jade he rested his hands on her shoulders looking down at her with an emotionless face, it was time to do his job, his mission.
Reaching into his pocket he pulled out a small GPS tracking device, and held it up for Jade to see. "In about sixty seconds men are going to storm in here, they are going to try and take you." Clint placed the small device in between her dress and the sash around her waist. "I will be able to find you anywhere with that, just in case. No matter what happens you will be fine, I will protect you. I want you to go to the kitchen and hide; I will come find you once it's safe." Clint pushed her towards the kitchen and got ready for the action. Soon screams filled the air as the men broke up the party with gun fire.
Clint rushed towards two of the men swiftly dodging their fire and incapacitating them quickly, as he was rising back up he heard Jade scream. Turning sharply he found Jade being grabbed by the man he presumed to be the leader. Sprinting towards them Clint watched as they disappeared into the kitchen. Two more overall clad men ran at Clint, taking no time at all he had them both down unconscious on the floor. Rushing through the doors to the kitchen he looked around for any sign of Jade through the scared staff, one of them pointing towards a delivery entrance to the right, taking off he rushed out into the cold night air. Clint emerged into a dead and empty alley way, grabbing his cell phone out he called headquarters.
"I need you to track Jade's locater." Fury's laughter echoed through the empty alley way through Clint's phone.
"Lose your mark Agent Barton?" Clint didn't say anything just hung up the phone and shoved it back in his pocket. A few seconds passed and a ladder dropped down in front of him, grabbing it he was hoisted up into the air, and was pulled into the silent aircraft above. Once the door behind him was shut Clint looked around the carrier to see everyone at their posts. Computers lined the walls, a beeping sound came from the farthest computer nearest the cockpit.
"We're heading to her location now. You might want to suit up." Came the voice of Natasha, turning Clint found Natasha holding his bow out towards him, a smirk plastered on her face. Grabbing his bow he made his way towards his suit and got ready to get Jade back.
"Where are you taking me?" Jade whispered as she was shoved out of a van and onto the pavement below unable to stop herself from connecting with the ground due to her hands being bound behind her back. Looking around Jade found herself on a dock, the man who had grabbed her stepping gracefully out of the van. "I'm not going to make you any super soldiers!"
"You will do whatever we want you to do girl." The man spoke as he leaned down to be face to face with Jade. "You're ours now." Smirking he grabbed her face roughly making her look straight at him, and then with that chance she spit on him. Jumping back and wiping his face he looked back down at her angrily, reeling his hand back quickly he brought it down on her cheek with a loud crack causing her head to whip to the side. Searing pain shot across her face and her eyes began to water, she was quickly brought out of her daze however when she heard the man scream. Looking back at him she found him hand pinned by an arrow to the back of the van door.
"Don't you know it's impolite to hit a lady!" Came a female voice from behind Jade turning around she found a red headed woman holding two guns towards the man against the van and a plethora of soldiers behind her. Out of the corner of Jade's eye she saw a shadow descend from a warehouse roof a few feet away, landing on the ground gracefully the figure walked towards the group.
The woman with red hair came and freed Jade from her restraints; she then extended a hand to help her up slowly. Jade suddenly hissed in pain and grabbed her right arm with her left. The woman lightly padded her arm down and found she screamed again in pain when she came to rest at her shoulder. "I'm Natasha Romanoff by the way, and I believe your shoulders been dislocated."
"Thanks for saving me," Smiled Jade as she continued to grip her arm in pain.
"Unfortunately I couldn't save you quick enough; Stark is going to have my head." Clint's voice sounded from behind Natasha. The red head stepped to the side to allow Clint to get closer to Jade.
Jade stared wide eyed at Clint the man who had just been dressed in a black dress shirt and pants was now wearing a tight black sleeveless uniform, a sleek compound bow in his right hand and a quiver full of arrows on his back. Jade looked from Clint to the man that was still withering in pain against the van then looked back to Clint surprise written all over her face, at least until the pain settled in again and her knees gave way as the adrenalin rush wore off.
Clint stepped forward quickly and grabbed Jade before she could hit the ground. She smiled meekly at him and before she could even get out a thank you Clint had lifted her carefully up into his arms.
Clint refused to let go of Jade and eventually she had fallen asleep in his arms, he was gratefully for this as he knew she wouldn't be in so much pain this way.
Soon Clint had Jade aboard the Helicarrier and finally allowed her to be taken from his arms once they were at the medical bay. They sedated her right away to keep her under as the relocated her shoulder and patched up a few scrapes, Clint all the while never leaving her. He stayed out of the way of the medics but refused to leave the room until she was no longer being poked and prodded. Soon it was just Clint, Jade and the beeping from the machines that were watching her vitals.