Sarcasm360 - Good idea! Ok!

Still waiting for guesses on my age! C'mon! Still got ten to go before I reveal it!

I'll speak more at the end. R'n'R or my boss JajaDemon666 will kill me for not writing it good enough. R'n'R!

P.S.: There's a teensy bit of 'romance' in this chapter. It's probably the only chapter to have romance. And the romance is really small... so yeah. It's not really romance...

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Thor opened his eyes, and felt a sharp blade against his chest. He could see Loki's sneering face, as he hypnotised Thor to do his bidding.

Clint opened his eyes, and groaned as a bright light made his head pound. Groaning quietly, he lifted his head. Natasha was sitting in the chair beside his bed, stiff in the seat but asleep. Clint smiled slightly as he saw the exhausted circles, but yelled in pain as hot pain seared through his side. Natasha's head jerked up and she looked at him, and spoke.

"Sorry I was asleep. I-"

"It's okay. I- argh..." Clint groaned as agony slowly set in his ribs. Natasha reached over to wipe a trickle of blood from his mouth, and smiled softly; sympathetically,

"Yeah. You flat-lined, and the doctors have to actually electronically breathe and beat your heart for you with some of Agent Stark's machinery." Natasha spoke quietly.

"I hope I won't need an arc reactor!" Clint laughed, then groaned as the wires attached to his chest twisted slightly as his laughter sent tremors through his lungs. "Natasha, I... when I was unconscious, when I was in the crash... I... I couldn't... stop..." Clint was fading again, nearly unconscious. "I... couldn't stop thinking... that we would be fine... and that we'd all... be fine. And I would never, ever forgive m-myself if... if you died." Natasha bit her lip and fought tears as she heard these words slip from Clint's ghostly pale lips, but quickly composed herself as she heard a crash in the other room. Getting up, she walked through the door.

What she did not expect was Tony unconscious in the corner, with Nick Fury, Phil Coulson and Maria Hill fighting a very angry Thor.

"Someone's been compromised!" Phil yelled into his phone. "We need backup!"

What nobody had noticed yet was Loki's sceptre inching towards Natasha's heart from her side, the man himself invisible.

... But if they could see him, they would be able to see a leer on his face that would break every single human's courage into shards of weakness.

He was going to win this time.

TELL ME ANY TYPOS!

I am so, so, so sosososososososo sorry about this mega short chapter. I'll make it up for you with a long one? I AM SO SO SO SO SO SORRY! And another cliffhanger... they seem to be my thing, don't they? Yeah. Remember to review, blah blah blah...

I'LL ONLY UPLOAD ANOTHER CHAPTER IF ONE PERSON TRIES TO GUESS MY AGE! COME ON GUYS, SERIOUSLY!

P.S.: I will not upload until I get one guess (and not from JajaDemon666 either) of my age! I know an author who didn't upload their story for over a year because nobody did a 'Guess my age' review!

Do you want that?

I'll assume no...

So, yeah. Guessing time!

Review or the awesome-plots-for-my-avengers-fanfic part of my brain will wither and rot from boredom! I am SherlockMoriartyHouse500IQ, but I'll become SherlocksBrainHasRotted0IQ soon!

Thank-you for your consideration. x