Once they arrived at the docks Natasha leapt from the vehicle following closely behind Jane, Peggy, and Pepper who had already arrived and were making their way towards Maria's sitting form.
"Maria!" Peggy shouted, successfully getting Maria's attention. "Maria what's wrong?"
"Nothing." Maria sniffed, clearly crying with red and puffy eyes.
"Something's obviously wrong or else you wouldn't be crying. What happened?" Pepper asked, standing beside Peggy and looking pained by her friend's appearance.
"It's nothing. I just got a lot on my mind." Maria replied, wiping her eyes noticing the rest of the girls there as well.
"Maria please tell us. What did Clint do?" Natasha asks, her voice steady but her face clearly showing hurt from her friend's lack of trust.
"It's nothing. And you guys can't do anything about it so just drop it please." Maria asked, turning away from them to hide the tears that continued to roll down her cheeks.
"Fine, if you won't tell me, Clint will." Natasha replied, walking back towards the guys with a determine hint in her eyes. "Clint we need to talk. Now." The redhead basically snapped towards the blonde, who only nodded quietly. Following the redhead back towards the parking lot, Pepper quickly joined them.
"What's going on with you and Maria? She's heartbroken. I've never seen her this upset before, not since her mom left." Pepper asked to the blonde, who continued to stare at the ground refusing to make eye contact.
"Yeah Clint what's going on? You've really done something to upset her." Natasha agreed, a less forgiving look on her face than the preppy blonde.
"I, I, I-" Clint stammered, quickly showing how rattled he was by the situation.
"You what? Spit it out!" Pepper snapped at the blonde, her patience wearing thin.
"I may have said some pretty nasty things about and to her dad." Clint said finally, taking a deep breath and sighing in defeat. "I ruined my one chance at impressing her dad."
"What? What could you have possible said?" Natasha asks, shocked by his reply.
"I may have brought up her mom, which is a sore topic with her old man." Clint admitted.
"Why would you do that?" Pepper asks, clearly not understanding his reasoning.
"Because her dad. He was insulting Maria! He was saying things like 'I wish I had a son' and 'if only she was a boy'. I just finally snapped." Clint breathed out a heavy sigh. "Now he's forbidden me from seeing her. He's making Maria and my life miserable."
"Why don't you apologize?" Natasha asks, trying to find a solution for the couple before prom and graduation, which were just around the corner.
"Because he doesn't deserve an apology! He keeps degrading his daughter! I mean I know I don't have any place to talk since I'm not there all the time, but from the week at the beach." Clint paused, sighing and sitting down on the ground. "I can see he doesn't appreciate Maria. Or his wife. No wonder she left him." Clint finished, rubbing the back of his neck and looking out towards Maria's sitting form.
"You should go apologize. She thinks your not into her anymore." Natasha says, quickly patting Clint's back before returning to Maria.
"She's right. If there's anything you can do you should, whether her father likes it or not." Peggy agrees, lightly hugging the depressed archer before returning towards the rest of the girls as well.
Sighing, Clint stood up and watched as the girls embraced. Seeing this he made his choice. Pepper and Natasha were right. Maria was his girl, and he wasn't about to let her father or anyone else stand in his way.
"Hey guys can you believe prom is this weekend?" Peggy asks excitedly, she was currently sitting in her room rearranging her prom dress for the millionth time that week.
"I know, I'm so excited. Tony said the limo's going to arrive at his place around 6, so we can make it to prom by 6:15ish." Pepper said through the phone, also looking over her prom list and making sure everything was in place.
It was now two weeks after Maria's breakdown and things seemed to slowly be better. Maria had officially denounced her father and moved in with Clint, who was living with his Aunt and Uncle, and the two's relationship seemed a lot stronger for it.
"I can't believe this is my last prom. I'm so depressed. You guys will have to send me pictures of your dresses next year." Peggy says in a giddy voice, looking at her light blue dress hanging in her closet.
"Don't say that. It's too depressing thinking about school without you or Steve." Jane complained. She was at home on her computer looking through different internships available during the summer months. "I mean I don't want to think about it just yet."
"I know what you mean Jane. I don't want to think about it either." Natasha said, currently laying across the couch, her legs resting on Loki's lap with a laptop in her own lap. "I can't believe we're going to be seniors."
"I know, it seems like yesterday we were all freshman." Pepper sighed, continuing down her list of prom items.
"Yeah well I got to go, I think Clint just broke the already broken sink." Maria laughed, holding the phone so everyone could hear the sound of running water and strings of cuss words coming from the brunette's boyfriend.
"Ok well have fun with that. You know Clint hates being corrected on anything." Pepper laughed, finally through with her own prom list to move onto the pre-party food.
"Yeah believe me I know." Maria laughed, hanging up the phone and walking over to Clint's bathroom.
Clint was currently laying on his back under the sink trying to fix the pipe while water continued to spray out everywhere from the faucet.
"Need help with that Hawk?" Maria asked, giggling at the sight of her boyfriend. Dirty work boots, baggy and torn cargo pants, and a grey t-shirt soaked with sweat and water.
"I've got it miss Hill." Clint replied, grunting trying to pull the wrench tighter around the pipe.
"Sure you do. Here let me help you." Maria took off her jacket and lied down next to her boyfriend, getting a little wet in the process.
"I told you I've got this." Clint snapped, although it came out in ragged breaths as he was still trying to turn the wrench to stop the water from running.
"Here let me do something." Maria insisted resting her hand on Clint's bicep and forcing him to lower his tired arms. "We're a team remember?"
"Fine, You go up top and turn the faucet off when I say ok." Clint offered, finally caving to his girlfriend's pleas.
"Roger that Hawk." Maria replied, rising up from under the sink and grasped the handle to the sink firmly. "Ready."
"Alright." Clint paused, turning the wrench a little tighter. "Now."
As soon as the words left his mouth Maria pushed down on the faucet's handles, successfully shutting the water off.
"Ok it's off." Maria informed her boyfriend, kneeling down to look at him loosen the wrench and throw it in the toolbox near the toilet.
"Great, now help me up." Clint asked, holding out his hand so Maria could pull him out from under the sink. Agreeing Maria clasped his larger hand in her own small one and pulled, successfully pulling Clint up.
"Now what?" Maria asks, looking into her boyfriend's blue eyes and smiling in pure happiness.
"Now. I thank you." Clint replied, a smirk on his lips as he leaned down and in towards his girlfriend's pink lips.
Once they started kissing it seemed time slowed, at least for Maria. Clint's warm lips against hers and his large rough hands resting on her hips felt so right, like that's where they belonged. Too busy caught up in their tongue war the two love birds didn't hear the small hissing sound coming from the sink's pipe or the popping sound. They just felt the sudden cold-water splash out on them as the sink's faucet and pipe both exploded with gallons of cold water shooting everywhere.
"Damn that's cold." Clint yelled, quickly running towards the sink to try and contain the mess.
"Here I've got the sink, you get the pipe." Maria offered, taking Clint's spot at trying to contain the leaks while Clint grabbed the wrench once more and disappeared in between Maria's legs.
"Ok I think I've got it this time!" Clint shouted over the noise of gushing water.
"Anytime now!" Maria yelled back, her clothes and hair becoming soaked and successfully ruining her minimal amount of makeup.
"Ok got it! Let go!" Clint ordered, looking up from under the sink to check out his handy work.
"That will hold?" Maria asked, unsure to trust her boyfriend's plumbing skills.
"…Maybe…" Clint said, waiting for the sink to explode again, which did not come.
"Honey maybe we should just call a real plumber to fix it. Ok." Maria asked, letting go of the sink cautiously.
"Fine, but he better not over charge like the last one." Clint argued.
"Agreed." Maria replied, helping Clint up once more. "Great now I've got to change." Complained the brunette as she began to strip off her wet t-shirt
"Yeah me too." Clint agreed, also removing his soaked grey shirt.
"I'll call the plumber first thing after prom." Maria said from their room, already going through the drawers looking for clean clothes.
"Ok. Hey do you know if my red shirt is in there?" Clint asked from the bathroom, kicking off his dirty boots and removing his pants.
"Which one?" Maria called, still searching through the drawers for some pants.
"The red one. I only have one." Clint shouted back, walking back into the room with only his boxers on.
"Oh you mean this red shirt?" Maria asked, turning to face her boyfriend wearing said red shirt and no pants.
"Yes that red shirt." Clint replied, smiling deviously at his girlfriend and eyeing her long legs.
"Do you want it?" Maria asked, slowly walking towards her boyfriend, purposefully swaying her hips a little. Clint merely nodded, still smiling at his girlfriend and watching her carefully. "Well then, you'll have to remove it." Maria whispered in her boyfriend's ear, finally toe to toe with him.
Without further hesitation Clint easily scooped Maria in his arms and dropped back on their bed without a second thought; Maria laughing, screaming, and kicking the entire time. Clint easily rolled them over so he was above his girlfriend, suspending most of his weight on his forearms on either side of her successfully pinning her underneath him.
"I love you." Clint grinned, kissing Maria's exposed neck.
"I love you too." Maria smiled, eye watery from the emotion she was currently feeling.
Ok guys there we go! Chapter 13! So sorry for the long wait! Life caught up to me real fast! All well no excuses I should've written a long time ago but I didn't so I apologize. Don't worry I'll try to write a second chapter and post it before Monday (or maybe on Monday) and I'll try to update my other story (incase any of y'all are reading it, no I did not abandon it, I just needed to think a little more is all). Thank you so much for the reviewers, favorites, followers, and anyone who's just taken the time to read it! It means a lot and is my motivation! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'm so blessed to have such great followers! Love you all!