Hello! I am so happy that you guys have been so supportive of me :) This chapter is when Barton wakes up and that is all this chapter is going to be about!

Barton was fidgeting in his sleep trying to shake off Loki's control over him.

I really missed him. The real him. I looked outside the window at people rushing by trying to decide what to do. I didn't care. I was here for Barton.

"Don't touch her." I heard him say in his sleep. I whipped my head round and found Barton struggling against the straps keeping him down. Was he talking about me?

He was getting very angry about something and his breathing was very agitated.

"Loki...d-don't even think...about...h-harming...Tasha." Okay, he was definitely talking about me.

What happened to him? What made him act this this? What did Loki do?

"Can't...do that...to...her" he whispered. Was he having a flashback or something?

His eyebrows were screwed up and he just said "Please. Please.".

He relaxed back onto the medical chair and his breathing returned to normal.

What was that about? Barton can't of broken Loki's control. Could he?

Barton was starting to wake up and I decided to forget about what had just happened and bring it up later.

He was very tense like he was trying to force the power out of his body and fighting himself. He began shaking his head.

"Clint, you're gonna be alright." I said.

"You know that? Is that what you know?" he said smiling just like Loki did.

"I've got...I've got no window. I gotta flush him out."

"We don't have that long, it's gonna take time." I said getting a drink for him.

"You don't understand. Have you ever had someone take your brain and play? Pull you out and stuff something else in? Do you know what it's like to be unmade?"

"You know that I do." I said looking directly at him. He knew that I meant the Red Room.

"Why am I back? How did you get him out?"

"Cognitive recalibration. I hit you really hard on the head." I said sitting down next to him.

"Thanks." he said looking more than grateful. I looked up and smiled at him. Our eyes met for a second and I was so happy inside that they had returned to their normal colour.

"Natasha, how many agents-"

"Don't. Don't do that to yourself, Clint. This is Loki. This is monsters and magic and nothing we were ever trained for." I told him, but it didn't seem to make any difference, so he changed the subject.

"Loki, he get away?" he said looking like he would kill whoever got in his way of killing him.

"Yeah. I don't suppose you know where?"

"I didn't need to know. I didn't ask." I walked towards the window I was looking out of earlier. He continued "He's gonna make his play soon though. Today."

"We've gotta stop him." I turned back to face him.

"Yeah? Who's we?"

"I don't know. Whoever's left."

"Well, if I put an arrow in Loki's eye socket, I'd sleep better I suppose."

"Now you sound like you." I sat down next to him and he turned his head to face me.

"But you don't. You're a spy, not a soldier. Now you want to wade into a war. Why?" he asked looking at me questioningly.

"He didn't." I was panicking. I couldn't explain this. What Loki had said to me! What Clint almost did to me! It would be too much. I couldn't think of anything. "I just..." I couldn't stay focused on one part of Clint. I felt my eyes dodging around in my brain, so I sighed and decided to turn away from him. I'm usually so collected. What was happening to me?

"Natasha." He said and I looked up at the wall opposite. Just don't say anything. Use you ledger as an excuse. He doesn't know anything. He asked how many men he had killed earlier, so he didn't know what he had done.

Be professional about this.

"I've been compromised." he turned away from me and looked at the wall straight ahead, so I looked at his face and said "I've got red in my ledger." He turned to look at me. "I'd like to wipe it out."

We looked at each other and I couldn't help but smile. I really did miss him. Everything about him.

"I missed you." he whispered.

"I missed you too" I whispered back to him.

I rested my head against his shoulder and sighed. I've never done this kind of emotions thing before. I described it as a mixture or chemicals in the brain. That's what it was to me.

He wrapped his arm around me, put his head on top of mine and I placed my left arm on his chest. My thoughts wondered back to 6 years ago when I kissed him in that hotel room. It felt amazing. I know that we could never be together, because of S.H.I.E.L.D protocols, he doesn't like me in that way and I don't think I would know how to be with him.

He wouldn't want to be with a person like me. I have a blood-soaked past. I have killed hundreds of innocent people. He would hate me. He would never speak to me again. He deserves someone better.

There is only one person that I ever thought I loved. Alexei Shostakov. But he turned his back on me. Betrayed me. Looking back, I know he didn't treat me right. I thought back then that he did. But he didn't.

I was young. Naive. A child. Love is for children. Not me.

Not like this I remember saying earlier when he had me pinned to the floor during our fight. Not like this. The words mulled over in my mind.

We stayed like this, in peace, for about 5 minutes until I pushed my thoughts aside and said "We need to get ready."

"I know."

He pulled his arm away from me, I sat up straight and he walked into the bathroom. I missed the warmth of his body next to mine.

He started washing the blood of his hands and I noticed him pause to look up at his reflection. He looked angry at himself. I knew that he thought it was his own fault all this had happened.

The voice of Captain America interrupted my thoughts.

"Time to go."

"Go where?" I asked.

"I'll tell you on the way. Can you fly one of those jets?"

"I can." I turned back to see Hawkeye standing there confidently.

The captain turned to me to get confirmation that it was him, not brainwashed Clint and I simply nodded.

"You got a suit?" Steve asked.

"Yeah."

"Then suit up."

I looked at Clint and said "I made sure that they had everything ready in your room."

"Thanks." he said and smiled.

Then we got ready to leave.

Hope you liked this chapter. Might post another one tonight about the fight!