Sorry about this late update! I have had such a busy week so it has been hard, but I am powering through it!
Previously
"Are you alright Natasha?" Bruce asked. Oh my goodness. Clint would see what Bruce did to me. He would flip.
"Fine, Bruce." I said smiling.
"Lets get this show on the road." Stark said.
What is Clint going to think? I thought as Maria started to play footage of me walking the Captain and Banner through to the bridge.
Okay, this is bad. I am about to throw my emotional tantrum.
"Clint Barton as in Hawkeye! The archer with the arrows? How the hell is he going to help us defeat a demi-god?" Clint looked at Stark and he just replied with "I didn't know you!" Clint rolled his eyes and focussed back on the screen.
"At least he is better than you Stark. You have suits to do your work for you and do you have any actual combat skills? Barton is the worlds best marksman, so don't you dare doubt his abilities to help us for one single second."
"I may have got a little angry." I said as my defence.
I could tell he didn't believe it, but he said "If you got anymore angry I would have been convinced you had a she-hulk in there somewhere!"
Everybody chuckled, but Clint looked at me suspiciously as if to question my outburst.
After a few more clips of boring helicarrier, we came to the section of me interrogating Loki.
I spoke up. I had to.
"I really don't think we need to include this."
"Romanoff, if this is a vulnerable subject then we need to address it." Maria said. Vulnerable? Of course it was vulnerable.
I was about to argue, but I just sat there looking down and refusing to look at the screen.
"There's not many people that can sneak up on me." Clint was looking at me wondering what I was doing.
"But you'd figured I'd come" That voice brought his concentration away from me and to the screen on the wall.
"After whatever tortures Fury can concoct, you would appear as a friend, as a balm. And I would cooperate."
"I want to know what you've done to Agent Barton." Barton sifted slightly.
"I'd say i've expanded his mind."
"And once you've won. Once you're king of the mountain. What happens to his mind?"
"Is this love, Agent Romanoff?"
"Love is for children. I owe him a debt." Clint kept looking forward unable to take his teary eyes off the screen. No actual tears had dropped from his eyes, but I could tell that he was upset about this.
I explained to Loki about how I owed him the debt and then there came a shock that made everyone jump a little. Loki's hand banging against the glass.
"I won't touch Barton. Not until I make him kill you. Slowly, intimately, in every way he knows you fear. And then he'll wake just long enough to see his good work and when he screams i'll split his skull."
Barton was now shaking and Steve said "Pause".
I placed a hand on his shoulder and said "Barton?" to check whether he was okay.
He looked up at me.
"I want to kill him for what he has done to you." he whispered.
"I know. I know." I said cradling him against my chest. His breathing eventually slowed and he let me go.
I looked up at the others and said "Can we move onto something else please?"
"Sure" Maria replied.
Then the video of us arguing was played and then the explosion was showed.
I placed a hand on his back, because I knew that he didn't really want to watch this, but he knew he had to and the others did to.
I started to stroke his back in an attempt to calm him down as he saw the hulk transforming in front of me.
As the footage played on Clint started to get angrier and angrier until finally he burst when the Hulk threw me aside and I hit the metal container.
He quickly ran towards Banner, attempting to probably punch him in the face, shouting "HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?", but I anticipated his move stepping in front of him.
"CLINT! DON'T DO THIS!" I shouted, but he didn't seem any less angry. The others were in front of Banner just incase.
"Look at me," I whispered and he did. "It wasn't his fault okay! It wasn't. He can't control it."
Slowly, but surely, Clint returned back to a normal breathing rate and faced Banner.
"Sorry." Clint said quietly.
"It's fine Clint. I'm the one who should be apologising." Banner replied.
He shook his head and said "She's right. You can't control it. I know that you couldn't do anything to stop it." Banner smiled back at him and we all sat back down breathing out a sigh of relief.
"Right, back to the footage." Maria said and pressed play.
"Wait, can we skip this?" I asked and Maria pressed the stop button.
"Why?" she questioned.
"Do they have to see everything?" I asked desperately.
"Yes Natasha. I'm sorry, but they do. If there is a weakness that we don't know about and it comes up in a mission situation, it could be disastrous."
"Fine." Me getting agitated wasn't a big thing anyway.
She pressed play and it showed me having a panic attack. It was a big deal for Black Widow, but everyone else seemed to find it okay.
Clint put his hand on top of mine and stroked it showing that he was there for me. He never did like seeing me vulnerable.
Then it moved onto our fight.
"Please. Please I really don't want this shown." I begged Maria.
She looked sadly at me "I'm sorry Natasha, but I am under direct orders to show everyone. They have to see everything."
"Please. I am begging you don't do this." I whispered.
Everyone looked at me. What could be so bad? I bet they were thinking.
"Just play it already!" Stark said.
The footage began to play and I shut my eyes not wanting to see what was happening.
After a while Stark said "See this is why everyone thinks you are such a good couple!" and I saw myself kicking away his knife.
No, no, no. It's about to happen.
I saw myself falling to the ground as Clint grabbed my leg and I saw him flinch next to me from the pain that he caused me during our fight.
The video showed him on top of me and his face above mine.
I screwed my eyes shut not wanting to see everyone's reactions. I put my face in my hands when I heard my suit being unzipped on the footage.
When I knew that I heard the sound of him being head butted and my suit being zipped back up, I forced myself to push my head back up. Maria stopped the video
I looked around the room to see everybody staring at me. Apart from Clint.
Clint was looking like he was going to cry and scream at the same time.
I put my hand on his arm, but he pulled it away immediately like it was fire.
He stood up and started walking backwards away from everyone.
"Clint" I said, my voice raw with emotion.
"Please, don't leave."
He stopped and looked at me with tears pouring helplessly down his face.
"I was...about to..He was going to make me...do that..." he said disgusted by the words exiting his mouth.
"But you didn't. You didn't do it to me. You could've, but you didn't."
"How could I have done that to you? Even just that?"
"Exactly." I replied. "It wasn't you and I don't ever want you to leave me like that again. Do you understand? Don't you ever leave me again! You are all that I have, Clint." I confessed. I don't care about the others anymore.
"I don't know what I would do without you." Tears were pouring down both of our faces and I came closer to him.
He backed away a bit, because of the footage he had just seen, but eventually he stopped and I slowly came over to him wrapping my arms around him and his arms around me.
"It's okay. It's okay." I whispered in his ear. "We're gonna be okay."
Our faces were so close to each other and I could feel his breath on my ear.
I pulled back ever so slowly to gaze into his eyes.
We stood there for a couple of seconds staring at each other.
I loved him so much. I just wanted to show him.
I stepped towards him, closed my eyes and placed a light kiss on his lips.
My lips lingered on his for a couple of seconds until I forced myself back.
Stepping back to see his reaction, I thought about how this was such a bad idea.
There was no protocol anymore, but that doesn't mean that he likes m-
My thoughts were cut off by Clint's soft warm lips against mine.
I pressed my body against his and he wrapped his arms around my back as I wrapped my arms around his neck.
The kiss deepened and I poured all the passion I could into it.
It was long and slow, but the passion was there.
His tongue passed my bottom lip begging for entrance and I let his tongue collide with mine.
It was beautiful. I never imagined it like this.
I imagined it all to be fierce and wild, but this...this felt incredible.
As our embrace slowed and we were kissing just with our lips again, he put his arms on my waist.
We pulled our lips apart and gave each other one last kiss.
I rested my head against his and looked into his eyes whilst huge grins crept across our faces.
What had just happened? Does this mean that he likes me?
Wait a second...
I turned around and found Pepper, Maria, Cap, Bruce and Tony exchanging money with some of them smiling and some of them not. And Tony also had a film camera.
"Sorry." I said apologetically, but still had a smile on my face and my hands around him.
"Tony did you just film that?" Clint asked.
"Yep, and it is going on YouTube." Tony said.
We both groaned and then turned back to each other.
"Soooo..." he started "How long have you felt like that?".
I smiled "A while...and you?"
He smiled as well and said "A while."
I just want to be with him all the time. I don't think I could actually let him go after this.
I gave him 2 more kisses and then took his hand and went to sit down with the others.
Me and Clint were both smiling.
"Well, both of your moods have changed since about 5 minutes ago." Tony said flipping the camera down.
We didn't have a response so we just smiled and then started to kiss each other again. I was going to be doing this a lot more often.
"Come on guys stop! I've had enough of this from Captain Hill. Please stop kissing already."
We pulled apart and saw Maria and the Captain turning red.
"Right, so what do we do now?" Clint asked.
"Well, there is no more footage after that, so until our next project. Steve, can I talk to you a moment please?"
"Yeah sure." Steve replied and they went into another room.
"Okay. Now that Operation Clintasha has worked, Operation Captain Hill needs to be finalised." Stark started going into detail about something to do with a couples party, so I just blocked him out and turned back to Clint.
He was staring at me. "What?" I asked.
"You're so beautiful." he replied.
I smiled and blushed slightly.
"You're adorable when you blush."
"You cannot call me adorable." I said sternly.
"From what happened a couple of seconds ago, I think I have the right to call you adorable now."
"So, what are we Clint? A couple?"
"Lets call us what we are. Partners."
"Partners. I like that." I said as I pushed my lips against his again.
I manoeuvred myself so I was sitting sideways in his lap and I was enjoying the moment until Tony had to go and ruin it.
"Hey, Blackhawk."
"What?" we both replied painfully pulling apart from each other.
"Couples party tonight. Opinions?"
"Do they really matter?"
"No, not really, but I want to here them anyway to tell whether I have pissed you off or not."
I sighed. "Well, as long as we get to choose who we go with" I said looking at Clint. "I'm fine with it."
"I'm not going Tony. With you, I know that there will be too many people!" Bruce commented.
"Fine Bruce. Spoil the fun. Operation Captain Hill meeting closed." Tony said and then the Captain and Hill came through the door.
"Hey guys. Just a heads up. There is a pairs party going on tonight. You guys coming?" Stark asked them.
"Yeah, sure. Theme?" Maria asked.
"Just dress smart and bring a date. Seeing as you are the only two left out of all of us, you have to go together."
Captain and Maria looked at each other nervously.
"Um why?" Stark looked at Maria disbelieving.
"Because I said so."
Maria crossed her arms and said "You're going to have to give me a better reason than that!"
"You get to spend more time with your Captain."
Maria and Steve's faces went red even more, if that was possible.
"Tony..." Maria warned.
Stark sighed "Because all the Avengers have to pair up with someone and you are the only two left apart from Bruce who isn't even going to be here. Spoilsport."
Maria looked at Steve and he said "Well, I mean...if you aren't going with anyone else then..."
"I'd love to go with you Steve." They looked at each other for a couple of seconds and then looked away.
They are cute when they get nervous.
I was still sitting on Clint's lap and he just held me as we talked about what Stark was going to order for food and drink.
The only useful suggestion he said was Russian Vodka.
I felt so at home with Clint and the others, especially Clint though.
I smiled at the thought of a couple of minutes ago.
Me and Clint were still partners. Nothing, but also everything, has changed. And it was amazing!
Okay, I hope that you liked this. I was going to drag the kiss out for later chapters, but everyone was telling me to write it, so I did :) Please review x I will be continuing this story and it will be about Clint and Natasha now as a couple! There will only be a few more chapters :) x