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What the hell was he thinking?
Who saves the person who is trying to kill them? Who does that?
The only reason he brought her with him to the hotel was because it looked too much like she had wanted to die, and he didn't want to do her dirty work for her.
This whole thing looked to him like she was trying to commit some elaborate form of suicide. But after thinking on it more while she was unconscious, if he had bet money on it, he honestly thought she was just trying to find an in to get to SHIELD. Play the regret and pity cards, get in, and do irreparable damage. Fury was exactly the kind of crazy son-of-a-bitch who would bet on a wild card like her, but Clint had no intention of ever giving her the chance.
But just then, looking up at her when they both knew what was about happen, he could see the wheels turning in her head. She wasn't going to move. Hell, she looked like she might even stand up to welcome the bullets like an old friend.
So he didn't think, he just acted.
Now he was shielding the women who, merely moments before signed his death warrant, as the room was ripped apart around them.
When then bullets stopped and the door banged open as their attackers invaded the room, they were both on their feet swift as lightning. He went for his bow and quiver, pulling an arrow and stabbing it into the guy that came at him first and then pulled it out, nocked it, and took out another attacker.
The Widow already had his knife so she pounced immediately and quickly slaughtered the rest. Her brutal efficiency was astounding. Clint had to admit he was kind of impressed, he half expected her to just lie down and be killed, but something told him it really wasn't in her nature. She'd have to force herself to give up and fight her instincts.
She stood there staring down at the bodies for a moment like she'd just crossed and burned a bridge. A spy suddenly left out in the cold. And then abruptly, she was gone, bounding down the hall.
Shit.
Let her go?
Follow?
Let her go?
Fo—ah hell…
Grabbing his duffle from the floor, he followed. He caught up with her in the parking lot as she was casually breaking into a car in the early morning hours. She glanced up in surprise as he came up beside her and lounged against the car to watch her work.
She got the thing started and slid behind the wheel. He hopped into the passenger seat earning him an annoyed look from her. Just what the hell do you think you're doing it told him. He shrugged nonchalantly and then looked forward, waiting for her to pull out on to the road.
She huffed indignantly at him, but didn't try to make him to leave. He decided he really enjoyed getting a reaction out of her, even if it was just annoyance.
When she pulled the car up outside of a Holiday Inn he realized something…he wasn't dead. In fact he felt perfectly fine…But she'd bitten him with those sharp teeth and poisonous pink lips…
She got out of the car in a rush and started into the hotel purposefully. He followed behind in a daze. Grabbing her by the wrist to stop her for a moment he tried to form words. "I...uh…wha-"
She stopped long enough to take in his confused, questioning gaze. Flashing him a "you're-an-idiot" smile and rolling her eyes, she pulled from his grasp and continued into the hotel lobby.
She hadn't actually poisoned him; he filed that away for analysis later. This woman was just full of surprises.
She was a woman on a mission, bypassing the check-in desk and going straight for the stairs. Either she already had a room or they weren't checking in. he followed her like a lost puppy because, well…why not? He couldn't think of anything better to do at the moment.
Arriving on the third floor, he barely had time to register the two men who were there before she had his knife out and was plunging it in to one of the poor bastards' throat. The other guy let out a yelp and fell back against the wall in fright, clearly not a trained operative. The Widow quickly turned her attention to him, but Clint was there first, getting in her way.
He braced himself for a fight, he wasn't going to let her kill him, but she didn't attack. She just arched an eye brow at him, looking pointedly at the man he was protecting. it took a moment for his brain to register who it was. Liev Kuryshev.
"oh…oh!"
For the first time he noticed that the dead guy had a gun as she stooped to pick it up. She had saved the guy from his would be assassin. Like he said: full of surprises. She hadn't done anything he expected of her. He was going to have to reevaluate his opinion of her.
Clint could do little but stare open mouthed at her as he came to terms with his new perspective. His world had just been tilted upside down and he didn't seem to know which way was up any more.
The Widow gave an aggravated growl at him as he stood there uselessly. A quality she didn't appreciate. She yanked Liev up from the floor, who gave a frightened whimper, and was off again.
Slapping himself out of his shocked state, he shook his head to get it back in the game and took off after them. They didn't get very far. Coming up the stairwell was a group bad guys; so they ducked through the door to the second floor.
Bolting down the hall, they stopped short as another group came out of the elevator half way down the hall. Much like one might see in a Hollywood action movie, one of the men was not like the others with his impressive good looks. Calm and collected with a certain kind of ice in his eyes that comes with being a successful career killer, the widow had the same look. He was a killer and he was exceptionally good at it.
Bracing himself for a knock-down-drag-out fight, Clint moved to engage them first. The Widow stopped him with a hand on his shoulder; her brow was furrowed in concern. She nodded pointedly to the nearest door. He obliged and kicked it in, shoving Liev in while she raised her gun and quickly fired off three shots, taking down one man for each bullet and sending the rest diving for cover.
They leapt in after Liev as the bad guys returned fire. Clint immediately went about barricading the door, if something could cause the Black Widow to frown like that, then he sure as hell didn't want to find out why.
They all hit the floor as bullets assaulted their room for the second time.
"This is becoming a bad habit," He remarked. The Black Widow didn't find him very funny because she simply ignored him.
There was a lull in the gunfire, and the Widow took the opportunity to fire a couple shots at door and then fired a shot to blow out the ceiling to floor window. She hauled Liev to his feet and pushed him toward the window. When he saw what she meant to do, he started to freak. Heart of a lion this one.
Clint guessed the Widow didn't really know how to comfort anyone because she simply reached out and smacked him. He put a hand to his cheek and stared at her wide eyed in shock. Clint chose to intervene before the woman decided to simply shove him out the window.
"It's only the second floor, just land on your feet, bend your knees and roll to absorb the shock." He gave the guy a pat on the back, and after he had swallowed nervously and nodded bravely, Clint gave him a good push. Clint turned and loosed an explosive arrow that was more bang than bite just as their assailants pushed into the room, and he and the Widow followed Liev out the window.
They landed easily. Liev rolled his ankle upon landing but was otherwise unharmed. Clint helped him to his feet and pushed him in the direction of the car. He could fear cursing behind them in what sounded like Russian.
"Friends of yours?" he asked.
He expected her to simply ignore him, but she surprised him with "I don't have friends." as she slid behind the wheel.
They were already speeding away into the sunrise as her not-friends followed them out the window.
He really needed to find out her name so he could quit calling her the Black Widow in his mind. For some reason that name didn't seem to fit anymore.
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