He really should have seen that one coming a mile away. This woman had a way of throwing him off his game.
They should have called her phantom, or ghost, or friggin Kitty Pryde because he swore that woman could walk through walls.
Now he was left babysitting a terrified Ukrainian who was quite the nervous drinker. How the man had remained alive this long after pissing off such powerful people was beyond him, but now he had to get the guy out of this place in one piece.
Clint had had some difficulty getting Hill to agree to send someone until Liev finally opened his mouth about some disk he got from some source that was loaded with crucial intelligence on something called the Red Room. Fury perked right up at that and ordered Hill to get him the hell out of there. Pronto.
The smart thing to do would be to hang around, keep the Ukrainian out of trouble, and wait for the extraction team to arrive. Not that he could follow her if he tried; the woman was good at her job. Why would he want to find her anyway? Let Natasha sort her own shit out.
But he had to admit, he was curious.
Why all the drama? Why save Liev? She had no reason to. It was ridiculous to think she did it for love; she was hardly the kind to get attached. He didn't know her very well, but he was pretty sure she wasn't the type to devote herself to a cause.
Curiosity killed the cat.
Stay put and he could be back in time for Christmas, find a pretty girl to celebrate the New Year with, get shit face drunk, and forget all this nonsense concerning some troublesome Russian spy.
All it took was a quick stop by the local SHIELD safe house manned by some poor green agent, and he was able to move freely around the city, sans the Ukrainian dead weight.
There wasn't much he could do to track her, so he just picked a high perch in the center of the city dusk came over the city and waited.
Good thing he wasn't a cat.
It's short, but I wanted to get something up. Now…off to do tend to my poor neglected homework. Yay dead week! ick
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