Dedicated to Kyla, who's love for Captain America is so great that she wants to buy him and tie him to her bed.

CHAPTER SEVEN

Barton's search was futile, as every piece of Ms. Carver he grabbed onto research lead to dead ends. He knew nothing more than he did when he first started his research three days ago after their meeting in the weapons room.

He sat back in his chair and ran his hands through his hair and stared at the screen in frustration. He found out plenty about Angel, but most of it was superficial information. Born to Howard Stark, who had an affair with a woman who died at childbirth, Angel was taken in by the Starks and raised by them, went to the best schools in the country, etc.

Both her and Sharon went to Yale, where they were roommates but their friendship precedes that time period. However, Clint couldn't find out when exactly the two of them met and where.

He virtually had no information on Sharon Carver other than what she told him. It was like she appeared out of thin air, and it bothered Clint to no end.

He shut off his computers and sat back in his chair thinking about how to proceed. Fury trusted them enough to head the mission. There is something that they are hiding that only Fury is aware of, something special about these two.

Sharon already proved herself to be more involved than he originally thought. She wasn't just a pretty face there to tag-along with her best friend; she had a purpose in this that no one was aware of aside from Angel and Fury.

Clint left and went to his nest in the Tesseract lab, making himself comfortable and watching the proceedings. Angel and Banner were below discussing findings on the cube; Sharon was nowhere to be found.

Sharon had been steadfastly avoiding Agent Barton, electing to spend her time in her quarters or in the lab. Thankfully, she didn't see Barton at all; whether that was a good sign or not was still up in the air.

She readied for the day and made her way over the Tesseract lab, figuring she could goof around on the computer and stay alert for any sudden changes. She lazily strode through the door of the lab; only the freeze after seeing whom else was in the room.

Angel and Dr. Banner looked up as Sharon stared warily at them, "Hey Shar, Bruce and I were discussing some ideas, he wants to use spectrometers to look for any gamma signatures world wide that may link us to the Tesseract." Angel said, she then noticed her friend looked uncomfortable, or rather very wary.

Sharon merely nodded, then quickly walked over to her desk, grabbed an empty notebook on top, and made her way back to the door, "I just forgot a notebook, carry on." She said quickly before walking out the doors very fast.

Angel and Bruce gazed at the door after it closed, "Is your friend okay?" He asked sounding slightly concerned.

"I'm sure it's just air sickness, I'll be right back." Angel said before following after her friend out the door.

From his nest, Barton noticed the strange exchange; his brows wrinkling in confusion and curiosity. He quietly slipped from his nest and made is way to the general direction he assumed Sharon would go to.

Sharon moved fast down the corridor, making her way as far from the Tesseract lab as possible.

"Shar wait!" She heard Angel call out behind her. She slowed to a stop and turned and waited for her friend. Angel caught up to her and looked at her with concern.

"Are you alright?" She asked.

"I'm fine, just a little caught off guard is all," Sharon said, taking a deep breath, "I didn't want to get to close to him, I don't want to know what would happen to me if I did or if I accidentally touched him."

Angel nodded thoughtfully, she hadn't thought of that either. It was a concern she should have thought of and felt stupid for not considering, "I'm sorry, the thought never even crossed my mind. The guy is so nice and gentle; you forget he's a gamma time bomb. You didn't get too close though." She said, looking worriedly at her friend who seemed a little shaken up.

"Yeah, I'm just a little surprised, I'll be fine. Go back and finish your work, I'm just going to go busy myself or something." Sharon let out a sigh and looked at Angel, "I'm fine, really. Go back to work."

With that, Sharon turned and kept walking. She soon found herself in the weapons room again. She meandered around the room, taking in all the weapons she saw and taking time in her head to think of their potential.

"He's controlled you know," Sharon turned and saw Barton leaning on a punching dummy, "He won't magically turn into the Hulk by just standing around."

Sharon cocked her head and looked at him, "You were spying on me?"

"My lookout is in the Tesseract lab, you've probably never noticed it," Clint stood and casually walked over, "It's the platform in the corner by the ceiling, I like to call it my 'nest'" he said.

"Why a nest?" Sharon asked, before remembering his codename, "So you can watch like a hawk I imagine?" She said, smiling at the name.

"That, and it's just a nice place to settle down and observe the surroundings, someone has to make sure you two don't blow this place up," He said, nudging her shoulder with his.

Sharon let out a chuckle, "Still don't trust us huh?"

"Call me skeptical, but I don't think the Tesseract is necessarily susceptible to some Shakespearean prose."

Sharon let out a guffaw of laughter, "It's better than shooting an arrow like Robin Hood at it."

"I take offense to that! My arrows do more than just shoot things!" Clint said with pride, "I designed them myself."

Sharon's eyebrows lifted, "Really? Mind showing me?"

"Sure, I'd also offer to give you a free lesson but it seems you already have a good aim." He said, noticing her smirk. He couldn't help but think about how sexy it was.

"Didn't realize you were such a sore loser Barton, never been beaten by a girl?"

"Oh believe me," Clint chuckled, "When you have someone like Natasha as your partner, you get used to having your ass handed to you by a chick." They both laughed, Clint felt a pressure in his chest listening to her and watching her smile, "Listen, I think we got off on the wrong foot, wanna start over?"

"Oh really? So you're not going to try to shake out information from me?" Sharon said with a bemused chuckle, crossing her arms and leaning on one hip while looking at Baron with an amused expression.

"Oh no, I'm still going to do whatever I can to find out what it is you're hiding, but I figure why not be friendly while at it." He said with a smile on his face.

Sharon was amused at his blatant honesty, but she knew she had to keep him at a distance. I might as well keep tabs on him so he doesn't find out too much, worse comes to worse I can just use a little of Angel's help to dissuade him…

"Makes sense to me." She said, feeling her chest squeeze at the thought of spending more time with Barton, this may prove to be interesting…

My my my, what happens when Sharon touches people? Who is she? What is she? Why was she wary of Bruce?

All we be answered in due time!

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Alasiel