Here is a quick overview for you of all that has happened in my stories leading to this. CAUTION! THIS HAS SPOILERS (obviously) FOR MY OTHER BOOKS!
A Chronology of Events Past:
July 3rd, 1981: Clint Barton is born in Waverly, Iowa to a loving, passive mother and drunken, abusive father. He is the youngest of two sons with an older brother named Charles "Barney" Barton. Their parents are killed in a drunk driving accident caused by their father. The boys are sent to Waverly's Children's Home, they left together, and joined the circus. It is there Clint learned to wield a bow and sword with deadly mastery.
October 15th, 1998: Clint, after barely dodging a robbery conviction, is met by Phil Coulson, his future father figure, in a bagel shop. Clint joins SHIELD with his talented skill set and begins training as an assassin. Bagel Thursday is born.
January 1st, 1999: Clint is thrown out of SHIELD's Operations Academy for insubordination and failure to follow orders. Fellow recruits, including Grant Ward, appealed to have him removed from SHIELD permanently. Phil Coulson takes him on as and becomes his Field Training Officer. They are stationed in Norway for six months.
February 19th, 2000: Clint and Bobbi Morse are put on their first mission together
March 29th, 2000: Clint and Bobbi secretly marry
May 8th, 2000: Clint's undercover persona is blown, Bobbi's life is threatened, and nearly destroyed. Clint pulls away to investigate her attackers, a Russian mob squad, privately.
February 14th, 2001: Bobbi divorces Clint for being too "distant"
July 4th, 2001: Clint is ordered to track down the "Black Widow" a Russian assassin and eliminate her as a threat.
January 1st, 2002: Clint has first showdown with the "Black Widow" Natasha Romanov
October 30th, 2002: Clint uncovers Natasha's trail a second time
December 15th, 2002: Clint is issues a kill order for Natasha Romanov
December 23rd, 2002: Clint decides to bring Natasha in, alive, and succeeds
May 19, 2003: Natasha and Clint begin their first partnership on a mission.
June 9th, 2010: Tony Stark is kidnapped by the Ten Rings
September 20, 2010: Clint Barton's team is sent in to try and locate Stark
November 10th, 2010: Clint is pulled off the case to track down Natasha Romanov, who has gone rogue with an old Black Widow comrade, Yelena Belanova.
November 15th, 2010: Clint is taken hostage by Natasha Romanov and tortured in Budapest, Hungry
December 20th, 2010: Clint's team locates Tony Stark in the desert
December 23rd, 2010: Clint vouches for Natasha Romanov before the SHIELD subcommittee, giving her a third chance
January 1st 2011: Tony Stark declares publicly that he is Iron Man
March 15th, 2011: Thor is banished to Earth for defying his father, Odin. Clint Barton is sent in as back up for Phil Coulson at the arrival of Thor's hammer, Mjolnir, in New Mexico.
March 16th, 2011: Loki appears on Earth, inhabiting the Destroyer armor and decimates a small town in his quest to murder Thor
March 17th, 2011: Clint's reassigned to the tesseract base, an Infinity stone, to track the movement of missing technology.
March 17-May 2012: Clint compiles a list of Shield personnel working for a secret underground faction known as "Blackstone" who are stealing technology from SHIELD and passing it on to unknown hands. During a brief period at this time, Clint leaves to track down the current whereabouts of Bruce Banner and logs that data.
May 8th, 2012: Loki uses the power of the Mind Stone (one of the six Infinity Stones) to control an army of men, including Clint Barton, and wreaks havoc on the Earth. He uses a Chitauri army, lent to him by the powerful Thanos, to rule Earth. He is unsuccessful. The Avengers team forms.
May 15th, 2012: After the events of his seven-day possession by Loki, Clint is looked down on by the fellow SHIELD personnel. He is sent undercover in another spy agency as an analyst in IMF to keep him distracted in the field.
June 1st, 2012: the analyst mission goes belly-up and the Russian Kremlin explodes. Tony Stark contacts Barton to offer assistance, but the help is refused. A Russian Warhead is launched toward San Francisco, but the warhead is stopped by Clint's temporary team
June 4th, 2012: Only days after returning, Clint heads into the field again on a suicide mission to Mexico to follow-up on leads from the IMF nuclear warhead detail. He is captured in the field and places a call to Tony Stark for help, which is refused.
June 13th, 2012: Clint Barton shows up on Stark's doorstep with a broken leg. Bruce Banner, Stark's fellow resident at the time, takes him into the local hospital where Barton nearly dies of a sudden blood loss caused by a nick in his femoral artery. A radical treatment is unknowingly performed on him, using an experimental drug known as the GH serum. Director of SHIELD, Nick Fury, hoped it would mellow out Clint's radical post-possession behavior.
June 16th, 2012: After assessing Barton's mental status, Director Nick Fury believes he is better off out of SHIELD's hands and placed Clint on permanent Avengers detail as Stark's babysitter. Agent Romanov accompanies him for sanity sake.
August 8th, 2012: Tony Stark and Clint Barton are involved in a plane crash off the coast of Africa while on their way to an International defense summit hosted by the USA Department of Defense. The cause of the crash was eventually credited to Yelena Belanova, a Black Widow operative and former associate of Natasha Romanov found working for an underground network of Loki supporters flying under the guise of "HYDRA". Both men form an unshakable alliance this day.
August 22nd, 2012: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, and Thor are kidnapped by Yelena Belanova and her HYDRA faction out of a nightclub a day prior to the rescheduled DOD meeting. Clint Barton and the Hulk find a peculiar bond and team up to rescue their fellow Avengers.
October 10th, 2012: Clint Barton is dispatched to a mission in New Dehli, returning 9 days later
October 19th, 2012: the Avengers go to the mall, and Bruce Banner is tracked down by an old enemy, General Ross. Clint Barton is shot protecting the Hulk. The bond between the Hulk and Hawkeye grows into a brotherhood.
November 18th, 2012: the Avengers, finally, attend the DOD defense summit. The meeting is waylaid by Yelena Belanova and Loki himself who has somehow escaped prison on Asgard. Thor falls into the Odinsleep and Barton is left to defend his friend, alone. Clint is able to lift Mjolnir, Thor's sacred weapon, and nearly defeats Loki before he is mistakenly shot in the head by Natasha Romanov. Clint is taken to Asgard for the first time, treated by Thor's mother Frigga, receives the Sleiphner bow, an Asgardian weapon made of elven metal and dwarvish hands. Clint develops an alliance with the Asgardians. He is presumed dead on Earth.
November 19th, 2012: In her grief, Natasha Romanov hunts down Yelena Belanova alone
December 10th, 2012: Natasha allows Yelena Belanova to kidnap her in order to get closer. She is held in Budapest.
January 6th, 2013: Due to the time shift between Asgard and Earth, Clint returns to Earth after nearly two months away. Bonding the team together, they track down Natasha Romanov.
January 7th, 2013: Yelena Belanova is killed by Natasha. Natasha is then rescued by the Avengers
February 17th, 2013: Clint catches the flu and returns to Stark mansion to recover. While Stark Industries hosts a fundraiser, Stark Mansion is under attack. Clint Barton saves Pepper Pott's life.
April 12th, 2013: Due to rising tensions between teammates, Steve Rogers moves out of the Avenger's Tower to an apartment the team furnishes for him in Manhattan on 86th street.
April 18th, 2013: After being dispatched a mission in Miami, Clint is called away to aid in locating a missing Asgardian warrior, Fandral. The same Asgardian who saved him from the gunshot wound to his skull. Clint joins Thor, and finds that Jotenheim has frozen Asgard over and declared war. Clint confronts Loki, knowing somehow the trouble linked back to him. Loki reveals the location of Fandral and Clint rides Odin's wolves there with the aid of Volstagg and Gulfurn (now Veurr). In order to reclaim Fandral from his kidnapper, he grants the Enchantress Amora a single request. As the war rages on, the Avengers find a way to Asgard on their own and assist in the efforts. Clint, despite being branded as the Enchantress's slave, rises to critical acclaim in the eyes of the Asgardian army. He arranges the rescue of a trapped Odin, enlists the help of Queen Frigga to invade the seized Asgardian city, and breaks Jotenheim's hold on Asgardian's oceans. During this time he makes his first trip to Alfheimr and is introduced to queen Fehreh. Unable to find another way out, Clint must enlist the help of Loki to dispatch his bond to the Enchantress and together Barton and Loki break her.
June 15th, 2013: the Avengers return to Earth. Clint has a new friend, a dire wolf named Arrow. The offspring of Frigga and Odin's Geri and Freki.
June 18th, 2013: Natasha's and Clint's relationship grows during a private retreat to Alaska
June 25th, 2013: The Avengers are dispatched to a mission in Egypt. In the course of the mission, Clint Barton loses 80% of his hearing. In a little known policy known as "Scrub out" Clint, as a permanently maimed agent, ran the risk of being decommissioned permanently by way of a bullet to the head. Agent Grant Ward attempted to carry out the policy, but was stopped by Phil Coulson.
June 28th, 2013: The Avengers discover that Phil Coulson is most likely still alive.
July 20th, 2013: Clint undergoes neurosurgery to implant permanent hearing devices with only minimally sized external receivers
August 15th, 2013: A HYDRA agent infiltrates Stark Tower, drugs Bruce Banner, and proceeds to woo the Avenger into her confidence. Developing real feelings for Dr. Banner, Agent Morrisey eventually comes clean and reveals that the HYDRA faction Yelana Belanova worked for was not the only working industry. The Blackstone case is reopened. To investigate this forgotten team working within SHIELD, Bruce Banner asks for Clint to leave his SHIELD job. Clint agrees.
September 14th-October 2013: Clint Barton is dispatched to Libya to locate and extract a team of captured SHIELD agents. He discovers that those captured are Phil Coulson and his new team, which includes Grant Ward. During this mission, Queen Frigga is murdered at the hands of Dark Elves who have invaded Asgard.
October 15th, 2013: Clint attends Frigga's funeral.
October 21st, 2013: Clint Barton leaves SHIELD permanently to investigate the entity Blackstone with the help of his old files, given to him by Phil Coulson.
October 30th, 2013: Clint Barton and Steve Rogers are captured by Charles "Barney" Barton who has heard of the miracle cure of the GH serum which saved Clint's life once. Unable to get the location of the serum from Barton, Barney flees. Clint discovers that his old mentor, and the one who trained him with the bow is dying of lung cancer. Barney wanted to save him and failed. Clint stays by Trickshot's death bed as the old man warns Clint of Barney's deadly new skill set.
November 10th, 2013: Clint Barton leaves the Avengers to continue investigating the threat of Blackstone, its connection to HYDRA, and his brother's treachery all at once according to the Avenger's preformed plan.
November 30th, 2013: Clint enlists Peter Parker, Spider-Man's, help investigating Blackstone
March 1st, 2014: SHIELD falls days after Clint turns over his investigative reports to Dr. Nick Fury. SHIELD is infected, completely, by the HYDRA factions.
March 31st, 2014: Clint tracks through the mountains in Germany where he has traced his brother's location. Clint barely survives the encounter. Steve Roger and Tony Stark come to his aid and before he can retaliate against his brother, an unknown force throws all three Avengers through the Bifrost to Alfheimr, where he is instantly shot, and nearly killed. An uprising of twisted Southern elves who follow the ideologies of the Dark Elf Malokith attempt to rile up war between Asgard and Alfheimr which strikes fear into the unprepared, peaceful Elven hearts. Clint is rescued by the outrider Haladarrel and his kinsmen Doodle before the Alfheimr King Rinon breaks the Southling's backs. Clint is returned safely, though forever unable to wield his Asgardian bow due to his grievous injury.
April 14th, 2014: The White House explosion occurs. Clint's name is redeemed in the sight of the public, he acquires a future follower in Kate Bishop, daughter of the crooked President of the United States. Clint's brother, and the president, both die in the aftermath.
April 16th, 2014: Clint and the other Avengers leave the Tower and spend the next 7 weeks in Cabo San Lucas, New Mexico
June 7th, 2014: the Avengers take Clint's brother's ashes to Iowa to be buried. The Avengers return to Stark Tower, without SHIELD, and begin their role as a team of heroes
November 11th, 2016: The Kree attack Earth, Clint and Tony Stark are trapped on their escaping ship and crash. Tony is hanged, fractures his cervical vertebrae, and is diagnosed as a paraplegic. Bobbi Morse is killed.
December 31st, 2016: Clint and Natasha break up. Natasha begins dating Steve Rogers.
January 1st, 2016: Given Tony's grievous injury, Clint convinces Bruce Banner to enter medical school and graduate as a neuro surgeon. He agrees.
March 3rd, 2017-May 8th: 2018 Clint purchases a training center outside Princeton, NJ. He begins training Kate Bishop.
April 28th, 2020: the Mutant Registration Act goes into effect. Three months later, the mutant roundups begin.
September 4th, 2021: Tony Stark is operated on, giving him use of his body again, but no sensation on half of his body. After some time, he begins to receive feeling in the affected side's hand only. Clint meets Marie, she becomes pregnant, and they marry. Tony walks down the aisle as best man.
February 18th, 2022: Galactus comes for the first time. The planet is nearly consumed by it. Galactus retreats after a massive effort and he is followed past the 9 Realms and lost into the universe. In the after math, a new viral complex known as UIC-1 sweeps through the Nine Realms, killing millions. Clint's wife and daughter do not escape.
November 19th, 2023: Natasha and Clint rekindle their relationship…