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    "Thank God for guns," Natasha laughed, and then she hiked up the skirt of her dress to show off her thigh where her Glock was strapped in a holster. She unfastened it, slipped the gun in the top drawer of the nightstand by her side of the bed.

    Clint couldn't look away from the slice of upper thigh she'd uncovered. He knew how her thighs felt wrapped around him when she beat him in the gym, trapping him there where she could just snap his neck with the sheer strength of her muscles if she wanted to. Now he wondered what it would be like, to run his hands up and down her bare legs, to feel the quiver in her thighs as he aimed higher and higher...

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    Clint and Natasha go undercover as a married couple. There's a red dress, and guns fastened to garters, and Clint is losing his mind.

    Pre-Avengers.

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    Retirement, it turns out, is not a thing that Clint is adjusting to very well. Or, you know, at all. It didn't occur to him that when he dropped the team, it would mean he'd lose Natasha, too.

    [Begins pre-CACW, through the events of it, and into the aftermath. Otherwise known as: the slow-burn divorce fic we didn't know we needed.]

    [Complete: 4/26/18]

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    Sequel to Between the Shadow and the Soul. Begins pretty much immediately after that ends. Overlaps with events in My Scars They are Your Scars. You don't have to read that to understand this, but it might help. :)


    Clint bent to kiss the top of her head as he passed on the way to his chair. "Morning. What are you reading?"

    Nat flipped it up so he could see the cover, which proudly read "Avengers Team Handbook." The A was done in the same style as it was on the side of the building and there were little drawings of all their symbols underneath. "Pepper said it's for us and those directly associated with the team. Hill got the same one. So did Newbury and a couple of other SHIELD agents that defected. The rest of Stark Enterprises has more mundane rules."

    He started to eat his breakfast, pleased the food seemed to settle his stomach. "Our rules are less mundane?"

    "I don't think the typing pool has a rider in their vacation benefits clause about reimbursement for plans cancelled due to world saving."

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    17 Aug 2021

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    I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
    or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
    I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
    -- Pablo Neruda Sonnet XVII


    Clint shrugged. Talking about things wasn't always his strong suit. "You have skills I don't. You see angles I don't. We work better together than I think either of us do alone. If you would rather work alone, obviously you could."

    The idea of working alone, or worse, with someone else, set off little sparks of panic in Nat's chest. She contained the reaction with concerted effort and kept her voice level when she replied, "I've found working with a partner makes what I do far easier. There were too many variables to track when I worked alone. As long as you're content with the arrangement I have no objection." She looked at him. "If it isn't broke, don't fix it, yes?"

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  5. Public Bookmark 56

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    some people try to raise the dead / some people try to live instead

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    05 Aug 2021