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clint barton ➶ HAWKEYE ([personal profile] arches) wrote2012-05-14 06:50 pm

➵ for [personal profile] deltas ● you scared me i see the glint of stone but you never come through

( The battle is not yet lost, but it will be, soon. Loki has managed to scatter the Avengers, unleashing the beast and hurtling his brother off the helicarrier. Whith the Chitauri descending upon New York, only Iron Man and the captain are left to stand against them. And what of the Widow? She weighs her priorities, and chooses her partner over the rest of the world. She goes after Hawkeye.

Not that he is aware of any of this. After escaping the helicarrier with his master, the enslaved agent has been standing guard, waiting for orders. He is underground, in the subways. Arrows and bow at the ready, he is the perfect soldier. His eyes, his most famed feature, glow an eerie, lifeless blue. He stands straight, moves with hollow and robotic motions. He is an empty shell.

And the real Clint Barton? He is locked away, somewhere. Surrounded by darkness and shadows, he is minimally aware of what is transpiring around him. Only hollowly conscious, he must have still felt it when the helicarrier crashed to earth. Must have felt Phil Coulson's dying breaths. Must have known the name of every agent he took out. But locked away as he is, he can do nothing, not even scream. )

i keep wanting to win this fight even though i know we're not writing that whoops

[personal profile] deltas 2012-05-31 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, there kind of is.

[She keeps her voice steady, even though she feels anything but it, and his laugh unnerves her. She moves to get away from him, still holding the gun at ready.]

You're not really in the best position to talk.

well it's a start!! it looks like you're channeling your inner loki there

[personal profile] deltas 2012-06-04 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Those words, from his mouth, they're what finally make her skin crawl and make her stop. Not reacting, not taking the opportunity, but staying still. Stupid - it's terribly stupid.]

i am panicking

[personal profile] deltas 2012-06-10 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[It's a hit - oh god, it's a hit. And she fights to stay calm as she feels his arm around her waist (a mockery of a lover's gesture - why should she want to fall back into it?) forcing herself to stay calm but oh god

she fires the gun instinctively, but it's anyone's guess where the bullet is actually aimed.

damn it damn it damn it damn it]

screaming how can you do this to me

[personal profile] deltas 2012-06-12 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Even through the pain, her body arches into his touch because it knows what this feels like, what it feels like to be underneath him, with him touching her like that.

But most of her brainpower is simply focusing on breathing calmly, trying to give away nothing. Be the Black Widow, Natasha.

The gun falls from her hand, the sound of it too loud against the ground. She makes a conscious effort, then, to move away from his hand, but it's a jerking motion in reaction to seeing his eyes like that and it makes her feel the wound more poignantly and she gasps from the pain.

She was going to kill Loki when she got out of here. She wasn't even going to waste her time to make it slow, a hundred bullets to his brain if she had to, emptying cartridge after cartridge if that's what it took. He damn well deserved it for what he was doing to Clint - for what he was doing to her.]


Get off. of me.
Edited 2012-06-12 20:26 (UTC)

i love you too but i don't think that's an appropriate response

[personal profile] deltas 2012-06-17 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Then do it quickly.

[Her voice is steeled as she watches him. But she knows, because Loki told her the plan. And quick wasn't it.]

[personal profile] deltas 2012-06-24 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[She tries to bite back a scream - desperately clinging onto everything she knows about staying calm, but it escapes her lips as the knife digs in and she can no longer hold it back.

But she wasn't just going to lay down and die for him, and she moves her free hand to push on his shoulder, though between the two wounds there's not much force left in her.]

[personal profile] deltas 2012-07-28 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her instinct is to believe it isn't him at all, just another torture thought up by Loki for her last few minutes, but then, no. She can see it - in his eyes, in the way he says her name.]

Hey, you.

[Her voice is strained though she fights to keep it even. Don't freak out, Clint, don't freak out.]

Good to have you back.

[personal profile] deltas 2012-08-12 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Stay calm for me.

[There's a quiver to her voice, and she bites back a wince.]

I-I need to you to be calm, and go [where? could he even get back with a first aid kit in time to save her?] No. Forget that. Just stay here with me.

[she realizes that her whole body is shaking now, and she wills it to stop that right now, because Clint still has to live, he has to live through this and this is not what she is leaving him as a going away present.]

Just another minute, okay? And then go put an arrow through his head for me.

[personal profile] deltas 2012-08-12 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Don't. It wasn't you. Promise me you won't forget that. Promise me that...

[she reaches over to touch him.]

Right now, Clint. I'm serious.

[personal profile] deltas 2012-08-12 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Damn it, just [she closes her eyes tight against the pain, and bites the inside of her mouth.]

Take care of yourself.

[personal profile] deltas 2012-08-12 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
It's --

[a shudder, then, and she knows her body is giving up on her as she feels her hand fall away from him. Damn it, this wasn't supposed to work this way, and she tries to say it but she can't, and she can't even open her eyes. A moment longer before she can't even hear him, just the lingering feeling of him next to her, and then nothing after that, not even pain.]

[personal profile] trickstering 2012-08-12 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
[And that's when Loki comes back, one hand on Clint's shoulder, the other with a knife ready.]

Agent Barton.

[Oh, he knows it'll make him angry, the way he he stands calm and collected as if nothing had happened, as if he didn't understand - or perhaps more appropriately, care - for the situation at hand. Coffee cup casual, until he speaks again, and then his voice is at a biting whisper, meant to cut as sure as knives.]

What fine work you've done.

[personal profile] trickstering 2012-08-16 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
And yet, I find that I need you no longer.

[Clint is far too clumsy in his anger to really best Loki. He'd always fought with knives, and it made him quick and nimble on his feet, and that was saying nothing about his magical abilities. He avoids Clint's lunge with ease (there's little to avoid when he's unarmed) and retaliates throwing a knife. It's not the kill he wants, oh no, he'd rather make it personal. This entire plan had been about making it personal.]

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