...and this combined with the fact that picture gave me The Mummy flashbacks, makes me want to go and write a 1920s AU where Clint is French Foreign Legion (or used to be) and Nat's a Russian exile and they run around the world together, never explaining where they actually make their money, but always being fabulous.
Ahahaha, well, in my head it was more 1920s HIJINKS rather than strictly the Mummy, but damn straight Natasha is proud of what she is. SHE IS AWESOME (mama, just don't ask, she goes, and looks slightly shifty)
His head throbs with thirst and the sand dunes are starting to swim and blur together. He takes cover behind a sliver of something vertical and crouches amongst a pile of dead bandits. He tugs at a chain and winces as sunshine flashes over her ring. He waits for a moment, letting the sun soak into the scuffed metal infusing every etched word with a scorching heat. He can't quite feel the sting of it on his calloused fingertips so he presses the ring to his lips before tucking it back under his clothes. Her words literally burning over his heart, the pain giving him back his focus. He pulls a weapon and bandoleer off one of the dead bandits and with a clearer head wades back into the fray.