Title: Tangled Up In Blue (Chapter 1: No pleasure here on earth I found) (WiP - Ch.1 of ??)
Author: im_ridiculous
Fandom: Avengers - Clint/Natasha
Genre: AU. And is angst!crack a genre? It is now.
Rating: For mature audiences. (Angst, sexual references, a four letter word and angst. And did I mention there’s angst?)
Length: ~2500
Disclaimer: I own nothing and no one.
Thanks: Huge thanks to themonkeytwin - her kind and valuable contributions made this chapter so. much. better. You’re a star. Thanks also to anillogicalmind without whose cheerful encouragement and enthusiasm I probably would have turfed the lot of this ages ago, and to workerbee73, who was the first to say ‘I’d read that’. And dedicated to quennessa... because it’s her birthday and she loves country music too :)
Summary: He ain’t worth it, and that’s the truth.
Soundtrack (Because for this series, songs matter) 'I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow' - Soggy Bottom Boys

A/N: It’s taken almost a month since the Prologue to get Chapter 1 finished, but here it is! Thanks to all you lovely people who’ve also bought tickets on the country-music-AU-crazy-train, I hope it lives up to the premise! And while I may be slow, I can promise you this will get finished eventually. So! Without further ado, here’s Chapter 1 of 'Tangled Up In Blue', an angsty AU crack!fic where Clint is a booze-soaked country/folk musician running from a past that includes Natasha. Running to a future that includes her too? … Time will tell.

Read it here.