WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! One of my very favorite topics!

So, my notes on Trust in their entirety (as discussion points or fic/creative prompts or whatever!)

Trust: - watching each other's backs

- partners/working undercover

- for instance knowing that even if one of them changes gears or does something "off" on a mission, trusting the other person that there's a reason for it and going along with it.

Another example I find really powerful that cropped up almost accidentally in the fic I'm finishing where they thought she was dead? The idea that an Agent would have to be in the crowd to shoot her (in a non-fatal way) in order to fake her death, and she'd wanted it to be Clint because she trusted him and his abilities. So... that kind of thing, or situations where, say, someone is holding her and she has complete trust that Clint could shoot that person w/o hitting her and he has complete trust that she wont' move so he *can* line the shot up, that kind of thing.)

- of course there's trusting one another with each other's secrets

- and my personal favorite, trusting that they are willing and able to be one another's fail-safes.

My real intrigue with the trust angle, is figuring out *why* they come to trust one another to that point. I think at least part of it has to do with skill level - they're both way beyond average in a lot of skill categories - it's not just that (for instance) she knows that he's *willing* to take her out if she loses it, it's that she knows he *can*. And they can trust things like him being able to make a shot, or him being able to trust that she can do (whatever is required in a particular instance) because he knows she's that good. But what else? What makes him the one she's willing to give up her secrets to? That she's willing to be vulnerable to and with?