humanity (n): a state of grace
story rating: eventually R
genre: paranormal AU
characters: Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff
story summary: There are the things that go bump in the night, and there are the people who hunt them. Natasha Romanoff is a vampire who's never been exposed. Clint Barton's the Slayer sent to destroy her. They'd kill each other, if only someone else wasn't trying to kill them first.

thanks to: workerbee73 and cybermathwitch, for their thoughts and patience. :)

author's note: I apologize for not updating this in over two months. All I can say is that I will do my best to stay on schedule in the future, and if you'd like, in the meantime I can post snippets of post-humanity (n) stories to make it up to you!


She couldn’t think, couldn’t breathe, couldn’t register anything but the next step and the refrain of not again, not again, not again running through her mind.