TITLE: After Work
FANDOM: MCU
WORDS: 6210
RATING: NC-17/Explicit
WARNINGS: None
PAIRING: Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff
A/N: Many thanks to ceitfianna for assuring me what she read didn't suck, and to anuna_81 for cheerleading and letting me fill up her inbox with snippets. Written for the Porn Battle: Fiery Fourteen.
SUMMARY: In which Natasha is ridiculously attractive when angry, Clint has plans to improve her bad day, pizza is used as bribery, sex is less important than banter, and being very married means knowing your spouse's body very well.

After Work @ AO3

Title: Out of breath, I am left (natasha)
Pairing: Clint/Natasha (MCU)
Rating: explicit 17+
Warnings: language, explicit sexual content, references to past abuse, violence, somewhat disturbing imagery involving blood
Wordcount: 3 800ish
Genre: introspective, romance, angst-ish and dark-ish. Not worse than previous chapters.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.
Summary: She takes her time washing her face because it grounds her and reminds her where her skin is.
Author's notes: hi all, and I am so sorry about the long wait after the previous chapter. The thing is, both I and my lovely co-writer cybermathwitch ran into some creative roadblocks and were otherwise occupied (as, you know, RL tends to happen just when you want to write things), so we weren't able to work on this as quickly as before (or at all at some points). Anyway, here's a chapter we both worked on. This one takes place immediately after unwrapped/unwrapping.

Previous chapters:

the red thread (natasha)
i loved you before i knew you (clint)
if the curve of you was curved on me (clint)
certain dark things (natasha)
phantom pain (natasha)

New chapter:

Out of breath, I am left (Natasha).

Comments, thoughts, discussion and virtual candy are all welcome. Seriously :) Enjoy the story!

Title: Waking Up (3-6/6)
Author/Artist: Koren M. (cybermathwitch)
Disclaimer: Not mine. If they were, there'd already be a Black Widow/Hawkeye movie.
Pairing: Gen (pre-Clint/Natasha)
Rating: R
Warnings: Warnings are marked in the headers of the individual chapters they apply to, and include: adult themes, mentions of terrorism, bombing, and non-graphic mentions of harm to children, mental instability, violence, language, assassins are not always nice people, thoughts that could be considered passively suicidal
Summary: Everyone starts somewhere. Everyone has a beginning. Everyone is made up of their experiences. Everyone wakes up. Part of "The Weight of Us": the moments leading up to "Shot in the Dark".

Author's Notes:
(I got impatient and posted them all. I'm terrible at pacing myself. ::G::)

Many many thanks to kadollan for the beta on the final version of this thing, and thanks to lar_laughs, SidheRa, and anuna_81 for looking over earlier versions of this material.

RE: WARNINGS - PLEASE READ: These are moments from Clint and Natasha's past, the early memories (or lack there-of) that lead up to Shot in the Dark. As you can imagine, bad things happened. Nothing is terribly graphic (no more graphic than things that happened in Shot in the Dark, anyway, I don't think) - but please use your best judgement when reading. If you have any questions about the warnings, please leave me a comment or shoot me an email (I'm cybermathwitch(at)gmail(dot)com) and I'll do my best to answer them.

Warnings are specific to the chapter they're listed on, and while each chapter is a piece of the puzzle, there's not a linear narrative, so each chapter makes sense on it's own if you feel you need or want to skip one.

Chapter 3: LJ or AO3
Chapter 4: LJ or AO3
Chapter 5: LJ or AO3
Chapter 6: LJ or AO3