Title: The Skies Over Manhattan
Author: alphaflyer
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Chapter 5 deals with issues relating to loss of control and choice; swearing throughout.  Some spoilers for the later episodes of Agents of SHIELD
Pairing/Characters: Natasha/Clint, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, Thor, Bruce Banner, Nick Fury, Phil Coulson
Summary:  Two master assassins, a demi-god, a super soldier, a man with breathtaking anger management issues and a billionaire in a flying suit. They're supposed to be on the same team ... A series of adult (as in, grown-up) conversations as the Avengers get to know one another beyond fighting side-by-side.  Initially written in early 2013, this story was complete until it was obvious that Coulson Lived -- and then one more conversation was needed. Chapter 5 crosses over into Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Word count: 40,000

A/N:  Finally -- it's done.  Working on this chapter has been like standing on shifting sands, and so I decided to settle it in the small cracks, filling in some things left open, those unexplained gaps.  Much of this will without doubt be overtaken by more revelations -- but like Phil Coulson’s memory, thoughts and conversations are shards of time and space; you may see a picture only when you step back far enough.


The Skies Over Manhattan -- Chapter 5:  Clouds

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not to drown but to deliver
rating: pg
characters: Clint Barton & Natasha Romanoff
warning: canon-level violence
summary: She trusts three things: her skills, her ship, her sea. Do not ask more of her than that (until all three have failed her). [Pirate!Natasha and merman!Clint.]

author's note: Set in the compass rose 'verse. Takes place before lies the ocean whispered and compass rose. For crazy4orcas... kind of.

Strike, parry, block; the movements are second nature, the daggers extensions of her hands that compensate for the pistol lying on the slick wood two lengths away, just out of reach.
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Title: Stay
Author: JKByers
Fandom: MCU
Rating: PG13
Pairings: Clint/Natasha, past Clint/Bobbi
Wordcount: 4934 (this chapter), 13772 (total)
Warnings: Written with know prior knowledge of the character of Bobbi Morse. Please keep that in mind. Also, it's quite sad.
Disclaimer: fiction (ˈfɪkʃ(ə)n/ ) noun a) literature in the form of prose, especially novels, that describes imaginary events and people. b)Beta: Me only

Natasha finally gets clearence to work SHIELD missions and finds that many things have changed in Clint's life while she was away, but his attitude towards her wasn't one of them.

Part one here.