Title: Shards
Author: alphaflyer
Remix Recipient: i_llbedammned
Pairing(s):  Clint/Natasha
Rating:  T
Warnings:  none apply;
Fic I've Chosen To Remix: "Innocence"
Summary:  Natasha, picking up the pieces.

In i_llbedammned's story "Innocence" (link above), Natasha reflects on her blood-stained past and on the role Clint plays in her present. It ends with Natasha recalling, “… the times when they just met in his shitty apartment and ate dinner together. The pain would just melt away into warmth. Maybe this was what innocence felt like.” I liked the idea of Clint’s place providing Natasha with an emotional anchor, and decided to explore this in the context of the events of CA:TWS.

This story is a companion piece to "Safe House" and "Recurve". Note that this apartment is not the Hawkguy place in Brooklyn, but rather my head canon one from my story “The Skies Over Manhattan”, which I started to write long before I ever picked up a comic.

Thanks are due to inkvoices and franztastisch for early brainstorming and cheerleading, and to Franzi for the beta. Any mistakes that have crept in since are my own.  Thanks also to sugar_fey for organizing the exchange!

Title: Between the shadow and the soul
Pairings: Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: approx. 11,900
Summary: "Clint hesitates to call what they do dating, because they’re spies and fighters and liars and people like them aren’t meant for more than a warm body to push against in the night." He falls in love with her and she falls in love with him and not necessarily in that order.
Warnings: some descriptions of violence but nothing too graphic

( Clint Barton learns fairly quickly that Natasha Romanov is one person he may never quite be able to figure out. )