Title: Heavy in Your Arms
Author/Artist: Koren M. (cybermathwitch)
Disclaimer: Not mine. If they were, there'd already be a Black Widow/Hawkeye movie.
Pairing: Clint/Natasha, Coulson/The Cellist, past Fury/OFC
Rating: Adult 17+
Warnings: language, violence, eventually sexual content, dub-con if you feel that mystical/destiny sorts of compulsions qualify as dubious consent (Natasha might agree with you), additional warnings per individual chapter as applicable
Spoilers: None
Type: Soulbond AU
Word Count: ~53,000
Summary: For every romantic happily-ever-after there were also horror stories of the pain and torment that awaited those who found and lost their soul mate. A favorite trope was the idea of soul mates who were on opposite sides of a line, who chose to kill one another than betray their beliefs or live without their companion, or stories where one's mate was torn from them by the forces of evil - the list of ways it could go south seemed endless.

An AU, in which Clint knows all the stories about how it could go wrong. He never expected it to be real, and staring back at him from the other side of his arrow.

Read it on LiveJournal or AO3



Chapter 1 (or on AO3)

Chapter 2 (or on AO3)

Interlude 1: Bleed Out (or on AO3)

Chapter 3 (or on AO3)

Chapter 4 (or on AO3)

Chapter 5 (or on AO3)

Interlude 2: Dutiful Daughter (or on AO3)

Chapter 6 (or on AO3)

Chapter 7 (or on AO3)

Interlude 3: Honor and Loyalty (or on AO3)

Chapter 8 (or on AO3)

Chapter 9 (or on AO3)

Interlude 4: Fugue (or on AO3)

Chapter 10 (or on AO3)

Chapter 11 (or on AO3)

Chapter 12 (or on AO3)

Interlude 5: Antiphon (or on AO3)

Chapter 13 (or on AO3)

Chapter 14 (or on AO3)

Epilogue (or on AO3)