Haha, thank you! Yeah, I don't know what my obsession is with Natasha recruiting Clint instead of the other way around except that I think her orientation lessons when Clint joins SHIELD will be hilarious. Possibly because Natasha is a troll. Not a literal one, like the Hulk. But, you know what I mean. Kate was my favorite part of writing this. Part sarcasm, part sass, part pure and total competence. Clint's so damned proud of her and she's also the biggest pain in his ass. Their relationship is so fun.

The SHIELD acronym was incredibly fun to mess around with, and definitely still fits the criteria of "Somebody really, really wanted our organization to spell SHIELD." In this case, it was Frea O'Scanlin.

And yeah, I see the jurisdiction measuring contest alllll over the place and I don't know, sometimes I feel like they'd be happy to get FBI resources on cases? Like, better access to databases and expedited stuff, you know?

Thank you for the wonderful compliments! :)