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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