let me cover you with shrouds
rating: pg
characters: Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff
warnings: torture
author's note: For hayleycreagine, who asked for an AU where "Natasha is still with the Red Room and Clint is brought in (unwillingly) for the girls to train with."

summary: She is an assassin, a killer, a dancer in the Red Room's hands - and she owes a debt to a marksman she has never met. Until today.

He is American, alone, trained to resist and prepared to hold out and almost broken by the time he is at her feet, held up only by the restraints that bind him to the chair.