Agents don't do well cooped up (Natasha)

[Clint Barton]

Clint didn’t really like just being around doing nothing as a SHIELD agent, he normally preferred to be in the field, yet he had been mostly base detail recently to ensure that the scientists had been safe. not that he had really done anything wrong, he and Nat where a good assault force and had never really had a problem before now, he had even taken down the Asgardian Thor before they had known who he was, he didn’t think that he was a bad agent or that he had done anything to be reprimanded but the fact that he had been pretty much put on the bench for doing nothing wrong was something that the young agent really didn’t like.

Since the young agent had joined SHIELD, he had been able to prove that he belonged in the agency and that he was probably the best at his job, that had been the case until he had met his ally and arguably work partner Natasha, she had been the only job that he had been unable to finish because of the fact that he had been unable and unwilling to kill the young woman because she had made some mistakes, he had been punished for that, yet she had proven to be a workable asset that they had needed at the time, he doubted that anyone would blame him now for keeping her alive when she had been able to help them in various situations. He had spent a lot of the day on damn surveillance for the cube that they had found, not that he had much of a problem with that but the fact that it wasn’t even doing much was something that had bored the young man because of the fact that it supported the argument that he had done something wrong. Walking into the cafeteria, he poured himself a coffee and sat down, he normally had lunch with Nat around now because neither where on assignment, now he just had to wait for her.

[blackwidow]

Natasha walked down the corridor towards the cafeteria, where she hoped Clint would be. It was normally around this time that the two SHIELD agents sat down to lunch together, discussing past missions, swapping jokes or just general gossip hovering around, anything to keep themselves entertained in admittance. And today she hoped was no other exception to that rule; she needed someone to talk to. She hated being cooped up inside the SHIELD laboratories, preferring to be out doing field work. Even a small, meaningless task would be better than having to spend one more day in the laboratories, as there was only so many hours she could spend in her room or keeping herself it before she went totally insane.

She walked into the cafeteria, spotting Clint right away, walking over to him and flashing the smallest of smiles. “Shouldn’t you be in the lab?” she chided him somewhat playfully, sitting down and taking his coffee, drinking some of it down for herself. She knew he wouldn’t mind, and even if he did, she knew he wouldn’t complain regardless. This was why she liked Clint, as a team mate. She knew in a way she could be difficult to get on with at times, probably less so since she’d started working with him however. But Clint was always relaxed, always watching out for her, on and off the job, even with little things like making sure she actually ate when they were on long missions together. In a sense, he was her best friend, at least the best she’d had in a very long time.

[Clint Barton]

He didn’t know where Nat was but he knew that she was on the base, the fact that he heard her name be bandied about around the room whilst he had been waiting for her, nothing that portrayed the young woman in anyway just almost like the fact that with Captain America on the base, there had been the fact that there had been a bunch of heroes on the base meant that there was a lot of interest in them, Clint could get that but at the same time he would happily clear the room out so that they had people working on that damn cube and for him to be able to go and have some time with Tash so that they could have a lunch together because of the fact that he didn’t get that much time with her a lot of the time.

When the Russian spy came and joined him he had to admit that she always seemed to come and do what she wanted, that was suggested in the way that she had taken his coffee for herself before giving it back, it was not that he minded sharing it but their relationship was in that they didn’t have to ask much from the other as it would normally be given, the coffee was an example of that fact, Clint really didn’t mind sharing the coffee with Nat and it was something that he had been use to, it would be more of a problem if he hadn’t been but it was something that she had tended to do a lot so he couldn’t really stay mad at the redhead.

“Shouldn’t you be doing something other than stealing unsuspecting people’s coffee?” he said with a slight grin “want to swap and you can be protecting the lab?”