Natasha was on a mission in Washington. She was sent there to protect the president during a speech and was wondering around the city until she was called in. She stopped in a restaurant to get some lunch where she saw a familiar figure in sunglasses reading a newspaper.

"Clint?" she walked up to him. The last she had heard about him was that he was spending a lot of time in his farm with his wife and children.

Clint put down his newspaper and looked at her. "Natasha?" he was shocked "What are you doing here?"

She sat down across from him and began to explain. "I'm on a mission to protect the president during a speech. Can't explain why because….."

"It is confidential." The archer interrupted "I've been trained so I know the official mission confidentiality procedures."

The two sat awkwardly for some time. Natasha was tapping her fingers on the table whilst Clint was gradually looking back down at his paper.

"Here is your barbeque pizza." A waitress came up to Clint and put a plate in front of him.

"Thank you." Clint said and the waitress.

"Can I have some?" Natasha asked.

"Sure." Clint said. The two sat in silence again as they ate.

"So…" Natasha tried to begin a conversation after her first slice "How is life?"

"I don't want to talk about it." Hawkeye looked away from Natasha and down at the table nervously.

"You used to tell me everything and now I don't even get anything." Natasha complained "Just tell me something." Natasha looked at Clint hoping for clarification.

"How are you and Banner?" Clint changed the topic.

"Banner is missing and I don't want to discuss it anymore." Natasha said.

"Hypocrite." Clint said.

"What?" Natasha was shocked.

Clint looked at his watch as if he were looking at the time and said "I'm done here." He got up and threw some money down on the table. "This should pay for half of the pizza." Clint walked quickly away from the restaurant. Natasha didn't dare follow. She'd realised that she'd struck an emotional chord and decided it was best to just leave it. She finished the pizza, paid and left.

She went to where the speech was being held at an outdoor podium in front of some of the most important government officials in the country. She shook hands with the president, which was nothing for her, and stood behind him as he was giving the speech. She looked around the crowd for any danger. The truth behind the mission was there were some rumoured threats around the day but no one was meant to find out as to stop any unnecessary panic. She looked around the crowd routinely and near the end of the speech she spotted something out of the corner of her eye. It was someone grabbing a gun out of their pocket. They were aiming it near the podium and were going to pull the trigger…

Black Widow reacted instantly and pulled the president out of the way. A shot was fired and she rushed the president into a protective area. She looked around and saw the shot fired wasn't aimed towards the president but someone in the front row of the crowd. An army general was lying on the ground with a large blood stain quickly forming around his chest. Other security and medical officers ran towards him so she stayed away as she needed to stick with her mission to protect the president.

"Are you ok sir?" Natasha asked.

"Thank you yes I am." He responded.

Natasha felt disappointed she didn't end up seeing where the assassin went to after the shot was fired. She hoped that someone else saw and that they caught him.

Later that day Natasha was walked into a meeting room where Nick Fury and the President were sitting down in.

"I'd like to formally thank you for the way you reacted and saved my life." The President told Natasha.

"Thanks Sir but I never saved your life." She told him.

"What?" Fury asked with a confused expression on his face.

"You didn't see what happened." She began to explain. "They weren't aiming for the president. They were aiming for the general who was shot. How is he by the way?"

"He has been taken to emergency care and has a high chance of living." Fury explained.

"We need to catch the assassin right away." The president said to Fury. "You saw him right Natasha?"

"Only from a distance but he had brown hair and was obviously trained in….." Natasha stopped herself. "You know I saw Clint earlier today in Washington."

"What is Clint doing in Washington?" Fury asked himself.

"Why would Hawkeye want to kill someone?" The president asked using the archer's fan name.

"He was acting very suspiciously when I met him." Natasha explained "He wouldn't tell me anything."

The office door opened and the three of them looked around quickly. It was Maria Hill who walked up to Fury.

"Sorry for interrupting." she said "But Clint Barton is here to see you."

"Don't let him in." Natasha said instantly "I'll go talk to him." Natasha followed Maria out of the room and towards a waiting area of the building where Clint was reading one of the gossip magazines that was on a pile on a nearby table.

"Did you hear Louis Tomlinson is having a baby?" he asked.

"What are you doing here Clint?" Natasha asked instead.

"I am disappointed in you." Clint shook his head as he put the magazine down "The Natasha I knew would have saved the president, the general and would have caught the guy and no one in the crowd would have known anything was wrong."

Natasha rolled her eyes. "Clint please just tell me why you are here."

"I caught the shooter."

"Really?" Natasha almost smiled. "How? Where?"

"I decided to see the job you were doing at the speech and saw him running away so I followed." He explained "Then I shot him in the foot with one of my arrows."

"Wow."
"He couldn't run anymore so I caught him." He said "I brought him in and now he is in one of the SHIELD captive cells."

"I'm impressed." Natasha said.

"Impressed that I did your job." Hawkeye laughed. "It was great to get back out into the field."

Natasha looked sternly at him "My job was to protect the president and that is exactly what I did."

"Natasha." Clint said.

"Yeah?"

"I can't believe you thought it was me."

Natasha looked at him surprised. How did he know that?

Natasha, Clint and Nick Fury were down in the holding cells located deep underground in SHIELD's new headquarters. They were standing in front of the assassin who was handcuffed and sitting on a chair in front of them. Natasha could see a bandage wrapped around his right foot and smiled a little.

"Why did you shoot the general?" Fury asked.

"Why do you care?" the guy asked.

"Because he almost died!" Fury shouted.

"I'm not saying." He said "Just leave me by myself.

"Let me handle this." Clint said. He grabbed a bow and arrow and aimed it straight at the assassin.

"Why did you shoot him?" Clint said angrily "Tell me or you'll have no foot to stand on."

"I'll tell you once I've had a meal." He said . "I'm starving."

"No eating until you tell us." Natasha said sternly.

"Too bad." He said. He grabbed something that he had hidden in his hands which he threw towards his foot and kicked into his mouth, like a skilled sportsmen. He smiled and started foaming at the mouth until he wasn't moving. Clint went up to him and took his pulse.

"Nothing." He said "He is dead."

"How did he get that?" Fury asked "A suicide pill."

"You know as well as anyone that you can hide things anywhere." Clint reminded. "Too bad we will ever find out exactly how."

"We also will never found out why he did it." Natasha said. "Did you ever find out who the guy was?"

"We are doing background checks on him now." Fury said "We'll just have to wait until they are over to find out."

The two agents nodded. After calling some medical officials to remove the body the two of them followed Fury out of the holding cells.

"What are you going to do now?" Natasha asked Clint "I know you have no mission. Not one since the Ultron incident."

"I'm thinking of coming back to service." Hawkeye told her.

"Really?" Natasha asked "What did Laura say about that?"

"I don't want to say." Hawkeye re-iterated.

"Clint please just tell me something." Natasha pleaded. She decided to tell him about her situation with Banner to influence him to tell her something "Look Banner is not coming back and our relationship is pretty much doomed."

"Fine!" Clint almost shouted with a tear going down his face "We split up okay! We're getting a divorce."

So this is my first fanfic. I hope you like it. Please review if you wish to leave any criticism and so I know if you liked it or not. I don't have to continue with this fanfiction I can write another one if the response is negative. Also follow and favourite so you'll know when or if I update again.