Imagine Kate getting sick and Clint having to take care of her
“I told you,” Kate says, sneezing and therefore rendering the point she’s about to make moot in advance. “I’m fine.”
“Sure you are, Hawkeye.” Clint frowns at her, placing a mug of steaming hot chamomile tea in front of her, and hell, the very fact that he even has tea in this place is all kinds of wrong.
She sniffles, knowing she’s defending a lost cause -- the evidence that she’s not fine is so glaring not even Clint could walk past it -- but not yet ready to concede. “I’ve got allergies.”
Clint’s eyebrows lift in disbelief. “In December? It’s freezing out there, Katie.”
Kate sighs pointedly at the nickname, though she lets it pass, just this once. Talking kind of hurts, now’s not the time for arguments. She briefly debates claiming that Lucky triggers her allergies, but that would a) be an obvious lie because she’s never had a reaction to his fur before and b) might be a step too far. It’s not Lucky’s fault they fell into a lake last week. As if he sensed she’s been thinking of him, he buts his head against her legs, and Kate scratches him behind the ears.
“Fine,” she says, hands thrown up in surrender. “I’m sick. I’ve got a cold. I feel like shit. Happy now?”
Clint grimaces. “I’m not happy you’re sick.”
Normally she’d tease him mercilessly for such an obvious misconception, but well. Sore throat. Ouch. She has to pick her battles here. Instead, she decides it’s time to voice a few requests. “Do you have any cough drops? Also, I’d like honey in my tea. And a blanket would be nice, I’m kinda cold.”
Judging from the look he shoots her, he knows she’s pulling his leg. But his eyes wander over her swollen, red nose and her glazed eyes and of course then she has to sneeze again. He sighs, the kind that makes his chest heave like’s just ran half a mile. Then he sprints upstairs, comes back with an woolen blanket she didn’t even know he owned, stuffs it around her like she’s five. Once that’s done he reaches for his jacket. “Cough drops and honey? Be right back, Hawkeye.”










