An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Summary: “I’m not broken,” Shaw huffs, turning away from Root and looking out the opening.Root stares at her for a few more seconds, her eyes light. “Everybody is,” she replies gently. “Whether you know it or not, or like it or not, no one is perfect. You just have to learn to embrace it, not fight it.”Or, the one where Shaw meets Root in an abandoned tree house and things go from there.











