Just a Little More
Love is for children.
Natasha would never change her mind. It was a horrible thing to get into. A stupid mistake, she liked to call it. To fall in love was to ask for pain. To fall in love would appease any masochist's needs.
What was love, anyway? A trust between two people, a relationship built upon the hope and belief that the other party would not betray. The thing that people don't seem to take into account is that they're just that.... people.
Human. Humans were... are just ridiculously fickle beings. They can love something one day and hate it the next. They break things as if they were meant to be broken so why trust anybody with their heart? Dumb shit move, if you asked her.
'Is this love?' Loki had asked her.
She didn't love Clint. No. She owed him, but she owed him more than just a few favors. She owed him her life. She owed him her everything.
That went beyond love, didn't it?