Running Through My Veins || Clint & Natasha
Clint has fired arrow after arrow after arrow, until he's lost in the steady creaking rhythm of the bowstring and the dance of aim, draw, release. He's vaguely aware of Natasha - next to him when she needs to be, darting away when she can, felling hostile after hostile to the same insistent beat.
It's almost a surprise when there's no-one left moving, and he keeps his bow drawn as he surveys the area, breath held as he waits for movement, not yet ready to let his guard down. He's right to be suspicious; something stings his neck and in one smooth movement he's turned, identified movement, fired.
His hand flies to his neck - that wasn't a shot, or he'd have been dead already and finds -
"What the fuck?" he murmurs, and pulls something from his skin, holding up so that he can look at it.
It's a tiny needle-dart, the kind that might be used to tranquilise animals. There's a swooping sensation in his stomach and God, he hopes it's just post-battle nerves or something, because if he's been drugged by these people, you can go ahead and bet it's not with anything pleasant.
"Uh, Nat?" he says, weakly. "I think we might have a problem."