Drabble prompt: 5) Your muse and mine meet on a battlefield.
In another lifetime on a parallel world, Loki’s faithful watchdog remained by his side rather than splitting off to wreak chaos on the helicarrier. An alternate Clint, with dull, listless, clouded blue eyes hung back in the shadows as his master taunted Thor, and watched without recognition as Coulson boldly strode forward and made his threat, angling the big bazooka looking thing at Loki.
In another lifetime on a parallel world, it wasn’t Loki’s spear that pierced Coulson’s heart—it was Clint’s knive, lovingly given as a birthday present a number of years ago, a knife that had been honed to perfect sharpness, a knife that had, at one time, carried a tag with “Just in case Cupid’s arrows run out” written in little ant but perfectly legible letters. The tag had been stashed somewhere in Clint’s belongings, in a keepsake box he’d started using not too long after he’d let Coulson and Nat into his life.
In another lifetime on a parallel world, Clint Barton wiped his blade clean of his lover’s blood on the man’s own suit jacket and calmly reclaimed his place by his master’s side.