Avengers (2012): "As If You Have a Choice: Epilogue" (3/3) (Clint/Natasha)

[cybermathwitch]

Title: As If You Have a Choice: Epilogue (3/3)
Author/Artist: Koren M. (cybermathwitch)
Disclaimer: Not mine. If they were, there'd already be a Black Widow/Hawkeye movie.
Pairing: Clint/Natasha
Rating: Adult, 17+
Warnings: language, buckets of angst, discussion of abortion, did I mention angst? No, really
Spoilers: none
Type: complete
Word Count: 421
Summary:

Comments

[crazy4orcas]

*wipes tears, cries some more, wipes tears again*

This was tough to read, but I knew it would be -- I believed you when you said "buckets of angst". But I trust you as an author and knew it would be fantastically written angst, and boy did you deliver. This was gorgeously heartbreaking, really emotionally powerful. I was able to contain myself pretty well, right up until Clint got back from dropping off Leah with the Rabbi and found Natasha in his bed, and then I lost it. I had to read Natasha's unsent letter a couple of times because the screen kept getting blurry : ' ( I feel a little raw, but did see a comment on AO3 that this Leah is the same one from Leah Barton and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day and that makes me feel a little better. Although, I'm sure the getting from here to there had some drama and angst as well.

[cybermathwitch]

Ack! I've been really terrible about comments lately, I'm so sorry! But thank you so much for the lovely thoughts - and yes, I cried when I wrote this last part, too.

And there's definitely some drama and angst involved in the middle, but I think things do mostly work out for them in the end. The middle bits are roughed out, but there's no concrete idea about when or how they'll get written for now.