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FIC: revenge is sweet(bitter) (T/M; warning in A/N; 1/2) ashen_key August 20 2012, 12:11:04 UTC
A/N: Followings contains a non-violent murder committed in an intimate, sexulized setting.

When her client(target) opens the hotel room door, she steps in with a smile, kisses his cheek, and says, “Call me Teresa, darling.” It's not her real name, of course, but that is an accepted part of the game that her target thinks he is playing ( ... )

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FIC: revenge is sweet(bitter) (T/M; warning in A/N; 2/2) ashen_key August 20 2012, 12:12:39 UTC
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Clint allows himself a drink, because it's been a shit day in a shit week at the tail-end of an operation that he's been quietly hating for months now. It's been nearly two years of cleaning up the world of contract-killers, and he is tired.

He allows himself one drink, because two will turn into too many.

“She waited until everyone was at the crime-scene,” says Agent Waechter. She's Interpol, pretty competent, currently probably suffering from delayed shock. She also has his work number and was the one to get him on this particular case. A case that happened to involved two Red Room girls, one of whom he was going to go after anyway.

He hates the Red Room cases.

“She waited, and then she shot someone else.”

“Sniper,” he says, and swallows his drink. “We're patient.”

“The victim,” says Waechter, “had been on probation when the Zharkova fuck-up went down.”

“So, Usp...So, Olga, is getting out of control. I'll eliminate her ( ... )

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Re: FIC: revenge is sweet(bitter) (T/M; warning in A/N; 2/2) ittykat August 20 2012, 20:06:17 UTC
Mmm, it's like you're psychic. I had a terrible day yesterday, and then this arrived, and I feel all gooey inside and I love it and you and everyone in this bar <3

I love the mutual understanding, and the parallels between these two. And I love how I can almost, almost put my finger on how it goes from here... But not quite.

You're the fantastic-est.

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Re: FIC: revenge is sweet(bitter) (T/M; warning in A/N; 2/2) ashen_key August 20 2012, 23:10:13 UTC
I wrote this to cheer myself from my own bad day, so :D! to extending that. <333

Thank you so much!

This is going to be part of something much, much, muuuuuch longer that I need to do ALL THE RESEARCH ON, so one day the whole story will be revealed. In the meantime, I'm really pleased you're enjoying the mystery.

:D <3

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Re: FIC: revenge is sweet(bitter) (T/M; warning in A/N; 2/2) ittykat August 21 2012, 00:20:43 UTC
Fuck Mondays, bring on the fic instead, I say.

I am very eagerly waiting more. I'll be over here in the corner, jittery with excitement.

:D <333

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Re: FIC: revenge is sweet(bitter) (T/M; warning in A/N; 2/2) hufflepuffsneak August 20 2012, 21:03:17 UTC
This just rings so true to me. Dark, while still in character.

P.S. Now I really want to see Natasha's sister relationships if (when, it should be when, goddammit) she gets her own movie. Totally filching your headcanon.

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Re: FIC: revenge is sweet(bitter) (T/M; warning in A/N; 2/2) ashen_key August 20 2012, 23:14:27 UTC
Eeee, thank you!

(and I love Nat's sisters that I've created, so wheeee, thank you!)

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