Phil and Clint have a routine. Clint gets bored and Phil gets punished for it. It's how they work and much as Phil complains sometimes, he likes it. It's dependable. Since the Avengers came together, Clint hasn't gone a day without dropping by Phil's office at least once for some reason or another. Not that he didn't stop by before, but now it was a sure thing. Every day. That was how Phil knew that something was wrong. He found himself hitting dinner time without a single visit
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The simple in-and-out wasn't turning out to be as simple as he initially hoped it would be. Of course, their day to day rapport with each other was easily avoidable for perhaps a day or so. He honestly hadn't put too much into thinking Coulson actually looked forward to the moments when he would come in uninvited to his office when he needed something to do. Or someone to be around that wasn't any of the Avengers. Even though, in his right state of mind; he considered Phil part of the team. The norm went something of the way of him just going out of his way to make sure Phil was still alive -- rather than him discovering his friend was somehow a hallucination his mind had concocted to deal with his handler's passing. It wasn't normal, per say. But in SHIELD nothing was truly "normal". The part of him that thought Phil was a hallucination for the better part of a couple weeks (upon hearing of his death and revival); was the part that blamed himself for it
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Of course Phil looked forward to seeing Clint. He might not look forward to some of the things Clint did, but the visits themselves were becoming a daily highlight for him. His worrying about Clint wasn't really going away, but at least knowing that he would see the man every day meant that he would see if he seemed to be getting worse. More than that, it reminded him that Clint was alive and still there with him
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It wasn't necessarily something Clint would think however. But he usually would guess that was par for the course when it came to being a handler. Sometimes they would just have the troublesome agents, who enjoyed spending time coloring on their finished piles of paperwork with a purple crayon. That was the norm for them. Clint trying to be the "lone wolf" and Phil being around to make sure he didn't crash and burn. It wasn't something they quite planned, but it worked
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