Darcy was just finishing touching up her makeup when she heard the knock on her door, "Shit," Darcy mumbled as she adjusted her favorite floral mini skirt that went perfectly with the black blouse she was wearing on her way to her heels and ultimately the door. She was tugging on her heels as she opened the door to a smiling Clint, looking amazing with his leather jacket casually layered over a dark grey henley, and dark jeans

"Damn," Darcy mumbled as she finished tugging her right shoe on.

"Thanks, you look beautiful," Clint said as he rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. "Uh, should we head out?"

"We should," Darcy replied with a satisfied smirk on her face as she grabbed his arm.

The pair headed downstairs and out the front door without much talk, before Darcy perked up and asked "Oh, hey, are we walking, because it's kinda far…"

"I was just waiting until we got more towards a main street to try and hail a cab."

"Gotcha, so Mr. Super Spy Avenger Guy, you've got tonight planned out don't you."

"Uh, I've got the next ten minutes planned at least," he admitted as he hailed them a cab.

She let out a laugh, and asked "So how many times did you try for a discount before you got one?" As she finished up the question she slid into the cab. He gave the cabbie the address of the restaurant before replying.

"Lets go with a lot. It's been like 4 months since I became an Avenger, I figured I might as well try."

"Well it worked, and you got my number, so I'd call it a win."

He laughed, as the cab stopped in front of the restaurant.

They were seated almost immediately, as it was almost empty.

Darcy picked up her menu and asked " So what's good here?"

Clint looked up from his own menu, "To be honest, I don't know. I've uh, never been here. I asked Natasha where a good place to take you was, and she told me here."

Darcy laughed at his admission, and the fact that he looked so awkward admitting that, "I guess we'll have to figure it out on our own then."

Clint was relieved, and grinned at how well she rolled with the punches.

Darcy ended up ordering the spaghetti marinara while Clint got Lasagne. About half way through their meal, Darcy noticed that Clint had angled himself closer to her, and was staring at her lips.

"If you want to kiss me, you can just go for it," she told him matter-of-factly.

Clint sputtered out a "what?" and looked shocked.

"Was that not why you were staring at my lips?" Darcy asked, worried she'd blown the date.

"Oh, uh, no." Clint turned his head and pointed at his ears, "I'm mostly deaf, and one of my hearing aids just died. I usually try and read a person's lips even if they're both working anyway, and that's kinda what I was doing."

Darcy blushed, "Sorry, I made it weird didn't I," she wouldn't meet his eyes.

"No, you didn't, most people don't even notice that I do that, so it's actually pretty cool."

"Really?" She still felt awkward, but less so.

"Yeah, it's all good," he smiled as she finally met his eyes again.

After they finished, and Clint insisted on paying "It's the least I can do after you actually gave me an Avenger's discount," they started just walking down the block.

"So do I still get ice cream?" Darcy teased.

"Only if I can have a bite of your's," Clint teased back.

"Alright."

The two of them ducked into the first ice cream shop they found, Darcy then stared intensely at all of the flavors available before deciding on a two scoop waffle cone of moose tracks, while Clint just walked up to the counter and asked for a scoop in a cup of butter pecan.

"I can't believe you got a bowl you loser, and what's with the old man flavor?" Darcy asked as she grabbed his spoon and stole a bite.

"Hey! And this at least won't melt all down my hand. And this was always my favorite flavor whenever I had enough change to get a scoop of ice cream."

"Solid answer; I accept it!" Darcy exclaimed as she waved his spoon just out of his reach.

He grabbed her cone in retaliation and licked the side of the top scoop while staring her dead in the eyes.

"Uggh, fine, you win," she handed him back his spoon, and he gave her back her cone.

"That was surprisingly good."

"Of course it is, I chose it," she replied with a smile.

He leaned in at that moment and kissed her.

AN: First off, I'm sorry about the mix up. I forgot to post chapter 3 on here when I posted it on AO3, and then posted chapter 4 on here when I posted it there. SO hope that clears everything up.

Okay so I did research on ice cream shops in Manhattan as I'm in Southern California and have never been there and son't want to be like they went to Coldstone's if there's not a Coldstone's. So they went to Sedutto, and this is their website with their flavors on it. I hope you guys liked their date because honestly, I've only been on one date and we didn't go to dinner, we went to a movie and it was awkward as hell.