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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 26.46px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 26.46px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Nights was time of the day he felt pretty comfortable for jobs from afar. And he'd noticed Cade was blended in so well half the time nobody even knew he was close. Of course assassination came pretty easy to both of them but spying somehow always was something Natasha had been excellent at. But what Cade was just as splendid at was retrieval, sneaking and generally just getting things without a need for extra confrontation. And SHIELD kinda loved him for that./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 26.46px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 26.46px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Clint rarely let his dark side out but it was there for infiltration and spying and generally showing the marks who the truly bad one was. It was one thing Natasha also kept for occasions. But Cade was different. He just was the bad guy. Working for many things and mostly the darkest and for the weirdest moment in his life Clint realized everyone feared the man with invisible demons, even Coulson, even Director Fury himself. Even Natasha never risked to stay long in one room with Foster. And that there was what spoke volumes of how dangerous he seemed to people around./p
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h3 id="work" class="landmark heading" style="border-width: 0px 0px 0.25em; border-color: #555555; border-image: initial; outline: 0px; font-weight: 500; font-style: inherit; font-size: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0.125em; line-height: 0; opacity: 0; height: 0px; clear: both; color: #ffffff; text-shadow: none; background: none; border-style: initial initial double initial;"Chapter Text/h3
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