I'm totally with Clint when it comes to math! *laugh* LIttle else makes me feel so inherently stupid as being forced to calculate anything while other people are watching and waiting for it.

But you made me laugh quite a lot, because the title of this story is so wonderful

At least after the three arrows, I expected what was to come later. It didn't disappoint. I really love the way you write the two of them as partners in more than the SHIELD-sense. They understand each other. They know each other. They save each other, and still are individual entities. It's beautiful to watch.

Hm, my favorite moment? When Clint negotiates Natasha's help with the calculations. The humor of that scene, complete with their gentle teasing. And the tiny information you always drop that makes the story so much richer - in this case, the accountant who crossed Nick Fury. It's always fun to search for these little details.

You make me want to read more and more about Natasha and Clint. I'm lucky if you have some more stories on your list!

I love their chemistry and easy banter. How Clint passes off the totaling to Natasha, and how Natasha holds out for a neck rub and baklava. They are just too cute.

I can't believe you were able to transform something as dreadfully dull as paperwork into this lovely character study. I love the banter between the pair of them as he bribes her into doing half his work for a neck massage and of course the ending is perfect. I'm glad he got to kill the bastard.

Oh this was a delight to read. Good job lovely.

A very good piece of writing! :)

Liked this.

Ha I like that last line! Nice job with this!

Most enjoyable paperwork ever! ;-)

What a fun fun fun read! Clint and Natasha are just so awesome together. Clint is kind of adorable when he is in a whiny complaining mood. :)

There's a long list of stuff I love about your story...that Clint ordered room service pizza, that he is trying to get reimbursed for his Springsteen t-shirt, that he lets his reimbursement paperwork pile up to the point of thousands and thousands of dollars before submitting, that Clint and Natasha bargain with each other for paperwork favors, that Clint obviously dilly-dallied while getting coffee and ate some yummy baklava, that he can carry 3 cups of coffee without lids and not spill a drop and my favorite is this:

"'..come over here for a second.' He steps up beside her, puzzled at what she might want but happy enough to comply until she wipes her sticky fingers off on his jeans."

Too cute! :D And that hint of Clintasha towards the end was the icing on the cake. Thanks for the wonderful read!

"Serious fluff" is indeed a very apt description.

"It isn't jealousy, exactly – no, that would be far too easy, and Clint Barton is not an easy man. The thing in his voice is anger. Anger that someone would seek to claim her, and not because that someone wasn't him. No, he had made it abundantly clear, that evening in Tbilisi, that she belonged to no one but herself."
Another finely crafted Alpha Flyer line that will stick in my mind and demand reflection for quite a while. It will find quite a few cousins still being mulled around in there.

Thank you for yet another great read!

Dawww. So cute.

Great short story. Nice job of turning mundane paperwork into a revelation of emotions.

"I fucking hate paperwork."
"It gets done more quickly if you don't waste energy whining about it, Clint."
I'm firmly in the camp of paperwork whiners. If you whine long enough, some of the paperwork runs away to escape from the sound of the whining and you end up with less to do.
"Mind totting this up for me, Romanoff? ... If Clinton Francis were Claudia Frances, she'd be batting her eyelashes coquettishly. " Of course, having a helpful partner works even better. Lots of lovely touches in this story: the light banter, indicative of the level of ease between Clint and Natasha; the degree of personal knowledge, each knowing what to ask and to offer as a bribe; and the emotion now drawn into moments on the job, moments when they have always had to be most detached from any warmth of feeling.
"Amazing what you can learn when you're forced to add everything up." More like complex multiplication than simple addition, but it definitely all adds up.

Beautiful. This fun and flirty story turns serious and intense unexpectedly. Smart sentences and smarter sentiments. Thanks for sharing!

Very interesting. Starts cute, then turns darker fast. Then finishes kind of sweet.
Nice.