title: here at the edge of the moon
author:
findthesea / andibeth82
rating: PG
characters: Clint Barton & Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton/Laura Barton, Sharon Carter, Bruce Banner, Steve Rogers
word count: ~11k
She wants to begin, to claw into the past of who she used to be, the faces and masks and plain facts that outline every lie, every life Natasha Romanoff has led in her thirty years. Natalia, Nikki, Nina, Roman, Rushman, Runaway - a crown of titles, of histories, adorning her forehead like the symbol of a moon goddess, the twin horns of a crescent moon rising high and clean above her brow. She wants to rip into her own skin and dig until she finds flesh, finds truth, finds the core of what makes her her.
[OR, Natasha Romanoff before and after Civil War: the girl she was and the girl she became.]