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Avengers (2012): "Shot in the Dark" (2/6) (Clint/Natasha)

Oct 30, 2012 06:49

Title: Shot in the Dark (2/6)
Author/Artist: Koren M. (cybermathwitch)
Disclaimer: Not mine. If they were, there'd already be a Black Widow/Hawkeye movie.
Pairing: Pre- Clint/Natasha (UST)
Rating: R (mostly for violent themes and language)
Warnings: language and some violence
Spoilers: None
Type: Completed
Word Count: 1,768
Summary: In her life there comes a ( Read more... )

series: weight of us, fandoms: avengers, pairings:clint/natasha, ratings:teen 15+, length:novella, authors:koren m.

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cybermathwitch November 1 2012, 11:48:48 UTC

I really loved doing that with her - there's kind of an edge of wildness I see her riding, and this is one way I could see that manifesting. :)

Thank you!

sunny_serenity November 4 2012, 09:54:44 UTC

cybermathwitch November 6 2012, 12:43:22 UTC

1) the fact that she might be systematically offing SHIELD agents to get their attention is a excellent excellent thing to point out because it shows how calculating and how methodical her mind plays these things. aaaaaaaaand, how the moniker of Black Widow starts to evolve into a different meaning with each kill. heh, me gusta. :-O brilliant employment of the making and remaking thread of natasha's narrative.

Thank you! :) I think this whole sequence (well, and the bits in the previous chapter where she's going over the last few months) are my favorite of the story. This bit: "Her kills weren't signature, they were all over the map, and it was making their behavioral psych guys nuts. Which was really amusing to watch." might just be my favorite line of the whole thing. Thanks to an X-Files fic I love to pieces I have this whole *Thing* about the two of them and psychs.

2) in contrast to that, clint recognising the pattern, or lack thereof as one itself, is also an excellent excellent thing to point out because OF COURSE he ( ... )

sunny_serenity November 4 2012, 10:00:29 UTC

cybermathwitch November 6 2012, 12:48:10 UTC

heee! Yes. I get the impression that when it's just Natasha and just that someone needs to be killed, and she's in control, her kills are neat, clean, and as painless as possible. She's not inherently sadistic, doesn't enjoy it but doesn't mind it. She is (or prior to this point in her life was) willing to torture/kill if that's what is required/ordered/requested by whoever is giving her the job. But "Natalia" (which is the kind of core sum total of what the Red Room created within her) is bloody, almost feral, and wild. And that's who surfaces during her black outs - the part of her that kills indiscriminately just to bathe in the blood.