title: nor need we power or splendor author: kuhori_rei / shellybelle rating: M warnings: varies by chapter, but include[[cut for potential triggers]]polyamory, mixing of MCU and comic canon, canon-typical violence, character backstory including histories of child abuse, sexual violence, reproductive violence, sex work, and canon-typical violence
pairings: Clint Barton/Laura Barton/Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton/Laura Barton, Clint Barton/Natasha Romanoff, Laura Barton/Natasha Romanoff word count: 240,000
She hadn’t been sure, at the time, what had finally driven her away from the training center, brought her to book a flight to Waterloo and rent a car for the drive out out to the farm. But when she had packed a bag and headed to the nearest airport, it hadn’t been her apartment in New York or her condo in DC or her London townhouse or any number of hidden bolt-holes she kept around the world that she’d flown to, but a creaking, busy farmhouse in Iowa. (Or: It's been a long journey to get to where they are, and it'll be an even longer journey home.)