title: but the silence spoke volumes
word count: 12,785
pairing: clint barton & natasha romanov, clint barton/laura barton
rating: teen & up
Obviously, spoilers for AoU, but essentially this is my attempt to, uh, put my OT3 feelings into words. Okay, it's technically not OT3 because there's no intimacy or anything like that and Laura and Clint are very much married and Clint and Nat are VERY much BFF but basically this is me trying to explore the relationship between the three in a way that I felt made sense? And of course it got way too long. I have no idea what the audience is for this right now, if people even want to READ Clint/Nat stuff with Clint/Laura, but I'm glad I got it done.
Laura trusted Natasha enough to know she could put her husband back together in ways that she couldn't, and Natasha trusted Laura enough to know that if she had to leave Clint for weeks on end, he would be taken care of in a way no one else would bother to understand.