Title: Side By Side
Author/Artist: lil_1337
Theme: Five pieces of leather - Vest
Rating: G
The black leather vest is a carry over from Clint's days as a bad boy. It has five silver snaps down the front and fits like a second skin. On the back, stitched in loving detail, is a hawk in flight. Despite the battered look of the material the picture is clean and sharp as if it were new. Phil wonders idly if the vest spawned the nickname or the other way around. He knows for sure that it is something precious because of the way Clint acts when he wears it. It seems to be less of a piece of clothing and more a statement about himself. Phil is not going to give up until he learns exactly what the message it is that Clint is trying to send.
The grapevine is at it again, as usual, Phil thinks as the whispered comments about Clint and that vest swirl around him. He can see the appeal, he'd have to be blind or dead not to. Lately though, the two of them - Clint and the vest, have been showing up in Phil's erotic dreams and, as SHIELD legal would happy and extensively tell him, that was simply not okay.