and this the hand I offer you

[sweetwatersong]

not to drown but to deliver
rating: pg
characters: Clint Barton & Natasha Romanoff
warning: canon-level violence
summary: She trusts three things: her skills, her ship, her sea. Do not ask more of her than that (until all three have failed her). [Pirate!Natasha and merman!Clint.]

author's note: Set in the compass rose 'verse. Takes place before

Comments

[morrighangw]

Wow, that is an AWESOME image of Natasha emerging from the sea. If I were those marauders, I'd be scared shitless too.

[sweetwatersong]

Your icon is pretty much perfect. ;) This is one of the tales that will lead to idiotic new pirates drunkenly talking of taking down the Widower while their wiser or more sober companions shake their heads, well aware that any such attempt will end horribly - and not for the Widow.

Thank you for reading!

[alphaflyer]

That was fabulous. Love the language of the recounting at the end, creating its own song.

[sweetwatersong]

Natasha is a badass pirate and now all of China the Atlantic knows it. ;) They sing a lot of songs about the Widow and her crew, even when the names are stripped from the telling and only the refrains of a woman and her ghost ship are left, sailing across mirror-flat seas with the stars and sirens for company...

Thank you, and thank you for reading!

[emeraldarrows]

*flails* I have no words.

[sweetwatersong]

Well then, I've done my job right! :D Thank you for reading.

[daria234]

Really cool and fun fic, and I love badass!pirate!Natasha here. Wonderful fic.

[sweetwatersong]

Thank you very much! :) Natasha is a badass in pretty much any universe - and it only gets better when you add in ships, swords, and sailors.