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Nine.

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CHAPTER NINE -----▹ 

At this point, Clint, Kate, and Iskra had been duct-taped to the unicorn, rocketship, and turtle the entire night, and the tracksuit mafia spent the whole time mocking them. "Big strong Hawkeye, riding a pony," if they hadn't put restraints that hold back her magic, Iskra thinks she might've killed them all by now.  "Seems like you're mad at me," Kate said, "Look, I know it doesn't look like that, right now, but you'd be lost without me, you realize that?" Clint ignored her statement, "I was about to clear your name from that suit until you decided to crash through the skylight." he said, "Oh." Kate's head dropped a little, there was a crash as one of the members was shouting in Russian through his phone.

"You good?" Kate asked him, Iskra leaned forward over Clint, raising an eyebrow at the brunette, was she seriously interacting with this guy, he approaches her making sure none of the others were looking at him, "I buy Imagine Dragons tickets for my girlfriend, as, like an early Christmas gift, right?" he says, "Hmm. That's so sweet." Kate replied, "Then we had fight. You know what she said? She said the tickets were a gift, so she wants to bring her sister" He said exasperated, "I mean look on the bright side, You don't have to go see Imagine Dragons." Kate shrugged. "I love Imagine Dragons, Uh she doesn't even like them, you know. She did this on purpose to hurt me." He said Kate had become invested in the story at this point, "Look, I think you both owe apologies. Tell her she hurt your feelings." Clint leaned his head against the unicorn, he couldn't believe that he was in this situation. "But apologize for pretending that that was a gift for her," Kate said. "Okay. Wait I need a pen. Just...Ok...ok see you." he said before running off.

"Hmm. See a little trust," she said leaning over towards Clint and Iskra, "A little communicating, a little listening..." her voice trailed off, Clint dramatically turned his head towards Kate, "What?" Kate continued, "Basic human stuff, you know what I think?" Kate asked before Thomas stood up cutting her off, "You know what I think? hmm? I think you talk too much." he paused standing in front of Kate, "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah..." he said doing the talking hand motion. "She always like this?" he asked Clint, and Iskra, Clint kind of nodded, and Iskra ignored the question. "Maybe I rip out your throat. hm?" Thomas continued, as a door slammed open, "Or maybe she will?"

Kate leaned over to Iskra and Clint, "Who is she?" Clint shook his head, The woman walked with a sense of authority towards Clint and Iskra, a man walking alongside her, one they had seen earlier. The Woman stood in front of Clint, the man standing next to her, closer to Kate, who awkwardly smiled at them. The woman cut the tape away from Clint's hands, she signed something to him, "Sorry hard of hearing. Not deaf." he said while signing a reply. She signed something else but Clint didn't quite understand, "Oh boy." he said, Iskra rolled her eyes, wondering why Clint still hadn't quite caught on to sign language, "She asked what you're doing here, Clint Barton." Iskra stated, the woman motioned for the man to tie Clint back up since he didn't understand sign language, and then walked towards Iskra removing the blonde's restraints.

"You two rely too much on technology."  she signed, and the man began translating for Clint and Kate, "Well my go-to weapon is two sticks, and a string, so..." Iskra rolled her eyes at his statement, and just before the woman starts signing, Iskra said to him, "She means your hearing aid." and the translator continued, "You might find you're better off without it." Kate gives him a look before he replies, "Yeah sometimes I think the very same thing." Kate rolls her eyes at his response, "Now the suit. She put it on by accident. She didn't know what it means." Clint said defending Kate, trying to talk them all out of this mess, "She's not Ronin. Look at her, she's nine." Kate's eyes dropped to the floor, "And spoiled rotten."

"She beat up a few of my guys." the woman signed, "And then came running when you were in trouble. Seems like she's got something to do with it." Iskra sighed, looking towards the brunette she had become fond of, "And just because she's not Ronin doesn't mean Ronin's not back." the woman added, "That's just a rumor." Clint said, "How do you know?" the woman asked, and before Clint could reply Iskra stepped in. "Ronin is dead." the woman caught the response out of the corner of her eye and walked towards Iskra, "So, who got him then?" Iskra sighed, "Natasha Romanoff, The Black Widow." the woman narrowed her eyes, "So, Ronan is dead, and the person who killed him is dead. That's convenient? How do you know this?" she asked, "Because Natasha Romanoff was my mother." Iskra signed.

Maya observed the blonde, she saw the tears that were welded up in her eyes, the ones she tried to blink away, she felt for the girl, she was only after Ronan because he killed her father, she held eye contact with the blonde for a few moments, "I'm sorry about your mother." she signed,  Iskra nodded.

"Ok," Kazi stepped in, not liking the direction that this was leading to, "Clearly this isn't working." he walked over and stood in front of Kate, "If you had nothing to do with this, then why did you put on this suit in the first place?" Kate had begun to respond to his question but, Iskra was more worried about Maya's body language, her eyes seemed to be far away all of the sudden, and soon she stepped forward choking Kate, and Iskra's eyes widened. Everyone seemed to freak out a bit, "Maya, no!" Kazi exclaimed, "Oh God, I put that suit on because I didn't want anybody to know that I was at the auction, okay?" Kate rushed out choking. 

Clint was tense as he worked to free himself from the tape, and apparently, they had forgotten that they freed Iskra's hands, "I didn't know what it was when I put it on, I swear!" Kate exclaimed, as Maya still hadn't released her. Kazi Pulled Maya away quickly, "What are you doing?" he exclaimed.

Kate coughed a few times, "Listen to me...Listen to me." Clint whispered getting Kate's attention, "Now is not the time to be scared. We're going to get out of this. You'll go back to living your life, I'll go back to my family. You're gonna harness that over self-confidence of yours, okay?" he said looking Kate in the eye, "This ridiculous over self-confidence you remember that one?" he asked, "Yeah Pretty eyes, seriously, Kate, everything is going to be fine." Iskra added. "Okay, so wait for my signal," he instructed, just then the tape on his hands ripped apart and he jumped down, Iskra followed soon after him, Maya, and everyone else began chasing after the two of them, "How did you do that? Clint!" Kate exclaimed.

This was going to be a long day.