Running Scared (Avengers Fanfiction)

Chapter 35

You never know how much someone means to you until they're gone. For all of six months Clint felt as if he were just blowing through the day without a care in the world when he thought Katie was gone. He didn't expect to feel the way he did. The moment he found out she was alive, it was like he himself came back alive. So in this moment, when he has no idea where she was, Clint was realizing just how much he cares about her. With every passing moment he seems more anxious, more nervous. He needs to see her, to touch her, to just have her with him and he didn't care what he had to do to make it happen.

"Dude, slow the hell down!" Darcy yelled holding on for dear life as Clint made a sharp turn. "You drive more dangerous than I do." she looked over to Clint whose hand gripped the steering wheel of the car he "borrowed" "Are you sure you should be driving?" he glanced over to her with a questioning look. "Don't give me that look, hey I know you're worried but that doesn't mean we should die in the process."

"Explain it to me again." Clint replied ignoring her comment. "You guys show up to some factory that showed up on Jane's computer."

"Yeah," Darcy said gripping the arm rest as Clint sped through a changing light. "That was red."

"It was yellow," Clint replied. "And then what happened?"

"We found a bunch of kids messing around what seemed like some sort of weird wormhole thing." Darcy said with a shake of her head. "You throw something in and it just falls from the ceiling or it disappears."

"Disappears where?" Clint asked looking over to her.

"No idea," Darcy replied. "But while we were enamored with throwing crap into the thing Jane disappeared for four hours."

"Until she showed up with weird new abilities." Clint said and Darcy nodded.

"Right, and then Thor shows up, they kiss, she slaps him, they kiss again and then they're shooting up into the sky like a rocket ship." Darcy says turning back to Clint. "And that's the last I've heard from either one of them."

"What does this have to do with Katie?" Clint said. "Why bring her up there?" he shook his head. "How did they even know she was here, we hadn't even made contact yet?"

"Dude they live in the sky, they probably saw you guys." Darcy said with a shrug. "Wait, there is a guy-" she closed her eyes and thumped her fingers on her forehead when it finally came to here. "Hiney?" she shook her head. "No, Hymen?" Her eyes widen. "No, it's Heimdall!" she looks over to Clint. "Heimdall is this super cool dude who stands guard on Asgard and can see all."

"So?" Clint asks looking over to her.

"No one gets in or out of Asgard without him letting them." Darcy said. "Well except for the whole Loki and New York thing, but he's a tricky bastard."

"So you're saying that if she did go up to Asgard, this Heimdall would have had to let in?" Clint asks and Darcy nods. "Still doesn't make any sense. So this dude saw her, he couldn't let her up without some sort of permission which I doubt he had because there was no reason for her to go up there." Clint turned another sharp corner finally pulling up in front of the mental institution. He looks over to Darcy. "You know the plan, right?" they both look into the backseat to Ian who looks between them nervously.

"Do I have to do this?" Ian asks looking to Darcy. "I mean this is illegal right, lying to a hospital." Clint and Darcy share a look before turning back to the man.

"Look Ian-"

"I got this." Darcy interrupts Clint knowing he probably was about to get violent with her intern and it was only going to make the young man even more nervous. "Ian don't worry about it. Look at it this way, we're saving Erik." she pointed to the building. "He doesn't belong in there and we have a chance to get him out." she smiled. "You have a chance to do something great."