Running Fearless ( Avengers Fanfiction)

Chapter 41

After something bad happens, this movie plays in your head. Sort of like the events that lead to that bad thing play on this loop over and over and over. As Clint paced back and forth through the waiting room of the MedU, he kept seeing it. He came to Katie, asked her if she was coming to the party, and then the scene changed, and she surprised him and showed up. They were laughing and she was eating and then one of Tony's suits shows up and then everything just goes to hell.

The moment the words, "Something's wrong!" came out of her mouth, Clint was pushed into action. He hiked her up in his arms and carried her to the elevator, Bruce right behind them. Bruce called Franklin during the ride who was luckily in the MedU already. The moment the elevator doors opened, Franklin was already waiting with a wheelchair. Clint hesitated for a moment, but eventually sat her down before Franklin rushed her off. He followed behind until Bruce caught his shoulder to stop him.

"What the hell are you doing Bruce?!" Clint snapped pulling out of the doctor's grasp. "I need to stay with her. She needs to know I'm here."

"She does know you're here, but right now you need to calm down and let Franklin work, alright?" Clint let out a long sigh as he let his fingers comb through his hair. "Look, I know-"

"You don't know anything." Clint grit through his teeth angrily. "This is my-" the sudden emotions that he'd been trying restrain were threatening to spill out of him this very moment. "This is my family Bruce. They are everything." the man shook his head, before glancing over to the door. "I can't lose them."

And that's when he began pacing. He kept replaying the events that lead to this moment over and over again trying to see at what point he could've prevented this. Clint kept beating himself up, because she didn't even want to come to the party. She wanted to stay home and eat her ice cream, and he tricked into coming.

"Clint maybe you should sit down." Bruce spoke standing to his feet. He'd spent the past hour watching the man pace back and forth, a scene reminiscent of when Thor took Katie to Asgard after the accident. Clint kept pacing, probably not even hearing the man's words. The fucked up movie was still playing in his head, always ending on the part where she looks to him with tears in her eyes as pain courses through her. "Clint—" Bruce touched the man's shoulder, but he only pushed him away. "You need to calm down."

"Why should I calm down?"Clint asked not missing a step in his pace. It was the moving that was keeping him as calm as he was now. He thinks if he stops and really goes over every detail that lead to the moment of him rushing his wife to MedU he would either kill himself, or someone else.

"Because she needs for you to keep it together." Bruce replied, only for Clint to glance over to him without stopping his pace. "Look, I know you're scared-"

"I'm terrified doc!" Clint snapped with a shake of his head. The elevator doors opened and Bruce turned his head to see Natasha walking off. He glanced back to Clint, who seemed content to just continue pacing. Natasha nudged her head for Bruce to come over, and so the doctor did.

"Any word on Katie?" Natasha asked and Bruce shook his head.

"Franklin is still with her. I would've gone back there, but I didn't want to leave him alone." Bruce replied glancing back over to Clint. "He's-"

"Angry." Natasha says looking over to her partner with a furrowed brow. "This is him very angry." Bruce turned to her with confusion and she met his eyes. "You should go downstairs to the lab. Apparently you were apart of this and Steve wants to know what happened?"

"So do I." Bruce sighed removing his glasses and rubbing his tired eyes. Against her nature, Natasha reached out a hand and placed it on his arm, and the man's eyes once again looked over to her.