Shadows of the past

Pranksters in crime

Omg I am so sorry for the unplanned hiatus, its just that I'm having my o levels, the owl year in harry potter, and have just been able to update on fanfiction.net on my grandfather's ipad. I promise more updates after the 12th of may. Also I haven't really been motivated to update on wattpad because I don't get any comments or reviews so yeah.
So I know its cannon that Clint didn't exactly have the best of childhoods and that he was abused so I will be touching up on that. Technically all the Avengers' back stories suck. That's kinda sad. Oh and the title for this was based off the phrase partners in crime.

Everyone in the Avengers Tower trembled when Tony and Clint got on one of their pranking sprees. The two of them got along from the start. Their combined snark was enough to make Fury consider the actual advantages of having both interact with each other on a daily basis. On the other hand it did make movie night interesting even if Natasha gave a few more death threats than usual.

The two were pranking buddies and their combined ideas and resources made them a formidable pair. They may or may not be the reason Steve is randomly woken up at 4 in the morning by patriotic songs blaring from his alarm clock. They also swear they had nothing to do with almost the entire team's uniforms being dyed hello kitty pink. Almost because even they weren't suicidal enough to mess with the Black Widow. No one was sure how they did it, but Fury's eyepatch also landed into the dye "somehow". Whoops. The yelling was totally worth seeing Fury wear a pink eyepatch. Tony even designed a special suit for the occasion. A hello kitty suit. Which he wore every month to Disney Land, much to the delight of little girls.

Prank wars were epic. Entire floors were booby trapped and Clint learnt the hard way to avoid the vents for weeks. It was also irritating to have your ringtone changed to bird calls and not change back until Tony allowed JARVIS to do it.

Despite them being pranking buddies, Clint always maintained a healthy respect, read:fear, of what Tony was capable of. Tony Stark was not a man to mess with. While Clint and Natasha were the silent blades you never saw coming, Tony was the one who utterly destroyed you, burned your world down around you while you watched, helpless and smirked as the ashes blew around him.

Stark was a man of secrets, a man with a mask so strong it scared even Natasha. Stark was a man to be wary of. Tony, was a drinking buddy, the Mechanic, dependable in many situations and always there for a laugh.

But he was broken. Cracked and torn apart and frayed at edges. He had the best mask of them all, the world at his fingertips and a metal suit to match his heart.* Yet he was the most human of them all. The most breakable. People tended to forget that.

Clint was the one watching as his friend worked himself to the bone, as he nearly killed himself in an effort to prove himself. Clint was the one who saw that split second hurt appearing in Tony's eyes whenever Rogers said something insensitive, usually pertaining to Howard. Clint's greatest asset was his eyes. So he used them. And every time Tony was running more ragged than usual, he was the one to take him a sandwich in his lab or suggest some prank for Tony to focus on rather than someone's hurtful words.

His friend was the first thing he and Loki saw eye to eye on and the two often conspired to distract him from spending to long on a work binge, ie, more than 3 days. According to Tony anything less was "just a long day at work honey". The work binges usually resulted in something amazing so he wasn't complaining. Much. But if Loki was on occasion asked to perform a sleeping spell, well could you really blame him?

*so the whole metal heart thing was cos of the arc reactor. I mean it literally runs his heart.

Also I figured Clint and Loki had to eventually bond over something, why not Tony? So tell me if you liked it or if I should change something. Yes it is possible and I do update my chapters especially if someone wants something added and I like the idea. So thanks for reading! Please leave a review!