Pizza Strife

5: Farm

"Anything?" Bruce asked nervously fidgeting by the door to the Clint's room.

Clint had been gone now for 4 months.

4 months and it was severely impacting the Avengers moral and just general balance. They all felt out of place.

It was worse then when Clint had been on his mission. At least they knew he was alive and was going to come back.

Right now they knew nothing.

"No." Natasha said crossing her arms. "Clint's off the grid, I don't think we're going to see him for a while."

"That's too bad." Bruce sighed. "The other guy doesn't mind him."

Natasha gave a soft hum. "Yeah, Bow-man and Hulk make a good team."

Bruce gave a soft nod glancing around. "He really lost it when we tidied this place up, didn't he?"

"Yeah, I never got to the bottom of that." Natasha admitted. "He kept dodging the question."

"Can I help?"

"What?" Natasha asked turning to him.

"I want to help find him." Bruce admitted quietly. "I... I want to know he's safe."

Natasha's shoulders raised. "I think I know how we might be able to find him."

"Oh?"

SHIELD was as busy as normal, nothing seemed out of place which was odd because the Avengers felt heavily impacted by Clint's sudden retirement.

None of SHIELD's agents had been able to pinpoint where Clint was hiding. Not even Tony's attempts had got them anywhere.

It was beginning to become apparent how little they knew about Clint.

"We've heard nothing from him." Laura explained eyes pinched. "Like you said he's off the grid."

Bruce sighed looking towards Natasha who was glaring at Laura like Clint was hiding behind her.

Bruce frowned.

Yes everyone knew that Clint and Laura were close, friends even, but Bruce didn't think Laura would dare try to lie to Natasha, not unless-

Laura stepped between the two disappearing around the corner.

Natasha watched her go before she turned to Bruce.

"Let's go."

Once they were in Natasha's hover car Bruce turned to her.

"Where do we go now?"

Natasha smirked holding up a piece of paper."To The Farm."

~~~

"Clint I'm bored."

"You do realise you would be dead right now." Clint grumbled as he threw another dart again hitting the center.

"Look I understand that Barney is the bad guy." Kate said as she slowly approached. "But we can't hide from him, I've never known you to run."

Clint let out a long sigh which turned into more or a groan.

Kate had been on him nonstop since he bought them here, she had complained the whole way and then cried for 4 hours when she realised he didn't have the internet out here.