Different Memories

Wake up

A hotel in Budapest, Jun 1998
When she woke up she still felt the rests of the poison in her blood. The fools obviously didn't know that she was basically immune against the black widow's poison. Nervously Nat looked for Clint. There he was. But something was wrong. He was unconscious, sweating and pale. Filled with fear for the man she loved, Natalia fell on her knees beside him, carefully placed his head on her lap and checked her assumption. Unfortunately she was right. A cocktail of various drugs was slowly killing him. Cold panic rushed through her. Calm like she rarely was the assassin took Clints communication device. "Whoever may listen, send medical attention to this coordinates ASAP!" With that she threw the device through the room and tried to wake Clint. Futile. Sometime later she passed out again.

SHIELD Base, Bukarest, Jun 1998
When Coulson heared the message he was on highest alert. Of course Clint had gotten himself into danger again. And though Coulson knew nothing about the woman that send the message he cared too much for Clint than to ignore her warning.
Soon afterwards a medical team as well as himself entered the hotel to find an unconscious Clint and an unconscious woman that had surprising similarities to Clint's target.

SHIELD Base, Bukarest, Jun 1998
"That's impossible. Noone can survive an amount of the poison this high!" "Urgh" Nat moaned waking up. "As you see, she obviously can." Another voice said. Natalia's eyes snapped open and she sat up with a jolt. "Clint, where is he?", she asked panicking. "Calm down, please", a medic said. But she ignored him, struggling out of the hospital bed. A man in a suit stopped her from leaving by entering. "Miss, I'm Agent Coulson. We have some questions for you." "Where's Clint?", she demanded to know. "He was given a cocktail of various drugs. He..." "Where?" Nat interrupted the agent. "I'm here, Princess." Clint's calming voice came from the doorway. Relieved Nat ran to him. He seemed exhausted but he was well. "Come, you still have a debrief to attend to."

Safehouse in Budapest, Jun 1998
Before Nat could even enter the safehouse the shooting began. Fastly she hid behind a car, Clint beside her. The following fight was ugly to say the least. In the end, they made it out, though Nat had a bullet in her thigh and Clint two in his shoulder.

SHIELD Base, Bukarest, Jun 1998
His memories of the fight at the safehouse were pretty confused, he supposed because of the aftereffects of the drugs. His head felt light, partly also because of the pain killers. Now he was headed to debrief with Natalia. "They can't know. Tell them lies if you must. And you can trust Coulson. With the whole story. But the others... They would want to use it." The archer warned the assassin. She nodded. "I'm Natasha then for them then." She smiled and he kissed her before they entered.