AVENGERS: Fate.

PART 6

2011:
CLINT POV:
I arrive in New Mexico, where something strange has been discovered. When I arrive, S.H.I.E.L.D has already started setting up a perimeter and are finishing putting up a temporary base. As I get close, I show my ID and they let me inside. I enter the base and suddenly stop, a tingling feeling is travelling through my body, a feeling I've never experienced, but have heard so much about.

One of my soulmates is here? In S.H.I.E.L.D? How have I not met them before?

I'm taken out of my trance by Coulson's voice "We're well on our way to setting up, Sir. Let you know if we come across anything stranger than what we've already got." I look up, to see him walking down the corridor, an unfamiliar woman by his side. She's young, short, with brown hair in a bun and she's wearing a S.H.I.E.L.D issued catsuit, but doesn't have a gun on her. She notices me but doesn't react. Coulson puts down the phone and notices me "Ah, Barton." The pair stop a metre or so in front of me. I can't seem to take my eyes off the girl, her blue eyes scan my face "This is Agent Radcliffe. Radcliffe, this is Agent Barton." I hold out a hand to her "Call me Clint." "Radcliffe." She grabs my hand, as soon as she does, it feels like electricity. She yanks her hand back, looking at me with wide eyes "What the hell was that?"

Why does she have to be so young? You know what, it doesn't matter.

"Are you two soulmates?" I nod to Coulson's question, Radcliffe looks up at me with an expression I can't read "Soulmates?" I smile "Yeah, this is great, I thought maybe I would never find them." "Huh?"

What's she so confused about?

"I'll give you two a minute." Coulson walks away, leaving the pair of us in the corridor, alone "Come with me." I start walking. I don't hear her following, but when I look over my shoulder she's trailing me. I step into a cameraless meeting room, she follows me in and I close the door after her. I turn to face her, to see her standing tall, as if waiting for orders "Hey, just relax, it's just the two of us." She doesn't relax. I lean against the edge of the table "Have you met our other?" She looks even more confused.

REBECCA POV:
Leaning against a table in front of me, is a man with blue eyes, short light brown hair and a concerned looking expression. I don't understand what happened, what that shock was about and he mentioned soulmates, but I don't know that word "What's wrong?" "Uh, I'm sorry, I don't understand." "What don't you understand, sweetheart?" I glare at him "What did you just call me?" "Sorry, Radcliffe. It's just that you're my soulmate and I've been waiting for this moment for years." I shake my head, he stands up properly and puts his hands on my shoulders, I get that shocking feeling again. It take everything in my power not to flip him and run right now.

Calm yourself, don't blow your cover.

"You don't want me?" "I don't understand!" He backs away "About soulmates?" "I've never heard that word before?" "Oh. Well, most people are connected to other people by marks on their bodies..."

Those images are soulmates? How? Why?

"Explain." "Aright. They're mainly romantic, but they don't have to be that way. Soulmates is a bonding of souls, they are perfect matches for each other, they can keep each other in check and bring out the best in each other." "How do you get them?" "You're born with the marks, then you wait for an opportunity that comes along, that brings with it a chance to meet them. Did you volunteer to come on this mission or were told?" "Agent Coulson brought me. I'm on probation, I've only just officially become an Agent." "Well, I didn't have to come, but there was an opportunity for me to do so, so I took it and here I am."

So... he's important to me and it's fate that we met? Why did HYDRA never explain any of this to me?

"How do you not know about this stuff? It's all out there on the internet."

Stick to you story.

"I was brought up in an Agency, never really go to do anything like other people, but I was also too young to do missions." He looks curious "Why not work for that Agency now, why S.H.I.E.L.D?" "There was an incident. I was rescued." "Right. Well, I'm glad you were, otherwise I never would've met you." He takes a step closer to me and I take a small step back, he doesn't move any closer "I'm pushing you too far, aren't I? Alright, how about we just start off with getting to know each other a little?"

Well, I can't really tell you anything about me, not anything real.

I nod and he smiles, but I can't encourage a smile onto my own face. He sits down and gestures for me to join him, but I decide to stay exactly where I am. Just then a siren goes off, Barton clicks his earpiece and talks to Coulson, he runs off and says we'll talk later. Apparently a very strong man is rampaging through the base, but I can't do anything about it, because according to all the tests I took I don't have super strength, I had to fake everything.