****UPDATED AND COMPLETED**** **For the record, I finished this long before Infinity War was released which is why it doesn't fit with the movie at all. I just never posted it here until now.** This is a Clint Barton x reader x Everett Ross story. Disclaimer: Ok, I absolutely adore the MCU, but I don't read comic books, so any background information about these characters from the comics is totally irrelevant here. Now that that's out of the way, since the MCU has never really addressed Clint's early days at SHIELD, and Ross will probably never be enough of a "major character" to merit a background story, I thought this might be a cool idea. Both guys are about the same age, so the premise of this story is that before Ross was CIA, he started his career as a SHIELD trainee at the same time as Barton and the reader. This story will start with their first meetings and go up through current movie events (if my chapters beat the next few movies out though, we will just deal with the inaccuracies.) Hope you enjoy!