（ fury never put in the kill order. that's the thing about being an assassin, if you let the what-ifs take hold of you, they grasp at you like clawing hands and pull you down beneath the waves. you drown in them. and there are enough other things between sewer and skyline to drown you in their line of work.
she likes stark well enough. trusts him at least a little. but she knows, too well, all the ways he was a threat to security. all the ways he was a threat to the world he worked so hard to save and did, eventually, die for.
fury operated in the twilight, that grey space at the edges of the light. but natasha was always meant for shadow.
she could leave it at that. he'll understand. but after a moment, she sits back, studies the monument. she bets, whatever his funeral looked like, his headstone was the most ostentatious thing around. probably gives off free wifi, just to flip the bird to elon musk.
she thinks, very carefully, about what to say next.
then: ）
Early on enough, I probably would have. But after you save the world beside someone a time or two, things get — （ she makes a soft sound, a sort of mmm. ） muddier. You know?
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（ fury never put in the kill order. that's the thing about being an assassin, if you let the what-ifs take hold of you, they grasp at you like clawing hands and pull you down beneath the waves. you drown in them. and there are enough other things between sewer and skyline to drown you in their line of work.
she likes stark well enough. trusts him at least a little. but she knows, too well, all the ways he was a threat to security. all the ways he was a threat to the world he worked so hard to save and did, eventually, die for.
fury operated in the twilight, that grey space at the edges of the light. but natasha was always meant for shadow.
she could leave it at that. he'll understand. but after a moment, she sits back, studies the monument. she bets, whatever his funeral looked like, his headstone was the most ostentatious thing around. probably gives off free wifi, just to flip the bird to elon musk.
she thinks, very carefully, about what to say next.
then: ）
Early on enough, I probably would have. But after you save the world beside someone a time or two, things get — （ she makes a soft sound, a sort of mmm. ） muddier. You know?