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Natasha Romanoff Masterlist of Fic Recs - Version 2.0 - Page 3

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Updated June 2021

This is not an exhaustive list (and in no order whatsoever) of the brilliant fic that is out there. Please let me know of any i have missed or any recs to put in and I will endeavour to add it. I have not included warnings or ratings. Please make sure you look at the tags, judge for yourself and as always take care of yourself first. (16 authors under the cut)

Andibeth @isjustprogress

Dialogue of Self and Soul - 7-7 series - Clint/Nat - Natasha unexpectedly gets pregnant, but everyone knows that assassins can’t be mothers. // Set Post Avengers: the story a spy who wasn’t made for parenthood, and the journey it takes to go from one extreme to the other. 

I took a heavenly ride through your silence - POST ENDGAME - Natasha dies but wakes up in 2012. CLint/Nat/Laura 1/1

Though I play at the edges of knowing - Clint/nat. Post Infinity war - five times Natasha looked back on her past -   1/1

Winter in the Pub - Natasha/Nebula - drinks in the pub. If only they knew how alike they are.  1/1

Pour like Honey, through the darkness - Nat/Bucky/Clint - comicverse natasha fakes her own death. 1/1

Like a shadow or a friend - Nat/Clint - asexual Natasha navigating the brave new world of shield -  1/1

That would be enough - Natasha/Barton family - one shots/prompts assorted.   57/?

The war can’t touch us here - Nat/Clint/Laura/Maria/Steve - Natasha is born in war but saved by others. 1/1

Laura Barton’s House for Wayward Trauma Survivors - Nat/Laura/Wanda/Bucky/Clint - What do you mean, bringing a few guests?” Laura asks suspiciously.    1/1

We will light up the sky as we burn it down - Clint/Nat - meet me in Montauk. Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. 1/1

We are not all that stares back. Clint/Nat - tell me something true. Natasha holds onto words he tells her. 

And this is how you keep her - Nat/Clint - Natasha helps Clint heal after the avengers 1/1

If we are not spies - Nat/Clint - she’s been running, but he finds her. 1/1

Synergy - Clint/Nat - five times they spent New Year’s Eve together .   6/6

And when we’re there we’ll belong. Series - Clint, Laura and Natasha: a family’s journey, and the long (and sometimes winding) road to love. [Reading order:]

⁃i. i love only that which they defend (main storyline)    1/1

⁃ii. til the clocks run down (expanded main storyline – can be read independently but does slot into the main fic in certain ways, specifically in regards to scene placement, timing, and assumed character knowledge)til the clocks run down 21/21 

⁃iii. for the half of ourselves we have lost (post age of ultron, pre/post civil war) for the half of ourselves we have lost 19/19 

⁃iv. how to feel a tranquil life (post infinity war)how to feel a tranquil life 11/11 

⁃v. moments [the world can’t stop us] (timestamps for clint, nat and laura for this universe, can be read independently of previous three stories) 7/7 

Dancing in the dark turmoil - Clint/Nat - if anyone can find this link?? (You’re my best friend. When was I not?)

Shellybelle @geniusorinsanity

Nor we need power or splendour- Clint/Nat/Laura - a powerful look at the Clint/Nat/Laura - and how they fit together given all pasts and trauma.  18/18

If the two were one - Clint/Nat/Team - five times the team found out Clint/Nat were married - 1/1

All the transparence (in shades of red) - Clint/Nat - Clint’s broken after Loki. Natasha meets him in buffalo. 1/1

If you let me through the door, we can let the world in - tony/team. Tony built the tower - for his friends. 1/1

Like a clock in a thunderstorm - Clint/Nat - thunderstorms and confessions - 1/1

Conversations by other means - Clint/Nat - fight and a good fuck - 1/1

A gift like joy - Clint/Nat - Clint comforts Natasha (non-sexually) after a mission requires her to sleep with someone for information. 1/1

Rarely short on caring - Claire Temple /various superhero’s - Caring for others is not always so hard. 

No matter what she tells you - Natasha - 5 lies Natasha tells. 1/1

Eiluned @eiluned

Read all the smut. Seriously.

Troika series - Clint/Nat/Darcy - the deliciousness of smut - 8/8

underneath and unexplored - Nat/Clint - progression of Natasha’s emotions in 5 parts. 1/1

We make a life by what we give - Clint/Nat - Christmas Celebrations - 1/1

Play it by ear - Clint/Nat - Natasha has a secret, she loves Clint. 1/1

Know Thyself - Clint/Nat - after shield collapses, Natasha searches for who she is. 

The Cat - Clint/Nat - Natasha is stealthy like a cat. 1/1

Two Solitudes - Clint/Nat - Natasha knows Clint. Trust with secrets leads to more. 1/1

Heart Hides a Secret - Clint/Nat - series of 3 one shots. 

Five Times Clint and Natasha Slept Together (and the First Time They Slept Together) - Clint/Nat - 5+1   1/1

Scribblemyname @scribblemyname

Merry Russian Christmas - Maria/Nat - Maria wants Natasha as a friend - 1/1

Shall we dance? Clint/Nat - clint took a chance in saving Nat. She wants to find him to say 1/1

Learning Natasha (again) - Natasha/team - Natasha learns how to be around people - 1/1

They died with me - Clint/Nat - Clint says I love you, Natasha responds. 1/1

Remind me how to breathe - Nat/Clint - Natasha has a miscarriage, Clint needs her to live for him. 1/1

Deep in the throes - Maria/Natasha - Maria helps to reprogram Natasha. They become friends.   1/1

For better or for worse - Clint/Nat - they’ve seen each other at their worst. 1/1

Mitigation - Clint/Bobbi/Nat - brainwashing makes strange bedfellows -  3/3

Good with strays - Clint/Nat/Laura - Clint brings Natasha to the farm. Laura is the link to bring her to shield. 1/1

Crazy4Orcas @crazy4orcas

Underneath it all - Clint/Nat - Clint learns about Natasha’s moods through the clothes she wears - 1/1

Just what the doctor ordered - Barton thinks Natasha is perfect. 1/1

Twelve days of Clintasha (with @cassiesinsanity​) - 12 days of Christmas Clint/Nat Style. 

Kiss and Run - Clint/Nat - Natasha runs after a kiss. 1/1

Arukou @arukou-arukou 

Loop - Clint/Nat - even free of the red room she’s not free of the handcuffs - 1/1

That One Blind Writer - @that-one-blind-writer

Tumblr for the one shots which range from Clint/Nat to Bucky/Nat 

Spectral archers @spectralarchers

cute morning texts - Nat/Clint- Natasha sends Clint texts in the morning. Clint doesn’t do mornings -  1/1

Swallow your soul - Clint/Laura Clint/Nat - Clint’s past comes to haunt him. 

Wildechilde17 @transparentlyfallingasleep

In the marketplace or the Main Street you are mine - Clint/Nat - one shots of Clint/Nat - men and women loving each other without being totally derailed by it.     66/66

Flipflop_diva

If it takes three - Clint/Nat/Laura - so the thing is Clint and Nat accidentally got married. Laura’s ok with this. 1/1

If I be worthy (how can this be)- Natasha/Shuri - pre and post iw- Thor’s hammer -1/1

And in the end I’ll always be there - Nat/Tony - he’ll always find her - 1/1

The ties that bind - Clint/Nat/Laura - three decades of Natashas’ life. 3/3- can be read as 1 shots

The hardest thing, this decision I made - Steve/Natasha - Natasha has an abortion - 1/1

On this sleepless night - Tony/Nat - they both can’t sleep, he tries to figure out why she’s not asleep - 1/1

Nowhere to turn except in your arms- Nat/Steve/Tony - 1/1

Miss Jeeves

any way I do - team - tony discovers Clint/Nat got married.

Unbreakable92

warm me by your fire - Bruce/Nat - Natasha needs the warmth she has searched for so long more than ever when a kidnapping brings some violent flashbacks to the forefront.

Miss adoration @adorationamy

aftershock - Natasha/Clint- scenes after natashas brain scramble in ultron -  1/1

Builder @builder051

Nat on Fire Series - Natasha has crap coping mechanisms but she’s surviving the only way she knows how. 19/?

Creedless Assassins Series - Natasha and Clint as they make their way through. 10/?

Mohini @mohini-musing

Coming Home Series - Natasha is taken care of by Clint and Laura. 6/? Clint/Nat/Laura

Salamander

Fragments - Clint/Nat/Laura - “I know you.” “Do you?” Clint takes Natasha somewhere safe. 1/1

[spectralarchers]

I LOVE THE GOOSE STAYS AT THE BARTONS GIFSET. Especially because Goose protecc Talos and HIS fam from the Kree, so of course she'd be like 'I GOT THIS' when Fury asked her to go stay with the bartons!! (WHAT IF GOOSE KNEW LAURA WAS PREGNANT WITH COOPER BEFORE LAURA AND CLINT KNEW???) ((WHAT IF GOOSE JUST RANDOMLY EATS AIM AND OTHER BAD GUYS WHO TRESPASS ONTO BARTON PROPERTY AND JUST... NEVER LETS IT SHOW???)

“She’s been very touchy lately,” Laura says, as she lifts up the cat from her lap, and puts her down on the floor again. Immediately, the tabby moves back up onto the couch and spreads across her stomach and her lap.

Clint watches the little scene unfold another time, as Laura gently puts the cat down onto the carpet on the floor of the flat. Lucky’s ears and eyes have turned towards the scene, and his tail is wagging ever so slightly, as if him and Goose know something Clint and Laura don’t.

Clint shrugs. “I don’t know man, Fury said she was special, maybe she likes girls more than boys?”

Laura makes a sound, to which Goose responds with a chirp, and she giggles. “What’s wrong, buddy?” she asks the cat, as it slides along her crossed legs, before sitting down and watching Laura with its big eyes. “You know I don’t speak cat, right?” Laura continues, as the cat chirps again, and this time Lucky lifts his head from his pillow. 

Clint moves from the table where he’s sitting trying to figure out rent (that shit is hard), and comes to sit next to Laura. As soon as he’s sitting down, Goose jumps up on his leg and sits down, alert and demanding attention, which Clint acquiesces to. 

“What’s wrong, sweetie?”

The cat then moves to Laura’s lap again and bends forward, to sniff at her lower abdomen, more or less around the area of her belly button. As Goose lifts her head again, she makes a repeated chirping noise, as her tail flicks behind her.

Clint and Laura turn their heads towards each almost at the same moment as the realization dawns on them.

Clint will later say that he screamed “you’re pregnant!” half a second before Laura did, and Laura will later say that she screamed “I’m pregnant!” half a second before Clint did, but they will both say that Gosse plopped down from Laura’s lap and headed to Lucky’s bed with a satisfied look on its face.

---

“One of the motion sensors went during the night,” Clint says as he’s pouring steaming hot coffee into his favorite SHIELD mug (it’s still got the old logo, and he thinks of it as an antique). 

Laura’s head perks up from feeding Lila, who’s decided the cornflakes they’re trying to give her are definitely NOT the food she wants this morning. “Anything we should be worried about?”

Clint stretches his back as he turns around, and Laura can’t help but peek a look at the little part of his stomach that gets exposed as he does so. Clint catches it. “No peeking,” he grumbles, before rubbing his eye with his free hand. “Apparently not, I did a perimeter sweep but didn’t find anything. It’s been raining since too, so if there were any traces, the rain will have gotten rid of them.”

He sighs, as he strokes his hair. Lila lets out a disgruntled shriek, and Laura puts down the spoon back into the bowl of cornflakes. Clint clears his throat, before taking a sip of coffee, as the little bell on the cat door jingles. Goose usually doesn’t go out that much, but she’d insisted on being let out last night, and when she comes into the kitchen, she’s filthy.

Clint immediately puts down his mug and picks her up, so she doesn’t leave any more footprints on the wooden floorplanks. Goose purrs as he does so, and when he puts her down in the sink, she looks at him before chirping again. “What the hell have you been up do, kitty?”

As he turns on the kitchen tap, Goose turns around to look out the window and if Clint didn’t know that cats will randomly stare at things humans can’t see, he still feels the hairs on his arms rise, as if something had been out there.

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When Clint gets home from New York, from Loki, from everything, he is so defeated and broken that he barely registers most of what is going on around him.

He doesn’t really watch the television, and going out to take care of the horses gets his mind off things. He can feel the itch from where the scepter touched his chest, and whenever Laura is off to work and the kids are at school, he’ll often end up crying in the shower.

Today he’s sitting down next to the toilet bowl, his guts as empty as can be, dark purple bags under his eyes, as he heaves for air. The nightmare had felt so real. He realizes he hasn’t closed the door properly when the cat, that freaking cat, shoves it open with her little body, and climbs onto the towel that he managed to pull around himself.

She immediately starts sniffing at the scar that’s still grey on his chest, the little noises she makes as she investigates the burn helps Clint ground himself again. Loki had made him to terrible things, and he was still haunted by it. The mark from the scepter, from when a mythical god had come down from above to steal the Tesseract.

What if he had been successful in bringing the Helicarrier down? What if he had killed all those people on board, Natasha, Maria, Nick, Phil included? He feels his heartrate go off again, and closes his eyes as he tries to zone it out again.

He feels Goose’s paw on his mouth and he opens his eyes to find the cat staring at his eyes. “What are you doing, honey?” he asks, his voice broken and cracked, like his body feels, and the cat chirps a bit at him, before headbutting his chin.

She licks the burn scar from the Scepter before she lies down next to him, on the wet kitchen floor, and rolls into a ball. His hand instinctively starts to pet her, and he feels himself finally finding a bit of peace of mind. 

[sheis-theslayer]

“Omg, they’re killing Clint’s family, YES finally he can end up with Nat!!”

“OMG, they’re touching and sharing comforting moments, Nat and Clint are definitely banging!”

[fourteenacross]

Guys, @isjustprogress got married this weekend! And the whole trash compactor of the thing was there! (#andcody)

It was a very fancy, very lovely evening spent with some of my favorite people in the world! We ate a lot of food! (So. Much. Food. I never want to eat again.) And we danced a lot! (And will probably be on the wedding video dancing a lot because we stole Andrea for like, twenty minutes and were thus surrounded by photographers.)

On the way back from the venue, Sarah said, “I can’t believe how long we’ve known each other!” and it’s true. I first met Sarah at DCon in 2011, which feels like it was just last week when really it was seven years ago. We’ve been through so many crazy life things together in the meantime and there are so many more to go (a couple are even on the horizon already) and I feel so grateful that I have been there to see these ladies through all of it. 

I’m very tired and still need to take a shower before I can go to bed, but I’m so happy for any and every excuse to see my far away friends and sad that our time together this weekend was so short. What a lovely weekend!

[smallblueandloud]

I will happily read anything around clintlaurasha!

thank you! my fic and i think it’s gonna be a long long time has pretty significant clint/nat/laura (set post-infinity war so read at your own risk).

if you want anything longer i’d definitely, highly, extremely recommend @isjustprogress and all of her fic. it’s amazing and wonderful and i cannot stress how good it is. if you have time to read upwards of 500k words about those three i would go and read her main series and when we’re there we’ll belong (although my personal favorite is all this comes back to me, then goes again, which is a lot shorter and way more focused on the nat/laura aspect of the relationship). the way that she writes these characters is just... amazing and so, so in character - she made sure that her series was canon compliant, which is really interesting to read and even more impressive when you consider the train wreck that was aou in terms of... clintasha and the like.

tl/dr: yes! i would love to write about them if you have any prompts!

[geniusorinsanity]

isjustprogress replied to your post “@isjustprogress is a fucking gem bc she still loves the mcu so much...”

LOOK I LOVE YOU A LOT OKAY FRIENDSHIP IS MORE THAN JUST COMPLAINING ABOUT MARRIAGES AND BEING POLY AND SHIT.

ok for a sec i thought you wrote mortgages not marriages and i was like “pls don’t make me talk about finances any more than i legally am required to”

[leatvshows]

marvel moodboard | clint barton

Today sucks. I’m goin’ back to bed

[alphaflyer]

Happiness:  Me and @isjustprogress closing down a restaurant in Manhattan with talks about writing, life and the people we’ve met.  

[heroofshield]

The Rules: Post the last sentence you wrote and tag as many people as there are words! 

indirectly tagged by @missmeggo929, part of a nano story that I’m currently working on (Mass Effect: Andromeda au-ish)

It should have been as simple at that, but of course nothing in Anna’s life was simple. 

not tagging anyone (besides @isjustprogress and @discovampireforjesus) but if you want to do it, feel free!

[when-it-rains-it-snows]

glad i'm not the only one who would definitely fuck Avengers Academy High School Clint behind a dumpster #IHaveAProblem

is the dumpster on fire

oh yeah it is totally on fire

[spectralarchers]

"The Futurist is here, gentlemen! He sees all. He knows what's best for you, whether you like it or not...”

[sweetwatersong]

isjustprogress replied to your post “It is a uniquely frustrating agony to see all my old, unfinished...”

*hug* i want to read them

*hugs* Thank you, lady. That really helps - it just gets overwhelming when I think about all of it, and then on top of that not knowing where to even try to start.

[fourteenacross]

And the final Museum of Science and Industry: I am very stylish and legos are the key to holding millenials’ attention, apparently.

[allofthefeelings]

Hey! So I know you made that post about Laura Barton/Laura Kinney (thank you for being someone that appreciates Laura Barton btw, there's so few of us). I didn't end up writing that post for various reasons even though I wanted to, but I did write something about Laura Kinney and Laura/Clint mostly because I have a lot of dad feelings? Anyway, I thought I'd pass it along since I did credit your post! isjustprogress(.)tumblr(.)com/post/158717983395/there-arent-any-more-guns-in-the-valley

I SCREAMED AND READ THIS FIC TWICE BEFORE POSTING IT FOR MY DASHBOARD BECAUSE FEELINGS. OMG SO MANY FEELINGS. FOR LAURA AND CLINT AND LAURA AND NAT AND WANDA AND ALL OF THEM AT ONCE.

How dare you and also thank you.

[Direct link to the fic for your reading pleasure]