hasthehighground: In SHIELD gear, looking serious and tired (the job)
Clint Barton ([personal profile] hasthehighground) wrote in [personal profile] redintheledger 2012-05-21 12:36 pm (UTC)






"My dad was a contract killer," he says, and it's clearly the start of a story. (A true one, at least.) "Not near your level, but he made enough money at it to live pretty comfortably. He was a good dad, too. I don't know why he stayed in the business until he got caught, we don't talk about it. He had some mob connections, it'd probably be a pretty easy story to unravel if I ever went looking. He hates prison, you know? But even he likes it better than the business."

He's watching her, steadily. "Being a spy is all-encompassing. I didn't save you for a purpose, I just -- offered a way out. Unless the purpose was to find who you could be outside of it."

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