#audrey asks

“Uh…yeah…,” Robb agreed as he came in, his eyes glancing at her briefly.

She turned to Grey Wind, “You need to move, sir.”

Grey Wind laid down, with his head on the pillows, looking up at her, and nudged his paw against her.

“Grey Wind,” she laughed, “Move.”

He scooted closer to her.

Robb chuckled, “Well in his defense, he did what you asked.”

She looked at him, “Are you going to help?”

Robb sighed and came to the side of the bed she was sitting at and leaned over her. He’d just showered, and he smelled like the bodywash his Mom stocked in all the boys’ bedrooms at Winterfell. She felt herself shiver slightly.

He lifted Grey Wind and moved him to the other side of the bed. When he went to straighten back up, Grey Wind laid on his hand and Robb all but fell onto her.

“Sorry,” he said quickly, as he tried to straighten himself up. She tried to get out of his way but they ended up nearly colliding once again, and then his face was just inches from hers. “Sorry.”

“That’s,” she shook her head, looking into his blue eyes, “That’s okay.”

For a second she could have sworn that his eyes trailed down to her lips but then he cleared his throat and stood back up.

“You ought to get under quick, he’s gonna come right back to you,” he told her.

She set her cup of coffee down on the bedside table and pulled the comforter back and then got underneath it. She stacked the pillows against the wall and grabbed her coffee once again.

As promised, Grey Wind came right back to her and laid down, his head covering her chest.

Robb turned back around and smirked, “You look… very cozy.”

She grinned, taking a sip, “I’m peak cozy. This bed is really so comfortable. I might just stay in it all day.”

His eyes lingered on her for a moment and she blushed. She hadn’t thought that was a weird thing to say, but maybe it was? It was just so blustery outside and it was so cozy and it smelled like him and – okay yeah, it was a little weird, maybe.

She was slipping up more and more recently. He always told her that she was so cool. Not cool as in great, but as in calm, steady, undaunted. She liked to remind him he only felt that way because he was such a hothead.

But the truth was, it was getting harder and harder to play it cool around him.

Her crush on him had used to be a cute little thing. Three years her senior and her best friend’s older brother, it was practically a right of passage that she would have a crush on him. He had been like her version of the lead singer of a boy band, without the frosted tips.

She was perfectly content for him to stay as a metaphorical poster on her wall, but then they’d gotten older and he went from being the hot, funny, sweet older brother of her best friend to… well, one of her best friends. Sansa had moved south a couple years earlier and had left a huge hole in both of their lives and so somehow, wordlessly, they’d tried to fill it with each other.

And then it had stopped being about Sansa, as much as they both missed her, because they got along great. Shockingly well, actually.

He was her favorite person to do anything with. Her favorite person to do nothing with.

So it was perfect.

Or it would have been if she didn’t want to do… well… him.

He was just so fucking hot. There were probably more eloquent ways of thinking about it, but that was the crux of it. He was so gorgeous it actually defied reason and when you added in the fact that he was funny and sweet and always made time for her and was always around just making things better it was a little difficult not to want him.

But that wasn’t why she was in his bed.

She was in his bed because they had a mission, and she loved a mission. She stroked Grey Wind’s ears.

“Alright, Stark,” she told him, “Let’s see what we’re dealing with.”

He sat down on the bed, “Here’s the thing…”

She looked at him warningly, “Mmhm.”

“It’s too nice a day out to spend it going through my closet,” he told her.

“It’s sleeting outside,” she pointed out. He opened his mouth to say something cute and she held her hand up, “And if we don’t do it today, your Mom is going to come do it randomly. Do you really want her going through your closet?”

His ears turned pink at the mere prospect, and she took a sip of her coffee so that she wouldn’t squeal at how adorable that was.

“Fine,” he sighed, “But next week we’re doing your closet.”

She laughed, “Honey, you’d be winded before we made it through my sock drawer.”

He nodded, “That’s very true.”

Robb, for all of his wonderful qualities, was a bit of a pack rat. It wasn’t on purposes], and he wasn’t keeping weird things like toenails or trash or anything, but he just never really threw anything away.

She, on the other hand, in spite of the fact that her closet was at least triple the volume, was very good at throwing things away. She only held onto things if they were useful to her.

Which is why her closet didn’t contain three different t shirts for a band she’d never listened to.

“Robb!” she admonished on the third.

He covered his mouth and nodded, looking like he was at his own personal intervention, “You’re right. Three is too many.”

She laughed, “One is too many considering you don’t even listen to them. All of them out.”

He grinned and tossed one gently at her face, “That one’s soft. Keep it.”

There were three different piles. One was for things that he was keeping. Another (the largest) was for things he was throwing out. The third little one were things that he’d either outgrown or didn’t use but that he thought she should have to sleep or paint in.

Somehow she’d also gotten his old high school football sweatshirt, which she was fighting the urge to pull on.

She put the t shirt, which really was soft, in her pile and then made a shooing gesture.

“Aren’t you bored?” he asked her.

“Do I ever tire of telling you what to do?” she wondered.

“Good point,” he agreed. He went back into his closet and then came back out. “I need you to close your eyes.”

She furrowed her brow, “What, do you have a sex doll back there or something?”

He grinned, “No, she’s at Theon’s.”

She laughed, “What have you got back there, Stark?”

He sighed, “Okay. It was a phase.”

“I know it was,” she agreed solemnly.

“I was young,” he told her.

“I know you were,” she nodded.

“I don’t want to show you,” he dropped the game.

“We both know there is no way that ends without me seeing it so,” she noted.

He sighed and then walked back into his closet, “Okay so, my first year at uni, Jon and I got like… really into our heritage.”

“Mmhm,” she agreed, trying not to smile.

That became absolutely impossible when he came out, proffering a kilt.

“Stop it,” he chided.

“I didn’t say anything!” she told him.

“I can hear you mocking me in your mind,” he told her, “I mean… I can actually hear it… oh yeah, that one was good.”

She giggled, “I need you to put it on, please.”

“Absolutely not,” he argued.

“Robb please,” she smiled, “Please, please please. I’ll let you take one thing out of the throw away pile-,” he opened his mouth, “Except the overalls.”

“You’re so cruel to me,” he shook his head, “Why do I enjoy it?”

“Come on, lad,” she did her best approximation of his ancestral accent.

He laughed, “Fine but when we go to the pub later you have to order the first round in that voice.”

“Deal,” she agreed.

He took the kilt and went into the bathroom and closed the door. Grey Wind looked up at her with his sad puppy dog eyes.

“Don’t worry, we’re not going to the pub,” she whispered, scratching under his chin.

Contented, he rested his head back down, groaning in that long-suffering way that always made her smile.

Robb came out a moment later, and she let out a noise that was halfway between a scream and a laugh.

“Myrcella!” he admonished, “This is my heritage.”

“I…,” she tried to think of something positive to say, but in bare feet and his Wintertown Direwolves t shirt on over top, he looked so ridiculous. “Would like you to wear it all the time.”

He put his hands on his hips and teased, “Does it… do it for you?”

“No,” she laughed, “It just makes you look so ridiculous I can forget how hot you are for a second.”

His eyes snapped to hers, “What?”

She fought the urge to burrow under the covers, but asked casually, “What?”

Maybe she was cool.

“You think I’m hot,” he told her.

She shrugged, “I mean objectively, you’re fine. I mean not fine but yeah you’re, I mean you’ve seen your face.”

Yeah, okay so she wasn’t cool.

He nodded and turned to go back to the bathroom and then turned back to her, his eyes narrowing. She tried to meet his gaze, jutting her chin forward.

His mouth fell open.

“You think I’m hot!” he said again. Shouted it, basically. He pointed at her, “Jon was right, Theon was wrong.”

“I mean, that’s usually the case,” she couldn’t help but say. Then looked at him, “But about what?”

“What?” he asked her, his voice taking on that faux-casual tone of his.

It was her turn to narrow her eyes, “What was Jon right about? Were… were you guys talking about me?”

He shook his head, “No.”

“Robb,” she pressed.

He sighed, “Okay, maybe a little.”

“And what Jon just told you randomly that I thought you were hot?” she asked.

That didn’t sound like Jon. She had a feeling he knew how she felt about Robb, but he wasn’t the sort to gossip. Not about her, anyway.

“Not… randomly,” he said. Then looked down at himself, “Okay I’m having a really hard time having this conversation wearing this.”

She smiled, “But it’s embarrassing for you, which is making me less embarrassed.”

He chuckled, “You’re embarrassed, that’s rich.” He scratched his cheek, refusing to look at her, “The reason the question of whether or not you were into me came up was because I maybe, sort of, in a very charming way, was drunkenly ranting about this sort of you know, not-creepy but certainly unhealthy attraction I have towards you so… I think… that… I should throw away this kilt and then just jump out the bathroom window so…”

With that he started walking towards the bathroom like the conversation was over.

Right when it was getting good.

“Wait! Robb,” she tried to stop him and then when he kept walking she tried to get up. Unfortunately Grey Wind had made himself nice and cozy. She tried to shove him, “Grey Wind… Grey Wind move, please this is what we’ve been waiting for.”

Robb turned so quickly she would have been afraid he had gotten whiplash if she could form any thoughts when he was looking at her like that.

And then, as though he was drawing on all the strength of his ancestors, he took a deep breath, crossed over to her, took her cheeks in his hands and kissed her.

He. Kissed her. He just? Kissed. Her. Oh. My. God. He was kissing her. He was kissing her!! Robb was kissing her.

She was so focused on that that she didn’t quite kiss him back, which she didn’t realize until he pulled away, his face looking disappointed.

She smiled, “Sorry, I…”

She leaned up as much as she was able and pressed her lips to his. This time she made sure to enjoy it. The softness of his lips and the way they curled into a smile when he realized what she’d done. The way he recovered quickly and kissed her back, taking the coffee cup out of her hand and putting it on the bedside table, sitting down on the bed next to her and pulling her into his arms.

“So,” she said as they broke apart, “Obviously the kilt is in the keep pile.”

He chuckled, “Obviously.”

“Unhealthy attraction?” she wondered.

He smiled, “It was bad for my wellbeing. Less because it was taking over my life and more because Jon said if I didn’t shut up about it he was going to punch me in the face.”

She giggled, looping her arms around his neck, “You can talk to me about it.”

He smiled but then his eyes turned serious and he shook his head, “I’m kind of crazy about you.”

She leaned in and kissed him again and he moved to get closer to her but then they both heard an undignified grunt.

“Grey Wind,” Robb chuckled, “Move.”

After some cajoling and outright shoving, Grey Wind finally moved to the foot of the bed.

They looked at each other and leaned in closer, and she told him, “I’m crazy about you too.” He grinned and his hand wove into her hair, his thumb on her cheek and he went to kiss her. She stopped him with a hand to his chest, “But don’t think that’s going to make me forget we are only halfway through your closet.”

naked eye, a spy organization that i created, got to harvey before SHIELD

they kidnapped her, developed a project based on her then erased her memories (as well as clint’s) via their other “subject” abigail jones; formerly alexis jones before experimenting on her to create a superpowered person and use her to their advantage

kinda unrelated but there are several women put into this project, two of which are coraline thompson (a sam wilson oc, portrayed by juliana harkavy) and bianca winslow (not sure what show/s or movie/s to put her in but she’s portrayed by jurnee smollett)

though i’m really on the fence about clint also being mind wiped ‘cause they’re gonna reunite and the angst of that,,,

but also her being the reason he accepts fury’s offer to join SHIELD?? hell yes

anyways, she gives birth to audrey on christmas day of 2000 while within naked eye’s facilities and they just dropped her off to the system

audrey always felt like an outcast and felt horrible in every foster home she gets in and kept running away; doing everything she could to make it through the day so pickpocketing, shoplifting, etc. and she was only like 8 when she started all of that

eventually, she attempts to steal from a businesswoman named blythe radcliffe (an eventual quentin beck oc, played by danneel ackles), who basically ended up adopting her after offering her dinner

the outcast feeling obviously doesn’t just go away but daphne (a karolina dean oc, played by madelaine petsch), blythe’s daughter, tried to help her through & they eventually become super close (also audrey is only a year older than her)

they lived in new york and audrey made friends with one kate bishop <3 but when the incident happened they moved to los angeles (or whatever city marvel’s runaways was set in, i forgot lol)

some time between 7th and 8th grade, she dyes her hair red just to match with daphne and blythe

she’s lesbian but already felt insecure enough so she dates either chase stein or another oc of mine just to prove to herself that she isn’t

daphne is also a lesbian and is out so although she inspires audrey a lot, she just really does not want to accept it (even more so when clint and harvey found her bc she’s scared they won’t accept her and like, leave her again)

onto the part that’s very much still in the works; harvey and clint reunite in catws but it doesn’t necessarily follow steve, nat and the rest of the movie (it’d be like what happened in the background while they were taking down all the big guys)

so like clint wasn’t with them because he was handling the love of his life <3

as you can tell it’s very vague lmao i’m still going back and forth between the storylines i have in mind

anyway anyway after all that gets sorted out and harvey is back to her right mind, she remembers about her daughter and she immediately started looking for her

clint was very surprised by this (either ‘cause he didn’t know since she didn’t get the chance to tell him before she was kidnapped or because his mind was erased,, though while writing all of this i’m really leaning toward the former) but helps her with the search of course

when they finally found audrey (some time after january 2014, maybe april or may or june, and audrey is 13), it was both thrilling and scary for the both of them since harvey already has guilt all over her & convinced herself that her daughter had to go through what she did because of her and clint just literally does not know how to parent a child lol

they have a bit of a rocky start what with audrey being a bit cynical and defensive but eventually, the fact that all of her thoughts about her family just abandoning her getting debunked is very emotional for her and she just loves being with them so much

harvey giving her the love of a mother that although she got to experience with blythe was quite different coming from her real mother <3

with clint it’s like they are both teenagers and everything just goes out the window whenever they’re together and harvey isn’t around AGSHGAGAHA

EVEN MORE SO WITH NAT???

but ofc nat is definitely waaaay more composed than clint and her and audrey make fun of him a lot FAHSGSAGS

clint immediately appointed nat as her godmother, no buts or questions asked — not that she had any, she loves her little red like she’s her own <3

AND AUDREY LOVES HER AUNTIE NAT

probably spends more time with her than with clint whenever she’s visiting him (or her mom) at work LMAO

anyway the rest of the avengers just love her, they think she’s adorable (which she hates) and see a lot of her parents in her

so with having more support system (and role models) than she expected audrey’s probably more inclined and comfortable to come out to them

however the rocky start kinda goes on with clint and audrey since sometimes he’s not really there there, sometimes it seems like he’d rather be out on a mission than braiding her daughter’s hair and that does not pass by audrey

she knows that very well and it hurt a lot

but she’s not one to spill her feelings so she just kinda let it be, and this becomes a very important part in her fic, bullseye!

so they wanted to live in missouri where clint’s farm/safehouse is (i hc that every agent has a resignated safehouse for their fam or loved ones if needed <3) but audrey wanted to go back to new york

because despite all the hardship she went through there, it’s still her home and she never really liked LA, she just didn’t want to complain

so to honor audrey’s wishes although definitely against her parents’ better judgment, they move to NY once her 8th grade school year ends (this is still 2014)

some time in the summer harvey and clint will elope, so audrey’s last name will be legally changed to barton ‘cause despite the probable danger what with them being avengers, they really wanted to have something normal for once and that’s to have the same family name

they enroll audrey in midtown high for her freshman year and at some time she’ll probably date karlee kingsley (my peter parker oc, portrayed by china anne mcclain) or someone else in the spider gang but this isn’t really a fixed event rn

now when aou happens, what with both harvey and clint almost dying (side note: pietro doesn’t die in aou in my universe), which scared the living shit out of audrey, they decide it’s best for them to retire and spend more time with her

but then civil war happens and both steve and tony roped them into the accords; tony reaching out to harvey knowing that she’ll be on his side, and she was

this is because she has done a lot of bad during her time with naked eye (which she remembers vividly) and joining the avengers was kind of her way of making up for that and tried to help more people than she hurt, but even then, obviously, people still got hurt; and so she thinks that signing the accords and have someone look after the team or keep them in check will help lessen the casualties, the loss that they caused

then steve to clint, as you know

however harvey refuses to fight her former team unlike her husband which kind of put a strain in their relationship

once clint is broken out by steve, he’s in house arrest like scott, but at this point they’ve already moved to missouri — as per audrey’s wishes since she knew that her dad is a fugitive and would be safer there

she had this training kind of similar to that of nat’s; where they train her to be cold and not feel anything when she takes someone’s life and that is probably the hardest part of the training for her

that has mentally scarred her for life, and that’s really what made her more apathetic and not the training itself :(

obviously she’ll figure out about the snap but by then, she’d already found a friend in a fellow hostage, francesca alonso

they butt heads a lot at first but eventually fall in love and start dating

which surprisingly wasn’t something naked eye was against,,, (i mean so long as it didn’t interfere with their missions)

they dyed her hair back to blonde, her natural color, and this is something that she’ll grow to hate

the red is super symbolic to her; her first ever family with blythe and daphne and also nat, her beloved godmother, which she was absolutely heartbroken to learn had died

however there’s just too much going on for her to have time to change it back

maybe two or three years later after she started, she’s sent out on missions as a vigilante; bullseye!

(partly because she says bullseye! a lot, even before she was kidnapped 😭)

anyway, on one mission with francesca (not as their alter egos), audrey handles perimeter while fran went in the building and since ronin was already inside before they even arrived, he killed fran once they crossed paths; thinking that she was part of whatever was going on in that building

audrey goes after her once she realized that something was wrong, but she was already too late and fran dies in her arms while ronin gets away (x)

in that moment, she swore to find ronin and not stop until he’s dead, so although naked eye was against this vendetta of hers, she still kept going

audrey encountered ronin on another mission and as they fight, clint immediately gets a feeling of familiarity from her, and hope builds up in his mind

this feeling is somehow confirmed when she says bullseye! as she shot an arrow to the tank behind him which also kinda mirrors the scene between him and tony in civil war;

“What do you mean? You missed.”

“Did I?”

and then the tank blows up

assuming he’s dead, she leaves and returns to base, but when her superiors knew about this, they sent her to isolation for about a month or so

in that time span, naked eye already had someone temporarily replace her as bullseye! just to throw ronin off their trail

not yet sure if i’ll make this someone important in the fic or not, but in another encounter, ronin pulls her hood and mask and when he sees that it’s not his daughter, he’s just super crushed

and i’m also thinking that he told nat about all of this, so that makes his “don’t do that. don’t give me hope.” line extra painful and emotional 😭😭 (x)

and obviously nat would’ve offered her help and had given it to him although he really didn’t want her to; so like she tracked him down but he had already moved on elsewhere when she arrived :(

ANYWAYS, audrey goes on to work for naked eye for about another year and on one mission, she encounters an undercover bobbi morse

there is some sort of contact between bobbi and harvey that i haven’t fully fleshed out but bobbi knows what audrey looks like as a redhead so it took her a bit before realizing who she is since she’s now blonde and much much older

bobbi takes it upon herself to help her out (kind of like her way of doing more good since she also lost her girlfriend to the snap; which i’ve yet to name but she is portrayed by meagan tandy), and after that’s done, she becomes audrey’s mentor; where she tried to reverse what naked eye taught her but obviously that’s gonna be a long process

whenever audrey makes the slightest bit of progress, it makes her super proud

a few months later, everybody was brought back and she returns to missouri to reunite with her family

she actually breaks down to tears the moment that she sees them; she runs up to clint with a hug then pulls her mom in, absolutely nothing but sobs from the three of them and what makes this sadder is the fact that this is the first time she’s cried since the snap (x)

but the drastic changes to her aren’t hard to notice, obviously

she chose to lie about it; she was confused about “suddenly being back”, she was in a hospital, stopped by a friend’s place to settle down, etc.

since i’m thinking it took clint a while to get home anyway, what with the battle in the compound and how far it is from missouri

and from that point forward she just straight up lied about everything

so they attend tony’s funeral and although she was upset, she was way more pissed that they weren’t having one for nat (x)

i’m thinking that clint probably wanted to be the one to tell yelena, melina and alexei because he knew they’d want to hold one for nat, but he didn’t really know that much about them or where to look for them so although he tried his best, he had no luck whatsoever

he also tried to contact hailey, harvey’s twin and nat’s girlfriend who didn’t survive the snap and the only other person who knew about nat’s fam, but she was nowhere to be found after she found out that nat and tony died

so after harvey gives birth to the twins, nathaniel pietro barton and natalia antoinette barton, audrey moves out and back to new york where she continued to look for ronin with the help of bobbi for like another year

but the only real lead she’s had so far is chatter in the dark web that his suit and sword are going to be on a black market auction (courtesy of abby)

thinking that he’d be there and try to get it back, audrey dresses up and attends the event where it will take place (she’s now twenty-four, by the way!!)

completely forgetting about seeing rogers: the musical with her family, who had visited her earlier and told her about said musical

at the party, she stands by kate (who she definitely stared at for a bit from across the room) as she gets a drink and kate strikes up a conversation about not really having that good of a time

and they don’t really realize who each other are because it’s been twelve years

audrey then went to the wine cellar thingy and once the sword has been sold, she actually thought for a sec that it was jack

kate sees her from behind the racks and is like 👁️👄👁️

when the explosion happens and she sees ronin, she immediately puts her suit on and also fought the tracksuits; which made kate think that she’s on her side

once the fight inside is over, audrey literally drags kate out, but they both get distracted by one of the tracksuit guys and lucky and they both yell “hey!”

after kate knocked him out, ran after the dog then saved him, audrey really just followed suit; getting the idea that this is most definitely not ronin but she still wanted some answers

audrey could barely keep up with her, but she had no choice so she just kept on following her and kate didn’t even stop her like 😭 they were literally on their way to her apartment afsjsgah

“Hey, is this your place?”

“Uh, yeah. This is my place. What, you don’t...you don’t like it—”

“Oh my god, this is your place?! You have a goddamn mafia after your ass and your first move is to go back to your apartment?!”

“Well, I mean, it’s...it’s kinda your fault, too, you know, ‘cause uh. You didn’t...you didn’t stop me.”

“What—” “I don’t even know who you are, how the hell was I supposed to know where you live?”

“I don’t—” “I don’t know?!”

THEY’RE JUST VERY CHAOTIC OKAY!! KATE MAKES HER WANNA PULL HER HAIR OUT AFAHSGSHSH

anyway after that she still follows kate because she doesn’t want the girl to get herself killed, especially since she figured she’s new at this stuff

and she was right; they saw armand’s body and kate kinda freaked out at her in the middle of the road, then they had to fight off the mafia again

audrey had her head bashed into the window of the car where kate got in so that was fun <3

she was still busy fighting the rest of the other guys so clint used that to his advantage and dragged kate’s ass

audrey managed to put them all down and followed suit, drawing her bow at him when she sees his fist aimed at kate

“Get off of her or I swear to god I’ll put an arrow through your skull!”

clint recognizes her voice almost immediately (which is unlike before because there weren’t really words then and were all emotions, and audrey was too far away for clint to hear her voice properly), turns around with a contorted face and says, “Audrey?” (x)

she immediately panicked, but she set that aside given the current situation they’re in;

“Don’t hurt her, dad. She’s got nothing to do with all this, she’s...she’s just a kid.”

“Yeah, well, last I checked, so were you.”

aaand then i’ll leave the rest to the fic, which hopefully will be posted soon!! i love them so very much and i’m so excited to write the thousands of things that i’ve got planned <3