Prisoners

Steve Rogers unlocks Natasha Romanov's door and opens it for her. "Hey, thanks for your help with everything that's happened with Bucky and Hydra and..."

"Please stop Steve. I get it. We will find James soon enough and sort things from there. Okay?"

Steve replies, "No problem. Hey, tell Clint I said hey. Okay?"

Natasha sighs and nods. "I will Steve. Take care." Natasha closes the door and lays on the bed. She grabs her cell phone and looks at it. No missed calls. "Where the hell are you Clint? Why am I asking questions to no one and not searching?"

Natasha gets up and sits on her laptop. She ignore the Twitter outbreak over S.H.I.E.L.D. and HYDRA secrets being leaked onto the internet, putting her in hot water with the United States Government. She begins hacking into Clint Barton, the Avenger and skilled marksman, Hawkeye's phone.

"Alright Barton, show me where you've been hiding since New York..."

Natasha begins searching and waits. She watches the monitor intently as it scours the Earth, searching for Agent Barton's location. After several minutes pass, a notice pops up on Natasha's screen that the number she is searching has been disconnected.

"Okay. Something is not right. I know how you play Barton. You like me way to much not to let me know you changed numbers."

Natasha shuts the laptop and crawls back onto the bed, sighing after everything that has happened recently with the fall of S.H.I.E.LD, Hydra, Bucky plus worrying about the location of her lost comrade who she hadn't seen since the night after the battle in New York. "I'll find you Clint... I'll find you..."

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The next day Natasha gets up from bed and checks her phone again. The phone still shows no missed calls. Not even a text. She gets out of bed and takes a nice hot shower, trying to just unwind a bit. While getting out of the shower, her phone rings. Natasha drops the towel and runs to her phone, answering it.

"Clint?"

"No. It's me, Agent Hill."

"Oh." Natasha says sighing.

"I was calling to check on you, but I think I should be asking about what's going on with you and Clint."

"I'm fine Maria." Natasha says. "However, I haven't seen Clint since the day after New York. His phone's been disconnected and I have no way of finding him now."

"I see. We haven't heard from him either. I'll inform Fury and see what we can find and do Natasha. Just relax and stay home."

"Like hell Maria. If Barton is in trouble, then I'm going to find him. Just tell Fury if I don't call you everyday while searching for him that something is up and you send in the cavalry. But I'm going to find Clint."

Maria sighs, tapping a finger on her desk at Stark Industries. "Fine. Just be careful and be back soon. The files you released have revealed the location of a secret HYDRA base that needs to be shut down."

"Got it. Later Maria."

Natasha hangs up and starts gathering her things.

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Meanwhile, in an abandoned prison somewhere far away from civilization, a man is chained to the wall. His body is battered and beaten from constant abuse sustained over several years. He's nude, scarred, collared and chasitied. Although his body is beaten and bloodied, his spirit has been broken for some time. He doesn't even look up as his captor unlocks his prison cell door and enters.

"Hello Barton. Where are your Avengers now?" He smiles cockily and slaps Clint hard in the face.

Clint coughs as spit flies from his mouth. He just takes it and doesn't even look up.

The man grabs Clint by the head and forces him to stare at his captor, to stare into the face of the Frost Giant, Loki. "You'll at least look at me when I talk to you you mulling quim! They aren't coming to save you! They don't know where you are and they never will! You hear me Slave. That's what you name is now, isn't it?" 

Look tugs on the collar around Clint's neck, forcing him to see the dog tag labeled "SLAVE" that he wears around his neck. Barton doesn't respond out of humiliation and receives a hard kick in the balls from Loki for his troubles.

"ANSWER ME!!!" He yells, kicking and beating the helpless archer.

"YES!!! YES!!! IM YOUR SLAVE!!! PLEASE STOP!!!" Clint yells out in pain.

"Please stop who?" Loki says pulling out his trusty dagger smiling, pushing it to the skin and turning it, just enough to break the skin.

"Please stop... Master..." Clint says defeatedly, closing his eyes as tears begin to shed.

Loki smiles and throws him to the wall. "You just stay here my boy. Master has to go about getting his and your prized possession back from some German outpost. I'll return shortly." Loki smiles and forcefully kisses Clint, invading his mouth as his one hand strokes his face and the other grabs his balls, locked firmly in place by the chastity. Loki laughs and he walks and seals the room off, trapping Clint inside like he's done everyday for the last several years.

Clint just lays against the wall he's known as a bed for years now, sighs and cries.