Clint is hurt during a mission supporting Natasha, and it stirs something inside her. She wants something to be stirred inside her.

Clint can't let go.

Something changes between them after they find each other.

"Damn, girl. You are one badass chick," he murmured, so low that she had to strain to hear him. But she heard it. And a slow smile started to spread across her face because she supposed she was. Carol's always had a special place in her life for the men that were woven into it.

Carol counts her losses and tries to move on.

She thought she'd never see him again, and in her head she'd accepted that. Her heart was another story... Unofficial Sequel to Touch.

Submission to USS Caryl's Word Prompt Challenge.

Hermione finds that the most extraordinary sights can't be produced by magic.