I'll fall for anything that feels like home

[losemyselfinriddles]

She's back with them, back after her ordeal with the Boojum. She's still not sure how she survived, how she's still existing but she is.

But her mind is playing tricks on her, toying with her reality and making the already blurred lines fall away entirely. She's not sure where she is, not sure who she is. She doesn't have a ame and it doesn't matter, she doesn't have a life and it doesn't matter.

What matters, what she really wants to do is jump off a building and fly.

And in Wonderland? She could do that.

But she's not in Wonderland anymore and the top of Avengers Tower is not exactly a short drop.

“One two three,” she sing-songs, walking on the ledge, her arms out. “Come fall with me.” She's not saying it to anyone in particular, just to herself, or maybe to the birds. Who knows at this point.

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[ibelieveinarrows]

He doesn't really leave her alone, not since the morning they woke up and she was gone. He kept an eye on her before then, almost constantly, but it's only gotten worse since she got back. He doesn't sleep anymore unless he has to, he's move them into the same room, and when his eyes aren't locked on her, they're out the window, on the security cameras, searching for threats, waiting for the bastard to come back somehow, waiting for someone else to come for her. Just waiting, because it seems like things are only getting worse and worse, never better.

He gets sidelined for just a couple of minutes in the hall, talking to Steve, but it's long enough for her to get away. Long enough that when he catches up with her, she's on the edge of the Tower, and his heart practically stops, watching her. He knows she won't fall if she doesn't want to, but he doesn't know if she'll bother to keep herself from falling, or if she'll jump.

"Tasha," he starts gently, approaching slowly, not wanting to startle her into action by running at her. "Come down from there?"

[losemyselfinriddles]

"Come fly with me," she says with a wide smile. "C'mon, Clint!" She holds out a hand to him, her expression open and excited.

"I want to be in the air."

[ibelieveinarrows]

He takes her hand as soon as he's close enough, and then he stops, trying to pull her back towards him without making her lose her balance.

"You can't fly from here," he says, his tone still gentle, trying very hard not to let the panic show. "You need to get off the ledge."

[losemyselfinriddles]

"Yes I can," she says with complete assurance in her voice. "I know I can. I can fly. Trust e," She smiles at him, so confident in what shes saying.

"I'll take us into the clouds."