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November 23rd, 2012

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Friday, November 23rd, 2012 10:14 am
In the Service: Three Times Hawkeye Questions His Orders (And One Time He Doesn’t) by [archiveofourown.org profile] AlphaFlyer
characters: Clint, Natasha, Fury, Hill, Coulson; bit of C/N; genre: SHIELD politics/field missions; 23,181 words
Summary: "You lie and you kill in the service of liars and killers."
Some Government jobs are more … complicated than others.


A story that goes into the moral greyzones of SHIELD work. Excellent writing, great Clint voice, and an attention to detail that made the missions play before my inner eye like a movie.

“They gave this organization the most idiotic and tortured name imaginable, just so they could have a nice-sounding acronym,” he said. “But who, exactly, are we supposed to shield?