How did this happen? They were never supposed to be on opposite sides. How did it end up like this?

Summer gritted her teeth, swallowing hard. “I won’t let SHIELD run my life, Clint,” she said. Low, but she knew he could hear her.

He could always hear her.

“I have to be free to make my own choices.” She knew what his orders were. They were written on the tip of the arrow he held pointed at her heart, in his eyes fixed on her face, in the utter stillness of his face.

“I have to be free.”

She didn’t stay to watch her fire consume him. The sky swallowed her up, wingless and shadowed.