Oh jeeze the MASSIVE amount of headcannon I have for these two is just frightening...
Contrary to popular gossip around SHEILD, Coulson was NOT the agent who dragged Clint into the fold. He's just the agent who actually respected Barton first, and in turn won Clint's begruding respect. He's also the agent who had Clint's back when he turned with with a deceptively delicate redhead who'd tried to kill him two months back and who the higher ups were fairly sure Barton had actually been told to kill.
It's just trust at first, but that is in such short supply for any kind of agent. And when it shifts from trust to lust, both are fairly oblivious.
It takes Tasha locking them both in a closet before either of them catch a clue. Not that they stay in the closet long, of course. They are highly trained agents after all lol.
Finally getting around to these... oops?
Contrary to popular gossip around SHEILD, Coulson was NOT the agent who dragged Clint into the fold. He's just the agent who actually respected Barton first, and in turn won Clint's begruding respect. He's also the agent who had Clint's back when he turned with with a deceptively delicate redhead who'd tried to kill him two months back and who the higher ups were fairly sure Barton had actually been told to kill.
It's just trust at first, but that is in such short supply for any kind of agent. And when it shifts from trust to lust, both are fairly oblivious.
It takes Tasha locking them both in a closet before either of them catch a clue. Not that they stay in the closet long, of course. They are highly trained agents after all lol.