One More Day {Claura}

@Puppy200207: "Clint/Laura a day on Clint and Laura's farm"

The Bartons sat around the table, slowly eating breakfast, drowsy-eyed. Laura yawned. "Lila, darling, eat your breakfast."

The little girl frowned and shook her head. "No until Daddy says he won't go again!"

Clint sighed. "I have to go, sweetheart. I'll make it up to you when I get back, I promise."

  "But Daddy..."

  "Not another word, Lila," her mother said sharply. "He has to go and he'll be back..." She glanced at Clint. She knew she had no idea when he'd be back. Or even if he'd be back at all. It was the same for all his missions. "He'll be back soon, won't you?"

  "'Course I will," Clint lied. "Don't you worry."

  The kids finished their breakfast and Clint hurried them off to school. When he got back, he found Laura still staring at the ground, as if the carpet had suddenly become very interesting. He knew what she was thinking about; he always did.

  "It's practically nothing," he promised. "Not even a real mission. I'm just guarding something called... the Tesseract? Not a clue what that's meant to be."

  "If it needs guarding, then someone will be trying to get to it," Laura replied quietly. "And it's not like SHIELD to have you doing something safe or easy."

  "But it is like SHIELD to worry about guarding something that doesn't even need guarding. You know them. They take every precaution." When he saw this hadn't really had much of an effect on her, he sighed. "Come on. Let's go and see how the place is going."

  She nodded and got up, following him out to the farms. "They've done a really great job this year, it's nearly harvest and the crop looks great..." Her voice trailed off into meaninglessness as Clint just enjoyed the views of his home and the sound of her voice and the way her expression lightened as she talked.

  They stopped for lunch back at the house, simple sandwiches really, and then sat down on the sofa to watch a movie in the afternoon, because, why not? Clint sighed as she picked out one of the rom-coms she bought but never watched because the kids were always there, but made no objections.

  Laura leaned against him as the film played and Clint wished more than anything he could be in one of the films. For all of their difficulties in "getting the girl", they always got her, and had there happy ever afters, and no more problems ever again, and they could be a lot surer from one day to the next that they were going to see her again. A whole lot surer.

  As the credits rolled, they just sat there in perfect silence, until the kids opened the door and Clint sighed. Was it too much to ask that he just wanted one more day?

I'm not sure if this is what you wanted at all but I hope you liked it anyway.

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