Little Hawk
Pairing(s): Kate Bishop x Fem!Reader
Summary: When a wounded Kate shows up at your bedroom window, you patch her up.
Word Count: 1,439
Warnings: Mentions of blood & injury
Author’s Note: This is inspired by the scene from The Amazing Spider-Man!
You sat propped up against your headboard with your new favorite book in hand. Your eyes scanned along the pages when you heard multiple knocks against your bedroom window.
Your attention immediately shifted to the curtains covering the window, eyebrows furrowing at the thought of someone knocking on your window this late at night, let alone your bedroom window which is on the second story of your house.
You closed your book and set it on the nightstand, swinging your legs over your bed to stand up and walk towards the window. Pulling back the curtains, your heart nearly jumped out of your chest when you saw Kate crouched down on the roof of the first floor.
She wore a small smile on her face as she gazed at you through the glass. You quickly unlocked the window and opened it to let her inside.
"Katie, it's almost ten o'clock. What're you doing here?" you asked.
She set her bow and arrows down and leaned against the wall, "What? Am I not allowed to come see my princess?" Kate joked, clutching her side with a wince when she chucked.
"That's not what I meant. It's just late, I thought that you were out on a mission with Clint." you said as you closed the window and shut the curtains.
"Yeah, I was. Until he sent me home." she mumbled the last part.
You giggled, "What did you do this time that made him go all dad mode on you?"
When you turned around your eyes momentarily widened. Now that Kate was in light of your dimly lit room instead of the darkness outside, you could see the cuts and bruises along her face.
Your eyes dropped to her hand that was holding her side where you could see a blood stain before looking back up at her, "Jesus, Kate. What happened?" you questioned with a worried tone, rushing over to her.
You moved her hand away from her side so you could see the rip in her purple suit, and the wound that laid there.
"I'm fine, it's just a scratch. You should see the other guy." Kate weakly responded in a miserably failed attempt at reassuring you.
"Just a scratch?" you repeated in disbelief, "Scratches don't look this bad and leave you out of breath, Katie."
Your hands moved up to cup her cheeks, eyes scanning the cuts and bruises that littered her face. Her hands gripped at your waist as support to keep herself standing, "It's okay, I'm okay, I just need to sit down." she said.
You helped her over to your bed and she flopped down onto it, "You stay here. I don't think my parents would approve of you showing up here this late, especially in this condition. I'm going to go get some stuff to clean you up." you told her before making your way to your door.
"Don't be gone too long or else I'll miss you!" she called out and you sent her a grin just as you walked out of the room.
When you returned your hands were full with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, a couple of towels, and a first aid kit. You set the stuff down on the bed before sitting on the edge of it next to Kate.
"You might wanna..." your gaze flickered from her eyes to her suit as you went through the contents of the first aid kit.
"Ah I see what you're doing." Kate smirked, looking you up and down before peeling off her suit just enough for you to see the wound on her side, leaving her top half in just a sports bra.
You playfully rolled your eyes, "Get your mind out of the gutter and sit up." you said, making both of you lightly laugh.
Kate sat up against the headboard while you poured some hydrogen peroxide onto one of the towels.
You adjusted yourself so you could examine her wound before looking up at her, "Do you want something to bite down on? This is gonna hurt." you asked with concerned eyes.
She shook her head, "I'll be fine. I can deal with it." Kate responded.
You could tell she was just trying to impress you by the tone of her voice and the way she was visibly flexing her muscles, making her biceps and toned stomach more prominent.
"Okay, then shhh because I don't need my parents coming in here. My dad already thinks you need psychiatric help." you said and she slightly frowned.
You giggled as she started defending herself, but you interrupted her before she could go any further, "On one, okay?" you spoke, referring to the hydrogen peroxide damp towel in your hand.
Kate nodded her head, "M'kay." she said with a deep breath.
"Three...two..." you skipped one and pressed the towel against her wound. She winced and squeezed her eyes shut while biting her lip at the painful sting, "Fuck." she quietly cursed.
"Sorry," you meekly apologized.
"You skipped one." Kate spoke in a strained tone.
You slowly wiped the towel against her wound, "I had too. It was gonna hurt more if you were expecting it, and you don't want this thing to get infected. " you explained.
"Yeah, yeah." she said, somewhat relaxing as she got used to the stinging sensation.
Kate admired your concentrated face while you focused on cleaning her wound. The warm light from the dimly lit lamp on the nightstand highlighted your face, a few strands of hair came loose from your claw clip and fell in front of it, framing it.
She started to smile at the sight until she read your expression more, noticing that something had captured your thoughts, "What's wrong?" she asked.
You hummed, looking up at her with furrowed eyebrows to try and play it off.
"Don't do that, baby, I can practically read you like a book. What's going on in that pretty little mind if yours?" she spoke gently.
You thought for a few more moments, keeping yourself occupied with continuing your motions while you contemplated telling her what's been haunting you. But when you sniffled and just shook your head, Kate became more concerned.
"Hey, hey," she spoke, moving closer to you to cup your cheeks so she could look at you, "What's got you so upset, princess? Why are you crying?" she said gently, her eyes gazing into your own.
Your irises glazed over as you whispered, "Everyday for as long as I can remember my father has left every morning and he's put a badge on his chest, and strapped a gun to his hip..."
You stopped for a few long seconds to look between both of her eyes, "...and everyday for as long as I can remember I haven't known if he was gonna make it home." your voice wavered as you spoke the last word.
Kate brushed her thumbs along your cheekbones and tucked a few strands of hair behind your ears, "I've got you." she softly repeated that phrase to you multiple times, "I've got you."
You dropped your forehead onto her shoulder as she cupped the back of your head with her hand.
"Whenever you leave for a mission the whole time I'm worried about how badly injured you'll be when you finally come back to me... if you come back to me." you murmured.
She quickly lifted your head to gaze into your sad eyes, "Hey, don't think like that, baby"
"I'm sorry, I can't help it."
Kate dropped her forehead onto yours, "I'll always come back to you. I don't care how tired I am, or how late it is, or what your dad may think about me being here, I will always come back to you. I give you my word on that."
"You promise?"
She nodded her head, "And I'll never break it. The day that I do I'll have Clint bring me to you and you can unleash all the anger you may have—"
Kate cut herself off as she started to laugh when you giggled at her words.
"You might not wanna do that. I won't just be mad, I'll be pissed." you said as you laughed with her.
As you calmed down Kate slowly leaned in and put her lips on yours, kissing you ever-so passionately. There was no rush to it, she just wanted you to feel how much she loved you.
"Easy, little hawk." you whispered against her lips.
Kate chucked, "What did you just call me?" she said before putting her lips back on yours and pulling you onto her lap.
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