One offer can be a brushed off joke. Twice, with a personal visit? Means Stark's serious. Clint squints.
"I don't know how happy you'd be on his payroll--wait. His liaison to SHIELD for the Avengers. Doesn't that basically make you his PA, Pepper aside? Or is he making the whole assumption that the Avengers are not SHIELD? Because, I'd hate to break it to him, but it's Fury's idea, Fury's team, and whether they're officially working for SHIELD or not, it's kind of still a SHIELD operation."
He spreads his hands. "I get that the Avengers are overall bigger than that, but there's a lot of technicalities I don't feel legally qualified to speculate on further." And besides, those specifics don't matter so much as this: "Are you thinking about taking it?"
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"I don't know how happy you'd be on his payroll--wait. His liaison to SHIELD for the Avengers. Doesn't that basically make you his PA, Pepper aside? Or is he making the whole assumption that the Avengers are not SHIELD? Because, I'd hate to break it to him, but it's Fury's idea, Fury's team, and whether they're officially working for SHIELD or not, it's kind of still a SHIELD operation."
He spreads his hands. "I get that the Avengers are overall bigger than that, but there's a lot of technicalities I don't feel legally qualified to speculate on further." And besides, those specifics don't matter so much as this: "Are you thinking about taking it?"