"Shared life experience," She agreed thinking of the way Steve had put it to her once before - he'd been stubborn then, refusing to see it in those who were already around him. "It's an important thing to find in others, and it's something people like us can never have enough of." She nodded. None of them shared exactly the same story, but like Gwen said they'd experienced a lot of the same things, even if it had happened in different ways. They could relate to one another in a way that they'd never be able to do with a stranger off the street. "Sometimes it doesn't matter the way you bond with someone, only that you have - and doing what we do, you can never have too many of those sorts of bonds." Natasha knew she was better for having forged those bonds herself, she was confident the same would be true for Gwen.
"So Captain America is a woman where you're from?" Natasha asked, curious now about that little bit of information Gwen had slipped in, how many other things were different, Gwen herself was a difference. These different worlds were more varied than she'd expected. Seeing a younger Tony had been one thing but Gwen's world seemed to have even more differences than that.
Nodding, "It was - strange." She admitted, "I'd been working on my own for a while at that point, picking up jobs I thought were interesting enough, carving out my reputation. And then came Clint." And he'd been, unlike anyone she'd known at that point in her life. He was skilled of course, but he was lacking the hardness she'd come to expect in those she'd run into. "I didn't trust anyone in the beginning, learning how to do that, how to allow someone to have my back, that not everything had to come down to me? Those were not things I was used to doing in the beginning. The team was - it was easier. I'd been working with Clint and Fury for several years at that point, I saw the larger picture. It made it easier to see what we were trying to build. It took a little longer for it to stop feeling like a job and start feeling like a family."