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Natasha was pacing the room of the safehouse, she couldn't sleep, the nightmares wouldn't let her. She decided to go to the kitchen and get a drink, yeah, that's what she was going to do.

She carefully opened the door and as silently as possible got out of the room, she didn't want to wake up the supersoldier who, having insisted that she should take the bed, was sleeping on the couch in the living room. She paused for a minute and took a look at Steve, he looked relaxed and almost angelic.

She wondered if he also had nightmares and as if to answer her question Steve started to whimper, his once peaceful face was now filled with pain and suffering. Natasha sat down at the one of the ends of the sofa, she passed her hand through his hair in a soft loving gesture.

Somewhere deep inside her mind a memory of a loving voice singing a lullaby came to her, she opened her mouth and with a soft voice sang to the supersoldier while stroking his golden blonde hair.

Natasha finished singing and realized that Steve was once again sleeping peacefully, she kissed his forehead and watched a small smile form on his face. She stayed with him the rest of the night, the drink long ago forgotten, and stroked his hair every time he seemed perturbed.

When Steve woke up the next morning he felt better than he had been feeling since he woke up after his 70-year nap. He found Natasha drinking coffee and eating doughnuts in the kitchen.

"morning Captain, slept well?"

"Yes ma'am, you?"

"Just fine...want a doughnut?"

They waited for the quinjet to take the back to Stark Tower where the Avengers were currently staying at, they talked about the missions they've had and watched some of the movies Steve hadn't seen yet. Steve did not told her about his nightmares, nor the dream he had about a voice from other world singing him to sleep and getting rid of his pain and nightmares, of course little did he know that Natasha knew about his nightmares and that the voice belonged to her.

She never told him about it, she knew that he didn't want them to know that he had trouble sleeping, she just kept quiet and acted like she didn't have any feelings, or emotions, she would pretend that she didn't care about them, they believed it, she fooled them into thinking that she and the Black Widow were the same, but she couldn't fool herself, she cared about them more than she was willing to admit and it terrified her, after all, feelings were a weakness, they got you killed.

Love is for children.