"See you in a minute"
She smirked at him and he pulled her back to him and covered her mouth with his. She kissed back with a strength he didn't know she had.
She then leaned up and smiled at the tiny blue eyed human in her husband's arms.
"увидимся через минуту моя детка" she kissed her son's blonde head and walked to stand next to Tony and Clint.
"Nat… please come back to us." He knew something felt weird about the way she was acting but he didn't know what.
"I will. I promise." She had to lie to him, if he knew what she knew he'd take her place. It had to be her. No one else deserved the kind of end she knew one of them would meet. So she lied smoothly through her teeth to her husband and child.
"Everyone ready? Lets go."
They all switched their watches to sync with the correct timelines and they were off.
VORMIR 2014
The three of them landed on Vormir after having dropped off Nebula and Rhodey and immediately set towards the lone mountain in the middle of the wasteland of a planet.
She was ready for what was to come. She'd already made her peace, she just had one thing she needed to ensure.
"The stone demands a sacrifice."
"Wait. You've got to be kidding me right? Are You guys hearing this? A sacrifice?" Tony was admandant that Red Skull was playing some sort of prank on them.
"That can't be right. We would have heard about it when Nebula had told us about how to get it." Clint was next with a rebuttal about how this must be a sham.
"She did say Thanos returned without her sister when he got the stone. It's not a prank or sham or anything. One of us has to sacrifice ourselves." She already knew which one it would be. She was inching closer to the edge as she was talking hoping they were none the wiser.
"No! No! No. There HAS got to be another way Nat. No one is sacrificing themselves for this damn stone. We don't trade lives. We will figure out another way to get the stone." Tong was realizing she was doing something. Distracting them…
"Nat… no. No."
"It has to be me. Don't you see? I-I am the only one that can do it because I have nothing to lose. Steve and James will be fine. They'll have you guys. All of you guys. When you get everyone back it'll be worth it. You'll see."
"No Nat. You have a family to get back to. A newborn son who hasn't even gotten to know his mother. A husband who is no doubt already back and waiting for you with him. You can't do this to them. I will do it. Not you. It can not be you. I promised I'd bring you back. YOU stood there and promised Steve and your baby that you would come back! How could you do that?" Clint was yelling now and he wasn't even close to stopping.
"Wait- Nat, you knew about the sacrifice didn't you? You were saying goodbye. You knew and that's why you volunteered." Tony had figured it out.
It was too late though, she thought as she jumped over the last pile of rocks separating her and the bottom of the cliff.
She was expecting to go right over but two hands surged forward and grabbed her before she could go completely over. She cursed inwardly and stared up at her two teammates.
"We don't trade lives Nat! We don't!"
"Please… You have to let me go. They'll understand. It had to be done. It had to be me that did it. No one else. No one else. Its okay."
"We can't let you do this." They tried pulling her up but she planted all her weight and wouldn't allow them to do it. She wasn't coming back up no matter what they tried.
"Just, tell Steve I'm sorry. Please. Tell both of them. I had to do it. To save everyone and bring them all back. It had to be done." She looked at them with tears she wouldn't let fall shining in her eyes. They knew she wasn't changing her mind.
When they did let go she forced them to. She had activated her widow bites earlier just in case and stunned them both. They let go in their shock and she dropped. And dropped. And dropped. And then she felt nothing.
2023
Tony and Clint came back. They were noticeably upset and they wouldn't look at anyone. However, everyone realized that one member had not come back. Everyone except Steve, who had yet to come back into the room after having gone to change James.
He came walking back with the baby in his arms.
"Did you hear that? That means your mommy is back. Let's go meet her yeah?" He talked to his son while he walked them to the machine. That was when he realized his wife was nowhere to be seen.
"Where's Nat?"
"She didn't make it."
"What do you mean she didn't make it? There shouldn't have been a reason for anything to go wrong." Steve was confused and he kept looking around hoping that she'd just pop back into the room. Maybe she was just late?
"In order to get soul stone a sacrifice was required." Clint said as he angrily scuffed his shoe.
"There was nothing about in what we heard from Nebula." Bruce didn't understand still.
"Nat knew somehow. She didn't tell us because she knew we'd keep her from going. She did it save everyone Steve."
"She knew… When she left, she knew? She just sacrificed herself." Steve kept muttering the same thing over and over again.
"Steve?"
"She's gone…" he turned and walked out after handing James to Tony.
Notes: I promise Nat will not stay dead. Because my heart broken in two when I watched Endgame and this is my fix-it. I wanted to keep her death but do it differently and maybe do her justice. Unlike in the movie. Next up: the reverse snap the battle. I am also on Archive of Our Own as Sheistheblackwidow.
увидимся через минуту моя детка"= see you in a minute my babe.*