Guess who's back! Yep, I am but with more shenanigans for Clint and Natasha from my Fix You universe. Due to popular demand, I have decided to do a collection of one-shot sequels for them as they endure married life, college life, and "the real world" in general. I did post an author's note in Fix You to let a lot of you know that this exists haha. The one-shots will be extremely sporadic since I have other stories in the works and my fall semester is starting in less than two weeks so please bear with me. But for now, I hope you guys enjoy this first one-shot that takes place the morning after Clint and Natasha's wedding. Enjoy!
Sunlight streamed through the bedroom window of Clint and Natasha's townhouse in The Village. Various pieces of clothing were scattered across the floor. There was a stiletto here and a tuxedo jacket there. Natasha's wedding dress laid in an off-white heap in the corner of the room. Clint's dress shirt that he wore underneath his tuxedo had been carelessly shoved underneath the bed.
Natasha was curled up next to Clint in their king-sized bed, her ring hand resting on his bare chest. She didn't want to wake him, so she just laid there watching the rise and fall of his chest. Every so often, she carefully craned her neck so that she could look up at his face, calm and peaceful in sleep. She smiled to herself, wondering how she got so lucky.
She wasn't sure how long she stayed like that – curled up quietly against Clint with her left hand resting on his chest – but it was a while until Clint actually stirred and woke up. He brought his left hand up to his face to rub his eyes, but flinched when his wedding band irritated his eye. Natasha giggled at Clint and he immediately turned his head to face her. He smiled at her then pulled her closer to him, as if she wasn't already close enough to him.
"Good morning, Mrs. Barton," Clint said with a smile spreading across his face.
Natasha bit her lip to stop the smile she felt spreading across her face, but failed. "Good morning Mr. Barton."
Clint grabbed her ring hand and brought it up to his lips to kiss every one of her fingers, his lips lingering on her ring finger which was home to the two Tiffany diamond rings. He brought his other arm up to wrap around her as he pulled her towards him. She put her hand back on his chest and nestled her head up towards his neck.
"So this is married life," Clint said.
"This is married life," Natasha agreed.
"What the hell are we going to do for our first full day as a married couple?" Clint mused.
"Maybe we should sort through all of those gifts downstairs," Natasha suggested.
Following the wedding last night, they had to ask Natasha's grandparents to borrow several town cars so they could transport all of the gifts they received, as well as themselves, back to their townhouse in The Village. They filled five town cars to capacity and then used a sixth one to take them back to The Village.
The majority of the gifts were from Natasha's grandparents, her parents, and Clint's parents, but there were a select few from their friends. Thor and Jane had thrown their money together to get them a gift. Clint's brother, Barney, had been nice enough to get his brother and new sister-in-law a gift. Out of all of their friends, Peggy had gotten them the most stuff – three items to be exact – and she scolded Steve for being greedy and cheap for getting them just one thing.
"I guess so," he sighed. "We've got to send those thank you notes some time."
Natasha freed herself from Clint's arms to get herself into a sitting position, keeping the bed sheets covering her bare chest. Clint pushed himself up and kissed Natasha's bare shoulder before resting his chin on it.
"I love you Mrs. Barton," he muttered.
"That's never going to get old for you, is it?" she asked.
"Nope," he said. He lifted his chin from her shoulder and gingerly placed a kiss on her cheek, placing several more there until she turned her head to face him and his lips collided with hers. The kiss became more heated as Natasha fell back against the pillows. Still staying underneath the covers, Clint straddled her, never breaking the kiss for a second.
"How about we go another round before we head downstairs to do boring married stuff?" Clint said in a seductive tone.
"Clint it is…" she trailed off as she grabbed her phone from the bedside table. She pressed a button to light up the screen to check the time. "It's half past noon."
"So? That means we can't have sex? It was nearly one in the afternoon when we did it when you came and visited me at Penn State over Labor Day weekend last year," he countered.
"You're like a four year old with the libido of a sixteen year old," Natasha said, shaking her head.
"Is that a yes?"
Natasha rolled her eyes. "If we must," she said with a giggle before Clint crushed his lips to hers.
Natasha and Clint didn't get out of bed until three o'clock that day. When they finally made their way downstairs, they groaned like three year olds at the sight of the wedding gifts they had to sort through. They knew it wasn't going to get done itself, so they each grabbed a gift and started a list to keep track of who got them what.
Neither one of them had bothered to get dressed, despite it being three o'clock in the afternoon. When they had gotten out of bed, Natasha had reached under the bed to grab Clint's dress shirt. She was the only one who was aware it was under there because she was the one who had kicked it there in the heat of the moment the night before. As she pulled on his dress shirt, Clint crossed the room to the dresser to pull out a pair of boxers and a t-shirt. When they were finally partially dressed, they had made their way downstairs.
"Another gift from your grandparents," Clint said as he examined the box that was resting in his lap. "And I have no idea what it is."
Natasha looked up from the list to see what it was. "Oh, it's one of those Keurig coffee maker things."
"Oh. Cool," Clint said as he set the box down on the floor and grabbed another gift.
It went like that for almost two hours. Every time they opened a gift, they would announce it and write it down on the list to make sure the person that gave it to them received a thank you note. They didn't really say much to each other but Clint couldn't help but let his eyes stray over to the girl he now called his wife. The little girl he saved from playground bullies in elementary school. The girl he called his best friend for most of his life. The girl he would continue to call his best friend for the rest of his life.
"So Nat, where are we going for our honeymoon?" Clint asked as he rubbed his hand against a set of fuzzy towels.
"You tell me. You're the hopeless romantic," she said as she wrote down the set of towels on the list of gifts.
"Well, where do you want to go?" he asked.
Natasha looked up from the pad of paper and rolled her eyes at him. "We can't afford to go where I want to go. We work part-time jobs on campus."
"Where do you want to go Nat?" he asked firmly.
"But it's so cliché too," she whined.
"You want to go to Paris don't you?" Natasha nodded with a small smile on her face. Clint got up from the couch and knelt in front of Natasha, who was sitting on the floor with her legs tucked underneath her. He cradled her face in both of his hands and looked straight into those beautiful green eyes of hers that he loved so much. "I will take you to Paris. I promise. It will take me time but I will get you there. I will get us there."
"I knew I married you for a reason," she said with a smirk. Clint smiled and then pressed his lips against hers. The first day of the rest of their lives together had turned out to be not so bad. In fact, it had turned out perfect.
How's that for the first one-shot sequel? I've got a couple more ideas, including the next one which is Natasha getting sick. Again. And Clint takes care of her but it's so much more romantic because they're married now haha. For those of you that wanted to see Harry Osborn and Peter Parker again, I may include them in these one-shot sequels. More Avengers may show up as well.
I hope you guys enjoyed this first one-shot sequel so please review and tell me what you think! Also, if there is something you would like to see Clint and Natasha do for a one-shot sequel, let me know and I'll see what I can do! I don't have very many ideas for them since I used all of them up for Fix You so ideas would be great!
