Frozen passion
By: MysticFantasy
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Disclaimer: (I own no part of this movie or the characters in it.)
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Chapter 1
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Natasha looked over his shoulder and lightly smiled when she saw Steve had pulled his hood up to better cover his face and was fully bundled as he easily carried the large crate. She could easily understand why he was covering up so much. He'd spent enough time around snow and ice.
He was only here in the icy wastelands with her because Fury said that they would be the best pair for the mission.
Luckily, it was a simple enough mission.
Find a supposed hide-out, find out if it was being used or not and put an end to it. They found the hide-out, no one had been in it recently, alert was put out that it might be used again and then the two began to remove any supplies that were there.
There hadn't been much so it didn't take long to get it all out and loaded into the quinjet.
"I'll start the jet." Natasha announced over the winds.
"Alright." Steve answered. "I'll make sure everything's secure."
Natasha climbed into the jet and out of the cold winds. After shutting the door and making sure it was secure, she removed her gloves and scarf as she sat at the pilot chair and started the engines.
As they warmed up, she took a quick glance to the door that led to the cockpit. Where Steve was.
When Fury had told her that it was just going to be her and Steve on this mission, she had been a little excited. She hadn't been sure when it happened but she had one day discovered that she might have developed a crush on the super soldier.
One day she just noticed how golden his hair was, how his blue eyes always seemed to sparkle, how sweet and warm his smile is, how her heart would suddenly start racing if he was close to her and how wonderful and perfect he is.
It was always at the last part of her thought that Natasha would remind herself that someone like Steve would never go for someone like her.
He's a perfect angel basically sent from heaven while she's a former assassin with a bloody past.
Still, her heart was waiting for the day when she might be able to tell the captain her feelings.
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Steve double checked the strap on the last piece of cargo. He stood and wiped sweat from his forehead right as his cell phone rang.
Quickly checking the ID, he answered.
"This better be important Stark." he said. "Natasha and I are about to head back to base."
"Well, your definition of important and my definition of important are two totally different things." the voice of the famed inventor answered.
"Point?" Steve pressed as he heard the engines start but stayed in the cargo pit.
"Have you asked her yet?"
"That is what you called me for?" Steve exclaimed.
"Yes." came Tony's calm and casual answer. "Listen Captain Clueless, she's into you and you're into her. You need to ask her to be your date to this little party we got invited to and while we're there ask her out."
"Tony, is this really the time for you to be giving me dating advise?"
"When am I not?"
"Ok, you got me there." Steve admitted. "But I can't just ask her like that."
"Of course you can. It's easy. Just flat out ask her. The worst that can happen is that she says no."
"That right there is what I fear most Tony." Steve said looking over to the door and making sure it was closed. "Natasha wouldn't go for someone like me."
"What makes you think that?" Tony asked.
"I just know." Steve replied with a sigh. "Look, I'll call you later. It's time for take off."
"Alright. But when you get back and I find out that your tongue didn't wrestle with hers I'm gonna..."
Steve ended the call before he could hear the rest of Tony's statement. He'd heard enough from his friend and he didn't need to hear more.
With the light sigh, Steve left the cargo area and made his way to the cockpit where he found Natasha patiently waiting.
"Sorry I took so long." he said as he sat in the second seat.
"Don't worry about it." Natasha replied. "I just got off the line with SHIELD and gave them our ETA. It might take us a while longer because the wind is going to pick up a little."
"How bad?" Steve asked as they strapped in.
"Not too bad. Shouldn't give us any problems." Natasha answered as she flipped a few switches. "We should be back in time to hear Stark complain more about that party he's dragging us to."
"Yeah." Steve lightly chuckled. "He's still bugging me and Bruce about not taking dates."
"He's so annoying." Natasha said. "Not everyone wants to have a date. I don't have one."
"Really?" Steve asked. "I thought you and Clint would definately go together."
"Everyone assumes that but not always." Natasha answered. "Clint wants to go stag and see how many phone numbers he can get."
Steve was silent as the quinjet began to take off and climb higher and higher into the sky. The special equipment SHIELD installed on the jet wasn't really doing much for keeping the window clear of snow for more than a few seconds.
When they were the right atmosphere and jet was leveled, more or less, Steve dared to speak again.
"Just out of curiosity, would you like to go to that party with me?"
Natasha looked over at him and Steve could swear that he saw a faint smile.
"Yeah." she answered with a slight crack in her voice that she prayed Steve didn't notice. "Sounds like fun. I bet we'll turn a few heads when we walk in together."
Steve lightly chuckled and hoped she didn't notice he was most likely blushing. Other than Tony not being able to tease him about not having a date for the party, he had finally asked the woman he secretly had affections for to be his date for the party.
It felt like a huge accomplishment and Steve admittedly agreed, with some painful truth, that Tony had been half right. Asking Natasha to be his date had been easy but it was asking her out that was going to be the hard part.
He felt so sure that Natasha wouldn't even see him as more than friend and that was what was really stopping him from asking her out. Along with his shyness and nervousness.
He believed that he was ready to love again but he just wanted to make sure that he wouldn't be hurt as badly as the first time and he didn't want to hurt the woman who'd caught his attention.
Steve was just about to ask Natasha something when the quinjet suddenly jolted to the side and dropped a few feet before Natasha was able to get it back under control.
"What was that?!" Steve exclaimed.
"I don't know." Natasha answered as she hit a switch. "We're loosing power in engine one. We can't stay in the air. Prepare for emergancy landing. Get SHIELD on the line, Steve."
Steve quickly got on the radio system and found the right channel.
"Captain Rogers to SHIELD helicarrier! Captain Rogers to SHIELD helicarrier!"
"Captain Rogers! This is Agent Coulson. What's your situation?!"
"Agent Coulson! Agent Romanoff are loosing power in the jet. We have to do an emergency landing! Send a team to our coordinates!"
"Hang on!" Natasha shouted as another jolt tossed the jet to the side as alarms started blaring.
The world began to shake uncontrollably as they started falling toward the ground.