Natasha listened carefully and attentively to the words Tony was telling her.
Thaddeus Ross knew she had helped Steve and Bucky escape during the airport battle and he would go after her and arrest her.
She knew she had to run away and hide for a time. She couldn't let herself be captured. Natasha barely said goodbye to Tony and left the New Avengers Facility as fast as she could. No looking back.
Cautiously, she sneaked into the garage where the Avengers kept their personal vehicles and entered her Corvette Stingray. Instantly, she hit the pedal and abandoned the building, heading to her small apartment in New York City.
While in NYC, Natasha spent most of the time at the Avengers Tower, on the floor designed to her by Tony. That place was the closest she had of a home. Yet she still needed a place away from all that Avengers life.
That's why she maintained her flat, in which she had her private belongings and where she could rest from the world, whenever her Black Widow life was just too much.
Natasha opened the door, got into the apartment and sighed. It had been a long week. Went to her room and started packing some clothes and other things she knew would be of a great value during her temporary period on the run.
While packing, she tried not to think too much about what happened before. The adrenaline of the battle was still running through her veins. Nonetheless, some thoughts crossed her mind. Impossible not to, giving what she had gone through.
She relieved the Sokovian Accords, how they managed to break the Avengers team in two. Before those damn Accords there was nothing that could come between them. They had their problems and differences, of course, but have always found a way to solve them, to work through them. Not this time though.
At first, Natasha was on Tony's side. She knew the team needed these Accords. They had to be signed and put in practice. The world needed regulation so it could function well and the Avengers were not an exception.
Other images crossed her mind. Peggy's funeral, her conversation with Steve… Natasha shook her head, trying to wipe that thought away.
She was convincing herself it was not because of Steve she was in the present situation. She had let him escape. But because she knew arresting Captain America and the Winter Soldier was not the right way to solve the problem.
"I told you I'd help you find him, not arrest him." She remembered the words she told Tony before leaving the Avengers Facility.
Finished the packing and headed to the door. Before closing it, Natasha looked one last time to the inside of her second home, wondering when she could return to it again. She decided this was no time for nostalgia, but to run and find a cover. Nat left the building and entering the Corvette, drove as fast as she could, leaving New York City behind.