Here's chapter 2 i hope you like it! I hope to make it better in the next chapters, im just trying to introduce them.
I do not own the avengers im not ready for that responsibility.
A lot of students feared Natasha Romanoff. Natasha walked through the school hallways with confidence and didn't put up with anyone's shit. She knew what she wanted and knew how to get it and to some people that was pretty intimidating.
Natasha wasn't anything like the other students though. She had experienced so many things that most people in that hell hole of a school couldn't ever imagine. Natasha was secretly a trained agent working for an organisation called s.h.i.e.l.d, along with her best friend Clint and just recently Steve Rogers (though Steve was still in training). Along with going to school to learn, their leader, Coulson, was giving them mini assignments within the place. Coulson was like a father to Natasha and Clint, he took them into his home when they had nowhere to go and gave them the care and support they needed.
Steve joined s.h.i.e.l.d after being awoken from 70 years of sleep. He remained a 17 year old, but with the mindset of a 17 year old from the 1940s. After waking up Steve was taken in by his friend Sam Wilson's family and has been slowly becoming more comfortable in this place and time. He was asked by Coulson if he still wanted to keep the role of Captain America and work for s.h.i.e.l.d and Steve said yes.
At this present time Natasha was on her way to her weekly detention, she had beaten up a couple of bullies who were trying to steal another kid's money, when she ran into another body. The kid's science books littered the floor at their feet and she heard a sigh of frustration. Rolling her eyes she bent down and helped him pick up his books, standing up with the books still in her hand she finally took a look at the kids face. It was the famous Tony Stark.
Although she had never spoken to Tony before she had heard a lot of stuff about him, he was arrogant, cocky, self-obsessed, a smart ass rich kid who paraded his money around and bragged about his fame. She had heard all the rumours of all the crap he has done, all the parties, the girls and even some guys, from all the stuff she had heard he seemed to be the type of person she hated the most.
Natasha handed back his book with a blank expression and after fixing his own pile he had picked up he carefully collected her ones and placed them neatly on the large pile he cradled in his hand. "Thanks." Tony said quietly.
Natasha didn't reply and was about to continue her walk to detention when she noticed the bruise on his cheek. Raising one eyebrow at him, she spoke up for the first time, "must have been a crazy night." She said with slight bitterness.
Tony looked up in confusion, was she at the party? When he realised she was looking at the bruise, the way she had commented on it was as though she thought he had gotten it by partying and being stupid. Well at least he didn't have to make up an excuse on the spot, "Ha, yeah." He replied not looking her in the eye.
Natasha took note on how something flashed in his features and how he avoided looking at her in the eye and frowned, he was lying. She stared at him for a bit before giving him one nod and walking away without another word.
Tony felt like she could read him like a book as he was frozen under her stare. His shoulders visibly slumped as soon as she walked away, that was close.
"Where have you been?" Clint asked with his mouth full, it came out more like "Wur huv yo bin?"
Luckily Natasha understood mouth full of food language, "detention." She replied simply as she sat down and stole a chip from Clint's tray. "I ran into that Stark kid." Natasha told her small group of friends seated around the lunch table.
Bruce perked up at the name, Steve frowned in confusion not knowing Howard Stark had a kid, and Sam chuckled.
"Oh yeah and what was that like?" Sam asked in amusement, he knew all about the cockiness that was the kid of Howard Stark.
"He had a bruise on his cheek." Natasha replied casually, taking a gulp of Clint's drink.
Bruce frowned in concern, "was he okay?"
Natasha turned to Bruce in confusion, he was talking as if he and tony were close and he was worried. It was as if he knew something…
"Probs from partying, actually you know what he was probably too drunk to remember." Sam snickered and shook his head.
Natasha looked over at Bruce to check out his reaction, he was frowning at the table.
"I gotta go, I just remembered something." Bruce suddenly said standing up and leaving, Natasha frowned but everyone else didn't think anything of it.
"Wait Howard Stark has a son?" Steve asked softly.
"Yeah and he's a dick head so don't seek him out, Stevie" Clint said as he pointed at Steve with a chip.
"You're lucky you haven't run into him yet." Sam assured him with a smile.
"I'm going to go to the bathroom, and then I'm going to class." Natasha told them abruptly as she stood.
Clint waved her goodbye with a chip and Steve and Sam both said goodbye in unison as she walked away.
She was really on the search for Bruce.
Stepping out into the hallway she saw him almost instantly, he was standing next to Tony Stark who was placing his books one by one into his locker slowly as he listened to Bruce. Natasha slowly walked closer but made sure they didn't notice her as she tried to eavesdrop.
"You know you could always just text me and meet me somewhere if you need an escape." Bruce said softly.
Tony froze but then slowly continued placing the book inside, shaking his head. "Its fine brucie, everything is fine."
"Obviously everything is not fine!" Bruce exclaimed sounding frustrated, "Someone keeps hurting you! You come with new bruises nearly every day and to be honest I feel like it's getting worse."
"I'm just clumsy, I fall a lot! Especially when I'm drunk and honestly when am I not drunk?" Tony visibly tried to lighten the mood with a soft laugh, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.
Bruce simply gave Tony a look; he knew it was all a lie. "Tony, you know that I know it's all just a bunch of rumours."
Tony gave up on smiling and he simply looked down at the hand fiddling with the end of his jacket, "Please just leave it alone."
That's when Natasha chose to stop spying and make an entrance, "Hey Bruce, I'm thinking of inviting everyone to mine and Clint's this arvo, wanna come?" She questioned casually, then turned to Tony, "Tony can come too if he wants"
Tony seeming suddenly shy crossed his arms over himself protectively; she frowned at the unexpected reaction. Bruce nodded, "Tony and I will come."
Tony went to open his mouth to protest but Natasha spoke up before he could, "Awesome! The more the merrier!"
Bruce was suddenly giving her a suspicious look, wondering why she was suddenly caring about Tony Stark's existence.
"Well I got to go to Mr Coulson's office but I guess I'll see you then.." Tony said awkwardly.
Along with being a s.h.i.e.l.d agent, Coulson also went undercover as the school's Councillor, Natasha had a feeling Tony had no clue that Coulson was pretty much her dad.
As soon as Tony disappeared down the hall, Bruce turned to face Natasha with an interrogating look. "What are you up to? Why are you all about Tony today?" He questioned.
"I saw the bruise and I know it isn't from any party and so now I'm curious." She replied honestly, she was too confident in herself to be ashamed at all and lie. "I never thought he was your type of person to befriend though Bruce." Natasha then said, "Though you keep a lot of things to yourself."
"What do you mean type of person? You know nothing about Tony; you don't know what type of person he is." Bruce glared at her, he was annoyed at her and Bruce barely got annoyed ever.
"You're right, I've never spoken to the kid. But wasn't he the one who said he was basically drunk all the time?" She said back calmly but with a raise of an eyebrow. She knew that that wasn't true but she was searching for some for facts from Bruce.
"You were eavesdropping? And I thought you were good at reading people? That whole thing about how Tony parties all the time is a complete lie." Bruce said frustrated, before walking off to his next class. Natasha chased after him.
"I'm sorry, I've made a mistake. I of all people should know not to judge someone on what others say." She told the other.
"He's not the person everyone says he is." Bruce replied simply before leaving her and entering his next class. Natasha stood frozen for a few minutes deep in thought before walking to her own class.
Halfway through the lesson there was a knock on the door, the teacher froze halfway through his lecture and opened the door to let in the late student. It was none other than Tony Stark. Natasha sat up slightly higher in surprise, how long has he been in her class? Now that she had become curious about the kid he seemed to be everywhere.
"Know that just because you're the famous Tony Stark, doesn't mean I'm going to let you get away with turning up late to class all the time, Mr Stark." The teacher grumbled.
"Sure thing Mr. G" Tony replied easily, sitting right at the back. Mr Gerard rolled his eyes at the nickname and continued on with the lesson.
"I want you all into pairs, in your pairs I want a presentation on an aspect of change using inspiration from a text of your own, do not pick one we already did in class. Along with the presentation I want an essay on change from each student inspired by a text that we did do in class. Now go figure out who your partner will be and spend the rest of the lesson thinking up ideas." And with that the teacher went back to marking previous tests on his desk.
Natasha stood and instantly went to Tony, "You're my partner." She said straight out and sat in the spare seat next to him.
"Do I even get a say?" He asked with a raise of an eyebrow.
"Nope. I say we use the movie 'Up' as our inspiration." Natasha went straight into business.
"Up? I didn't see you as the animation type."
"You don't know me." Natasha fought back, thinking of her previous conversation with Bruce.
"Yeah but everyone seems to know me." Tony said with a hint of sarcasm.
Natasha frowned at him but ignored the statement, "Up represents change by showing the old man moving on from the passing of his wife after years of keeping everything the same in their house and starting a new adventure for himself with his new home and new friends."
"Honestly I think Megamind represents change just as good as 'Up'." Tony replied just trying to be a pain. "It shows the change of personality in and outsiders view on Megamind. He's not as evil as everyone thought."
Sounds familiar… Natasha thought, she suddenly felt herself get even more curious about Tony.
"Why did you go see Mr Coulson?" She changed the subject abruptly.
"Damn you're nosey as fuck!" Tony gave her a look, "Some teacher told him about the bruise, apparently they're "Worried" about me. Not that it was any of your business."
"How did you get the bruise?" She pushed again, not even bothering being subtle.
"Crazy night, remember?" Tony sent her a mock grin.
"You're a terrible liar."
"And you suck at normal conversations." Tony fought back defensively, "Jesus Christ, I've never spoken to you before what's with the personal questions."
"Are you still coming over this arvo?" She asked ignoring his question.
"I can't make it, the dad wants me home." Tony suddenly seemed closed off, as though he didn't want to talk anymore and so she left it.
It was silent between them for a bit before he spoke again, "Thanks for the invite but."
i hope this was okay! Im planning on making it better later on, trust me! and i have so many ideas! ahhh! Tony and Natasha are my favorite characters so prepare for a whole bunch of them hahaha Review tell me what you think and tell me what i need to improve.
Thanksss!
~Sophie-Jo~ xoxox