A/N : Yeah i'm back with an update. Thank you again for all the reviews!
6 : ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN
"Hey! Where are you going? It's still too early to go anywhere" The voice startled Natasha as she walked into the kitchen.
She plan to leave the building early so she didn't have to say goodbye but somehow she forgot that her partner was an early bird too. Too early bird.
Steve Rogers was standing in the kitchen, preparing his breakfast. Natasha put her bag down on the floor and sat down in front of the kitchen island.
"Fury has a mission for me. I will be gone for a week."
"If you're not too hurry, eat this first. I can't let you skip this meal" He said and put a plate in front of her.
"No, I can't, Steve. The plane will leave within 2 hours"
"Then take this sandwiches" He offered and handed her a paper bag. Natasha gave him a questionable look. "It's for my day at the park….You take it. I can make more…"
Steve stopped talking when Natasha leaned forward and gave a kiss on his cheek.
"Thank you" She whispered.
Natasha walked away but Steve followed and gave her a hug.
"Safe flight and please take care of yourself" His voice is almost begging
She tightened her embrace and kissed his cheek one more time. "You know I always will"
Because she finally has a place or someone to come back to.
And the annoying voice interrupted their moment when Tony and Clint emerged from the stairs. Both pranksters had a mischievous grin on their face.
"Well well well! We have two lovebirds in our kitchen, Legolas" Tony teased as Steve and Natasha let go of one another.
"Where are you going, Tasha?"
"On a mission, classified location"
"Why Rogers is the only one that you gave a hug?" Tony asked, pretended to be jealous.
Natasha walked into the billionaire wide-open arms and hugged him. Tony kissed her cheek before she went to hug Clint also. She picked up her bag and turned to her friend.
"See you guys in a week"
"Good luck, Red" Tony said. "We will miss you a lot"
That is why Natasha wants to leave before anyone woke up. It's become really hard for her to leave this place and away from her little crazy family.
The only place she want to be as much as they want her.
A week without his partner was very boring for Steve. He spent his time on small missions Fury gave him. Tony and Clint tried to drag Steve to the bar nearby Stark Tower. Steve agreed to go because Bruce begging him.
The scientist didn't want to be the only one to take care Tony, Thor, and Clint.
And this is another attempt of Tony to test Steve's metabolism rate by forced the super soldier to intake lot of alcohol.
"Stark, it not going to work" Steve simply said after finish a bottle of the strongest vodka the bar had.
"Just try, this place has a lot of strong stuff" The billionaire replied and handed Steve another bottle of Tequila.
"I must say we should let's Lord Steven try Asgradian Mead, my friend" Thor boomed and wipe the beer foam from his lips. "Midgardian alcohol can't affect the greatest warrior"
"It's a waste of money, Tony" Bruce added. "Even you lets him drink all the alcohol in this place, he still can't get drunk"
"At leaaaast I have try, my bro" Tony slurred.
But Tony, being Tony, he didn't give up and ended up drunk his ass off. Steve had to carry him back to the Tower while Thor slung Clint up his shoulders. Bruce followed them behind.
Other than that night at the bar, there are no interesting things for Steve to do. He missed his partner and badly wanted to spend his time with her.
He can't wait for Natasha to return.
The only thing that kept Steve's mind from thinking about his partner was the pregnant Pepper. She stayed at the tower because Tony won't allow her to work anymore.
The billionaire wanted to make sure that his wife and his son will be safe from anything. The only way he knew how was to keep her in the tower surrounded by his mighty friends and JARVIS.
Tony knew that his friends would do anything to protect Pepper.
Steve spent his time accompany Pepper while other girl was away. He always cooked a delicious meal for the woman to satisfy her strange craving. Sometime, Steve had to send Thor or Bruce to buy what Pepper's need.
Today was the due date of Natasha's mission and she will arrive at the tower lately tonight.
He heard from Barton that her operation went well but some part in him still worried about his partner. He didn't want to see Natasha get hurt.
Steve went to bed early but told JARVIS to alert him the minute Natasha arrive.
The plane arrived at the Triskelion at 10 pm and Natasha's mind was thinking about her home already. This one-week mission was very exhausted even though it went well. Her body yearned for some rest right now.
As she walked off the plane, she saw the figure that she never want to saw this late at night but Fury, being Fury, want to debrief the mission immediately. Natasha followed her boss inside the building and headed to the meeting room.
By the time she finished debriefing. It was half past midnight.
Fury ordered a helicopter to drop her off at Stark Tower. Bless him for that. She didn't really want to get a cab this late. The helicopter was only fifteen minutes.
She took the elevator down to the living areas, dropped her bag, and sunk herself onto the sofa. She was too tired to walk to her room. She didn't want to move her body anymore.
"Hey beautiful" The soft voice said and the spy cracked her eyes open to see deep blue eyes stared at her.
"Shut up… I look like shit" She murmured tiredly and closed her eyes again.
Steve smiled at the sight of his partner.
"Come on, you need a proper sleep."
"I will if you stop talking"
"I will take you to your room"
She didn't protest as he scooped her up bridal style. Natasha rested her head on his chest and felt safe within his embrace. The warm from his body was overwhelming her. He placed her gently in the bed and pull the blanket to cover her body.
"Goodnight, Nat" He said and bended down to kiss her forehead. "I miss you"
Natasha smiled. "I miss you too. Goodnight, Steve"
"Hey, capsicle!" Tony shouted from his lab. "Get over here!"
"What do you want Tony?" Steve asked annoyingly.
"I have a gift for you, my friend."
Steve walked over to where Tony was standing.
"Little red has complain to me about you not being able to carry you shield when you on undercover mission so…" Tony told and displayed a model of what look like a metal gauntlet. "This is my new invention. It is an energy gauntlet creates a holographic version of your shield"
The billionaire presented the soldier with his gift. Steve took it and put in on his left arm. Tony pressed the button and the holographic Captain America's shield appeared.
"This defensive weapon can be 'thrown' and reconstituted on the gauntlet's array. It can also be made to expand, creating a greater area of defense for the wearer" Tony continued to explain the function of the gauntlet.
Steve looked very fascinated with Tony's invention.
"Thank you, Tony but Fury has forbid me from any undercover mission after I blew the last one up"
"Don't worry, cap. Fury still has a shit load of mission for you. Beside undercover doesn't suit your personality. You can't lie with a straight face, buddy"
"I can lie!" Steve defended but Tony shot him an unbelief look. "If I try"
"Buddy, you are Captain Perfect. Lying isn't one of your traits even how much time you spend with me or little red."
Steve felt that he needed to stop arguing with the billionaire because he cannot win.
"Thank again for this" He said before walked out of the lab.
Steve woke up late than usual because he planned to go jogging in Central Park. He got out of bed and saw a clear blue sky outside his window. He put on a black tank top and his favorite sweat pants with a towel around his neck along with his iPod.
At the living room, Tony was there alone, sipping his coffee and read newspaper.
"Hey Capsicle" Tony greeted. "You are over slept"
"I didn't over slept, Stark. I will go jogging at Central Park this morning so I got up a little bit late"
"Is there something going on at the Park?" Tony muttered. "The girls all headed out to the Park already"
But Steve didn't pay attention at the billionaire as he put on his earphone and playing a song loudly before putting on his running shoes.
Captain America left the building and start jogging heading out to Central Park. Steve caught every girl eyes along the way but he didn't notice anything. He went on with his jogging for one hour before use a bench for his sit up routine.
Unknown to Steve, six women were sitting nearby for a break after their run. Natasha, Jane, Darcy and Bobbi came here for a run but Pepper and Betty just came here for a small walk. They all enjoy gossiping about their men until Pepper's eyes caught with a similar figure of a man.
"Is that Steve?"
All eyes turned to the same direction as Pepper. They saw a blonde man with perfect set of muscle doing sit up not far away from them.
Natasha nodded. "He never does jogging outside"
"May be he want to try something new?"
"Just look at those abs" Darcy absentmindedly said and leaned to a side to take a better looks at the captain. "Wow"
"I know that he is our Steve but he just…" Jane can't find a word to describe. "He just…Wow!"
"I know" Natasha agreed.
"He is the meaning of perfection" Bobbi added.
"Why is that other Avengers can't be like him? There is no one else like Steve."
"He can easily melt every girl to the ground by his puppy dog eyes and his sweet smile"
"If that I didn't married Tony or love him this much…"
The comment went on and on as Natasha just sat there and listen to her friend babbling on how perfect Steve was. She can only smile.
There must be something about how Steve Rogers's muscle moved that made every single girl drooling.
May be his perfect eight pack abs, broad shoulders, chiseled chest or the way his sweat running down his muscle. It was a breathtaking sight to see indeed.
The girls still babbling on and Steve not even noticed what effect that he has toward every woman. Natasha decided to get up. The other was startled and grabbed her arm.
"What are you doing?" Pepper asked her redhead friend.
"Go and talk to him"
"Tasha don't!" Darcy exclaimed.
But the spy didn't listen and walk toward the blonde man. She stopped behind him and when he leaned down, he saw a fiery red locks and her mysterious smile. He stopped right away and turned to her.
"Morning, Tasha" He greeted and a wide smile.
Back at the tower, Tony who was still curious about what going on in Central Park that everyone have to be there today. He just needed to spy on them. His satellite picked up the visual from the park.
Just like he predicted, Steve and Natasha sitting and talking together on the bench. They looked relax and had a smile on their faces. Little red never smiled that much with anyone.
"Sir, I have a surveillance footage from the park." JARVIS informed.
"Put it on a big screen, JARVIS"
The video came up and he saw his wife and other four ladies of his teammate sitting not far away from the duo.
"Are you spying on Tasha, Stark?" The voice came from the stairs and made Tony jump.
Tony turned and saw Clint, Bruce and Thor standing with disagree look. The eccentric billionaire just shrugged his shoulders and got back to work.
"Don't you notice how close these two were, Banner?" Tony asked, "I need to know that there is anything going on between them"
"You need to know everything, Stark" Clint interjected.
The doctor made his tea and joined Tony in front of giant screen displayed surveillance footage from different angle.
"They just a friend, Tony" Bruce said.
"Beside Lady Natasha met a man from our last outing! What is his name again, friend of Hawk?" Thor spoke up.
"I will ignore the fact that nobody invited me" Tony muttered and rolled his eyes.
"You and Steve took Pepper to Boston and we are super bored" Clint explained.
"What the name of the guy?"
"Taylor Keaton, photographer" The archer replied. "She said that she accidentally met him at the bar and they shared the same interest"
"Stevie already has a competitor" Tony's face distort. The billionaire pulled up a profile page of Taylor Keaton for some background check.
He didn't want his best friend to just date some guy without a background check and approval from him.
"Why in the world that she likes this guy? Steve is more interesting than this Taylor guy"
"The Captain insisted that his relationship with Lady Natasha is nothing more than friend, Man of Iron. He seem not interesting in romantic relationship just like Lady Widow stated that 'Love is For Children'"
"I gotta agree with Iron man" Clint said and bumped fisted with Tony "This guy came from nowhere and Steve is way better than this hipster"
The two prankster continued to spy on the soldier and the spy leave Bruce and Thor look at them boringly.
"Tony, you should be glad that Natasha find someone that she like" Bruce tried to talk some sense with Tony "And you always keep introduce Steve with a brunch of supermodels rather than help him get closer to Natasha"
"As number one Romanogers/Blackcap/The Cold War/ Stasha shipper, I will help my OTP to become real and get rid of this stupid photographer. As a superhero who concern of other citizen life, I will make sure that Taylor Keaton will not end up with my master assassin friend for his own sake. As a friend of Captain America and Black Widow, I will make sure that they know they belong to one another!"
And the billionaire lost his mind all over again.
"Whatever, Tony" Bruce gave up and sit on the love seat. "You have to let her choose who she really love"
"Will you inform Lord Steven about this Taylor man, Lord Stark?" Thor asked.
Tony thought for a second and grin mischievously. "I forbid all of you to tell Steve about this because I seriously want to know what will come out of this"
"Why do you have to make things complicated, Stark?" Even Tony's prank partner didn't agree with this.
"Let's just say I worship chaos"
The others just shook they head and leave the eccentric billionaire to his plan.
A/N : A little plot twist! I should make it harder for Steve to win Natasha's heart if he didn't try harder to get her.
I got a lot of inspiration from this trip and i will put it in this story and i know you gonna like it!
As always, review, critic, and advice are greatly appreciated!