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During a month and a half…. (Brooklyn, New York)
"Hi there, Steve !", Nora said when she saw the blondie in the elevator
"Hey, Nora", Steve smiled at her and makes room so she can step inside
"Movie tonight ? Like always ?", she pressed the button to the lobby
"Sure..", Steve said as the elevator begins to descend. While in the elevator, Nora and Steve talked about what movie they're going to watch, debating if that movie was good or not, "Alright. See ya", he said as they go on different ways
Well, he wouldn't say "like always" how Nora said, but they sure started watching movies on each other's places, I mean there wasn't nothing bad at it, but this lady…. Clearly started to feel something for Steve, even he - - of course he doesn't notice, he's so naïve to notice.
They started going every night to get dinner or have some movie nights. Walking and talking while she goes to her job every morning and he doing his morning runs. They just kept growing as friends, even though people thought other things and misunderstood their relationship between them. What was wrong with people thinking that ? Why can't two people who are neighbors and have a lot things in common, also that shared the same taste in food, in clothing, in music and blah blah blah, can be just friends ?
Well, maybe because people saw them together every time, laughing together, whispering to each other, smiling at each other, eating together, and exiting each other's apartment in the middle of the night (after seeing a movie)… so, just friends, right ? As much Steve saw this friendship so pure and innocent, Nora started to see this friendship as a beginning of a romantic relationship, even though she'd never dare to ask or talk about it at Steve, she was okay with the things like this, maybe she'll go slow.
Pfff ! Poor girl, if she only knew he is a married man.. can't wait to see - I mean.. to write her reaction.
It was already night and Steve was currently sitting in his couch browsing through the tv channels, when a knock on his door caught his attention, so he stands up and goes to see who is it
"Hey ! Come on in", Steve smiled at Nora, who was smiling at him too
"I bought some cookies", she said and shows him a tray with vanilla cookies, "Hope they taste like the last time", Nora handle it to Steve as he lets her enter his apartment
"Uhh, yeah, me too", Steve said as he remembered the "delicious" cookies from last time (that was sarcasm, in case you didn't notice)
"So what are we watching tonight ?", Nora took away her jacket and rest it in the arm of the couch
"It's your turn to choose..", Steve, who was in the kitchen putting down the tray with cookies in the counter, walked to the living room and gives Nora the PS4 controller so she can choose a movie, "..Here. Go ahead"
She smiled while receiving the controller, "Well, I was wondering if we watch a romantic movie", Nora said and seats down in the couch next to the Captain (were Steve was already taking seat)
"A romantic movie ?", the blonde man frowned, then he shrugs, "Whatever. It's your choice"
"The name is The Notebook", she begins to search the movie. Rogers lifted his eyebrows and widened his eyes
"Oh ! I've already saw that movie", he said as turning to see her. Nora stops browsing for the movie and says
"Really ? Most of the guys hate romantic movies", she sees him
Steve chuckled, "Well, I don't actually hate them, but I prefer watch something else", said the handsome Captain
"And how you ended watching the movie then ?", she asked and Steve laughed
"That's a funny story.. my wi -
*Phone ringing*
my wife and I watched it together, he was gonna say but Nora's phone interrupted, "Oh ! It's mine. Sorry", she grabbed her phone from her purse and stands up to answer it
"It's alright", Steve said. And while waiting for her, Rogers heard her conversation with the other line
"Are you serious ?", she said while closing her eyes tightly, then to let out a deep sigh, "Alright. I'll be there tomorrow morning", Nora said as she ends the call
"Everything alright ?", Steve asked
"Ugh..", Nora groaned and puts her phone on her pocket, "..No"
"What happened ?", he stood up while he asked her
"Well, my boss needs me tomorrow on the office at 4 AM",
Steve lifts his brows at her, "Oh..."
"Yeah. I need to sleep early...Sorry", Nora does a sad pout and grabs her bag
"It's okay. Don't worry about it", he smiled at her
"Are you sure ?", she said while putting her purse on her shoulder
"Sure..", Steve nods and smiled again, "..Now go sleep"
"Thank you, Steve..", Nora walks to the exit as Steve walks behind her, "..Bye", she says while opening the door and exit the apartment, Steve waves back while smiling at her.
SHIELD'S Headquarters…. (Shanghai, China)
"No. You have to lift your elbows high enough - like this", Natasha walks to the male Agent and shows him how, "Try to focus on your opponent. Forget I'm here", she said and knew why the Agent was a little nervous (she is in fact intimidating). The Black Widow was training 8 Agents that went with her on this mission, teaching them how to do hand-in-hand combat, shoot, how to manage and throw knives, and some cool tips and moves. And right now, she was seeing the fight between the Agent she was teaching and another Agent from here - Shanghai - who volunteer himself to train with the Agent. They were fighting on a boxing ring with protection (even though Natasha did want them to use the practice equipment).
"Do it again", she told the guy as she goes to the corner of the boxing ring
"Ugh..", the Agent groaned as he lifted his arms
"What was that ?", Natasha said and waves at the Agent's opponent, telling him to stop, "You said something ?", she told the Agent. The Agent, turns to see her and lowers his head, "I don't ever want to hear you groaning again", she warned, "Did you understand, Agent ?", Natasha stared at him as he nods slowly
"Yes, ma'am... I'm sorry", the Agent sees her
Natasha nods, "Do it again", she ordered him. The Agent nodded and position himself to fight his opponent, he throws a punch on the other man jaw, "Alright..", Natasha nods as the Agent kept throwing punches, "..Good..", she praised him when he connected a nice punch, "..Kick his ribs..", the redhead ordered and he do as he was told, kicking his opponent's ribs that made the opponent to stumble back, "..Put your guard up - elbows lifted to your chest", the Agent do quickly what Natasha said as she keeps saying, "..Follow where his punches are going - dodge them", the opponent started throwing punches too and the Agent gracefully dodge them all.
As the combat keeps on going - and the Agent was doing an excellent job, Natasha saw that the opponent was lowering his guard, so she told to the Agent, "..Now do an uppercut", the Agent put all his strength and did the punch, sending the opponent back to the ropes
"Okay..", Natasha step in into the fight, "..That's all for today..", she gestured the Agent to go to his corner, then she turns to the opponent and folded her hands, lifting them to her chest, she makes a bow at him (Chinese salute/goodbye). Natasha smiled at him and says in a fluent Chinese accent, "..Xièxiè, dàilǐ huáng" (thank you, Agent Huáng)
Agent Huáng, smiled back at her and did the bow at her too and then to leave the boxing ring
"How I did ?", the Agent asked her. Natasha turned her attention to him and smirked
"Huh…. Great..", she stands there while watching him drinking quickly his water, "..Much better than the last time actually", Natasha said as a matter of fact. As the Agent finished all his water, Natasha tells him, "Go shower. Prepare for your shooting practice", he nodded and thank her as he goes to hit the showers. When the Agent disappeared from her sight, she heard a voice
"Wow..", Natasha turned to see the voice, Sharon, "..Your class is learning very fast", Carter said while she steps in into the gym. In fact she was watching all the training
Natasha smirked, "Well yeah. I'm their teacher", she said as Sharon chuckled at her. The Spy nods and tells her, "Alright, I'm sending them to range. Be there when they arrived - I'll be there in a minute", she climbs down the ring while Sharon ask her
"Agent Rogers ?", the Agent stops near the ring, watching Natasha gracefully climbing down
"Yeah ?", Natasha reply as she was on the floor now
"Can I talk ask you something ?", Sharon said
The redhead sighs and nods, "Uh-huh", Carter bites her lip and says
"Well...Since I met you. Why it seems you don't like me ?", the blonde woman continues, "I mean, you're always so -
"Agent, seriously ?", Natasha arches her brow and snorts, "You're asking me this ?", she said as she rolls her eyes at the Agent, "Go do your work. We don't have time to chit-chat here", the Spy walks away from her as Sharon sighs deeply
Brooklyn, New York….
"Are you serious ?!", Nora yelled
"Yeah ! The bees were hunting me while I was running away from them !", Steve smiled as Nora was cracking up
"But who messes with a honeycomb full of bees ?!", she asked and wipes a tear
Steve chuckled, "I know..", he says and continues his story, "..It's because my friend challenged me to throw it to a river near there"
"And what was the propose of all that ?", she laughs
"I don't know..", he shrugs, "..I guess because we were kids - and stupid ?", Steve said as the elevator reached her floor
"I really enjoy the time with you", Nora steps out, "You're fun to talk", she smiled and him
"You too", he said as the doors closed. While Steve waited to reach his floor, he took out his phone from his pocket and dialed Natasha's number, waiting for the other line, but again she didn't answered. Instead the machine answers, so he sighs and listened to her recording and waits for the beep...
"Hey, Nat - It's me again..", Steve leans back to the wall, "..I heard that your mission required another month.. So...", the elevator stops on his floor and he steps out, "..Just be careful and call me back when you have time, alright ?", the Captain sighs and walks through the hallway.
The next morning, Steve wasn't in the mood to go out, so he skipped his morning run and also his daily coffee with Nora. He decided trying to call multiple times his wife, first, he text her...
Steve Rogers: hi, Natasha. I know you're busy, but please call back.
After a hour, Steve called her...
"Nat..", he said while recording his message, "..I'm just calling you to make sure you're alright...Call me back, okay ?", Steve hung out and groaned loudly
Minutes later...
He calls again…...
"Hey, babe. Uhh..", he was now seating on the couch, "..I've been trying to reach you out...And well, obviously you're not answering me..", Steve sighs and continues, ..Huhh...I just wanna know you're alright..", the Captain stood up and hangs the call
Minutes later...
S: Hey, Tasha. I've been calling and you don't answer. Can you please answer my calls ?
Steve finished the text and sends it, lowering the phone and goes to the balcony and wait for a while to hope Natasha can answer his calls or texts. He was tired of this shit, tired of being separate from his wife, all this whole situation was driving him crazy, he just don't know what to do, how to handle it. He felt it his marriage was getting out of control, that because since the beginning he and Natasha didn't fix or talked about the problems or differences between them. And now that theu let the "problem" grew and grew more, they couldn't know how to resolve it. With calls ? With texts ? With voice mails ? With I'm sorry's ?
"Hello, Natasha…..", Steve was calling her again, but stops as he sighs and ends the call. He gets it, she clearly don't want to talk with him, after he'd called like, what ? 100 times or more ? He definitely lost the track of them. Steve sats down in his couch and sends her a message...
S: Alright, Natasha. I will stop calling and texting you. I get it, you need time, and I fully understand that… but remember all those longs conversations we had that lasted for hours ?... I miss them.
He send it, but the message is followed by another one...
S: I love you.
Shanghai, China...
Natasha and Agent 13 were at the range room, teaching the rest of the Agents how to - of course - shoot, balance their gun and aim
"Focus on your own target !", Natasha yelled at them, "..Don't see your partner's !", she was walking with her hands behind her, seeing they were distracted by their partner's target silhouette. Carter smirked at Natasha's impatience towards the "rookies"
"Hold it straight and tight", Sharon told an Agent as she steps in to show him how
"No..", Natasha stopped by an Agent and grabbed a gun, "..You need to hold it like this", she lifts the gun as the female Agent watched her. The Agent nodded and do as Natasha did, the redhead sees the Agent's posture was correct and nods at her, "Good. Now shoot", Natasha orders the Agent and she did what she was told, shooting on the chest of the target. The Spy smirks at the Agent - who was grinning happily at her excellent shot
Natasha walked to see the others and watxh their shooting, they were actually getting better and hitting at least to the target more frequently than before. Until, one female Agent caught her attention, the Agent was struggling to even shoot, so the redhead walks towards her and says
"How you're doing ?", Natasha stands next to her. The Agent growled
"Bad.. I don't even hit near it", she said and lowered her head
Natasha sighs, "Aim..", she told the Agent. She SHIELD Agent nodded and did what Natasha ordered, "..Stand straight and arms too..", the Spy watch the Agent doing waht she said, "..Your eyes on the target..", Natasha saod and the Agent focus on the target, keeping her eyes fix on it. The redhead nodded and tells her, "..Shoot", the Agent takes a deep breath and shoots the silhouette, hitting the knee
"I did it !", the Agent yelled excited but quickly stopped, "I'm sorry", she apologized. Natasha smirked and walks away, not before she tells the Agent
"Keep doing it until you hit the head", the Spy told from her shoulder
"Yes, ma'am", the Agent said.
As the time training goes by, Natasha was slightly proud of the Agents, they were a lot more better than how they'd started. Much better.
"You should do this more often..", Sharon says while standing next to the Spy - who was checking the Agents shooting, "..They learn faster with you than with their instructor", Carter put her hands behind her. Natasha chuckled as she crossed her arms around her chest
"Who's their instructor anyway ? - because he or she sucks", she said
Agent 13 smiles at her and shrugs, "I don't know. Someone named, Agent Podolski ? Rodolski ? - I'm not sure", Sharon said
"Well, that Agent should be fired", Natasha turned to see her
"And who would take his place ?", Carter sees her too as she asked. The redhead shrugged and says
"I don't know. Someone else"
"Like who ?- You ?", Sharon lifts her brow
Natasha chuckled, "Please, don't make me laugh", she told as turning her glance to the Agents again
"What ? You're a great teacher - like you said", the blonde hair woman smirked
"It's not my thing", Natasha coldly respond
"Why ? Because you're an Avenger ?", Sharon, still seeing her, said and smiled brighter
"Besides", Natasha tilted her head and then turns to see the woman next to her, "And also because I don't wanna deal with a bunch of rookies", she said and Sharonwas about to say something when an Agent called Natasha
"Agent Rogers ?", the voice asked
The two women - Natasha and Sharon, turned to see the Agent calling, "Yes, Eastwood ?", Natasha nods at him
"Uhh, care to teach me how to balance my shooting ?", he timidly say
"Sure..", Natasha said, "..I'll be there in a moment", the Agent nodded at her as Natasha turned to Sharon, who.. was.. blushing ? What the -
"Are you okay ?", Natasha asked her while seeing her face was getting more and more red, 'Does she has a crush on Eastwood ?', the Spy said to herself
"Uhh, yeah. Yes", Sharon managed to say
"Well, I saw how you were blushing while -
"No I wasn't", Agent 13 quickly cut her
Natasha rolled her eyes, "Carter..", she said and smirks at her, "..Do you like Agent Eastwood ?", Natasha lifts her eyebrow at the Agent. Sharon widen her eyes and nervously says
"What ? No…. I-i don't - Agent Rogers, I don't know what you're talking about", she trying to hide her tomato-red face. Natasha rolled her eyes again and shook her head, actually she has a plan...
"Agent Eastwood ?!", she calls the male Agent. The man turns to her and nods politely to Black Widow, "I need to step out for a minute ! - but here Agent Carter will cover me !", Natasha grins as Sharon widely opens her eyes. Agent Eastwood nodded at her and Natasha turns to see Sharon, "You're welcome", she smiles at Sharon - who was dying of embarrassment. The redhead smirked as she starts walking out of the room, "Oh !..", Natasha said to Sharon, and the Agent turns to see her, "..And be a good teacher", the Spy winks at her and leaves the room, knowing very well that Sharon was blushing uncontrollable.
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Autor's Note:
Guys, hang in there, I really promise I'm gonna fix this ! Just be patient, please !