AN: Another fun and stupid chapter that's just me indulging myself and pretending the last 4 years in the MCU basically didn't happen. But I added in a bit of angst at the end, because I was in a bad mood when I was finishing this chapter. Oh well. Sorry if any characters seem OOC, I kinda write a phrase I come up with them decide who hasn't spoken in a while. Anyway, hope you Enjoy!
"It's game night!" Tony exclaimed
"Oh no" everyone in the room groaned
"Not again" Clint groaned
"I've learned not to argue" Bruce said
"Ok, what game are we playing tonight?" Steve asked
"I was thinking Strip Poker or Never Have I Ever" Tony told them, to which followed another collective groan.
"Never Have I Ever. I am not playing strip poker ever again after last time" Bruce said
"Me too. You guys all gang up on us girls" Wanda agreed
"You have Natasha and May. They can beat us all without trying" Tony pointed out
"He's right" Natasha laughed "Besides, Fury banned us from playing strip poker
"Bruce, you go first"
"Alright, never have I ever been in hospital for more than 1 week" Surprisingly, only Tony, Wanda, Sam, Simmons and Skye drank a shot, raising more questions than answers
"How have you guys never been in hospital for more than a week?" Tony asked, causing Steve, Clint, Natasha, Coulson and May to exchange a glance
"Nothing's ever been that serious?" Clint tried, knowing it was pointless
"Come on, tell the truth"
"Ok, we break each other out" she revealed
"How come I didn't get to do that?" Skye complained
"Because you were shot twice in the gut" May told her
"Yeah and then I was injected with a miracle drug that healed me" Skye pointed out to her
"You were shot twice in the gut?" Wanda asked
"Yeah, I though you guys knew" Skye said, looking slightly guilty
"Wait, what about dead guy walking? How were you not in hospital for more than a week when you died" Tony asked, pointing at Coulson
"Technically, it wasn't a hospital to start with and I spent just under a week there before I went home" Coulson explained.
"I still don't forgive you for dying" Natasha muttered under her breath
"Okay, Never have I ever wanted to sleep with someone in this room" Rhodey said, causing everyone but him to take a shot
"Alright, moving on" Sam said
"Nope, let's stay on this for a while. All of you?" Rhodey asked
"Yep. Now let's move on. My turn" Bruce said
"Not yet Brucie, I've got a follow up question" Tony interrupted.
"Go for it"
"Never have I ever slept with someone in this room". Tony took his own shot, followed by everyone else in the room apart from Clint and Rhodey
"Seriously?" they asked at the same time
"Never have I ever farted and blamed it on someone else in this room" Bruce interrupted before anyone could ask any questions. Shamefully, Tony and Clint drank a shot
"Who did you blame it on?" Vision asked
"Nat" they both said, causing her to splutter on the beer she'd stolen from Steve
"When?" she asked
"You know the first meeting we had with Fury and a bunch of high level agents?" Clint said sheepishly
"You piece of shit!" she shouted at him
"Woah there Nat" Steve said, trying to calm her down.
"Fury was pissed at me for weeks and I'm fairly sure those agents haven't talked to me since" she explained
"Okay, moving on. Never have I ever taken a pregnancy test" Natasha said, causing all the girls and Tony take a shot.
"Before anyone can say anything I was really drunk" Tony said
"What's new?" Clint laughed
"Touché"
"Never have I ever been in love" Wanda said. She smiled slightly, noticing how many people raised their glasses to their lips as she drank her own. Natasha wasn't sure what to do, she was in two minds about the whole thing. She looked over to Steve, who confidently drank a swig of beer. Of course she knew that regardless of her he would drink, she knew how he felt about Peggy, and she was fine with that. She knew that was in the past. But was she in love with Steve? She wasn't sure. She had strong feelings, potentially love, but who could say for sure. She tentatively brought her glass to her lips, taking a small sip. She glanced over to Steve, who smiled at her softly. It wasn't a 'thank god you're so in love with me' smile, or a 'I love you' smile. It was just supportive, and she mentally kicked herself for being unsure that she loved him. Because goddammit she wanted to love him so badly, and maybe she did. But how was she supposed to know what love felt like if she'd never felt it before?
"Never have I ever joined the mile high club" Sam brought her out of her reverie by asking the next question. She smirked at Steve as they both drank, joined by Tony, Pepper, and basically everyone on Coulson's team
"Jesus Christ"
"I have a private jet" Tony said in explanation
"I have a rich boyfriend" Pepper laughed
"We used to live on a plane" Skye added
"What about you two?" Rhodey asked Steve and Natasha
"Oh, no explanation necessary" she smirked, taking a swig from Steve's beer.
"Good on you girl" Sam laughed
"Never have I ever kissed a Russian" Tony said, giggling slightly and looking at her.
"That's low Stark" she said, raising her glass to her mouth. With her, everyone else in the room apart from FitzSimmons took a shot
"All of you? Really? Okay, follow up question. Never have I ever kissed Natasha" Tony said, shocked. Everyone in the room once again had a shot apart from Coulson and FitzSimmons, causing Tony to splutter on his beer.
"When have all of you kissed Nat?" Clint asked "I know Steve, Mels, Sam and I have on missions but the rest of you?"
"We were trying to figure out ways to tame the hulk and we thought increasing emotions that weren't anger would help" Bruce explained.
"It didn't really work" she told them afterwards
"We kissed during a game once, I'm not surprised you don't remember though. You were pretty drunk" Pepper added.
"What's new?" Steve muttered, causing Natasha to laugh.
"It's very complicated but we needed to distract some bad guys" Skye tried to explain, causing a few confused looks
"Same" Wanda added, only adding to the gang's confusion.
"Public displays of affection make people very uncomfortable" Coulson, May, Steve, Clint and Natasha recited
"Do they teach you that at Shield?" Sam asked
"Yeah, In how to distract bad buys 101" Natasha joked back
"What about Vis?" Wanda asked
"That is a very long story" Vision said, exchanging a glance with Natasha
"And one I'm not drunk enough for" she added, toasting to Vision before taking a swig of beer
"Never have I ever been arrested" Simmons interrupted, to which the majority of the people in the room drank
"You could've called that one Jem" Fitz laughed
"Okay, my turn. Never have I ever been married" Bruce said. Both Clint and Natasha raised another shot glass to their lips.
"You've been married Tasha?" Clint asked, slightly hurt that she never told him.
"It was a long time ago in Russia. He was killed by the KGB" she explained, trying not to make a big deal out of it.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Clint asked, raising his voice slightly
"I don't want to relive that part of my life"
"We tell each other everything Tash"
"Not everything"
"I trusted you with my biggest secret and you don't even bother telling me you were married"
"It's hardly a big deal, I never loved him"
"Doesn't mean you shouldn't tell me!"
"SO WHAT THAT I DIDN'T TELL YOU THIS ONE THING! I DON'T ALWAYS TELL YOU EVERYTHING! I'M NOT SOME HELPLESS LITTLE GIRL YOU NEED TO FIX CLINT! NOT ANYMORE! SO STOP TRYING TO FIX ME! BECAUSE I DON'T NEED IT" she screamed at him, storming out the room. An uncomfortable silence fell over the room, before Tony had the nerve to speak up
"What was that all about? I don't think I've ever heard Natasha actually yell at someone" Tony joked, causing Clint to storm out the room in the opposite direction to Natasha.
"Dammit Stark. You had to make it worse didn't you" Steve said whilst giving Tony a glare
"I'm sorry. I didn't think it would do any harm" Tony said defensively, putting his hands up in the air in surrender
"Wow. An actual Tony Stark apology. Never would've thought that would happen in my lifetime" Steve quipped
"Well you have lived for 90 years. It was bound to happen sometime" Tony answered back
"I didn't ask to be frozen in ice for 70 years" Steve replied, starting to raise his voice slightly.
"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP!" Pepper yelled
"I'm going to talk to Nat, one of you should check on Clint. The rest of you, make sure that Stark doesn't do anything stupid" Steve told them.
He followed Natasha down to the gym where he found her hitting one of the punching bags violently.
"Go away Steve. I can't deal with this right now" she told him, continuing to punch the bag.
"You can talk to me Nat. I won't judge you" he assured her
"But you will. Once you find out everything you will judge me and I can't take that" she tried to explain, turning around to face him
"You don't need to tell me anything you don't want to Nat. But I'm here of you want to talk" he assured her
"Thanks for the offer, but I'm not really sure what I would even say" she admitted
"Well, if all you want to do is beat the living crap out of something, I'm right here" he told her, throwing out his arms dramatically leaving his front open. She weakly punched him the stomach, causing him to laugh
"Language" she muttered, managing to smile slightly
"Come on. You can hit better than that. What would Fury say?" he joked
"Fine, but you have to fight back" she told him. The sparred for about an hour, both evenly matched the entire time until they both ended up on the floor
"You tired out yet?" he asked her, panting to get his breath back
"Just a little" she laughed, playfully hitting him on the shoulder from where she was lying next to him
"Feeling any better?"
"Not really. I guess hitting someone repeatedly really doesn't help that much"
"I could've told you that"
"Shut up"
"So, do you feel like sharing why you yelled at Clint earlier?"
"Don't you care that I've been married before?"
"Of course I do, but I know you'll open up about it when you're ready, I'm not going to force you to tell me."
"But I never loved him"
"Do you think you did?"
"I honestly don't know"
"Would you ever want to get married again?" he asked, sitting up slightly
"Are you asking?" she joked. He raised an eyebrow at her question causing her to groan slightly
"Maybe, possibly, I don't know. I know you want to but I'm just not sure" she admitted
"We don't need to have this conversation now" she smiled at his comment, wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him softly
"Thank you" she mumbled between kisses. She pulled her gently so she was sitting on his lap, wrapped in his embrace
"But I do want to know what caused you to go off at Clint" he said, pulling away from her. She sighed, preparing herself for her explanation
"When I first met Clint, I was a spy for the KGB. He brought me into Shield and convinced Fury to let me stay. He could tell that I'd had a bad past, I think he saw a bit of himself in me." Steve let her talk, knowing better than to interrupt when she was opening up. "We became partners, and quickly became best friends after that. I eventually told him about some of the things about my past, and he told me about his family. That's how I became Auntie Nat. There are still things he doesn't know, things that I just never mentioned. But I've told him more secrets than most people have at all. I've never lied to Clint, and I guess I just feel bad that he doesn't know about us" she explained, trying not to go into too much detail about anything
"Tell him" he said suddenly before she could carry on talking
"What?" she asked shocked
"Tell him. He's your best friend. He told you about his family, you should tell him about us. He's really helped you with everything, he deserves to know. I know I'd want to tell Bucky if…" e trailed off, not knowing how to finish
"I'm sorry. I know how hard it must be for you" she said, talking about Bucky
"It's fine. I can tell how much keeping this a secret is eating you up. Tell him"
"Thank you Steve. Really, thank you" she said, kissing him softly on the lips
"No problem" he replied, kissing her back
"You guys should really be more careful" Pepper's voice rang out from the doorway
"How is it that it's always you who sees us?" he asked to no one in particular
"Tony wanted to apologise but he didn't want to butt in and make anything worse. I told him I'd come check on you."
"Wait, what did Tony do?" she asked confused
"He did what Tony does, makes things worse" Pepper explained
"I probably shouldn't have yelled at him" Steve admitted
"He deserved it. You okay Tash?" Pepper asked
"Yeah, I told him everything" she explained
"Everything?"
"Yeah, well, I mean not everything. I'm Russian, I have more secrets than you've had hot meals" Pepper chuckled at her statement, causing the corners of Natasha's mouth to curl up slightly.
"Alright. I'll leave you two to it"
"Thanks Pep"
"Don't have sex on that mat. It's incredibly gross" Pepper called back as she walked out
"I'm not making any promises!" Natasha called back
"Are we actually going to-?"
"No"
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