I didn't want to do my homework, so i did this :)
Friendship
Partners. Friends. Lovers.
Sometimes those are phases you experiment before loving someone. Sometimes you can have the three. Or sometimes you just stay in one the rest of your life.
The lines between Clint and Natasha are so blurry, that Maria doesn't know if even they have clear what it's their status.
But she's sure of something. Clint and she are partners. Phil was the closest thing she had to a friend and Tony will never reach the friendship stage if he keeps annoying her. She doesn't care anyway.
And Steve was... he had reached the friend stage since two weeks ago. She was losing the control.
Maybe they would never be something more than that, but there are times when she thinks they would be lovely together, that they are meant to be.
And then reality hits her (really hard). Too bad she doesn't notice that Steve's eyes say he wants to reach the next stage.