Chapter 14
A/N: okay, I'm sooooo sorry if I haven't updated this story for so long, believe me, I really wanted to, but I had an extremely important examination that I had to take, and I just took it last week. I had to prepare for it, guys, sorry for not updating. I'll update as soon as I can, I promise.
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Steve led Sharon to his room and told her about FRIDAY if she needs anything, before going to Natasha's.
He knocked but there was no response. He entered the room and found her sitting on the edge of the bed, brows furrowed and eyes on fire, staring through his very soul.
He sat beside her and wrapped his arms around her.
"Don't touch me." She said calmly and moved away from him.
Steve moved closer to her and touched the small of her back.
"Nat, babe, are you mad at me?"
Natasha stood up and faced him.
"I'm not. I told you to stop touching me, Steve." She retorted.
"Then why are you acting like that?"
"Like what?"
"That."
"I don't know what you're talking about." She replied, trying so hard to contain her jealousy.
"Look, I think you're just tired." He got up and caressed both of her arms. "I missed you." He said, kissing her forehead.
Natasha is still angry, but somehow, Steve's touch is slowly pacifying her.
"Captain Rogers, Agent Carter said she needs you in your room right now." They heard FRIDAY.
Just when she thought she was calming down, Natasha's blood is boiling again. What even makes her mad is that Steve seems so eager to go to Sharon.
"Babe, I need to go to her, okay? She might need something." He said and left without even waiting for her response.
Natasha's jaw tightened and she clenched her fist.
They're alone together in a room. A voice inside Natasha's head say.
No, Steve won't do that to me. She contradicted herself.
But what if they've done it during their mission?
The voices in her head are driving her insane. She screamed and grabbed the nearest object to her and threw it across the room, hitting the wall. As it turns out, she has shattered the lampshade into pieces.
Natasha took a deep breath, closed her eyes and ran her fingers through her hair.
Steve entered the room and found Sharon on the bed.
"What is it? Do you need something?" Steve asked.
"Yes. Could you help me go into the bathroom? I need to take a shower." She replied.
"Of course."
Steve carried her into the bathroom, bridal style.
Sharon kept her lips close to Steve's neck, taking his scent in.
Steve felt uncomfortable, because only his Natasha is allowed to do that, so he hurried carrying her to the bathroom.
"Thanks, I'll call you when I'm done" Sharon said with a smile.
While waiting outside, Steve unpacked his bag, and minutes later, Sharon called him to help her out.
Steve went inside and found Sharon with only her underwears on.
"Sharon, why aren't you dressed yet?"
"You need to put a bandage on my wound." She replied.
Steve felt like Sharon could do it herself, she's an agent after all, but Steve, being as polite as he is, only said "Okay."
He went out and got the first aid kit and handed Sharon a bath robe.
He squatted and started giving medication to Sharon's wound.
Sharon could feel Steve's hot breath on her thigh. She wondered how Steve's tongue would feel on her body. She smiled at the thought. When Steve was almost finished, she turned on the shower on purpose and Steve got wet. She immediately turned it off.
"Steve, I'm so sorry, I accidentally turned it on."
Steve got up with the first aid kit and said, "It's okay, I'll just get you out and I'll take a shower."
Steve took a shower and when he was done, he heard FRIDAY "Miss Potts wants everybody in the dining room. Dinner is ready."
Steve accompanied Sharon to the dining room and then went to Natasha's room, but they met at the hallway.
Natasha noticed that he was fresh out of shower, she really wants to take his scent in right now, but fought the urge.
"Nat, dinner's ready."
"I know, Steve. I'm not deaf, I heard FRIDAY." She snapped coldly.
Steve still hasn't figured out what's wrong with her today, so instead of talking to her what's wrong, he just kept quiet. They arrived together at the dining room without talking to each other on their way there. Everybody was already there, except for Thor.
Steve pulled Natasha's chair next to him but she didn't sit there, she went to the seat next to Clint.
Steve creased his brows. Now he's certain that she's mad at him. He just sat down and continued to stare at her, trying to figure out what he did wrong.
Clint gave Natasha a what-the-hell-is-up-with-you look.
She just ignored him and said in a low voice, "Move. I'm gonna sit here."
Without questioning her motives, Clint moved to the next seat.
Everybody on the table, except Sharon, was wondering why Natasha didn't sit down next to Steve, but they just ignored it and tried not to make a big deal out of it.
They prayed, it was led by Steve and they ate.
Natasha just ate a little, she was discreetly observing Steve and Sharon.
Natasha noticed that Sharon's fresh out of shower too. Her breathing became uneven again, Clint looked at her and he could swear he could see her nostrils flaring and now, he knows why. He smiled to himself.
Everybody was talking about their day, but Natasha just remained silent. Even Sharon participated in the conversation, which only made Natasha even more annoyed. Clint looked at the other end of the table where Steve is staring at his bestfriend.
"Heck! The two of you are having a lover's quarrel, aren't you?" he whispered to Natasha.
She just rolled her eyes and didn't say anything.
When everybody finished eating, they heard Tony, "Let's have a desert!"
He went to the fridge and got something out and returned to his seat.
"Tada! A strawberry cake all the way from Italy!" Tony announced like a child.
"Is that the reason why you went to Italy?" Bruce asked incredously.
Tony rolled his eyes.
"I had some business to attend to, Brucie."
Clint was the first one to get a slice.
"Thank goodness, Thor's not here or else, he'll have the whole thing to himself." Clint said.
Clint gave Natasha a slice and everybody else got themselves a slice.
"Honey! This is delicious! The best cake I've ever tasted!" Pepper said to Tony, delighted.
"I knew you'd like it. It's your favorite flavor." Tony replied and kissed Pepper's forehead.
Natasha is just playing with the cake with her fork.
Steve is really worried about what's going on with her. He sighed.
"Little Red is not herself today. Do you have any idea why is it so?" Tony asked Pepper in a low voice.
Then they heard Sharon calling Steve with a fork with a cake in her hand, motioning for Steve to eat it.
"That's why." Pepper replied to Tony.
Tony turned to Natasha's direction, she showed no emotions on her face, but little did they know that under the table, the fork is bent just with her hand.
"I know she's jealous, she's just so good at hiding her emotions from us." Pepper said.
"You know what I think?"
"What?"
"Captain America is so dead."
Pepper just smiled and continued eating.
Steve and Natasha made eye contact but it didn't last because Natasha shifted her gaze as if she didn't see him. Now he knows why she's mad.
Steve didn't want to reject Sharon's offer, he's too polite for that, but he also didn't want Natasha to be mad at him even more. So, just took the fork from Sharon's hand and ate the cake.
Awkward silence filled the air until Bruce cleared his throat.
"Excuse me, I have a call to make." He said and left.
Everybody else got up and went to their respective rooms.
Steve really wanted to talk to Natasha immediately, but he had Sharon to attend to.
He brought Sharon to his room first and then he went to talk to Natasha.
He entered the room and saw Natasha staring at herself on the mirror.
"Nat…"
She turned around.
"Oh! I thought you were gonna sleep with her too."
Steve noticed the missing lampshade on the bedside table.
"Where's the lampshade?" he asked.
"I accidentally bumped into the table and it fell. It was broken. I threw it away." She explained nonchalantly and went straight to bed.
Steve didn't believe that story because he knows that Natasha is not clumsy, but he didn't push it.
"Nat, can we talk? Please." He pleaded, brows creased.
"I'm tired, Steve. Let's sleep. Let's talk some other day. Goodnight."
She turned away from him.
Steve just sat on the bed beside her for hours.
Natasha was just pretending to be asleep, she could sense that Steve too isn't asleep yet. She's worried that Steve might go out the room and sleep beside Sharon instead.
When Steve moved closer to her, she felt relieved.
He caressed her cheek and then her hair, which gave her goosebumps.
"Baby, I'm sorry for today." He said in a low voice. "I'm sorry if you felt jealousy, but there's nothing to be jealous about, I just want to help Sharon. I'm sorry if my way of helping her is making you feel that way, but you know me, right? I help those who are in need. I hope you'll understand. I love you, Nat. you. Only you. So don't ever think I'd trade you for someone else or cheat on you. Hell! I'd be the most stupid person if I'll do that. You're perfect. Nothing compares to you. Just know that you're the only one for me. Nothing and no one could replace you. I love you."
Steve leaned to kiss her.
"Goodnight, baby."
Then he hugged her from behind.
Natasha listened to every word he said, she just continued on pretending.
As Steve's words sank in, she felt guilty. She knows that Steve is loyal to her, but she can't help but feel jealous when he's holding someone else, when he's close to someone else.
She's never loved like this before.
She decided to apologize to him in the morning.
Steve woke up with a deeply asleep Natasha snuggling his chest.
God knows how much he missed her.
He smiled at the sight.
He kissed her lips lightly and got out of bed slowly, careful not to wake her up.
She stirred a little, but she didn't wake up. Steve made his way to the dining room to make Natasha her favorite coffee.
He made a coffee for two- him and Natasha.
He was about to head back to Natasha's room when he saw a limping Sharon making her way towards him.
He put the cups of coffee down to help her.
He made her put her arm around his neck and he put his arm around her waist to help her walk without feeling the pain.
Sharon sat down and saw the coffee.
"Those smell really nice." She complimented Steve.
He smiled. "Here, take it."
"Sharon, excuse me, I really need to take this coffee to Natasha." He added.
"Sure." Was her only response.
Natasha was also making her way to the dining room and she had heard what Steve said about bringing her coffee.
She smiled from ear to ear.
She understood Steve helping Sharon, but her emotions were unchecked yesterday, she knows that it's not Steve's fault, she shouldn't have taken it out on him.
Steve saw her and smiled.
"good morning, baby." He greeted.
Her smile grew wider.
"Good morning, soldier." She greeted back, biting her lower lip.
She wrapped her arms around his waist.
"Careful, coffee's hot." He warned, chuckling.
Natasha sniffed his chest.
"Baby, I'm sorry." She said, looking at his baby blue eyes.
"For what?"
"Yesterday. I was being childish, I couldn't help it. Sorry for how I treated you."
A sweet smile occurred on Steve's face.
"You don't need to apologize."
"I want to." She replied.
Steve didn't say anything, instead, he put his lips on her. They kissed for a while that Sharon felt awkward watching them.
They smiled at each other.
"Your coffee's getting cold." He said.
Natasha let go of him and took her coffee.
They went towards the kitchen counter. Natasha greeted Sharon.
"Hi Sharon."
"hi."
Natasha noticed that Sharon is also drinking a coffee made by Steve, a coffee that was just for the two of them. She just smiled and controlled her emotions.
"We should watch a movie today." Natasha suggested.
"Babe, we can't go out." Steve replied, then they both realized Steve just said their endearment in front of somebody. They just looked at each other, amused, smiling from ear to ear.
Sharon just drank her coffee awkwardly.
"Who said we're going out? I mean here, all of us are gonna watch a movie."
"Hmmm. Sounds good." Steve replied while making his own coffee.
The couple continued to chat about movies, their favorite ones, the actors and so on.
They forgot Sharon there.
Sharon cleared her throat.
"Steve? Could you help me back to the room please? My wound is burning like hell." She winced a little.
Natasha tried not to roll her eyes. She knows Sharon was faking it.
"Yeah. Sure." Steve replied, placing his coffee on the counter
"I think it's time you should replace the bandage." Sharon said, placing her hand on her inner thigh.
Natasha looked at the bandage and noticed that it was pretty close to her private part.
Natasha is clutching the edge of the counter so hard, thinking about Steve touching Sharon there is killing her.
"Nat, I'll just help Sharon, okay?"
"okay." She replied, trying to sound normal.
She watched them walk away and decided to go to Pepper and Tony's room.
Natasha knocked so loud at the door.
Pepper opened it.
"Natasha, what's wrong?" Pepper asked as Natasha stormed into the room she climbed into the bed and kicked Tony hard.
"Natalie! I could have been naked!" He protested, still sleepy.
"Get out." She commanded.
"This is our room! You don't have an authority here!" Tony replied, yawning, Natasha gave him a deadly glare.
"Really, Tony?"
Tony's eyes widened.
"Okay! Okay!"
He immediately got up and went out of there.
Pepper laughed.
"Ugh! She really knows how to ruin my day! I swear, I could really break her leg for real!" Natasha whined, collapsing on the bed.
"I know. We don't like her too." Pepper replied.
"we?"
"Yeah. Me and Tony."
"She's a bitch!"
"No. she's the bitch." Pepper corrected her.
Natasha laughed.
Since it's Saturday, and they don't have work, they chatted about Sharon, bitches and jealousy all morning.
After dinner, they watched a couple of movies. Natasha sat between Clint and Steve while Sharon sat beside Steve. Pepper and Tony sat in the love seat while Bfruce wwas on the couch with his book, barely paying attention to the movie.
Throughout the movie, Steve and Natasha held hands and laughed at their inside jokes.
Sharon heard it all and she felt bad for herself, she pitied herself.
At the middle of the movie, Steve felt Clint's hand tap on his shoulder.
"Cap, she's asleep." He motioned to Natasha on his shoulder.
"Excuse me, Sharon, I'll just put her to bed."
Steve slowly carried her up. Natasha woke up, startled, then she felt Steve's strong arms.
"Steve…"
"I never thought of you being this heavy." He teased.
"Shut up. You still love me."
Steve laufghed and kissed her while walking.
The sound of their kisses were apparently heard.
"God! Can't you two wait till you reach your room?" tony complained which made them laugh.
Sharon saw the way Steve looks at Natasha, and she knows, it's real. He loves her. Very much.
Later that night, Sharon called Fury and told him that she was good to go back to her apartment. Steve accompanied her back to her apartment the next morning.
A/N: thanks for reading :) reviews always welcome.
Gosh! i need to watch Ghost In The Shell in 3D. i really do! ugh! have any of you guys already watched it?
PS: forgive me for any grammatical errors here, english is not my first language and typo error, if there's any.. i'm really sleepy right now.. hope you enjoyed! good night xoxo