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I had this one shot in my draft for some time now and edited and changed a few bits and thought I publish it to show you that I'll keep posting now that I know that you still like these one shots.

A new multi-chapter story is in the works.

Natasha shows up in Siberia and gets caught in the crossfire between Tony, Steve and Bucky.

A week ago Natasha's life had een good, really good. She had been co-leading the Avengers with Steve and their missions went smoothly and she liked living at the base with the others. For the first time she felt like she belonged somewhere. But then Lagos happened, then the Accords, then Vienna and then Leipzig. And now everything had gone to shit. She didn't regret letting Steve and his buddy , not one bit but she regretted what it cost her. She couldn't go back, her life as an Avenger was done. That part of her life was over. Ross knew that she let Steve and Barnes escape and she was now a fugitive as well. Tony was mad at her, Rhodey could be paralyzed and Sam, Clint, Wanda were on their way to the Raft. All she wanted was for them to stay together! That was the whole fucking reason why she signed those damn Accords! She would have to call in a lot of favors to break her friends out of prison. And that Ant-Man guy of course. But right now she needed to help Steve take out these Winter Soldiers. Who knew if Barnes got a set back and then it was Steve against six. No, she couldn't let that happen. He meant too much to her to let him face that alone. She checked the GPS-tracker she threw at Steve's shield when he and Barnes passed by her in the hangar and took one of the quinjets Fury had hidden all over Europe to get to Siberia.

Steve's quinjet was already there when she landed and she spotted one of Tony's choppers. Great, so he was here as well. It was definitely helpful that Iron Man was here to deal with the Winter Soldiers but he was definitely in a bad mood, probably feeling betrayed by everyone. She walked through the snow into the facility and got her Glocks out of the thigh holsters. Zemo probably had already woken up the Winter Soldiers.

"There's a truce here." She heard Tony's voice echo through the hall. Well, at least that was something. She hoped her arrival wouldn't complicate things.

She walked around the corner and saw Steve and Tony standing in front of each other. Barnes was a few meters away on a staircase now pointing his (she was pretty sure it was actually her) rifle at her.

"Hi, boys."

Steve and Tony looked at her and Steve signaled his friend to lower his gun. Tony furrowed his eyebrow. "What are you doing here?"

She shrugged her shoulders. "Well, last time I checked I was Russian and I thought it was time to visit Mother Russia again. Fancy meeting you all here."

Tony clenched his jaw but didn't say anything. Steve gave her a little smile and she was glad that things still seemed to be the same between them. She could live if Tony never forgave but Steve hating her...That was a thought she couldn't bear.

She followed them through a corridor and mentally prepared herself for combat. Taking out five Winter Soldiers wouldn't be easy.

"I got heat signatures." Tony announced when they reached a big open hall.

"How many?" She and Steve asked at the same time.

"Uh, one."

Just one? Did Zemo leave one behind and took the other four with him? What exactly was going on here? They entered another chamber and the lights went on. In front of them were five cryo chambers and the Winter Soldiers were still in them. She took a closer look, they were dead. That didn't make any sense.

"If it's any comfort they died in their sleep." A male voice was echoing through the room. It had to be Zemo. "Did you really think I wanted more of you?"

"What the hell?" Barnes asked besides her and she had to agree. What the fuck was going on? Why bring them here to find already dead super soldiers? What was his MO?

"I'm grateful to them though. They brought you here." Zemo was now looking through the window of the control room. Steve threw his shield at the glass but it didn't break. What a coward, hiding behind reinforced glass. " Please, Captain. The Soviets built this chamber to withstand the launch blast of UR-100 rockets."

"I bet I can beat that." Tony mocked and she really wanted him to. She hated Zemo more and more by the second and she still hadn't figured out what his plan was.

"Oh, I'm sure you could, Mr. Stark. Given time. But then you'd never know why you came."

"You killed innocent people in Vienna just to bring us here?" Steve walked closer to the control room and looked at Zemo through the window.

"I thought about nothing else for over a year. I studied you. I followed you. But now that you're standing here, I just realized... there's a bit of green in the blue of your eyes. How nice to find a flaw."

Natasha didn't like where this was going. Zemo clearly still had an ace up his sleeve.

"You're Sokovian. Is that what this is about? You lost someone?"

Zemo wanted revenge. This was not good, someone hellbent on revenge was unpredictable and ruthless.

"I lost everyone. And so will you. An empire toppled by its enemies can rise again. But one which crumples from within? That's dead... forever." An old screen turned on and it showed a surveillance footage from December 1991. Fuck, she knew what the footage would show. That had been Zemo's plan all along and she had no doubt that it would work.

"I know that road. What is this?" Tony asked while staring at the screen. Steve watched Tony with unease and Bucky looked away. This was the moment that would change everything. There was no coming back from this. Zemo had won. They watched how the Winter Soldier killed both Howard and then Maria Stark before he destroyed the surveillance cam.

Tony lunged towards Barnes but Steve stopped him. "Did you know this?"

"I didn't know it was him." Steve was still a horrible liar.

"Don't bullshit me, Rogers. Did you know this?"

"Yes."

Rage was flickering through Tony's eyes and she didn't know how to calm him down. She and Steve never talked about what Zola showed them two years ago, they silently agreed to not tell Tony about it and now they had to pay the price.

"Tony?" She asked calmly but he practically growled at her.

"Did you know about this too?"

There was no reason to lie to him. "It was implied by Zola when SHIELD fell."

He clenched his jaw and put his face plate back on. The energy blast he sent towards them threw her, Steve and Barnes off their feet. Barnes opened fire but Tony deflected the bullets and disarmed him. Before she or Steve could do anything, Tony grabbed Bucky and slammed him into a wall. There was no chance to talk Tony out of it. They had to stop him before he killed Barnes out of rage. Steve threw his shield in Tony's direction to distract him from Barnes. Tony was now lunging towards Steve and she fired at him to stop him. She understood that Tony was furious and felt betrayed but they had to stop him before he did something that he would regret for the rest of his life. Killing Barnes, and possibly killing Steve, wouldn't bring back his parents. Tony picked a piece of metal up and threw it at her. She barely managed to jump out of the way. All sanity had clearly left him. He was out for blood.

Steve attacked Tony again but Barnes ran towards them and threw Tony off of Steve. Tony punched Barnes so hard that the floor was splattered with blood. A grenade shot out of his suit but Barnes dodged the attack and it destroyed the wall behind him. Pipes were exposed and bricks and metal were laying around.

"Get out of here!" Steve yelled and tackled Tony to the ground.

"No!" She yelled back and ran towards him and Tony. Steve yelled Barnes' name and he suddenly had his hand wrapped around her upper arm and stopped her.

"Let's go!" He was dragging her away and she tried to shake him off.

"We have to help him!"

"You heard him." They were almost at the exit. "We need to get to the quinjet to get more weapons." She knew that Barnes was right but it was so hard for her to just leave Steve alone with Tony's wrath. Steve was suddenly screaming in pain and she managed to shake Barnes' grip on her off and ran to him. She didn't know what she would do but she had to stop Tony before he seriously hurt Steve.

"Stop it!" She screamed when she almost reached them. She couldn't think of anything better than trying to pry Tony off Steve with her bare hands but he hit her with the full strength of his Iron Man suit when she touched his shoulder. God, that hurt! He sent her flying backwards through the room and then the air was knocked out off her and she felt pain she never experienced before. She looked down and saw a pipe poking out of her stomach. Fuck! She got impaled on one of the pipes the explosion from earlier exposed. She was shaking and bit her lip. God, it hurt so fucking much! Blood was dripping out of her mouth and she had problems to breathe. She was dying, wasn't she?

"Stop!" Bucky screamed. "Don't you see what you've done!"

She tried to keep her eyes open and saw how Tony stopped beating the shit out of Steve and looked over. She closed her eyes and when she opened them Steve was by her side.

"Nat?" Steve's eyes were glistening. He had such pretty eyes. Did she ever tell him that? "Nat, stay with me! Okay? It's gonna be okay!"

She tried to laugh but she only spit blood on Steve's suit. She really thought she would go out with more style. "You're still a horrible liar." She managed to touch his cheek despite getting weaker. She didn't have much longer, she could feel it. "It's okay, Steve. It really is. I always thought I would die alone but I'm not. Because you...you're here." Speaking got harder. He placed his hand over hers on his cheek. "You're here and that's...that's all...that matters. Your...your eyes...really pretty." She could barely keep her eyes open.

"Natasha, please! Don't leave me. I need you!" She wanted to tell Steve that she didn't want to leave him but she was too weak. "Nat, please. Fight it! Don't leave me!"

She saw something black coming towards them, a completely black figure. Was that Death? Did the Angel of Death really exist? The figure came closer and looked like a cat. What? She blinked her eyes open and saw how the face of the figure changed. Now he looked like T'challa. Huh? Why did Death take his form? She tried to tell Steve but she was too tired, so fucking tired. She just wanted the pain to stop.

"I think I can help." Death said and sounded a lot like T'challa. "We have to get her off the pipe first."

"Are you crazy?" That sounded like Tony. Why did he hear Death, too?! "That will kill her!"

"We have to be quick. I have something that will stop the bleeding for now and stabilize her spine so we can get her to Wakanda. My sister can heal her."

Death had a sister? What was going on?

"Okay." That sounded like Steve. How she loved his voice. How she loved him. She would miss him so much. Suddenly hands were on her and she was moved. The pain was getting worse and she screamed. Something was suddenly inside her and it was so cold and hot at the same time. She tried to move away but the hands were stronger.

"It's okay, Miss Romanoff. This will help you. Don't fight it."

She opened her eyes and Steve was looking down at her and then everything went black.

Bucky felt like he shouldn't be here but Steve asked him to watch over Romanoff and so he did. They brought her to Wakanda with Steve holding her small and pale hand between his own and never taking his eyes off her. Whatever that weird orb from T'challa's bracelet was, it saved Romanoff's life and made it possible to get her to Wakanda where T'challa's little sister somehow managed to heal her. There wouldn't even be a scar and Romanoff would be completely fine when she would wake up.

Shuri told him that she could find a way to remove his triggers and he believed her. What she had done with Romanoff was practically magic. He wanted to go back into cryo until Shuri had found a way but Steve asked him to stay with Romanoff while he and Stark went to the Raft to free their friends. Stark had completely changed after what happened to her and followed them to Wakanda and waited for news on her. He ignored him and Bucky was glad. He didn't know what to tell him. Howard had been a great man and he murdered him. And he killed his wife, even though she had nothing to do with it. Steve and Tony were barely talking to each other which had made the wait for news on Romanoff awkward. Steve was mad at Stark for what had happened to Romanoff and guilty for lying to him and Stark was mad at Steve for lying to him and felt guilty for what had happened to Romanoff.

Romanoff was brought to a private room after her surgery where he was currently sitting on a couch keeping an eye on her. Stark had left a letter for her because he had to return to the States after breaking out their friends. He said he was only helping Steve because he owed Romanoff.

He watched Romanoff's face. She was still very pale but she didn't look like she was on the brink of death anymore. Shuri said that she would be out for several hours until her body recovered from the shock and trauma that it went through. Getting impaled by a pipe was no joke. It still felt wrong that he was the one looking after her but he had to do it for Steve. He remembered shooting her in DC and he was sure that he shot her before that. He had read her file, he knew that she went through something similar like him. If she could get out of it on the other side, maybe there was still hope for him.

There was one thing he didn't understand though. Why did Steve kiss that blonde when he was clearly in love with Romanoff? He hadn't understand why that Wilson guy gave Steve a disappointed frown when he got back into the car. Was Romanoff his girlfriend and they watched him cheat on her? But would Steve really cheat on his girl? Or leave her behind in a hangar? Bucky didn't think so. So Wilson was probably disappointed that Steve kissed the blonde and not Romanoff. It was so obvious to Bucky that Romanoff was the woman his best friend loved. He had looked heartbroken in Leipzig when he thought that he had to fight her and he had been practically out of his mind during the flight to Wakanda.

He had to give Steve some tips about women before he went under because if he remembered correctly he had been quite the ladies man back in the day. Someone from T'challa's staff came in and informed him that Steve was on his way back to Wakanda. He looked over to the redhead and hoped Steve would be here when she'd wake up. Bucky was sure that Steve wouldn't forgive himself if he missed it. And something told Bucky that Romanoff wanted Steve to be here when she'd wake up.

Ten months later. Rome, Italy.

They were lucky and got two rooms at a decent motel outside Rome under false names. Steve would as always share the room with Sam so Natasha could have some privacy. She often complained that she could share the room with one of them and sometimes the three of them had to when they could only get one room but he and Sam were gentlemen and always made sure she got her own room or at least got to sleep in the bed and not on the floor. She called them sometimes sexists but he couldn't just bear the sight of Natasha curled into a little ball on the floor. And besides, he and Sam were soldiers, they were used to hard floors.

Sam announced that he would go back to the little cafe to see if he got a chance with the pretty waitress.

"Don't wait up." He winked. "And take me as an example and go over to Nat!" He said before he got of the door.

Steve sighed and rolled his eyes. Sam took his role as his wingman quite literally and tried to push him into Natasha's direction. What had Sam said after he and Natasha left Wakanda and met up with him in Cairo? The girl of your dreams almost dies and you still don't tell her what you feel, dude? What will it take until you finally confess? He didn't like to think back to the day Natasha almost bled to death. Tony had found out the truth about his parents' death and then he almost killed Natasha by accident. Tony still felt terrible about it and Steve knew that he sent Natasha new gear from time to time. He and Tony hadn't talked since they got the others out of the Raft, he couldn't really blame Tony for that. He hadn't told him the truth and he could understand why he wanted to try to kill Bucky. Steve wanted to kill Tony after he accidentally impaled Natasha on a pipe. There was no doubt in his mind that he would have tried to kill Tony if Natasha had died. He was so incredibly grateful to T'challa and Shuri for saving Nat and helping Bucky. He could never repay them. They saved the two most important people in his life.

Should he really go over to Natasha's room? What was he supposed to say? I love you, I've loved you for so long? Nope, that was not gonna happen. Things would get really awkward between them if he told her how he truly felt and the three of them made a good team. Traveling around the globe and helping people. They had to be careful so they wouldn't be made but Natasha was the best when it came to those things and they managed to stay under the radar.

He decided to go to her room and ask her if she wanted to play cards or watch a movie with him. It was rare that they had a quiet evening and he wanted to enjoy it with the woman he loved (that not she knew that she was the woman he loved).

He borrowed a bag of chips from Sam and knocked on Natasha's door three quick times and then after a pause he knocked again to let her know it was him. She opened the door a few moments later. He tried his best not to stare at her. Her brown hair (he missed the red) was still wet from the shower and she was wearing sweat pants and a wide tank top and he could see her lacy bralette thing underneath it. She really was testing him with her ability to look sexy and cute at the same time. But he was quite proud of the fact that Natasha hadn't figured out yet that he was in love with her. It had to be the greatest accomplishment of his life.

"What's up?"

"Sam left to pursue his chance at true love and I thought you maybe wanna watch a movie with me or something?"

She nodded and let him in. Natasha put her laptop between them on the bed and he let her pick a movie. She chose Singing in the Rain (he figured out a long time a go that musicals were her favorite genre) and they shared the chips he took from Sam.

"You know I still don't know how to dance." He admitted after the credits rolled.

"I thought you wanted to take classes?"

He had told her that after she didn't offer to teach him like he had hoped she would. "Well, SHIELD fell and then I had other stuff to deal with."

"Right." She shut her laptop. "You want me to teach you? I'm no Debbie Reynolds but I know a few moves."

His heart was pretty much pounding against his rib cage. "Sure, yeah. That'd be great."

She got off the bed and put on some slow music. "You can learn the tango another time. How about I show you how to sway to the music?"

He nodded and walked over to her. "Okay, put your hands on my waist." He did and she looped her arms around his neck. "Good, follow my movement."

He stepped on her feet more than once and he was so embarrassed even though she assured him that it was fine. He didn't know how long it took him but he was finally moving with Natasha in sync and she showed him how to waltz. They danced through the room and Natasha looked up at him with a little smile on her face. He wanted to kiss her so badly but he knew that she didn't want him to. She never showed any sign that she saw him more as a friend and he was okay with that. He just wanted to be around her and he wanted her to be safe.

The music got slower again and Natasha's arms went back around his neck and they swayed to the music. She rested her cheek on his chest and he was sure that she could hear his heart going crazy. They kept moving to the music and he couldn't remember a time where he felt more at peace. She was now looking up at him with open eyes and then she rose on her tiptoes and pulled his head down. Was she... She closed her eyes and pressed her lips against his. His brain stopped working for a second and then he kissed her back. It was so much better than the kiss on the escalator. Natasha's hands moved to grab the collar of his shirt and he pressed her closer against him. Not that he had a lot of experience but the kiss was perfect. She kissed him softly and with care and he realized that he wasn't the only one with feelings. The kiss grew more passionate and deeper and they landed on the bed with Natasha on top of him.

His hands somehow ended on her ass. "Sorry."

She pulled away from his lips and chuckled. "Don't be." She pecked his lips. "You can squeeze if you want to."

He did and she grinned at him. "Who would have thought that Captain America was an ass man."

"I'm not Captain America anymore." He mumbled against her full lips. "And you also have nice breasts." Oh God, did he really just say that?

She brushed hair away from his forehead. She had told him after they went into hiding to grow his hair out and to grow a beard. And he totally hadn't smiled like an idot when she told him that he looked good with a beard. "You noticed, huh? Have you been checking me out, Rogers?"

"Um, maybe?" He hoped his beard was covering his blush.

She kissed the corner of his mouth. "It's okay. I might sneak a peek at your ass from time to time."

"Yeah?" His hands were still on her ass but she didn't seem to mind.

"You certainly have a great behind. But it's not my favorite part of you. You wanna know what that is?"

He nodded unsure where this was going. Maybe she liked his eyes the best? He had been told even before the serum that he had pretty eyes.

"Your heart." She whispered and said heart almost stopped beating. "It's what makes you who you are."

"Natasha-" He wanted to tell her that he loved her but she already was kissing him and he felt how she poured everything into the kiss. She wasn't ready to hear it but he could wait to tell her. She rolled them so he was on top of her and slid her hands under his shirt. God, that felt nice.

"I've never done this." He admitted after Natasha gave him another kiss that was out of this world. Would she be disappointed by his lack of experience? That he had no clue how to make love to her?

"We can stop, Steve." She removed her hands from his back and cupped his face. "We don't have to have sex tonight. I can wait. Do you want to stop?"

"No." And then he kissed her and listened to Natasha and his body for the rest of the night.

Steve knew that Sam wasn't dumb and probably figured out that something happened between him and Natasha when he didn't come back to their room. Or maybe Sam spent the night with the waitress from the cafe.

Natasha gave him a kiss before they left her room to get breakfast. He was still on cloud nine. He couldn't believe that Natasha was finally his girl and he had made love to her. More than once, not that he was bragging or anything.

Sam was already sitting at a table in the dining room and they joined him. He looked tired, seemed like he had fun last night as well. "Look guys, I'm over the moon that you two got finally together after years of mutual pining but could you two please keep it down?"

"What?!" He asked in shock. Did Sam hear them?

"This motel has shockingly thin walls as I found out last night. Not that I'm not impressed with your stamina, Cap. Actually I'm kinda jealous but I didn't get any sleep last night! Like how did you not break Natasha?!"

Oh God, he wanted to die. He had no idea that they had been so loud last night. He looked at Natasha who grinned smugly. "You're just mad that you didn't get any last night, Sam!"

"That's totally besides the point, Romanoff! You two are buying me noise-cancelling headphones! And I'm never gonna share a room with you guys again! Who knows if you won't go at it when you think I'm asleep!" Sam looked actually horrified and Steve felt kind of bad for traumatizing him. But then again he was finally with Natasha and everything else didn't really seem to matter right now.