Chapter 52-Safe

By: MysticFantasy

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"We need to have another costume party soon and See what Fury will dress up as to that." Clint said.

"Maybe a lifeguard." Tony suggested. "We all remember how the two love birds here hooked up."

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"Clint, where are you?!" Natasha demanded into the comm link.

"Here I am." Clint shoted as he stood on top of a building and waved from the roof.

"Do you have sight of the suspect?" Steve asked.

"No. He disappeared from my sight." the archer answered.

"That's new." Steve voiced with surprise.

"Tell me about it. I don't like it!" Clint declared.

"Just keep your guard up." Natasha said as she walked near the edge where the water lapped against the docks.

The sound of the water was calming but Natasha couldn't let herself get caught in it. There was a criminal who claimed to have a SHIELD weapons file walking around somewhere and she needed to be completely focused right now.

Unfortunatly, something else dicided to distract her.

She looked to the other side of the docks and spotted Steve standing near the water. The scene was breath taking.

Seeing him stand with the calm waters behind him and the light of the moon shinning down on him...It made him look even more handsome and innocent.

Two things that made Natasha fall for him.

But he didn't know that and he would never know it. Natasha knew that there was no way that she and Steve could work. He was way too perfect and nice while she was a killer and spy.

Steve deserved a woman far greater than her at his side.

Still, she wanted to tell him how she felt so greatly that it nearly hurt.

Like, really. Her side hurt all of a sudden.

Looking down, Natasha lightly gasped when she saw a small bullet sized hole on the far side of her hip. Her suit was now slowly being covered in the crimson liquid that was escaping from her.

"Natasha!" Clint shouted.

Too late, Natasha suddenly felt something tighten around her ankle and, the next thing she new, she was now holding her breath and struggling to get back to the surface.

Not having realized what had been going on, she hadn't been able to take a deep enough breath and was quickly running out of air.

She tried to reach down to free her ankle but it was too dark to see and the pain from her side had spread to her arms and hands. Making it even harder to try to free herself.

Becoming light headed, Natasha suddenly feared that this might be the one situation that she couldn't get out of.

Of all the ways she could have been taken out and by who, Natasha didn't think she would have drowned to death by an amateur crook. It wass almost sad to think about.

The Black Widow drowned to death at the hands of a rookie.

Feeling her air run out, Natasha was dimly aware of something big and strong around her. The binding around her ankle was gone and she was now rising.

She knew that this wasn't right. There was no way that someone like her couldn't be going to hell. Not even helping the world could have cleared her the passage to the kingdom of light.

Somehow her eyes opened right as she broke the waters surface and she was able to take in a large breath of air and cough out the water that she had somehow taken in.

"Are you alright, Natasha?!" a deep voice exclaimed as they just floated there.

Natasha coughed a little and, when it calmed, she turned and saw that she was in the arms of none other than Steve. It was then that her recovering mind realized that Steve was the one who saved her.

He actually risked his life to save her.

"I'm ok." she managed to answer. "Thank you, Steve."

"I'm just glad that I got to you before it was too late." Steve said. "I don't know if I could live with myself if anything happened to you."

Natasha was a little stunned at what he just said. She wanted to ask him what he meant but he started getting them back to shore. Once back on shore, Natasha did something that caught them both by surprise.

She put her hands on the side of Steve's face and pulled him toward her. She caught his lips with hers with a passion. She could feel his slight hesitation and surprise but that vanished almost instantly and he actually kissed back.

"Were it not for the situation, this would be sickening to the stomach." Clint declared as he walked over while dragging unconscious man. Their target.

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Natasha snuggled into Steve's embrace. Of all the ways that they could have gotten together, she didn't think that saving her life would have been the way it would have happened.

"You're safe with me." he told her.