I picked a fitting word for this one-shot, which will be the last but one. This one is set right after Tony, Peter and Dr. Strange leave earth with Maw's ship and Vision and Wanda meet in Edinburgh.

October 30th: Finifugal
(During Infinity War, light Romanogers/friendship)

finifugal [fi – ni – fU – gal]; adjective, Latin

hating endings; of someone who tries to avoid or prolong the final moments of a story, relationship or some other journey

Steve was sitting on the bed watching TV but not really paying attention when the sound of the blowdryer finally stopped. Right after they had gotten here Natasha had insisted on showering.

Now she was coming out of the bathroom with sweatpants and a fresh t-shirt on. Steve smiled at her. "Feeling better?"

She nodded and let herself fall down on the bed next to him, "Yeah... accidentally spilling coke over my shirt earlier didn't really help."

Steve grinned and said, "I'm still proud you didn't kick this kid off of his skate-board after he pushed you."

Grinning as well Nat said, "See... character development."

Steve looked at his phone briefly. "Wanda still hasn't responded..."

Nat sighed and briefly eyed the TV. "Yeah... but we found out where she is. Let her have space. From here we can come get her in five minutes if she needs us."

Steve nodded, "Yeah, I guess. But if we didn't hack into her phone we would not be able to do that. It's dangerous, Nat..."

Natasha sighed again and started talking, "Yes... I see, but..."

She was interrupted by a news broadcast.

Express news! We would like to apologize for the interruption of the programm. This is breaking news! An alien-ship caused distruction in the general area of Central Park. Iron Man, Spider Man and a flying wizard were fighting the aliens for about 15 minutes before vanishing with the ship. There are no news. Tony Stark is missing! We will keep you up to date throughout the night.

Silence washed over the hotel room. Natasha slowly looked away from the TV to face Steve. She was about to speak up again when something buzzed in Steve's bag.

He jumped up immediately and started throwing out clothing. In a matter of seconds he pulled out a flip-phone. He opened it with shaky hands and raised it to his ear. "Tony?"

What followed was a ten minute phone-call.

Steve responded to the caller on the other end quickly after they had discussed everything, "Listen, Bruce... I see, I'll gather everyone. We are coming back to New York right now."

They hung up and Steve let his hand sink.

Natasha now stood up from the bed too and looked at him concerned. "What's going on? Was that Bruce...?"

Steve nodded. "Yeah. He said he was in space with Thor because that's where the quinjet took the Hulk. And he came back because Thanos attacked them, that's apparently some alien who was responsible for New York in 2012. And now he is coming for something, some magic stones. And they took Tony... Bruce has no idea what happened to Thor. We need to go back to New York right now! Let's get Wanda and Vision."

Natasha nodded slowly. "I should... I'll go wake up Sam then, I guess."

Steve swallowed hard before saying, "I guess so... I guess we're going back."

Looking down Natasha whispered, "Are you sure they won't arrest us?"

Steve walked over to her and carefully took Nat's hand in his free hand. "They got bigger problems going on right now. They need us."

Natasha bit down on her lip and looked up to face him. "I guess this is the last hotel we'll be staying in then."

Steve smiled a bit. "Yeah... at least something on the bright side."

Nat let out a chuckle and said, "Not entirely... I'm going to miss this, you know."

Steve ran his thumb over the back of her hand. "Me too... I almost got used to sharing a room."

Nat tightened the grip on his hand when the TV played their breaking-news-music again.

Breaking news for the Edinburgh area. Avoid the central train station at all cost. There's a fight between aliens and Vision and the Scarlet Witch happenening right now. We will keep you up to date with footage from our helicopter.

Immediately Nat let go of Steve's hand. "I'm waking Sam up right now! Let's meet at the train-station."