She couldn't sleep. no matter how hard she tried.
Every time she closed her eyes, haunting memories came back to her. They still gave her nightmares Steve would usually comfort her when the nightmares flooded her mind. But he wasn't there, he was on a 2-day mission.
She hadn't told him. They had never talked about having kids because she couldn't conceive. Or at least she thought she couldn't. Maybe the red room hadn't sterilised her… thoughts over loaded her head. So she went to one person who might know the answers to all her questions. Bruce…
"Sure I'll take a look." He said when she asked him about how she could be pregnant.
He ran a blood test and studied the results.
"Nat, there is some of Steve's Super Soldier Serum in you. This suggests that whatever birth control you used would have been no match for the serum. Steve healed the damage don't by the red room." He said.
She stared into space not believing what she had just heard.
"Nat, I know how you must be feeling, but there are options if you want to abort... I mean only if you want to." The doctor continued.
"NO! I can't kill it. I kill people every day but this. This one hasn't done anything wrong. Those people have." She shouted but made she sure only Bruce could hear her.
"Okay that's your choice but you need to know there are a lot of people out there who will want a baby with the super soldier serum gene." She spoke softly sensing Natasha's anger.
"I know the world is a risky place, but the safest hands are still our own. Bruce we are the avengers! If we can't protect this baby, then who can?" she replied.
"Okay, I'm sorry." Bruce whispered.
"Its fine Bruce. Just don't tell anyone. Especially Tony." She said sliding off the chair and walking out the room.
Now the hard part, she had to tell Steve. Well, his birthday was in a few days.
2 days later- Steve's birthday.
"Open it!" Natasha Demanded.
"Okay, okay!" he replied.
He untied the ribbon and carefully slid the small box out the pink and blue wrapping paper.
He opened the lid to reveal a positive pregnancy test.
Natasha bit her lip nervously as she tried to search for a facial expression.
A smirk escaped his lips.
"I'm going to be a dad!" he looked at Natasha with his shining big blue eyes and a massive grin on his face from ear to ear.
She smiled.
Steve leaned in and kissed her bringing her onto his lap.
"I'm so glad you're happy about this. I love you so much! But can we not tell anyone about it yet? only Bruce, pepper and Maria know." She explained planting another kiss on his lips.
"Of course." He replied kissing her again.
"NAT! when were you going to tell me I'm going to be an uncle?!" Clint demanded walking into their room.
"Clint? How did you find out?" she questioned him.
"well, (he sighed) Maria told most the shield agents, Bruce told Betty, Betty told Bobbi, Pepper told Laura, Laura told me, I told…." He was interrupted.
"LADY NATASHA I MUST CONGRATULATE YOU ON YOUR BLESSING! I HAVE TOLD MY FATHER TO THROW A CELEBRATION PARTY ON ASGUARD EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE NOT PRESENT WITH THEM!" Thor's voice boomed from down the corridor.
"Okay Clint! Who doesn't know?!" she demanded.
He thought for a second.
"Well I told pepper not to tell Tony so he doesn't know…" he replied.
Clint left when Laura rang demanding to know if the baby rumours were indeed true.
"Can we do this?! Can we raise a child when I'm not even supposed to have one?" she asked Steve.
She looked up at him with her big emerald Green orbs.
"We can do anything Nat, I'm with you every step of the way." Steve replied.
There was a short pause before Steve got off the bed and down on one knee.
"Natasha Romanoff will you do me the honour of becoming my Beautiful wife?" Steve asked nervously.
She gasped.
"Oh captain you don't even have to ask!" Natasha replied kissing him eagerly on the lips.
"I love you for all of eternity!"
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