Hey guys sorry for the delayed upload here is another chapter, i hope you like it. Just thought i would give you a heads up considering i will be returning to school soon my upload frequency may dwindle however i will ry my hardest to make sure i publish as much as i can. Thank you for all of your reviews, they give me inspiration. Enjoy!

The next morning I awoke I didn't feel the dread of what I may feel because it didn't matter, being with Steve was the closest I had ever come to happiness and this was all so over emotional and cheesy normally I probably would have shot something or someone by now but it is what it is so when I rolled over and the bed was empty next to me, my instincts went into overdrive. My eyes narrowed as my head whipped around as I searched the room until I reached for my gun and got out of bed not bothering to pull on any clothes, although I did wrap a towel around me that was on a nearby armchair. I made all of the necessary checks of the room noting that there were no signs of a struggle, the door hadn't been tampered with, there was nothing out of the ordinary except that Steve was missing. I grabbed my phone and saw that there were no texts and so I went to my suitcase and grabbed another gun and slid in another magazine and as I pulled back the slide the was a noise outside the door. My head whipped round to the sound. I ran to the cover of the wall and when I saw that the door wasn't opening yet I went and stood behind it, gun raised. The door opened slowly and a figure entered both arms full with something, I saw an opening so I attacked. I jabbed him in the ribs making the man spasm, dropping what he was carrying and jumped up and flipped wrapped one leg around his front and over his shoulder flipping him over onto the ground, my foot next to his head, my knee on his chest holding his collar with my fist raised about to deliver the knock-out blow when I stopped,

"Steve what the HELL are you doing?" I asked angrily as he raised his hands in defence,

"Jeez Nat I just went out to get breakfast," he said his eyes wide in shock,

"Don't you ever disappear like that again you hear me, you know that I worry, you can't do that in our line of work," I said not sure if that was for the cover or not,

"Okay, okay I won't leave without telling you again," he said hurriedly his hands still up in defence, "Can you at least lower your fist," he said laughing slightly at my offensive position, I lowered my fist but didn't move,

"You really had me worried Steve what if you had been taken?," I said still trying to remain serious and I thought I was successful in being serious until he snaked his hand around my leg near his head and up around my back before flipping me over so I was under him,

"Don't worry, it will take more than a few gangsters to get rid of me I mean have you met my fiancé?" he said chuckling, his gaze flicking between my lips and eyes. Before he bent down and kissed me, at first I resisted, still angry but then his hand circled around my thigh and he leaned a little closer and I couldn't take it anymore and I kissed him back surprising him I slipped my arms around him and pulled him down even more so and my leg wrapped around his back and he forgot what we were arguing about and I started to sit up, forcing Steve onto his knees and he had one arm supporting himself and the other snaked around into my hair and I had him right where I wanted him. My hand trailed his arm to my hair when I untangled it and then slipped out from under him like lightning, still holding his arm and grabbed his other arm and before he knew it he was face down on the carpet, one arm twisted against his back with my knee pressing into it painfully, his other arm in an arm lock that meant if he moved to much he would dislocate his elbow and shoulder. He chuckled into the carpet and I leant down to whisper in his ear,

"I have met her in fact and I'm fairly certain she wouldn't want you to do it again no matter the circumstance and would advise you that if you tried to get out of it like that again," I said slowly twisting his arm a bit tighter and kissing along his neck before coming back to his ear, "The results could be dire," I finished and I felt him shiver beneath me but then I decided to change tactics. I released him and jumped up and acted like the whole thing didn't happen, "So, what's for breakfast?," I asked cheerily. Steve groaned into the carpet and stayed there a moment before jumping up,

"Well, my dear little temptress, we have some pastries, courtesy of the little bakery down the street and a large, black coffee for you and a hot chocolate for me, and three beautiful, fresh mangoes from the market," finished Steve as he pulled out each item of food from thee bag and went over to retrieve the drinks which he had luckily laid on the table before we had had our little… altercation. I just sat there dumbfounded he had just said 'little temptress' in Russian. That's right, Russian. I looked up at Steve, confused, since when did he speak Russian? Steve was raised in an era when the relations between Russia and America were far worse than they are now and he is the cookie cutter result of his generation, the fact that he could even work with me was remarkable but that he spoke the language was very surprising to say the least. I watched him return to the room and he looked up when I spoke,

"Since when did you speak Russian?" I asked and the smile wasn't as bright,

"What because of from where I'm from you don't expect me to speak Russian?" he asked hitting the nail on the head immediately, I had forgotten how perceptive Steve was when it came to things that had anything even remotely to do with combat including the art of deduction,

"Well to perfectly honest, yeah, and the fact that you didn't mention it before I find I little odd," I said trying to keep this apart of our cover as much as possible. Steve stopped and started to pack up the food,

"Look I passed a little park on the back from the market maybe we can breakfast there and talk about all of this?" he asked looking at me and then I realised he actually wanted to tell me the absolute truth so I got up and grabbed my coat,

"Sounds great," and we left the room.

Once we made it to the park we found a small picnic table and we sat and Steve started divvying out the breakfast, putting my coffee in front of me, explaining as he did so,

"As you might expect I was raised to hate anything to do with Russia, by my father especially, he was a very opinionated man and thought that I should share those opinions and if I didn't then I was not only dishonouring him but also my country so I kept my views to myself. I was taught to hate certain countries such as Russia and Germany and to live and die for my country, the latter of which I pride myself on as you know. But my mother's mother was Russian, a fact she kept secret from my father. And my mother, she was a very brilliant woman, so she taught me the language and many things about Russia and explained to me that you shouldn't hate the country, only the people that make the bad decisions, I mean Hitler wasn't even German. But that is beside the point. I have spoken Russian for most of my life but I have never told anyone, it was just for my mother and I and now I can share it with you." He finished taking a huge bite of his pastry but still remaining courteous, with a humble smile. I had been eating and listening in silence as Steve told me his story. "So that is how I speak Russian probably not very well as I haven't spoken a word in about 85 years," he said light heartedly.

"Well considering that I don't think you're rusty at all," I replied matching his smile and leaning over to kiss him. Unfortunately the moment didn't last long because as soon as I took my seat we were approached by two men that obviously weren't here for the birdlife due to them both carrying desert eagles in shoulder holsters.

I know that Steve speaking Russian is a little unorthodox but i thought that having that connection would make them grow even closer and would give them something extra to have in common once the mission was over. I will update soon, thank you so much and please review :D