A/N: Thank you to all who reviewed. You really made me happy! Now, the second chapter! ^_^

Pepper Potts was walking down the corridor, glaring at Tony Stark. Well, the glare was also directed at Steve Rogers and Bruce Banner, but the two somehow managed to ignore it.

When they reaching the door the guys want Pepper to enter, she hissed.

The men stopped in their tracks and stared at her weirdly. She looked at them and said, "What? I don't want to go in there! There's a 99% percent chance that the NYPD will come here later and will be investigating the subtle but brutal murder of Pepper Potts!"

Bruce blinked twice and answered, "Who said it would be brutal?"

"BRUCE!"

Steve cut in, saying, "What Banner meant to say was, who says you're going to be murdered? Am I right Bruce?"

He looked pointedly at Banner, who was staring at Pepper, wide-eyed, while Pepper was glaring at him. He quickly nodded. Pepper sighed, and started walking again.

Tony then said, "See Banner? I told you Pepper was frightening, especially when you know it's you she's glaring at!"

"WHAT DID YOU SAY TONY!"

"Uh-oh."

Steve sighed, realizing that this supposed short trip down the corridor might be longer than he thought.

A few minutes later, or a few bickers later, they were a few feet away from Natasha Romanoff's room, which in Pepper's opinion will be the scene of the crime.

Bruce Banner then said, "Okay Miss Potts, if agent Romanoff isn't there, she might be at the sparring arena, in other words, the tenth floor."

Tony then said, "Wait a minute, the sparring arena isn't on the tenth floor, it's on the ninth!"

Bruce asked, "Does it really matter?"

Tony looked at Pepper, and said, "Yes."

Bruce sighed, knowing there was no change in Stark's attitude, said, "Okay, so it's important to you. Anyways, you know what to do right?"

Pepper nodded.

"You know what to ask?"

Another nod.

Pepper then asked, "What if I get into trouble? Should I call 911?"

"I don't think they would be able to help."

"Run very very fast?"

"She'll catch you anyways."

"Get Clint?"

"Then they'll both kill you."

"Get Tony?"

Tony perked up and said, "Bad idea. We'll be Shish Kebab in less than 5 minutes."

"Okay… Jump out the window?"

All of the boys said, "THAT'S SUICIDE!"

Steve added, "Stark was only able to do it because his suit was going after him!"

"That sounds very weird. So you mean to say my Iron Man suit was chasing me all around the room and I just happened to jump out the window so that it wouldn't follow me? That means my suit has much more common sense than me."

"That's not what I meant and you know it."

"I know what you meant."

"Then what did I mean?"

Pepper Potts, getting annoyed with the two, cut them off, saying, "Would both of you shut up and give me real advice!"

The two men stopped, looked at her, and said at the same time, "Just don't mess it up."

It was evident in her eyes that she was scared, no, terrified, and she didn't want to die just yet.

So she knocked. The boys ran away from the corridor as quickly (but not really silently) as possible.

A voice came from the other side of the door.

"Who is it?" The voice sounded bored out of its mind. Very unlikely of Natasha.

"I-it's me, Pepper."

"Oh, come in then."

When she went in, she got the shock of her life. Natasha wasn't doing anything! She was just lying down on her bed!

"Natasha, what's wrong?"

"Nothing."

"Are you sure? Because, if I remember correctly, usually by now, you would be sparring, shooting guns, or having a NCIS marathon."

"You know me that well, huh?"

That sentence obviously rattled Pepper. She was shaking!

"N-no of c-course not! It's just that those were what you were doing for the past two days!"

"Oh? Well, why are you here?"

"I-I've got something to ask you."

"Eh? What is it then?"

"W-what is your relationship status with Clint? Oh gosh! I said it wrong!"

At that, the Black Widow sat up, took her gun, and began to clean it.

Poor Pepper was getting paler by the second.

At the surveillance room, the men, mainly Tony, were slamming their heads on the table, horrified at how she said it.

Then Natasha spoke.

"It's complicated. I don't expect you to understand it."

At that moment, Pepper, Tony, Bruce and Steve woke up from their sense of dread.

Pepper managed to say, "Then at least try. I-if you w-want to."

Natasha raised her eyebrow and said, "Well, you know we're comrades, we've teamed up more than once, we know each other more than anyone, but I think… I might be falling for him."

At that point of the "interrogation", everyone's jaws dropped to the ground.

A second passed, two, three…

Then Steve said, "Did we actually get an answer?"

Bruce muttered, "Houston, I think there's a problem with my brain. It seems to be malfunctioning. It made me hear that agent Romanoff is in love with agent Barton."

Then, the most shocking thing of all:

"She's in love!" Was the only thing Tony Stark was able to say before he completely passed out.

"I can't believe it, he actually passed out." Steve muttered, trying not to follow in Stark's footsteps.

Back in the room, Pepper was actually able to control her giddiness and say, "Why won't you tell him then?"

Natasha sighed and said, "Because it might be illegal in S.H.I.E.L.D protocol."

Pepper was more than happy to give her good news. "But it's not illegal!"

Natasha looked up. "What did you say?"

"It's not illegal. If I remember correctly, there were even a few S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who got married to other agents." Pepper answered confidently. After they got the "go sign" from Banner, they researched a bit for proof that the rule didn't exist.

"Really?"

"That's what I know."

"I have to thank you, but, I don't know if he will ever… You know."

Pepper nodded then grinned, saying, "That's how I felt before, you know. But I think you've been waiting much longer than I have."

Natasha smiled faintly. She then said, "Thank you Pepper, for everything, but you better not tell this to anyone, okay?"

Because of that, Pepper was a bit scared, but not as much as before.

"I won't tell."

She stood up and left the room, leaving Natasha with a spark, maybe now a tiny flame, of hope.

Once Pepper closed the door, she saw the three men walking towards her.

Tony enthusiastically said, "Well done Pepper! We watched the whole thing!"

Steve added, "Me and Bruce watched the whole thing. Stark passed out for a few minutes."

Thus, Stark glares at Rogers, Rogers smiles at Stark, Stark keeps glaring, Banner has to cut in before Stark attacks Rogers.

Bruce then said, "Anyways, congratulations. Now all we have to do is interrogate, ehem, ask agent Barton if he feels the same way, without saying that agent Romanoff has feelings for him however."

Everyone nodded.

Pepper then said, "Good luck boys! Also, Tony? Don't say anything mean."

"If I don't say anything mean, he'll know there's something wrong!"

Steve, for once, blinked twice, and said, "You know, that actually makes sense!"

Tony smirks and bows.

Pepper rolled her eyes and said, "There goes his ego."

He pouted. "Pepper!"

They all laughed before they continued their "dangerous mission".

Wow, I'm not exactly satisfied. Is it too cheesy? Does it lack humor? Anyways, I hope you enjoyed it, and I also hope you forgive for the characters being, well, out of character. Also, should I transfer this story into the movies section, or make a copy and put it in the movies section? Let me hear your thoughts people! :D