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When Natasha and Steve arrived back at the tower Steve pulled her up to their room so he could give her the engagement ring he'd bought her. Steve knew Natasha wasn't into big, flashy jewelry so he'd settled on a full carat blue diamond solitaire with a cushion cut. She smiled and felt tears prickle her eyes, remembering that at one point they had window shopped at one of the local malls and Natasha had stopped to admire a window of a jewelry store that was currently featuring different colored diamonds. She'd told him that while she didn't care for regular diamonds at all, she did love the color of blue diamonds. That had been months ago and she hadn't expected him to remember such a random detail.
"It's beautiful. Thank you." She said standing on her toes to kiss his lips then looked at him shyly, "It's the same color as your eyes. That's why I love the color so much."
Steve slid his hands down her hips and pulled her into him, blushing at her admission. "Oh, well, if that's all…" He joked, leaning down to kiss her sweetly.
Natasha pulled away barely able to contain her excitement. "Let's go tell everyone!"
Steve followed after her struck by how much she had changed. Before they began dating Natasha had kept mostly to herself. Sure, before she would sit around drinking and watching movies with everyone and they all fought on the same team but she had never opened up and shared anything of her life with them. Maybe it could have been that she hadn't had anything in her life worth telling them about but Steve really thought it was because she was starting to trust everyone and to see all of them as a family. Steve had started thinking of them all that way too. Tony, Pepper, Thor, Jane, Bruce, Clint, Sam, Rhodey and Natasha. They were family. A little dysfunctional at times but at the end of the day they all trusted each other and had one another's backs.
As Steve and Natasha entered the elevator they asked Jarvis to have everyone assemble in the common room so they wouldn't have to hunt everyone down individually. Natasha bounced on the balls of her feet beside him in her excitement but stopped suddenly bringing her hands to her abdomen.
Steve looked at her concerned, "What's wrong? Does something hurt?"
"No." She breathed out slowly, pulling his hand to lay flat against her stomach. "Do you feel that? The baby just moved."
Natasha stayed still so Steve wouldn't mistake any of her movements for the baby's. Natasha had been able to feel the baby move for a few weeks now but the movement was still so soft that Steve hadn't been able to feel it yet. Steve waited a moment, at first not feeling anything, then felt a soft fluttering against his palm. "There, is that it?" He asked.
"Yes, that's it. You feel it too? It feels like butterflies or maybe rolling. Maybe he's rolling around." Natasha laughed.
"That's incredible." Steve said, smiling in awe.
Natasha's excitement overflowed and she jumped into Steve's arms, sealing her mouth against his. Surprised at first Steve chuckled against her lips and swung her around, pinning her against the elevator wall. He reached behind her, cupping her bottom in his hands and hauled her up against him to wrap her legs around his hips. When she reached down to cup him through his jeans he pulled away. "We have maybe half a minute before we get down there. Definitely not enough time."
"So stop the elevator." She said simply, continuing to rub him and feeling his hardness push against her palm. "You can't go out there like this now." She said tauntingly, flicking her tongue out across his lips.
"No thanks to you!" Steve growled against her lips while reaching over to smack the emergency stop button, bringing the elevator to a stop.
"It's all thanks to me!" She smiled wickedly pulling his belt away. "You know you love it."
"I'd love it even more if you made moments like these easier by wearing skirts and no underwear." Steve said as he set her down long enough to undo her jeans and pull them off her legs along with her shoes.
Steve's erection pushed painfully against his jeans as he undid them and pushed them down his hips enough to be out of the way. Then he was pressing up against her again and sliding his fingers between her folds, delighting in how wet she was. Natasha reached down and wove her fingers with his, collecting the wetness and reaching out to spread it over his cock, rubbing up and down. Steve groaned as he continued to work her with his fingers.
"I'll take the skirts under advisement but just think…All the times you make me wet I'm wearing panties and jeans so no one else knows. If I wear only a skirt and no panties I'll be dripping down my legs and EVERYONE will know just how hot you get me."
Steve jerked her up in his arms and she cried out as he thrust into her. She could feel herself already clenching at his cock wantonly. He grunted against her, feeling it too. "If you were trying to make that sound like a bad thing then you impressively failed."
Natasha threw her head back against the wall, panting and gripping his shoulders hard as Steve's thrusts caused her to slide up and down the wall. She loved how unexpectedly possessive Steve could be. His thickness was overwhelming and when she felt him butt against her womb she let out a scream and her walls gripped him tighter sending him into his own climax. They continued to move against each other trying to make the feelings last and when they finally stopped Steve slipped down with her in arms to sit on the floor still buried tightly inside her.
Natasha leaned her head into Steve's shoulder as they panted and even though Steve had just given her the most incredible orgasm, she could still feel her arousal pulsing. Her insides clenched and she rocked against him, leaning forward to capture his lips with hers. He was still semi hard but as Natasha pushed herself down on him she could feel his cock come back to full attention inside her.
"Shit, Nat. Again?" He groaned out, feeling his body instinctively respond to hers. She answered by tightening her sheath around his cock and, past the point of caring, Steve gripped her hips in his hands and moved her hips down on his in a more lazy rhythm until they were both cumming again with smaller but still intense orgasms.
Natasha felt boneless, draped over Steve's chest as he lay back flat against the floor, both covered in a light sheen of sweat. Then Steve moved underneath her trying to get them situated to where they could get themselves composed but stopped when she clenched her arms around him. "I'm comfy. No moving."
Steve laughed, amused. "The others are expecting us and we can't see them like this or stay in the elevator all day." Steve said looking over their appearances, realizing that simply putting their clothes back on wasn't going to do it. "Jarvis, take us back to our floor, please."
"Yes, sir." Jarvis responded.
As the elevator started its way back to their floor Natasha pulled herself away from him and started looking for her clothes, "You're no fun."
"Uh huh." Steve replied dryly, "I'll keep that in mind the next time you jump me in an elevator."
It was roughly twenty minutes later when they made it down to the common room where everyone but Sam, Rhodey and Jane were waiting on them. Tony made a show of checking his watch when they walked in, "You ask us to meet here and are the last ones to arrive? That's something I usually do. Am I rubbing off on you?"
"I hope not." Steve quipped back. "We got a little distracted but thanks for waiting."
Natasha stepped forward holding the pictures of their baby from the sonogram, "We got new pictures today and we found out what we're having. It's a little mini Steve!"
Pepper bounded over to Natasha and hugged her tightly, "Congratulations! Aww I can't wait till he's here!" She cried, looking over the sonogram.
"Alright, all those that bet it was a girl, pay up!" Tony exclaimed as the other picture was passed around the guys.
"Oh no. You all made the same bet Natasha and I did. It may be a boy but that doesn't mean he'll look like me." Steve said, bursting Tony's bubble.
"Yea, Tony we could all lose." Clint snickered.
Pepper ignored their banter, "Any ideas for a name?"
"I do have a few but nothing final yet. Despite our bet, I want Steve to decide too. That way if it's a horrible name the baby ends up hating later then it's not only my fault." Natasha whispered back to her conspiratorially.
"Ahhh, good idea." Pepper agreed laughing and handing the sonogram photo back to Natasha. When Natasha reached to take it light flickered off her engagement ring, catching Pepper's attention. "He proposed!"
"Yes, he did." Natasha said proudly, bringing her hand up for Pepper to see better.
Pepper took Natasha's hand, admiring the ring, "Oh wow! Good choice, Steve!"
Clint clapped Steve on the shoulder, "Bout time! I was beginning to think we might have to have a talk!"
Tony stepped up, "You guys give me about three months and I can give you the wedding of the century. Anybody who's anybody will be there. Hell, I can probably get the president to be the officiant!"
Steve and Natasha cringed. "We were thinking a lot smaller and personal, Tony. We can have a local minister marry us and really we just want all of you to be there. Besides, we don't want anyone to know about the baby except who needs to know." Steve said.
Tony scoffed, "Seriously? She's a member of the Avengers. If anyone comes after her then they gotta know we'll be going after them too. She barely goes out without one of us with her and I doubt anyone would be stupid enough to try to break into the tower."
Clint gave Tony a doubtful look, "Some of the people we've fought…? I'd say there are plenty of them stupid enough to try. Succeeding? Well, that's another story."
"Okay, there are those stupid enough to try but with the defenses I've built into this place they'd be burnt to a crisp in seconds and any one of us could be here within minutes. I say Natasha is safe enough." Tony said.
Steve shook his head in disagreement, "It doesn't matter, Tony. She'll be safer with no one knowing."
"Steve is right, Tony. I don't know if any of you have thought about it but the baby could be a brand new Super Soldier. I don't know if the Super Soldier serum can be passed on genetically to children but soon we're going to find out. If the serum isn't passed down then you'll still have the child of Captain America and Black Widow. Any enemies they have will try to use him for their advantage or revenge. On the other hand, if the baby is born with their Super Soldier abilities then he'll be in constant danger. Steve is the only one that had the perfect version of the serum. If there's a chance it's passed on to his child, no matter how small, there are going to be a lot of people trying to claim him and mold him into what they want him to be." Bruce stopped, finally taking in everyone's faces of dawning horror. "I guess you haven't thought about it. I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to bring down the mood." Bruce said, starting to feel ashamed.
"No, Bruce, it's okay. It's something we definitely need to take into account. I was thinking of protecting them from our enemies in general but that may not be enough." Steve said his mind swirling. It really had never occurred to him that his son would be a target for that reason. Now he knew it was more than a possibility. It was a certainty. None of their enemies would just shrug and leave their son alone. They'd be chomping on the bit to get their hands on him. So were they really doing all that could be done to keep the pregnancy secret? Natasha was just starting to show and had been wearing looser clothing when going out. Her showing wouldn't be a problem until she was further along. Really, no one should be the wiser unless Steve and Natasha had been seen going into her baby appointments and then paired that with Natasha staying out of their missions. Security wise, she was safe enough inside the tower but there were a few times she'd go out by herself. He'd be talking to her about that.
"We're already being careful." Natasha said sensing Steve's tension and taking his hand in hers. "This isn't something we can't handle. I'm sure any enemies that want our baby will think twice before coming after him. We are Avengers for a reason."
Steve squeezed her hand, "Yes we are but there's plenty of ways this could go badly."
Natasha was sure he was thinking of every way too. Her thoughts, though, were on the fact that even after she had the baby, their enemies wouldn't stop coming after him. Even if the baby wasn't born with their abilities, he'd still be a target simply because he was their child. The baby probably wouldn't have an easy life but he would have all of the Avengers and their friends and it was that thought that gave her comfort and had her feeling they could take on whatever came at them.
"Alright," Tony consented, "No fancy wedding. But I can still put together a pretty awesome after party here with just us."
"Oh and you'll need to start thinking of what you want the baby's room to be like! Now that we know it's a boy we can start getting you what you'll need." Pepper added, excited. But Natasha saw it for what it was, a way to change the subject for the moment and get some excitement back in the air.
"You'll need a theme for the baby's room and I have just the thing!" Tony waited for dramatic effect, "Iron Man!"
Natasha blinked at him, waiting for the joke and seeing he was at least partially serious she said, "We don't want to give the baby nightmares, Tony."
That had all of them laughing and throwing in their thoughts of what the theme should be. Clint wanting it purple, Bruce wanting green and her favorite was when Thor suggested a mobile with little mini Mjolnirs hanging from it. Not going to happen but it was cute.
They sat back and listened; surprised that some of them actually had good ideas and even though Natasha was sure things were at some point going to get very difficult she was also sure that things were going to be just fine.
