So. Movie!verse. It's like i'm going back and forth. Like comics and movie take turns or something. It's exactly that, actually.
Huh.
Current Song: Arrival of the Birds by the Cinematic Orchestra
Current Thought: working on a pod!fic too if anyone is interested.
Tony/Natasha Romanov AKA The Black Widow
She hates him in the beginning. She does. She gives him these dirty looks and says he's not good enough because she's seen how he behaves up close and personal when she was working undercover with Pepper and Tony hates that. Hates that someone else thinks he's lower in their eyes and he hates it, but he acts like a dick because he doesn't think he can change it.
But then he slips up. He helps Bruce when he's on the edge, he makes things a bit easier for Pepper and the company, makes Clint a new bow because the archer deserves it, acclimates Thor to Midgardian life, quietly, reluctantly talks about Howard with Steve to give him something to cling to in the future.
And Natasha notices.
And Tony notices that she notices.
Because then she asks softly for updates on her weapons and then she wants to spar with him, and he takes her out to eat because he knows she appreciates fine things, but usually has no time for them or not enough safety for them. He knows she won't be with anyone because she's secretly afraid she won't be able to keep them safe from her job, but Tony figures that's not a problem when the other person has the same job as you.
He goes after her in the beginning because she's a challenge and he's always loved a challenge and because he feels he has something to prove to her.
He goes after her in the end because she secretly sings in Russian when she thinks no one is listening, and she likes small fluffy animals like bunnies (which Barton is allergic to, hilariously) and she tastes like chocolate and loves to read and she makes him take the initiative on things. Makes him work for it.
She makes him work for it in the end, too. And that's alright. Because she's his in the end and it feels better that he got there all on his own and she respects him and that's all he ever wanted from her.
The love is an added bonus.
So there. There's them. Right.