Arriving back at the tower she found Natasha Bruce Clint and her brother sitting in the kitchen, she made for the coffee pot walking but not looking at anything but the machine.

She pulled down her mug a blue one with a red stripe and filled it then took a deep drink of nearly to hot coffee then she turned and grinned at her brother "what are you doing up this early? You normally don't come out of your cave until noon"

He made a face at her as Natasha took a sip of her coffee "there any reason I had to go to the charity dinner you were supposed to go to last night?"

She raised a brow at her brother setting down her coffee cup so she could jump on the counter to sit down "it was Steve's birthday yesterday so I took him to watch the fireworks at Liberty Island"

Natasha smirked at her and she rolled her eyes glancing around she saw everyone smirking at her accept for Bruce "and you stayed overnight?" Clint said she gave I'm a very unimpressed look.

"I fell asleep on his couch" she took another sip of coffee "if you guys are trying to gang up on me for something it's pointless, I was a complete gentleman"

Clint perked his brow "what's that supposed to mean?" she looked right at him "it means I didn't try to cop a feel on the first date. And no tony that's not me implying it was a date" silence reined for a few minutes before Bruce spoke up "well I think it was very nice of you to take him out on his birthday"

She angled her head tipping her coffee cup to the man "think you doctor banner" he smiled at her and then she jumped off the counter setting aside her coffee cup "well I am going to change my cloths and go for a run, care to join me Tasha?"

The woman glanced up at her then shrugged "only if you can keep up" Beth smirked wide enough her jaw ached "oh don't worry about that"

They jogged through central park, it was early enough it was warm but a pleasant warm, the trees were lush and the grass neatly trimmed someone was walking their dog, Natasha was wearing a pair of black yoga pants and a grey short sleeve her fiery hair swept into a neat bun at the back of her head.

Beth wore a pair of blue gym shorts and a tube top showing off the muscles of her stomach, her hair pulled into a high tail a few strands having slipped free.

They slowed to a walk somewhere in the middle of the park "so what really happened last night?" Natasha asked Beth sighed heavily "you know I didn't ask you to go running just so we could talk about what I did
last night" Natasha gave her an unimpressed look and she sighed again.

"I'm telling you all I did was treat him to dinner then take him to watch the fireworks at liberty island" Natasha hummed "that's more than you did for any of our birthdays"

Beth gave the woman a severely unimpressed look "none of you spent 70 years in an ice block, then woke up to find all of the people you use to care about were gone or would be soon" Natasha paused for a minute then angled her head and didn't bring it up again.

Natasha knew only to push Beth so far when it came to Steve, knew her failed attempts in the past when it came to relationships.

Hell she remembered only a few months back when they found her how they had Made sure to tell her what happened to her supposed 'boyfriend' Jason.

Beth could be very cruel sometimes when she wanted to be.

Not that the man hadn't deserved it.

When they returned to the tower Beth showered and changed then sat in the living room with a stark pad, actually doing some of the work pepper had sent to her.

Nicolas the young man that had been rescued with wandered in from wherever he'd been hanging out and sat down in an arm chair to watch her, Beth had found the young man was very shy but very brilliant and a damn good cook.

She'd enrolled him into the best school there was when he'd said he wanted to go to college after paying for his GED of which he had scored in the top 2.5% and had even gone through all the red tap to make sure the 17 now 18 year old could stay as long as he wanted even going as far as to adopt him.

When it had been discovered shed adopted someone it had been like open season with the press and they had started all kinds of rumors a lot of them revolving about how she and tony had been orphaned to having a undesirable relationship in her past, a lot of them had made it to nicks ears that he had come apologizing to her for causing them.

It took a week to clear that up and make him feel better.

Glancing up from her work she saw him watching and smiled a little "sup nick?" she questioned making him look up at her then shake his head "I heard what you did for captain Rogers. It was really nice of you"

She smiled sweetly at the young man setting aside the tablet, acts of kindness still surprised the young man sometimes though it was clear he was starting to get more use to the idea that not all people were like his 'father'.

"I have my moments, besides Steve is a nice guy and no one should be alone on their birthday" he looked down at his lap and nodded and she relised her mistake, how many times did he celebrate a birthday without anyone telling him those two simple words.

Shaking herself before she could get depressed she picked the pad back up and taped it to a different program "so what do you think of this?" she pulled up a hologram of something the company was working on.

He brightened and sat closer, helping play with the toys stark industries created always cheered the boy up.

And another set of eyes on a project never hurt.