Lunch Break Lunch Break…

"Lady Natasha we would like to speak with you…."

Natasha didn't even look up as Thor joined them "What'd need now boys?" she groaned wishing he or the smirking Captain America at his shoulder was someone else on their hojpoje of a team sent to crash her lunch break but apparently something had come up in the lab, Maria had run off on her after she got a short and rather sketchy phone call, and Pepper wasn't taking her calls so Natasha was spending her break with one of her other backup lunch companions.

"You need to come with us…there's some stuff you have to sign for," Steve told her

"Hu…?" she asked as she and her equally confused lunch companion followed the pair out of the mess hall and out into the front law. "…It would seem you have an Admirer." Thor really was terrible at sudalty even without the tell-tale roar echoing from around the corner they were heading towards.

"Told him not to come out here...Seriously does anyone listen to me?" The Captain grumbled under his breath as if forgetting it was Natasha, not Sharon at his elbow hearing ever word he just said.

"Look I'm sorry alright you just got in the way I was really aiming for Tony anyway besides these aren't even real bullets man..." Natasha could now clearly see the towering green-skinned form of her closeted lover growling in annoyance at a timid but marginally refreshed looking Hawkeye

"No arguments Barton after all this intergalactic Loki whatnot you of all of us need some R&R now go fix a barn or whatever it is you do at that place of yours….oh and say Hi to your Mrs. for me." Fury ordered finally managing to get the ragged looking Clint to laugh for the first time in weeks.

But as angry as the Big Guy sounded he didn't make a single move to attack as the four of them rounded the edge of the snow white windows beside the garage. "I did warn you not to bring those babe." Laura laughed as Natasha and Sharon both rolled their eyes.

"Hey, yeah Big Guy…Find anything Extremely Dangerous lately?" the Russian asked causing the giant green man's shoulders to slump in defeat turning to face her with a rather guilty expression on his wide face, his eyes shifted down to his bare feet as he hung his head in a strange comparison of his other self's expression of embarrassment- like a child about to be scolded by a parent-

"Glad you could make it Romanov." Fury greeted pulling her attention from both the now silent Hulk and the stacks of cardboard boxes piled rather neatly behind him "Mind giving me an autograph so I no longer have to deal with the exactly ninety-nine boxes in front of my top secret military base?" he asked holding out the release form.

"That's not right….there supposed to be an even hundred." Tony groaned coming from behind them with two more boxes in his arms.

"And just how would you know that?" Fury asked fanning ignorance as he was one of the people who helped move the damned things anyway. "Lucky guess." Steve shrugged grinning at the exasperated eye roll he received from the blond at his side.

"Uh, Hu." Natasha scoffed not hearing a word any of them had said as her eyes stayed fixed on the still timid looking rage machine in front of her. "We're having a major discussion later you know." She warned forgetting their rather high ranking audience as her eyes held his.

Hulk flinched as she folded her arms over her chest not having registered the fact she had beaming up at him for the past two minutes but he was saved any more of her laid back wrath by the excited squeals of two rather familiar looking burrs barreling toward them with Jane panting behind them looking sheepish. "Sorry, they just got away from me." She called before the storm of the Barton brigade hit with breath stealing force.

"Happy birthday Auntie Nat." Lila and Cooper exclaimed in unison both all but welding themselves to around her waist one on either side.

"You did remember." She realized cursing herself for not seeing it, to begin with.

"Of course we did Banner had it marked on the calendar and everything…Bright colors bolded and capital letters like a zillion exclamation marks the whole deal." Tony admitted earning a loud and pitiful huff from Hulk "What were we not telling her that or something?" he asked with a teasing smirk. "Oh come on Green Machine even you have to see how that's funny."

The Big Guy just huffed loudly again but sent Natasha what everyone in attendance would later swear (and Laura has the video to prove it) was thee most blissful smile any of them had EVER seen in their lives...

And again it came from the Incredible Freaking Hulk!

Even when with a three-way split of his attention between watching Natasha happily shredding into the closest box of what was until recently her least favorite kind of gum,

"You do realize that technically you still haven't signed for that right Romanoff?" Steve joked "So this could be considered stealing." He reminded her as Natasha gleefully ripped into the packages and started sorting there Constance into five different towers by color.

"Position is nine-tenths of the law…" she replied her voice breathy and sing-song "now go talk to the Big Guy or something I'm busy." She snapped not looking up from her work.

Acting like a living climbing wall for Cooper

"I have a picture of you on my wall you know…but I think you're way cooler in person." The boy decided pushing himself up with a slight grunt of annoyance when his legs simply dangled below him which only made the Big Guy smile wider as he helped 'Tiny bowman' onto his shoulder with one hand. "This is so cool." He praised looping his arm around Hulk neck in a loose half chock hold as he watched the adult below him.

All while remaining perfectly still while Laila sat in his lap tying dandelions together for a large flowery crown the Big Guy wore proudly and seemed to pull off rather well once she had managed to pass it to Cooper who nestled in into the Hulk's wild jet black mop of hair.

"I'll make Auntie Nat one later." Laila explained whipping her grass-stained hands on her pants as she settled back into the curve of Hulk's arm "That way she can be like your queen okay?" she asked tilting her head back to look at him. Hulk just grinned all the more broadly so she took it to mean 'Yes.'.

"Please Please, Please tell me you got all that." Natasha begged sliding up to a misty-eyed Laura who simply nodded whipping her eyes with her jacket sleeve "And if she didn't then I sure as hell did." Pepper promised from behind them audibly moved by the scene they had just witness.

"You know there something strangely romantic about this whole thing." Fury said passively

"Sir?" Hill asked confused

"Well, there is…I mean how could those two one of whom is a topnotch servaliance expert not realizes that they can't just hide a relationship like theirs in a place with state of the art cameras on every floor except the bed and bathrooms?" he questioned sarcastically. Hill opened her mouth to speak again but Fury cut her off still lost in his own rambling thoughts "I'll get the rest of that moved into one of the empty lockable labs if you have tech send me the feeds from the lawn cameras so we can get that last case back."

"I don't think she cares about numbers…just that He remembered her birthday."

"Razzle's are both a candy and a gum you know." He said distractedly not have heard a word she just said: "And that's not just appealing to kids any more adults can still enjoy them too." He reasoned simply and Hill had a strange notion that if she managed to get into the Director's office when he wasn't around she'd find that missing hundredth case stashed somewhere.

"Now go have fun while it's still daylight….you people work too hard anyway." Fury ordered waving a hand airily.

"Whatever you say, Sir." Hill grinned.