Characters: Natasha and Steve

Warnings: alludes (but doesn't show) to sexy times, kinda sad at the beginning

When: not specified

For: nobody, I just have this headcanon that I had to write

Natasha is surprised to find out that Steve has tattoos.

She finds them one night, before things can get steamy, but after they've gotten passionate. She's straddling his legs and tugging his shirt up when she first catches sight of them.

There are numbers going around his waist, separated by a small, black dot halfway up the figures of the numbers. When she runs her finger over them, Steve jumps. Win.

"What do they mean?" Natasha asks quietly. She's smart; they can't mean anything good. There are too many numbers for it to be dates, not to mention they aren't in date format and he wouldn't have anything spectacular happen to him that was so important he got it permanently engraved on his skin.

His swallows, and Natasha is momentarily distracted. "I saved them," he says, "I got them out of hell on earth."

"These were on their...?" She doesn't have to ask, but does anyway, just to make sure she knows what she's looking at.

"Yes." Steve looks sad, looks his age for a moment. "But, most of them actually survived for a long time after the war."

Natasha nods and continues looking. There's an ice-cube to the right of his belly button and a crude version of the tesseract to the left, with the shield on his abs and his parents names over his heart. "Did you draw these?" She grins, referring to the small cubes on his stomach.

"Hey! They're not that bad!"

"No, they're great, it's just... Why those?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Steve laughs. "Keep looking, I have more."

Snow White and Oz the wizard areon his upper left shoulder, which she raises an eyebrow at, with "Bucky" in red, white in blue under that. "Really, Steve?" Natasha deadpans.

"What? I saw those movies in the theaters! And Bucky had my name on his arm, so I have no right-"

"Not to do the same, I know, babe."

"You're making fun of me," he pouts.

Natasha rests her hand on his face, leaning forward so that his eyes drop down. "No, I'm not."

Steve shakes his head, then grabs her wrist and flips them around.

She notices black ink on his hand and takes it in her own. The word "someday" wraps around his left ring finger, and she automatically knows it's for Peggy. She doesn't say anything about it, knowing that it's no surprise and that she should have expected something more than nothing about his first love.

Later, after the passion has passed, and the steam has evaporated, she finds more. There's a cluster at the bottom of his back (the Avengers' logo and individual logos, as well as things that remind him of the commandoes), the words "viva la pluto" making a circle around said cluster and stars that span his shoulders.

"Head in the clouds, soldier?" She asks as she gazes down at the stars. They look real, not like the generic ones.

Steve lazily grins at her. "Duh. Oh, and I have more."

"More? Who knew Captain America was a tattoo fanatic?"

"Captain America knew that Captain America was a tattoo fanatic. They're by my ankles," he yawns.

The words "a good man" are above his right ankle, the dates he went under, woke up and fought the chitauri above his left.

"Huh," Nat says after staring at them for a few moments. Then she grins. "Wanna see mine? They aren't in places that just anybody can see them..."

That wakes Steve right up.