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7 : Steve's Guilty Pleasure
"Avengers! Tonight, we're gonna go clubbing" Tony announced as he emerged in the living room.
"Nooooo!" Everyone shouted at the same time.
The genius billionaire rolled his eyes. His friends have been lounge lazily in the living room like this since morning.
Clint and Bobbi sat by the window. Jane and Darcy were teaching Thor how to use iPad and sat on the carpet in front of the television. Bruce and Betty were playing chess on the love seat. Steve and Natasha sat close to each other, googling for a new recipe for their little friendly dinner next week.
"You guys are brunch of old people!" Tony muttered annoyingly. "We can just grab a drink a quiet bar"
"Why is Pepper anyway, Stark?" Natasha asked.
"She went to her parent's for a week"
"That explain a lot"
"Come on! Get up from your seat, Grandpa Grandma! Let's go hang out and have some fun!"
And Tony managed to drag everyone off their seat and go get change. He found a small western theme bar. The place didn't have much customers which is lucky for the Avengers because they wanted some privacy.
Clint, Bobbi and Darcy took over the jukebox. Tony ordered every alcohol known to men for the teams. Natasha took Steve's hand and dragged him to the available booth. Tony, Bruce and Betty followed them.
Thor and Jane were the only two people dancing in the bar.
Steve smiled at the couple before he noticed that a group of four men at the bar were ogling at Natasha.
"Drink for the beautiful redhead." The waiter said and put a glass of bourbon in front of Natasha. He pointed to the four men at the bar. Natasha held the glass up and nodded to them.
Bruce and Tony can see that Steve's eyes flash with anger for mere second before it disappear when the captain saw that she didn't touch the drink.
Natasha managed to get Steve to dance with her. Thor and Jane giggled when they saw the captain's bright red face. Steve put his hands on her waist as she looped her arms around his neck.
"Did I already teach you how to dance?"
"Yeah, in Croatia after we fight off 50 terrorists. I finally have my first dance in 21st century."
"I need to put that in my resume" Her answered made Steve smiled.
They danced for an hour before Steve went to the bar to get them some drinks. He came back to Natasha a moment later to find that she has been surrounded by the four men who ogling her all night. One of them even tried to take advantage of her.
All the men saw that but they also noticed the same anger they saw earlier on the Captain's face. Steve walked toward them, tried to keep calm and dealt with this a civilized way.
"Gentlemen, leave the lady alone"
"Fuck off, pretty boy!"
'Guys, we can do this the easy way or the hard way"
"Take this!" The man with black hair swung a punch at Steve who was easily dodge.
Natasha yelled at them to stop but Thor and Clint pulled her away from the scene. Thor joined Steve a moment later. The two warriors sent the attackers to the ground with a few punch.
Tony paid for the damage and led everyone out of this bar. They headed directly back to the tower with Natasha and Steve at the back.
"You don't need to do that Steve" Natasha said. "I can take care of myself"
"I know" He replied shortly and not continued with the conversation. He picked up his pace and walked away from her.
He needed to adjust his mind. He lost control of himself.
He knew damn well that she can fend for herself but some part in him just have to protect her. His inner instinct told him to beat the shit out of the guy who try to lay his hand on her.
For the first time he could not control his anger.
Steve couldn't sleep because there was too many thought ran through his mind. He went down to the gym to ease his mind.
But it's not that easy.
Steve forgot how long has he been here. Until Thor walked in and greeted Steve loudly.
"Lord Steven!"
"Hey Thor" Steve gave the god a nodded and stopped his exercise.
"Are thou in romantic kinship with Lady Natasha?"
"Not you too!"
"I am just curious, captain. My apology if this irritated you"
"Not at all, my friend" The soldier replied "Why do you ask, anyway?"
"I saw you was enraged when that scum lay his hand on Lady Natasha"
"I just try to protect my friend, that's all, Thor. I would do the same if it happen to Ms. Foster or Ms. Ross"
"That will not happen, Lord Steven. They will have to walk over my dead body first. I just need to clarify this gossip. Lady Jane and Lady Darcy talk about this matter a lot"
"Please tell them that nothing going on between me and Natasha"
"I will" The god smiled "And I shall go, I and Lady Jane will partake this double date with Lord Banner and Lady Ross"
And the god disappeared behind the door, Steve sighed and continued punching the bags.
In the kitchen upstairs, Tony and Natasha engaged in their usual morning verbal spar.
"Tell me something, red" The billionaire started. "How did you manipulate Rogers to get off his ancient 40's way and became a modern guy? Does he still strict to his gentlemanly thing?"
"He is always a perfect gentleman, Stark. Something that you are certainly not qualified"
"Touché"
"And to answer one more question of yours, which you always asked, we are just friend"
"Whatever you say, red" Tony said. "I take that as a permission to introduce Rogers to any of my female friends"
Natasha stiffened up upon those words and glare at the billionaire who wear his victory smirked.
"Just make sure that they are not supermodel, Stark. Steve never interested in those kind of woman"
"Just wait and see, little red." Tony smirked. "Capsicle will fall in love pretty soon"
"You have to make sure that he wear the new clothes when he meet the girl. He look real good in the suit I brought for him"
"With my money" Tony added.
Natasha ignored the billionaire and turned back to her magazine and humming a song quietly. Tony glanced at the spy. He never see her like this before, happy and relaxing Natasha.
Capsicle must be the one who cause this to happen.
"Did you introduce him to certain movies or music yet?"
"I teach him about YouTube and purchasing things on iTunes. He likes Imagine Dragons and OneRepublic but he can listen to all kind of music"
"I really want to hear him sing Gaga's song" Tony said before chuckled.
"Just don't torture him, Stark" Natasha warned with a glare. "He is still adjusting"
Steve prepared a dinner for two. He cooked his signature dish along with other delicious dish.
Rack of Lamb with Baby Turnips, Sautéed Sea Scallops with Apple-Sesame Couscous and Maple Blueberry Parfait.
He spent his entire evening prepare everything and even set a table outside the balcony.
Everything was set perfectly. It supposed to be a surprise and he thought that nothing will ruin it.
But it did ruined.
"Wanna have a dinner with me, Nat?" Steve asked eagerly as he saw the spy walked down the stairs.
"Oh! I'm so sorry, Steve. I will go out with Clint tonight and meet our friend"
Steve managed to hide every feeling inside and didn't let Natasha noticed anything.
"I'll take a rain check though" She said.
"Of course" He replied. "Have a good evening, Natasha"
'Look like I have to eat dinner all by myself' Steve thought to himself and sat on the kitchen island waiting for the lambs to cook.
But then Steve heard a booming voice from the elevator. Thor, Jane, Bruce and Betty emerged and walked into the kitchen.
"What is that aromatic smell?" The god of thunder exclaimed. "Does thou cook again, Lord Steven?"
"Yes, I'm preparing our dinner"
"Your cooking skill equal to your fighting skills indeed to create such a miraculous food even Asgardian like I craving for it"
"If all of you would join me?"
"Of course we were" Jane replied. "Thor and I will get the table ready"
"Actually, I already set a table outside but we need more chair and utensils"
The doctor was the only one who noticed it, noticed that Steve has prepare this dinner for someone else. From the look on the captain's face, the doctor didn't ask.
When the oven sounded, Steve put on cooking gloves and pulled out the rack of lambs before put it at the center of the table.
Five of them enjoyed the food, the views and each other company.
For Steve, dinner wasn't totally ruin.
"Say again why I have to come here with you tonight, Nat" Clint asked out of his curiosity.
His best friend had make it a big deal that he has to come here with her but failed to tell him why.
A big deal that if he didn't agree to come with her, she will hang him at the top of the flag pole.
"Because I need you here as my backup in case this date is a total disaster."
"It's not gonna be a disaster. You always think too much" Clint reassured.
"What if he is not what I think?"
"Just give it a try, Nat"
Natasha took a deep breath before she saw a sandy hair guy walked through the crowd and stopped in front of her and Clint.
"Hey! Natalie" He greeted.
"Taylor" She greeted back with a small smile.
Taylor was tall but skinny. He has blue-grey eyes and a hipster look. His hair was long and shaggy and wearing a beanie hat.
Clint noticed that Natasha picked someone who is very contrast to Steve Rogers.
The archer lingered there for a little while. He just wanted to make sure that Taylor is try anything. From what he see, the guy was trying very hard and knew that he was very lucky to have her.
Clint snapped out of his deep thought when his phone rang.
"CLINT BARTON! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?" Bobbi yelled.
"Sweetie, calm down. I'm on my way back to the tower now. I'll told you everything that happen here."
"YOU HAVE TWENTY MINUTES!"
And the archer rushed out of the club and texted Natasha that he has to go.
The next morning, Natasha and Clint had been called in for a mission. Fury informed the agents that it was just a small mission, observing and retrieving important package. They should be back by this afternoon.
At the tower, Steve found note that Natasha left. The others joined him for breakfast before spend their day with their girlfriends.
Only Tony and Steve were left alone in the tower. The billionaire already came up with a prank for the soldier.
When the spy and the archer return home, the first thing they saw was Tony and Steve yelling at each other. Thor and Bruce standing between them and try to separate them as far as they can.
"What the hell is happening?" Natasha demanded.
"Capsicle likes love songs!" Tony said and it gained Natasha attention.
"What love song, Stark?"
"A lovey dovey clingy, can't live without you kind of song" Tony replied.
"It's better than your kind of music" She uttered.
"Captain Purity, I bet you love chick flick too."
"I like the meaning of the song and it help light up a day, somehow. For the movie, I don't like action because I already have too much action in my life"
"I think we all agree with cap" Bruce concluded and everyone else nodded.
Steve smirked "You lose, Stark and give me back my iPod!" The captain quickly snatch his iPod back and went to his room.
Natasha can't help but giggled a bit too.
Her captain listen to love song.
A/N : Yeah I have a bit of a writer block and I have a problem about how to speak like Thor.
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