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24 : LOCKER ROOM TIME*
Steve woke up and slid out of the bed as slowly as he could, so he didn't wake Natasha up. He was halfway to the bathroom when a sleepy voice came from his spy.
"Where do you think you're going, Rogers?"
"To take a shower"
"Get back here" she demanded
"I will after the shower"
Steve took only fifteen minutes to finish his shower. The Captain walked out from the bathroom, fully dressed.
"I'll got get us some breakfast downstairs" He told.
"Don't go, I need you here"
"I will make you a nice breakfast, your favorite pancakes?" He suggested before Natasha shook her head. "No okay alright, if you insist"
She snuggled closer into his chest but his stomach churned.
"Well you're hungry, aren't you?" She smiled.
"Yeah high metabolism rate remember?"
She let go of him, but Steve gave her quick kiss one more time.
"You look sexy in that outfit" She complimented.
"Thank you, you picked it for me"
He was about to get up and looked back at her one more time.
"Damn it Nat! You make it really hard to leave" He muttered before he gave her a kiss, deeply and passionately.
"Then don't leave" She murmured.
"If you want your boyfriend to starve to death…"
"Make me some pancakes then. I will join you in twenty minutes"
"Remember, Fury needs to see us in four hours"
Natasha groaned before getting up and letting the super soldier carry her to the bathroom.
They went to the Triskellion. They were talking about the new video game that Clint and Tony were so addicted to it as they walked to the meeting room.
"I just said that it was unrealistic. How could you possibly jump from a four story building and not get some injuries?" Natasha debated.
"I can" He replied with a sly grin
"I mean, if you are an ordinary person"
"Well, he is an assassin and may be…you know…like you" Steve tried to explain "But Tony always gave me a reason like 'He is Ezio freaking Auditore and he can do whatever he wants'"
"Oh please, I can do better than that guy" Natasha groaned before pushing the door open "maybe I should bet Stark…"
She stopped immediately when she saw someone sat in the meeting room. The spy tensed up as she saw Sharon Carter.
"Agent Carter" Steve greeted and shook hands with Agent 13.
"Captain" She replied "What are you doing here?"
"Director Fury called us in and he didn't say why"
Before they could say anything more, Fury and Hill walked in and handed them a file.
"Romanoff, you and Sitwell will oversee the transfer of the AIM scientists to the Raft. Sitwell is waiting for you at the helipad now" Fury told the spy before turning to Captain America and Agent 13. "You two will infiltrate a warehouse in New Jersey and steal the prototype weapon designed by Centipede"
Steve's eyes locked on his girlfriend as she quietly left the room but she turned to give him a soft smile before closing the door.
Fury continued briefing them for five minutes before he let Steve and Sharon go.
"Looks like we're gonna be partners again" Sharon spoke up to break the silence between them.
Steve's lips twitched up a little "Yeah…" He replied shortly because his mind was somewhere else.
A certain redheaded spy was all he was thinking about.
"I know you want to work with Agent Romanoff instead of me but it may be an easy mission that doesn't require both Captain America and the Black Widow"
"No, it's not that. I just think about her a lot"
"You should be" Sharon said, patted his shoulders lightly "I have to say, you guys are meant for each other"
"Thanks, Agent Carter"
Sharon had to admit that she was very envious of Natasha Romanoff. The Black Widow always gets what she wants and this time, she got the best man you can find in this world. The man that everyone wants.
But she and Steve were still friends and there was something related between them. Even if it was her aunt that made him connect to her. Sharon really wants the captain to trust her the way he did with her aunt.
This mission is her chance to prove herself one more time.
Steve and Sharon were sent off to New Jersey by helicopter. The two used the advantage of darkness to sneak their way into the perimeter without being detected.
The SHIELD satellite indicated that there were no hostiles in the area but the security system might be a little bit tricky. Sharon started to hack the system to unlock the back door.
Steve kept his eyes keen and protected Sharon's back as she does her work until they heard the lock release. Steve was about to walk in when Sharon grabbed his arm.
"Laser field" She said before spraying a chemical substance to detect the lasers.
"Can you get in?" He asked
"I can try"
Steve watched as Sharon managed to get past the laser with ease. Natasha could do it with her eyes close, Steve's mind again wandering to his girlfriend.
"All clear, Cap"
"Nicely done, Sharon" Steve praised
The girl beamed and gave him a full smile "Thanks, Cap"
"Let's get everything we need and get out of here"
Steve and Sharon were back at the Triskelion around 11 pm. They locked the weapons away in the SHIELD vault. Hill told them that Fury will need them for debriefing tomorrow.
The captain couldn't wait to go back to his girlfriend. When Hill was finally done with them, Steve bid the two women a goodbye and ran off to his motorcycle.
Natasha was waiting for him at their apartment in Brooklyn. He practically had springs on his feet when he walked upstairs. It feels right, he knew it.
Coming home to her, to his beautiful girlfriend, to know that she was waiting for him with her warm embrace and loving kiss.
His sleeping beauty was on the couch in her peaceful slumber.
"Hey—"Steve said as he knelt down beside the couch but a knife was at his throat "Nat, it's me"
"Sorry" She murmured sleepily and put the knife away
"Do you sleep and holding a knife in your hand all the time?"
"Not every time, just when you're not around"
He smiled fondly before scooped her up. "Let's go to bed, shall we?"
Steve went to SHIELD for a meeting with Fury and Sharon. Natasha was at the tower with the girls. This is the first time the girls had a chance to talk without her man around.
Everyone cornered Natasha to give them every juicy detail about her relationship with the Captain.
"Spill everything, Romanoff" Pepper demanded.
Natasha simply denied, "It's nothing interesting, trust me!"
"But you sleep with the Captain!" Darcy exclaimed "What could possibly be more interesting than that gorgeous man?"
"I won't tell you anything" Natasha shook her head.
"We should get her drunk" Bobbi suggested
"You all will pass out before I get drunk" The spy replied with a smirk.
The women groaned because they couldn't get anything out of Natasha.
"You know what, I just heard Stark tell the men something about their locker room time" Natasha spoke up "I think we should spy on them. It would be fun"
Steve just came back from SHIELD when Tony and Thor pulled him into the training room. Steve found that all the men were there.
"What's going on?" He asked as it must be something really important if everyone was here.
"I called this guy assembly because, one, don't you guys notice that we barely have time for just us men without our ladies around" Tony answered "Secondly, we didn't have a chance to go to a bar or anything just us men because some of us always have to have their girlfriends tag along" Tony looked directly at Steve and Thor
"In my defense, Lord Stark. I was more joyful if Lady Jane is with me"
"That's the whole point of this. We need sometime away from our women, so I call a weekly male locker room meeting after Wednesday training session, just for us men." Tony suggested "We will train hard to make it look real and we will talk in the locker room. I will have JARVIS lock down the whole room to keep the ladies away"
"What's the purpose of this again?" Steve asked, a bit confused.
"So we can talk about our women openly"
"I agree with this" Clint said
"Whatever" Bruce told
"I don't want to do this but Lord Stark will coax me into it anyway"
Everyone turned to Steve who still had not given an answer.
"Come on, Capsicle"
"Fine but I'm not agreeing to this. It is wrong to talk about our ladies in a bad way"
"Whatever, Spangles. You can just sit there and listen" Tony rolled his eyes "Alright! That's settled. Let's get some training done, shall we?
They all trained really hard that afternoon and Steve didn't go easy on his teammates at all. He basically wiped the floor with Tony and Clint, while Thor was watching with amusement. Bruce was doing his yoga and taught Thor some of it.
When they were all done, Steve had to help the archer and the billionaire up on their feet.
"I need a shower ASAP" Tony groaned and dragged his sore body to the locker room.
The men gathered at their lockers after the shower.
Unbeknownst to them, the girls had crawled their way to the locker room by the air vent after Pepper forced JARVIS to disable the lockdown mode.
"Are you sure these vents can support us?" Darcy whispered.
"Of course, they can. I forced Steve to practice with me sometime ago"
"And you told me your relationship with the Captain is not interesting?" Darcy pouted
"Quiet, they start talking" Pepper shooed.
The girls silenced and listened to the men.
"How is your love life?" Tony began as he put on his t-shirt "Or should I say your sex life?"
Steve silenced as he didn't want to share anything private between him and Natasha to his friends. He listened as Clint babbled on and on about Bobbi and him. Thor also chimed in sometime.
"What about you, Cap?" Clint turned to the super soldier "What about you and Natasha in the bed?"
"I'm not comfortable with this subject, Barton"
"I thought you rather enjoy it, Lord Steven. Since you and Lady Natasha are 'doing the D' quite a lot"
"You let him use the internet again?" Bruce asked Tony and the billionaire nodded.
"Tell us something, anything!"
Steve took a deep breath "Uh—me and Natasha, well—"The captain seriously cannot do this "I can't do this guys!"
"You suck, spangles" Tony shook his head
Steve stood up and put on his jeans. The girls in the vent all tried to get a better look at the shirtless Captain America. Natasha sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Stop ogling my man" She hissed
The men still went on and on about their sex life, mostly Clint and Tony do all the talking. Steve was only listening until he noticed something, a blonde lock emerged from the air vent. He found himself smiling, someone must be eavesdropping indeed.
Steve pulled out his phone before texting the guys, told them that the girls were spying on them. Everyone gave the Captain a look as a sign of their understanding. They kept on talking but suddenly it turned into a fight.
"That's it, Man of Iron!" Thor boomed, summoned his hammer "It's time for you to taste Mjolnir"
"Bring it on, Point Break! I'm always looking for a rematch" Tony retorted, summoning his armor as well.
"I will kill you too, Stark" Clint grabbed his bow and arrow.
Bruce stepped aside because he didn't want to Hulk out. Steve too grabbed his shield.
But instead of starting a fight, they shot/threw their weapons to the vent above them, causing the vent to burst open and the girls to fall from it. Steve quickly moved to catch Natasha in his arms. Thor grabbed Jane, Darcy and Betty. Tony caught Pepper and Bobbi just in time.
"What the hell do you think you are doing, Tony?!" Pepper yelled at her husband "You could have killed us"
"Yeah, that's the same exact question I want to ask all of you" Tony replied "You guys are spying on us"
"Lady, it's time for you to give us an excuse" Clint spoke up
"This is a huge violation of our privacy" Steve told his girlfriend
"I'm a spy, Steve"
But the Super Soldier wasn't angry at all, instead he just gave her a smile and put her back on her feet. Everyone was yelling at their partner except for Steve and Natasha.
"This is somehow part of your evil plan?" He asked as he noticed the evil grin.
"I planned it" She replied with an amused look. "We needed to hear what you guys were saying about us"
"Sorry I let you down by saying nothing"
"I will get it out of you tonight" She said seductively and ran her finger up and down his bare chest. Steve's muscles reacted to her touch "Hope you can endure my interrogation…" She leaned up and whispered all the details.
Steve turned vermillion red as Natasha kept going on and on about her interrogation style. The couple was in their private world with the other couples arguing.
"Well, I am pissed at you girls a little to eavesdrop on us like that" Tony tried to make a point
"I said I'm sorry" Pepper said
"We will forgive you if you give us men a night off once a week" Tony purposed "Starting today"
"Fine"
The men raised their fists in the air. Natasha grabbed Steve's arms tightly as she didn't want her man to go with them because she knew Clint and Tony would take the men to either a nightclub or a strip club. Thor just wanted to get drunk while Bruce didn't want to but Tony would drag him along.
Steve looked at his girlfriend and saw disapproval in her eyes.
"I will not go if you don't want me to" He reassured her.
"I don't want you to…"
"You go with us tonight, Capsicle!" Tony shouted "No exception"
The couple exchanged a glance before Natasha sighed and said,
"Fine, you take him with you but please bring him home before midnight"
"What's the fun in that?" Tony rolled his eyes "The fun starts after 2 am"
"Nothing good will happen after 2 am" Natasha argued
"Now you just quoted from How I Met Your Mother!" Tony shouted "You watched it too much, Red"
"Just bring him home at midnight or else I will go get him myself!"
AN:
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