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33 : STARK TRUTH SERUM*

Last night was the first night of the month that Steve could fully sleep. He woke up at six o'clock and found his Natasha, hugging on to him tightly, head resting on his chest and breathing evenly.

Steve smiled sleepily at the sight. Finally, he had the love of his life back in his arms.

He drifted into slumber again.

When he woke up, she was gone. Steve started to panic and looked around the room. No sign of Natasha.

"Nat!" He called out loudly

"I'm here" She answered from their closet.

He sighed in relief and sat right up. His blue eyes locking at the redhead when she emerged from the closet. She walked up to him before giving him a kiss.

"You should take a shower. Pepper demanded a double date with us today" She told him, walking to the vanity mirror and began putting on her make-up

Steve didn't move. Instead, he kept staring at her.

"Why are you staring at me, Steve?"

"It's just…" He began "You're wearing the same outfit from the day we first met"

She was wearing her red tank top with a pair of black jeans, a black leather jacket and black boots.

"You remember?"

"Yes, I do." He replied with a smile. His thoughts went back to that day, "How could I forget the day I met the love of my life?"

Natasha gave him a full smile. The one Steve was pretty sure he was the only person who had the privilege to see.

Steve got up and hugged her from behind. He kissed her neck and whispered,

"It took me almost a hundred years to find my right partner, Natasha, and it's not easy to find a smart, strong, independent and beautiful woman like you in any century"

"Promise me, Steve, never let us go"

"I promise you, Nat"

She turned and gave him a kiss but immediately pulled away when she felt his beard.

"Shave. It. Out." She demanded

"Yes, ma'am" He said and headed to the bathroom

They met up with Tony and Pepper at the restaurant near Central Park. Natasha and Tony bickered most of the time, while Pepper and Steve had an actual grown-up conversation. After that, the couple went for a walk in Central Park. One of their favorite things to do together.

"You know what, Nat? I had a chance to do a lot of thinking while we were apart" He began as they sat down on the lawn near the lake, "And I noticed that we both have a serious communication problems. I mean, we've been talking less since the Loki incident. We pretended that everything was fine, but it wasn't. We avoided talking about it and it create a distance between us"

"Yeah, I guess we were pretending that we were all right but we weren't, and we still aren't. Look what it almost cost us."

"We should start talking more about our problems and what we really think, instead of keeping them to ourselves, cause I don't want anything to happen to us ever again"

"Okay, we can talk now since we have all the time to ourselves" Natasha agreed "Let's start with the Loki incident, right down to the break up."

Natasha began to talk and ask him questions about what bothered her. His real feelings toward her, now that he knew what he said to her back while he was under Loki's spell. How real it was when he said those word.

"I might have felt that way. You didn't choose me from the start, but you chose me over someone else. It didn't bother me that much. I guess Loki just tapped on the right place. "

"I'm sorry I made you feel that way."

"I understand you want a normal life outside the Avengers, but I can't provide you with that."

"But, the one thing you should never doubt about me, is that I really love you, Steve. When I say those words, I never lie. I may have made you feel like I would never have chosen you, but I realized that Taylor was just a distraction from my real feelings for you"

They talked about everything in detail, especially the Sharon Carter incident, to understand each other's point of view and give one other their honest opinions. They discussed the distance they had after the first incident and how her jealousy and quick assumptions almost destroyed their relationship. Steve admitted that he was insensitive, naive and that he hadn't even tried to understand her concerns. They both admitted that they were responsible for half of the fault.

All they did that afternoon was just talking and setting everything straight. This time, they felt the same connection when they were first in the relationship, restored.

"I thought we'd never ever have to come across these sort of things" She sighed "I thought we were the most perfect couple in the world but here we are, on the verge of relationship consultant."

"We're gonna be all right, Nat. At least, after everything we've been through, we still feel the same" He said, "You know I love you more than anything, but please remember that you can talk to me about everything, just don't keep me in the dark"

"I promise"

"I will never keep anything from you too, and you should know I'm always honest, especially with you"

"I know, Steve" Natasha said, "Are we going to be all right, Steve?"

"We're going to be all right, Natasha. At least we've started to talk about the problems rather than just keeping them to ourselves"

They both let out a long sigh.

"How does that feel?" He asked

"Feels good. It feels right"

"Me too"

"We can really say it this time that things are back to normal"

"Yes, we can"

Steve pulled Natasha close and gave her a kiss.

The next day, Steve was called for a meeting with Fury and his squad. Natasha was lounging around the living room, reading her book. Jane tried very hard to teach Thor to play chess while Clint, Bobbi and Darcy watched them amusingly.

"Agent Romanoff, Dr Banner and Mr. Stark request your presence in their lab" JARVIS informed.

"Tell them I will be right there"

She went down to the lab. Tony and Bruce broke out in big smiles when they saw her.

"What is it this time?" She asked.

"We invented a new serum." Tony began "It's a truth serum but we don't know if it will work or not"

"You want me to find you a test subject?" Natasha continued

"Maybe a criminal in SHIELD or your undercover target?"

"SHIELD has its own truth serum formula…" She argued

"We based our formula from SHIELD's but we amplified it." Tony explained "This one is a lot stronger and could last for two hours"

"I don't know, Stark but if it works on Steve, it will work with anyone"

The three of them looked at one another and the two geniuses grinned. Tony loaded the injector with his serum and handed it to Natasha.

"No!" Natasha said "Last time I hit him with your tranquilizer dart, he was very upset with me"

"Red, come on!" Tony begged "I know Capsicle has some secret that you want to know. This is a chance that you will get everything from him"

"Maybe something that you doubt in him" Bruce suggested

"No! And a hundred more NOs!"

"Pleasee, Little Red. We really need this. I will buy you an ice cream if you do it"

"Really? Ice cream?" Natasha quirked her eyebrows "You suck at negotiation, Stark"

"Okay! Whatever you want, I will buy you"

Steve just arrived at the tower when JARVIS informed him that Agent Romanoff and Mr. Stark were waiting for him in the interrogation room on the 70th floor.

"Did we capture a super villain or something?" He asked curiously

"They didn't tell me, sir"

Steve went to the room and found Natasha and Tony.

"Do we really have an interrogation room in the Tower?" Steve asked

"Yeah, it satisfied my NCIS fandom" Tony shrugged his shoulder "I'm a Tiva shipper"

"Oh, I'm more of a Densi fan" Natasha said

"What are you guys talking about? What in the world is a Densi and a Tiva?" Steve interrupted, even more curious than he already was.

The two chuckled before Natasha replied, "Babe, you need to keep up with modern television shows a bit more"

"At least I'm already keep up with How I Met Your Mother"

"Well, lets get to the business at hand" Natasha said before whipping out the injector and hitting it in his neck.

"Ouch!" Steve yelped and turned to his girlfriend. He saw the injector in her hand "Really? Again? What is it this time?"

"Truth Serum" She replied with a sly grin.

"What?!" Steve asked, eyes went wide and turned back to Stark "I'm not your personal lab rat that you could try everything on me! Not to mention you coax my girlfriend into doing this"

Tony laughed and headed to the exit "I'm gonna leave you two alone now"

The billionaire walked out the door, leaving Steve and Natasha alone. He looked at her, eyes narrowing.

"I can't believe you did this to me again" He said

"I still has some questions for you, Rogers" She approached him before push him down on the chair and straddled his lap, arms woven around his neck.

"About what?" Steve asked "Please tell me this isn't about Carter"

"No, I was over that a long time ago, Steve. This time is more about me"

Steve let out a sigh. He started to feel his body was out-of-control. Natasha saw his reaction. She reached behind her for something.

With one quick movement, she fastened the vibranium-alloy magnetic cuff at his wrists.

"Nat, what are you doing? Let go of me now"

"We didn't even start yet, sweetie" She said seductively into his ear. Piercing green eyes looked at his baby blue ones.

"You know you can ask me anything and I will answer you truthfully? You don't need a truth serum to get my truthful answer"

"I know, Steve but Stark and I agree that if it works with you, it will work with anyone"

"I will kill Stark"

"I have one thing that is always bothering me…I was at Long Island with the girls and I had a dream about you and I'm pretty sure that it's not just a dream"

"How could you be so sure?"

"I found a hickey on my neck, Steve" She bluntly said "So I'm asking you again, did you come and visit me that night?"

"What?" He was very confused "A hickey?" He frowned "I never went to Long Island. Maybe someone hit you in the neck"

"I'm the Black Widow! How could someone possibly hit me in the neck?" She asked and Steve gave her a look "Fine...maybe someone did 'hit' me in the neck"

"Natasha, can we stop doing this, please?"

"No" she replied "how many women did you ever kiss?"

"A gentleman never kiss...Damn it! This thing actually works. Four women but only two women I really wanted to kiss"

"Who are they?"

"You and Peggy"

"What are you afraid of?"

"Ice, cold weather, not having you in my arms"

Natasha allowed her to smile at his answer and gave him a quick kiss "You are such a sweetheart"

"This coming from the woman who shot me twice for no reason" Steve didn't want to say that but his mouth won't stop. "You should stop letting Stark use you to hurt me like this."

"That hurt?"

"Yeah! Next time try it on yourself first and could you please stop injecting something in people's necks, Natasha Romanoff! For a ninja assassin like yourself, you shouldn't hit someone that hard"

Natasha looked shock because her Steve never talked like that before. "Your sarcastic skills are developing drastically with this truth serum, you know that?"

"You shot the freaking serum in me! How am I supposed to stop talking, damn it!" Steve muttered "You should tell Stark to rename it a Babbling Serum instead of Truth Serum. I think I am babbling some nonsense right now. Help me, Nat. I seriously cannot stop talking!"

"You can keep talking about me, Steve" She said. "You got about one and a half hour left until the serum effect is gone"

"What?!"

And Steve had to endure another one and a half hour when his life was in the hands and mercy of Natasha Romanoff and he had to answer her questions.

Natasha and Steve got out of the interrogation room and they found everyone was waiting for them outside. Steve looked tired, must be the result from the serum.

"How was it?" Tony asked excitingly

"It works" Natasha answered with an evil grin

Tony raised his fists in the air "Yessss"

"I hate you, Tony" Steve muttered

"Why, Capsicle? I thought you would like to spend some private time with Natalie"

"Not that private part" Steve replied "She tied me down with a magnetic cuff!"

Everyone laughed while Steve was deeply blushing.

"At least, we spent only 45 minutes on interrogation and the rest to do something really private" Natasha said, making Steve's face turned bright red.

"That's it! I'm outta here" Tony said, covering his ears. He really cannot stand Steve and Natasha's sex life.

"You cannot go anywhere, Stark. You are the one who put me in that situation!" Steve growled "You and my girlfriend turned out to be quite a good team"

"Speaking of good team" Clint started "I just have the most amazing idea! I think we need some team bonding time!"

AN:

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