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25 : I GOT YOU**

"Rogers, look out for Williams!" Fury shouted from the side of the football field.

Steve made a signal that he understood. The Captain shouted his play and the ball was sent to his hand. Before Steve could do anything, his offensive line made another mistake and Williams tackled him to the ground with all his force.

"ARGGGG!" A scream of pain made everyone in the stadium stop whatever they were doing.

Simon quickly got off Steve. The Captain clutched his ankle and still groaned in pain. The medical staff rushed to his side and checked up on him.

"Coach! His ankle is sprained."

"Take him to hospital. We need to know how bad it is" Fury said.

Steve was carried out by a gurney and loaded onto the van. His teammates looking at him worryingly because they knew, if Steve's injury was very bad. He might miss out the entire season or worse. He's the center of this team and now his team's morale was damaged.

Fury talked to the doctor as they were waiting for the x-ray results. Steve's ankle was wrapped with a splint to protect his foot. Fury just wanted to be sure that his number one player will heal as soon as possible.

"Doctor, I need to know how long will it take for him to get back in the field again?"

"He will be out for a couple weeks and he has to do a follow up check every week until he is fully heal"

"I will kill Williams. That motherfucker didn't know how important these two games are" Fury muttered "And now I lost my best quarterback for two games"

Steve sat there silently because he felt down. He was unable to go out with his friends or play football for at least two weeks. He had to watch his team play without him for two damn weeks. How is he gonna survived this?

Fury and the medical team took him back to his dorm where Thor was waiting for him with Jane. Fury ordered the linebacker to help Steve and take good care of the quarterback. Thor had to make sure that he eats and takes his medicine and doesn't do anything crazy.

Jane ordered pizza from Thor's diner for them to eat. Steve was pouting all the time because of the splint making him really uncomfortable. The Captain ate his dinner and took the medicine before Jane and Thor helped him to his bed.

Steve dozed off a couple minute later.

"Hey, Nat!" Jane greeted her friend when she saw Natasha walked along the hall

"Hey, Jane. Do you know where Steve is? He was supposed to pick me up this morning"

"He's in his room. Just leave him there. He's not a good mood"

"Why? Something bothering him"

"Yeah, he feels a bit down"

"I will go check up on him" Natasha said and walked away immediately.

The redhead opened the door to Steve's room. She found no one but she could hear someone was snoring. She quietly snuck into his bedroom and found Steve Rogers was sleeping in his bed, snoring and drooling. Natasha also noticed that there was medicine on his end table and his left foot was covered by splint.

She got on his back and whispered in his ear. "Wake up, Sleepy head"

"Go away" He groaned painfully, not opened his eyes "I need a rest"

"Did you eat something yet?"

"Nooo… I just want to go the fuck to sleep"

"Come on! Get up! I will cook something for you to eat so you can take your medicine"

Despite how small she was, she did manage to pull Steve out of his bed but she had to support him as they walked slowly to the living room. Natasha sat him down on the couch before made him some soup from the can stored in his cupboard.

Steve was indeed turning into a giant whining baby. He kept complaining about how he wasn't able to help his team for two games and it was so boring that he had to sit at the sideline watching them play.

"It isn't that bad, Steve. On the bright side, you have more time to prepare for your final exam" She tried to cheer him up but he pouted at her.

"It's a very important game, Red. If we win these two games, we secure our place in the playoff and don't have to wait until the last two games after the winter break!"

She grabbed his hands and held it gently "Hey, they will doing just fine, Steve. Have faith in your teammates"

"Nahhh, Scott Summers cannot replace me! You can see how bad-he sucks!"

"Just give him a chance to prove himself"

"If he didn't win these two games, I will kill him and Williams" Steve vowed

And Steve went on and on about how he feels about this injury and Natasha knew that she had to do her best to distract him from all of this. She could see that he took football very seriously and it's a big part of his life.

"Hey, wanna watch Weekend at Barney''s?"

"Who introduced you to this movie?" Steve asked, narrowing his eyes with suspicion.

"I watched it with Tony and Bruce last week."

"Well, that's explain it"

"Explain what?"

"It's Stark's favorite movie of all time. He was like…forcing us to watch it every dude night out!" Steve explained

"Fine, you pick the movie then"

"Actually, I have a very good movie for us to watch today"

"Please tell me it's not one of your rom-com"

"I just rented Frozen!"

Natasha laughed so hard and she felt off the couch.

"What's so funny?" He asked

"You, of all the movie, you picked Frozen. You, one of the manliest guy I ever know, picked Frozen"

"What? Jane say it was a good animation movie" He explained "Fine, laugh all you want, Red."

Natasha just grabbed the Blu-ray box and put it in the player. Steve sighed and laid back on the couch. She sat down in front of the couch and hogged all the popcorn. When the movie began, Steve realized it wasn't in English.

"Red, why did the characters speak in some alien language?"

"It's Russian, dumb head"

"Change it back to English for god's sake"

"Do you know I can sing in at least half of the language they sing 'Let it go' in?"

"I bet you just watch it from YouTube"

"I hate you, Rogers"

Steve chuckled and directed his attention back to the movie playing. Natasha was so focus on the story even she already watched it for fifteen times. Then it was the part that Elsa sings Let It Go, his little red began to sing it too but Steve could identify some foreign languages she uses

Well, she didn't lie when she told him she can sing in different languages

Steve listened to that melodic voice from high heaven. He couldn't get enough of her beautiful or couldn't get enough of his little red being near him like this.

He likes the feeling of having her around. For the first time he does want woman near him in non-sexual way. He just wanted her to be near him, smile at him, and sing for him, talking, hugging and all of that crazy stuff she always drags him with her.

Anything she wants from she can only say the word and he will do it for her.

Natasha turned to Steve again when it was almost finish and she found that Steve already dozed off. She smiled and got on her knee before kissed him on his cheek. He mumbled something, probably talking in his sleep,

"Little…red…."

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Steve took a rest for three days because it was Fury's orders. He still had some troubles when he's moving around or taking shower. Natasha checked up on him every day and during the day when didn't have class.

She could notice that Steve was still a little bit down by his injury but she did a great job in distracting him and cheered him up.

Thor and Jane were hoping that they would find at giant whining quarterback when they came back from the library with six boxes of pizza for their dinner but they found a laughing Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff on the couch together, bickering about their next movie.

"I wanna watch Lion King!" Steve pouted. "You already get to watch When in Rome"

"Can we do Matrix first?"

"Hey, are we interrupting something?" Jane chimed in from the doorway.

"No, you are not" Nat replied "And you can help us decide the next movie because Steve and I clearly cannot settle this down"

"I smell pizza" Steve said and Thor showed him six pizza boxes in his hands. "Niceeee. You're the best, bro."

The guys fist-bumped. Natasha scooted to the left to make some room for Jane and Thor to sit. Steve started to dig in his pizza box when Jane decided that they should watch Blue Jasmine. Steve didn't pay attention to the movie anymore because he was munching his pizza.

Half way through the movie, Clint and Jessica showed up.

"Hey, guys. Hope we didn't clash your little party" Clint spoke up while Nat paused the movie.

Steve who silently dozed off again after devouring his whole box of pizza, woke up. Clint introduced Jessica to everyone. Nat moved up to sat with Steve on the couch. The newly couple brought them two bucket of chicken wings and joined them in the movie night.

Steve grabbed some wings before he slowly get back to sleep again after he satisfied his stomach. Jane and Thor cuddled up while Clint and Jessica holding hand all the time.

When Thor flickered the light up after the movie ended, Jane, Thor, Clint and Jessica found Steve and Natasha snuggled on the couch with Natasha's head resting on his chest.

"Should we wake them up?" Thor asked

"Nah, leave them like that" Clint replied.

"I never see Steve allow any girl this close to him before" Jessica noted. "And I heard the rumor that he put an end to his arrangement with that—uh—how should I put this politely?—umm—that slut Sharon Carter"

"Yeah, he stops sleeping around for a long time now." Jane told

"I think it is because of Lady Natasha"

The couple on the couch continued with their deep sleep without knowing that they were a subject to their friends' conversation.

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Steve woke up again the next morning to find Natasha sleeping soundly in his arms at the exact same place they fell asleep last night. He smiled at the sight he saw and how she held him tight and whispered something he couldn't catch.

The strange feeling came back again. He didn't know what it was be he likes to have her close to him like this.

Steve still had to sit around in his room for one more day but luckily, his little red had her free time to spend with him. She took a really good care of him and helped him with everything. He began to get used to walk around with crutches.

She made it fun when she helping him with walking around for the first time. They walked along the hallway with everyone was looking at them, admired how adorable they were together. Everyone in Howard Hall noticed that Steve was very attached to this new girl.

Their friends began to order takeout food for their dinner at Steve/Thor's room because the good captain cannot go anywhere until he was fully heal. Most of the time Steve fall asleep on Nat's laps while they were watching the movie.

She always tried to tickle him or put popcorn in his ears. He only growled in warning but to tire to do anything and he found her really cute when she was teasing him.

"Stop it, red" He murmured

"Make me stop, Stevie" She replied playfully and teased him some more.

He snapped his eyes open and looked up at her face which hovering above him. Suddenly he realized how close they were so he looked away from her beautiful face. Natasha noticed it to and pulled away. Steve felt his cheeks were burning but he ignored it and closed his eyes again. Nat changed from teasing him to stroking his hair gently and slowly sent him back to sleep.

Today was the first game that Steve had to sit and watch his teammates from the sideline. Natasha could feel that he was unhappy about it.

"Stop being so grumpy" She said as she drove his car to the stadium while Steve sat next to her, pouting "It's not that bad"

"It's bad, Red because that douche Summers gonna ruin it"

"You really hate him, do you?"

"Yeah"

"Is there anyone you don't hate?"

"You" He answered without thinking before added "Well, you, Thor, our gang...that's pretty much everyone I don't hate"

"Why do you hate them?"

"Most of all, they want to be my friend because of my popularity, my money and my good looking. Girls want to sleep with me because I'm the quarterback not because I'm the normal guy Steve Rogers. Unlike you guys...why do you want to be my friend anyway?"

"Well, everyone told me that you're the worst person I will ever met but I wanted to know the real you before I can decide that you really are a bad person."

"A very valid reason…Oh god! I'm a very terrible person."

"But you've changed, Steve. That's what makes the difference"

"Thanks, red. It means a lot"

They reached the stadium and slowly walked to their seat where everyone was almost there. Darcy was the one who notice that they're wearing matching jerseys and holding hands.

"If you guys told me that you're dating, I will totally believe it"

Steve frowned and let Natasha did all the talking. He could come up with something to snark back but it's better to let her say thing. Steve sat down and trying to avoid any collision to his injured leg. Natasha turned back to him and began talking.

She was a perfect distraction from whatever making him brooded. The rest of the gang finally came. Tony and Clint sat down at both sides of Darcy who pointed them the couple with matching jerseys in front of them. Tony and Clint smiled mischievously as they presented her with stickers with letter S and N.

Darcy and Clint slowly and gently stuck the stickers on their back. The letter were stuck in front of ROGERS. It's letter S and N in front of ROGERS at the back of them. S ROGERS and N ROGERS.

The three prankster quickly took a picture. Tony was waiting for the perfect moment and snapped the picture when Natasha leaned her head against his shoulder and Steve holding her hand.

The rich boy upload the photo with caption: 'May I present you for the first time…Mr. & Mrs. Rogers'

The notification sounded. Tony made sure he tagged the couple but they seemed to enjoy each other company more than interesting in their phones right now.

Finally, the game began and they all cheered for Thor. The game wasn't that bad even Marvel didn't have their best player in the field with them today. Scott Summers led the team with one touchdown lead at the half time.

The half time means that it was time for kiss cam. Steve was laughing at many awkward couple until the stadium jumbotron cut to him and Natasha. They were holding hands and Steve wrapped his arms around her shoulders.

"NO!" Steve yelled but everyone was cheering. Even their friends seemed to okay with it.

"Come on, Captain. A little smooch with the lovely lady in your arms" The commentator teased

Nat's face was bright red and she hid it at his chest. Steve pouted before pressed a gentle kiss on her cheek. The crowd seemed to be disappoint because they were expecting a full kiss from the Captain. But this one was the remarkable public display of affection because Steve never showed this kind of affection to anyone before.

Natasha buried her face in his chest because she could sense that everyone was looking at her and half of the stadium was envious of her already.

But Steve held her tightly in his arms to show everyone that the girl in his arms had his full protection.

After the game, they went the bar to celebrate Thor's victory. Steve had to sit down at the table for the whole party while he watched everyone walking and dancing around. Natasha was talking to Clint and Thor at bar. Tony was chatting with a group of girls while Pepper were dancing with the girls.

Steve sighed and pouting. But then he saw a guy was talking to Natasha, obviously flirting with her. The Captain got up with crutches supported him. Thor and Clint could see Steve was moving too fast than he supposed to.

"Hey! Back off!" Steve said and jerked the guy away from Natasha when Steve saw he touched her.

"Get your hands off me, dude!" The guy replied. Steve could see that the guy wasn't the regular in this bar. His face wasn't familiar at all.

The Captain became territorial and stepped forward between his little red and the stranger.

"Steve, it's nothing" Natasha said and held him back because he was in no condition to fight with anyone.

"You didn't say you have a boyfriend" The guy said

"We only talk for two sentences" Natasha corrected "And one of them was 'Wanna have a quickie in my car?'"

Her sentence ended with a loud impact of a punch right into the guy's face. Everyone gasped in surprised and Nat had to hold Steve back before he did anything that will injure himself any further.

"You asked my girlfriend to have a quickie with you?!" He bellowed "You are lucky I'm injured. Otherwise, I would kill you myself!"

Grant and Thor had to drag the guy out of the bar before something serious happened. Steve turned back his little red to check that she was okay.

"Your girlfriend?" Clint asked. Eyebrows quirked up

"It tends to send man run away faster" Steve replied "Beside, she's my little red"

"I will just assume that it means she's your girlfriend when you say she's your little red"

That made Steve and Nat unintentionally blush at the same time.

"I didn't mean that, Barton!" Steve tried to recover

"Whatever, dude but you're really protective of her"

"She's my lil—DAMN IT!" Steve yelled at Clint "Let's get outta here, red"

Natasha punched Clint's arm for teasing her. She helped Steve walked out of the bar to his car. She drove them back and put him in bed.

"Don't forget to take your medicine" She reminded and sat down next to him on his bed.

Steve did as she told and slid back under the cover, grabbing her hand. "Sing my something. A lullaby or anything"

"What do you want to listen? Any song in particular?"

"Nah, anything. Your voice can make every song ten times better"

Natasha was thinking about the song that will send her giant baby to sleep. Her hand gently stroked his golden locks as he closed his eyes, waiting for her to sing. She just thought of the perfect song and began to sing

"I remember tears streaming down your face

When I said, I'll never let you go

When all those shadows almost killed your light

I remember you said, Don't leave me here alone

But all that's dead and gone and passed tonight"

Nat could feel that Steve was relaxing under her touch and the sound of her voice.

"Just close your eyes The sun is going down

You'll be alright No one can hurt you now

Come morning light You and I'll be safe and sound"

She continued with the song until it ended. Steve was about to drifted off and barely conscious anymore.

"Hey, Steve…" She gently spoke up

"Huhh?"

"What are you afraid of?"

"Falling" He replied, started to doze off and didn't open his eyes. "Falling…without someone… catching me"

His eyes shut completely and drifted off to his peaceful slumber. The medicine did it work. Natasha placed a kiss on his forehead

"I got you, Steve" She whispered. "Goodnight, Captain"

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Two weeks went by in no time. Steve didn't pay any attention to his injury or easily got bored sitting around doing nothing because he got his little red to take care of him.

Natasha put it her priority to take care of him and help him get better as soon as possible. She even accompanied him to the hospital for the final check up. The doctor said that his ankle was fully healed.

Steve was practically bouncing up and down on their way to the parking lot. He walked Nat back to her room and said he was grateful that she took a very good care of him for the pass two weeks and thanks her before pressing a kiss on her cheek.

Natasha bid him a goodbye and disappeared behind her door. Steve walked back to his room and found Thor and Jane watching TV with pizza boxes on coffee table.

"How are you doing, Steve?" Jane asked "I guess your ankle is alright"

"Yeah, it is. Thanks to Nat for taking a very good care of me"

"Awwww, she nursed you back to health" Jane teased "That's cute"

"Yeah, if she hadn't been there for me I may have died of boredom"

"Steve, I know you're not interesting in having a girlfriend but I have a feeling that you already met your match"

"What do you mean? Who's my match?"

"Natasha! You and Natasha are practically a couple. A very clingy one at that!"

"Lady Jane speaks the truth, my friend" Thor agreed "And I am beyond elated if Lady Natasha is your girlfriend. She is way better than that hussy Sharon"

"Why is everyone seem to hate her?"

"Because she's not a good woman, Steve. Only you were so blind—oh, actually, I totally understand because all you want from her was sex" Jane said.

"Yeah, I'm done with all of that shenanigan"

"Glad to hear, my friend" Thor chimed in

"Just think about it, Steve. A girl like Natasha isn't easy to find"

"I know. I'm lucky to have her"

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AN:

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