51 : MOVING IN

Nat's eyes went wide. She saw from his eyes that he really meant it. Steve wanted to marry her. The guy who afraid of commitment all his life wanted to spend the rest of his life with her.

And he meant it with every word he said.

"Steve…" That was all she could managed to get it out her throat.

Did he say it out because of his jealousy? Did he just afraid of losing her to someone else? Nat couldn't help but doubt it.

"I say it and I really mean it, Nat. I love you, baby and I cannot imagine my life without you but you can sleep on it, sweetie."

"Steve…I—I—I just…I want to be with you but don't you think that we're too young, baby. It's not that I don't want the same thing."

"I know. I just love you so much that I couldn't hold it anymore. I love you, Nat."

"I will give you the answer one day, Steve. It just…not today."

"Alright…"

"I love you. I love only you. My heart is for you. Please always remember that." She replied and kissed him

Her understanding ability could made Steve's heart crushed. She was so perfect, so good to him that he didn't how good decided to give her to him.

He will love her and take a very good care of her.

"But I do want the promise ring though." She whispered between the kiss.

"You got it, babe."

He will give her everything. She could ask anything for him. His life, his heart, his everything was for this woman and he will making love to her to prove his promise.

Nat found herself wrapping tightly in his arms when she woke up. His hand gripped tight at her arm and waist. When she was sure that he was still in his deep sleep, she slowly removed his arms from her and slid out of bed without waking him up.

At lot happened last night, from insane jealousy to an impromptu proposal right down to the sweet gentle love making.

What a memorable two month anniversary of them.

Nat looked back at her boyfriend again. She couldn't help but smile when she saw him smile in his sleep. The cute little dimples even appeared and it made her walked back to him and kissed his cheek.

She brought her red lipstick and wrote something on his forearm. Nat giggled before quickly retreated out the bedroom. She went downstairs to prepare them a breakfast. Well, she will do something special to surprise him.

Fifteen minutes later, Steve began to stir and reached his hand out to find and empty bed. He quickly sat right up but then smiled when he saw something on his right forearm.

A red lipstick scribed 'I love you'.

How in the world could you not falling completely in love with this woman?

He put his sweatpants on but left his upper body bare. To be honest, he was very proud to show off her makes on his body especially the hickeys on his neck or sometime, he even showed off her fingernails marks on his back by being shirtless when it was their dinner double date with Jane and Thor.

Speaking of Thor. The Scandinavian evicted himself to Jane's room because of Steve and Natasha's behavior turning unbearable.

He will talk to Nat again about moving out to his penthouse. At least they could do whatever they want without offending someone. Well, mostly offended their friends.

He silently crept downstairs, followed the incredible smell from the kitchen. His little red must've cook again. He crept behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her neck. Nat smiled and giggled. Surprised kiss on the neck was another weakness of her. She loved when Steve doing it.

"Morning, baby." He said "What are you making? It smells really nice."

"Cinnamon toast" She replied "Hope you like it."

"Since when did you learn how to cook?" He was a little curious because lately she began to cook for both of them. "Not to mention making a Cinnamon toast."
"Your mom teach me how."

"What?!"

"My mom, your mom and I spend a lot of time together when you are not around."

Steve thought back for a second and then smiled fondly at the woman in front of him. The love of his life, M'fhíorghrá.

He lifted her up to sit on the countertop to kiss her without having to bend himself down. His hand was at her neck and Nat immediately pulled away and winced in pain. Steve became on high alert. His worried eyes asserted her body. He left bruises on her neck and he lifted the hem of her shirt up to reveal even more bruises that began to darken.

Guilt bit him back again.

"I hurt you last night. I should have better control of myself. I should stop when you cried."

"Stop it." She said.

"I'm sorry, babe. It will not happen again. I swear to you."

"Apology accepted. But if you do it again without any head up, I will leave you to prove the point."

She should, Steve knew in his heart if he hurt her again, intentionally or unintentionally, he really didn't deserve her. He will not keep her with him.

"I'm sorry." He say it again and kissed her. "I love you so much and I will try to handle with my jealousy better than this time. It just that Edward made me see how flaw I am comparing to him. He is perfect while I'm a fuck up guy who doesn't deserve you at all."

"I want to be with you, Steve. I love you, not Edward or anyone else. There always be only you. I love you the way you are despite the imperfection but we are only human. Your imperfection is what I need. I don't need a perfect guy or an Earl to make my life happy. I got you for that."

Steve smiled at her words and held her tight.

"Besides, I'm having a lot of fun doing all the crazy stupid thing with you rather than being the perfect future Grand duchess."

"How could I be so lucky to have you?"

"Because I choose you. Always."

"I love you, M'fhíorghrá."

The couple came back to the university and found that their friends didn't notice that they were gone. Probably because most of them were in a relationship and were into themselves to notice two members of the group were gone.

"Where the hell did you guys go?" Tony asked when he just realized the couple wasn't at the university for the weekend.

"At Steve's" Nat replied.

"We're sorry we didn't tell you guys where we went." Steve said.

"It's okay. We know you want some time alone together." Pepper smiled.

"And that's bring us to another news that we would like to tell you guys." Nat began and looked at her boyfriend.

"Don't tell me you guys are fucking engage or already off to Vegas and married!" Clint exclaimed

Nat frowned at her best friend. Steve forgot what he going to say and have half a mind to agree to that thought.

"No! We will move out from the dorm and move in together at Steve's penthouse." Natasha corrected.

"What?!" Half of the group exclaimed at the same time.

"Don't tell me you guys already married!" Clint said.

"I do believe what you say, Legolas" Tony agreed.

"Why do you have to move out?!" Pepper questioned.

"Why are you abandoning us?!" Darcy yelled.

"GUYS! GUYS! Stop it!" Steve shouted over the group to make everyone stop. "It's better of this way. Trust me. None of you want to be a part of our love life considering our recent reputation."

Everyone mumbled an agreement on that reason.

"We still hanging out with you guys and then headed back to our house." Nat added

"And then came to school and do everything exactly the same way we do every day."

"Oh my god! My little kids are growing up and moving out to live on their own." Jane exclaimed and hugged them both.

Everyone took their time to absorb the news. When they saw Steve and Nat already move on to the next step of their relationship, some couple needed to reevaluate their current relationship. The boys dragged Steve to the pool table for some interrogation.

Pepper too needed to get the information out of Natasha. They talked about their boys.

"So, how was your two month anniversary with Steve?"

"He took me out for a dinner and we went straight back to his room and...uh...doing it...a lot." Nat replied with a flushed red cheeks. "Steve got a little jealous about me and Edward."

"He should be! The guy was dreamy and he is an Earl of…whatever that was."

"We did things a little rough because he saw me kiss Edward during the rehearsal. I sang a duet with Edward and then kiss. We're acting but Steve don't like it."

"He better get used to it because you will have to kiss a lot of men if you are an actress."

"He promised it will not happen again. He will try to control it."

"You are his first relationship in many years, Nat. He only been with one girl his entire life and then you. He's not actually an expert in relationship. For the jealousy part, he probably never been jealous his entire life with all the girl chasing after him."

"I know. And I know that I didn't spend much time with him lately so I agree to move in with him."

"I'm glad that you guys still growing strong."

"Yeah, we are." Nat agreed and looked at the pool table.

Their eyes met across the room and a gentle smile appeared on his lips. Nat smiled too and it made Pepper felt like she was invading their privacy.

The couple dealt with the moving out process and contacted the dormitory office already. The room assignment will change a little because Maria will be Pepper's new roommate. Nat told Steve that they should at least had his room as a back- up in case they were too tired to go back to their penthouse.

Nat had her boyfriend doing the packing while she organized which one should packed in which box and handled the labeling.

"Babe! Did you pack my panties yet?!" Nat shouted from the living room as she was labeling the box.

"What?" Steve shouted back, couldn't believe what she just asked.

"My panties and bra! Put them nicely in the box okay?"

"Kay"

Even Steve took off a lot of bra and panties but packing it into the box made him blush. For crying out loud, he took them off a million times but it wasn't made him feel weird like this.

"Steve, I said for you to put them in the boxes. The mover will be here in two hours! We still have a lot of things to pack."

"Can you do it? I feel a little weird."

Nat laughed at his redden face and teased him nonstop which ended up with them on bed and Steve kissing her.

"Do you think…we could do it…one last time in this bed?" Steve whispered seductively in her ear.

"Sound like a good idea." Nat agreed.

"Please don't." A sound from the door startled them and they both jumped away from each other.

Maria Hill and Pepper Potts stood at the door watching the couple. Their faces turned red and avoided making eyes contact with their friends.

"Steve, please tell the mover to move Nat's bed with you too."

"We just kiss!" Nat said.

"I'm kidding." Hill replied "Did you guy finish packing yet?"

"Nah." Nat shook her head "Steve has his little problem with packing my panties."

"Babe!" Steve exclaimed

The girls laughed. If someone could teasing Steve Rogers without a death threat from the captain, that person would be Natasha Romanoff. Pepper and Maria left the couple alone to their packing.

"Did you tell your mom yet?" She asked while throwing her clothes into the box "So she will get some idea that she might walk in to us living there together."

"I take it that you say she will walk in on us doing it." Steve replied "By the way, you can't just throw it in there without fold it properly!"

"You know what the hidden message is, Steve. Don't have to decode it!" She shot back. "We will have to iron our clothes again so fold or not, it doesn't make any different."

Steve gave up arguing with her "I will call her tonight. She will be thrill that we move in together." He said "What about you? Did you tell your parents yet?"

"No. Do you want Nicholas to join our dinner every day?"

"Your brother is the last person on earth I want at our house."

"He's nice, Steve. Give him a chance. He already got his new girlfriend again."

"I bet this one will last only one week."

They laughed because Natasha's brother was another version of Steve. He grew up in France and learned a way to charm women French style. Since he moved to New York for two months, he dates four girls and the duration of the relationship shorter with the new one.

Finally, they packed everything in the box and the mover came to get there things.

"Well, Mr. Rogers." She looked into his eyes "We're moving in together."

"Yes, it is, Ms. Romanoff." He replied and kissed her.

The couple thought moving together will be easy when they were undeniably in love with each other but in reality, it was not. They finally reached the point that Tony like to call them, old married couple.

They began to unbox their stuff once they arrived at the penthouse. They planned to finish unpacking within today before tomorrow they will arrange everything into its place. Steve called his mom to let her know that they were moving in together. His mom said they could redecorate the place but not to destroy her art collection stored there and every piece of artwork will be supervised the moving by her staff.

Steve was putting their clothes into the closet but Nat launched herself onto the bed and googling the internet to find new decorations for their penthouse.

"Babe, stop with the online shopping and help me with this!'

"I'm finding us some artwork that will look good with your wood work!"

"I think my Picasso goes along with my wood work just fine." Steve replied.

"Shit! That thing is Picasso!"

"Yeah, mom win it at the auction."

Steve finished with the clothes but couldn't find his girlfriend on his bed anymore. They still had a lot of thing to unpack but she already shifted her focus to something else.

"What are you doing?" He asked when he saw his girlfriend on the ladder trying to move the collection of Ming vases from the fireplace. "Be careful. Those vases alone worth half a million."

"Then stop asking me the question and helped me!"

Steve did as she said. He received the vases from her and put it gently in the coffee table.

"I'm planning on putting an up-to-date piece of sculpture here."

"It amazes me how we end up together when we have a completely different taste of art." Steve noted.

"You're an old man, Steven." She teased "I'm modern era girl."

"Some antiques are worth saving, my dear modern era girlfriend." Steve replied "I will have someone at my mom's gallery get me a bronze sculptor of Pierre le Faguays."

"Hold on! I already brought one."
"What did you buy? It's only ten minute that I lost sight on you and you already order a sculpture?"

"We have to work this out, Rogers because we only move in for one day and we already fight."

"Okay, we will try to blend both our style together."

They both stopped and took a deep breath before agreeing that they should finish unpacking before doing anything with the decorations.

"Don't you think you should tell your parents that we're moving in together?" Steve spoke up "I kinda don't want to get kill by your father."

"Steve, how do you expect me to tell them?"

"The same way I did with my mother."

"Did you tell your dad?

"No."

"We will tell my parents when everything is settled in, okay? We will have to make sure that we can actually live together."

"Fair deal. But you gotta tell them." He said and pulled her closer. "I want to make it right with us, with everything about us because I love you with all my heart."

Nat smiled and leaned up on her toe to kiss him. She fell completely, deeply in love with Steve Rogers. With the thought, she wove her arms around his neck and deepened the kiss. Her hands began to trail down his chest and abs, unbuckling his belt.

"What? Right now? I'm covering in sweat and dust."

"I want you, baby" Her eyes filled with lust as she tugged in the hem of his t-shirt. Everything he did lately seemed to turn her on easily.

Before he could argue any further, Nat brought his lips down to her and kissed him passionately. They didn't finish unpacking by the evening because Natasha distracted Steve with something else.

They ended up doing it on the kitchen counter top, on the couch, against the wall, and on the rug in front of the fireplace.

They only had class for half a day but Steve had his football practice while Nat had a day off from her rehearsal. She told him she will wait for him at the penthouse and probably finish unpacking. Nat brought Hill and Pepper with her too.

Steve came home to find the place was a mess. He frowned.

"Nat! What did you do to our place?" He asked.

"I just finish packing and rearrange something."

"Why is my favorite Monet laying on the floor like this?"

"I will put it in our library."

She emerged from the kitchen with Hill and Pepper on the tow. Steve was surprised that Tony let his girlfriend out of his sight like this. Nat walked into his arms and hugged him tightly while Steve dipped his head down to kiss her and pushed her red curls behind her ears.

"I miss you" He whispered.

"Me too."

She pressed herself up against him, molded her entire body in his embrace.

"We will go now so you guys can have some time alone."

"Thank you." Steve said "Josh is waiting for you guys downstairs."

The two girls left. Nat still won't let go of her boyfriend. She closed her eyes and listened to steady thrum of his heart. It soothed her in a very weird way and the way the warm of his body radiated…she just can't, really, she wanted to be in his arms forever.

"Should I carry you to bed?" He asked

"Uh-uh" She shook her head. "This is perfect."

"We should get rid of this mess before rat or cockroaches decided to move in with us."

"Leave it there." She replied but didn't open her eyes. "We will clear it out tomorrow morning."

"I'm calling Mia" Steve told "We cannot get rid of all of this within tomorrow morning."

The name of other woman left his mouth made her pulled away from his embrace.

"Who is Mia?"

"Mia is my maid who take care of the penthouse for us. She will clean up all this mess."

"Then why I never see her here."

"She came here around 10 AM every day and she took a day off today." Steve answered truthfully

Nat obviously relaxed and got back into his arms again but this time, Steve carried her up and headed for the couch. He gently laid them down on the couch with her on top of him.

"I see you put most of our things in place."

She nodded before slowly opened her eyes to look up at him "One more thing, babe. My Shishi Odoshi will arrive tomorrow. Can you assemble it for me?"

"What? Sushi what?"

"Shishi Odoshi, Japanese bamboo fountain. It help with our Feng Shui. It helps generate positive energy and creativity."

"Our what?"

"You never heard of Feng Shui? How in the world that you didn't know about it?"

"Whatever." He replied and stroke her cheek lovingly "I will get it done tomorrow."

"You're the best."

"Anything for you, little red." He said "I have a reservation for our dinner tonight. I really want to make up for ruining our anniversary one."

"You shouldn't have but can we order lots of desserts afterward."

"Anything for you, Nat."

Surprisingly, the couple adjusted their differences quite fast and they started to establish their daily routine together. Mostly Steve woke up first in the morning and will indulge his girlfriend with homemade breakfast in bed, freshly brewed coffee and a vase of freshly cut flower. If Nat woke up first, she will try to surprise him with the new recipe she just learn and he always praised her and kissed her afterward. Steve was the one making their bed while Nat busied with her hair and makeup. Her curled red hair grew longer almost at the same length as when she cut it off.

Sometime they invited their friends to have a dinner or even a sleepover but mostly they still spent their time hanging out in the bar late at night and ended up with Steve carrying Nat to their bed and changed her into her sleepwear.

Mia, the housekeeper, helped the couple a lot with the cleaning and laundry but the real problem occurred when she informed them she will not be with them for a week.

"Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, I will be out of town for a week. It's my nephew birthday and the first time I visit my family in a year."

"It's okay, Mia. I think we can survive without you." Steve replied. "Wish your nephew a happy birthday too."

"This is our gift for him." Nat said and handed Mia a present. "And I'm not Mrs. Rogers." Nat added.

"Thank you. This is very kind of you."

"Yes, she is. Don't listen to her. She just mad at me for burning her favorite t-shirt because I'm turning the heat of the iron too high."

"It's my Shadow Host t-shirt!"

"What's Shadow Host anyway?"

"My favorite Russian rock band!"

"I can stay here if you want someone to stop you from fighting." Mia chimed in.

"Don't worry about us, Mia. You should go to your nephew birthday." Steve said.

Mia said goodbye to them once again before heading to the elevator. The redhead turned to her boyfriend and continued with their argument. They argued for like twenty minutes but Steve, knowing he will lose anyway, pulling Nat into his arms and kissed her.

She resisted for a couple second before kissed him back and wove her arms around his neck.

"Why are you doing this?" She murmured before kissing him again.

"I love you."

"You're distracting me, Rogers."

"Indeed I am."

Finally they broke off because they needed some air. Nat grabbed his shirt to stable herself and panting. Cheeks tinted pink and Steve took a mental note how cute she was.

"We…gotta…do the laundry." Nat finally remembered what she was about to say.

Steve eagerly volunteered himself and carried all the dirty laundry into the laundry room.

"How the fuck is this machine operate?!" He shouted angrily at the machine after trying to figure this thing out for ten minutes.

He could hear audible laugh from outside so he just poured the washing powder and everything into the machine and pressed the button and then wait.

Ten minutes later, Nat heard a scream from the laundry room.

"BABE! HELP! THE MACHINE UNLEASHED THE BUBBLE ALL OVER THE FLOOR!"

Nat quickly ran to the room and swung the door open. A wave of bubble flushed out from the room and she slipped but managed to get up quickly. She saw Steve standing on the table in the ocean of bubble.

"What the hell did you do to our laundry?'
"I don't know how to operate the fucking machine!"

"Just turn it off!"
"I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE BUTTON IS!" Steve shouted over the sound of the machine. He was trying to move but the bubble made him slip and fall off the table "Fuck!"

Nat quickly walked into the bubble mist and found her stupid boyfriend laying on the floor and covered himself with white bubble. She pulled him up before shutting the machine down.

"You never do a laundry before?"

"I got someone else to do the house choir for me, okay?"

"Of course Mr. Rogers had someone to do his choir for him."

Steve silenced his girl in a kiss to stop her from teasing him. They both slipped down on the floor but Steve managed to encase her in his arms and be the one to get the most impact.

"Well, well, you guys just wreck the penthouse on your sixth day of moving in together." A voice came from the doorway and Steve and Natasha quickly separated from each other. "I could imagine the penthouse would be like when it reach one month milestone."

Sarah Rogers was standing there, looking at the young couple on the floor. Steve swallowed and slowly got up on his feet and helped Nat up too.

"Sorry, mom. I just don't know how to use this machine."

"Don't be. I will call someone to clean this mess up." Sarah told and turned to Nat "Natasha, if he didn't listen to you, you may do as you like with him."

"Mom…" Steve whined "Don't take her side. I'm your son."

Sarah told the kids to clean themselves up and met her in the kitchen for dinner. Steve came down to meet with his mother first because Nat had to dry her hair again.

"I'm glad that my son finally found the one." Sarah spoke up. "Take a very good care of her, Steve. Someone like Natasha isn't easy to come by."

"I know, mom. I'm intended to spend the rest of my life to love her and taking care of her."

Sarah smiled at her son's word and removed the ring on her finger and gave it to him.

"It's the tradition in our family. This ring belonged to your grandmother. You should give it to her."

"Mom, is it a little too much."

"I can clearly see it, son. You are deeply in love with her."

Steve reluctant but took the ring from his mother anyway, "Thank you, mom."