57 : STORM IS RAGGING

They were sitting quietly in the limo on their way to the hospital. Steve scared the hell out of her by his reaction, an absolute silence that she didn't how to read his expression. Steve stared straight, his eyes blank but his brows frowned that it almost tied into a bow.

"Steve, baby, say something, anything. You're scared me."

"What do you want me to say?" He asked back, voice hard.

"How do you feel about this news? That I might pregnant with your baby."

"I don't know, Nat. We're not sure about it, right? You didn't take the pregnancy test."

Nat turned away and cried because of Steve's reaction was just as she expected. He didn't want the baby or even acknowledge the fact that he was the father. When he saw her tear, he fully turned to her.

"Babe, what's wrong? Why are you crying, Nat?" Steve asked, concerned.

"You didn't want it, did you?" Nat didn't even want to look at him right now.

The man who claimed to love her more than anything didn't want to take any responsibility of his action.

"What?! Nat, I love you and if you are really pregnant, I would be bouncing of the wall. The woman I love carries my child."

"And why you didn't tell me?! You let me thought that you didn't want the baby and you gonna dump me!"

"Because we do not sure about this yet."

"Don't do this to me ever again!"

Nat poured her fists on his chest and Steve pulled her close and kissed her to stop Nat from hurting him.

"I'm sorry. I wasn't sure how to say."

"We need to talk about this." She said but Steve shut her up with his kiss. "Stop it! We still have to—"

Steve didn't let her finish it and devouring her in a hungry kiss.

"Stop distracting me, Rogers."

Steve smiled at her mouth and released her from his embrace.

"No wonder why you are so calm." Nat spoke up "I mean, you slept with hundreds of girl before and I'm willing to bet some of them might tell you they're pregnant before."

"No, I never had such experience."

"What? Are you kidding me?"

"I always wear condom with my one night stands and I have a lot of agreements before doing it. You are the first one that I didn't wear it or negotiate the term before hands."

Nat was shock at this new revelation. She was the only one. She was the only special one to him. And the thought only made her smiled.

They arrived at the hospital and waiting for the doctor so Steve took this opportunity to talk this straight with Nat.

"Nat, if you really are pregnant, do you want to keep this baby?"

"What do you mean? I thought you want…"

"I want our baby but do you want it? It is what I want but I will not force you to keep it. It's too much to ask from you. It means you have to abandon everything."

"Steve…I—I"

"I want you to want this as much as I do but I also want you to think about it first." Steve explained "We will not rush. I might take some time for you to make a decision but I just want you to know that I'm with you because I love you more than anything and I will love our baby as much as I love you."

Nat felt her eyes began to tear up. Damn him and his sweet words and his love and devotion for her.

"I love you, Steve." She whispered and kissed him

A loud cough sounded and the couple broke away from their deep kiss.

"Mr. and Mrs. Rogers" She called and they both got up from their seat.

Steve held Nat hand in his as they walking into the doctor's office. Nat frowned when she saw the same doctor Tony took her to see the last time she got pregnancy scare.

"Mrs. Romanoff, it's you again." The doctor greeted which earned a look from Steve. "Is this your husband?"

"He's my fiancé." Nat replied "Glad to see you again, Dr. Sonya."

"What's bring you here this time?"

"I think I might be pregnant again." Nat replied "I was late for a week now and I forgot to take my pills and we did it without protection."

"Do you take pregnancy taste yet?"

"No."

"Well, you know the procedure." The doctor said.

Nat got up from her seat and followed the doctor into another room, leaving Steve's mind wondered. Nat came back a moment later.

"I will have the labs ran some test." Dr. Sonya told and left the room.

Steve turned to Nat who didn't look at him in the eyes which meant she had something to hide from him.

"Nat, is there something you want to tell me?" He asked

"The last time I was here, I thought I might be pregnant too." She replied

"Is it…? Is it because of me too?"
"Yes, I was a week late too after we have sex and you…left"
"Oh shit" He muttered "You should have told me. You shouldn't take all that burden with you."

"I wasn't pregnant, Steve. So I didn't tell you."

"I'm sorry."

"There is nothing to be sorry, babe. It was a long time ago."

Nat kissed him to chase all his worry away. Even that incident was a thing that happen a very long time ago, he still felt guilty about it. It wasn't something that could easily forget when you hurt someone you love.

The doctor came back to them. Nat immediately grabbed Steve's hand as they were waiting for Dr. Sonya to tell them the result.

"Natasha, you are not pregnant. It could be result from your lack of rest or your worry. It could directly affect your hormones."

The doctor said they were clear and let them go. Steve was mulling over everything and he concluded that Nat was stressed out by her play and homework and now it was his task to ease her stress.

"Steve! You are overreact!" Nat cried out loud when Steve doted on her the moment they were back at their apartment.

"I have to take care of Mrs. Rogers!" Steve replied.

"It's not like I'm pregnant."

"Babe, I will issue this rule. No more sex without protection again."

"Fine…." Nat said but inwardly whined inside because her weird kinky mind like to have sex with her man without the condom.

Steve pulled her into his embrace and kissed her deeply, "Babe, I love you." He said "I only want the best thing for you."

"I know and I'm always grateful for your considerate."

The couple had a dinner with Nat's family again on Friday night at the Romanov's. Aliana invited Sarah too because she wanted to catch up a lot of thing with Steve's mom.

Mostly, their son and daughter's dating life

They cooked by themselves again for the VIP guests. The dinner went on smoothly except for when Nicholas tried to get on Steve's nerves too many time that Alina had to stop her son from it.

"What? It's fun." The man said but willing to comply with his mother's wish.

There was one thing in particular that everyone could notice clearly tonight. It was the beautiful ring on Natasha's finger. Without a doubt, it was Steve's. Alexandre took the opportunity when everyone was sitting in the living room to talk about this alone with his daughter in the kitchen.

"My dear, did you already engage to Steve?"

"No, dad, It just a promised ring."

"Hmmm, interesting" Alexandre said and looked at his daughter "It seems to me like it was more than that."

"Well, he did propose to me like six times by now but I shot him down."

"I will be glad if you and Steve are really engaged."

"Really?"

"Yes, my dear, I could see that he really loves you and he will protect you from everything." The father said before remove a ring from his finger, "Give him this. Consider it as my permission for you guys to get marry."

"Really, dad?" Nat asked, still working on believing the whole thing, "Thank you."

"Just don't forget to tell me if you guys decided to get marry."

Nat smiled and put the ring in her purse. She was glad to know that at least her dad was okay with her relationship with Steve.

"One more thing, sweetheart, If you really love him, there is no need to be hesitate to give it to him."

Steve and Tony came up with their crazy without consulting anyone in the group especially their girlfriends who practically yelled at them when they first heard about this plan.

"What the hell you think you're doing, Tony?!" Pepper bellowed.

"We will have final exam in two weeks, Steven!" Nat too was yelling at her boyfriend.

"It's just party, babe." Steve replied, "We didn't throw my victory party yet."

"Victory party is one thing but fourteen straight party is another thing!" Nat folded her arms.

"Come on, it will be fun. We all can blow off some stream too." Tony tried to reason.

The argument went on and on but in the end, the two girls just sighed and let their boyfriends do whatever they want and hope they will not go too wild.

The first party held at the roof top of their dorm. It was a costume party. Steve didn't exactly have a list of participant but he told his bouncers to keep people at 200.

Steve was wearing a superhero costume with Nat. He was in red, white, and blue which Nat teasingly called him 'Captain Patriot', 'Captain Adorable' and 'Captain Tight Ass' (due to the spandex pants outlining his firm butt perfectly). She came up with those nicknames within the span of 5 minutes and he couldn't stop her from calling him.

Steve couldn't come up with any good superhero aliases for her. He only called her his 'little spider'. To be honest, he got distract by her super skintight cat suit and it fit every curve of her body perfectly. To be even more honest, he didn't want to let her leaves their room or revealed herself to anyone.

"Could you pulled the zip up a little?" He asked, mentioning the zip of her catsuit revealing a little glimpse of her cleavage. "I don't want guys to drool all over my super-hot girlfriend."

"I don't want girls to check out my boyfriend's ass too." Nat smirked.

Steve smiled fondly at her before giving her a kiss. Steve never released her from his embrace once and showed everyone he was the only one with the privilege to touch her. Natasha too didn't want to be away from him too.

Tony and Clint were keeping the vibe up all night. Tony got the best DJ on the campus for them tonight. Beer and alcohol was never became short hand under the supervision of Pepper with a little help from Sam and Luke.

"Tony! I will order pizza!" Pepper shouted over all the noises.

"Yeah! Just give them the credit card." Tony shouted in replied.

"100 boxes of pizza!" Clint yelled, obviously drunk off his ass.

"Calm down, Barton!" Nat pulled Clint down from the table.

The loner complied because he didn't want to face the wrath of Natasha.

Thor was with Jane, Darcy and Loki who was now officially dating Jane's best friend. Steve didn't trust the kid but he couldn't say anything. He looked a bit cheeky and, at the same time, a bit psychopath, and the fact that he was trying to date Natasha back then.

Bruce was with Maria, Phil and Melinda trying to avoid the attention or any drunk ass party goers. May and Hill rolled their eyes when they saw Clint and Tony danced drunkenly on the table. Bruce and Phil just drank their beers and engaged in a causal small talk.

Steve and Nat never took their lips away and locked in themselves away in their private little world. Phil came up to Steve to report some incident to him.

"Steve, sorry to interrupt but there is a situation at the entrance." Phil told.

Steve signed and let go of his girl, "What is it?"

"Johnny and Herc said that there is a guy claim to be your friend and want to get in the party."

"Go do your job, King of Campus." Nat said and kissed his cheek.

"Be right back" Steve smiled before following Phil.

There was a long line at the stairs to the rooftop and at the entrance there was his bouncer guard the door. Johnny and Hercules were arguing with a guy and looked like they were about to get in a fight. It was Bucky Barnes who want to get into the party.

"Hey!" Steve called loudly and everyone stopped.

"Do you know him, Steve?" Johnny asked.

"He's my friend." Steve replied "It's okay guy."

Steve led Buck inside to the area that his group was occupied.

"Hey!" "Barnes!" "WELCOME BACK, JAMES!" Everyone in the group warmly greeted Bucky.

"Hey, guys."

What surprised everyone the most was Nat gave Bucky a hug, "Welcome back"

"Thanks"

"What bring you here, friend Barnes?" Thor asked.

"I came here to tell you guys a good news." Bucky said "I will move here next semester!"

The group screamed happily, jumped on their feet and initiated a group hug. Steve couldn't be happier about this. He got his best friend back with him.

The party went on all night and many crazy things did happened to make this night one of the most memorable night. Tony brought the Iron Throne replica to the roof at helicopter by midnight and sat it on stage. He crowned himself the king before Steve and Nat snuck up behind him and dropped poured ice and cold water all over him.

"WHAT THE HELL, GUYS!" Tony yelled at the couple who laughed maniacally. Steve took Tony's crown as the rich boy shivered uncontrollably.

Tony ran off with Pepper followed behind. Steve sat on the throne and pulled Nat onto his laps and placed the crown on herself, kissing her hands.

"My queen." He said with a bright smile on her face.

"Steve…"

"Hmm?"

"I have something that I want you to have." She told before fished something out of her jacket pocket. Steve's eyes went wide when he saw what was in her hand. "It's my dad's ring. I promise you to give an actual ring after I discover that you gave me your mom's."

Steve was actually speechless as he watched Nat pulled the old fake $1 ring from the street vendor and replaced with her father's ring. Steve took the fake ring from her and added it to his necklace along with the snowflake pendant.

"I will keep it." He said "I love everything that my girlfriend gave it to me."

Nat smiled and put her lips on his once again.

No one else challenged for the throne as Clint diverted everyone's attention to the keg stand challenge of him and Thor. Thor was able to consume the entire keg while Clint almost passed out when he got on his feet again. Hill had to remove Clint from the party before he got himself injured.

Bucky and Loki almost fight each other with a little misunderstanding that Bucky was flirting with Darcy.

"Hands off!" Loki pushed James away from his girl.

"What the hell, dude?"

"Lady Lewis is my girlfriend."

Before things got out of hand, Hill, again, intervened just in time.

"Loki, he's new around here." She told Thor's brother who stood in front of his girlfriend protectively. "He just don't know."

Loki huffed in frustration but Hill already dragged Bucky away from Thor's brother.

"Every dude in this group getting jealous really easy, you know?" Bucky said.

"I know. Steve's the worst of them all."

"Yeah, I know."

"Alright, Barnes tried not to hit on a girl who was taken." Hill told before started to walk away.

"Wait! Can you just hang out with me here? Because everyone else was pretty occupied."

Hill gave him a smile, "Of course."

Bucky secretly admired this woman and how she could handle her friends' nonsense in a very bad ass way. She seemed to handle every stupid thing her friends did very well. She also seemed to be in total control all the time despite most of her friends were cracking most of the time.

She was strong and independent and Bucky liked that in a woman.

The man smiled to himself as he followed the woman.

He got another reason to move here.

The party kept going on and the vibe wasn't got kill. Tony and Pepper finally came back from their room and the rich boy said loudly to Steve,

"WINTER IS COMING, ROGERS! BE PREPARE FOR HOUSE STARK!"

Steve just shrugged his shoulders casually and got back to make out with his girl.

At the dark corner of the rooftop, there was three people kept watching every member of the group but mostly kept their eyes on Steve and Natasha.

"If you want to do something, Brock. Now it's the time."

Jack said as he, Rumlow and Williams standing in the corner and looked at Steve sitting on the throne kissing Natasha who sat on his laps. They broke off and Steve took a sip from his large cup of beer.

"He already let his guard down a lot of time."

"I already did." Rumlow replied with a devilish grin. His eyes locked at his former friend. "He's not even notice any damn thing."

"What do we do now?"

"Keep attending his party before we pulled our final stage of the plan."