59 : SAVING STEVE ROGERS

Steve refused to talk to anyone about this as he walked back to the dorm with Thor. Why would he bother talking when everyone will not believe him?

So this was how Rumlow plan on taking him down. They distracted him with Phil and then set him up with this. He knew he never use those kind of drugs. There was no way he could receive it unless someone drugged him with it.

Wait, they must have drug him with it.

But who gonna care about this when they already marked him as a drug user, no moral athlete.

He came back to his room and found Nat was waiting for him. His girlfriend knew immediately from his face what happened to him.

"Steve, I believe in you." Nat hugged him.

"You shouldn't"

"Baby, it's not you. You didn't use it. I'm with you."

"I will go hang myself now because Rumlow won and my life's ruined."

"Don't give up. You have to fight back. If you didn't do it, you have to prove your innocence."

Steve let go of her with the saddest in his eyes like Nat never see before and the other thing was that, he losing all hope. He gave up.

He silently headed off to bed and left her alone in the living room. Nat knew right then it was up to her to save him. She quickly grabbed her phone and sent assemble text to everyone.

'Bar NOW!'

Because Nat never sent assemble text to anyone so everyone knew hoe urgent it was. Everyone met up at their usual bar within five minutes.

"We have to save him." Nat said when everyone was seated "Someone framed him with the steroid"

"Nat, are you really sure that he didn't do it?" Clint asked back

"I'm 100 percent sure that my boyfriend never use those kind of drugs." Nat replied with tone in her voice that no one wouldn't dare to question. "Guys, he's our friend. We gotta help him."

"We already try our best, red." Tony said, "We can't find anything."

"Try harder." Nat said, "There is his future at stake if we didn't do anything."

"We will try our best."

"And focus mainly on Rumlow and his friends." Nat told, "They are behind this, I told you."

After Steve called Sarah about the incident, she flew back to New York and send the best lawyer to aid her son. Cornelius, the private investigator of the Rogers, had been searching for evidence to prove Steve's innocent.

Joseph heard the news and had his friends at the NCAA delayed the investigation so the Rogers can have more time. He was busy at the Pentagon but made sure to have someone report back to him every moment.

Everyone was trying their best but the only person who seemed to give up everything was Steve. He moved out to live permanently at the penthouse after the school suspension. Nat moved with him but he barely talked to her. They lived together but he always isolated himself away from her, trapping in his own thought.

Their friends always came to visit them and to help lighten up the situation but Steve kept quiet most of the time.

One time Nat found him googling on the internet, searching for house at the countryside of France or yacht to buy. He was giving up everything and planned his escape route from this place.

"Why are you doing this, Steve?" She asked him out one night when they were alone on bed, "There's still hope."

"No, there is none for me." He replied

"Steve, baby, everyone was trying to help you…"

"I don't want to talk about it, Nat. Even you can't save me this time."

With that he rolled to the other side and went to sleep. Nat looked at him, worried. It was up to her to save him again but she didn't understand why he was hopeless about this. There was a way out but he seemed to ignore it.

When Nat woke up again, the bed was empty and she couldn't find Steve anywhere. Hours had passed and Nat began to worry that anything might happen to him. He didn't reply her call or returned her any messages.

Hope he didn't any harm to himself.

Steve did come back to her in the afternoon, soaking wet from rain. His blank expression still worried her as Nat put him in the shower to clean himself up. He came out an hour later with the same expression. Nat hugged him tightly, some part in her wanted an intimate action with her boyfriend. He rarely touched her lately and she missed it.

"Steve, you have to talk to me. I'm here for you, babe." She whispered and felt him tightened his hold.

"I don't know what to talk about anymore. Everyone already judged me."

"Not me, Steve!" Nat said, "I'm always on your side, remember?"

"I know."

Nat held his hands but he avoided making any eyes contact with her.

"Please tell me, you know I understand you more than you give me credit…" Nat begged but it was cut by angry eyes from Steve.

"MY LIFE WAS ABOUT TO END! WHAT MAKE YOU THINK YOU CAN UNDERSTAND ME?!" He bellowed and Nat took a step back at his aggressive action.

But Steve stammered backward and flopped down to their bed, looking lost and it broke Natasha's heart to see it. She usually saw him in his brave and happy and determined self. Nat sat down on his laps and held him tight in her embrace. Steve exhaled and leaned into her soothing touch, resting his head at the crook of her shoulder.

"I'm sorry." He whispered, "I'm sorry, Nat."

Nat gently stroked his hair and kissed him, "It's alright, baby. I know, it's a very stressful week for you."

"I didn't do it, Nat."

"I know. I trust you. I'm always with you. I'm on your side, Steve."

He nodded and held her tighter. Nat was the only thing that held his insanity right now.

Nat helped Steve release some tension for him by amazing love making session and now he was sleeping soundly in their bed. Nat watched him in his relax form and secretly praised herself for that.

Nat slowly got up from the bed, tried her best not to wake him up. He needed to rest and put the weight off his shoulders for a while.

Nat dressed up and went to the kitchen to prepare their breakfast. As she making the food, Natasha was thinking about something that might help distract Steve from his depression. She grabbed her phone and dialed the number.

"Hello"

"Hey, are you free to talk?" She asked the guy.

"It's 4 AM in LA, Romanoff."

"Yeah, it's about Steve. He needed you here."
"Yeah, about that. I just heard it on the news the other day." He said, "How was he?"

"He's a little depress. I think you can help him put his focus away from the current situation."

"Yeah, I will be there."

"Thanks, Barnes."

"No problem."

Nat hang up and got back to her cooking when she heard someone yawned from the stairs and it was her shirtless boyfriend. He walked into the kitchen and smiled when he saw her. He held her tightly from behind and kissed her neck.

"Morning." He whispered

"Morning, baby."

He let go of her and moved to sat across from her. His blue eyes never left her.

"Hey, babe." Nat spoke up, "James will visit you today. He said he will fly in from LA."

"Did you call him?"

"Yeah, I thought you could use some company." She replied, "I guess I shouldn't leave you alone. I will be in Chicago with Nick in two days."

"Do you really need to go?" Steve pouted, "That man can take care of himself."

"It's family business and I really have to be there."

"Okay…I just need you here with me. That's all."

Nat stood in front of him and gave him a kiss.

"It's only for two days. I will be back with you in no time."

Bucky arrived at New York in the evening and Steve and Nat were there to pick him up. The three of them had a quiet dinner at the Bucky's favorite restaurant. There was some of the familiar faces in the pizza parlor. They openly looked at the captain with their judgmental eyes.

"The hell are you looking at?" Bucky asked as he stood up and prepared to fight.

The guys stood up and went to their table where Steve got up and shielded Nat away from harm.

"You have one hell of a cheater friend." One of them said, "Rogers, you are one hell of a disgrace."

The tall black hair guy shoved Steve and he bumped into the table. Steve tried very hard not to punch him back.

"You let all of us down!" Another man shouted at his face.

"Stay away from him." Bucky growled

"You should be ashamed of yourselves!"

"He didn't fucking do it!" Bucky shouted back, "Someone set him up."

Bucky was about to say more but Steve put his hand on the shoulder to stop Bucky. Steve shook his head.

"Don't, Buck. They may be right about this." Steve quietly said, "We should head back home."

"Yeah, run back to your mommy, you fucking disgrace. There is no place for a cheater like you, Rogers!"

Steve tried very hard to contain himself. He grabbed all the take home and pushed Nat out of the parlor into the limo.

"You should let me punch them!" Bucky said, still angry with all of that.

"It's not worth it, Buck."

"You didn't do it, man. That's why you shouldn't let their insult tolerate."

"I guess everyone in this whole damn city know about this shit."

"They know from the news, babe. They didn't know the truth."

They didn't say anything until they reached the penthouse. The trio ate their food quietly in front of the TV. When Steve finished with his food, he excused himself back to his room, leaving Nat and Bucky alone.

"This is worse than I originally thought."

"Yeah, he might not leave this penthouse ever again." Nat agreed, "I will cancel my schedule with my brother and stay here with him. Steve needs me."

"What's in Chicago?"

"I just thought about something this morning and hope that it's a solution to Steve's problem."

"Then you should go. I will take care of him." Bucky said "I will call all of your friends here to cheer him up."

"Good luck with that. He only smiled to me for the first time this morning and I don't think it will happen ever again."

"He will smile again, Natasha."

"I hope you are right about this, James. I don't want to see him be like this for the rest of his life."

Nat left the next day and Steve was visibly sad when she left. Bucky was planning a lot of crazy plan to cheer his friends up but Sarah came to visit them.

"I arrange another medical examination for you, Steve." She said, "We will make sure that whoever drugged you with steroid didn't make any permanent damage to your health."

Steve, along with Bucky followed Sarah to the hospital where she made sure that every medical staff was the one she could trust.

They checked every inch of Steve's body. The doctor drew blood and collected his urine sample. They also did a physical test, internal organs, and efficiency of his immune system.

"Don't worry, Mrs. Rogers." The head doctor said, "The press will not know about this. Mr. Stark already tell me to rush the process."

"Thank you, doctor." Sarah replied

"My only concern is that he might be overdosed by steroid if he said he never took it before. In a span of three weeks, he might receive a very dangerous amount of it."

"That's what I'm worry, doctor."

Steve sat with Bucky and waited for Sarah to handle the paper work and talked to their lawyer. He was the best lawyer money could buy.

"I know you didn't do it, pal." Bucky said and lightly patted Steve's shoulder, "It's so not you to do it."

"But someone did drug me and framed me for this."

"Who do you have in mind?"

"Rumlow. I'm pretty sure it was him and his friends. I declared war with them and stopped being friend with them."

"Yeah, you should stop being friend with those jerks." Bucky shrugged "Your current friends are way better than them and to be honest, even loud mouth little shit like Stark is more bearable than Rumlow."

"Yeah, I know."

"I wish I was there with you to stop you from being friend with them."

"Don't be, man. You will move here with me next year so you have your chance to boss me around again."
"You have Natasha for that. I will just sit back and enjoy watching her kick your ass." Bucky laughed, "Oh! On a second thought, I don't want to be a part of your sex life but I do want my little niece or nephew after we graduate."

Steve smiled a little at that. He would love that too. He always dream about starting a family with Natasha. He really loved that idea of having a little baby girl or baby boy with red hair.

"I will try my best."

Before they could say anything, the doctor came to tell them that the result will be ready by tomorrow. Steve was visibly nervous. He just wanted all of this to end.

"Don't worry, baby. Everything will be alright." Sarah said and hugged her boy, "Leonard will help us with this."

Leonard Keaton was the best lawyer on the army of lawyers the Rogers had.

"We should go home. I will make dinner for you boys."

"I was very surprise that he let you come with me in a time like this." Nicholas spoke up as they were travelling to Chicago via helicopter.

"I don't want to leave him too, Nick."

"He turns out to be one clingy boyfriend." The brother noted, "Something I never thought he would be."

"He only clings to me when there is something like this happen." Nat replied, "You know that he didn't do it, right?"

"I don't know. He could be…you know. He's not exactly the guy with the cleanest background."

"He never used it." Nat voice was final and Nicholas shut his mouth.

They landed at the helipad in Chicago before headed to the hospital where Steve stayed during his injury from the championship game. Nat just thought about this the other day where she told Nick right away. The hospital must have a file about Steve's blood test result.

Something that might indicate that he wasn't dose with steroid before the game. She had a paper with Sarah Rogers' signature on it, requested a file of Steve. She showed it to the staff who take care of the medical record.

They headed for the doctor who threat Steve next. They asked him a lot of question.

"Mr. Rogers didn't have any trace of steroid or any enhanced substance in his body, Miss Romanoff." The doctor confirmed, "We give him a minimal amount of steroid while threated him but it's all in the record. It was a medical procedure but from the amount that was detect in his body a week ago, someone must have drug him with it."

"Doctor, we might need you in New York as a witness for Steve's hearing." Nicholas said

"That would be no problem, Mr. Romanoff." The doctor replied and gave them his business card, "Call me if you need me in New York."

"Thank you, doctor."

Nat had a bright smile on her face once she turned to Nicholas. Her brother knew that his little sister was beyond elated that she could at least save her boyfriend.

"At least we can prove that he wasn't on drug before the championship game."

"Yeah, at least they didn't take the champion trophy away from him." Nick agreed "But we still have to find the evidence that someone really set him up."

"We will find more evident, I'm sure about it." Nat was very confidence now, "We should headed back to New York."

"Hold on, sis." Nick said "We should at least get some rest tonight. I'm still tired from driving you around town and that helicopter ride's suck."

"Fine but we will leave as soon as the sun come up."

"Fineeeee"

Steve talked to Nat last night. She said she will come home earlier than she thought and that she's really miss him. He said the same thing and he couldn't wait for her to come back. Nat asked him about everything that happen on his end. Steve told her that there was nothing to be worried.

"Don't lie to me." She said in the deadliest tone, "Tell me about it right now."

He told about the check up and the test result will come back in three days. Cornelius, the investigator, and Leonard, the lawyer were working their asses off to prepare for the trial next week.

"Everything will work out well, I promise." Nat said

But Steve didn't reply to her instead taking a long pause and changed the subject, "I can't wait for you to come back."

"In twelve hour, babe. I will go to bed now. See your tomorrow."

"Night, little red."

"Love you, Stevie."

They hung up and Steve collapsed himself onto his bed and closed his eyes tightly, tried very hard not to think about the result from the hearing.

Steve woke up the next day, a little more excited than usual because he will have Nat back in his arms again. He was watching Bucky prepare their breakfast when someone walked into the kitchen and brought a full smile to Steve's face.

"Hey, baby! I missed you so much." He said before lifted Nat of her feet by his hands on his waist like her weight was nothing to him.

He pressed his lips on hers in a deep, loving kiss as he held her tightly in his arms like he was afraid that she will disappear.

"I miss you." He whispered again and dipped his head back to kiss her.

Bucky mocked vomiting before rolled his eyes at the couple, "Get a room."

The couple took the advice and Steve carried his little red upstairs to their room so he could tell her how much he miss her.