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Natasha

Natasha hurried down the hallway towards Tony's lab where Clint was helping Tony get to the door. She sprinted down the hallway and she came up close behind them.

"Hey red" Tony said hoarsely

"Where's Cap?" Clint asked

"Helping Thor with Bruce"

Clint almost stopped, but Tony was starting to fade.

"You can't be serious?"

"I know, but he had his heart set on it and he ordered me to help and in the current situation I felt it wasn't the time to argue."

Clint with Tony hanging around his shoulder came to the door.

"Jarvis, open the lab doors" Tony said

The doors opened and Tony directed Clint to the far corner. Clint dragged him towards it while Natasha watched the doorway incase more Hydra soldiers showed up. Clint put Tony on a chair and Tony pointed at the cabinet. Clint went to open it but it wouldn't budge and Clint looked at Tony who was now unconscious. Clint looked at Tony and the cabinet and he pulled out a trick arrow.

"Fuck it" Clint said firing the arrow into the metal cabinet and it hit and became hot and melted the metal away showing a back arc reactor.

Clint grabbed it and it was in a glass case and he smashed it on the floor and grabbed the arc reactor and he clipped it into Tony's chest and he smacked it in place. The arc reactor lit up and Tony's eyes opened and he gasped holding his chest. He looked at the broken glass.

"You didn't have to smash it"

"There was no time" Clint said

Natasha walked over and read a small inscription on the wood that had the glass on top of it.

Proof that Tony Stark has a Heart

She looked away from it and Tony held his hand out to Clint. Clint took it and pulled him to his feet. Clint got his bow ready and started to move toward the door.

"Ok Stark suit up"

"I can't use the suit with this" Tony said gathering his strength

"What do you mean?"

"It drains all the power from it, all it can do is keep me going"

"So we're down a member" Natasha said

"I can still use Jarvis to control the tower and defend it" Tony said straining to stand up straight.

"Either way we need to help Thor and Cap" Clint said

"Go, I'll lock the door behind you and then Hydra can't get in here"

"Ok, Stark you sure you ok?" Clint asked

"Are you worried about me?"

"No, I just don't want Pepper to kill me" Clint said leaving the lab

Natasha raised an eyebrow and she left along with Clint. Tony shuffled over to a control console which he pressed a button and the whole room was filled with hologram diagrams. He shut the doors and locked them. He stood up and looked at all the diagrams.

"Jarvis call for some help"

"From where sir?"

"Queens"

Steve

Steve made it to the roof, but Hulk already had Thor on the ground and was punching him. Steve threw his shield and it hit Hulk in the face making him turn away. The shield came back and Steve caught it as Hulk saw who threw it. He growled at him and roared and sprinted at Steve. Steve dove out of the way and had to move again quickly as Hulk tried to smash him with his hands. Steve dodged another one and hit Hulk in the gut with the shield. Hulk put his hand to his stomach then got angrier. Steve slid under him and kept the shield up as hulk went to punch. The sound was loud as Hulk's hand hit the shield making a bell noise. Steve got up and jumped over him flipping in midair.

Steve landed ready and just before Hulk struck at him again a hammer hit him sending him to the ground. Thor sprinted up and the hammer flew back into his hand and he jumped and struck Hulk in the face sending him to another building's roof. Hulk slowly got up and shook his head slightly groggy. He roared and hit his chest and jumped back over to the roof. He landed making a crater in the concrete and Steve and Thor stood ready.

Clint ran out of the door way that led to the roof and he saw Hulk. He pulled an arrow and fired. Hulk caught it and threw it away as he ran toward them.

"You really thought that was going to work?" Natasha asked

"Instinct"

"Enough chatter, Thor hit him head on, Clint distance, Nat you're with me we attack from the sides."

They all nodded and Thor ran forward and dodged a strike and hit him in the gut. Clint fired and the arrow hit hulk in the neck bouncing off but clearly made his attention turn towards the archer. Natasha threw a Widow Bite and it shocked him and as He got out of the induced blurry vision a shield hit him in the face.

Hulk doubled over and got up quickly he threw his hands up into the air "HULK SMASH!"

Hulk hit the ground and it sent the roof crumpling and the large crack was going after Natasha. Steve tackled her out of the way and was hit by the crumbling rock sending his shield across the roof and stopped near the edge. Steve went into the air and landed hard on his side and didn't get back up.

Natasha's eyes went wide and her heart panicked and she felt anger rise up into her and she looked at Hulk.

Natasha ran at him and slid under a punch and jabbed him in the ribs and hopped onto his back. Hulk waved his arms trying to grab Natasha and she turned on her Widow Bite and punched Hulk with it in the neck sending Hulk into blurry vision and he felt dizzy.

Natasha jumped off his back doing a black flip and landed on her feet. Hulk stumbled and fell to his knees. Thor hit him with his hammer in the face sending Hulk onto his back.

Natasha took the opportunity and ran over to Steve. She put her hands on him and turned him over to face her his eyes slowly opened.

"That sucked" he groaned

Natasha was hit by a wave of relief and then a roar came from the other side of the roof. Steve looked to see Hulk kicking Thor out of the way as he ran at them. Steve stood up quickly and put himself in front of Natasha. As Hulk got closer Steve braced himself and then white fluid hit Hulk in the eyes blinding him. Hulk was trying to rip it off. He tore it off and growled and went to hit Steve.

"Cap!" Clint yelled grabbing his shield and throwing it.

Steve saw and he caught it and put it up as Hulk threw a punch. The shield made a bell noise and sent Steve back a few steps. Steve went on the offensive and he jabbed hulk in the ribs with the shield and then kicked him in the groin. Hulk fell to his knees in pain and Steve smacked him in the face with the shield.

Hulk fell over and he slowly turned back over to Bruce who was in huge pants and was unconscious.

Clint walked over with Thor behind him.

"You ok?" Clint asked

"Yeah" Steve said

"Wow you actually took him out" Clint said

"Call it luck" Steve said standing to his full height wondering where the white liquid came from. He felt sore and he had a headache.

A spot light turned on and it blinded him and a voice over the speaker came out.

"Captain, you've have proved you are superior"

"What's with this guy?" Clint asked

"Heads up!" a voice yelled

They looked around searching for the voice. Then Steve saw a flash of red from the corner of his eye and then he saw him go through the transport and a large fire ball came out of it and the transport started to spin.

"Ah, we'll meet again Captain!" the voice said as the transport flew away from the tower.

They stared blankly at each other not entirely realizing what happened.

"What was with that guy?" the voice said again

Steve turned to see someone standing behind them in a red and blue outfit and two huge white eyes and what looked like to be web designs.

"Who are you?" Clint said pointing his bow at him.

"Wow hold on Robin Hood, I'm one of the good guys" the man said with his hands up in defense. "Oh and my name is Spiderman"

"Spiderman? What kind of name is that?"

Spiderman lowered his hands "Seriously?"

"What?"

"Does the outfit and the powers not scream the name? Or are you too busy shooting random people you meet?"

"You're just a kid" Clint said

"I'm eighteen, I'm not a kid"

"Thank you" Steve said

"There you go archie was that so hard?" Spiderman said walking up to Steve he only stood to Steve's neck. He held out his hand.

Steve shook it and he smiled.

"Let me just say it is an honor to meet you" Spiderman said

"Well I see you met Spidey" Tony said

"Stark are you alright?" Steve asked

"Yeah spangle pants I'm fine."

"Stark where did you meet this guy?" Clint asked

"Queens" Tony and Spiderman said unison

"Ah great they're twins" Natasha said

"Well any way Tony if that's all you wanted unless you wanted to hang out like bros I have to head to the store for Aunt May" Spiderman said running off the roof and he shot out his web and swung across the street "Woohoo!" he yelled as he swung.

"He does that" Tony said smirking

"Anyway we need to talk about what just happened and why is Bruce sleeping on the ground?" Tony said pointing towards Bruce who was still out cold.

"Uh, it's a long story" Clint said looking at Steve

"Anyway grab him we have a meeting" Tony said going back down the stairway.

They followed him and Thor grabbed Bruce and put him over his shoulder and carried him. The paramedics were down in the living area and the Hydra Soldiers were covered with white cloth. Steve felt pain in his arm, he remembered he got shot and the bullet was still in his arm.

"Cap get that looked at" Clint said

"It can wait till after the meeting"

"No, you're bleeding and its coming out now" Natasha said firmly

Steve looked down at her and then at Clint who shrugged and continued walking. Steve sighed and went over to one of the paramedics to get the bullet removed.

Natasha

It did not take long for the paramedic to take the bullet out and then check Steve for any other injuries. Since the serum and he could heal faster than an average human. They were now in Tony's lab with Bruce sitting in a corner looking away from everyone. He didn't even make eye contact with Steve.

Natasha was standing the closest to Bruce while Tony went on talking about how they were attacked Natasha slowly moved back toward Bruce. Bruce saw what she was doing and he looked away from her and had his head down he had a blanket around him. Natasha knelt down and she was facing him.

"Hey" she said it were the only words that could come out of her mouth.

Bruce looked at her and he had tears in his eyes "Who did the other guy hurt?"

"No one, we're all alright"

"Then why are they staying away from me?"

"They want to give you space" Natasha said

"And you?"

"Just wanted to see how you were doing?"

"I'm doing great" Bruce said sarcastically

"Bruce none of this was your fault" Natasha said trying to make him feel better

"Yes it was, I couldn't stop him. I couldn't keep him under control"

"Banner there are something's that I could not control"

"Like what?"

"Me" Natasha said slightly getting more nervous

"What do you mean?"

"When I was with the KGB and Red Room. I killed who I was told to kill and used my abilities on anyone and I didn't care who I hurt or how many" Natasha said almost distant as if slipping into a memory.

"I knew what I was doing was wrong deep down, but I couldn't stop myself. It was like my true self was pulled out and replaced with something horrible" She said tears coming to her face but she didn't let one fall. "I was used as a weapon and my true self casted aside watching as I killed and killed"

Bruce looked at her with sympathy.

"I know how you feel" he said with a lump in his throat thinking back to all the times he hurt innocent people while he watched the other guy commit crime after crime.

"I know you do" Natasha said collecting herself and wiping her eyes.

"You never told anyone this before have you?"

"Only one other, Clint"

"What about Steve?" Bruce asked

"He's my partner and he doesn't need to know my past, nor does he want to"

"Are you sure, has he said he won't delve into it?"

"Yes"

"Has he said if you want to tell him when you are ready you will or you won't?"

"Yes"

"Natasha, he wants to know, but you half to remember he's Steve. He won't force you to do anything"

Natasha stared at Bruce blankly and then she looked back at Steve who had his arms crossed and he glanced over at her. Then returned his gaze to Tony, who was still talking.

"I'm not good enough for him"

"Do you think he cares?"

"He doesn't know my past, how will he be once he knows?"

"Hey, look at my past. I'm not an easy person to trust and he does trust me even after hearing my record"

"But…"

"But nothing, Natasha you keep people out and you're good at it. But there is a part of you that wants to tell him everything"

Natasha knew that Bruce was right but her mind was screaming NO while her heart was saying YES. She looked at Bruce and kissed him on the cheek.

Bruce knew what it meant and he smiled and Natasha walked away and left the lab and went toward her room. She closed and locked the door. She walked over to her bed and she past a mirror and she stopped and went back in front of it and looked at herself.

She didn't know who she saw anymore, Black Widow, or Natasha Romanoff. She didn't' know which one she was. Black Widow was a killer and a professional liar. While Natasha Romanoff is a kind, person, able to smile and laugh. Which one was she?

Natasha looked at herself and she faked a smile; it made her feel fake. She wasn't Black Widow and she wasn't Natasha Romanoff. Maybe she was both, one with a horrible past and the other haunted by nightmares and actually cares for people. She needed to accept that she was both and she had to live with her past, not hide from it. She needed to talk about it. But she didn't know how.

The moment with Bruce was spontaneous and just happened. She can't just sit down and talk to someone. Maybe she could, but that would mean telling someone she cares for about her past, and what if he hates her for it and looks at her with disgust like everyone else who has ever known about her past. She didn't know if she could do it.

She sat down on her bed and put her head in her hands and grumbled in frustration. She laid back and looked up at the ceiling. She needed to tell him, or she would be stuck in the same place in a constant standoff with who she really is. She needed to tell Steve, everything.

Steve

Steve left the lab after the meeting turned into social talk. He saw Natasha leave, but he focused more on what that man said to him. About him being superior and not showing it and how he wore it proudly. The words sounded familiar but Steve couldn't place them. His mind was racing with thoughts about him, himself, and Natasha. Natasha.

That moment on the balcony, how his heart was racing, his eyes dilated and his desire peaking. He wanted to kiss her, touch her, he wanted all of her. He closed his room's doors and locked it. He went to his bed and sat down. He couldn't get the moment or feelings out of his head. Their faces so close and lips almost meeting and yet nothing. His heart was aching and he felt his mind going crazy about her. She looked stunning at the party tonight. He couldn't take his eyes off of her on the balcony. Her emerald eyes went through every wall and lock he had ever put up.

She was driving him crazy, the kiss on the cheek she gave him fake as it was, but his cheek still burned where her lips were. He wanted Natasha Romanoff, and he was so close yet so far away. A part of him wants her to tell him her past, he was sure he would like still even if he learned the truth. He thought of her file that he still had.

No, I am not reading it, it wouldn't be right even if I want to know her past. But it has to be on her terms not mine. I will wait for her to be ready.

He fell back onto the bed and closed his eyes and the man's words kept playing over and over again in his head. Then he opened his eyes and stared wide. "I wear it proudly"

Steve knew where that line came from. He closed his eyes and he could see him. Red Skull standing on a bridge in a burning factory and he was staring right back at the man's burning desire in his eyes. No Red Skull died in 1945. He was sucked up into space… wait the effect was similar when Thor traveled back to Asgard with Loki after the battle of New York. Red Skull didn't die, he was transported to another realm. He heard Thor talking about the nine realms and how this one is known as Midgard.

Red Skull was back and now he was attacking the Avengers where they lived. Steve stood up and grabbed his bag. He grabbed a pile of clothes and placed them inside neatly. He grabbed his sketch book and he took his shield and he left his room. He didn't tell anyone where he was going.

He stopped Red Skull once, he could do it again, and this time no one else will get hurt from Skull and he was going to stop him once and for all. He walked into the elevator and the door closed and it went down.

Natasha

Natasha's mind was on the balcony and how she almost kissed Steve. She was failing her goal, not to fall for Steve. Natasha closed her eyes and she could still feel his touch on her face and it sent a shiver down her spine. She needed to tell him everything, but how could she do that without falling for him. The moment in the park was nice and the constant breakfasts. She was falling for him. She always felt like her legs were going to give out whenever she saw him.

Her heart beat quickened whenever he got close to her. The balcony was a good example the helicarrier was another. The time in Sam's house watching him wash his hands and his muscles moving and flexing. It gave her a shiver down her spine every time she saw it. His eyes, those blue eyes and the kind face. She doesn't deserve him she kept telling herself that.

His eyes made her feel safe and normal. Complete bliss, his heart beat was soothing and she wanted to be near him forever. He made her feel alive, not a killer with a horrible past, but a real person. The moment in the restaurant when he told her not to let the past dictate where you are going. But she was doing exactly that. Her past is what stops her from going into his room and fucking his brains out.

She groaned in frustration and she stood up and looked at herself in the mirror again. She put her hands on her hips and she tried to smile. She didn't know what she was doing. She never should have kissed him on the escalator, but if she hadn't Rumlow would have made them. She was constantly trying to find him a date, why?

Was it because she wanted him to be with someone other than her. Then how he declined every one of them. Did he decline them all because he secretly liked her? She was driving herself crazy thinking about it.

She laid back down on her bed and she thought about Steve and his perfect form. She suddenly became really hot and she felt weird. She kept playing the scene in Sam's house over and over. Her heart was beating faster and she felt almost light headed. She felt her breast and her nipple was hard and her clit felt warm. Her hand slowly moved down to herself and she touched herself.

She felt a rush and her heart quickened as she moved her hand massaging herself. She moaned in pleasure as she thought about Steve. His eyes, his smile, his muscles. Her hand moved faster and her stomach felt warm and it was traveling down toward her clit. She tried to hide her moaning as she wasn't in the tower alone. She was breathing heavier and her hand was moving faster. She moaned and her back arched and she squeezed her breast as she moaned.

"Steve, oh god" she moaned and she felt a rush as her climax presented itself and then she came moaning his name.

She slowed her hand and massaged in circular motions slowly. Her breath was rugged and she felt good and her mind was in pleasure. She opened her eyes and she was in her room alone. Steve was nowhere to be found. She pulled her hand away from herself and her hand was moist and her panties were soaked. She sat up slightly gasping, she was still sensitive from her climax. She stood up and slipped out of her panties and went to take a shower removing her torn dress and stepping into the shower.

Steve

Steve walked out of the elevator and went to the garage and found his motorcycle and he hopped on and turned it on. It rumbled to life and he took off out of the garage and into the streets heading towards his apartment to figure out a plan on how he was going to stop Red Skull. He thought of Natasha, No she can stay out of this. And this way she can't get hurt. This is my fight and I need to finish this even though Natasha's skill set would be nice. Last time I had a team, but now I am alone. No it is my fight and mine alone.

He arrived at his apartment and he walked inside and locked the door and put his bag on the counter. He turned on the hallway light and went to his room taking his sketch book with him and putting it on his desk.

Natasha

Natasha walked out of her room dressed in jeans a red shirt and her black leather coat with her gun strapped to her hip. She could still hear everyone else in the lab. She walked around the living area and there was no sign of Steve. She went to his room and didn't find him there either. She looked around and she furrowed her brow.

"Steve" she said getting no reply

She went into the path room, no sign of him.

"Jarvis?"

"Yes, miss Romanoff" Jarvis asked

"Where is Steve?"

"Mr. Rogers left the tower, an hour ago"

Natasha's eyes went wide "Where?"

"I do not know, Miss Romanoff is there a problem?"

"No, thank you Jarvis"

"It is my pleasure Miss Romanoff"

Natasha shook her head and she remembered that Steve had an apartment in Brooklyn. She went back to her room and grabbed her equipment with her suit and she went toward the elevator.

"I'm going to kill you Rogers" Natasha said stepping into the elevator.