The fall of Moscow and the KGB is on the horizon. The USA - with Captain America as their noble leader - steps in to aid Russia in halting the uprising. However, Steve Rogers realizes that not everything is as it seems, and the red-headed and red-bl...
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"stay here 'til sunrise. i wanna know you like it's the last time i'll ever hold you. girl every detail, leave it up to me, lay back and let go. you don't even have to say anything."
- to a t; ryan hurd
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"Shield? Earpiece? Helmet?" Natasha asked, biting back a laugh.
She was watching Steve fumble around his hotel room, searching for the things he needed for their upcoming mission. Usually, it was her who was rolling out of bed at the last minute, and Steve was urging her to hurry up. Their roles were reversed this time, and she was trying not to laugh at him because they were already running late - very late. Bruce, Sam, and Maria were already on their way to their assigned base at the old, German military fort, and it was their biggest operation yet... hunting down Madame B.. Natasha was trying not to overthink it; she had a team of superheroes on her side, and her sadistic handler couldn't touch her anymore. They knew that she wasn't in Germany anyway; their mission was to simply arrest the men who had subsidized money towards the new Red Room Madame B. was trying to build.
'Get in and get out,' as Fury had said.
"Can you check my bag for my earpiece? I can't find it." Steve asked, peeking his head out from the bathroom as he was pulling on his uniform. His blonde hair was sticking out in every which way, ruffled and tousled, and his red, white, and blue ensemble was wrinkled and crooked. Natasha couldn't hold back her laugh this time as she leaned down and unzipped his bag.
"I hear you!" He called teasingly. "You told me to hurry!"
She smiled to herself, digging through his bag and trying to find the expensive, little earpiece he should've put back in the Quinjet where it belonged. She frowned as her hand closed around something soft, and she pulled out a small, velvet box. The saying went that the curiosity killed the cat, but it may have killed the spider as well because she couldn't stop herself from opening the box, even though she knew she wouldn't find the earpiece in it.
However, she definitely wasn't expecting to find a piece of jewelry.
It was a small, silver bar necklace with the words, 'I wasn't made to fall in line.' There were three colored diamonds in the right-hand corner... red, white, and blue.
"Shit... you weren't supposed to find that," Steve said with wide eyes as he came from the bathroom and saw Natasha holding the necklace that he had been mustering the courage to give her. His stomach twisted with nerves, and he felt as though his world had been yanked out from underneath him because this had never been the plan.
