My Safe Haven

Chapter 4: The Fallout

Nat's POV:

After taking a quick shower, I headed straight to the Avengers suit lockers and grabbed a new one since the last one had a bullet hole in it already. After zipping up, I heard someone outside the locker room, entered the code and then I heard the door open.

"Hello?" I asked, my voice echoing through the large locker room.

"Nat?" the person hollered.

"Clint? What are you doing here?" I asked him since he's supposed to be with his family

"I'm here for the Battlegrounds." he replied.

"Really? Well, today's Battlegrounds are interesting. Since it's just combat. No powers allowed." I said.

"Yeap. I was told that I am gonna be partnered with Rhodes. It's gonna be an interesting fight without his war machine suit. Have you seen him by the way?" Clint asked me.

"No idea. Hang on. FRIDAY, where's Rhody?"

"He's currently at the training grounds with Vision." FRIDAY replied. Clint nodded and left the room.

"Thanks, FRIDAY."

"My pleasure, Ms. Romanoff."

I locked my armour belt around my waist, took 2 pairs of my batons and activated my widow's gauntlet. I headed straight to the kitchen to quickly get coffee and saw Wanda by the kitchen island, eating a salad.

"Hey" I said as I poured coffee on a cup.

"Hey," she responded "Let's eat" she added and slid another bowl of salad across the island for me.

"Okay, thanks." I replied and gave her a cup of coffee as well.

"Thanks. I took the liberty of making you one since you always seem to skip meals." she said, I smiled at her.

We finished our salads, drank our coffee and I signaled Wanda to follow me to the Battlegrounds area which is different versus the training grounds. This area is bullet proof, just so we don't hurt anyone outside the area.

"So, this is where we do the Battlegrounds." I told Wanda.

"Wow. This place is something." she commented.

"Yeap. Stark developed it to train you guys and since most of you are enhanced and strong we have to make sure this area is contained." I explained.

"Right." she replied.

"Okay, I got the data from Hill and saw everyone's partner for today's Battlegrounds."

"Alright. Who are we each partnered with then?"

"So, Rhodes is fighting Barton and since Vision is not really human, he's with Rogers because he's a super soldier, Wilson is with Stark and as you might have guessed already, you're with me." I said, giving her a wink

"It's not fair." she said, not loving the idea.

"Oh, c'mon. Like I said, you can't hurt me." I responded.

"It's not you. I just found out that I'm not allowed to use my powers and you're a skilled assassin. That's not fair." she explained and I chuckled.

"I see. Well, don't worry, I'll try to take it easy on you. I wouldn't want to hurt your pretty face." I assured her as I placed my hand on her cheek, I see her blushing a little bit.

Vision, Clint and Rhody also entered the area and they gave me a nod to say hello, I nodded back. Then, we suddenly heard the Quinjet landing outside the compound.