Phoenix

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After a week in Italy with Steve and Sam, and some normal conversations and some goodbyes. They headed off to find the organisation and the people that shot me, saying it was best we lie low because it could have killed me.

Nat and I headed off to Moscow and we have got considerably closer and over the months we have been out in Russia we have been training together out in the mountains, we run together in the morning and weapons train after we have cooked breakfast together. The afternoons are varied, some times we will go hiking, catch up with everyone over the phone or drive though the town or shopping for the small log cabin. The small remote house only has one bedroom so i have been sleeping on the couch after we watch a film together, turns out Ash's favourite films are spy films, shocked me really i mean you can tell it's all fake but Bond films are the winner. So we cuddle up eat junk food and watch old spy films in the evening. I couldn't really explain our dynamic to anyone on the outside Wanda says we are a couple, but we haven't kissed or slept together and defiantly haven't said that we love each-other. Vision says that is probably due to my in experience in relationships and Natasha's fear of being abandoned like bruce had done. To say the least we are a complicated pair, I know she confides in Steve and we have even started to develop what Vision would call filial relationship.

"Мое сердце?"My heart. Nat calls from the front door as she opens it with a couple grocery bags in hand. "Can you grab the other bags?"

"Of course, Моя душа." My Soul I call back passing her quickly and grabbing the other bags from the trunk of the car, I shut the door with the heel of my foot and head into the kitchen where she is already unpacking the grocery's.

"So Mr Volkov asked about you he was highly disappointed that you let me carry all these bags by myself." She teases scratching the back of my neck with her nails as she reaches past me to put some cans away in the cupboard. "How was your talk with Wanda? Oh Yelena said she would stop by too she called as i was on my way back she has freed a few widows stationed out here."

"Wanda says that she misses us but she's enjoying her time with Vis in Scotland and they are pretty much in a relationship now. Said Steve has checked in with them a few times too. And those guys who who me where apparently killed in a armed robbery. How was Yelena? She's not going to like kill me when she meets me right?" I ask after putting the last few things away she turns to face me her features show her cute little smile and she shakes her head reaching up and places her arms around me.

"She wants to meet you, she's rather excited to be honest. She won't kill you just might tease you, just like Wanda she's the annoying little sister" She places her forehead on mine and our noses touch. "I bought moon-raker for us to watch, with your favourite ice cream." She tells me and kisses my cheek before running off and jumping onto the couch, flicking on the Tv.

"What do you want for dinner Ash?" I call and she spins in her place and leans over the back of the couch watching me. "Hmm I always like watching you in the kitchen, but I am super excited to watch this film with you so I don't mind?"

"Okay, so pasta because it's fast, and you can still watch me cook if you have set up the TV," I ask her and her eyes sparkled in the light above her head as she moves her body to sit comfortably as I start to cook.

Moving around in my little world in the kitchen chopping all of the ingredients with the professional chef's knife Natasha bought me a few weeks into us getting here, she claimed they were multi-purposeful because they were so sharp. I know it was because I complain I couldn't chop anything properly while cooking with the dull ass knives that were here.

"Tom?" Her voice breaks me out of my small little bubble and I meet her eyes as I now see she has moved and is standing with me in the kitchen. I hum waiting for her to continue and I notice her body language change and she becomes nervous. "Um so Yelena told me I need to be honest with you." She stops and takes a breath clearly trying to fight an inner challenge. I put everything down and move towards her and she takes a step back until her back hit the counter behind her, I have her body trapped between mine and the counter.