Y/n Stark and The Black Widow

Feelings Revealed

-Y/n's POV-

It's been roughly two weeks since the mission, my jaw no longer hurts and the bruise is pretty much gone. Nat made sure to tend to it when we had gotten back from the mission.

~flashback to after the mission~

I quickly walked out of the quinjet once we landed, hiding the bruise on my jaw from my dad. He wouldn't be too thrilled if he found out.

I quickly head into my room and check in my mirror to see how bad the bruise is when I hear my door open.

"You can't hide that bruise forever, y'know" I turn to see a certain redhead leaning against my doorframe.

"Sure I can, my dad doesn't need to know" I begin to look for something to use to hide the bruise.

"Let me have a look" Nat walks over to me.

"Oh...there's no need, I just need to find concealer or something, I'll be fine" I smile, trying to hide my nerves as Nat reaches me. I really wish she didn't make me so nervous.

She raises an eyebrow.

I sigh "Fine". She get's close to my face as she looks at the bruise on my jaw...she is really close, keep it together y/n. Just...look at the ceiling. It's a really nice ceiling.

"I'm going to get you an ice pack, it'll make it hurt less" she smiles and leaves the room.

Phew, I kept it together..I think.

Nat soon returns, ice pack in hand.

"Here" she hands it to me.

"Thanks" I smile as I take it and put it against my jaw. But, I put the ice pack against my jaw just a bit too harshly.

"Ow, shit, that hurt" I wince.

"Careful" Nat goes to reach out and put her hand on my jaw but stops herself. She sits on my bed and looks over at me.

"You okay?"

"Yeah, just put it on my jaw too harshly" I half smile.

"So, why didn't you call for help when you got punched?" she asked.

"It all happened a bit fast, I didn't really think about it" I sit next to her. "Besides, I had it handled" I smile at her.

She laughs lightly "You sure did"

"What? I did!" I protest.

"That bruise says otherwise" she smirks.

"Hey! I didn't know someone was there and that he was going to punch me" I frown, cross my arms and turn away from her, dropping the ice pack in the process.

Nat picks it up "you need this"

"No I don't" I stand up and begin to walk away. "I don't need that ice packs help and I don't need yours, if you want me to use that ice pack you'll have to force me"

Nat smirks, stands up and slowly walks towards me.

"Wait...what are you doing. Stop looking at me like that, I don't like it" I turn to look at her and slowly back away.

"Nothing" she smirks, a mischievous spark in her eye.

"No you're up to something, that wasn't a challenge if that's what you're thinking"  I continue to back away.