Professor Romanoff

Chapter 12

Natasha POV:
I notice that Y/N was playing with her fingers, almost as if she was looking for her rings, but she wasn't wearing them tonight. I give my hand to Y/N so she can fiddle with the rings on my hand. She looks up at me with a sad look. She takes my hand and plays with my rings, calming her breathing slightly.
"What if they're not okay?" She asks me, a sad tone striking her voice.
"I'm not sure детка, but I'll be here for you." I say.

We pull up to campus and I drop Y/N off, giving her a kiss.
"I'm gonna go park somewhere else so it doesn't look like we're here together котенок." I say. Y/N nods then gets out of the car.

I get over to the dorm block and see a now put out fire. There was students every where being transported into ambulances and taken to the hospital. I notice Y/N getting into one with a woman who was passed out on a bed with smoke all over her. Y/N looks over at me, tears in her eyes. I look back at her with a sympathetic look.

After an hour or so, most people had cleared and I was there helping. The other students had been transported to safer dorms, or taken into the cafeteria to stay for the night. How on earth did this happen? I text Y/N to see how she was, and to see if the woman that she was with was okay.

Me:
Are you okay? Is the woman you were with okay? I can come meet you at the hospital if you want?

Y/N:
I'm fine. It's Carol, my friend. She passed out due to smoke inhalation. They put her in a medically induced coma to help her heal. I'm scared. She might die Nat.

Me:
I'm coming now, I'll say I'm there seeing if everyone is okay.

Y/N:
I don't want you to get in trouble.

Me:
I want to be there for you котенок. I'll be there soon.

I get to the hospital and get to Carol's room. Y/N told me what room she was in.
"Thank you for coming here." Y/N says, coming over to me and burying her face into my chest and wrapping her arms around me. Her face was red from crying. I notice someone else in the room at Carol's bed.
"Y/N.." I say. I was gonna ask her about the other woman in the room, but decide that she just needed to be comforted for now. "How are you feeling?" I ask her, rubbing her back as I pulled her into me.
"I'm fine." She says as she hugs me tight.

Y/N POV:
I could tell that tonight would be a long night.
"Can we sit down?" I ask, looking up at Nat.
"Of course." Nat says, grabbing some chairs and pulling them by the bed.
"This is Wanda, my roommate." I say, sitting down next to Nat. She took my hand in hers and gently rubbed it with her thumb.
"Hi." Nat says to Wanda.
"Hey." Wanda says. Wanda had been crying too, she had been in the fire, but hadn't sustained major injuries.

We stay at the hospital the whole night, Wanda had fallen asleep in the chair she was in.
"You should get something to eat, I can go to the cafeteria and see if they have anything there?" Nat says.
"I'm not hungry. I just wanna stay here Tasha.." I say, leaning into her. I was tired as it was around 3 in the morning now.
"Okay, you should get some sleep then." Nat says. She stands up and takes me into her seat and on her lap so that I'm straddling her with my head resting on her shoulder.
"Thank you." I say as I fall asleep in her arms.

The next morning I wake up in Nat's arms. She was already awake and stroking my hair.
"Morning детка. How did you sleep?" She asks me.
"Fine.. I guess." I reply, rubbing my eyes.
"So.. Wanda. She knows about us?" Nat asks me. I knew this would probably come up.
"Yeah.. she does. Is that bad? I'm sorry I didn't talk to you about it before, but she's known since the beginning, like before I even had my first lesson with you. Carol too." I reply.
"As long as they don't tell anyone it's fine. And what do you mean, before your first lecture with me?" She asks.
"I told her that I was thinking about taking Russian, and she told me that you were super hot, it was kinda a joke at first, that we'd sleep together and whatever, but I'm glad it isn't some joke." I say, a light red colour spreading across my cheeks. Nat just smiles back at me. She kisses me on the nose.
"I'm glad too котенок." She says.

3 weeks go by and Carol still wasn't awake, but me and Wanda had started to go back to normal. The dorm building had been fixed. Our stuff wasn't damaged too much, so we could resume as normal. I had a basketball game, I didn't feel like going, but I knew I should.

I get ready for the game and head out. The morale of everyone was quite low, everyone was upset, tired, drained. The fire hadn't been fatal to anyone, but lots of students were still in the hospital recovering. Carol was the only one of the basketball team who had been injured.

We somehow won the game, only by a few points. I make my way into the changing rooms and change into the hoodie Nat let me borrow. She wasn't getting this back. I come out to see Nat and Wanda both waiting. Most people had cleared out, so it was only them and me. Wanda sees that Nat wanted to talk to me, so went and got something from the vending machine.
"Is that my hoodie?" Nat says with a smile.
"Yes, but you're not getting it back." I say, returning the smile.
"Do you want to stay at mine tonight? Maybe we could watch some movies?" Nat offers.
"As much as I want to, I don't want to leave Wanda alone. Whenever I stayed at yours, Carol would stay over." I say.
"Okay. You were good out there tonight." She says, placing her hands on my waist.
"Nat... we're on campus still." I say, refraining from her grip.
"You're no fun." Nat says with a smile, taking her hands off of my waist.
"Text me later?" I ask.
"Of course. Get home safe." She says, smiling at me and leaving.
"You ready to go now?" Wanda says, walking over to me, giving me a suggestive look.
"Don't look at me like that!" I say as we walk out of the sports block and towards our dorm. Suddenly my phone starts ringing.
"Hello?" I say as I pick up the call.
"Hi, is this Y/N Y/L/N speaking?" The voice says.
"Yes this is." I say.
"This is the hospital calling, Carol Danvers has woken up. Visiting hours are over, but you can come see her tomorrow as soon as visiting hours start." The voice says. I look at Wanda with a smile on my face.
"Thank you so much!" I say hanging up. "Carol has woken up." I say.
"That's amazing!" Wanda says, hugging me.