I'll Always Love You - A Romanogers Fanfic

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NATASHA'S POV

By the last week of September we'd gathered a team.
Different than before, but a team nonetheless.
I've been feeling more and more hopeful everyday since Bruce arrived, and that same day Tony, and a few days later Rocket and Nebula.

It's like there's finally something to fight for.
Clint's stopped his rampage and Thor...hasn't stopped eating.
But he's here, and we're preparing. For the Endgame. I like to call it that. It seems efficient.

It's almost like old times around the compound.
We've spent the days working on everything from spaceships to time travel suits to something technical that only Rocket and Tony gets.
And in the evenings we've been hanging out, talking, and those evenings I've almost forgotten that all this is going on.

"Romanoff, Rogers, I have a question for you two" Tony says, looking at me and Steve. We're sitting across from each other, because we haven't really been in the mood to tell Tony about our relationship.
We're on day ten of being a 'happy family', and right now these evenings are what gives me most of my motivation for the day.
"Yeah?" I ask, taking a sip of my water.
"Where in this compound have you two not had sex?" He asks with a sly grin.
I look at Steve. He's blushing like crazy, and frankly I'm not too happy about Tony talking about me and Steve's sex life out loud in front of everyone here.

"Erh...you...how do you..?" Steve asks, looking at Tony.
"Everyone knows" Bruce mumbles uncomfortable.
"Please, I've paid attention to the security tapes. The dining table? Really? That's where we eat, and it's where work, and it's where we spend a lot of time. It was 5.000 dollars for gods sake! Am I supposed to just ignore the fact that you and Romanoff's naked bodies have been...going at it...on that table?" Tony asks Steve, and Steve blushes even harder.
"We...didn't think of that" Steve mumbles embarrassed.
"You people are so weird. It's one thing to do what they did on a table where you eat" Nebula says, pointing at me and Steve. "But it's a whole 'nother thing looking at tapes of it" she continues.
"Thank you, Nebula. See Tony, even she thinks it's weird" I say.
"Fine, but I need details. Why are you interested in...Cap?" He asks, the last word with jokingly disgust.
"Oh my god" I sigh, hiding my face in my hand.
"I've been living with only my wife and daughter for like five years. I need some information. I love them, but I'm desperate" he says, taking a final sip of his beer.
"That's just disgusting. We're a lot of people here. I don't think they're interested" I frown.
"Yeah Tony, I think Nat's right on this" Rhodey nods disgusted.

"Now if you don't mind, and if everyone knows anyways, I think I'm going to bed, and if he wants to, Steve can join now or just come in later" I say, getting up from my spot on the couch next to Clint.
"Glad I soundproofed the walls!" Tony yells loudly after me when I'm by the door.
"No, we've already dented the wall, you wouldn't be able to hear it even if it wasn't soundproof" I say, and I leave the common room.

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STEVE'S POV

I leave the common room after an hour of trying to convince everyone that Nat and I aren't...fonduing...all the time, but it's in vain, and now after telling them, that no, I'm not going back to mine and Nat's room to...do that, I can finally get away.

I sigh deeply when I enter the empty hallway, finally escaping Tony's never ending teasing, and Rocket who joined in, just because he found it funny that it made me uncomfortable.
Everyone else eventually joined in on it too. 'Yes, let's make the old man, terribly in love, feel like a fool'. I didn't enjoy that.
I love having them all here, working on something this meaningful together, but can't they just leave mine and Nat's relationship to us?

"Hey, My Love I..." I stop speaking when I've opened the door and I see Nat on the bed, totally out.
I smile to myself. I love her so much.

I slowly close the door and make my way to the bed.
"I love you Natasha, and I'm so proud of what you've put together" I whisper, stroking her hair gently.
"We'll pull this off, thanks to you. I can't believe I'm lucky enough to be with you" I whisper and I take her hands, placing little soft kisses on her fingers.

She smiles in her sleep and snuggle closer to me.
I don't want to leave her to go brush my teeth, but dental hygiene is important, so I quietly get out of bed and into the bathroom.

When I exit the bathroom Nat's sitting up, looking at me.
"Love, why aren't you asleep?" I ask. I'd hoped I could get into bed, and just hold her and look at her for hours.
"I can't stop thinking about this...war. I mean, we're going into something totally new" she says.
"It's not new new. We're going back in time, in fact I think a lot of this is going to be something familiar" I say.
"You know that's not true. It's going to be entirely different. Some will have to go to space, Steve" she says with furrowed eyebrows.
"Are you starting to reconsider this plan?" I ask and go sit down next to her.
"Not at all...more this...you know...us" she mumbles.
"No. No, I will not let you do that. We've come so far together. Why Nat?" I ask worried.

She sighs deeply after a while.
"Because it's...I mean..." she trails off and stares at my slippers.
"Because this whole engagement thing is getting more real?" I take a guess.
"Yeah, I think so" she says.
"I love you, and you love me. That's all that matters. I'm not giving up on marrying you, but it's okay if it's a lot right now, I just..." I say, but she cuts me off before I finish.
"You know what? I'm not giving up on marrying you either. You're right, I love you, and I know it'll make you happy, so when I get even more used to it, then it'll make me just as happy" she says, and gives me a kiss.

I pull her closer to me, kissing her deeper and deeper.
She moves to sit on my lap, and I grab a tight hold of her back while I keep kissing her.

Eventually our long kisses fade out, and she looks into my eyes, and I'm lost in her green ones.
They're so deep, and there's so much behind them that no one knows about.
If there's one thing I could do all day, it's looking into Natasha's eyes.

"What?" She asks when I've kept staring at her.
"You're just so immensely beautiful, I can't believe it" I say, and she blushes.
"You're not too bad looking yourself" she smirks and gives me a short kiss, but making sure to bite my bottom lip before she lets go.
"Stop that, or Tony will have more to talk about" I gasp. Even the smallest things she does can get me so turned on, that I could light up a house.
"Let him talk" she whispers and kisses me again, moving even closer to the top of my lap.
I nod frantically and hums agreeing into her mouth, before everything but her just becomes blurry and indifferent.

I know that this chapter is like three days late, and while it's a nice chapter (in my opinion) it's not really super interesting.
I guess I'm just stalling the inevitable...