S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy

Chapter 15: Science 101 gone wrong

Steve's POV

Just as Natasha gets on a shirt and enters my room to talk I trip and land on the floor instead of on my bed. Next thing we know the ground shakes in a massive explosion coming from nearby.

I quickly stand up to look for Natasha but only see her red hair curve around the door and she runs towards the source of the explosion.

I sprint after her to find Clint and Natasha trying to open the door with smoke coming out from under it. Thor stands to the side eating a weird rectangle pastry until he smells the smoke and walks up to the door and walks through it.

"Well that is one way to do it." Clint says as he stands in front of the god sized hole in the door.

We all follow Thor through the door a few seconds later.

Once the smoke starts to clear we can see the curled up bodies of two brown haired scientists coughing and curled up around each other for some ounce of safety.

"What the actual fuck you two! Not even 24 hours in and you already find a way to blow something up!" Natasha looked livid and without realizing it both Clint and I simultaneously backed up.

The two boys on the floor quickly realized the danger that the small redhead posed to their lives.

She moves closer to Tony and Bruce and I can see a glint of metal in her hand.

I quickly run to grab her and the knife when she completely freezes.

My arm is wrapped around her waist from behind pressing her to my body with my other hand holding her wrist of the hand that contains the knife.

Natasha goes stiff as a board and starts slightly shaking and looks to where my hand is holding her wrist.

She then looks up at me and we lock eyes. I can hear Clint approach and start to say something to Natasha to try to calm her down but I don't hear him as her cold green eyes locked onto mine capturing me in some sort of trance with an expression of... fear?

I quickly back off and let go of her but the damage is done. Natasha curls her arm to her chest and mutters something in a different language that I couldn't quite hear. Then runs off in the direction of her room.

Clint heads towards the door to leave and chase after her but turns around for just enough time to glare at me and say "Well. Are you coming or not."

I stand there frozen for a second and then chase after the two. I see Clint fiddling with the lock on Natasha's door so I run to my room and check to see if she remembered to lock the door connecting to the bathroom.

I turn the door knob and the door creeks open slowly. I walk in to see Natasha curled into a ball in the middle of her bed.

I carefully walk towards her making sure she can see that I have no weapons or intentions to hurt her. I can tell she knows it is me when she doesn't look up.

I get to be five feet from her when her head shoots up from her knees. I see her teary red rimmed eyes look over me to make sure I am not a threat.

Once she looks back away from me I take that as a signal that it is ok to move closer.

I sit down next to her on the bed but not close enough to be smothering her.

I carefully wrap my arm around her shoulders in comfort and she looks up to meet my eyes and then turns towards me.

She starts to stop shaking as harshly but still enough to the point where her breathing is scarily fast. I don't even want to try to think about what her heart rate could be right now.

She turns to put her head on my chest and slowly I lean back against the wall while she curls up against my chest with my arms around her back.

I slowly rub her back while whispering to her. She curls closer to me but starts to become less tense.

After ten minutes of me whispering to her I can feel her breath start to even out and she stops shaking entirely.

"Natasha?" No response. "Natasha?"

Small sounds come from the redhead curled up on my chest.

"She must really trust you. It took her months to even be in the same room as me alone." I look up to see Clint managed to unlock her door and is holding a blanket that he found somewhere.

"I um-"

"Don't worry. She'll be ok. I called Fury to let him know what happened in the lab and he is going to come over in the morning. Nat can tell you about everything when she is ready. She was just caught off guard. Don't tell her I told you anything. She will kill me." The archer told him.

He helps me put the blanket over her and then leaves the room after making sure that Natasha was ok.

I look down at the small and adorable redhead who is currently tucked into my chest and sigh. She is going to kill me when she wakes up.

I run my hand through her hair and she shifts closer to me. I tighten the blanket around her and lean against the pillows behind me as my eyes start to droop shut. Well tomorrow will be an interesting day.

I am so sorry for not posting for so long but I am in the process of editing and writing new chapters!