Professor Romanoff

Chapter 54

"Hey, is she okay?" I hear Tony ask from the doorway.
"She's awake now." Nat replies.
"Oh, how are you feeling?" he asks me.
"I'm fine." I say.
"Good, I ordered take out, it's here if you want to get some.
"Okay, we'll be down in a sec, thanks." Nat replies. Tony leaves, closing the door behind him.
"I'm not hungry, you go." I say.
"What's up?" she asks.
"Nothing." I reply.
"You've been sleeping a lot and not eating much." she states.
"Fine, I'll get some food." I groan, getting up. I can hear Nat sigh. This isn't fair on her, I'm being difficult.
"Have you been taking your iron pills?" she asks. Shit.
"Uh most of the time... when you remind me" I say.
"So you haven't taken them today?" she asks. I shake my head. She reaches into the side table and produces a bottle of pills.
"Do you just keep that in there?" I ask.
"Yeah, just in case you run out." she says, handing me a pill. I give her a smile which she returns.

"Hey! You're okay!" Wanda says, coming over to me.
"Yeah, I'm okay." I reply with a smile.
"Good, I need someone to try to beat me in 1v1's." Carol says.
"What do you mean try? I beat you every time." I state.
"Not true." She denies.
"Sure." I giggle as I sit with them.

After eating I stay behind to wash the dishes. The others are watching a movie, Nat was reluctant to go at first but I convinced her I'd be fine.

20 minutes later my favourite person walks into the kitchen. Bruce. Ugh.
"Nat is all curled up with Clint in there, maybe you should be worried." he says as he goes to the fridge to get a drink.
"They're best friends, plus he's married." I retort.
"In the end she'll always go back to a guy, we both know that'll be me. You can't give her what she needs." he states.
"That's not true." I reply.
"Oh, but it is and I think you know it." he says.
"Please just leave me alone Bruce. What did I do to you?" I ask.
"You stole her away from me. She was mine. She loves me." he says, getting up in my face.
"Clearly she doesn't. She's with me, not you." I say. I feel a hand contact my face harshly. "Ow! What the hell?" I exclaim.
"Break up with her or I'll do much, much worse." he says through gritted teeth, still up in my face.
"No." I say. He slaps me much harder than before. "Jesus! Stop doing that." I say, holding my face.
"Break up with her damnit." he exclaims.
"I don't want to. I love her." I say. He's making me feel small, useless. I feel small anyway because I'm below average height but the way he's holding himself and towering over me.
"Break. Up. With. Her." he says grabbing me, my arm still had the bruise from before which will get bigger no thanks to him.
"F-fine." I stutter, avoiding eye contact.
"Good." he says, letting go of me. "I'll go get her." he says. I don't think I can face her but I think I have to. I wipe my eyes, at some point I think I started crying.

"Hey, Bruce said you wanted to talk to me, are you okay?" Nat asks as she enters.
"U-Uh yeah... I-I" I take a second to try to think of what to say
"What the hell happened to your face? It's red." she says as she comes over to me to see my face properly. I waft away her hand and she gives me a concerned look.
"We need to break up." I say, avoiding eye contact.
"W-what? Very funny Y/N..." she replies. I feel my heart breaking. I can't believe I'm doing this to her.
"I-I'm not joking." I reply.
"Why? What happened?" she asks, her eyes tearing up. This hurts me so much to do.
"I just don't think we work together." I say.
"What the hell do you mean Y/N? We've been together for months and now you think we don't work out?" she exclaims. 5 and a half months.
"I'm sorry T- Natasha." I apologize.
"You're sorry! What brung this on?" she asks.
"I just realised that maybe we're not good for each other." I say. Both of us have tears spilling from our eyes.
"No, no. Come on Y/N/N, please. Please don't do this." Nat begs. It hurts me so much to see her like this.
"I'm sorry." I say quietly before walking off. I make eye contact with Carol through the door of the main room as I walk past it to get their attention. Carol turns to Wanda and they leave and follow me.

"What happened?" Wanda asks as her and Carol catch up to me.
"I- broke up with Nat." I say as I keep walking to their room, tears still running down my face.
"You what?" Wanda asks.
"What? Why?" Carol exclaims. We enter their room and I sit down on Wanda's bed.
"B-Bruce, h-he and I-I-" I say, not able to get out the answer. Carol and Wanda hug me from either side and I just let it out.

After around half an hour of crying I manage to calm down a little.
"Bruce, he's always been an asshole to me... but the last couple of days he's been bad. Like really bad. He told me if I didn't break up with Nat that he would hurt me and he said I can't give her what a guy can and that she'll end up with him. He said she didn't love me." I explain in a breath.
"So you didn't want to break up with her?" Carol asks. I shake my head.
"No, never. I love her so much but he's been getting in my head." I explain.
"You have to tell her." Wanda says. I shake my head again.
"I can't. He's gonna do something bad. I know it." I say.
"Do you want to stay in our room?" Carol asks. I nod my head.

We begin to watch movies for a while until someone storms into the room.
"What the hell were you thinking?" Clint almost shouts at me.
"Clint, now is not the time." Wanda says, getting up and in between him and I.
"Did you hear what she did? Now clearly is the time!" he exclaims.
"No it's not." Wanda says.
"Nat thinks you hate her." he says in a calmer tone, blanking Wanda.
"I- I could never." I say.
"Tell her that. And I thought you should know Bruce is trying to get in there with her." he explains.
"I-" I start to cry again.
"I think you should go." Carol says. Clint leaves.

A/N: I'M SORRY! THIS HURT TO WRITE.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter, but then again t'was very sad.

Remember to take care of yourself, have something to eat/drink and if you're going through something you can do it! <3 <3