The Younger Agent - Natasha Romanoff x OC

Chapter 20 - Mountain Rolling

August 2011-

Fury had approved their time off, however, the only time that they could both get approved simultaneously for a full 7 days off was a few months after the Stark ordeal, so they both had to continue the grind for a while. Natasha desperately wanted some time away with Eleanor, and Eleanor wanted to be able to visit home. 

There had been more times than normal when Natasha had to work abroad for a few days without the other, and vice versa, and they missed each other dearly when these missions cropped up. Luckily, they always had Clint to rely on, who was very sympathetic due to him being away from family for long periods of time. So, he always made sure to check up on them during the periods of time when they were separated. 

When the duo were reunited they made sure to not waste any of the time that they got together, embarking on plenty of coffee dates, late-night drives with the destination of anywhere, and of course just hanging around in their shared room, doing work together, watching movies, talking about anything that came into their minds. 

There were plenty of times that the two Agents rocked up to work in the morning with raccoon eyes from lots of accidental all-nighters where they got hopped up on sugar and shared an extortionate of conspiracy theories and shower thoughts, such as "I've woken up over 10,000 times and I'm still not used to it" from Eleanor, and "When you look up at the sky you're just looking into an abyss of space with gravity holding you down" from Natasha. This caused a horrified look from the younger Agent, with Nat staring back at her blankly before they burst into fits of sleep-deprived laughter. 

It was truly blissful. When together it felt like they could breathe for the first time in their lives, it was serene. 

Natasha was a very protective person of those she loved, and she protected Eleanor with every fibre of her being, not that the younger woman wasn't capable of doing this herself, she was a competent Agent who was good at her job, but with her golden retriever energy and slight naïvety, Natasha felt the need to make sure that she stayed safe. 

As much as Natasha protected Eleanor, it went both ways. When Nat would wake up in the middle of the night, after her mind had been plagued with nightmares, Eleanor was always immediately by her side to ground her and bring her back to the present, to reassure her and make her feel safe. Something that no one had ever been able to do for Natasha in her life. The two were eternally grateful to each other. 

With all of the moments that they had managed to steal with each other, the week off had swiftly come into view. Time flies when you're having fun.

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Eleanor and Nat were currently packing, as they were leaving in two days. "So you said the weather was supposed to be warm, yeah?", Nat questioned whilst eyeing up Eleanor's half-packed suitcase.
"Yeah?".
"Then why have you packed waterproofs as well as your shorts and tees?".

Eleanor let out a laugh, "You can never trust English weather Nat, one moment it will be paradise, the next you might as well have packed a boat it's raining that hard". She smiled at the memory of when she and her mates went to London for a weekend when she was 17, having only packed shorts and tees due to it being a heatwave, then it pouring with rain the next day. The group didn't want to be stuck inside so went out in torrential downpours in the clothes that they had packed. Safe to say they all got ill from it but it was a treasured memory. 

"Fair enough", Nat responded shrugging and quickly going to get her own waterproofs. 

When returning from the closet, she saw Eleanor typing out a very long message on her phone, "Who you talking to?".
"Aunt Sarah, she's just asking how we are and also sent over some potential activities for us to do, so I'm responding with a few of my own".