Soulful | Book 2 of 2| Starks daughter x Natasha Romanoff

Chapter 23

⚠️Smut⚠️

Natasha's Pov

Aj and I were laying in bed, the lights were off and I was drifting away to sleep. I could tell that Aj wasn't sleeping in fact she was very much awake, fiddling with her fingers. She was nervous, probably about tomorrow. I looked over at Aj. "Aj, get up," I said.

"What?" She asked.

"We're going out." Aj and I went downstairs and got in my car. I drove us to the field. Aj's field, "You know me so well," Aj said. We got up and laid down in the grass.

"There's Orion's belt," I said.

"Yeah," Aj said she wasn't focused on what I was saying, she was in her head, probably getting ready to tell me space facts.

"The largest constellation by area is Hydra, funny right, anyway, it takes up 3.16% of the sky," Aj said, I was right, "The smallest is Crux and it only takes up 0.17% of the sky. There are 88 official constellations. The word 'constellation' comes from a Latin term meaning 'set with stars.' All or most of the constellations were named by the Greeks and each of them has a story of how they got there. Like Orion, he died when he stepped on a scorpion the gods felt sorry for him so they put him and his dogs, Canis Major and Canis Minor, into the sky as constellations. Orion was surrounded by animals he could hunt like Lepus, the rabbit, and Taurus, the bull. And Scorpius, the scorpion Orion stepped on was put on the other side of the sky so he couldn't hurt Orion again. Orion was also in love with Merope, one of the seven sisters known as the Pleiades. Merope didn't want anything to do with Orion. So, the gods placed Orion in the sky. He's forever chasing the Pleiades, but never reaching them," She turned over to me and smiled. I smiled back.

"So do you want to tell me why you weren't sleeping?" I asked.

"Tomorrow," She said, "Do you think that everything will work out?"

"Yeah, I mean we have three geniuses behind this," I said.

"Yeah, but what if something bad happens, or we make things worse, or someone gets hurt, or, or worse," she was spiraling and getting trapped inside her mind. Aj started fiddling with her hair, one of the things she does when she's nervous.

"Aj, calm down," I placed my hand on her hand and moved it from her hand. "Everything will be fine, we'll get everyone back, no one will get hurt, and everything will be fine." I kissed her.

"I wish my mission was with yours, I can't stand the thought that something could happen to you and I won't be there to stop it, I'll be in 2012, in New York." I gripped Aj's hand tighter.

"Aj, everything will work out it's going to be ok, I promise," I said staring directly into her eyes.

"Ok," Aj said, "And if you're wrong?"

"I'll buy you ice cream," I said smiling.

"Sweet!" Aj said, then she paused and rolled on top of me. She gave her a hug that made me roll over. We kept this up rolling on top of each other and giggling like crazy. We finally stopped and Aj landed on top of me like she was at the beginning. Aj kissed me,

"I love you," Aj whispered next to my ear,

"I love you too," I whispered back.

"You know what I want to do?" Aj asked.

"What?" I asked.

"I want to have a wedding."

"What?" I asked again, shocked and not shocked at the same time.