Note: Natasha and her pregnancy hormones
Once they discovered that Natasha was pregnant, Bruce immediately told them that one of them needed to remain calm. Both of them couldn't freak out at the same time. Or to be specific,
"Steve, you should be water or ice to when Natasha is a fire."
"I'm not going to have hormone frenzies, Bruce. I have better control than that." Nat said and shrugged her shoulders as she was lying on bed while JARVIS running a scan on her body, "I'm not going to be like Pepper when she was pregnant with little Anthony."
"You also have to take it easy, Natasha. Even you are just 2 months pregnant."
"I'm not going to dial down anything!" Natasha announced, "It's only 2 months and I think I could at least go on a few mission before I actually dialed down."
And that was the beginning of the debate between the doctor and the spy. Natasha gave a lot of reasons that she should be working or at least working out with her husband. It will keep her health and made the baby strong. Bruce told her that she was in a delicate condition and being pregnant will make her feel vulnerable than she ever was.
"That's the reason why I should go in the field with my husband."
Bruce sighed and turned to Steve for some help, "Steve, maybe you can talk some sense into your wife."
Steve was rubbing the nape of his neck, fully knowing that he had only 20% chance that she might actually listen to him, "One last mission and I get to choose it."
"Deal! But make it two weeks mission alright, hubby?" She wiggled her eyebrows playfully at him.
Bruce could only not in agreement to have this conversation ended as fast as he could. The doctor rarely won an argument with Natasha. She listened to him only when she felt the need to comply. All Bruce could see was that this relationship is a married life between a cat, which was Natasha, and a giant puppy dog, which was Steve Rogers.
The couple left the room but the doctor kept his eyes on them. Steve stuck close to her, worrying that anything might happen to her even he knew she could handle any threat quicker than him.
Despite Natasha insisting that she would continue with her exercise, she surprised Steve the next morning that she wanted to go for a walk in the park instead of their usual morning run.
"Just feel a bit lazy. That's all."
That was a lie but Steve seemed to okay with it. Natasha knew Steve was okay with the idea of her doing heavy activity while she was pregnant with their children but he wasn't saying any of his concern because of her. He only wanted what's make her happy.
The couple walked a steady pace in the park and took in the moment together, savoring the peaceful moment before they had to go back to their professional life.
"Do we have any mission today?" She asked.
"An easy recon mission. That's all." Steve replied and handed her a bottle of water, "Drink up, darling. Keep your body hydrates. You're doing everything for two now."
"Someone has been reading pregnancy book…" She teased.
"I never been a parent before so I'm kinda excited about it."
"Do you sign us up for any parenting class yet?"
"Nat, you know we need…."
"Do you have any shopping list for our baby yet? I want to go for a shopping tomorrow. Gosh! My hormone is ragging right now because I never ever wanted to go to the shopping mall."
"Natasha, you miss the point…"
"Do you already plan the baby shower with Pepper?"
"Nat…"
"Damn it, Rogers. You already have Tony designing the nursery without me?"
"…"
"I gotta go talk to Bruce and Tony about designing a new security system to install in our baby nursery!"
Natasha went on and on to tease him and put Steve Rogers in his place. Steve could only sigh and thought to himself. Well, this will be one hell of a ride for them. Water and Fire, right? Apparently he had to be both.
