The Younger Agent - Natasha Romanoff x OC

Chapter 81 - The Sokovia Accords

"Wait, do we need to go and get Wanda?", Eleanor realised as the walk to the meeting room continued hand in hand with Nat. As she had been cooped up in her room for so long she had been worried that someone would forget to go and get her, which wouldn't have been ideal in trying to show her that she was still a part of the team.

Natasha shook her head, "No, Steve is with her and Vision has gone to get them both", she explained, causing Eleanor's mouth to open in an 'O' shape. It was silent from then on out, so Eleanor looked over to her wife and spotted that she was chewing on her lips, close to making them bleed. The uncertainty of the meeting caused stress for everyone. Knowing that Nat doesn't like it when her lips are rough and chapped, Eleanor poked her chin and flashed a goofy smile when Nat turned to her.

"Thank you", Nat chuckled quietly as the walk continued, now hyper-aware and trying not to bite her lips. It didn't take long to reach the meeting room, the place was designed for maximum efficiency, so rooms were placed strategically, knowing that people would go from offices to meeting rooms often.

Natasha walked in first and held pushed the door open harder than she needed to give Eleanor a chance to walk in without being hit in the face. The first thing that Eleanor fully took notice of when she walked into the room was Tony sitting hunched over in the back corner away from the table. Her eyebrows furrowed as she took in the sight of him, he looked guilty, not at ease. Considering what had been going on this made her panic slightly, that is not the kind of look you want to see when people had been calling for them to be locked up.

"Romanoffs", Ross nodded at them from his place at the side next to his right-hand man as they made their way over to the table. They gave polite nods in return and sat opposite Sam and next to Rhodey.

Eleanor stared down at the table briefly, but looked up when she felt Nat staring at her, she had expected a speech of some sort saying that it would be okay, but when she saw an amused glint in her eyes and a smirk, she huffed out a short breath and gave a small nod, urging her wife to get on with what she wanted to say. "Someone finally got your name right", she whispered with the smirk remaining.

Knowing that Ross' eyes were on them, Eleanor sent a warning nudge with her elbow onto Nat's ribs as a way to get her to shut up. Though Nat's joke came from a place of truth. In the field, she was still known as "Hughes" so that she didn't get confused with Natasha's orders and vice versa. But legally her surname was "Romanoff". When they got married she had taken Nat's last name, which people seemed to forget due to saying her maiden name more often.

Whenever documents are sent her way by her coworkers that have her name on them, she always has to edit them to represent her legally correct name so that the documents are valid and go through. It's annoying but it's not the end of the world.

Whilst waiting for the remaining people to file in, feeling Ross' judgemental gaze be cast over the room, Eleanor began anxiously tapping her finger on the table in front of her at a fast rhythm. This obviously caught the attention of the woman next to her, who immediately placed her hand on Eleanor's thigh, a feeling of calm washing over the two bodies.

With haste, Eleanor stopped tapping and instead gently placed the pad of her pointer finger on Nat's knuckles, and began rubbing circles over them. Natasha had to hold back a smile at the tickling feeling spreading through her hand and directed her eye line to the wall in front of her.

After what felt like forever, the remaining three Avengers walked in and took their seats. Whilst Ross began to move to the front and get himself ready, Eleanor continued making circling patterns on Nat's hand for comfort. When she first started to do that in meetings all those years ago at SHIELD, she was always worried that it was distracting Nat and that she was just too polite to say anything. So, she had taken her hand off which caused Nat to frown, and promptly reach her hand over to place Eleanor's hand back where it was. Since that moment it was a common thing in meetings for Eleanor to be using Nat's hand as some sort of fidget toy. It distracted her, and the contact brought comfort to Natasha. Win-win.