✨ Young love ✨

Natasha Romanoff

Warnings: Injury, death

Mistakes were common in this job. Nothing was concrete, no matter how well you planned and usually the best parts are when they're spur of the moment. Quick thinking. Everyone had made mistakes on the team. Tony, Thor, Wanda... hell, even Steve, Clint and Natasha. Whether it be bad judgement, missing a piece of information, or just bad aim, mistakes happened and when they happened, the team always had each other's back. Except this time.

You'd made a mistake. But it wasn't bad aim, or missing information, or bad judgement. No. It was all three. You decided that to push forward on the mission, you'd jump out and take a shot at some tanks off to the side to distract and injure the enemy. However, in the process, Steve had jumped out, not knowing you plan as you hadn't told the team, making him get shot, and when you fired, it hit Natasha who had also jumped out. The bullet passed through her, hitting the tanks, causing an explosion and not only killed the enemies, but also killed all the leads and also got Natasha, Wanda and Clint burned.

The team refused to talk to you on the way back, and refused to talk to you for the rest of the day. The team lived, Natasha was put in rest, and you ended up in Fury's office.

"Are you listening to me, Y/N?" Fury asked. He'd been yelling for a good hour, explaining everything you did wrong. You hadn't informed your team of your plan, or got permission of the rest to do it, resulting in nearly half the team injured and the best assassin nearly dead. You then made the team fail the main task of getting information since you killed the entire team. You heard it all, but you kept your head low.

"Yes sir." You answered. You tried to kill your voice in order, but it shook, breaking even, and the director sighed.

"You're dismissed." He said, and you nodded, lingering in the seat for a second, before standing and walking out the room. You barely looked up, just wanting to take off this suit and go home, crawl into a ball and cry, and think of how the hell you were going to try and make this better. As you walked, you were already coming up with ideas. You'd always been saving up a bit part of your pay check for any special occasion. An Avenger paid well after all, but you didn't just spend it. You thought about paying for the entire team's medical bills, getting them those little things they wanted or-

"Y/N shouldn't be on the team." You froze, and you realised where you were. You were in the hallway of meeting rooms, and the one right ahead had the door slightly open, and Clint's voice came through.

"I agree. They could have gotten us killed, they're not prepared for this job." Thor agreed.

"They're lucky SHIELD is covering them. If they were anyone else than they'd be going to jail." Steve.

"They let us down. We we're supposed to be a team and they just put half the team out of work for a few weeks. Who knows what could happen in the next few weeks." Wanda.

It hurt so much hearing them talk about you like that and to also hear the hatred in their voice that were usually so reassuring. You were their enemy right now, and while you wanted to tear the door open and say sorry... you couldn't. You kept walking, and quickly decided on what you were going to do. You were going to listen to them.

You went home, wrote up a letter of resignation, mailed it to base, as well as sending the cheques to pay for all the medical treatments as well as more just because, then you got to work on putting the essentials in your car, putting your house up for sale, and leaving. You weren't due in till after the weekend, so you knew you'd be long gone and out their hair before they knew what was going on. You didn't know where you were going, but you knew you weren't welcome in New York anymore, and that was all that mattered.

Monday rolled around, and Maria and Fury had gotten your letter, saying we were resigning, that you felt innadecuate and 'the team are right'. They got your cheques, and decided to do as asked, and got the medical fees covered, and the record got noticed by Natasha very quickly. While she couldn't kick ass, she insisted on being useful and did hacking jobs, and checking the systems from her bed, so she saw it. She immediately called in the team.