malignant (Natasha X Reader)

part 14 |fright night|

SONG OF THE CHAPTER: haunted - Beyoncé

Stygian's hair blew swiftly in the wind as Natasha clung to her. They were racing through traffic on the motorway; dipping in and out of lanes.

"Y/n!" Natasha shrieked in the wind.

"Faster?" Y/n smirked whilst revving the engine, leaning forward, and began to drive full-speed.

She drifted into a parking spot once they reached the compound, leaving tyre marks all up the path.

Stepping to the side of the bike she held out her hand to help Natasha get off the bike.
"M'lady," she smirked.

"What a gentleman," Natasha pecked her on the cheek.

They waltzed through the door together glancing around.

Natasha sighed.

"Home sweet home." She said with a faint smile.

"And hopefully a permanent one," Steve spoke walking from behind them.

"Hey Rogers," Y/n spoke pulling him into a brief hug which he gladly accepted.

"Steve," Nat smiled.

"Wanda?" Y/n could feel her in the room and turned around to find her there.

She ran over to the girl and pulled her into a deep hug.

"Hey, I've missed you, man," y/n laughed.

"Me too y/n. Im liking the new look" Wanda smiled.

"Thank you," stygain laughed.

"The others are in the lounge if you want to go see them," Steve said.

"All of them?" Natasha asked quickly looking at Stygian.

"Yeah, well, bar rhodey. He's still recovering, unfortunately."

"Well let's go make an entrance," Y/n sighed but with a slight smile.

Steve and Wanda walked into the lounge first then Natasha and Y/n.

There were lots of welcoming faces as well as a few gasps at Y/n's new appearance.

"Damn," Tony said rubbing his face whilst looking at them.

"What's with the box blonde?" Clint smirked and got up to hug Nat; simultaneously pulling Y/n in too to distract her from Tony.

"Hey Clint," y/n smiled and patted him on the back, "retirement not suit you? Or did Laura just kick you out for trying to refurbish the house too often?"

-

They hadn't received much information in the meeting with fury. In fact, he didn't know much information. All they had been told was that there was word about a gang being formed to stop the Avengers. They have some close links with Hydra and other problematic organisations the Avengers have had to battle in the past. There were lots of them and they had weapons ready.

At the end of the meeting, they had been told to be careful. Never leave the tower without another person. But Fury had also told them that they should not let them win, after all, they are the Avengers.

-

After having settled down and made conversation for the past few hours Thor suggested that the team should do a "bonding activity"

"And what would you suggest is a bonding activity, Thor?" Tony smirked

"A liquor competition!" He smiled proudly.

"As much as I do love liquor I think at 1 pm that might be dangerous" y/n laughed

"Hey I saw a haunted house advert earlier and it's only a few streets over! We could go there?" Peter cheered.

-

When they arrived Thor was as giddy as a little boy. He rushed inside quickly followed by Peter who was being chased by Tony out of concern.

Wanda and Vision walked hand in hand taking cautious steps.

"Why did we do this?" Y/n laughed pulling Natasha closer to her by the waist. Nat put her arm around her reciprocating it.

"For Peter I presume. Let him have his fun he's still settling in," Nat smirked.

They were the last ones to walk into the haunted house.

As Thor ran around the corner only to be jumped out on by an actor in a costume, it was a simple costume but Thor hadn't realized what he had gotten himself into. He screamed, a high-pitched noise, in utter terror. Quickly, I tried to play it off but Peter was already there with Clint laughing at him.

"I wasn't actually scared I was just doing it for the experience you know..." He rambled whilst Peter was rolling about the floor clutching his stomach in laughter.

"Was that Wanda?" Nat questioned the high-pitched scream.

"I doubt it she's probably already mapped out where everyone is in the building. Let's go check," Y/n smirked.

Sure enough, when they turned the corner, everyone was there staring at Thor trying to play off his screaming.

However, Y/n was staring at something emerging from around the corner.

She walked over to it and let it wrap around her arm.

"Hey Thor, you like snakes right?" Y/n grinned her voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Uh yeah, why-" He quickly bit his lip trying to contain another scream at the sight of the reptile.

It crawled across the back of her neck and spread itself across her shoulders.

It lifted its head to look at Thor.

When he stared down at it, its eyes sparkled and its tongue flashed.

"Come on this probably isn't meant to be here I'll keep it till the end."

Natasha quickly caught up to her and petted the snake, whilst laughing at Thor's face.

-

A couple of other jumpscares and screams later (not just from Thor) they made it to the end where the giftshop was.

When Tony turned the corner he stumbled back out of terror.

This piqued the others' interest to see what happened. Only to turn the corner and see a Captain America cardboard cutout.

"Guys you can't deny it. If I hadn't taken one for the team you all would have had my reaction too."
Tony spoke trying to justify himself.