You are everything ⴵ [Natasha Romanoff]

Chapter 60

Chapter 60
Nat's POV

I silently groaned and fell back on to my pillow. It was only 1am and I had woken up and was now wide awake. Claire was sleeping next to me curled up on her side, I couldn't lay here any longer and I didn't want to wake her so I quietly headed out of the room and downstairs.

There was something calming about the quiet night air. Something that made all the worries in the world be seen in a different view. The silence made overthinking that much easier. I sat there replaying the attack over and over again in my head, I just couldn't seem to stop thinking about. Something didn't feel right about it all.

I sipped my cup of tea as my mind flicked between thinking about what had happened and thinking about Claire. It had scared me to death thinking I wasn't going to get home to Claire. I almost felt weak for even thinking it. I had never been worried in a situation like that, if that was the end for me than so be it. But I couldn't think like that anymore, I didn't want to. I always wanted to be able to come home to Claire.

The night was cool and lonely, it lacked the only person in this world that I craved. I longed for her even if I had only been away from her for minutes. I relished her sunshine view on the world and her happy demeanour. She made the world brighter and she made me the happiest I've ever been. Sometimes I still had doubts, I often thought I wasn't good enough for her and she deserved so much better, but Claire often reminded me that was more that enough. Sometimes it was just hard to believe.

Claire's POV
I woke up screaming, tears streaming down my face. I was damp with a layer of sweat and I shivered as the cool night air hit my skin. I was woken by a nightmare, a usual occurrence, although not a welcome one. This nightmare had been a frequent occurrence while Nat was gone and I hadn't mentioned it because I knew she would worry, I reached over to her side of the bed only to find it empty. I took a couple of deep breaths to try ground myself and regain composure. I reached for my phone on the bedside table.

Claire- are you down stairs? -0212

Nat- I am. Are you coming down? Or would you like me to come back up? -0212

Claire- no I'll come to you, I'll just grab a hoodie and I'll be down. -0213

Nat- please wear one of mine. -0214

I smiled at Nat's message. I grabbed one of Nat's hoodies from the closet and slipped it on over my pyjamas. Her scent immediately surrounding me and I loved it. I made my way down stairs swiftly and quietly. The floor was cold beneath my feet. I knew I looked disheveled from sleep, there was no point trying to hide it. Nat would see straight away that I had been crying.

As I rounded the corner to the kitchen where I knew Nat would be I noticed her making a tea I assumed was for me since there was already one sitting on the bench in front of her usual seat.

Without hesitation Nat limped over to me, still in pain from her injuries. I thought I pushed my emotions down enough that they wouldn't come back out, for tonight at least, but I was wrong. As soon as Nat spoke I lost the control I had over my emotions.

"What happened?".

I just shook my head and fell into Nat's embrace. Nat was rubbing my back waiting for me to talk and explains what was happening. We pulled apart and Nat cupped my cheeks.

"You're ok, no matter what it is you're safe and I'm here" she soothed.

Without saying a word I intertwined my fingers with Nat's and pulled her over to the lounge with our cups of teas. I wanted to get Nat off her feet because I knew she was still in pain.

"Claire what's going on? Why the tears darling?" Nat asked as we sat down.