You are everything ⴵ [Natasha Romanoff]

Chapter 87

Chapter 87
Nat's POV

We had found nothing. No trace of where Claire was taken. She had been gone for over 8 hours now and we had no leads and no useful information.

It was late, Tony was still in his lab combing through security footage to find anything that would help us. Everyone else had been out looking through the night and they were all now in bed. I made my way upstairs and walked into our room. As soon as I walked in it was like she was still here, I half expected her to walk in behind me. I hadn't really noticed it when I came up earlier looking for her ring, I was running around hyper focused on finding it. But as I looked around and took the room in I noticed everything was as it had been this morning. Claire's headphones sat on her bedside table like always after training. My runners I had left randomly on the floor had been put away by Claire like usual. My hoodie Claire had been wearing the night before was hanging over the end of the neatly made bed. I picked up the hoodie and brought it close to my face. It still smelt sweet like Claire. Tears silently ran down my face. I put the hoodie on so it felt like I was close to her. When I turned to get into bed, I couldn't. I couldn't sleep in there without Claire. Before I even realised what I was doing, I had started walking towards Yelena's room. I knocked quietly and waited. There was no answer so I slid down the wall beside the closed door and sat in the ground holding my knees close and sobbed. Yelena appeared at the doorway half asleep. I looked up at here with tear stained cheeks.

"I can't sleep in there. Can I sleep with you please?" I asked, almost begging.

"Of course you can" Yelena said ushering me into her room.

"I don't know what to do Lena" I cried.

"We will find her Nat, I promise we will find her" Yelena soothed.

I woke up startled. I checked my phone, it was 2:32am. Yelena was fast asleep next to me so I got up and made my way downstairs. It was too quiet down here. There were no laughter from Claire or late night conversations. I made a hot tea and sat down at the dinning table.

My head snapped towards the door as I heard foot steps. Usually unknown sounds made me cautious but for a second, just a small sliver of a second I thought it could be Claire. My hopes were dashed when Bucky emerged through the door.

"I'm sorry I didn't know you were down here" he apologised.

"It's ok" I said giving him a quick smile.

"How are you going?" Bucky asked.

I looked down at my tea, worried that I was about to start crying again.

"Scared like I never have been before" I answered honestly.

"She's strong Nat she will get through this and we will find her" Bucky said trying to convince not only me but himself.

We sat there in a heavy silence for a while until Bucky spoke again.

"You two spent a lot of nights down here".

I smiled at the thought of all the times we spent down there together late at night, sometimes for hours.

"We have spent a lot of time down here. We use to have a lot more nightmares before we started sleeping-" Bucky didn't let me finish my sentence.

"I really don't need to know that" Bucky said going red.

"Get your mind out of the gutter Barnes" I smiled. "Before we started sleeping in the same bed was all I was going to say. we would come down here after a nightmare and talk for hours".

I frowned as I suddenly thought about a conversation I had had with Claire down here once.

"What's wrong?" He asked.