Love and Hate| Natasha Romanoff

30. I do

One year later... 

Natasha's POV: 

It's been one year since I proposed. A lot has happened since then. Y/N cut ties with her adoptive parents for the lies and the tests. Peter, Y/n, and May have been living as a happy family, and Wanda, Carol, Maria, Kate, Yelena, and even Shuri and Gamora helped both of us plan bachelorette parties. 

Today is the day of the wedding. I've never been so nervous. I didn't even know it was possible to be this nervous. We woke up this morning, had a few minutes to ourselves before everyone pulled us away to get ready. 

Everybody had offered to help us. So Wanda was in charge of the catering, Tony was in charge of the decorating, Steve was in charge of the dance music, Bucky, well, he just helped Steve. Gamora was makeup, Kate was hair. The point is, we had everything with basically no cost. Not that it would matter, Tony would've paid for it all. He owes me big time. 

Cut to now. The ceremony's about to start. I'm standing at the altar. Each and every friend and family is there. The organ begins to play, and there she is. The most beautiful woman in the world, in the most beautiful dress that looked like it was made just for her. Peter next to her, arms intertwined, walking her down the aisle. 

I could feel the tears brimming in my eyes. Any other day, I would've felt pathetic. Today, looking at the love of my life walk down the aisle, I felt like it was okay to let it out. She gets to the altar, Peter lets her go and walks back to his seat next to May. 

"Y/n..." I whispered, biting the inside of my lip to not cry at the sight of her, the veil over her face. 

"Natasha..." She does the same, but before anymore words were said, the priest started. 

He recites some script, one he's said a hundred times in his life. I can't look away. I didn't want to look away. I couldn't move. I was frozen, up until it was time for the vows. 

I took out my paper, unfolded it, and began to read off of it. "Y/n. Ever since we met, I have felt things that I thought I was incapable of feeling. That I was taught I couldn't feel. But ever since then, I've felt a hundred different things that have been both amazing, and awful. But it was all completely new. My vows, my promises to you, are to never take you for granted. To help you through whatever you may need help with. To be there for you when you need me as you have been when I've needed you, and to never let anything blind my love for you." I stared at her for a moment before looking back at the priest and nodding, letting him know I was done. 

He signals for her to go, and she does. "Natasha. I-" She paused, laughing softly at the way her voice had cracked. "I'm gonna cry, okay." She took a deep breath and carefully wiped her tears away. "Natasha... from the day I met you, my life has changed. It's been overwhelming and it's been scary, and it's been honestly the hardest period of my life. But you were there through it all and... I couldn't be more grateful. So I promise, that for the rest of our lives, I will love you. I will be there for you too. I will tell you everything. I won't jump to conclusions. And I will trust you. I will never do anything to lose your trust. And not that you need me to... but I will do my best to protect you and whatever we have in store in our future. I love you." She looked at the officiant and nodded, letting him know she was done too. 

"Well... by the power vested in me, I now pronounce you wife and wife. You may kiss your bride!" He looked at me with a wide smile and before anyone knew it, my hands were cupping her face and my lips crashed into hers. 

Unfortunately, we had an audience and couldn't go further, so I had to pull away. But the smile on my face was impossible to wipe off. "We did it..." I whispered, our friends and family cheering behind us as my forehead rested against hers. 

"We did it..." She whispered back, pecking my lips once more before the ceremony started. 

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Y/N'S POV: 

The ceremony ended pretty late and Natasha and I finally felt relieved to be able to breath and get into bed and calm down. We showered, brushed our teeth, got comfortable, and got into bed. 

"Wife..." I whispered, settling into her arms after the long day. 

"I can't believe it." She smiled, pulling me in closer. "You know... there's something I've been thinking about, and now that we're married, I think you should know." Her happy smile slowly fading into a nervous one.

"Okay, yeah, of course. What's going on?" My hand goes to her hip, rubbing small circles as I focused all my attention on her, not that I was ever distracted. 

"Well, you know I can't have kids... but that never really stopped that want." She paused and sighed, her eyes starting to water. "And it's not a small want, knowing that I don't even have the option." 

"Biologically not. We can always adopt." I scooted a little closer to her, my hand moving from her hip to now cradling her face. "I want this with you too. I don't care if it's not ours. You'd be a great mom Natasha, and I want nothing more than to be a mom with you." I leaned in and pressed a soft kiss to her lips, smiling softly while my hand on her face wiped her tears with my thumb. 

"I love you so much, Y/n. Out of everything I've ever done in my life, from escaping the red room, to joining the avengers, taking down the red room... you were the best decision I have ever made." 

"And here I thought you hated me." I teased with a smile, leaning in a little. 

"Hey now, cool it down." Her lips twitched upwards, like she didn't wanna give into a full smile. "I hate to love you and I love to hate you." 

"Yeah, the ring on my finger says otherwise but, if it'll help you sleep at night." I lifted my hand, the dim light of the lamps still more than enough to show the gorgeous wedding ring. 

"Goodnight idiot." She finally smiled, shaking her head. 

"Goodnight wife." And with one final kiss, we turned off the lamps and snuggled up, falling asleep in each others arms to start the rest of our lives together.

The end

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I kind of rushed the ending, and I'm sorry for that...

Not too proud of this story, honestly, and I wanna write some more but like I've said before I wanna prewrite a bunch of chapters before publishing because, well, you've all fallen victim to my shit posting schedule... 

Anyway

This has gotten more reads than I ever thought it would and I can't thank you guys enough, so I promise to do much better with the next story in honor of all of you who waited patiently and maybe not so patiently for my updates. 

Remember to stay hydrated, and don't forget to eat 

Bye y'all!

~A