It's love

Part 18

Steve's POV

Natasha stood by the door, waiting for me. Her face was emotionless but her eyes wild. This was her look before an important mission. Little did she know about it herself. It was very hard to read her if you didn't know her. I knew that when her eyes were wild, looking everywhere, but her face calm, that was when she was really worried. Sometimes even scared. She was better at hiding that though, her fears. She had so many of them that it was easy to get people to believe that she had none.
"You ready?" I said. Her eyes met mine.
"Yeah." She said. Her voice leaving an emptiness.
I put my arm around her as we walked outside.
"Romanoff, Rogers." Bruce said as he walked past us.
"Banner." Steve answered nicely.
We all got into the car, I took the wheel, Nat sat beside me in the front seat. Bruce took the middle seat in the back. I had offered him a ride since he didn't own a car right now.
"How are you Natasha? You seem quite." Bruce said friendly.
Natasha didn't react to the question.
"Natasha?" Bruce said touching her shoulder. She jumped, almost as she had been woken from a bad dream.
"What? I'm sorry. What did you say?"
She said confused.
"I said how are you?" Bruce asked again.
"Oh I'm great, just a lot on my mind. What about you?" That meant she wasn't okey. Natasha was to smart to use the word 'fine' since everyone understood that the word 'fine' actually means not fine. She just simply traded the word 'fine' for 'great'. That meant she didn't want anyone's compassion and really did try to hide her bad feelings.
"I'm good." Bruce answered. "I just hope this fight goes as planned. I don't want another alien attack or something."
"Who does?" I said laughing. Natasha put her hand on mine. Her touch made me warm and calm. She knew that I knew that she wasn't alright. And it was okey.
"I'm telling you, if Loki or any robot of any kind get in the way today." She said.
"We'll finish them and then go back home." I finished her sentence.
She smiled while looking at me.

We had soon arrived at the building and everyone split up. Natasha was going with Bruce. I was going with Clint and Thor. And Tony, well he did everything best on his own.
"Be careful." I said to Natasha, kissing her cheek.
"Aren't I always?" She smirked.
"No. No your definitely not." I said seriously. She just laughed.
"I promise, I'll be careful. It's just not my life now." She said letting go of my hand. She raised her eyebrow and smiled as they walked away. They were going to take the quite way into the building. Not causing any drama. I didn't like the fact that Bruce went with her since he wasn't the best at being small and quite but he insisted that he'd look after Natasha so I agreed.
Thor, Clint and I went inside the buildings front door. We were greeted by guns pointing at our faces. There was no time to waist. We started fighting the ones fighting us. And they were many.

Natasha's POV

Bruce and I just got into the building. A few men came at us and I took them down. Bruce just kind of waited for me to finish them. The only thing he could do was to shoot them and we didn't feel like that was necessary. And I knew Steve wouldn't want us to sacrifice lives just to get inside the building.
"Natasha?" Bruce said as I picked up a gun from a man on the floor.
"Yeah?" I said, concentrating on the passed out men. I picked up another gun and throw It to Bruce.
"I need to talk to you." He said.
"Yeah sure, what about?" I said looking at him. "If this is about Tony wanting to do that hair experiment on me, I'm not up for it." I said seriously since I didn't trust Tony.
"No it's not about that." He said walking up to me. "Natasha, I've been feeling this way for a really long time, and I'm sorry but I really, really like you." He squeezed.
"Wha.." I started but he interrupted me.
"Yeah I know you having a baby with Steve but I don't care. I love you." He said and before I could react his lips met mine hard. Anger bubbled in me and I pushed him away.
"What the hell do you think your doing?!" I said as I slapped him.
"Don't ever touch me. You know I have feelings for Steve and you know I'm glad for this baby. How can you do this to Steve? What the hell is your problem Banner?" I said angry, almost screaming.
"Stop being so loud, you'll draw attention." He said.
"Yeah, hopefully. Good luck taking care of that alone." I said as I disappeared to another room. I knew he couldn't catch me, I was to fast. I tried concentrate on the mission but couldn't shake the feeling of when Bruce lips met mine. How could he? Idiot.

Steve's POV

A man came running towards him and I punched him with my shield. He fell to the ground and another man came right at me. He fell onto the guy already lying on the floor. More and more people came and I wondered how Natasha was doing. All of a sudden I heard a loud growl. I faced Clint's face, knowing we thought about the same thing. And of course we were right. A big, green creature came smashing through the walls and out of the building.
"Damn." Tony said as he flew around shooting people. "We have a green vegetable heading for the city." He said while shooting down another guy that were about to shoot Thor. When no one responded to his comment, he moaned.
"I guess I'm on it." He said, flying away.
"If Bruce's here, or there. Where the hell is Natasha?" I said, looking around.
I didn't take long until I got that question answered. She came into the main hall, taking down two guys at the same time. Her legs twirled around a guys neck as she made him fall over another one, causing them both to moan in pain. A guys came behind her with a knife and I was just about to scream what's out when she turned around and kicked him in the crotch making him fall back. I kept fighting men that came towards me but didn't take my eyes of Natasha. A man came up to here, she kicked him in the stomach but he stood still. She was surprised to see that he kick hadn't got him to the ground and jumped onto his shoulder, her thighs against his neck and pulled her weight down as she made a jump from him. He fell to the ground and she smiled proudly. Her eyes met mine for just a second and her smile stayed. Then all of a sudden a guy came from her left and punched her in the stomach. He cried in pain and held her hands over her belly, trying to protect the little infant inside. She fell to the ground, tears running down her eyes of fear and pain. The man was just about the kick her again when she shot him right in the chest. She dragged herself against the wall, moaning in pain. I ran to her side as quickly as I could.
"Nat!" I screamed making my way to her.
"It's okey, he hit the ribs, I think there broken though. The baby's fine." She breathed out nervously.
"You gotta get out of here." I said trying to help her to her feet."
"No way in hell, I'm not leaving."
"Fine but at least get out of here. What the hell happened to Bruce." I said.
"God, I'll tell you later." She said as she made a move to the door.
"Captain?" She said, raising an eyebrow. I knew I was awaiting a half smile in a few seconds.
"What?" I said looking at her.
"Language." She said, her small half smiled appeared in the ordinary flirtatious way.
I smiled and she left the room.