Romanogers// The Spy&The Solider

Chapter 7

STEVE POV//
My phone vibrates against the night stand waking me and Natasha up. I reach over and grab to turn it on, "We need Romanoff, Rogers, Maximoff, Barnes, and Barton at SHEILD in 15." It reads from Fury. Natasha sits up rubbing her eyes as I turn the lamp on next to me. "Who was it?" She asks in a groggy voice. I hesitate for a minute wanting to lie to her just so that she will stay behind, but I'm a terrible liar, and she knows that. "Fury" I say and her eyes widen immediately. She places her hand on top of mine and says, "I'll be okay." I hesitantly nod and she jumps out of bed. She's been out of the field for sometime now and I know how happy she is to be back, but I can't help but worry about her, or the baby. I feel exhausted so I decide to quickly make some coffee to try and wake up a bit. As I'm pouring my first cup ready to chug it down as fast as possible I hear, "STEVE?!" From the bedroom. I place my mug down so quickly I'm afraid it will shatter and run into the bedroom. In the middle of the room stands Natasha, her face red and her suit only a little zipped up. I can't help but let out a short but loud laugh. "It's not funny." She says in a whiney tone. I nod still laughing and walk over to her to help her zip up her suit. I grab the zipper and pull up but it doesn't move and I let out a quiet chuckle. I pull harder on the zipper and this time is reluctantly goes. When it zips all the way up I hear Natasha gasp a bit. "Is it too tight?" I ask a little concerned, she turns to me shaking her head "Fits like a glove." She says and I can sense a bit of sarcasm in her voice.

NATASHA POV//
I sit down in a room with Buck, Clint and Wanda with Steve following close behind me. When I sit down my suit is so tight I can barley breath but I ignore the discomfort just as Fury walks in. He doesn't hesitate, "Banner found an underground HYDRA facility down on 23rd Street." He says staring us all down. "The base is completely underground, it has tunnels running under the street for miles but for the most part is abandoned." We all nod taking in the information. "Your mission is to rescue hostages, 6 of them. No explosions or buildings crashing down, get in and do this quietly." He finishes and we all stand up and head to the quinjet deck for take off. I walk with Clint to the takeoff deck and catch up on the missions I missed out on. While he's talking all I can think about is how much I'm gonna miss this for the next several months. We reach the quinjet and buckle in preparing for takeoff. For the entire ride I can feel Steve's eyes glued to me. I grab his hand and hold it for the rest of the ride assuring him that I'm okay. We land the quinjet on the roof in incognito mode and quickly head inside. "We need to split up and check each floor for the hostages." Says Wanda in her deep Sokovian accent. "Me and Natasha will check the bottom floors." Steve blurts out and everyone laughs at his over protective nature and i just roll my eyes. We head into the elevator as Wanda, Clint and Bucky begin to check the upper floors. "I'm not leaving your side." He says "I know." I say mocking him a bit. He looks down at me and smiles a bit just as the elevator dings and the doors open. Steve holds his shield out in front of him taking the first steps into the empty hallway. He does this for the next 10 floors and each time we find nothing. We reach the 12th floor to meet up with Wanda, Clint and Bucky. "Did you find them?" Asks Bucky. I shake my head, "I was gonna ask you guys the same thing." Suddenly I see a man from behind Wanda at the end of the Hallway pull a gun from his belt and fire 2 shots. "NATASHA!" Steve yells as he puts his body in front if mine as the bullets pierce his skin. Wanda turns to see the man and quickly flicks her wrist breaking the man's neck and his lifeless body hits the floor. Steve stands up from the ground with a blood stain on his hip and shoulder. "I knew you shouldn't have come." Steve says angrily a little louder than I would have liked. "I can handle myself." I snap back. "She's right Steve." Clint says making things worse that they already were. Steve walks closer to me, "What if it hit the baby." He says to me. The entire room goes quiet and every one looks at me. Shit. "BABY?!" Clint says throwing his hands in the air. Wanda and Bucky's eye widen and they stand there in silence. Clint's eyes switch from me to Steve every few seconds. "BABY?!" He says repeating himself. We both nod and I see Clint's face become even more red than it already was. "You're pregnant?" He asks in a more hushed voice than before and I just nod. "What the hell Steve?! She could have been hurt!" He says looking at Steve and speaking louder. Steve looks down at me then at the ground rubbing the back of his blonde head guiltily. "Look we're not dealing with this now, we have hostages to rescue." I say in a serious tone looking at both of them. And just as I say that 2 more men with guns come around the corner and I grab my pistols and fire without hesitation. We turn around the corner to find a guarded room with 6 tied up children. Wanda and Bucky head in first, Wanda takes the men out while Bucky blocks shots with his metal arm. We enter the room and free the children. Most of the crying except a young red headed girl who doesn't look scared. Clint leads the way up to the roof and we all enter. Clint starts up the jet just as I hear metal bullets hitting the outside. A red light flashes from outside the building and a loud alarm goes off startling the children. We fly back to SHEILD in silence, no one daring to talk about anything. We land the jet and head into SHEILD HQ and hand the children off to some SHEILD agents. "Have you told Fury." Clint asks in a calm voice. I shake my head, "Do you really think he would let me go on a mission if he knew?" Clint nods agreeing with me. "You have to tell him." He says and I hesitate to respond. "I don't know if I can." I say already feeling nervous inside. "It's either you, or me." He says and I shake my head once again. I stand up and look for Steve who was talking to one of the SHEILD agents that took the children. "I'm going to tell Fury." I say and Steve looks a bit shocked but nods, "Do you want me to come." He asks with a sad smile. "I'm okay, I should do it on my own."

STEVE POV//
I watch Natasha walk into Fury's office from the glass wall in the hallway. She walks slowly over to him and I see a few words slip from her mouth. "WHAT?!" He shouts turning around to her. She stands there strong as Fury shouts some more with his hands flying in every direction. A few minutes later she walks out of his office and sits down on the bench next to me. "How'd he take it?" I ask already knowing the answer. "Better than I expected." She says nodding her head.