Beautiful Crime // Natasha Romanoff

15

Hallucination

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It has been three weeks and Will still hasn't woken up. Bruce is almost going out of his mind. He can feel the Hulk banging around inside him, wanting to break free, wanting to kill the person who hurt his brother. For the first time, Bruce agreed with him.

For most of the first week, Bruce stayed with Tony in the Stark Tower but apparently Natasha got annoyed with the constant texts he sent her that she arranged for him to have a room on the Helicarrier, so he could visit Will whenever he wanted, whenever he needed.

Bruce checked on his brother every day, at the same time, for the same amount of time, 6:30am to 12:45am, before going to bed for a short nap, he was not able to sleep properly due to his worry for Will. That repeated for two weeks until he nearly collapsed for exhaustion, making Natasha put his mind to rest by letting him know that she would watch over Will whenever she could.

Now he checks on him at reasonable times, and when he's not with Will he distracts himself by working in the lab, which is uncomfortable quiet.

What Bruce didn't know was that Natasha also checked on Will every day, she sneaks into the room whenever Bruce goes to bed and leaves just before he comes back.

She felt guilty for leaving him during the attack, and she's not the only one. Natasha and Steve have been talking with each other, she has been updating him on how Will was doing. Steve had told her that he feels equally guilty and had asked if he could come and check on Will.

Now, Natasha was waiting on the land zone as a helicopter landed. It opened to show Steve Rogers, who noticed the assassin and walked towards her.

When he reached her, he said, "Thank you for this. How is he?"

Together they walked to the medical room, "The doctors said he would heal, he's just not waking. They have changed their mind on when Will would wake, first it was two days, now it might be another week!"

Steve reached out to Romanoff, grabbing her arm making her stop, "Natasha, I'm sure Will will be fine. He's been through a lot the past few weeks. Give him time. When he's ready, he will wake up."

The redhead sighed, rubbing a hand over her hand before dropping it, "You're right, but it doesn't stop me from..."

Rogers finished the sentence for her with a small, gentle smile, "Worrying?"

She sighed again, crossing her arms and looking down at the floor.

Frowning at this, Steve said, "Natasha, it's alright to be worried about him."

"No, it's not!" She said loudly, lifting her head to look at the taller man, "In the line of work we are in, we have no time for distractions. Will had tried to stop me from doing my job down there because his feelings for me clouded his judgement!"