Is This Love? (UNDER EDIT)

Chapter 13 - Spiked

Nat's POV

As long as I'm around, I'm going to try and protect you to the best of my abilities. You are my amazing baby girl, and I love you so much. Don't you ever forget that.

I woke up slowly, with a warm fuzzy feeling in my chest. My eyes fluttered open and I started to adjust to the light. I felt warm which was unusual considering I am usually very cold when I wake up. It was once my eyes adjusted to the light that I figured out why that was. I was currently curled up to Steve, our limbs entangled with each other.

A mixture of feelings erupted in my chest. I felt safe, warm, happy, a little scared and there was one other feeling that I couldn't quite identify. As I came to my senses I realized that I needed to get out of his embrace but unfortunately in the process of getting out of his vice grip, I managed to wake him up as well.

I felt my cheeks flush with embarrassment as I realized that Steve would also see us like this. Well, this has been a very different start to the morning.

"Good morning Nat." he greeted, still very groggy. He then realized the position that we were both in and also blushed before pulling away and letting me out of his embrace. For humility's sake, I was glad, but there was a small part of me that yearned to just curl back up in his arms and enjoy those feelings again. But instead, I ignored all of my feelings and got up out of bed, bidding good morning to Steve before I walked into the bathroom and got ready for the day.

When I came back out 20 minutes later, I found Steve already ready on the couch. He looked up from the book he was reading and gave me a once over before booking marking his page and standing up.

"Took you long enough. Now we have a breakfast to get to." he quipped. I rolled my eyes in response as we both headed towards the door.

"Well, you try having to wear a short dress and having to strap 20 different weapons on out of sight," I replied giving him a stern look. We may be in a vacation hotspot but we still have a mission. A mission that involves taking down some seriously bad guys. There is no way that I am going to be caught unprepared.

We decided to walk to the restaurant this time as the view was amazing and we could both use the exercise, as our usual training regimens were thrown out the window. 10 minutes later we arrived at the restaurant, again welcomed by some of the friendly staff. We were ushered to a seat and were immediately served an array of different delectable foods.

At this rate, I am going to be lucky if I fit into my catsuit, come time for the mission. I will have to remember to either take a really long swim or run later today to burn it all off.

"I don't know about you Nat but I could really go for a juice right now, would you like one?" he asked kindly before kissing my cheek to keep up the married act.

"How about I come with you love cause I have no idea what I want to order," I said adding extra emphasis on the word love as an employee walked past us.

We stood up and walked over to the man that was working at the Juice bar and took some time to decide what we wanted to order.

"Hello, can we please get one orange juice and one watermelon smoothie please," Steve ordered before paying for the juices with the disguised SHIELD credit card.

Within a few minutes, we were served our drinks and sat down at one of the bars to drink them.

Steve's POV

We had just gotten our drinks and sat down to drink them when Natasha forcefully grabbed my drink out of my hands, spilling a little on the counter.

"Natasha, what are you doing?" I exclaimed, caught off guard by the sudden action. I glared over at Nat and found her studying my drink carefully.

"You ordered an orange juice right?" She asked not taking her eyes off of the glass. What was she on about? Huffing, I answered her anyway.

"Yes I did, now care to explain why you just snatched said orange juice out of my hands." I inquired. She just rolled her eyes and looked at me like I was the biggest moron in the world.

"Orange juices are made of orange, water, and sugar which would make them a flat drink. This one is fizzy." She informed taking a sniff of the drink "It doesn't smell like orange juice either. It has been spiked with..." she said, taking a funny-looking stick out of her pocket and putting it in the drink. I looked at the weird object, then back at her with a confused look. She just shrugged in reply.

"Never can be too prepared. Anyway, the drink contains some sort of dissolvable tablet which means we have a date with that bartender." She finished before walking over to the bartender and tackling him to the ground quietly as to not draw attention to them both.

I just watched her as she whispered something into the man's ear making him go pale. They both got up and then she dragged him out of the restaurant and started off in the direction of our cabin. I quickly got up from the stool and followed them. What she said to the man, I may never know, but it was enough to get him to follow her orders.

Once she got back to the villa she dragged him inside threw him on the couch before pointing a gun at him. I locked the door behind us to ensure that no one walked in on this as it would completely blow our cover.

"Talk now, or you are going to have a bullet through your head." She threatened menacingly causing the man to gulp.

"My name is Ronaldo, Ronaldo Warner and I work for Raydh. I was tasked to infiltrate the resort and make sure that if there were any form of threats to the deal, I would take them out immediately." He squeaked.

"Does anyone else know that we are here and you said deal? When will this deal be taking place?" She demanded pressing the barrel of the gun harder into Ronaldo's head causing the man to gulp again.

"I-in exactly two weeks. The minerals will be handed over at 7:00pm at the west dock. That's all I know." He squeaked getting paler by the second. The next thing I knew Natasha punched him in the head knocking him out instantly. Wow, that is going to leave a shiner.

Nat turned to me, "He will be out cold for now and I have alerted SHIELD to come and pick up this man and take him for further questioning, we have all of the information we need." She said.

"How do we know he isn't lying?" I asked causing Nat to smirk.

"Trust me, after what I said to him, he was definitely telling the truth." She replied confidently, scaring me a little. Gosh, she can be intimidating when she wants to be.

"Well in that case I guess we can actually relax and enjoy the next two weeks now that we have all of the information we need," I said happily, a smile spreading onto my face. She smiled back in reply before handcuffing the man to the table and heading to the bathroom.

Well now that we can actually relax, I am going to make the most of the next two weeks and I'm going to make sure that Nat does too.