"Your hands are scarred from murder, and yet, I trust them completely." Her words ended and she stopped breathing. The red haired girl I had come to love, too late, was gone. As I took the dead spider into my arms, I heard the sound barrier break. Looking up, I saw the S.H.I.E.L.D hella-carrier prepare for landing in the field stained red with the blood of my beloved. I bent over and her body and started to sing the song she used to sing to her brother. The crunch was so deafening in the silence as Nick Fury stepped on my Winter Soldier mask. He didn't look very happy and neither did the two dozen men surrounding me with blasters trained at my head. Fury made one swift movement with his hand and two men strapped handcuffs to me and lifted me to my feet. As they led me to their flying prison, I turned around and whispered one last thing to her, "Mne zhal..." I'm sorry. ~~~~ Agent Natasha Romanoff and James (Bucky) Barnes are rewritten into a romantic action set after Captain America Civil War. This is one of the ways the story could have gone if Bucky had been blamed for the assassination of the king of Wakanda.

Natalia Romanova was one of 28 Black Widows in the Red Room, trained by the Winter Soldier. After graduating, Natalia was sent on a few missions with him, leading them both to choose something that made them feel human. They were punished for that, in different ways. Years later, Bucky Barnes admits to her that he remembers everything. But what exactly does that entail?

Natasha should have known it was too much to expect her life to be normal (too many people know who she is now), but she's going to take a break from it all for a while. Live a nice quiet life being haunted by her past. Until she comes home to find a ghost with a metal arm sitting at her table, and has to face who he is. And who she is.

He has nothing. He lets Steve take him home, meets Natasha and Sam. Everyone tries to help, but no one understands, and he cannot find the words. His memories return when he dreams and he finally finds a reason to speak. (One-shot, implied Winter/Widow).

Natasha Romanoff goes to live in Avengers Tower when everyone else does, even if that includes a certain metal-armed assassin who has shot her twice. She's less than thrilled when he starts going on missions with them, but he's an excellent partner. It's almost as though he knows what she's going to do, and she begins to become suspicious that there may be more to their past than she remembers.

This is a sequel to Red Winter. I didn't plan on writing a sequel but here it is! Again, the events transpire in a timeline where they've restored everything after defeating Thanos and reversing the effects of the snap. This is focused on Natasha, Bucky and Steve only. I have always appreciated the dynamics of Steve and Natasha's relationship even if there is no romance in it. And I often wonder how Natasha and Bucky would interact in the present considering their past. Again, I don't own Marvel and any of its characters. Just like you I daydream what happens between the fades in and fades out, between the end of the movie, its mid-credits scene and end-credit scene. And this is the result, one of the results. I hope you enjoy and do leave a comment or vote :) Thanks!

It's been almost two years since the defeat of Thanos & the effects of the snap was successfully reversed. The world has slowly picked up the pieces & everyone worked hard to resume their lives right off where the Decimation left them hanging. Some succeeded, as easily as pressing the play button after putting a movie on a long pause, while some were never the same again despite regaining everything and everyone they have lost. The Avengers were the lucky ones. Lucky enough to go back to their normal or fortunate enough to be given a fresh start. Tony & Pepper got married & jetted off in a private island to finally start their long overdue family life. Sam moved back to D.C & resumed his work at the VA. Rhodey continued working as a military consultant & Wakanda has never been more occupied as it became the number one tourist spot in less then a year. Clint went back to retirement tugging Wanda along with him to his farm where Laura welcomed her with open arms. Thor & Bruce were off-planet helping the remaining Asgardians settle on a new home. Fury rebuilt his super spy network with Maria overseeing operations at the Avengers Facility, recruiting, training a new breed of response team. And Steve finally got Bucky back & they have spent the past year back in Brooklyn, traveling the world once in a while & even participating in USO tours and fairs. Everyone tried to move on and rightly so because at the end of the day, that's pretty much what's expected of everyone after any tragedy. Natasha, too has moved on. The only problem is, she chose to move on alone. * I don't own any of these characters or wish to infringe on any copy or intellectual rights. I'm just someone who has a deep love for the MCU that I can't help but try to keep the story going, keep these characters alive in more adventures, especially with 'endgame' hovering, looming over us.*

Bucky Barnes is finally starting to get back bits of his past with the help of Shuri, but it is jumbled and unclear. As he attempts to sort them, he struggles to put the pieces together to get his memories back and see what, if anything, was good about the life he had wiped away from him. As his dreams start reveal more detail, Bucky thinks he recognizes someone he's just getting to know now. Is it actually a memory or is he is trying to put together something that was never there? This is Book 1 in the Untangling series. Chapters for Book 2 - Untangling a Future - already being posted! Dec 2020 - #1 in #buckynat Feb 2021 - #1 in #buckynat Mar 2021 - #1 in #buckynat Apr 2021 - #1 in #buckynat May 2021 - #1 in #buckynat Jun 2021 - #1 in #buckynat Jul 2021 - #1 in #buckynat Aug 2021 - #1 in buckynat

Natasha has been on her own for a while now, and is fine with that. Life much less complicated when she's alone. Bucky is out of cryo and working with Steve, trying to reconnect with the world and find his place in it. When the two meet again in Odessa, both will have to decide what they really want. (sequel to "Everybody Else's Girl" and "Real Man")

Set after Endgame, Natasha's family continue to struggle with her death. Her absence has created a gigantic hole in their lives. A look into how Natasha's closest friends deal with their individual and collective loss and how she continues to fight to keep her family together even in death.