Completed • First Draft - not edited. || "You gonna sit there all night?" Luka glances at me, smirking. I glare back. "I was enjoying the last few seconds of peace before having to spend an evening pretending to like you." "That's funny," he says, unbuckling his seatbelt. "Why?" I snap. "Because I was thinking the same thing." || The rules? Easy enough. 1. Pretend to be the perfect couple. 2. Keep it professional. 3. And whatever you do, don't. catch. feelings. Simple, right? Sofia Calloway never planned on going viral for throwing a drink in Luka Mikhaylov's face. But one video, one pissed-off hockey star, and one furious university later... she's suddenly stuck in a fake relationship with the guy she can't stand. He needs to clean up his image before the NHL draft. She needs the free tuition that comes with the deal. All they have to do is smile for the cameras, hold hands at the games, and act like they don't want to strangle each other. Then come the late-night arguments that last too long. The stolen glances that feel too dangerous. The moment where "pretend" starts looking way too real. Because when you break the rules, someone's bound to lose. And this time, it might be both of them.

(Natasha x Male Reader) Y/n was just a regular teenager, or at least so he thought. At the age of 4, his family moved out of New York and settled in a town where they lived a quiet life. Until, 12 years after moving, Y/n went on a school trip during which he had an accident that caused him turning into something more. He was gifted with superhuman abilities. With them, however, came a great curse. He began to lose people he cared about. Over and over again he saved the city, its inhabitants, each time sacrificing a part of himself in the process. Everything changed on the day he saved a certain redhead whose life was not much brighter than his own. Natasha was a girl abandoned by her parents (or so she thought) and from childhood raised in the blood-stained and hate-soaked walls of the Red Room. She was trained to be the world's best assassin, and everything indicated that she would succeed. That is, until 'that' mission on which she failed. However, it turned out to be her salvation. Afterward, she was sold to the KGB like a weapon, then abandoned on a mission. She began operating on the free market, performing paid assignments for various individuals and increasingly staining her hands with blood. Some times passed, and SHIELD. caught wind of her activities and decided to eliminate her. When her days seemed counted, she was saved by a man, whose life was as much painful as hers. Then, everything changed-or rather, he changed it. Regular updates. Once a week on Tuesday. (Currently on hold and under rewriting) The book contains origin stories of both Y/n gaining his powers and fighting the first villains and Natasha's time at the Red Room. It sticks to the events of the MCU, with some changes of course. This is my first story, and English is not my first language, so I'm sorry for any mistakes. Although it's a Male Reader story, it can be considered just as a SpiderWidow story. I do not own any rights to the characters or images used in this story.