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YOUR POV
It was about 3am now you had decided to read a book after cleaning up when Nat fell asleep. That ended up with you reading 3 books instead of one. You had gotten bored after finishing the last book and decided to grab one of your coloring books you stashed away behind a flower pot. Being the indecisive person you are you sat there for 20 minutes debating on what to color. Finally you chose a rose, it had made you think is Natalia liked roses. Half way through coloring you heard some noise coming from your room. Dropping everything you rushed over and opened the door to see nothing but Nat moving reaching her arm around to find an empty space next to her. You tried not to smile thinking it was funny that she was looking for you. "Y/N?" She called out while still keeping her eyes closed. "Yes Natalia?" You responded trying to figure out why she didn't just go back to sleep. "It's creepy to watch people when they sleep." She huffed and started to move and lay on her back. "Well if I'm correct I've only been standing here for 30 seconds and that was to make sure you were ok." I said scoffing and rolling my eyes even though she couldn't see me do it. "I'm cold." She claimed while turning to face me this time opening her eyes. "I'll go turn up the heat and grab more blankets." Turning to go towards the hallway but before I could even make it two steps she called for me again, "I want you to lay with me." You were a little taken back by this you never expected her to find comfort in you. "Only if you promise to take your ass back to sleep." Moving towards the side of the bed starting to get under the covers. "I promise." She said while moving closer to lay on your chest and snuggle next to you. "Have you slept at all?" She whispered while trying not to drift off just yet. "No but I'll be fine. Sleep now Nat I'll be here when you wake up." Looking down at her and smiling. Nodding her head she got comfortable and not even 2 minutes later she was fast asleep in your arms. You could hear her heart beat and it was comforting of some sort. Even though your heart hadn't had a beat in years you felt yourself trying to match her breaths. Closing your eyes you tried to just dream of what it would be like with Nat if you guys had a normal life. After a while you couldn't stop thinking so you decided to get up and finish coloring the rose you had started without waking the red head that was next to you up. It was 5am now and normally you would go on a run even though you didn't need too but decided against it because you didn't feel comfortable leaving Nat here by herself, knowing she could take down anyone who came near her. This wasn't gonna work anymore you really needed to fix your sleep schedule, your boredom was never ending and it was gonna kill you. Plopping on the couch after finishing coloring you decided to watch some cartoons. The only thing on was Looney Toons and it was your favorite. If this played all day long you'd never leave this spot. Acting like a child sometimes just helped you escape when you had things on your mind, it wasn't a good habit. It reminded you to enjoy life and what you have now because it could be gone in an instant as quickly as it came to you. When you finally snapped out fo your fantasy it was about 6:30am, Nat would probably be up soon so you decided to run to the café down the street and pick up some breakfast because you didn't have anything in your fridge besides blood and water. Hopefully Nat likes dark coffee with a little bit of sugar and the breakfast sandwich you got her. If she didn't you'd make it up to her and take her out to go get something she enjoyed. When you came back it was very silent in the house and it seemed as if Nat was still asleep. "Natasha! Are you up?" Closing the door and placing the food on the counter in the kitchen. When you got no response you went to check your bedroom to see if she was there and to your surprise she was in a towel and was dripping water on the floor. "Ahh Nat put some clothes on!" Covering your eyes to be respectful. "Oh sorry I used the shower because you weren't here. Hope you don't mind..." She replied nervously while walking towards you. "You can open your eyes you know, I have a towel on." She scoffed while you took your hand away from your eyes and laughed. "Hurry up and get dressed I brought you breakfast." You shot back while trying to get out of there before you started staring at her uncontrollably. About 10 Minutes had passed and finally Nat had come out fully clothed but decided to put your sweatshirt back on. You silently laughed to yourself and handed her food and coffee. "Thank you." Taking a sip right after she got a hold of the coffee. Maybe it was a bad idea to get her coffee she seems like a caffeine addict. "Did I do a good job?" You questioned making sure you didn't get her something she wouldn't like. "For the most part yes." Scarfing down the breakfast sandwich. "Damn what part did I mess up on?" Questioning confused on how I messed up on something simple. "I woke up in bed alone this morning..." wiping her face and throwing her trash away as she walked back towards me. "Oh sorry Natalia I just couldn't lay there I get very anxious I guess you would call it. I get very bored quickly and always have to something to do." Trying to sound a sincere as possible not wanting to upset her. "It's ok let's just get back to the Tower, Clint is probably looking for me right about now." She said dropping the subject, you reluctantly agreed and grabbed your keys and your boxes and put 4 of them in your car and 3 in Nat's car. Almost forgot the most important thing, blood bags. You didn't want to take from the medical wing at the tower in case someone needed it so you cleared out the whole fridge and put it in a special cooler. "Hey Nat can you fit one more in your car?" Holding a white cooler and walking towards her. "Sure what is it though...?" She seemed concerned as why I had a cooler. "Blood." I responded putting it in the front seat. "Great." She responded sarcastically while getting into her car and rolling the windows down. "I'll race you to the tower." I shouted while getting into my car. "I doubt you'll win but you're on." She shouted while starting to drive away. What she didn't know was that a knew a short cut that would get me there in 10 minutes instead of 20 well in this case 15 because Nat was kind of a reckless driver. As I pulled up to the tower in the 10 minutes it took me to get here I decided to wait for Natasha to show up. Finally when it hit the 15 minute mark she pulled up right next to me and looked at me confused on how she got beat. "There's no way you beat me here." She shouted while slamming her car door upset that she lost. "Oh but there is princess, took the short cut which cuts the time in half." Pushing of your car while grabbing the boxes out of it. "You cheater." She snapped and went to the passenger side to grab the other boxes. "Well we can always race up to our floor." Winking at her while walking towards the elevator. "Nope. Not falling for that." She said joining me as we laughed inside the elevator and dropping my things off before going back down to grab the rest. After everything was in my room I thanked Natasha for everything then went and plopped on my bed before remembering that I needed to talk to Stevie. You went and knocked on his door but got no answer, "Steve are you in there?" Calling out to him thinking he was still asleep. Peaking through the door because it was unlocked you didn't see him either so you decided to check the training room and he wasn't there either only Clint. "Hey Clint have you seen Steve I checked his room and he's not there." You asked the older man who was going at it at the punching bag. He stopped and turned to look at you confused on why you were asking him. "No I haven't actually I haven't seen Tony either. Or Nat but I'm guessing you had something to do with that one." He said scoffing to himself. "Yeah sorry about that we kinda got caught up." Sounding as sincere as possible because this is Natasha's best friend. "Hurt her and I'll hurt you." Trying to sound threatening as possible but it didn't even work. "I doubt that but Nat and I are just friends there is nothing to worry about." Reassuring the protective Avenger that he had nothing to worry about. "Thank you anyways I'll go find them." Rushing out of the training room to get out of the awkward situation. Instead of going to find Steve and Tony you actually decided to go find Natalia instead. Maybe she would stay and spend the day with you again. Even though last night wasn't a date it felt like it and you wanted more days like that with her. Hopefully next time you can actually stay in bed with her.