In the end, it's only us (Natasha x reader

It's all going to be okay *not

y/n pov

My wife is fast asleep in my arms but i can't sleep. I want to get back to work, trying to figure out everything so that everything lands with Natasha and she'll have a happy life. I can feel how it's growing closer, the surge of the curse coming to an end. The money, the properties, everything i have ever owned. It will all land in Natasha's custody, expect for a condo in Paris for Yelena, the condo i share with Loki will go fully to him and the jet, Loki will destroy it since it goes on tesseract energy.

Before i know it, i'm already halfway down back to the lab and workshop. I can't let it wait, not when it's so close. Running simulations in the workshop on Wanda's theory, no a single on results with the result we want. I get back to start another simulation even though it's around 5 am now when my music takes to an end. It's not the end of a playlist, since the list is over twelve hours long.

"What are you doing?" my wife's voice cuts through the air. It's not mad but not exactly loving.

"Just a thing that needs to be done" i say without turning to face her. She might be small and i might be stronger, but she still managed to scare me. Maybe not scare, but at the same time yes.

"Stop with the secrecy, you promised you'd stop with the secrets"

"It's not a secret per say, i just don't want to tell you until i know it'll work.

"Until what works?"

"You know what i'm doing Natasha, don't try to deny it. I know Frigga told you, then Loki as well when i was out with Wanda"

"You knew i knew? How?" she genuinely didn't think i didn't know. "Did Loki tell you?"

"No, he didn't have to. I could hear it in your mind myself when i came back to the room, it was the only question echoing in your head"

"But it's not even time for it yet, i mean, isn't it years left" and her gaze goes from hopeful to devastation in a second as she meets my gaze.

"It started when we went into that Hydra basement, ever since i've felt it. How my senses get weaker, my powers... our powers get weaker. Remember when i spilled boiling water over myself, yeah that hurt like it would a human."

"But what about in Asgard? I mean, you could use your powers there"

"Because it's Asgard, it heightens everything so everything went back to the way it should have."

"Then why don't we live there until we figure out a way" it's pure optimism in her voice as she takes a step towards me. "And this is stuff your supposed to tell me, immediately"

"I know, i just didn't want to worry you"

"Wait? Is that why you won't turn me until after the honeymoon, because you hope that you'll die before it" i just nod to the anger in her voice. "I'm sorry, but in the middle of the night you're up doing this."

"Natasha, please listen to me"

"I don't have the strength to fight with you anymore, i'm going back to bed" and she mumbles a 'goodnight' before walking out of the workshop with angry steps. And she's off to bed, again. Why can't things just be simple? Just for once in our life can something be easy.

"What would be the fun in that" a dark voice says and i realise that i had said that outloud. Without a single thought, a sword of hard ice extends my hands just as i turn to meet whoever's hiding in the shadows.

"Who are you?" i ask right out.

"Is that any way to greet your long lost husband, the love of your life?" he says, stepping out of the shadows and into the light of the workshop. Seeping his sparkling forest green eyes with his warm brown skin. Light brown skin, sunkissed. If it were for his eyes i might not have recognised him. A breath catches in my throat and the iced swords splitter onto the floor around me.

"Daniel?"

"Glad to see you remember who i am, i didn't at first"

"But... but who? What do you mean? How are you here, so young?" i almost stutter out my questions.

"I could say the same about you Y/n" he moves closer to me, looking into my blood red eyes. As he walks closer i can smell it off him, the stench that marks any wolf. The stench makes me take a step back against the worktable, not allowing me to go anywhere else. "I went looking for you, but you were gone"

"Y/n, i'm sorry for the way... who are you?" Natasha asks, coming back into the workshop. Gaze fixed on the small gap between me and him, the same gap that makes the hair on my arms rise. But i can see in her eyes that she's trying to place his face somewhere in her memories.

"I'll be right out with you моя луна и звезды, just wait in the kitchen"i say with a look of please. She's about to protest but i manage to change the energy left from Asgard and talk to her in her mind.

"I promise i'll tell you everything, answer every single question, just walk away right now" and if it weren't for the one retreating step i would have thought she hadn't heard me.

"Sure, don't be too long honey" she says, walking away even though she doesn't want to. But i guess that getting answer is better than getting nothing.

"Honey?" Daniel asks, looking back at me and i realise that she had used a nickname in english to make it clear to him about our relationship.

"She's my wife" and in a weak moment he raises his hand to slap me but i take a firm grip around his wrist before he even gets halfway. "I wouldn't do that if i were you" i would have said that only he'd get hurt but considering what i now know he is, it wouldn't be true.