malignant (Natasha X Reader)

part 28|miss me?|

SONG OF THE CHAPTER: The Night We Met - Lord Huron

Going out with Wanda had helped Nat more than she was expecting. She was almost back to normal the next day. Obviously, she still paid the occasional visits to her girlfriend but continued to do what she would on a normal day.

The assassin had just finished training with Wanda when she went to her room to change

Natasha walked into the medical room at about midday to check up on Y/n.

She sat down in her usual chair and held the girl's hand. She kept thinking about the fact that a few years ago, she would never have thought she'd be showing emotion. Never had even thought she'd be dating someone, especially since she thought she was incapable of love.

"I love you Y/n." She said as she lowered her head, looking at the ground. "I miss you."

There was silence for a while.

"You miss me, huh?" A familiar voice said.

Natasha looked up with glossy eyes, only to be met with a smirking Y/n.

"Y/n!" Natasha shrieked and got up to hug her.

Y/n gladly returned the hug.

"Careful you'll probably hurt" Natasha warned

"Can't feel it, don't worry."

"I'm so happy you're awake."

"How long was I gone for? I haven't died." She laughed.

"About 4 and a half days."

"Ah. That was definitely not intentional."

"Bruce said you hadn't slept in ages. He said you were sleep deprived. Why were you not sleeping Y/n?"

Y/n just laughed and brushed away her hair.

"I'm serious. You turn up and collapse with a bullet wound and multiple bruises and cuts and then I find out you hadn't been sleeping beforehand?" She said rubbing the brunette's hand with a frown.

Y/n isn't usually scared of many things but this scared her.

"I guess I was having nightmares."

"You can tell me about them, you know, you don't have to keep them to yourself. I'll always listen."

"Thank you." She replied with a thankful smile.

Y/n sat up and ripped out the tubes inserted into her arms.

"Y/n"

"I'm fine Nat"

"Okay. Here," she said offering her hand to help her off the bed.

She took it gladly and stood up. Moving her free hand Y/n placed it on Nat's cheek and kissed her.

"Thank you for your support," the brunette said with a smile and her hand still on the girl's cheek.

"Always," Nat said with a smile.

"Now if you'll excuse me, I am in need of freshening myself up a bit. See you in a bit? I still need to explain myself to the team."

"Okay," she laughed, "see you soon."

They both parted ways. Y/n heading to her room. She walked into the bathroom, catching a glimpse of herself in the mirror. She looked like shit. She understood that she'd been asleep for ages but she just simply looked disgusting.

Quickly getting into the shower, the girl made sure she couldn't see herself for much longer, not being able to wait until she could get changed.

Once finished, she left her room in some casual clothes and her hair in plaits.

Stygian entered the kitchen, being heavily stared at by everyone in the room.

"Afternoon." She said saluting with two fingers and a smirk. Also walking off to get some food and something to drink.

"Good afternoon miss Y/n! How are you?" Thor spoke from his seat.

"Fine, thank you. Felt like I've slept for a million years."

"So...Y/n..." Tony piped up.

"I was on a run. I'd pushed myself to run until I was exhausted until Hydra found me and shot me. They tried to capture me so I ran okay. I had already lost a lot of blood and there were too many guards to fight after having exhausted myself already."

"Wait hydra is still active? I thought we destroyed the last base?"

"Cut off one head. Two more shall take its place."

"Y/n..." Natasha said from the corner of the room with an unexplainable look.

"Zola. You're quoting Zola." Steve said, most likely expressing whatever Natasha was thinking.

"Did you meet his program when you took down Shield?"

By this time most of the Avengers had gathered around, all of them were certainly interested.

"Did you know Zola?"

"I had my connections." She said sipping her water.

"Hang on." Tony interrupted. "How much do you know about how Hydra operates?"

"Woah, deja vu. It's like we've gone back in time to when I first came here." She said not taking the situation seriously.

"Not the time, Y/n," Natasha spoke from the corner.

"Right. Sorry. But I don't know that much. They kept it a secret from their soldiers. Because they knew that sending them out into the world they always had the risk of them being captured."

"So you know nothing?" Clint responded

"Pretty much. Although..." she got lost in thought.

"Although?"

"It'll be hard to get rid of Hydra. You might think that you got rid of them but there's someone at the top. Someone that, even the people you have killed who you thought were at the top, don't know who they are."

"Brilliant."

Y/n could tell the mood had plummeted since she spoke. She couldn't help it, however. They wanted to know the truth and they got it.