The Three Mates

Nat and Wanda stood guard over their love’s sleeping form. The longer y/n slept the more worried the alphas became. The waiting was torturous, the uncertainty unbearable, and the silence defining. Wanda’s magic was swirling beneath the surface of her skin, just as Natasha’s electricity was buzzing beneath hers. 

Nat’s focus was on y/n watching everything, watching every intake of breath move her omega’s chest up and down and up and down, watching the lines on the monitor beat in rhythm with the heart in Y/n’s chest, watching every twitch and flit of her mates’s eyes beneath the surface of her closed eyelids move, all in the hopes that her unconscious mate would wake and she wouldn't miss it. Her concentration was finally interrupted when Wanda let go of her hand.

“I'm going to go for a run. I'll tell the others in the waiting room to head to dinner or to bed, and then I think I'm going to go make us some sandwiches or something, we’ve missed lunch. Y/n won’t want us missing meals.” wanda said, her voice small and gaze distant.

Nat studied her alpha mate, the twitching hands, the shifting of her feet, the worry lines etched into her brow she needed something to do, something to occupy her mind and hands. She needed a distraction. Has it really been that long? The hours had simultaneously flown by and dragged on as they sat waiting for Y/n to open her eyes again. “Okay, I'll link you if there's any change with her”.

As Wanda left the room Nat used her now free hand to the neckline of y/n’s hospital gown. She softly caressed her mate’s bruised neck wishing she could make the mottled handprints disappear like she was able to do with her own body. Then her hand moved up to cup the omega’s face. She lowered her forehead to Y/n’s and whispered “ wake up soon Detka, we miss you” Nat closed her eyes and placed a feather light kiss on the cheek beneath her. She lifted her head again and moved her hand to the neckline of y/n’s gown and moved it downward just enough to reveal her mate’s soul mark that lay over her heart.

 Y/n didn't show her mark much after what had happened to her, after it was the reason she’d been targeted and needed saving, just as Natasha and Wanda concealed theirs so that no one could ever again use one of them to go after the other two. Sure, they’d been spotted together, but the public was only aware of the pack relationship shared between the two avengers and the omega, though most were admittedly confused as to why a powerless omega was in their pack. Even though the omega kept the mark hidden from the public, Natasha knew she cherished it as much as she did.

Nat admired the mark they shared. A black widow with a red mark on its thorax, on a red web of magic all encased in the black outline of a heart. It was rare for soulmarks to be bi colored, but it made sense for them. The red in the magic web matched the widow’s red  mark while the black widow itself matched the outline of the heart. All three interwoven and connected with each other to make the perfect mark.  Just as the three mates were a perfect match, each needed to perfectly complete the others.

When nat had first realized that the heart represented her omega mate, she thought it meant that she was theirs to love and care for, but she soon realized that y/n was more than that. Yes she was theirs to love, care for and protect, but y/n was also there to heal them, to love them like no other, to complete them like the borders of the heart completed the mark. She was everything to them as they were everything to her. All three of them needed each other. 

The Mark was precious to the widow, it spoke of a connection that even time and death could not break. It was a promise that they would always find each other again and again no matter what the odds. Reverently, she placed her hand over it, and closed her eyes, letting the rise and fall of her mate’s chest calm her.

After a few more minutes went by Natasha gingerly climbed on to the bed. She got on her side and delicately slid her arm under her mate’s neck as she tucked y/n’s head under her chin and draped her free arm over her body, her hand right back over the mark they shared. Nat breathed in deeply. Y/n smelled like sunshine, a sky that held all the colors of the earth, warm and inviting but not hot. She longed to see her omega’s entrancing Blue eyes again, to hear her voice and to feel her loving touch. 

It had been a long day of worrying and Natasha didn't realize how mentally and physically drained she was. After only a few minutes of being on the hospital bed with her omega in her arms she fell asleep. 

Not long after that she woke with a sudden jolt of panic to the blaring of the heart monitor in the room. She pulled back quickly to try and take stock of what was happening to her omega even though her own heart had decided to match the crazed pace the monitor was tracking. 

Y/n’s breath was erratic, coming out in short bursts as she thrashed her head from side to side. Her eyes were dancing under their lids as she brokenly whimpered out “nooo. N.noo.” Sweat was gathered on her brow and she was unconsciously pumping out scared pheromones into the air.

Once the Alpha realized what was happening, she hugged her omega, rocked her, and started pumping out calming pheromones of her own. “shhhh it's okay Detka, it's just a dream. It's not real. You are safe. You're safe. You're safe.”

When Nat got y/n to calm down from her dream, Y/n finally opened her eyes. “Natty?” she whimpered out. She was in a lot of pain, her back, side, and neck hurt and her head was killing her. unfocused eyes slowly looked up and met shining forest green ones. 

Nat gazed into the watery dazed eyes of her omega. A million emotions were swirling within her scared, worried, comfort, relief, but the most prominent of them was happiness. Her mate was finally awake! “ I'm here y/n.”

she could see pain, discomfort and fear behind y/n’s eyes though, which kicked nat’s thoughts into high gear. Her mate needed a doctor. She needed to link Bruce to look her over, and evaluate and help her. And she needed to contact Wanda to get back here. And Y/n was probably hungry, but she was definitely in pain so Bruce. Bruce first. “Banner, y/n is awake, and she's in pain”

“I'm on my way alpha”

“It’s too bright” the omega whined.

Nat felt Y/n put her face in the crook of her neck as she linked her other mate “Wands, where are you?! It's Y/n, she”

Wanda immediately stopped her run and interrupted her alpha as she started running back the way she came “is she okay?! I'm on my way! I'm maybe ten to fifteen minutes out. I'm coming back. I should have just stayed !” 

“Dorogoy, she woke up, Banner walked into the room and is examining her right now” Nat said as she watched the examination take place before her.

After a few minutes, Dr Banner easily finished his exam with a light to Y/n’s eyes which she did not like. He’d been satisfied with the answers she'd given to his questions and was confident she would make a full recovery with time and rest. He turned towards the alpha and smiled “ okay y/n looks like you definitely do have a concussion,I'm going to give you something to help with the pain, and I’m going to dim the lights a bit okay?” the man said, making y/n nod in reply.

“ He's giving her something for the pain she's in. She woke because of a nightmare and thrashed around in her sleep. She aggravated her ribs and back and well her head is definitely killing her, but she wants to see you”  the alpha relayed.

“ is..is she going to be okay Tasha? Is she.. Is her brain.. Did it” 

“ She's going to be okay Wands. She is going to be okay” the alphas reassuring voice chimed in her mate’s head. 

“Oh thank God” Wanda was beyond relieved, but she still wanted to get there quickly. She had shifted for the run and was thundering through the trees to get to both her mates. She was easily able to move low hanging beaches out of her way with her magic as she ran and in a few minutes was using it to throw open the doors in her path once she entered the compound. In her haste she didn't even bother with the elevator or shifting back. She knew she was faster in wolf form and knew she'd get there faster if she flew up the staircase to the medical floor.

Wanda didn't slow as she made her way down the hallway and to her mates. The door to the room was closed to her and she cringed as a loud ‘bang’ sounded through the room as she used her magic to carelessly open it for herself. she stood at the entrance of the door and took in the sight of her omega finally awake before her making her tail wag of it's own accord.

“Max!”