"The SHEILD fam"
The shield fam
‘right’ Coulson declares walking into the Avengers living room ‘we have a mission for you’
‘whos we’ Tony asks, looking up form his hologram
‘as you might or might not be aware, I have a small team of SHEILD agents, some powered, some not who I have running missions, but we’ve stumbled among something big, bigger than we can handle, so we’re calling in reinforcements’
‘the avengers?’ Steve asks as Coulson sits down
‘yep’ he grins at his hero actually talking to him, but spins around when theres a loud groan from the corner.
Although Coulson never heard it hes sure it resembles a moose being hit with a tranquilizer. Natasha Romanoff finishes groaning, then moves the huge pile of blankets pretty much crushing her and ties her tangled up long red hair into a knot on the top of her head, then she stalks over to the coffee, walking in perfectly straight line to her goal, making Bruce jump out of the way in terror, and pours herself a cup, still death glaring the room in general, before sitting up onto the counter and tuning her glare to Coulon
‘well hurry up then’ she snaps and Coulson looks alarmed
‘don’t mind her’ Clint jumps up from where hed been lying upside down on the sofa ‘shes just annoyed because she hasn’t seen you know who’ he winks dramatically ‘recently’
‘ah’ Coulson’s eyes widen ‘wow, im surprised any of you are still alive’ he grins and Tony’s eyes narrow
‘whos you know who?’
‘no one’ Natasha snaps and gestures for Coulson to hurry up
‘okay well’ he passes around SHIELD mission files to Clint, Bruce, Steve, Tony and Natasha ‘it’s a simple search and rescue, then blowing the base, its more how huge the compound is that we’re pulling you in. we’ve got it all planned out, we’ll rendezvous at the Playground at 1600 hours’ he nods once and Natasha’s eyes suddenly light up
‘the playground?’ she asks in disbelief starting to genuinely smile for one the first times Tonys and Steve have ever seen (and Bruce too, but we can forget about him for a while, the author probably will and hell vanish into the background until I come up with a witty one liner for his character)
‘yes, the playground’
‘wheres that’ Tony asks, already searching the web for it
‘is it a Shield base?’ Steve asks and Coulson nods
‘one of Fury’s old bases, totally confidential though, so Romanoff and Barton will be in charge of flying there and back’
‘they’re there though?’ Natasha check and Coulson grins
‘they’re there, they’ll be waiting for you’
‘thank god’ Natasha grins ‘can we leave any earlier? When is the soonest everyone can get ready?’
There’s a general murmuring of ‘soon’ and ‘whos they’ and ‘why the hell is Natasha smiling for the first time in at least a month’ and Natasha nods
‘be quick or be dead’ she orders, and promptly jumps into the vents (much to Clints annoyance he likes to think hes unique in his adoration of them) and crawls away
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Surprising no one Natasha is the first one of the quinjet, then she jumps around, yelling at people to hurry up and move their asses and get on the jet as quickly as possible until they’re finally in the air, then she goes dead silent
‘what is shes forgotten me?’ she whispers to clint as she curls up ono the second pilot seat, pulling the cockpit door closed behind her
‘she wont have nat, you literally talked to her a few nights ago’
‘I know, but still I haven’t seen her in like a month Clint, she might have moved on’
‘Its maria, she loves you’ Clint tries
‘but shes been away a while, and shes always working-she couldn’t talk to me last night because she was working-oh my god!’ Natasha suddenly sits up straight on her chair
‘what if shes sleeping with Bobbi!’ he looks at Clint which so much shock and pain in her eyes that clint has to stop himself laughing
‘she was working late night on this mission, she would never cheat on you’
‘uh huh’ Natasha replies, but Clint knows hes lost her to her own mind, probably imagining all the terrible things that could have happened in the month since she’d been her finacee
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‘wow’ is the first thing tony says when they land in the huge hangar
‘hello’ Coulson walks out of the door to the left ‘glad you made it here in time-this is agent May’
‘yeah yeah shes scary and will kick your ass’ Natasha stalks straight past him ‘lets get to it’
‘allright’ Coulson grins airily happily following Natasha’s quick walks, leaving the rest of the Avengers trailing after, trying to keep up and shooting each other confused looks the entire time, steve using his long legs to keep up easily-doing 3 strides to every one of Natasha’s, Bruce walking like a ballerina, spinning on the spot as he walks taking in the secret underground base and Clint skipping along, mocking natasha as she beelines to the lounge where she stops suddenly in the door. Tony sighs loudly
‘all of this for Belova?’ he groans and turns to Clint ‘I sacrificed a nice juicy American meatball sandwich to fly over here so Romanoff would see her sister who she pretends to hate’
‘no not Yelena’ Clint whispers, as the blonde turns around, spots Nat’s frozen place and sticks her tongue out ‘look-‘
And then tonys eyes side round the room, theres loads of people there to be fair- three young people sitting on the sofa discussing something animatedly, a tall blonde woman and two men fighting it out on the x-box and back in the far corner a woman watching it all.
Maria Hill barely has time to register whos standing at the door before Bobbi shouts
‘Hill!’ and she spins around in time to stand up, open her arms and catch Natasha Romanoff.
The Avengers watch as Natasha throws herself at the Commander, flying at her with such force that maria only just catches her and stumbles backwards slightly. Natasha octopuses around her, wrapping her arms and her legs tight around her, burying her face in her neck
‘Tailia!’ Maria shouts, It becoming muffled as Natashas hair almost choaks her
‘Masha’ Natasha cries into her neck and Maria rebalances herself, standing up and holding on tight to Natasha, who shes still carrying, wrapped around her waist
‘you’re here’ she whispers and lowers her legs, standing on her tip toes and running her hands through marias hair, from the roots to the frayed, tired ends
‘im here’ maria repeats and then she cant really breathe properly because Natasha is kissing her and she kissing Natasha and their breaths mingle together with the thud of blood in her ears and Nat’s tears, salty on her cheeks
‘woah’ Tony’s jaw drops and Steve’s ears turn bright red
‘I did not see that coming’ Bruce whispers, slowly turning around, Coulson just shrugs
‘didn’t know you guys didn’t know’ he says easily as Clint laughs
‘Its Nat, of course she kept this secret’
‘and what is… this… exactly?’ Tony asks, waving to where the couple are still kissing, until May walks up to them and pats Nat’s shoulder
‘allright, break it up you too’ she says and bobbi laughs
‘May cant handle all the PDA’
‘that was PDA on another level’ Hunter snorts into his beer as Maria death glares him, which still has a huge effect even though her hair is undone and the black widow is still wrapped around her
‘I missed you too’ she whispers to Nat who looks up, talking in every millimetre of her face
‘I was scared you’d forget me’ she shrugs then looks at Bobbi ‘or I thought you cheated on me with Morse’
‘What?’ Maria pulls away from her ‘you thought id cheat on you with bobbi’ she asks as Natasha turns pink
‘well I haven’t seen you in ages and Bobbis… hot and I just thought…’ she trails off as Bobbi smirks at Maria
‘no, definitely not’ she says and Maria agrees
‘I have not slept with bobbi, I promise, I never will’
‘okay, I think we’re saying never a bit too fast’ Morse immediately cuts in ‘we did just agree im hot right?’
‘yes’ Maria and Nat roll their eye and reply in tandem
‘Allright then so us’ she motions between her and maria ‘isnt that unlikely to happen’
‘im getting out of tis conversation before theres blood shed’ maria takes a step back and nat glares at Bobbi
‘shes mine’
‘allright allright, but I could totally pull maria is she weren’t dating you. Agreed?’ Bobbi checks and Natasha considers for a moment
‘fair. But if you ever make a move on her ill kill you’ she smiles politely but even tony feels the hair on the back of his neck stand on edge as her eyes go dark
‘deal’ bobbi stick out her hand and natasha shakes it, then pulls her in for a hugs
‘Ive missed you too Mockingbird’
Bobbi laughs ‘no one calls me that enymore черная вдова’ she replies and Nat shrugs
‘I do sestra’ she winks ‘and I always will’
‘hey who are you calling sestra!’ Yelena shouts, standing up and pulling the hair tie out of the end of nats neat braid to annoy her
‘hey give it back!’ nat yells, grabbing the quickly unwinding plait with one hand and trying to bat the bobble back form her sister with the other
‘no way’ Yelena sticks out her tongue and throws it to bobbi, who sprints out the way of maria whos reached out to snatch it
At the door the Avengers are still frozen, with the exception of Clint, whose joined Yelena and bobbis side of the battle against Natasha Maria and May.
‘my god’ Steve whispers ‘Maria and natasha?’
‘Maria and Natasha’ Coulson confirms
‘They’ve been together for a while?’ tony asks and Coulson nods again
‘since 2012, you were just too blind to see’
‘or maybe we were looking in the wrong place’ Steve replies, letting his gaze rolls from where their commander is pinning Yelena on the floor to where Natasha is trying to use Clint as a climbing frame to grab the bobble he is holding as high as he can, the end of the braid in her teeth as she garbles some messy threats.