Fated Marks

“Miss Adams it is time to get up.” Jarvis woke me up.

“Mh, five more minutes Jarvis.” Tony said pulling me closer and kissing my neck.

“Snooze.” I said turning around and kissing him. After our make out session last night we had both fallen asleep in bed.

“Miss Adams I should remind you, you haven’t finished packing.” Jarvis said.

“Uh, right.” I said sitting up.

“Jarvis, start the coffee maker.” Tony said sitting up.

“Just need to pull that dress out, a few of those shoes and done.” I said zipping up my suitcase.

“Feeling better?” Tony asked.

“Yeah.” I said. “I need to get dressed.”

“See you upstairs.” He said kissing me before heading out of the room. I looked through my closet and picked out a plain white flowy racerback top and some stretchy black jeans topped with a cardigan and a scarf.

I slipped on some white tennis shoes and headed upstairs for breakfast.

“Coffee.” Tony said putting a cup in front of me.

“Thanks I think I’m just going to grab a muffin. Not really hungry.” I said.

“I’ll drive you to the airport.” Tony said.

“You sure? I can just take a cab.” I said.

“I have a meeting close by anyway.” Tony said.

“We should get going then.” I said.

One quick drive later we were at the airport.

“You missed the stop, terminal’s that way.” I said.

“Yeah I cancelled your ticket.” Tony said.

“Tony.” I said.

“I have a jet just use it.” Tony said.

“It’s a one hour flight.” I said.

“The jet’s going to go pick up Daniel anyway, just use it.” Tony said.

“Don’t really have a choice now do I?” I said.

“Nope.” He said driving to the hanger. “Have fun, be careful and if you change your mind call me and I’ll send the jet.”

“Thank you.” I said hugging him before boarding. I picked up my tablet and started reading a book Will had recommended. I was about half way through when we started our descent. I got off the plane and was greeted by a smiling Natasha.

“Hey stranger.” She said. I didn’t say anything instead I pulled her into a hug before kissing her.

“I missed you.” I said.

“I can see that.” She said before kissing me again. “Clint got called on a last minute mission. He’ll be back in a few hours but until then how about we go get some breakfast.”

“That sounds really good.” I said.

“You lost weight.” She said.

“Yeah I kind of lived off nothing but coffee during finals week which probably contributed to me passing out in my car with Nate and Will.” I said.

“Don’t do that again,” Natasha said looking concerned.

“Not planning on it, next time I’ll hook myself up to an IV.” I said and she threw me a glare. “I’ll sleep eight hours a night and eat at least twice a day with snack throughout the day?”

“What am I going to do with you?” She said.

“Nothing.” I said giving her a smile. We stopped by a small diner where Natasha practically ordered enough food to feed and army to go. “Hungry?”

“You’ve seen Rogers eat.” Natasha said. “I have to go in for a debrief after breakfast so I’m dropping you off at his apartment.”

“Good so I can finally teach him how to skype, last time he tried to call me I ended up having a conversation with his feet.” I said.

“That’s progress we finally got him to set up Netflix on his TV.” Natasha said.

“All things considered setting up Netflix on a Blu-ray with the instructions that come in the box may as well be rocket science.” I said. Natasha caught me up on what she’d been up to in her free time and how annoyed she was at Clint for falling behind on his field reports.

“I had to go on a mission with one of the other teams and they kept falling behind not to mention they were a bit too trigger happy.” Natasha said.

“Or maybe they were a bit intimidated by the hot redhead who knows at least ten different ways to kill someone with just her pinky.” I said.

“More like fifty.” She smirked. “They weren’t all completely hopeless. There was this one guy, recruited out of Special Forces. Really good with at knife combat. Clint’s on a mission with him now, might consider him for the team.”

“Wow, he impressed you. He must be really good then.” I said.

After a quick drive Natasha dropped me off in front of Steve’s apartment building. I walked up the stairs and ran into one of his neighbors.

“Oh, you dropped a shirt.” I said picking up a pink scrub top.

“whoops, that’s what I get for falling behind on laundry.” The blonde woman said taking it. “Are you new here?”

“No just visiting.” I said. “Have a nice day.”

“You too.” She said going downstairs. I walked down the hall and knocked on the door.

“Hayley.” Steve said pulling my feet off the floor as he lifted me into a hug.

“Hey sweetie.” I said returning the hug. “I hope you’re hungry because Nat ordered you half the breakfast menu.”

“She knows what I like.” He said opening the door the rest of the way do I could walk in. “You lost weight.”

“You too? I swear I’m putting it back on its just that finals really take it out of me.” I said.

“You’ve got to take care of yourself doll, we were really worried. Not really the news you want to come home to after a mission.” Steve said.

“It was not that bad. I knocked out in my car. It’s not like on a park bench.” I said.

He just sighed. “What do you want to do after breakfast?” Steve asked.

“I don’t know, show me your favorite sights.” I said.

“I know just the place.” Steve said.

He wouldn’t tell me where we were going. He handed me a helmet and we went out. When he finally stopped I knew exactly where we were.

“National Mall.” I said.

“They bloomed pretty late this year.” Steve said.

“Yeah.” I said taking in how beautiful it all looked.

“What’s your favorite spot?” I asked.

“Don’t really have one. I pass all of this on my morning run. I start at the apartment go straight to the Triskellion and punch a few bags and do a few more laps before heading back.” Steve said.

“You do that every morning?” I asked.

“It’s a good warm up.” He said.

“If that’s your warm up I’m afraid to ask about your actual work out.” I said. We walked around for a bit and even took a few photos together. As we were walking we walked by the Smithsonian where they were promoting an exhibit they were going to open up at the end of the year.

“Welcome Back Cap? That’s new.” I said.

“I got invited to the opening.” Steve said.

“You don’t seem really excited about it.” I said.

“It feels weird.” Steve said.

“Technically our whole lives are weird.” I said.

“True.” He said before his phone started ringing. “Rogers. What? Did you say no? Damn it.” he said as he hung up.

“Work?” I asked.

“Yeah, Looks like you finally get to use that clearance you didn’t know about.” Steve said.

“You don’t look happy about it.” I said.

“You’ll find out.” He said and we were off again. We got to the garage where Natasha was waiting for us. “Where is he?” Steve said.

“Upstairs. Here’s your badge.” Natasha said handing me an ID Badge.

“Consultant?” I asked.

“You got promoted.” She said.

“Since when do I work for SHIELD?” I said following behind her and Steve.

“You don’t.” Steve said. “Rogers Steve.”

“Identity confirmed.” The elevator said and it started going up.

“Anyone want to tell me what’s going on?” I asked.

“It doesn’t matter. We’re going to clear this up.” Steve said. Natasha just gave me a look to wait it out. We went up to the sixtieth floor and Steve marched down the hall and stormed into an office.

“It’s not happening.” Steve said.

“Cap.” I heard Clint said trying to get him to cool it.

Natasha ushered me in before closing the door behind us.

“Can someone tell me what’s going on?” I asked.

“Miss Adams thank you for joining us.” Director Fury said.

“I didn’t really join more like was brought over.” I said.

“She’s a civilian.” Steve said.

“She’s an asset we need.” Fury said.

“The asset has a name.” I reminded him.

“No.” Steve said.

“How about we ask her?” Natasha said.

“The World Security Council recently cleared an OP to take down a known terrorists headquarters we recovered. He got away but left behind his server that has valuable intel such as any known associates, the source of their funding and potential targets. Our guys down in the tech department have been trying to crack it for over a week and can’t even get past the encryptions.” Fury said.

“You want me to hack it for you.” I said.

“Councils orders.” He said very ominously.

“The same council who thought it’d be a good idea to nuke Manhattan?” I said.

“Not one of their best moments.” Fury said.

“No shit. I’m gonna have to say no. I’m on vacation. Ask Tony to do it.” I said.

“We’d prefer to keep Stark out of this matter, it’s a personal matter.” Fury said.

“Again no. You’re a little too shady for my taste.” I said.

“It’s the council’s order. Refusing to do so will end with you being accused of treason.” Fury threatened.

“You’ll have to go through me to do that.” Steve said trying to move me behind him and away from Fury.

“Let them and I’ll sue them for unjustly trying to imprison an innocent. Don’t think they can handle the bad press after how bad they screwed up last time.” I said.

“Hales it’s the ten rings.” Clint said. “Last time Stark got involved he blew a lot of agents covers and screwed up our intelligence networks in the area.”

“I’m not working for SHIELD.” I said.

“What do you want?” Fury said glaring at me.

“I’m starting to see what Tony meant about not knowing whether to look at the eye or the eyepatch.” I said to annoy him. Agitated people make stupid mistakes.

“Stark’s rubbed off on you. I’ll ask again what do you want?” He said through clenched teeth.

“Hm…” I said thinking about it. I looked out the window and saw a quinjet taking off.

“Hey Clint what’s faster, a commercial flight or a quinjet?”

“Quinjet.” He said smiling as he figured out where I was going with this.

“I want one of those.” I said.

“You want me to give you a five million dollar aircraft?” Fury said annoyed.

“Of course not, where would I store it. I just want to borrow one. I’ll bring it back when we’re done with it.” I said.

“Done, now…” He started.

“And Clint, Steve and Natasha get two extra weeks paid vacation whenever they want no questions asked.” I said.

“I can’t guarantee that our jobs aren’t exactly nine to five.” Fury said.

“Two weeks extra paid vacation and you only call them if your lackeys can’t handle it. If you do they get to use that time later.” I said leaving no room for argument.

“Fine.” He said minding his tone.

“Cool, where can I work?” I said.

“Romanoff take her down to the labs.” Fury said.

“Follow me.” Natasha said.

“Oh one last thing, next time you want my help don’t use my soulmates to harangue me into doing something.” I said.

“Soulmates?” He said looking shocked as I walked out.

“I know what I’m doing with my two weeks.” I heard Clint say.

We quickly got in the elevator and made our way down.

“Agent Romanoff!” One of the Lab techs said surprised to see her.

“I brought the consultant. She’s here to see the server.” Natasha said.

“This way please.” He said leading us down the hall into a room where at least ten people were typing furiously into their computers. Most of them looked like they hadn’t slept in days.

“May I.” I said looking at the empty computer. I started working my way in and saw that the server was constantly changing. I made leeway through one firewall when another one was up. I’d only seen something like this once before. “They’re using an AI interface that been repurposed as a defense system. Little too complex for your run of the mill hacker.”

“Can you get in?” Natasha said.

“Yeah but not on this thing too slow.” I said.

“Too slow, this is the fastest computer I’ve ever used.” One of the other guys in the room said.

“Please my cell phone in a deadzone is faster.” I said pulling out a USB from my purse and going to connect it to the server.

“What does a kid like you know about high tech equipment like this?” He said.

“Considering she helped design the tablet you’re using I’d shut up if I were you.” Natasha said glaring at the man.

“Okay I connected.” I said starting to type out the code over and over again. “Through the firewall, running encryption through SHIELD servers….”

“You don’t have the clearance for that.” Someone said.

“I do now.” I said upping my clearance. “Okay. I’m going to grab a snack while that’s running. This place does have a cafeteria or something right?”

“Shouldn’t you...”

“The code’s running. It’ll ring when it’s done.” I said.

“We’ve been working on this server for over a week and you cracked it in fifteen minutes.”

“Really, must be an off day.” I said.

“Coffee?” Nat asked.

“That too. Let’s go grab a cup.” I said. We made our way to the cafeteria and grabbed a coffee each before sitting down.

“Excited about the vacation?” Natasha asked. “Clint hasn’t shut up about it since you said yes.”

“Yeah,” I said. I was still a bit nervous after everything. I mean I was prepared for whatever happens. I mean I maybe L word my soulmates… “Pretty sure I’m going to come back to the tower in shambles from Tony going crazy with the remodel but a few days on white sandy beaches, I’ll be too zen to care.”

“Hey.” Clint said sitting down. He was surprisingly avoiding PDA. He was normally very affectionate. Then again the three of them did have a reputation to keep here so I decided to ignore it.

“Hey, Patchy the pirate done yelling at you?” I asked.

“No Steve tore him a new one after you left and Fury apologized.” Clint said.

“That’s new.” Natasha said.

“Also I need to cancel our date. I need to finish some paperwork before we go.” Clint said.

“I’ll take her.” Natasha said. “I’m craving steak.”

“I’m sorry.” Clint said looking disappointed.

“Hey its fine besides we have an entire week, give someone else a turn.” I said.

“And give away your reservations that you waited over a month for to your partner.” Natasha added.

“You waited over a month for reservations… If it makes you feel any better I made cookies yesterday and I saved you a few.” I said pulling out the Tupperware from my purse.

“You’re the best. Gonna go get started your reservations are at seven.” Clint said.

“Have fun.” Natasha said and Clint gave her a grimace.

“You brought him cookies?” Natasha said.

“Your brownies are in my suitcase.” I said making her smile. I was about to say something but my phone started beeping. “It’s done. Huh…”

“What?” Natasha said.

“It’s not intel on the ten rings its intel on something called the Rising Tide.” I said.

“Just let Fury know.” Natasha said.

“Done.” I said sending him an email.

A few hours later we were getting ready for dinner when I got a text from Clint. It was a picture of a quinjet with him holding a thumbs up. Looks like we’re ready to go as soon as he’s done.

I went to Natasha’s spare room and got ready for dinner. I picked out a black v neck top with a white a line skirt with small circle ruffle details.

I curled my hair and let it down. I was starting to grow it out so my curls ended up looking like waves. I slipped on my heels before heading out.

“Ready to… krasivaya.” She said.

“I should have gone with the beaded one, I’ll just go…” I said turning around but Natasha took my hand spun me back and pulled me into a kiss.

“You look beautiful.” She said

“So do you.” I said looking at the red one sleeved dress she was wearing.

“We should go before we’re late.” Natasha said.

“Right. Dinner.” I said kissing her again.

“mhm Hayley.” She moaned as I started kissing down her throat. “Fuck.”

“Shit sorry.” I said pulling away and blushing.

“Well continue this later.” She said giving me a wink before grabbing my hand to lead me out of her apartment.

The drive to the restaurant was spent laughing at her stories of trying to get Steve used to modern times. Apparently they had even tried to teach him some new moved. I laughed so hard I snorted when she told me he had actually ripped his pants while trying a move. When we got to the restaurant we were seated immediately and started by ordering some wine.

“So I walk into the lab and there’s Tony dangling from the ceiling by one foot and he says, “Let’s be honest this is probably not the weirdest thing you’re walked in on. And Bruce is in his lab with his headphones on not realizing what was going on”

“How’d you get him down?” Natasha asked.

“I had to call Happy to help me ease Tony down while I got a ladder and manually disengaged the foot.” I said.

“I don’t know how you do it.” Natasha said.

“Stop getting annoyed and make the most out of it. I love my job, I learn something new everyday, and I spend time with my favorite people.” I said.

“How are you really feeling about this weekend?” She asked.

“Fine why?” Fuck wrong answer.

“You’re giving one word replies.” Natasha said.

“There’s not much to say.” I said.

“You don’t have to go if you don’t want to.” Natasha said.

“It’s not that I don’t want to go it’s… Will and Tess kind of got into my head a bit.”

“Idiots.” Natasha muttered.

“I know but now I can’t stop thinking about it. I mean its not that I’m not ready to you know its just once it’s done it’s done.” I said. “You’re stuck with me and all my baggage.”

“And what baggage would that be?” Natasha asked.

“Let’s see, sociopath of an older brother, the former double identity, all my trust issues should I go on?” I asked.

“What do you know about my past?” Natasha asked.

“You’re Russian?” I asked.

“I am. I was raised in a KGB program, the red room. Girls were trained to be the perfect spies who lived to only to serve the mother country. We killed and did what had to be done or so I was told. Got myself on the bad side of some pretty important people. I finally got on SHIELD’s radar and they sent someone to take me out. Don’t know why but they made a different call and that’s how I was recruited. You want to know who made that choice?” Natasha asked

“Who?” I asked.

“Clint. You should ask him how he was recruited, you have a lot more in common than you know.” She said.

“It’s not that I’m not sure of being with you all, it’s that I’m not sure you’re going to want to be with me after you find out.” I said.

“We’re the last people who will ever judge you for your past.” She said.

“What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” I asked and she froze. I could feel the chills coming from her mark. “Not so easy is it?”

We were quiet for a minute.

“I just ruined dinner didn’t I?” I asked.

“No.” She said taking my hand. “Just thinking.”

I totally ruined dinner.

“A few years before I joined SHIELD I was hired to take out a politician in Sao Paolo that was an enemy of someone that hired me. The guy new we were coming after him so security around him was impossible to get through. The only time he was defenseless was when he went to visit his daughter in the hospital. She had leukemia, I think she was three or four. I caused a fire that burned down the hospital. That’s the worst thing I’ve ever done or at least the worst one I can think of right now.” Natasha said.

“I’ll take these for you. Would you like some desert?” The waiter asked.

“Two chocolate soufflés.” Natasha said.

“I’ll bring this right out.” He said before leaving.

“I didn’t tell you so you’d tell us but so you know that when you do decide to tell us you know we don’t care.” Natasha said.

“Here you are.” The waiter said placing these in front of us.

“Actually can we get these to go?” I said.

“uh…”

“Just the check please.” Natasha said.

“Second thought.” I said putting two hundred dollar bills on the table. “Thank you for the lovely service.” Before I was even finished Natasha was already up and taking my hand to help me up.

We practically ran to the parking garage when we got to the car she moved me so I was leaning against it and pulled me into a passionate kiss. I could hear her fumbling with the keys. I head the car alarm beep and then the door opened. Making out in a sports car, tight squeeze but at the time I didn’t really care.

“Hayley.” Natasha moaned.

“Mhm.” I said sucking on a particular spot on her neck. Out of nowhere the seat reclined back. “AH!” I yelped before she suddenly flipped us over.

“My turn.” She said with a smirk before kissing me and slowly slipping a hand under my skirt and slowly moving it up and down my thigh giving me the chills. She slowly moved one of the straps of my top down and kissed across my collarbone.

“Nat.” I moaned. “Uh!” She slowly started to knead my breast as she rocked her hips. She kissed me and I felt her hand play with the waistband of my panties.

“Please.” I moaned.

“Please what krasivaya.” She asked.

“More, please.” I whimpered.

“Tell me if you want me to stop.” She said looking right into my eyes. I nodded as I panted, still breathless from all the kissing. She started kissing down my throat as I felt her slip her hands into my panties. “So wet for me baby.” She purred.

“Nat ple ah!” I felt as she slowly started drawing circles on my hardened nub.

“Feel good?” She asked.

I pulled her into another kiss and decided to be bold and follow her lead. I slowly moved my hand up her thigh and slowly moved it up. She gasped when she felt me snap the waist band of her panties.

“Sorry… i.. i.” I started panicking maybe I overstepped. She pulled me into another desperate kiss and started moving faster,

“I’m yours if you want me.” Natasha whispered into my ear.

I moved my hand under her panties and copied exactly what she had done to me.

“Ah!” She gasped. “Hayley!”

“Nat, feels so good.” I said starting to feel a very familiar tightening below my stomach.

I was so close… Then the phone just had to start ringing.

“Uh.” I moaned. Natasha turned around and I heard her curse.

“It’s work.” She said picking up. “Romanoff.” She spat out annoyed. I decided to slowly continue as she was doing. If she was going to have to go back to work tonight I may as well make sure she has something to keep her happy.

“Ah-huh.” she said gasping a bit as she tried to play it off before I started moving my hand faster.

“H-how lo-long?” Natasha asked. I could feel her heart racing. I started sucking on her favorite spot on her neck.

“O-On my way.” She said before hanging up. She pulled me into a desperate kiss kept going. “Minx.” She panted.

“Sh, let go.” I said gently squeezing her bud with my index and middle finger before flicking that spot and rubbing circles on it..

“Hayley! Fuck!” She cried out and I felt her cum.

“Did I do it right?” I asked blushing.

She put a hand on the back of my head and pulled me in for a kiss.

“You’re amazing.” She said blushing a bit. “I really hate Clint right now.”

“Why?” I asked.

“Because he get’s you for an entire week and all I want to do right now is drag you to my bed and get back at you.” Natasha said.

“I thought you said it was good?” I asked confused.

“For what you did while I was on the phone.” She said.

“Well how about you save that frustration and go take it out on the douche responsible for you having to go?” I said.

“I will.” She said. “I’ll drop you back off at Clint’s apartment.”

“Good thing we went to drop off everything earlier.” I said.

“Clint said he still has a few more things to finish up. You sure you’re going to be okay on your own?” Natasha asked.

“I’ll be fine. Besides I’ll have Lucky.” I said.

After another brief make out session Natasha finally left me alone in Clint’s apartment. I quickly took my grey and white raglan top pjs with some shorts out of the suitcase and took a shower.

I got out of the shower and felt really relaxed. I couldn’t take the dopey smile off my face.

“Hey buddy.” I said looking down at lucky.

“Woof!” he barked.

“Want to cuddle on the bed until Clint gets home?” I asked.

“Woof!” He said running to the room and jumping on the bed.

I slipped under the covers and dozed off.

Third Person’s POV-

After staying a bit longer than she thought she would, Natasha didn’t have time to run back to her apartment and shower. So she straightened herself out in her car before walking into SHIELD.

“Hey, whoa.” Clint said when he saw her.

“I hate you so much right now.” She said glaring at him.

“What’d I do?” Clint said confused.

“You lucky bastard.” Natasha said walking past him toward the locker rooms. The locker rooms at SHIELD were coed since there weren’t many female STRIKE Team members. In fact Natasha was the only one.

“Did you drop her off okay?” Clint asked.

“Yes.” Natasha answered.

“Is that a hickie?” Clint signed.

Natasha looked in the mirror and smiled. “Are you almost done?” She asked.

“Two more reports, just checking in.” Clint said.

“What the hell are you doing here then?” Natasha asked and went back to slipping on her stealth suit.

“Yeah, I’m gonna go do that.” He said running off to do as she said, if not to get back to Hayley, to avoid the murderous look his partner was giving him.

He quickly got back to his desk and typed away as fast as he could. He was sure there were more than a few typos but he didn’t care, all he wanted to do was get home. As soon as the last file was done he bolted out of the building. He drove back to his apartment. The first thing he noticed was how quiet everything was, not even Lucky could be heard. He quietly slipped in and closed the door behind him.

“Hayley?” He called out but nothing. He quickly grabbed the gun he kept stashed in the kitchen drawer and moved to check the apartment. When he finally made it to his room he couldn’t help but smile at how his soulmate was softly snoring while hugging his dog.

Lucky immediately woke up at the sight of his owner and was on alert when he saw the gun in his hand.

“Sh.” Clint shushed before slowly putting the gun in the nightstand drawer. “Thanks for taking care of our girl buddy.” Lucky licked his hand before slipping out of Hayley’s arms.

Clint quietly grabbed a t-shirt, some sweats and some boxers before slipping into the shower. Normally he would have gone to sleep in just his boxers but this wasn’t an ordinary night. Hayley was here and he wasn’t going to make her uncomfortable.

When he was done he turned off all the lights and did one last check before going to bed. He slipped in behind Hayley and wrapped his arms around her. He felt her breathing change and could tell she was starting to wake up.

“Sh, it’s just me.” He whispered. He felt her roll over to face him before wrapping her arms around him.

“Finally finished.” She mumbled.

“Yeah, finally free to go. Don’t know how you can do it?” Clint said.

“Used to it, and Tony is a good distraction.” I said.

“Hey Hales?” Clint asked.

“Mhm.” She hummed.

“Why did Nat say she hated me and look like she was about to murder someone when she got to work?” Clint asked.

He could faintly see the smile on her face but he could feel her face heat up.

“Good date.” She mumbled.

“That explains the hickie?” Clint though out loud.

“I’ll cover it up tomorrow.” She said burying her face in his chest. “Clint?”

“Yeah?” He asked.

“Did you leave any cookies, we skipped desert?” Hayley mumbled as she dozed off again.

“No but I’ll buy you some tomorrow Hales. Night.” I love you he thought.