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How abooout a Black Widow x reader? :oo So basically the reader is in the army and one day she suprises Nat in the avengers hq, and everyone’s like ”who tf is this??” And she’s like, ”suprise assholes - I have a girlfriend!” Clint’s not suprised. Nat’s like ”what are you doing here??” And reader’s like ”I just served my last day!!” Reader has some form of abilities, water (+ blood) and fire bending maybe?? And she joins the Avengers. Also reader bonds with Sam, Steve & bucky 4 obvious reason
pairing: natasha romanoff x female!readerfandom: mcuwarnings: /genre: fluff
summary: only because your military career is over, doesn’t mean that your fight is. this time, however, your girlfriend will be by your side every step of the way.
a/n: here you go, darling! (AAAH I’M SO HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO POST AGAIN FML) (added natasha to my fandoms page!)
Youstood in front of the Avengers HQ, craning your neck to see the topof the building, before chuckling to yourself.
“Fancy,”you murmured, before someone came to pick you up and walk you to thefront door of the building. At first they didn’t even want to letyou in. When you had told them who you were, they had just laughed.
Asif Natasha Romanoff, famous Black Widow, had a girlfriend, right? Joke’s on them. Anyways,when you showed them your abilities and what you were capable of (meaning, you let the water from the inside of the security guys’ water bottle accidentally splash onto his head),PLUS, told them that you had just served three years in the army, theyshut their mouths relatively quickly, not wanting to piss you off ordisrespect you.
So theyled you through the halls of the compound, only then realizing just how big this place actually was.
They had really spared no expenses, huh?
Atone point, you faintly began to hear the voices of people. Quite afew of them, one talking over the other. They were laughing.. theysounded.. happy.
Asmall smile spread on your lips at the thought of Natasha beinghappy. She had spent so much time being the complete opposite and each and every time you had been there to pick her up. God,the closer you got to the source of the voices, the more you realizedhow much you had missed her. Holding her, looking at her, kissing her..
Oncethe door got opened, it didn’t take long before all eyes were on you.
Tonywas the first to stand up and walk over to you and the security guystanding next to you.
“Whoare you? Who is this? What do you want here?” he bombarded you with one question after the other.
“I’mlooking for..-”
“(Y/N)?”Natasha peeked around the corner, her eyes widening when she saw youstanding there.
Yourown eyes immediately lit up. She was still looking as beautiful asthe last time you had seen her, now with short blonde hair, rockingit like she was made for it. But then again, you had seen her with almost every form of hairstyle and in every color and she always looked like a goddess, so it shouldn’t surprise you.
Sheshoved Tony aside and put her hands on either sides of your face,pulling you towards her to give you a hasty, but passionate kiss.
Youwere so focused on her, that you could only barely hear the othersin the background letting out surprised gasps and ‘What the hell isgoing on?’s. No, the only thing that mattered at that moment was thewoman in front of you, that you grabbed by the waist and pulled evencloser to you, so that there was no space left between you.
Whenshe pulled back after a couple of seconds, Tony was standing a little too close next to youtwo, his eyes flickering from you, back to her.
“Uhm,excuse me, but who is this and why are you kissing her?”
“It’smy girlfriend,” she didn’t take her eyes off you, her thumbs gentlybrushing over your cheekbones, a little out of breath from the kiss.
“It’syour..-” Tony took a step back and turned around to the others.Most of them only shrugged, others were shocked, while Clint grinnedhappily.
“Goodto see you again, (Y/N),” you heard him say from one of thecouches, “Just a fair warning. She’s become an even bigger pain inthe ass.”
“Watchit, Barton,” she warned, turning her head to face himquickly, before looking back at you, “What are you doing here? Whydidn’t you call you were coming?”
“Itwould have ruined the surprise, if I had,” your hands were still onher waist, not wanting to let her go just yet, “I just served mylast day,” you grinned from ear to ear.
Hermouth fell open just a little, then she started grinning.
“You’redone?”
“I’mdone,” you nodded happily.
Shekissed you once more, before pulling you in for a tight embrace.
Stevegot up from the couch, followed by Sam and Bucky, all threeinterested in what you had meant by ’just served your last day’ (even though it should be fairly obvious.)
“Youwere in the army?” Steve asked.
Natlet go of you, but only so that she could wrap her arm around yourshoulder and proudly smile at you.
“Yeah.Three years.”
“Really?Man, that is cool! My unit did not have a single woman,” Sam chimedin and grinned, while licking his lips and looking you up and down. When he saw Natasha’s look, however, he quickly lowered his gaze, a little ashamed of himself.
“Shame.Mine had around 20. I’m sure you would have loved them all.”
Natashapulled you towards one of the couches and, as expected, one question followed the next. They ranged from questions about your timein the army, to questions about you and Natasha and lastly, personalquestions about you and Natasha’s love life. (I’ll let you guess whoasked those questions.)
“Soyou just wanted to visit Natasha? Is that the only reason you’rehere?” Bucky asked, leaning forward a bit.
“Thatwas the biggest reason, but.. I heard you were preparing for a war,”you turned to face Tony, “Thanos, if my information is correct?”
“Howdid you even..-?”
“Youthink I’d just date anyone?” Natasha crossed her arms in front ofher chest and raised her eyebrows.
Youhad always been skilled at a lot of things. That’s why she fell foryou in the first place, after all. It wasn’t your beauty, or your personality. That came later. The first thing she had fallen in love with was the fact that you could match her in every possible way. And not a lot of people could do that.
“Anyways..I want to help.”
Thathad Natasha sitting up straight.
“No,listen, (Y/N), you served this country for three years, you..-”
“I wouldn’t be doing it for this country. I’d be doing it because I can help. Andit would be a waste of my talents, if I just leaned back and relaxed.”
“Andwhat talents are those, if I might ask?” the one that hadintroduced himself as Doctor Strange asked.
Insteadof telling them about it, you let your eyes wander down to the tablein front of you, finding the glass of water. Without doing much more then blink once, youlet the water from inside the glass, float around the room, until youlet it drop back into the cup.
“Youcan let water float. That’s..-”
BeforeTony could even finish his sentence, the fireplace behind him lit up.Upon turning around, he found the previous tiny flames to be so huge,that he had to take a step back, in fear that it would burn him.
“Ican bend the elements to my will.”
“Thatis so cool!” Peter grinned and you smiled back at him.
“Andhow do you do that?”
“It’sgot something to do with my blood. I’m not really sure. They tried toexplain it to me, but I never really understood that science-y crap.”
While the others were already on board with you joining their team, Natashawas still unsure about it.
Shewould hate to see you get hurt, but she had also seen you in actionbefore. She knew that you were an useful ally. Someone who could helpdefeat Thanos. And she knew that there would be no one she’d rather fight with than you.
“Alright,(Y/N),” Tony cleared his throat after that fire incident and satdown next to you, “I don’t want Natasha to kill me, so.. Welcome tothe Avengers.”
A female net-casting spider (Deinopis sp.) building her eggsac with a special type of silk. Spiders have various types of silk, some species have 6 (well, almost 7) different types of silk glands for different uses! #pickoftheday #spider #deinopis #biodiversity #silk #arachnid #mother #ball #eggsac #spidersofinstagram #nature @ilcp_photographers (presso Gamboa, Panama)
Some of the many, many* Ogres a friend and I found in a very short walk the other night, including one with a cockroach catch. If more people knew just how many Ogres they were walking right past without noticing, day and night... 👀
