[ VDCVC ] :: indie, slow, selective rp blog for natalia alianovna romanova, aka BLACK WIDOW , of the mcu / marvel. this blog will feature 21+ themes such as t.orture, v.iolence, s.mut, d.eath, pt.sd, br.ainwashing, etc, and they will not be tagged nor under a cut. i will write my muse heavilly under my own hcs, this blog does not follow the main line of the movies. the mun: my name is V, i am 29yo, she/her, adore torturing my muse in any way shape or form :)
MEMES //
short rules:
as i am an old lady i will therefore not write with anyone under the age od 21 - that means no mun nor muse younger than 21 years old.
i am a ship whore and will not apologise for it, but if you're not here to ship or would rather wait - let me know, im not going to force any kind of a connection / plot on anyone, we're here to have fun and that goes both ways.
no hate, no anon hate, no callout posts, no drama. see something you don't like? block and move on. i am too old to have patience for that kind of behaviour on a website where we write fake stories about imaginary characters.
i write my nat as a het woman interested in mf relationships only, also i do have some pairings that i will not write in a romantic connection (example: nat and bruce) so feel free to poke me about a possible pairing anytime.
memes are always open and the best way to break the ice. not sure how to start? don't have a clear idea in mind but would like to write? send the meme.
the black widow at v.ought? the black widow getting the shot back in the 30s? the black widow meeting s.oldier boy? the black widow running away? ? the black widow meeting all the super humans? the black-
I have “can’t get my dick in deep enough” disease which is when I’m topping I kinda go feral and claw and bite and grab them and yank them down onto my dick and pin them down by their neck and growl in their ear and~
natalia "falls down from a six storey building, hitting metal structures on the way down and lands on two feet just holding her ribs like 'owie', but canonically def doesnt have serum" romanova
steve has the same thought – 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 ? he has no family. he always thought he'd die by thirty before the serum. bucky would have broken tradition &* gone graveside – he hadn't been catholic , after all. he knows nat will do the same. ( * assuming he can die. he's not positive. god has never seemed to take him , no matter the sickness or injury. )
❛ both. ❜ he doesn't talk about his trauma – mental health was a thing swallowed or spit out like poison in his time. MAN UP. he saw soldier's turned inside out – he'd not talk a shrink about that ; why would he bitch about his nonstop depression &* lack of self ? childish. he was an asset to his country. weapons don't weep. ( * yet he does. in private , away from those who needed him to be the steady rock in the steam. ) yet nat draws a vulnerability from him. gives him a place to rest weary head.
❛ i never assumed i would be lucky enough to marry peggy , but … i think i could have , if i'd landed that plane. i could have been the family at her grave. ❜ he swallows , brows knitting as he stares ahead. ❛ seeing her after all that time … &* having her forget &* remember over &* over in the same conversation – i've never gotten to say goodbye to her properly. not in the plane. not with her memory. not at the grave. ❜
THE NOD OF HER HEAD WAS NOT SEEN BY THE MAN currently occupying her lap - but it did not need to. it was nothing short of a reflex, a response so engrained into the logical behaviour that it almost felt wrong not to do so when she acknowledged someone's words. appearances were important, the mask of always-ready-to-act hard to drop even in the privacy of her own home.
"if you had - who knows." Natalia agreed, though she had her own opinions about that. she had read the raports, the files that agent Carter had filled out, saw the interviews long forgotten in the archives - read up all about the woman's accomplishments that saw the light of day and those that did not. Peggy Carter was a woman worth her marbles, honorable, smart, loyal --- but at the same time Natalia had seen some of the true sides hidden behind the shield of the complicated man that the Captain had become. would they have been a good match? would they have married? that was not the point of this conversation. not what Steve needed, not right now.
"I think there is no reason why you can't go to her grave now, visit as often as you want, tell her what needs to be said - what you could not manage because her mind flickered and her memory failed." Natalia added after a moment of a pause "there is no doubt she had done the same when you went into ice." the redhead pointed out "she also thought she did not get to say goodbye, the fact that you had a few moments longer together is more than either of you thought you'd get."
sad blues stare ahead at the skyline outside the tower windows , still half bleary from tears he won't bring attention to. nat's fingernails keep him grounded there – both from the feeling against his scalp &* the tang of nail polish. it was an easy choice – to find nat after the funeral. he'd considered staying in london. talking to peggy's family &* friends – asking sharon for stories about growing up with peggy as her aunt. but he couldn't. he got in the plane &* came home. didn't change clothes – hardly breathed. now , with his cheek on the red head's lap , he releases that held breath &* nearly shudders in the relief of it.
❛ i've never felt older. ❜ his head shakes a bit , brows knitting as he blinks. a tear slips onto nat's leg. ❛ the last funeral i went to was in 1936. my ma died in the tb ward. i couldn't be there when she passed. ❜ he always hated that most – she'd spent his entire life taking care of him when he was sick. he couldn't be there for her. she wouldn't want otherwise – it would have killed him in a day. still. ❛ was a pallbearer for her , too. bucky &* me &* some guys from mass. catholics ... we do this thing where only family went to the grave site , so ... it was just me out there , seeing her get lowered in the ground. i didn't get to see peggy go down. part of me thought i would. ❜
HER SOFT CHUCKLE TO THE COMMENT ABOUT FEELING THEIR AGE was more among the lines of pathetic rather than humorous. wasn't it the truth of it all? their bodies young, their strength at full capability and yet their minds wise beyond their looks. their experience heavier than the world. their trauma clouding every single day of the week with its ridiculously large shadow, leaving nothing but the cold touch of dread if one was not careful enough to avoid it - CAREFUL ENOUGH TO TOUCH THE SUN EVERY NOW & AGAIN.
"it wasn't your fault that you couldn't be there." Natalia spoke softly, fingers never ceasing their rhythm "I'm sure even in her last moments she was more worried about you getting sick from the hospital air than whatever fate awaited her." the redhead pointed out, words lacking any sort of judgement - there was none to give. not when the maternal love knew no bounds. not when the familiar ties were told to last through centuries. "that's a beautiful tradition - though sad for those who died all alone." she hummed in acknowledgement, wondering for a split of a moment if she would get burried like that. all alone. strangers lowering her into the ground and shovelling dirt atop the casket --- would she even GET a grave? or would a death in a battlefield be her legacy? there was no family left ( if there ever was any to begin with ), there would be no one.
"are you more sad that you did not get to say a proper goodbye to a friend or the time that was lost and passed you by?" the redhead asked softly, curious yet gentle in her probing of his thoughts "because it's alright to be sad about both."
@vdcvc » [ lap ] sender lets receiver rest their head in their lap while they stroke their hair
he has not been in this position for a very , very long time. 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒓. it hadn't been abnormal back then , especially considering how sick he was so often. between bucky &* sarah , he'd found himself curled up on someone's lap rather frequently. but he is the picture of health now &* the most solitary man in new york. he only allows the intimacy now because his heart is heavy – it drags him down onto the cushions when nat pats her lap &* gives him that look of sympathy. his hand discards the funeral pamphlet he holds onto the table , then he allows himself to curl up there. making himself small is no easy feat , but the couch in the complex is large enough to fit the team.
her hand finds his hair &* he feels his shoulders sag. he'd barely gotten out of his suit jacket before she beckoned him. his tie still feels suffocating. 𝒑𝒆𝒈𝒈𝒚'𝒔 𝒇𝒖𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔. strange , given he's been surrounded by ghosts since arriving in the twenty first century. bucky hadn't had a funeral. he wasn't here when the commandos passed one by one. howard was long gone. peggy was his last solid tether , &* even that was so strained by her dementia. bucky is out there – the winter soldier that let him live. he can hope to save him ; to bring him back. but today that hope is dim.
so he closes his eyes &* lets one hand rest just under her knee as he presses his cheek into her thigh. 𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒕 , but the other rests solidly here with her. the accords are far from his mind. he won't think of the strain of the avengers breaking apart. losing something else dear to him is it's own torture that might just drag him under today. steve forces himself to only think of nat – of her soothing nails against his scalp &* the words she's saying. a heavy sigh slips the captain's lips as he gives her leg a little squeeze. a sign he is here ; that he is grateful.
SHE HAD BARELY FINISHED PAINTING HER NAILS, the uv-lamp packed away and her gaze criticising every mishap in the technique of applying nailpolish with the new, dimmed burgundy shade of dark red - when the tall man walked into the room and all of her attention immadiately pinned on the shift of the emotions. the dots connected quickly, sharp mind taking queues and information and turning them into sharp images and plans before she even had a chance to truly ponder.
there was no need for words - THERE WAS NOT MUCH TO SAY - before her arm lifted and beckoned the strong soldier into a moment of peace and vulnerability that she would never dare to judge him for.
"shhh." Natalia hummed quietly, burgundy nails disappearing in the thick hair before scratching gently, delicately, against the sensitive scalp. the motions easy, calming, soothing in ways that few would be otherwise - FOR THEM THERE WAS NO PEACE, NOT REALLY, but this was the closest one could get in a world burning from all sides. "whatever you need - I'm here." the redhead offered, leaning down to press a soft brush of a kiss to the edge of Steve's shoulder when he settled on the sofa fully. his size and weight causing the cushions to dip and pull her even more into him, like a gravitational force that kept her close. and she went without a fight. "we can talk about it, I will listen - or I can talk about whatever else." she added "or we can just sit in silence, sometimes you just need to feel whatever it is that you feel."
THE YEARNING FOR PHYSICAL TOUCH SOMETIMES became a weight too heavy to bear. a weight that crushed her very soul beneath its overwhelming pressure as it ached for something - anything - to soothe the itch beneath her skin. they were not made for soft touch, not made for sweet gestures of romance. and yet, the despair sometimes clouded even the best of judgements. Natalia knew she should have gone to her room. to the cold, empty cell with nothing but a steel-framed bed with a new yet uncomfortable mattress that did not allow for rest. instead - she was there, standing behind the man who poured fear into the veins of their enemies. the man that became a story told among the smallfolk between tales of baba yaga and rusalkas.
"James." the redhead whispered back, allowing the man just enough space to turn to face her before her hands - warmed by the shower she had taken mere minutes prior - settled on his waist while her head tilted into the touch to her cheek. she never STRAYED, never flinched, never showed fear. because there was none in the first place. each and every single gesture was welcomed with a soft sigh of content, a smile as sweet as honey or a moan of utter desperation. this time was no different. "I knew I wouldn't be able to fall asleep." Natalia hummed, leaning closer until she could press another kiss to the scar across James' body, this time the brutal lines across his chest "---I had to see you."
THE STARS WERE HIGH UP IN THE SKY, and yet with the depth of the night all around them it seemed as if the darkness was not that far away at all. it seemed to soak into the marrow of her bones, chilling her to the very core of her being despite the last FLAMES of fire dying behind them in the wreckage of what used to be a house. what now turned into ash and bone. the sweet, SWEET tinge of flesh melting against the concrete floors letting them know of a job well done. the end of a mission. TIME TO GO HOME.
the redhead sat down at his left, unconscious habit that the young Widow had picked up over the years of missions spent together, countless nights just as this one passed by in silence and OBSERVATION of each other. still vary back then, still carefull, still on edge. now they worked together like cogs of a well-oiled, well-used machine with chipped teeth and broken handles, but still doing its job best out of the whole myriad of aparatus available with the newest technology and science. nothing better than the sure, sturdy design that GOT THE JOB DONE. every single time.
her right arm snuck under the jacket she wrapped him in, adding the layer of warmth to the man's left side and across his lower back - offering what little aid she could at the moment, a promise of more when they returned to the base. "warmth & FIREPLACES?" Natalia dared to tease with a small smile as her temple rested against the cool metal of James' shoulder. the familiar sensation settling her adrenaline, allowing her body to ease off of the MISSION-ALERT setting within her mind "only if we get lots of those ridiculously fluffy blankets to cuddle with on the sofa in front of the fireplace." the redhead hummed, chin propped on his shoulder "and we will cuddle, a lot."
apparently i had enough brains to get a free day after the end of our trip bc our flight was cancelled. out of the blue. just like - poof. gone. and we got a different flight but it was not the destination we wanted at first and a whole lot of chaos.