Bruce’s gaze shifted from the content of his mailbox to the woman at his side, gaze then moving once again to the black cat settling at her feet. Though Natasha questioned the animal’s presence at the apartment building, he noted the cat seemed quite comfortable with her, Bruce assuming she was far more acquainted with him than she appeared at that moment. “Yeah,” he answered. “Their homing instincts tend to be quite remarkable, actually.” Damian’s cat had proven that quite a few times; no matter how far into the property he wondered, and even if he was gone for hours, Alfred the Cat always made it back just in time for dinner. Bruce had never really paid much attention to him, Damian being the one responsible for taking care of all the animals he brought into the house. But after a year away from Gotham…he even wondered how the cat was.
“Seems he’s chosen to belong to you.”
“Hm.” Natasha responds noncommittally, narrowing her eyes at the cat. She’s not surprised, not after the strife Liho put her through last time he tracked her down. The little black cat has a bad habit of sticking to her like glue, no matter how many times she tells him she’s not taking him in and she’s certainly not the kind of person to follow. Maybe it’s time to give in - again - and accept she owns a cat. “I think they just return to where they know they’ll find food.” She grumbles, which makes her wonder if future-past Natasha lived around here as well. She must have, for him to come back here and find her again.
Letting out a sigh, Natasha leans down to hold her hand out to the animal, letting him suss her out as he looks up at Bruce. “Lock yourself out again?”
𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐕𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐘 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 a few weeks on a mission , and during that time things had come dangerously close to a new catastrophe ; almost as if destiny itself didn’t want the world and its inhabitants , old or new , to catch a break . lives had been already lost and they still didn’t know the whereabouts of their executioner ― just an identity , more than enough to lead society to the brink of a new , almost chaotic state . and the only thing they could do , while the search for kaecilius was still going nowhever , was to try and take care of the damage already inflicted ; and avoid the rising of new ones . with that in mind , the captain walked steadily to where a small turmoil had formed ― his voice sounding firm enough to be heard by everyone involved . “ what is going on here? ”
Natasha sees him approaching. It’s hard not to - Steve has such a distinctive tone of voice, especially when he’s marching straight into a potential crisis. Like this world hasn’t seen enough of those already - even in the time that she’s missed. She’s happy to keep back a little, let him take charge - that’s where he’s supposed to be, Natasha operates behind the scenes. Something she’s working hard to keep hold of - maybe trying to change the future she’s heard so much about. Or the past. God, it’s such a pain to keep track.
“Where do you want to start?” She asks with a quirked eyebrow, but it only lasts a moment before her expression turns a little more serious. “There’s another missing person, and another murder.”
Lois coos at the sight of the cat, laughing a little as it lays down at the woman’s feet and looks up at her. “It seems like he’s decided that he belongs to you, whatever anyone else has to say about the matter,” she says, grinning over at the woman.
“Where have I seen that before.” Nat murmurs under her breath, shaking her head - at the cat, not at the woman. “He’s a stubborn little thing. Has a habit of following me around, no matter how much I tell him to find someone else.”
Cass watches the cat with an intense stare, tracking it as it winds around the other woman’s legs with a pretty purr and slinking movements. The cat’s not hers, she doesn’t even own a cat. She wouldn’t know what to do with a cat. When would she fed it, or would it get its own food, how would she know where it went if it left? Cat’s, unlike humans, didn’t have phones after all. Although she supposes she could attach a tracker to one to make up for it. But the point stood, she definitely did not have a cat. “Not mine.” She shortly says. “Want help?”
The girl seems... intrigued by Liho, which is curious in itself. It’s not all that often you come across someone who seems so perplexed by the concept of a pet. But then, once upon a time Natasha had never had a per, either. Natasha sighs and kneels down to take a closer look at the black cat, hoping to see some sign that it’s not in fact the same cat who seems to be glued to her for life, but no such luck. “I think he’s looking for me.” She answers cryptically, holding a hand out to the cat. Of course Liho butts his head directly into her hand, desperate for her attention as always. “He was my cat - a few years ago. Apparently he managed to find me again.”
“You have got to be kidding me.” Natasha rolls her eyes half-heartedly as the black cat winds around her ankles. She shouldn’t be all that surprised really - Liho is about a hundred different kinds of stubborn, of course he would find her all these years later. She has to wonder if he lived with the other Natasha - well, her, but from the future. God, time travel is a pain. “Is there such a thing as homing cats?” She asks absently, letting out a sigh as Liho settles at her feet and looks up at her with those big damn eyes. “Surely he belongs to someone around here.”
[ jamie chung, 91 biologically (appears 30), cisfemale, she/her ] - natasha romanoff! ! you know, the hero that goes by black widow ? i heard she can ( get intel from anywhere with her advanced spy techniques and training, is trained in various martial arts and fighting styles, and has decelerated ageing due to the soviet’s serum ), and comes from the marvel universe. ♡
HI I LOVE NATASHA ROMANOFF WITH MY WHOLE HEART
I will be using mostly comics history with MCU elements later on in her life (aka you can assume most movie things happened.
Natasha has been pulled from just after the events of Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Natalia Alianovna Romanova was born in 1928 (none of this 1985 MCU nonsense thanks)
When she was still a baby she was thrown from a burning building to a soldier who was attempting to help. As the building went up in flames and her home was destroyed, the man - Ivan Petrovich - decided to raise the baby as his own, and Natalia was raised by him and his soldiers.
In 1938, WWII hit and Ivan knew he couldn’t take his daughter to war. At this point, Stalin took the girl, only 10 years old, into one of his “Special” military schools to study. Coincidentally, Logan Howlett was working undercover at this school and was one of her trainers. She was only there for two years before Logan killed the headmaster and relocated her somewhere he hoped would be safe, but the nature of his mission meant he couldn’t be sure and eventually Natasha ran away, wanting to find her father.
The skills she’d learned as a child with her father and at the school helped her survive until she found Ivan, and the man decided to take her with him rather than send her back to Moscow, to another one of Stalin’s schools. He finished he training, made her a soldier, and Natalia fought in WWII.
At 16 she fell in love with a fellow soldier, Nikolai, and fell pregnant. Of course, the front lines of WWII are not a great place for a baby - when Natalia gave birth, the baby was stilborn.
In 1956, Ivan was fatally wounded and the two were approached by an operative from Department X (KGB’s project to create living weapons, essentially), offering a deal for Natalia and Ivan to join them and in exchange they would save his life. Wanting to save her father, Natalia accepted and was immediately put into the Red Room for training.
**any background with bucky here has been left out until plotting can be done!**
She continued to serve the KGB for some time but after crossed paths with SHIELD and the Avengers numerous times. Eventually Clint was sent to take her out but instead choose to help her and took her back to SHIELD to give her another chance
It was a long, looong process to join SHIELD. She wasn’t very trusted and there were plenty of Moments where it didn’t seem like she would be allowed in, but in time her defection was approved and she was considered a valuable asset to the United States. It was with this shift that she found a new partner and friend in Clint and to this day they are very close friends.
Insert movie stuff here UP TO THE POINT OF TWS
After the events of TWS, Natasha spent some time working on her “web” - with a manager to help her maintain how to use her finances, she began to work on helping people who had either been effected by the soviets in the past, or who were facing criminals she had dealings with in the past.
She’s been pulled from this point in time - she knows future-Natasha died (don’t ask her why, she doesn’t fucking know) and she’s determined to never allow her to get into that kind of position again
She knows what happened during the Endgame events, she’s read all the reports and done all the research
Important to know:
Despite their relatively different personalities Clint and Natasha got along well and Natasha would easily call him her closest friend
She trusts the Avengers with her life, namely Steve Sam and Tony
She is old as balls but doesn’t look a day over 30. The Red Room gave her a serum that halted her ageing, hence being 90 but appearing 30. The only other affects it has on her is slightly improved healing, but that’s it. Natasha does not have a supersoldier-serum-variant, but she does have 80 years of knowledge and experience and training in a 30 year old’s body
She is highly intelligent and extremely analytical, she knows how to play the angles and more than anything else Natasha is a survivor. There’s not much she won’t do to save herself with a few notable exceptions eg hurting anyone who has stuck around her long enough that she considers them family.
She really is a big dork at heart, she will make silly jokes and poke fun at her friends and family whenever she can
Um i feel like i’ve missed a lot but !! come at me for plotting and things pls i love my girl so much
