Steve and Natasha are sent in a mission shortly after romantic feelings start to bud between them. Please vote and comment!

Natasha walked into Steve's room without knocking, as she usually did. Steve turned around quickly and blushed. He was standing with nothing but a towel around his waist.

Natasha handed him a file and took a seat on his couch.

"What's this?" He asked, still flustered.

"Our next mission. We leave tomorow morning."

Steve's eyes widened. "Tomorrow morning?!"

Natasha nodded. "If you'll sit down then I can give you a quick briefing."

Steve blushed again. "Uh do you mind if I go get changed first?"

Natasha shook her head and leaned back, relaxing.

Steve left the room briefly and came back wearing a pair of sweatpants and a tight blue t-shirt.

"So what's our mission?" He asked sitting next to her.

"There's a group of Hydra agents who took a dozen of our agents children as a ransome. Our job is to get them out safely and bring in the Hydra agents."

Steve frowned. "We've never had to rescue children hostages."

Natasha shrugged. "Most people don't take kids as hostages."

Steve nodded in agreement and Natasha sighed, leaning her head on his shoulder.

"What is it?" Steve asked.

"Nothing. I'm just tired. Haven't slept much since our last mission."

Steve nodded. Their last mission had not gone well and they had watched as one of their fellow agents was killed by an undercover Hydra agent.

"You should get some sleep. It sounds like tomo-" Steve stepped talking when he looked down at Natasha. She had already fallen asleep.

Steve tried to shift so that he could lie her down on his couch or bed but as soon as he did so, her arms snaked around his neck and she held firmly onto him.

Accepting that he wasn't going to be going anywhere without waking her, Steve made himself comfortable beside her and soon drifted into sleep himself.

That night, neither of them experienced any trouble sleeping as they normally did.

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The next morning, Natasha was the first to wake up. She stood up carefully, not wanting to wake Steve.

She went into his small kitchen and make them both eggs and toast. They still had two hours before they needed to leave, so she let him sleep a little longer.

Another hour passed and Natasha finally decided to wake Steve. Wanting to have a little bit of fun with it, she grabbed a cup of cold water and creeped towards him.

She dumped the cup on him and laughed when he jumped up and yelled.

"Jesus Romanoff! That was cold!" He yelled, very awake.

She kept a straight face and shrugged. "You slept to long. I made breakfast but we need to leave in a little less then an hour."

Steve checked his watch and nodded. He quickly got changed while Natasha went back to her room to grab her things.

They were now running late, she Steve grabbed his toast and went to meet Natasha outside of his door so they could leave quicker.

Just as he opened the door, Natasha was walking inside. He crashed into her and they both fell to the ground, Natasha landing on top of Steve.

She laughed. "In a hurry Rogers?"

"Sorry Nat, didn't want us to be late."

Natasha stood up and helped Steve to his feet. "Speaking of, let's get going."

They walked to the jet and Fury gave them a little more information through holograph as they flew.

The basis was this, rescue the children and capture Hydra agents.

They arrived in at the docks and Steve instantly had a bad feeling. "What now Nat?"

Natasha looked around. "I say we sneak in from the roof. Then find the kids before we engage."

Steve nodded. "Once we find them, you get them to safety and I will get the agents."

Natasha frowned. "Or you could get the kids to safety and I can deal with Hydra."

Steve didn't like that idea as much but knew she wouldn't let him do anything but that.

"Fine. Let's move in."

They climbed onto the roof of the warehouse and found an entrance through a large vent.

They made their way through the tunnels quietly, keeping an eye out for the children.

"I feel like Clint." Natasha mumbled as they continued to shimmy through the vents.

Steve nodded and grabbed her arm when he finally found the kids.

They were all in a room with three guards, each pointing their gun at the weeping children.

Natasha carefully aimed and shot the three guards with her tasers before jumping down from the vents and handcuffing watch guard.

She turned to the children and her and Steve quickly unbound them.

Steve turned to Natasha. "Help me lift them into the vents, I'll lead them outside while you take care of the agents."

They helped each kid into the vents and then Steve climbed in as well and led them back outside.

Natasha crept through the warehouse quietly, using the technology Tony had added to her suit, she located all the agents and went to find them.

Thirty agents against Natasha. She had done more then that before, which is why she didn't think to call Steve for backup before going after them.

It nearly cost her her life, she hadn't expected them to be ready, so when she had walked into the room, they had ambushed her with a dozen guns pointed at her.

She was able to take out seven of them without getting shot, but even she couldn't dodge all the bullets. When one of them hit her calf, she kept going, but then two more made contact with her shoulder and thigh and fighting became near impossible.

She yelled out and accepted her death when she saw four of the men closing in on her with their guns locked on her.

Before she could even blink, all four men were on the ground and Steve was in front of her, offering a hand out to her.

"Come on, let's go." He said urgently.

"Where are the kids Steve??" Natasha asked despite her pain.

"They are outside."

"Alone?? Steve what happened to keeping them safe?!"

"They are safe! I heard you yelling and had to come help."

They ran out of the warehouse and Steve led Natasha behind a boat where the children were hiding.

They all looked frightened. They didn't say a word as Steve helped Natasha sit down and tried to help apply pressure to her wounds.

He was so preoccupied with helping her that he hadn't noticed that several agents had spotted them until they began shooting at them from the other side of the boat.

Steve used his shield to block the bullets coming at them and desperately tried to cram all of the kids and Natasha behind his shield.

Natasha grabbed her gun and began shouting back, ignoring her pain.

Steve threw his shield and took out the agents as quickly as possible until none were left.

Finally, the jet arrived and they were able to load the kids on it safely.

As soon as Steve and Natasha were alone, she punched his arm with every bit of strength she had left.

"Steve what the hell happened out there?! The mission was to get the children out safely, and you risked that to come get me. We almost got them killed!"

Steve frowned. "We didn't though. Everyone is fine. I couldn't just leave you to die."

"Why not?" Natasha said, fuming with anger. Steve had never been one to jeopardize a mission like this.

"Would you have left me?" He asked, knowing what her answer would be.

Natasha didn't answer. "That's not the point Steve. The point is that we almost got those kids killed. I don't know about you, but my concious can't handle that type of guilt."

Steve grabbed her arm when she tried to walk away. "I messed up. I heard you yelling and I didn't even think before running in after you. But everyone is okay. Most importantly, your okay. My concious wouldn't have been able to handle it if I left you to die. I hope you can at least understand that."

Natasha eventually nodded. "I do. It was so reckless though. I don't understand why you would risk their lives for mine."

Steve let the words slip from his mouth before he even thought about them. "Because I love you. I would be an absolute wreck if I lost you."

Natasha froze. "You what?"

Steve cursed, realizing what he had done. "Er, I just um. I meant that I really care about you and I uh"

Natasha didn't let him finish. She cut him off by kissing him and smiled ear to ear when he pulled away. "I love you too."

So, this sucks. But I wanted to write it and get some more chapters out there.

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