[Avengers: Drabble] "Start of Something" [Pepper/Natasha, G]
Title: Start of Something
Prompt: writerverse challenge #24 weekly quick fic #9, prompt “All We Are” (Matt Nathanson)
Word Count: 155
Rating: G
Original/Fandom: Avengers (MCU/movie ‘verse)
Pairings: Natasha Romanoff/Pepper Potts
Summary: Natasha can finally see her future.
Note(s): originally posted to the writerverse wv_library
Start of Something
The Red Room had taken her past, but Natasha had never realized that they had taken her future, too, until she was offered another.
And it was an offer- Pepper asked for no more than Natasha was willing to give, never pretended that ‘normal’ was even an option for them, but she made Natasha picture a future where they could at least be happy.
Natasha was surprised at how much she wanted that future, how hard it was to think of her relationship with Pepper as a liability each time it was the strongest motivation to get through a mission alive.
“Tasha?” came Pepper’s sleepy voice from beside her, “It’s too early to be thinking so loud.”
“I was thinking at the same volume as usual,” she said, pulling the blankets more securely over her bare shoulder. “And I was thinking about you.”
Pepper smiled. “Plenty of time for that later.”
“Yes,” Natasha agreed. “Later.”
THE END
Current Mood:
mellow
Prompt: writerverse challenge #24 weekly quick fic #9, prompt “All We Are” (Matt Nathanson)
Word Count: 155
Rating: G
Original/Fandom: Avengers (MCU/movie ‘verse)
Pairings: Natasha Romanoff/Pepper Potts
Summary: Natasha can finally see her future.
Note(s): originally posted to the writerverse wv_library
Start of Something
The Red Room had taken her past, but Natasha had never realized that they had taken her future, too, until she was offered another.
And it was an offer- Pepper asked for no more than Natasha was willing to give, never pretended that ‘normal’ was even an option for them, but she made Natasha picture a future where they could at least be happy.
Natasha was surprised at how much she wanted that future, how hard it was to think of her relationship with Pepper as a liability each time it was the strongest motivation to get through a mission alive.
“Tasha?” came Pepper’s sleepy voice from beside her, “It’s too early to be thinking so loud.”
“I was thinking at the same volume as usual,” she said, pulling the blankets more securely over her bare shoulder. “And I was thinking about you.”
Pepper smiled. “Plenty of time for that later.”
“Yes,” Natasha agreed. “Later.”
THE END
Current Mood:
mellow