Drabbletag5 - MCU (Sharon/Natasha) - Cry
Title: as the world forgets
Prompt: Drabbletag5 - cry
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Pairing: Sharon/Natasha
Rating: G
Word Count: 228
"How is she?"
Sharon lowered the phone, keeping her eyes fixed on her kitchen counter, the pale scratches in the linoleum. (If she didn't blink, maybe the tears wouldn't fall.) "She thought I was my mother. Told me to wish her niece a happy tenth birthday."
Natasha's hands settled on her shoulders, turning her around so they were facing each other. She didn't say anything. Sharon struggled to stay calm.
"I don't know what to say to her," she said thickly, looking past Natasha, still fighting against the burn in her throat. "She was always--" Aunt Peggy with her laugh that made her feel like the sun had burst from behind the clouds, always Aunt Peggy with her hands around Sharon's, squeezing the trigger with her, air filled with the smell of gunsmoke and her perfume--
"She took me to the shooting range for my tenth birthday," she managed - because I always wanted to save people the way she did - and then the tears fell, hot and heavy, sobs swelling in her throat until they threatened to choke her. Natasha wrapped her arms around her and let her cry into her shoulder, soaking her shirt through.
"It's okay," she whispered, lips a hairsbreadth from Sharon's ear, and Sharon clutched her tighter, feeling as though the world was moving too fast, and Natasha the only stable thing left to cling to.