The Game That Started it All

Training

Natasha's POV:

"Again."

Madame B announced to the many girls in the studio, continuing their pointe exercises.

"You'll break them." I say uneasily

"Only the breakable ones. You're made of marble."

"What if I fail?" I whisper

"You'll never fail."

"Failure results in death Natalia-"

Fail and you die."

I jolted up from where I lay sleeping on my bed, sweat pouring down my face.

"Fuck." I whisper.

It was just another nightmare. Nothing too out of the ordinary.

I look over at the clock that was on my bedside table, it sat there blinking at me reading 5:45am in red numbers. I might as well get up considering that I most definitely won't be getting back to sleep.

I slip out from underneath my warm covers and change into some training clothes. I then head out of my room in the compound and go to the kitchen.

No one was awake which didn't surprise me. Tony and Clint were probably sleeping off last nights booze fest and wouldn't be awake until noon at the earliest. Thor and Loki were still in Asgard attempting to share the throne, while Wanda and Vision were still probably asleep, but it's likely for them to be up soon and Bruce I think was on some trip to do with science and what not.

What did surprise me though is that Steve wasn't anywhere to be seen yet. He's usually up as early as I am if not earlier. I shrug it off, thinking he's probably just in the training room and I make myself a bagel with cream cheese, along with some orange juice.

I was then startled by someone's presence behind me and quickly whipped my head around to see Steve towering over me.

"Oh sorry I didn't mean to scare you." Steve says apologetically.

I sighed in relief at the fact that it was only him "It's ok."

He looked like he had just been working out, which I predicted. He heads over to the counter and snatches up an apple from the fruit bowl. His white T-shirt was awfully tight, you could basically see every muscle of his through that shirt.

"Are you headed to the training room?" He asks with a mouthful.

I realize I had been staring and hadn't heard his question at all, I must be tired.

"Sorry what?" I ask as my cheeks turn a slight pink

He chuckles at my cluelessness and repeats "I asked if you were headed to the training room."

"Oh yeah right now actually."

"Great, I'll join you." He smiles, turning around and waiting for me to walk with him.

"Didn't you just come from the training room? You look like shit." I laugh while walking with Steve.

"Thanks Romanoff. Yeah I did but I could always use more practice." He says glancing sideways at me.

We walk the rest of the way in silence which wasn't long, nor uncomfortable. When we reach the training room, Steve speaks up.

"Want to do a bit of sparring?" He asks.

"Sounds good to me."

We head over to the big mat in the middle of the room and stand across from each other, ready to engage.

"Ready?" He says while rolling his shoulders back.

"Yeah let's go super soldier." I reply with a smirk.

He smiles back but then gets into a fighting stance. As we eye each other up, each trying to predict what the others going to do, he makes the first move.

He swings a punch at me which I easily block and go for a punch to his torso. He blocks my fist which I didn't expect and goes in and kicks my side. With the momentum of his kick I roll to the ground but get up quickly. I fake a punch to the right and immediately slide under his left arm so I'm standing right behind him.

I kick the back of his knee which makes his leg buckle and collapse, with him now a little shorter than me I quickly snake both my legs onto his shoulders. When I'm fully up, I swiftly turn and knock him to the ground while landing on my feet.

"Cmon Captain, get up would ya." I tease looking at him laying face up on the ground.

He gets up without saying anything and tackles me to the mat. Considering him being much stronger and his muscle mass probably about double my weight, he had my arms pinned down in no time.

"Cmon Natasha, get up would ya." He replies  smirking, with our faces inches apart.

With my legs free I kick him off me and to the side where I then sit on his torso straddling him with me now pinning his arms down.

"You're gonna regret mocking me Rogers." I laugh.

He lies there underneath me looking really uncomfortable, making his face turn a little red.

"Uncomfortable are we Rogers? Would you like me to get up?" I joke.

"No need to." He says smiling as he flips me on to my back again, giving him the upper hand.

"Damn it Steve." I say while his weight was crushing my small figure.

"Language." He smirks again.

Our faces were even closer than before now, I could feel his tired and hot breaths on my skin as he hovered over me. The tension in this training room you could cut with a knife. His blonde hair was messy and falling over his sweaty forehead as he looked down at me, those sharp blue eyes could pierce holes through my green ones, but I still found comfort in his gaze. Neither of us seemed to want to move, we were comfortable with each other. My eyes flicked to his lips for a mili second when no one other then Bucky Barnes walks through the doors.

"Enjoying yourselves I see?" Bucky says looking at us with a devious smile plastered on his face.

"Nope I was just busy kicking his ass." I say. Steve gives me a confused look while I punch him in the stomach so I can get out of his grasp. I then take his right arm and pin it behind his back and put my foot on his left arm so he's stuck.

"Well played Romanoff." Steve grunts while squirming beneath me.

Bucky laughs, "Good because I was scared I walked in on something I wasn't supposed to."

I roll my eyes at Bucky while I let Steve go and walked off the mat over to where my water bottle was. All of a sudden FRIDAY spoke up.

"Mr. Stark requests that you all meet in the living room within the next few minutes."

"Ok, thanks Friday." I say back.

I start walking to my room to get changed out of my sweaty clothes lost in a daze of what Tony could possibly want, on one of the few days we don't have any missions. I knew it wasn't going to be good. But I also knew he wouldn't stop bothering all of us until we were in the living room eventually. Once I got to my room I changed and headed down to the rest of the Avengers.

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A/N
I hope you enjoyed the first chapter!! I will try to write as much as I can but also send requests for what you want to see in this book ❤️

-Ella