After a long day at work (Y/N) trudged herself through the door of her girlfriends cosy apartment which she'd only moved into a week prior. Yelena stood in the kitchen with her back to the door as the dropped her bag at her feet and slipped off her shoes.
She'd had the exterminator come to her work today and she was exhausted mentally and physically. Slowly she dragged her feet across the wooden floors and wrapped her arms around Yelenas waist and buried her face between the blondes shoulders and let out a sigh as her girlfriend hummed to the soft music coming through the speaker. "Hi moya lyubov, how was work?" The Russian asked her softly.
"I don't want to think about it." (Y/N) told her, and honestly she didn't. It wasn't that she was just being stubborn and wanting more of Yelenas attention before telling her anything, it was the fact that she'd had the exterminator at work today. An exterminator whom gave her a very detailed run down of spider and bug anatomy and what would be happening and it just didn't sit well with her. She was on edge and felt like all of those spiders were crawling on her and that led her to detaching herself from the blonde and breaking their afternoon tradition.
Yelena turned to her girlfriend confused as she felt her arms retracked from her waist. (Y/N) always holding onto her from behind as she relaxed after a long day at work while they'd catch up and just enjoy being close to one another. "Are you okay?" Yelena asked concerned as she brought her hand up to check the (Y/H/C)s forehead.
Looking up into her hazel eyes, (Y/N) gave her a soft smile before grabbing the hand checking for a temperature and pulling it to her lips to kiss. "I'm alright, Lee. I just want to go and take a shower, it's been a long day." She told the worried girl and the crease in the blondes forehead let up as Yelena turned to turn off the stove.
"Come on, detka. I'll run us a bath, hmm?" Yelena asked her as she started walking towards the bathroom, not taking no for an answer.
Upon entering the bathroom (Y/N) found Yelena with her head in the bathroom cabinet as the bathtub was filling, pulling out some bubble bath and candles and it automatically brought a smile to the (Y/H/C)s lips as she watched the Russian.
"Lavender or vanilla?" Yelena asked and (Y/N) shook her head softly letting her know she could choose. Looking over her options for a second longer, she put the vanilla away and added in some lavender bubble bath and lit some candles. "Come here moy rebenok, let me take care of you." Yelena said as she opened her arms.
Complying with the blondes request, (Y/N) shuffled towards her and let out a sigh as she fell into her arms and rested head in the crook of her neck.
Wrapping her arms around the tired girl Yelena hummed and rocked them from side to side for a minute, kissing her forehead before pulling back to undress them both.
Hopping into the bath first, Yelena turned off the water and opened her arms and legs for the (Y/H/C) to hop in next and once the hot water hit her aching muscles, (Y/N) let out a small moan and rested her back against Yelenas chest.
As they both relaxed, Yelena slowly worked out the knots in her shoulders and back after being tense all day and before long the water started to cool and they both hopped out after getting clean and got into some warm PJs.
"Are you feeling better?" Yelena asked as she wrapped her arms around the other girls neck and (Y/N) smiled at her softy.
"Much, thanks Lee. I love you," (Y/N) told her, pressing a kiss to her loves awaiting lips before dragging her back to the kitchen and hugging her from behind once more.
It wasn't until after dinner as they lounged on the couch that her little 'fun' facts popped into her brain as she spotted a spider on the wall behind the TV. And normally, normally, (Y/N) was okay with spiders, she would let Yelena know and the Russian would get rid of them without much fuss.
But at the sight of the beady eyed, long legged arachnid, (Y/N)s mind jumped to what the exterminator had told her today and she brought her legs up to her chest as she climbed onto Yelenas lap and started to panic. "Dorogoy I can't put the spider outside if you're on top of me." She chuckled and tears slowly filled her eyes and she clung to the blonde as if she was her lifeline.
"Kill it, Lena! Please, get rid of it please!" (Y/N) cried as she shoved her face deep into Yelenas neck and her reaction threw the blonde off before she wrapped her arms around her girlfriends shaking figure.
"Alright, detka. Calm down for me, I'm going to get rid of it I just need you to get off my lap for a second, alright?" Yelena asked calmly and after a a few seconds and a shaky breath, (Y/N) slowly moved off her lap and let out a low whimper as she got up quickly and took the spider outside with a piece of paper.
"Is it gone?" She asked as soon as Yelena came back into the room.
"Yes, dorogoy. Did you want to tell me what's going on?" She asked the still shaking girl as she watched her climb back into her lap and curl her body into her chest as she shook her head. "Alright detka. Let's go to bed and have some cuddles then." Yelena suggested as she scooped her up and took them to bed, abandoning the half watched movie.
Not long later, as the pair cuddled up closely, Yelena fell asleep after she'd had a long day herself as (Y/N) scanned the room once again for anymore creepy crawlies. She spent hours lifting her head periodically and scanning the walls around them before resting it back on the blondes chest.
When she checked her phone the bright screen let her know it was nearly 2am and with that information paired with her droopy tired eyes, she sat up once more, scanning the walls for any spiders, before gently shaking Yelenas shoulder. "Baby... Are you awake?" She asked quietly and Yelena let out a low hum without opening her eyes.
"We had the bug guy come into work today." She started and Yelena hummed again as she drifted between sleep and being awake. "And I told him we needed to get rid of huntmans because were getting more and more of them at my work now that they've become a pest around here." Again, Yelena hummed.
"And well, this guy told me he couldn't guarantee he could get rid of them, because they don't have webs, and... well, they actually walk on their nails and because the poison wont touch them directly it wouldn't kill them. But I didn't know spiders had nails and it freaked me out. That's why I reacted the way I did tonight." (Y/N) told her and let out a breath as she got it all off her chest. "Anyways, good night." She then added, kissing Yelenas cheek before she laid down on her pillow and finally got some sleep.
"Good night... Wait did you say nails? Huntsmans?!" Yelena asked as she shot up, looking over at her already asleep girlfriend before scanning the room around them, sitting against the bedhead as she reached for her gun in her bedside. "What the fuck..." She muttered as she thought about what she was just told, shuddering at the feeling of something crawling over her skin as she scanned the walls repeatedly. (Y/N) didn't know this, but Yelena was actually terrified of spiders. However she wanted to impress the other girl and would bite her tongue while she got rid of them for her.
She'd usually get kisses and cuddles and sometimes she'd get lucky after. But having the girl next to her wake her up to tell her this unnerving fact about a spider larger than her hand had thrown her off in her half asleep fugue state as she looked around confused, clutching her gun tightly, determined to protect both of them.
Throughout the night Yelenas head would drop as she was in and out of consciousness, always waking with a startle and scanning the walls around them before readjusting her grip on the gun as she toyed with the safety to make sure she hadn't bumped it while dosing off.
As the sun came up the next morning, Yelenas head drooped again, shooting up at the sound of their alarm and causing the other girl to slowly wake up as she rolled over into Yelenas lap. "G'morning..." She told the blonde as she buried her head into the Russian to block out the sun light.
"Morning," Yelena replied, placing her gun beside her as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes.
Shuffling close, (Y/N) let out a small series of groans to get Yelenas attention before the Russian chuckled tiredly and scooted down the bed to wrap her arms around the (Y/H/C). The two stayed like this, cuddled closely as they did each morning before a second alarm would go off and tell them they needed to start getting ready.
It started after an argument between the pair about not spending enough time together with both of their long work days and Yelenas spontaneous missions. So without talking, Yelena hugged her girlfriend a little tighter and let out a long sigh.
"Is that a gun pressed to my thigh or are you just happy to see me?" (Y/N) joked, pulling away from Yelenas hold hesitantly only to see there really was a gun smooshed between them.
"Yelena what the hell?!" (Y/N) yelled, waking up quickly as she pulled back completely and distanced herself from the loaded gun and Yelena quickly opened her eyes at the outburst.
"Der'mo! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Yelena told her in a panic as she grabbed her gun, checking the safety was still on (it was), before taking the bullet out of the chamber and removing the clip, placing it back in the draw. "Detka I'm so sorry, I must've fell asleep and I forgot I had the gun..." Yelena explained, rubbing her eyes again.
"Why did you have your gun out in the first place?" (Y/N) asked, getting out of bed to get ready, their alarm hadn't gone off but she was to freaked out to just lay there.
"I- Well..." She trailed off.
"Well?" (Y/N) asked, turning to look at the blushing Russian.
"Well I didn't want you to find out this way, or ever..." Yelena started.
"Oh my god... Oh my god! Yelena I told you the day you brought your work home you had to tell me! Who the hell did you piss of and how much time do we have?!" (Y/N) yelled, looking over to the blonde with wide eyes as she scrambled to get there emergency backpacks.
"What? Wait no!" Yelena told her, quickly realising what she'd said as she jumped up off the bed to calm her down. "I didn't piss anyone off, we're okay. We have all the time in the world, dorogoy. Just take a breath with me, alright?" Yelena told her soothingly.
After a few breaths, Yelena stepped back and sat on the edge of the bed. "Look, I shouldn't have lied in the first place but it was small and it didn't seem like a big deal at the time. I wanted to show you I was brave and I could take care of you! Nat said it was okay, and that I was just-" Yelena waved her hands for a moment as she thought of the right words. "That I was trying to impress you since we'd jut started dating. Like a peacock!" She finished and (Y/N) stared at her confused, taking her own seat.
"What lie did you tell me exactly?" She asked her as she scrambled her brains trying to understand where this was going.
"I might be slightly scared of spiders... So when you woke me up in the middle of the night with all that spider trivia it, it might have set me off a little and I needed to protect us, protect you." (Y/N) melted at the words that left her girlfriends mouth and if it was possible she fell more in love with her.
"Yelena... I was impressed the moment I saw you, you didn't need to get rid of the spiders all this time for me." (Y/N) told her with a smile, moving into Yelenas lap as she straddled the blonde and wrapped her arms around her neck.
"You were?" Yelena asked her in surprise.
"Duh! You saved me from that drunk frat guy. Of course I was impressed! You had a lot of confidence and you looked so good in your leather jacket-"
"It's easy to get the blood off-"
"I knew you were going to change my life the moment I saw you." (Y/N) finished, choosing to ignore the Russians comment as she tried not to laugh, her eyes crinkling as she looked into Yelenas hazel ones.
"Well I knew the moment I saw you that you were someone special too." Yelena replied before leaning in and resting their foreheads together. "You're my favourite person... But don't tell Nat." She whispered.
"You're my favourite everything." (Y/N) told her in reply before pressing a soft kiss to the lips of girl beneath her. "One of these days you'll have to put a ring on it. But for now we have work." She added, standing up as Yelena groaned and flopped back onto the mattress.
"Must we do this everyday?" She asked annoyed.
"Only most days." (Y/N) replied, sending her a smile over her shoulder as she disappeared behind the bathroom door.