This was one of the first fics I read in this fandom and I still love it. I actually thought of this one when the question was asked about fiction where Natasha falls in love first (she doesn't really in this fic, but is more open to it first obviously)...and now I have this little nagging thing in my head that is telling me that maybe when he first finds her, they don't know what her age is...so she is all "let me love you" and he is all "no way kid", and she is all "I'm not a kid" b/c she thinks she's in her 20s (because she has been through so much and feels the years on her shoulders) and he thinks she's a teenager and so he waits a few years until he is more comfortable and then they get it on, haha.