(for my biggest platonic!Avengers kink: Natasha/Clint and Steve friendship.)

Suppose Valentine’s day occurred during Captain America 2? Clint and Natasha are separated during Valentine’s Day because of the Winter Soldier mission, and Steve lends a helping hand of some kind.

+1 if Clint and Natasha got together after the Avengers movie, and this is their first Valentine’s day as a couple.


Edited 2014-02-03 11:58 am (UTC)

The motel Natasha chooses in Alexandria is tiny, grungy, and smells damp in a way that reminds Steve of the barracks during the rainy winter months. As bolt-holes go, he’s had worse, he supposes, especially considering that in the past couple hours they’ve managed to lose their ride, most of their weapons, and any semblance of tactical advantage. It’s been a long time since he’s felt quite so helpless in a fight, the shock of it bringing back memories of alleyways in Brooklyn, of battling his own lungs for breath.

Natasha leaves the drugstore where they’ve stopped for first-aid supplies a few hundred feet ahead of him, melting into the crowd as Steve follows. He waits a block up as he watches her duck inside the motel, trying to look nonchalant with his hands full of flowers and the cheap heart-shaped chocolates he’s bought to draw attention away from the blood spreading under his shirt.

“Room 216,” comes her voice through the comm in his ear after what feels like an impossibly long few minutes.

AO3 (http://archiveofourown.org/works/1188570)

The FEELS! So lovely, and I would love to see Steve and Natasha form a friendship like this in Winter Soldier.