A shameless hurt/comfort fic I wrote for Steve and Natasha because Romanogers is my OTP. I'm also trying a new style of writing for this one, so lets see how it turned out.

The nightmares have different degrees of severity. Sometimes he wakes up screaming, sometimes he wakes up gasping, struggling to catch his breath, sometimes tears are running down his face, while other times he just sits up wide eyed and doesn't move. What he does after he wakes up depends on the dream.

Most of the time he gets up and paces around the tower, or stares out at the New York skyline. Sometimes he lays in bed staring up at the ceiling trying not to think. If the dream wasn't so bad he would draw, but the bad ones he needs to break something so he goes to the gym and hits the punching bags till they burst.

They are the same dreams over and over again too. Sometimes they're about the war, other times losing Bucky, crashing the plane into ice, or waking up in a time where ,again, everyone he knew was dead. There are newer ones too, ones about the Battle of New York, the latest mission if it was bad enough, or being a complete failure and watching his team, his friends, die and it being all his fault.

Though some nights she is there, arms wrapped around him, head resting on his chest, her hair tickling him under his chin. She smells like cinnamon, which he thinks really suits her. He always wakes her up even though he tries not to and feels guilty about it, but she doesn't get mad. She just puts her hands on either side of his face and gently kisses his forehead. Silently reminding him that he is ok and away from the places of his nightmares.

Sometimes she is the one who wakes up from nightmares filled with red from years past. Then he is the one who comforts her. He doesn't mind though because she needs it and it repays all the times she has done the same for him.

Though the nightmares aren't completely hated because when one wakes up frightened and the other comforts them, it reminds Steve and Natasha that they are not alone in the world. That they have someone to fight for, someone to love, and most importantly that someone loves them.

Thank you for reading and hopefully you liked it. Leave me a review please. ^-^

-BumblebeenGlaceon