After the "civil war", as the public liked to call it, Steve headed out on the run with Sam. Natasha decided to join which confused Steve a little since she was on Tony's side of the debate.

"You know you didn't have to come with me." Steve told her, "You signed the accords you can live a normal life."

"I know. I might have agreed with Tony's side more but you're my closest friend not him. So if I was gonna do anything I'd want it to be with you. Plus you can't be alone."

"I've got Sam. I won't be alone. It's not to late for you to return."

"I'm not gonna do that."

"Why not?"

She stepped closer. "Because... I'm falling."

"You're what?"

Nat kissed him softly and he was confused for a second but ok with it. Then she pulled back quickly, "Sorry I shouldn't have done that. Friends?"

"We'll always be friends." Steve said shaking her outstretched hand and she ran out of the room.

"So what are we doing." Sam asked as Steve walked into the main room.

"We could settle minor disturbances. This ship will show what is happening different places." Steve told him.

"With all my time that I was with Shield after the KGB I can pick up things on the ship from around that no one else could. You can also tell who might be in trouble."

"Sounds good enough to me." Sam told them.

"Oh, there's one potential threat going towards the compound below us." Sam said looking at the screens.

""I'm on it." Steve informed as he went to go and grab his equipment.

"I'm coming with you!" Nat told him following behind him.

"No you aren't Nat."

"Yes Steve I am."

"No. We need someone to stay here and run recon, tell you where people are or what the overall status is." Steve said tightening the straps in his shield.

"Well you're not going alone." Nat informed him.

"You're right I'm taking Sam. Do you need to get ready Sam?"

"Just gotta my wings." Sam said as he walked over to where they were stored. He put them on and gave one nod to Steve.

"See you in a bit Tash." Steve smirked before they both jumped out of the ship. Nat roller her eyes and brought up the layout screen. The jet was close enough that it could pick up movement with infrared cameras. Then on a screen on the side you could see what the people looked like.

"Nice landing Captain America." Nat teases him.

"Focus." He chided as he stood up and looked around. "What've we got?" He asked as Sam landed next to him. Nat looked at the layout and saw people running towards them, "Ok you guys 3 hostiles on your left, 2 on your right."

Steve swung his shield and knocked the left out. Sam flew and knocked one out and then dip a dip and got the other one before he could stop shooting.

"Smooth smooth." Natasha mumbled she looked around and saw a few guys goofing off. She wondered if this thing had sound. She found a volume button to see if that would work. She heard some machine movement as a satellite with a parabolic microphone moved into place. She heard them speaking in rough tones. There were 3 guys and they were talking in a pretty perverted manner.

"That would've been perfect for my skill set." Nat mumbled then louder said, "I totally should be there!"

"Next time Romanoff." Steve told her and he poked his head around a corner and saw 8 guys coming towards him. "Maybe you should've come Natasha."

"I told you."

"What about me?" Sam inquired.

"You know you're helpful and a good partner. But can you take out 8 guys at the same time?"

"I can!" Natasha said teasing Sam.

"Nat no one asked you. I'll try Steve."

Nat watched as all of the little figures on her collided. 4 of the men went down, that was only half and Steve and Sam had lost the element of surprise. Nat rubbed her temples nervously. She saw a guy behind them with a knife. "BEHIND YOU." She screamed. Steve turned around and held the guys hand up forcing him to drop the knife. The man was a quick thinker and immediately grabbed another knife and stabbed Steve in the side before he could react. Sam has finished with the other 3 guys and knocked the knife guy out from behind.

"Seems a bit more serious of a situation than a potential threat." Sam noted.

"Is he ok?" Nat asked her voice laced with concern.

"I'm fine Nat." Steve grimaced.

"You know I can see you, right?"

"I'm fine!"

"You don't look fine."

They managed to get back on the ship. Natasha was ready with some cleaning necessities and bandages.

"Sam help me get his top off."

Sam nodded and they managed to get his top off and Nat immediately knelt by Steve's torso and started dabbing at the wound. Steve grimaced in pain.

"You should go take a shower, further wash it out... also you smell." Nat told him as she put the stuff away. Steve nodded.

"After you're done, Steve I'll bandage it."

"I could probably bandage it myself!"

"No. I would be better I have better access and you KNOW I am an expert at bandaging wounds on the torso anyways. I told you that don't make me bring it up again." Nat glared at him.

"Yes ma'am, I'm sorry." Steve immediately backed up as he recalled the time she had shown him a few of her scars. Sam helped Steve get up and move towards the shower.

"I got it Sam, thank you."

"What did she mean by that?" Sam whispered.

"I'm not at liberty to tell you Sam, sorry."

"That's ok. Take care of yourself." Sam walker back out and saw Natasha reaching into a high cabinet for something. Her shirt uncovering part of her torso as she did so. Steve noted the faded little marks on her back. He didn't see a lot though and he decided not to ask.

"You need some help?" Sam asked as he walked up next to her and grabbed what he assumed she needed.

"Thank you. I had to bandage..."

"No need to explain it's ok Nat."

Nat nodded and smiled a small smile at him.

**A few weeks later**

Steve's wound was healing nicely, luckily the cut hadn't been too deep so it was almost comepletly healed. Nat and Sam had been in agreement that he sit out and do the recon until he didn't have a vulnerable point. Steve grumbled but ultimately agreed that they were probably right. After they'd been flying almost a week with no new task they could tell Steve was getting antsy.

"What's going on man?" Sam asked Steve.

"We should stay somewhere that isn't this ship." Steve said, "Get some solid ground underneath us. I'm sure we all feel a bit cooped up."

Nat folded her arms and looked at the map Steve had pulled up"We're not doing it here. Let's wait to get further south."

"Where have we ended up?" Sam asked coming to stand beside Steve.

"We're over Irkutsk." Nat said with a hint of familiarity in her voice.

"Let me guess, Russia?" Steve guessed.

"What's in Russia?" Sam asked.

"Nothing good." Nat told him, it was clear to both men that she did not wish to elaborate any further. Steve decided to explain to Sam a bit.

"She's Russian." Steve told him.

"And?" Sam asked still not getting it.

"I don't really want to talk about it again, sorry Sam." Nat said gathering a few things and leaving the room. Sam raised an eyebrow. Steve crossed his arms, "When you were around this area doing your task force missions did you ever hear of the Red Room Program?"

"I vaguely remember something along those lines. They took orphaned girls and told them they were learning ballet but actually trained them to be professional assassins able to kill whomever they were ordered to and had no guilt about it either?"

"So you have heard of it."

Sam shrugged, "I guess so."

"She was part of that program." Steve said.

"Her, Natasha Romanoff?"

"Her full name is Natalia Alianovna Romanova. She is THE Black Widow. When you hear of one black widow that surpassed them all? Sure they had the black widow program but one surfaced to the top and became an example to the other girls, that was her."

"Wow. How did she get out? Because she's obviously not doing that now."

"That's a whole other story." Steve sighed.

"What's the story with you two?"

"Me and Nat?"

"Yeah."

"Ah just good friends. I met her on that Avengers mission in New York. We did a few other missions together before taking down Hydra, and meeting you. She basically did whatever Fury wanted her to do. He was like her surrogate father to her I guess but I'm not sure. But anyways hydra was compromised, we went on the run to figure out how to take them down. We talked on the way to the old Shield headquarters someone blew that up, and she got knocked out so I carried her away. That said I saved her life a few times she has saved mine. There was the Avengers thing that presented the sokovia accords and then you were there for the accords. Bucky and I ran into the hangar with the ships and Nat was the only one standing in our way. She knew I wasn't gonna stop helping Bucky so she allowed us to go. We just understand each other very well. Fury and I are the only ones she really actually trusts 100% completely." Steve shrugged, "It's nice to have a friend like her, and you."

"The way you two look at each other. You're gonna need to try a lot harder to convince me y'all are just friends."

"I mean we are. Anyways goodnight Sam."

"Goodnight." Sam said as Steve got up and went to his sleeping quarters. Sam sat there for a few minutes contemplating what had just been told to him. He sighed and decided to go to bed.