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Natasha unlocked the door to Maria's apartment and walked in. 'Maria, you home?' She called out. 'Yeah, just a minute,' Maria called out from down the hallway. 'You alright?' Natasha replied. 'Not really, can you give me a hand?' Maria called out. Natasha headed down the hallway to the bathroom, to find Maria crouching in the bathtub in her underwear, trying to wash a cat in shallow water.
'Who's cat it that, and why are you giving it a bath?' Natasha asked with a laugh. Maria grunted as she grabbed the cat before it could jump out of the bath. 'It's Fury's cat, I'm cat sitting,' Maria said with a sigh. 'Fury has a cat?' Natasha asked, eyebrow raised. 'Well, Goose isn't really a cat,' Maria said with a shrug. 'Well Goose looks like a cat,' Natasha said, eyebrows scrunched in confusion. 'I'll explain later, can you help me wash him?' Maria asked. 'Sure, but why are you bathing a cat, you know they hate water right?' Natasha asked. 'A certain very attractive redhead left some chocolate syrup on the counter without a lid, Goose knocked it on the floor and decided to roll around in it,' Maria said with a sigh. 'We used it for sex, I wasn't going to just put it back in the pantry!' Natasha exclaimed. Maria rolled her eyes, 'it's fine Nat, just please help me clean Goose?' Maria asked with a pout. 'Okay,' Natasha said, pulling off her T-shirt and jeans and throwing them in Maria's laundry hamper.
Natasha got in the bath and held Goose whilst Maria washed the last of the chocolate syrup out of his fur. Maria then got out of the bath and grabbed a towel. Natasha wrapped goose in the towel and started carefully drying off his fur. Maria grabbed her phone from the counter and snapped a picture of Natasha holding Goose, who was wrapped in the towel like a burrito. Natasha finished drying the cat and deposited him on the floor. Maria cropped the photo so you couldn't see below Natasha’s neck and sent it to fury. She captioned it 'Goose's first bath time'. Fury replied a few minutes later with a text full of concern about why Goose needed a bath and whether he was okay.
'Thanks Nat,' Maria said with a smile. 'You're welcome, cats are great,' Natasha said whilst stripping out of her underwear. Maria got out of her underwear too and turned on the shower. Maria pushed Natasha back against the shower wall and kissed her softly. Natasha's hands made their way to Maria's ass, squeezing it as they kissed. Maria soon pulled away, which earned a pout from Natasha. The pout quickly turned into a face of pleasure as Maria got down on her knees to eat Natasha out.
A few minutes later, both Natasha and Maria were catching their breath. 'You have a magical tongue,' Natasha said with a satisfied smile. 'Hmm, so I've heard,' Maria replied, smirking as she lathered some shampoo in her hands. Natasha's turned around and relaxed as Maria's hands massaged her scalp. Maria ran her fingers through Natasha's long red hair, detangling the wavy strands. 'That feels amazing,' Natasha murmured. 'Better that an orgasm?' Maria asked with a laugh. 'No, but it's not far off,' Natasha replied, smiling blissfully. When Maria was finished washing her hair, Natasha turned around. She planted a quick kiss on the brunette's lips. 'Can I wash your hair?' Natasha asked. 'If you want, there's not a lot to wash though,' Maria said with a shrug. She turned around as Natasha began pouring shampoo on her hair that was cut just above her shoulders. 'Hey, that's way too much shampoo Nat,' Maria said, trying to grab the bottle. 'Hey, I like the bubbles,' Natasha said with a pout. Maria rolled her eyes but smiled at the redhead lovingly. Natasha began washing Maria's hair, attempting to spike it upwards. She managed to get a fairly tall spike before it flopped over. Natasha laughed as bubbles went everywhere. 'Are you trying to give me a mohawk?' Maria asked with a laugh. Natasha patted Maria's hair down, 'no,' she said with a smirk.
'So, what's the story with Goose not being an actual cat?' Natasha asked, stirring the marshmallows in her hot chocolate. Maria set her cup down on the table, 'has Fury ever told you about Carol Danvers?' Maria asked. 'You mean the super hot lesbian chick with alien powers who can fly?' Natasha asked. Maria smirked, 'Yep, do you know how she got her powers?' Maria asked. 'Something about a plane crash, the rest is classified level 10,' Natasha said. 'If that's all you're allowed to know then I doubt you've heard of the tesseract,' Maria said. 'That super powerful blue 084?' Natasha asked. 'I stand corrected, how did you hear about that?' Maria asked with a frown. 'I was sneaking around in the vents with Barton and we saw it get moved into the high security facility,' Natasha said with a shrug. 'Why am I not surprised?' Maria muttered, causing Natasha to laugh.
'Anyway, I don't know the whole story, but Goose is somehow connected to Carol,' Maria said. 'Goose went to space with Fury, Danvers and Rambeau, and ate a bunch of aliens,' Maria added. Natasha nearly choked on her hot chocolate, 'I'm sorry, a cat ate some aliens?' Natasha said. 'He also swallowed the tesseract,' Maria said. 'Oh my god, and you let it in your apartment?' Natasha asked, glancing worriedly at Goose who was happily sleeping on the couch. 'Yeah, apparently Goose is some sort of alien called a flerken,' Maria said. 'Right, that makes perfect sense,' Natasha said with a sigh. 'Anyway, Goose eventually coughed the tesseract back up, but Fury grew attached to him,' Maria said with a smirk. 'So now you have to babysit a cat alien?' Natasha asked. 'Yep,' Maria said with a sigh, sometimes she wondered how she ended up having such a strange life where babysitting aliens was a norm.
Natasha bolted awake in the middle of the night. 'Maria!' She exclaimed. 'Ugh, what's wrong Nat?' Maria asked sleepily. 'Fury told me once that he lost his eye to an alien,' Natasha said. 'Yep,' Maria replied with a yawn. 'Do you think it was Goose?' Natasha asked. Maria sat up, 'I don't think so,' she said. 'But he lost it in like 95' right?' Natasha asked. 'Yeah,' Maria replied. 'How many aliens did SHEILD see before 1995?' Natasha asked. Maria frowned, 'none that Fury was involved with'. 'See! Hah, I can't believe it,' Natasha said, snorting with laughter. 'Oh my god, I am never going to let him hear the end of this,' Maria said with a smirk, kissing Natasha on the head before laying back down.
'Morning Nat,' Maria said as Natasha walked into the kitchen wearing Maria's Westpoint hoodie and a pair of briefs. 'Morning,' Natasha replied with a yawn. She hopped up onto one of the stools at the breakfast bar to watch Maria cook. After a few minutes, Maria turned away from the stove 'Are you gonna stare at my ass or help me cook?' she asked. 'Well you have a really nice ass, and besides, I can't cook anything without burning it,' Natasha said with a shrug. 'That's true, can you make the coffee then?' Maria asked. 'Of course,' Natasha replied, jumping down from the stool and grabbing two mugs from the cupboard.
'Hey Nat?' Maria asked. 'Yeah?' 'Well, we've been dating for nearly 2 years now,' Maria began. '1 year, 10 months and 13 days,' Natasha replied with a smile. 'Yeah, and we love each other,' Maria said. Natasha nestled her head into Maria's chest, 'That we do,' she said with loving smile. 'Well, there's something I've been thinking about for a while,' Maria said. She took a few breath, 'would you like to move in together?' Maria asked. 'Really?' Natasha asked, moving to look at Maria. 'Really, if you want to,' Maria said. 'I'd love to,' Natasha replied. Goose jumped up on the couch and sat on Natasha's stomach. Natasha patted him and he started kneading her arm. 'I'm not moving in until Goose is gone though,' she said with a laugh.
'Romanoff, what can I do for you?' Fury asked. 'I just came to return Goose,' the redhead said, placing the cat carrier on the desk. 'I thought Hill was looking after him?' Fury asked. 'Yeah, I was leaving her apartment and she asked me to drop him off,' Natasha replied. 'Why were you at Hill's apartment?' Fury asked with a frown. Natasha raised an eyebrow, 'do you really want to hear the answer to that question sir?' Realisation spread across his face, 'oh my god, you guys are banging?' he asked. 'Yep,' Natasha said with a smirk. 'Huh, can't say I didn't see it coming,' Fury said with a shrug. 'Speaking of seeing,' Natasha began. 'If you're about to make a pirate joke, I'm not in the mood Romanoff,' Fury said. 'Your eye is because of Goose, right?' Natasha asked. Fury sighed, 'I figured you and Hill would work it out one day'. 'It's hilarious, you're the director of SHIELD and you lost your eye to a cat,' Natasha said with a smirk. 'Goose isn't really a cat, and anyway I've forgiven him now, isn't that right Goosie?' Fury said the cat, picking him up and giving him a scratch behind the ears. Natasha just rolled her eyes and quietly left Fury's office.
Natasha burst into Maria's office. 'We were right Masha,' she said excitedly. Maria looked up from her work, 'about what?' 'Fury's eye, it was Goose,' Natasha said triumphantly. 'Hah, he's never gonna hear the end of it,' Maria replied. 'Do you want me to get us some lunch?' Natasha asked. 'Sure, I've got a report to finish up, so when you get back we can do more apartment hunting,' Maria said. Natasha reappeared in Maria's office a few minutes later with two salads in hand. She pulled up a chair and sat next to Maria, passing her one of the salads. The women sat there and scrolled through pages of apartments, none catching their eyes. 'You know, I could always assassinate or kidnap someone for some corrupt government and make some money so we can buy a house?' Natasha suggested jokingly. 'Not everything has to involve violence Nat,' Maria said, rolling her eyes. 'Hey, the only reason you said no to that last apartment was because there was no room for a gun safe,' Natasha argued. 'Fine, fine, I give up, but don't kill anyone, it's too much paperwork,' Maria said. Natasha looked at the clock. 'My lunch break is almost up, see you after work at my place?' She asked. 'Okay, but we're not going to spend the whole night looking at apartments right?' Maria asked. 'Of course not, we'll probably fuck multiple times and then eventually get round to it,' Natasha said with a shrug. 'Can't wait,' Maria said, bringing Natasha into a kiss.
Natasha shuffled closer to Maria to look at the screen of her laptop. Despite the cold air, neither Natasha or Maria had bothered to put clothes on after they had sex. 'That kitchen is nice,' Maria said, pointing to the screen. 'The bathroom is terrible though,' Natasha said. 'Good point,' Maria replied, clicking off and scrolling down further. After another half hour of no success, Maria groaned in frustration. 'I give up,' she said. 'It's okay Maria,' Natasha said. 'I know, I just want our first home together to be right,' Maria said. 'Maria, I don't care where we live,' Natasha said, 'as long as I'm with you, anywhere is home'. '2 years ago, I would've never imagined sitting in bed, naked, with the woman I love, looking for an apartment together,' Natasha said. 'You mean 1 year, ten months and 24 days,' Maria replied. Natasha chuckled and tucked a strand of hair behind Maria's ear. Maria smiled lovingly at her girlfriend, 'I love you Nat,' she whispered, pressing her forehead against Natasha's. 'I love you too,' Natasha whispered back.