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You and Natasha had been sent to fetch one of Tony’s armors, stolen by HYDRA a few months back. You had just knocked out about a dozen guards but the last one tried to fight back with a paint bucket after you had snatched his gun - and when Natasha blocked his attack, the paint bucket opened up and now Tony’s armor was covered in bright pink paint. You tried to hold your smiles.
“Do you think Tony would like that new color?” Natasha asked as she took the armor from the wall and made it to shrink into a portable box.
“I’m not sure if Tony approves. But fortunately you’re cute so he might let it slide.”
“I think it- wait, did you just call me cute?” Natasha furrowed her eyebrows at you and you swallowed. It had been an accident, just a whim of thought. You hadn’t meant to say it aloud. A blush started to creep up on your face and you squeezed your lips together.
You had had a crush on Nat ever since the two of you were paired on a scouting mission together for the first time, and those who knew about your crush were immediately shipping you two. Natasha didn’t know it (fortunately) but you were more than aware and Tony made sure to try and tease you, make you fight so you wouldn’t blush whenever you three were in the same room. Even better if the whole team was there. He knew how to drop such hints which made your heart race in fear someone would catch on it, but no one really didn’t realize if they didn’t know about your crush on Natasha. He was always dropping hints at a dinner table with everyone present and making someone giggle into their tissues.
Thor was being a lot more straight with his “jokes”, which were practically saying that “you know we have a saying in Asgard for the you look at Natasha, it’s called love”, but Natasha had always taken them like that - as jokes. A bit strange jokes, yes, but jokes.
But now you had dropped the bomb, and you could practically see how the pieces molded together in Natasha’s head. You couldn’t make any excuses anymore. So you just smiled sheepishly and Natasha cocked her eyebrow while smirking.
“Those strange jokes Thor and Tony always throw at us?” she inquired and let out a little laugh. “Well, now I have a reason to go on a date with you.”
“I’m… what?”