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The apartment was finally getting warmer, Liho was sleeping on her cat tree and Natasha was cuddled to Maria’s side, dozing off as Maria read some file Fury had sent her hours ago but hadn’t had time to check yet, as someone kept distracting her. Maria reached over and pulled the blanket back on top of her lap and consequently on Natasha’s legs, prompting her to get closer, before turning another page. She was maybe five pages in when she felt eyes on her.
“Finally back in the land of the living?”
“Shut up, this meds make me feel worse than that fall” Natasha pouted as she buried her face on Maria’s neck.
“Maybe next time don’t jump from the tenth floor, babe” Maria gave her a brief look over before turning back to her file, caressing Natasha’s casted leg on the pillow in her lap.
“It was Yelena and Clint’s fault!”
“Sure it was” Natasha gave her a look that had Maria’s truth detector malfunctioning, wait, for real? “Do I even wanna know?”
“Probably no…” She was going to kill her in-laws one of these days. “What are you reading?” She would allow the change of subjects.
“The file Fury sent”
“The same one from this morning?” Maria tried to hide her blush behind the paper as she nodded, only peeking over to see Natasha’s growing smirk.
“I hate you”
“You didn’t this morning” Natasha wiggled her eyebrows suggestively and Maria’s mind went to the gutter in half a second.
“Nat!” She chuckled as Maria scrunched her nose and hitted her with the small stack of papers square in the head.
"Aw, you look cute when you blush, Commander" One thing Natasha found amazing after so much time of dating was how Maria had gone softer around her, she felt like it was her superpower to make the woman squirm, chuckle and blush. Maria’s superpower was making her feel safe, which was a lot to say, so Natasha’s power was nothing compared to it. Maria would disagree.
Deeming the papers incapable of hiding her, Maria circled one arm around Natasha's middle and somehow managed to hide in her neck, muffled words coming out before she planted a kiss over Natasha’s heart.
"How are you so comfortable?" She rested her head on her chest.
"Boobs, Masha, boobs" Natasha’s fingers combed through Maria's short hair, adjusting her leg a little, she began to doze off again, secured in Maria's hold.
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By the time they woke up again night had fallen and Liho was somehow sitting on top of Natasha, big green eyes staring at her. Maria was nuzzled against her neck, the file formerly in her hand discarded on the floor. She left a kiss on Maria's head and nudged her awake.
"Hello there, Masha" Another kiss "It's time to wake up" She reached up and combed hair out of her face, revealing sleepy blue eyes that were fast to close again.
"No." She cuddled back, making a smile bloom in Natasha's face.
"Yes, sleepy head. I can't go make dinner with you on my lap" Maria sobered up and sat up.
Natasha tried to escape the sofa, leg tentatively reaching for the ground.
"Don't"
"But I'm bored of the sofa, my back hurts"
Maria looked at her through a curtain of messy hair, telling her to wait a second as she did a sort of ponytail and picked up the files, leaving them on the kitchen island. She approached Natasha, whom she knew was only staying in place because of Liho, they had a rough start but bless that cat. Liho seemed to understand what was going on and jumped from Natasha’s lap and waited at the kitchen door; she was hungry too then, Maria was feeling a hole in her stomach right now. At the count of three she reached low and picked Natasha up, carrying her bride style towards the kitchen.
"Just like our wedding day"
"We aren't married, babe"
"Yet" Maria froze in her place for a second and looked into Natasha's eyes before the woman kissed her.
"Yet. Stool or counter?"
"Stool" Maria lowered her gently and moved to the kitchen to start on the food.
Natasha watched as she waltzed around the kitchen, reaching to the top cabinet with ease and fetching the tomato sauce. "Show off" The woman turned around and stuck out her tongue.
"Bean" Natasha threw a lemon at her that Maria barely caught.
"Don't call me bean"
"But you are so tiny and cute, I want to put you in my pocket" As she spoke, Maria chopped some garlic, putting it in a pan with hot olive oil.
“Shut up, Masha”
“Yes, ma’am”
Natasha relished in watching Maria, she really did, especially when she had a half updo and an apron, but there was a really thick file right next to her that was just asking to be read. She managed to read half of the first page before it was swiftly taken from her hand, Maria touched it to her nose as she shook her head no.
“It was about May” Natasha pouted
“Exactly the reason why you shouldn’t be reading it” She put the file in her bag, before hurring back to the kitchen.
“I miss them, you know?” Maria left the knife on the cutting board, head hung.
“Babe…”
“We could just go visit her” Maria entertained the thought for a few seconds.
“You see Coulson almost everyday, isn’t that enough?” She knew it wasn’t, May had been
her friend too.
“But I miss Mel” Natasha toyed with her necklace. “We can bring her cookies and tea to her office. What do you say?” Natasha knew it would look ridiculous, SHIELD second in command and the Black Widow bringing cookies to an administrative lost inside an archive, maybe not ridiculous but it would bring a couple of weird looks and definitely a transfer.
“What if we invite her for dinner next week”
“I love you” Maria winked at her before offering her a piece of bread dipped in sauce.