[image description: Natasha Romanoff braiding Bucky Barnes’ hair. She’s sitting on a couch with an ace flag shirt, and Bucky is sitting on the ground, leaning against her legs and looking up at her, smiling.]
fill for @buckybarnesbingo‘s prompt: “asexuality“.
fill for @lgbtqbingo‘s prompt: “flags“ (because Nat’s shirt is flag-coloured/-patterned)
fill for @anyfandomgoesbingo‘s prompt “Natasha Romanoff“ (Title: Ace Nat, Pairing: Natasha & Bucky Rating: SFW Medium: digital art + 444 words)
(on AO3 here)
- Nat is ace
- she and Bucky find braiding each other’s hair calming, due to Red Room shared experiences.
More words under the cut
- the best way to gather information and get close to high-profile targets is not as a high-society lady but as a high-society lady's helper. The girls in the Black Widow program were taught to kill, to dance, and to help. So they learned to clean efficiently, to choose clothes for any occasion, and they did each other's hair. As this was an activity where the result counted more than the process, it was not as tightly supervised as others. It was also one of the rare violence-free collaborative activities. So for the girls, and for Bucky who trained them and spent some time with them in-between missions and training (because freezing and unfreezing him took time so they didn't do it for too short a downtime), it meant safety and comfort, and still does now.
So, sometimes, when she's feeling quiet and safe and content, and she wants to spread the quiet and the safe and the content around, Nat braids Bucky's hair, and sometimes he braids hers.
- Bucky also braided his sisters' hair. Before the war, and hydra, and everything, back when the world was not just jagged edges.
- When Nat told Clint she was ace, he was overjoyed, because *purple* (also because he’s, like, supportive and shit and loves her, but he said it was because of the purple). When she needs small purple things, because she wants to wear her colours, and she already has black, gray and white in her things, he always has something to lend her (never on a mission. Ace colors are for downtime. Personal trivia is only ever shown when safe, or as a last resort in very controlled situations to get a very specific result). She could get her own, sure, but he likes accumulating purple wristbands and hairties and caps for her, and she likes using his things (it still feels so new and so precious, gifts given or services rendered, with no strings attached, freely given and freely accepted).
The Ace shirt is a gift Clint gave her.
She was actually surprised to learn other sex-indifferent people existed, outside of the Red Room. She had thought it was kinda like knowing how to lie: something she'd learnt.
She's still unsure, sometimes, what is everybody's, what is hers, and what is the Red Room's. She knows all the children's lullabies and fairy tales, learnt to dance a hundred different dances, but never quite knows if what she feels is normal, or too much, or not enough, or just a few feet to the left.
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