#nattony

tw: slight alcohol mention

the shores were always crowded this time of year. oceans, rivers, lakes, all of them stuffed to the brim with tourists and locals alike, assholes found on every boat and jet ski, filling the place with alcohol and rafts and dumb decisions.

but even summer vacationers get tired. once in a blue moon, there’s a lull, when the ones that hold the seasonal passes decide to take an off day.

and natasha has a gift, a very special talent, one that gets her the first drink at every gathering, a toast every so often, and incredible bragging rights for her (and tony, when he feels particularly blessed to be dating her).

see, when natasha wants to go out and have fun on her summer vacation – no one else does.

Tony: Natasha, what happened?

Natasha:What? Nothing...just...somebody and then...then she called you ‘bitch’ and there’s nothing...

Tony: Oh, my God. She called me a bitch and you hit her.And that’s what happened, isn’t it?

Natasha: ...No?

The first person who notices it is Bucky. He’s close enough to Nat to know that she will back off everyone who tries to approach her without a real reason. She’s not one for casual contact and everybody knows it. Also, he suspects that Tony’s reaction to be handled things is somehow related to not wanting people to touch him.

And, yet, it’s clear that Nat doesn’t care when Tony’s fingers brush her skin or when he starts to trace meaningless lines on her wrist. He seems to be cal,er and she usually just nods and smiles.

So, as everyone would do, he asks Clint. Maybe he’s just seeing things or he hasn’t been around long enough. Maybe the Avengers are just touchy. Clint laughs, and tells him to try to seat with his head in Nat’s lap the next movie night.

He tries, just to see how Nat pushes him back, telling Bucky that she needs her space. Clint laughs his ass off and this is the moment when Tony enters the room and lays on the sofa with his legs across Nat’s.

Steve explains Bucky that this is apparently their thing, even if he doesn’t understand it completely.

Both Tony and Nat have an high concept of being touchy because of their pasts. They don’t have problems with rapid handshakes or short hugs, but arriving to the point when the can let another human being into their vital space is much more of a huge step.

This went in a different direction u.u

Tony also loves to see Nat in his clothes, and you can’t change my mind. This is the reason why he never asked Friday to sort their clothes after the first time he noticed that his shirts were starting to disappear from his closet just to appear between Nat’s clothes. He just guesses that, at some point, she will return them, won’t she? 

They love doing it especially when the others are around! They know that PDA makes people uncomfortable; Nat clearly told it to Steve in CA:TWS while Tony always tries to invade someone’s else vital space when he doesn’t want to answer to some questions or the likes and I think this is softly canon.