Business as Usual - for steverogers_cpt

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They say it takes the average woman half the time of a relationship to get over a break up.

It took Natasha Romanoff  seven and a half hours, a bottle of Stoli, and half the ammunition she had in her personal collection to 'get over' Steve Rogers. Or, that's what she told herself happened. In truth every second she was apart from Steve made it worse, made her worse. She was angry, violent, close to becoming unhinged. It would have been scary of she hadn't spent much of her life in a very dark place before. It wasn't anything new. He'd be better off without her, and she'd live.

She always lived.

Everyone at SHIELD knew by the time she came to work the next day that she and Steve were over. There was chatter of a betting pool. Natasha considered breaking the wrist of the man holding the wad of bills. Instead she walked by, head held up like nothing was bothering her, her expression so cold and emotionless it was terrifying. She'd got mission orders. She was a SHIELD agent, damn it and a failed relationship wasn't going to stop her from doing her job.  

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Steve looked up at the Doctor with a furrowed brow, lips parting. "You're saying that I should break up with her again...? Now?"

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"Are you even really back together?" The doctor asked simply. He didn't want to comment that the two had obviously been through a lot, and given who they were...maybe they were just torturing themselves. Tasha had worked for SHIELD long enough that people knew her reputation of being cold, distant and emotionless. "Is it really worth putting yourself, and her though that pain again."

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Steve closed his eyes and tilted his head down, trying not to listen to the Doctor.

"If you have nothing to do for her right now, i'd like for you to leave."

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The doctor new better than to push a super solider. "They'll need to check on her every fifteen minutes. She'll remain sedated until we can be sure she won't be upset." There's a pointed look from the doctor before he settles the chart on the desk near Tasha's been, checks the machines one last time, and leaves the room.

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Steve glared at the Doctor has he left before looking back to Tasha, wishing he hadn't told her any of what he had. That she was still awake.

That none of it had happened. He would have rather had her hate him then her be in the hospital bed.