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 at the Doctor, lips parted in shock before he looked at her with guilt on his face. "I'm sorry, I... I can't say no to her....: He closed his eyes and tilted his head downwards. "I won't say anything again. Even if it hurt himself not to, Steve didn't want to hurt her again. The guilt adding greatly to the pile of emotions that were running around in his head.

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The doctor made sure that Natasha was stable and able to rest before he turned back to Steve. The guy's intentions seemed pure enough, but after everything that he'd heard about her, about him, and what Steve had just told her. Well...

"Look, Cap." The doctor's tone was a bit gentler then. "I'm not going to tell you how to live your life but maybe it'd be better," he paused and glanced at the unconscious Black Widow. "She doesn't remember, you...weren't here for a month. Maybe you two broke up for a reason." It's probably not a nice thing to say, but...it's logical. Especially from an outsiders point-of-view.

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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.