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 had gone to his room to work out there, doing press-ups and sit ups through the night before going to talk to Fury. After a several hours long long, heated, discussion, Steve made his way down to the hangar bay silently. Not looking at anyone as he moved into the plane. He sat down and stared at the floor, not looking up when anyone spoke to him.