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Kate and Yelena are running from security in the base that they had just taken some very important information from. It had all gone wrong they had only gotten about a quarter of the information they were looking for which would be useful to the avenger and Shield. But they had also alerted all the guards in the base as neither of them had noticed that there was a someone entering the room from another door that wasn’t shown on the plans to the room which Yelena wasn’t watching for.
Yelena had heard the door open and when to investigate but it was too late, she saw three guard's walks into the room Yelena is able to shoot two of them but the third runs behind cover as she shoots the second one and the third guard has called for backup as Yelena gets to them and kills them. Yelena quickly tells Kate what happens and gets her away from the computer as more guards storm into the room and they all start to run as a hail of bullets comes towards them.
Yelena keeps behind Kate as they run making sure she is able to check on Kate as they run and so she can cover Kate if the guards behind them show up it also allows her to see what's in front of them. As they hit a long stretch of hallway Yelena hears the guards to come behind them so Yelena seeing a hallway to the right which might take longer for them to get out will make sure they can avoid any bullets being shot at them. Yelena runs in front of Kate and grabs her arm pulling her into the right hallway as the guards starts shooting at them. Yelena keeps her grip on Kate arm as she keeps pulling Kate from hallway to hallway shooting any guard that tried to stop them.
Yelena sees the door which would get them out to their getaway car slamming herself into the door pulling Kate through with her. Yelena them pushes Kate towards the car door making sure Kate get in very quickly as Yelena slides over the hood and gets into the driver's seat. Yelena starts up the car and drives off as the guards begin to leave the building and start shooting at them which makes Yelena grab Kate around the neck, pulling her down holding her out of the way as the bullets start hitting the car. Yelena stay’s low as she drives away bullets just grazing past her and glass smashing across her and Kate as they are shot at.
Once they were out of the firing rage of the guards Yelena notices Kate was trying to get herself up and lets out of her neck. Kate gets up and starts rubbing the back of her neck making Yelena feel bad for hurting Kate, but when Kate stopped rubbing and let out a sigh of relief as she leaned back into her seat. Kate then looks to Yelena who was concentrating on the road ahead of them while driving at the highest legal limit checking the mirrors to make sure no one is following them.
“Yelena why did you push me down when they started shoot, you know I can duck right?” Kate asks not being used to Yelena acting that aggressive with her even if it was with the idea of protecting her, Yelena always being the one who is to say that Kate is more than capable of taking care of herself when another Avenges questioned it.
“It was just on instinct... I wasn’t thinking... you know... just used to doing it.” Yelena lets out not expecting to be asked anything like that from Kate. But the really, she probably wouldn’t have done that with anyone whether it was Natasha or the Captain America, she couldn’t think about doing that with them not that she could have with a super soldier. The truth was she was so scared Kate was going to get hurt after she was the one to have made the mistake of not checking for more doors that might not have been super noticeable.
Kate smiles at Yelena not used to seeing her stutter but they have just been in a very intense situation which might put Yelena on edge “Ok.” Kate says nodding at what Yelena had said. Kate then sees some of the blood on Yelena and gets worried given she was the closest to the bullets making Kate a little worried. Kate leans over and starts checking Yelena over trying to see if she has been shot or gotten hurt in anyway.
Yelena gets a bit shocked at how Kate seems to be worried about her being hurt as what she’s doing is what Natasha, and their mama would do if Yelena was hurt this shocks Yelena who isn’t used to it from anyone but them. Yelena lightly pushes Kate off of her not wanting to be taking advantage of Kate kindness and wanting to make sure Kate was ok first which she can’t do while driving. “I’m ok, we can check over each other after we’re back at the safehouse.” Yelena says.
Kate moves away with Yelena’s shove even though she would have stop Yelena’s shove as her push was more for show, she didn’t want Kate looking over her at the moment. Kate nods knowing Yelena can see her in her own peripheral view sitting back in her seat watching as they drive to their safehouse. Kate as they drive would turn to Yelena as they went on missing every single small glance Yelena throws her making sure isn’t in pain when they go over a bump or around a corner.
Once they get to the safehouse Yelena pulls the car up and they both get out of the car, Yelena watches Kate gets out the car and walk toward the house before pulling a cover over the car so it wouldn't be easy to see. Yelena then walks into the house quickly not too far behind Kate closing to door gently while watching to see if anyone was going to pull up behind them.
Yelena walks up to Kate and turns her around shocking Kate with how upfront she was about grabbing her Yelena gave her a quick look over and then took her hand gentle before pulling her over to a chair turning it around and sitting Kate down. Kate looks up to Yelena a bit shocked at how she is acting Yelena takes Kate’s face into her hands rubbing Kate cheeks looking at the scars on Kate face from the broken glass.
“Are you feeling ok, anything hurt?” Yelena asks pulling away from Kate to look over her to see if a bullet hit her or any big piece of glass hit Kate.
Kate shakes her head “I’m ok don’t worry about me just some scaring, are you...” Kate says about to answer but then Yelena starts to move.
“I’m going to clean up you scars so I can patch you up” Yelena then looks about before saying “and glad you're ok.” Yelena says. Yelena then heads to the kitchen moving Kate back down as she tries to get up to follow her “No, no Kate stay.” Yelena says when she tries to follow her.
Yelena goes to the kitchen, going to a cupboard and grabbing some pain killers in case Kate started to feel sore after any amount of time, she then grabs a towel and begins running the tap making sure it is the right temperature to not feel awkward on Kate. Yelena looks over to Kate as she wets the towel and the moves back to where Kate was sitting putting her left hand under Kate chine lifting her head up before cleaning Kate face.
Kate light winces as Yelena begins wiping the scars making sure they were clean not liking the as it brushes the scar. Yelena pulls away quickly as Kate winces “Sorry do you need me to slow down?” Yelena asks not wanting to hurt Kate.
Kate shakes her head “No, I’m fine the scars just hurt.” Kate answer looking to Yelena who then starts cleaning the scars again being more gentle with her as she does so, Kate not wincing as much. Once done Yelena looks at Kate now completely clean face taking her completely in, smiling at how Kate wasn’t hurt too badly especially after how she messed up watching over the room.
Kate notices Yelena’s face fall a bit and takes the hand that was on her chine in her own hand and being rubbing her thumb along the back of Yelena’s hand. “Are you ok?” Kate asks letting out a breath before saying “If you not you can tell me.” Kate finishes giving Yelena puppy dog eyes.
Yelena lets out a small breath she was holding in before kissing Kate’s forehead smiling at her “Yes I’m fine, I’m just wanting to make sure your complete ok.” Yelena says. Kate then smiles at her before placing her hand on Yelena’s cheek before getting up off the chair and moving Yelena around and placing her on the chair.
Yelena looked up to her confused about to argue before Kate shushed her “I’m going to clean you up then we can contact the team, then cuddle up on the couch while we wait for them.” Kate says but when she sees Yelena is ready to say something getting firm “Understand.” Kate says almost as a question but only expecting one answer.
“Yes.” Yelena lets out not expecting Kate to be as firm as she was getting a nod from Kate who took the cloth to the kitchen and cleaning it off as she resoaks the cloth before coming back through. Kate walks over to Yelena making her face up and begins wiping her face going over each scar as gentle as she could not that she’d know how much pain Yelena was in as she her face stayed completely still as Kate was wiping.
Kate makes sure that every scar was completely clean as she finishes up wiping Yelena’s face, putting Yelena’s face between her hand moving it side to side making sure there was nothing she had missed. Kate then moves Yelena’s head down and kisses her on the forehead, once she’s done Yelena looks up at Kate with surprise.
Yelena looks at Kate trying to school her features completely failing as she looked at Kate not expecting Kate to kiss her on the forehead, it was the sweetest thing that had happened to her maybe ever, the only time she remembers head kisses was from her mama when they were in Ohio. Yelena does all she can to not tear up as she sees Kate look down at her with just love in her eyes.
Kate gets worried when she sees Yelena looking at her not wanting to have gone too far with her not wanting to push her out of her comfort zone “Yelena if that was too much, I'm so sorry...” Kate stopped when Yelena stood up and hugged pushing her head into Kate chest.
“I love you so much and nothing you can do can be seen as too much.” Yelena says ear pressed to Kate chest eyes closes she tears of happiness start to for in her eyes tightening her hold around Kate after she’s finished speaking.
Kate wrapped her arms around Yelena whispering “I love you too.” finishing it with kissing Yelena on the top of the head getting a sigh from Yelena as she allows herself to stop worrying. Once they were done hugging Kate pulled away and said, “Ok I’m going to contact the team go pick something to watch and I’ll be back in a minute.”
Yelena nodded to her girlfriend not wanting to be denied any hugs after what they just had heading to the couch and flipping through the channels before landing on a show that she knew Kate liked. While Yelena did that Kate contacted the team telling them where to pick them up and giving a quick rundown of what happened on the mission getting a reply back immediately telling her that they’d be there as soon as possible.
Kate came through to Yelena seeing her checking the door way for Kate, Yelena not having much subtlety for a widow, but Kate just smiled and moved over to Yelena wrapping her arms around Yelena feeling as she moved herself closer to Kate’s front. Kate and Yelena stayed like that until the rest of the team arrived at their location Natasha teasing her sister from the moment, she saw her and Kate all cuddled but getting major glares from Yelena on the flight back to the compound.