A/N: I own nothing related to these characters except for my dvd's.

Tony Stark and Natasha Romanoff, although Avengers teammates, were not super close friends; so it was really surprising when Tony messaged her and asked her to meet him in a rarely used room a few floors down from the Avenger's common floor.

"What do you want Stark?" she asked when she walked in already playing with a knife.

Without preamble, or commenting on her knife, he said, "I need your help, and Pepper cannot find out."

"What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything, why do people always assume I did something?" he asked but not really expecting a reply. He was not disappointed on that front when all Natasha did was lift an eyebrow at him and deepen her frown.

"Okay fine, but I haven't done anything yet. I want to do something." He stopped to gauge her reaction but continued when none was forthcoming. "I want to propose to Pepper." He dropped his bombshell.

She continued to stare at him.

"Do you have something to say?" he prompted.

"Why do you need my help?"

"I want it to be everything Pepper has ever wanted, so I need you to get that information from her. If I ask her she will get suspicious and know I want to get married."

"So you want her to think you don't want to get married." She clarified.

"Exactly, I want it to be a surprise, but I also want her to say yes. This is why I need your help, do your super awesome, doesn't even realize its happening, interrogation thing and find out her dream proposal."

"If for some reason I say yes, what's in it for me?"

"You get to see two friends become even more insanely happy with each other and have a warm spot in your heart knowing you helped bring them together." He tried.

"No." she crossed her arms, still managing to keep the knife pointed at him.

"Figured that wouldn't work, fine, I'll be your punching bag for the next class of new SHIELD recruits."

"No."

"What do you want?"

"Access to a private plane, no pilot, just the plane."

"That's it? No problem."

"To be collected when I deem fit." She added.

"Yeah yeah, sure thing; so you'll help me?"

"Yes Stark, I'll help you. Pepper and I actually have plans tomorrow night with Maria."

"You do? Good."

Natasha turned and walked out of the room without a backwards glance. The next night, she kicked Clint off their floor by sending him to dinner on the common floor with the other guys.

"Save me some?" he asked giving her a kiss before leaving their bedroom while she changed after their late training session.

"Maybe." She smirked, shoving him towards the door.

Since they were just having a girl's night, Maria was bringing in a couple of pizzas and Pepper raided Tony's personal bar on their floor, and they were using Natasha's living room.

Several hours later there was only half a pizza left and although Natasha could hold her alcohol, the other two were feeling the effects of drinking some of Tony's best stuff.

"So Maria, how's the boyfriend?" Pepper asked.

"Everything is fine."

"Just fine, you aren't ready to move to the next step yet?"

"Next step, we're already living together, what more do you want?"

"Oh it's not what I want, but what you want. Are we going to be hearing wedding bells soon?"

"Oh, I don't think that's going to happen."

"And why not, you too live together, you love each other."

"Well by that reasoning, what about you and Tony. As long as you two have lived together and loved each other you have be married with children right now." Natasha cut in the conversation.

"What…we're not…no." Pepper strung together.

"Oh come on." Maria said. "You too have had to have had a conversation about this. Right?"

"Uh no, we haven't. We love each other, but with our—"

Natasha cut her off ,"his."

She stuck her tongue out at her friend, "our pasts, I don't want to push him into anything. I'm fine with the way things are."

"Even so, I'm sure you have thought about how you would like to be proposed too." Maria said.

"Not at all." Pepper said but at the shared looks of her friends, "Alright, yes I have imagined it, what woman hasn't?" she tried to defend herself.

"So?" Natasha prompted.

"So what?"

"How would you like to be proposed to?"

"I…I…I really haven't put that much thought into it." She tried to worm her way out.

"Pepper, all you do is plan. You probably have a notebook somewhere with ideas in it." Maria said with a laugh.

"Fine, I'll share but you have to share too."

"Fine." Maria said.

"And I don't have a notebook."

The other two settled back to hear Pepper's dream proposal.

She took a deep breath, "Okay, Tony loves the spotlight, loves the excitement of a crowd."

"Yeah we know." Maria stated with a knowing smirk.

"But I want my proposal to be a private thing, just us. We would be back in Malibu, and we would go out on our date night as usual and everything would appear normal. We would go for a walk along the beach and as we got ready for bed, he would tell me he forgot something downstairs in his workshop. He'd instruct me to get in bed and he would be right back, but after twenty minutes of waiting, I'd go downstairs to the dimly lit room. As I type in my code and walk into the room, the lights come up and I see Tony is sitting in his favorite swivel chair facing his computer screens. He's not working on them, the screen savers are up. I walk over and wrap my arms around his neck, he continues to sit there, not responding even when I place a kiss to his neck like he likes. He reaches up to disengage my arms and I step back as he backs the chair up to turn and face me. He makes some speech, because he loves to hear himself talk." She chuckles slightly.

"He never moves from the chair, but he pulls a ring out from his pocket while he talks and just asks me." She finishes with a grin.

"Wow." Maria says.

"It's nice but it doesn't seem like Tony's style. I figure if he ever does ask the question, he'd have it on a billboard, or written in the sky, or ask you in the middle of a restaurant." Natasha said.

"You're right; he does have a flair for the dramatic." Pepper agrees, but you asked for what my ideal proposal would be, not what Tony would probably do."

The ladies took a moment to refill their drinks.

"Okay, your turn Maria."

"Fine, but then Natasha has to do it too."

"That agreement did not include me." She said.

"Just go ahead and share yours, then we can break Natasha down." Pepper said.

"Good luck." Muttered Natasha with a slight smirk.

Maria narrowed her eyes at Natasha before starting her story.

"With the way my life is, I would love to have an old fashioned proposal. So he would have to ask for my father's blessing, which considering my father has been gone a long time now, he would have to go to Fury." They shared a laugh at that.

"Once he convinces Fury to bless our union, he has to decide where to do it. Since the first time we met was on the bridge of the Hellcarrier, that's a no go. Our first date ended up being dinner on the carrier, so that's out too. He finally just decides to create a new memory to go with what he hopes is the start of his new life. He invites me out for a date and when we get on the elevator, we go up and get off on the roof instead of the ground floor. He has lights strung up and a candle on the table set for two. A rolling cart holds a bunch of covered dishes. He leads me over to the table and after settling me in on my side of the table he pops open a bottle of wine. After fixing our drinks he proceeds to open most of the containers of food and dishes them out. We settle in to our dinner and when we both have finished our dinner he pulls out his ipod and after pushing a couple of buttons on it music begins softly playing from some unseen speakers.

Dance with me, he says offering me his hand. I let him lead me around the roof for a couple of songs before he leads me back over to the table. As I sit down in my seat he kneels next to me and as he tells me why he loves me he pulls the ring out and pops the question. Then to celebrate he refills our wine glasses and serves dessert.

And that's it. That's my proposal." She finished.

"I can totally see that happening." Pepper says."

"Me too." Natasha said.

"So how do you picture it?" Maria asked Natasha.

"I don't."

"Everyone has pictured it at one point or another."

"Look I don't have to picture it, I've lived mine." She dropped her bomb making Pepper choke on the wine she just tried to swallow.

While Pepper coughed, Maria reacted first. "What! When!"

"Are you okay?" Natasha asked Pepper, ignoring Maria's questions.

"Fine, fine, answer her."

"The only person that knew was Coulson. Clint proposed seven years ago and we've actually been married for almost six years."

"Details." Pepper demanded.

She took a deep breath before letting her secret out, "We were in Budapest, in the middle of a firefight. Clint had already met me on the ground and as this group of people closed in around us, I pulled out a smoke bomb and a flash bang and he pulled out a grappling arrow. I set off the devices and grabbed a hold of him around the waist as he shot his arrow and pulled us up as the arrow found purchase on the side of the building. We ended up crashing through a window and we could hear people yelling from below so we got up and made our way to the roof. We took a quick inventory of our remaining weapons and as I reloaded my guns we could hear screams closer to us. We took up residence behind an aging air unit and waited for them to start coming through the door before we started picking them off.

It was a never ending stream of bodies coming at us and as Clint prepared to fire one of his last remaining arrows he glanced at me and asked.

"Hey Nat! Marry me?" he yelled over the sounds of gun fire.

"Really Clint, now?" I didn't even spare a glance his way as I continued shooting.

"Why not?" he shot back as he let loose his next to last arrow.

"Besides the fact that, we're not in a relationship and we are currently in a fight for our lives, which will not end well if Coulson doesn't arrive soon." I yelled back.

At that moment we saw a jet coming toward us, luckily it was coming up behind the bad guys so they could not see it. I threw my last grenade into the doorway and right after that Clint fired in his last arrow equipped with an explosive head. We took off running toward the jet that was hovering off to the side of the building with the back hutch already open for us. Our feet had barely touched the jet's floor when the hatch was closing and we were taking off.

Once back on the carrier we were separated for medical and then debriefed about the botched op. He came to find me in the gym that night after everyone else had left for bed or their night shift duties. I followed him to one of his nests where we would be out of view of the cameras and as we set there in silence he reached over and took my hand.

"Tasha, I love you." He told me. "Marry me?" he asked simply.

I tried to pull my hand away but he grabbed onto my one with both hands and refused to let go. "Clint, we're not even dating, we've never slept together, we've never even talked about this."

"Just because we aren't in an active sexual relationship, doesn't mean we aren't in any way less committed to each other. I know in your own way you care for me, I know you love me too, but you're afraid of that feeling. But Nat, it's not a weakness; it's one of the greatest emotions in this world. Please give us a chance."

We sat there in silence as he let me think things through. After he shot down my concerns over our jobs and ruining our partnership I finally gave him an answer.

"Yes."

"Really?"

"It would be my genuine pleasure." I told him with a smile.

"God, I love you." He said leaning in to kiss me. He let go of my hand to pull out a simple engagement ring from his shirt pocket. I let him slide it on my finger before kissing him again.

Natasha came out of her memories to see her two friends staring at her.

"What?"

"You two are so…" Pepper broke off in a slight growl reaching to pour herself more wine.

"What?" Natasha asked again.

"That is so Hawkeye and Widow. Getting engaged in a firefight." Maria said, helping herself to the last of the wine.

"Technically we didn't get engaged until I said yes on the carrier." Natasha pointed out.

"Semantics, we all know you would have said yes on that rooftop if Coulson hadn't arrived right then."

"Maybe." She grinned. "It worked for us, and we dated for a year and a half before actually getting married."

"So I have a question." Pepper stated. "When are you going to tell the team you two are married?"

"Actually I think we will tell them soon. I mean, we have been teammates for over a year now."

"Wow, married super spies, it sounds like a movie." Maria said laughing.

"And married soldiers could be the sequel." Natasha shot back.

This led to Pepper putting down her wine glass and throwing a pillow at Natasha who caught it and through it at Maria, who tried to duck but ended up falling off the couch, still laughing.

"Okay, I think it's time to call it a night." Natasha said going over to help Maria get back up on the couch.

Natasha told Jarvis to tell the guys it was safe to come up as she set about cleaning up the living room. A few minutes later there was a brief knock on the door followed by the three guys entering to collect their ladies.

"Hey Pep, have fun?" Tony asked wrapping an arm around her to help steady her.

"Oh yeah, we learned some new things about each other tonight." She slurred.

"Oh really?" he smirked at her.

"Yep , but I can't tell you, per the women's handbook." She smirked right back.

"I might have drunk a bit more than planned." Maria said to her boyfriend as he made his way to her.

She stood up and then wobbled as she tried to step towards him. He wrapped his arm around her waist and slipping the other one around her knees he picked her up bridal style.

This made her break out laughing again. He raised an eyebrow at her, but she just shook her head.

"We started talking about some things and apparently needed liquid courage so; we all had a little bit more than planned." Natasha said by way of apology.

"It's fine, it's not often you three get to relax like this and just be normal women." He said as he joined Tony and Pepper at the elevator. He looked slightly uncomfortable as the other couple was wrapped in their own little world sharing looks and kisses.

"Hey you two, not until you get into your own floor." Clint said throwing a balled up napkin right at the back of Tony's head."

They disengaged a little bit as the elevator opened and Jarvis whisked them away.

Natasha joined Clint on the couch where he had pulled out a slice of cold pizza from the box on the coffee table.

"So how long did it take?" he asked around a mouthful of pizza.

"Once dinner was over, not that long. They should be happy with the info received." She stated curling into his side.

"Who knew that you would become a proposal planner?" he asked with a grin.

Natasha elbowed him slightly in the ribs, "Shut up Barton."

"Yes ma'am, Mrs. Barton ma'am." He said jerking straight up and throwing a salute up.

"You know I have a better thing for you to do with that mouth, other than fill the room with hot air."

"Oh yeah?" he grinned moving to stretch out on top of her on the couch.

"Yeah." She said lifting her head slightly to receive his kiss.

A/N: Okay I have a whole thing planned out in my head to actually bring Tony and Pepper's proposal to life, I was thinking of doing Maria's in a separate story or I may throw it in after Pepperony's story.

Please review and let me know if it is worth continuing or should I leave it at this.