**Black Widow Screws the MCU: Chapter One – Friends with Benefits**
Natasha Romanoff had never been one for any sort of established relationship, likewise, she had never actually been one to court her own friends. Those were few and far between, and she had never found too much use in anything so personal. Sex was one of two things for Black Widow, it was a quick release, done namelessly and anonymously, once or twice a month when her urges got too strong. If not that, then it was done for business. To extract information, to bribe some unwitting goon, or for an opportunity to slip a knife in their throat if need be. Her job always seemed to become much easier as soon as someone loosened their belt.
So when she first decided to kiss Steve Rogers, or as the world knew him, Captain America, for the first time, she hadn’t thought much of it. They had been on the run for days, Hydra had been hunting for them across New York and as they had found themselves cornered in a shopping mall, she had to find a way to make them look like any other ‘couple’ in the building. The kiss had gotten them past the agents searching for them, but more than that, it had made something click inside of both of them.