"I'm not saying that." She shouldn't be, should she? Things had been going well so far, and she hadn't been seeing anyone else. She was satisfied, wasn't she?

Natasha shakes her head. "We have a little time. We can talk about it. I just... I suppose I haven't been thinking about that detail too closely."

Pressing her lips together in distaste for her own answer, Natasha huffs, then explains more: "I never dated. Not normally. I was groomed to join the nest from the time I was a teenager, and when I was being trained as a spy fraternizing was discouraged. Turns out I'm not very good at relationships. But that doesn't mean I don't want to be."