Shy wasn't really an adjective that anyone would ascribe to Natasha. She handled herself fine when it came to public appearances, press events, various Capitol parties that she'd been coaxed into attending. The first four years on the other side of her Games had been markedly different from the last year of her life; it was still something she was trying to figure out how to navigate, but she'd known the value of putting on a good show since she was twelve and so far, no one seemed to question it or have complaints. So no, shy was not the first thing anyone would have thought of, when they thought of Natasha.
Still, she felt strangely self-conscious there on the doorstep of Scott's home. It was different in the districts, that was all. Where the Games weren't entertainment and the people who walked out of them alive weren't particularly impressive or worth celebrating. But she'd wanted to come. Genuinely, even - she liked Scott well enough the handful of times they'd met up, and Clint had seemed like it would mean a lot to him if she came along. It would be fun, he'd said, it would be good for her to go somewhere different for awhile. The small comfort here, at least, was that Natasha herself hadn't been personally responsible for the death of the boy and the girl from 12 in her own year.
She'd known enough to wear a dress that was simple and entirely without adornment, she'd left the makeup off, and even in the middle of 12's mostly silent-but-for-this-house Victor's Village, even with the self-consciousness fluttering in her stomach, Natasha felt a little more like - the person she thought she might have become, once.
When the door was flung open, she knelt down to smile at the birthday girl. Cassie had gotten big since the last time she'd seen her. "I think the password is 'we brought presents', right?" Natasha told Cassie, then handed over the brightly wrapped packages they'd brought along before looking up to turn that smile on Scott. "All else fails and we bribe our way in, sorry, but you know how Clint gets about cake."