Savior

Chapter eighteen: Training

I woke up early this morning. To get ready for my training with Steve.
I put on a baby blue long sleeve and some grey sweatpants. I was supposed to meet him out side in on the training area at 7:00 but I really wanted to impress him so I woke up at 5:45 to start before he got there.
Last time he didn't let me push myself, they still see me as this week girl they saved from hydra.

I want to show them that I can contribute something to this team and not just eat their food.

I brought a black baseball cap, black sweater, and a water bottle.

It's literally blazing out here but extra sweat equals extra fat loss.

*One hour later*

I'm huffing sooo hard right now. I can barely breath so I take a break and sit down by the entrance to drink some water but I only wet my mouth and spit the rest out.

After a couple more minutes of catching my breath I here footsteps behind me, " hey kid, got here early huh? I like the enthusiasm." He smiles at me reaching out for my hand to help me up.

"Yeah I'm excited to get stronger."

"I know you are but don't forget. You can't push it to hard. You won't be able to help anyone if your body is out of commission," he says in a more serious tone.

I just nod pressing my lips together straight.

"How come your all sweaty already? Started without me didn't ya," he chuckles.

"Just a couple laps but I'm ready to go."

"Perfect let's start."

*2 hours later*

"Omg ahhhh uhh ha", I pant out dropping on the floor.

"I told ya I'd go tough on you Y/N." He sits beside me taking a couple gulps of his water.

This dude is jacked. He is barley sweating.

I roll my eyes at the thought. I knew I'd never be as strong as any of them were but that doesn't mean I'll stop trying.

"Y/N?"

I snap out of my thoughts, "yea sorry what were you saying."

"Uh I was saying if you were up for it I wanted to try something," he gets up and goes in side before coming out with a box of scrap metal, "Tony told me you had some pretty cool powers. Maybe we can do some target practice before we go back in. What do you say?"

"Well um I have almost no training, are you sure? Because I don't want to hurt you." I tell him hoping he'll take the warning as a warning not laziness.

"Trust me kid," me smirks, "I'm stronger than I look."

I get up dusting off my pants before we walk a little farther into the feild.

He takes a relatively large peice of metal and explains, " I'm gonna throw it up there. You uh do your thing, throw some fire at it or something."

"Got it." I ready my hand bringing up a low flame. I look at Steve for reassurance but am faced with a look of concern.

How comforting.

He throws it about 50 feet above our heads and 15 feet from our bodies, leaving me plenty of time to get into a strong stance and create a small ball of fire.

As the metal falls to about 20 feet from our heads I push the fire out of my hands and in the direction of it.

I completely fucking missed it.

"Try again."

He throws another one and another one and another.

"Dammit! What the hell," I say extremely frustrated.

"Y/N, you need to calm down. Relax you can do this. Come here." He points his two fingers in directing me to come back over. 

"You need to find a position that's stable but also comfortable." He gently grabs my wrist and turns them to face out.
" I want you to try and finish in this position. Push the fire out like a punch," he shows me by throwing a quick jab out in front of us.

"Yea I think I got it. Throw another one."

He takes a small piece from the box and throws it up.

I do exactly as he said, I take a deep breath then throw the fire out like a punch keeping my eye on the target the whole time.

I hit it dead on.

"Yes! Finally." I jump up in excitement high fiving Steve.

"Good job kid. Let do a couple more then we're done for the day, ok?"

"Ok."

*47 minutes later*

"Come onnn one more," I tell him trying to catch my breath.

"Y/N, this was supposed to be a quick trail not a full assessment," he says reluctantly throwing up the last piece.

"That's it done." I smile innocently at him.

He rolls his eyes chuckling, "let's head back in. I'm starving."

We go back into the facility and I take a seat on one of the island chair in the kitchen while he grabs an apple from on top of the counter.

"Steve can I ask you something?"

"Sure." He say between bites.

"How do you do it? How can you stay so strong and be so brave?"

He sighs loudly before taking the seat next to mine.

"I may be strong physically Y/N but I'm human just like you. I get scared. I get scared of letting the team down. Putting the people I love in danger it's it's not easy."
He turns to look at me, "but the same people I'm scared of letting down and that I put in danger feel the same way about me. Knowing they have my back is what makes me so brave and strong like you say."

Must be nice to feel so loved.

"Thank you Steve." I turn my legs to get up and before I get the chance to fully place both feet on the ground everything goes black.

"Y/N?! Y/N." I can't hear Steve's voice faintly call out to me before I completely lose consciousness.