The One Thing I Can't Lose (Steve Rogers x Reader)

wonderful weather

"I'll take it"

"Great, so tell me more about these boosters." Stark said genuinely interested.

Y/N and Howard talked for about an hour before he dropped her back off at home and told her to be ready at seven the following morning to be taken to the lab. When she returned home she saw a letter on her front porch. She immediately recognized the writing to be Steves. She opened the letter and read it over.

        Hey Y/N, 

  I have great news, well great news for me, you're probably going to freak out. They're going to let me fight. I'm giving you the detail of my location at the training camp if you want to send letters or anything. I leave in three days so I was wondering if we could meet up tomorrow night? You don't have to say yes or anything , just so you know. I just thought I might ask you something before I leave. But um if your saying yes just meet me at our normal place at 7. 

  - Steve 

 Y/N smiled at the letter. Is this an attempt at asking me on a date? She knew she would defiantly be going to meet up with Steve. She opened the door and got ready for bed, not able to stop smiling from her meeting with Howard. She tossed and turned until she fell into a blissful sleep.

*Next Morning*

Y/N rushed out the door with her sister and ran down the front steps of their house. She was already ten minutes late to meet man outside her apartment, and she was terrified for her first day at work. "Hello Mr. Stark" She said signaling for her sister to follow.

"Good morning Ms. Barnes." Howard looked at the two confused. "And whose the little one?" He asked amused.

"Oh she's my sister, also known as Rebecca." Y/N joked nervously.

"Okay, A I'm standing right here and I'm not deaf. B, I'm not a 5 year old and C, - "

"I'm so sorry but is it okay if she just sits in an office and reads or something?" Y/N asked cutting off her sister. Y/N was told that she would leave for a long term housing base in a week, but had to find a solution for her 12 year old sister, seeing as she couldn't live on her own.

"She can go school along with the other kids." 

"Other kids?" Y/N asked turning to Howards confused. 

"There are other guys on the project, guys with kids." he said opening the door for the girls. Y/N pushed her sister in the car and sat next to her. Howard followed her and and sat across from the sisters. The driver shut the door and the car started to move. 

"I really am sorry for being late, Mr. Sta-"

"You can call me Howard, Ms. Barnes, and you don't have to apologize for being late, if I apologized for ever time I was late I would never stop apologizing " Stark said politely. Howard wanted Y/N to feel comfortable around him, he knew that she would be seeing him a lot in the future. He didn't want her to see him as his boss,  but as a friend.

"Okay, Howard, if we're going to be more casual, you can call me Y/N."

"You both are weird, I'll be sticking to Ms. Barnes, Stark." Rebecca declared plainly.

"Rebecca Marie Barnes." Y/N said appalled by her sister tone.Howard laughed to himself at the mother-daughter relationship the two had. 

About twenty minutes later the car stopped outside and unusual building. It didn't look like and office building or a factory, but a pawn shop? Y/N grabbed her sisters hands as Howard just strolled into the store. He started to talk to the women at the front desk, while Y/N just tried to understand what was happening around her.