Devilish Secret ✦Steve Roger & Bucky Barnes✦

♔Chapter 3♔

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Ellaria's POV

I look at myself in the mirror at the dress I am wearing. I hear a knocking on my door. I slowly open it seeing my mother.

"What's wrong sweetie?" I knew the party started. I could hear the music booming from my floor.

"I feel like there is something wrong. Something is happening and I can't relax from it. Something bad and I know you feel it too mom."

My mother sighs and closes the door. She comes up to me and caresses my cheek. "Your powers are growing sweetie. It is normal to feel like that. You are just having nerves from this growth and announcement."

Maybe my mother is right. It is probably just my mind playing tricks on me. We walk out of my room and head to the party. As we walk in Tony sees us and starts to clap. "Fashionably late as always. Are you sure you're Ellie's daughter or mine?" He laughs giving me a hug.

"Either way you are both amazing." I look around seeing my surrounding. As I was aware of my surroundings, I gazed at the balcony seeing that blond man again. The thing was he was glaring at me. I kept my eyes on him and secretly read his mind.

"Why is that girl next to Eleanor?" The tone he had with that thought had so much malice. He mentioned my mom thought why he thinks about my mom like that.
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Steve's POV

I look at Sam as he speaks on what he has on my missing person, Bucky. "Sounds like a hell of a fight. Sorry I missed it." He says with sarcasm. As we start walking up the stairs I replied, "if I had known it was gonna be a firefight. I absolutely would have called."

Sam smirks at me chucking, "No, no. I'm not actually sorry. I'm just trying to sound tough. I'm very happy chasing cold leads on our missing person's case.

I start to feel calmer about it until I hear Sam sigh, "Avenging is your world. Your world is crazy."

As I look down, I look at everyone chatting. "Be it ever so humble." Sam finishes off. While I was looking down, I see that girl again, Nat's niece, next to Eleanor. I can't help but glare at them. I kept doing so even when the girl looks back at me. She kept looking at me as she walked up to the stairs. I held my eyes on her, well that was until Sam hit my arm getting my attention.

"Dude you look like a creep." Sam says shivering.

"What?" baffled at what he said I turn around. Sam pressed his lips together and looked at me as if he were asking if I was dumb. "You don't look at a girl like that. She will not approach you like that."

"Um excuse me?" I turn around seeing her piercing blue eyes look at me. I quickly give her a tight smile not really pleased now. "Yes?"

"You remember me? We bumped into each other earlier today. I just wanted to say I was sorry for it." I shook my head, "no you are fine. Nothing to apologize for."

She smirks shrugging her shoulders, "I just thought you were mad about it from how you are glaring at me." She looks over my shoulder giving Sam a smile. "You must be his friend. My name is Ellaria, and you are?" Sam smiles and her shaking her hand. "Sam Wilson."

I quickly interrupted, "you are Nat's niece, right?"

She looked at me confused all over her face. "No, she is a family friend."

Wait what? "She mentioned your father."

Ellaria awkwardly nods. "Yeah, she knows my dad and has known me since I was twelve." Sam speaks out, "Who's your dad?"

"Matthew Gorman."

I look at her in shock. She smiles taking a sip of her drink. "Oh, my full name is Ellaria Margot Gorman. Nice to meet you!" Raising her glass. She walks off keeping that smile on her face.

"Oh shit!" Sam exclaims laughing.

He points at me trying to catch his breath, "the girl you like is the daughter of the woman you hate."

I start getting annoyed. "I don't like her."

"Oh, please cut that 'I don't like her' bullshit." Sam only rolls his eyes. "We both know you think she is pretty." I shake my head watching her again. She was talking to Nat. Ellaria huh. That is a pretty name.

Sam changes the subject, "You find a place in Brooklyn yet?" He asks while taking a sip of his whiskey.

I turn to look at him, "I don't think I can afford a place in Brooklyn."

Sam turns to me smirking, "well, home is home, you know?" When I turn to look at Ellaria, she smiles at me.
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Ellaria's POV

As the party was a big hit. I sit on the couch drinking I overhear Steve's words to Brue. "Look. As maybe the world's leading authority on waiting too long, don't. You both deserve a win."

I look up to see him walk away and sit near me taking a sip of his beer. "Leading authority?"

He looks up at me and shakes his head. "You heard that?" I shrug my shoulders and grinned. "You weren't that quiet about it. Who was it?"

He looked at me shocked. "Your mom never told you?" I was quite confused on why my mom even came apart of this conversation. "Why would she know?" Steve just shakes his head while chuckling under his breath. He seems to like doing that a lot. I truly wonder if he gets dizzy doing that.

"How old are you? If you were Ellie's kid, you should be eighteen."

"Well, I am twenty-one. I work for Tony Stark and just transferred here for computer science."

"Hm, like Tony."

My smile dropped. "No. Like my dad."

He looks at me with sincerity. "I'm sorry about your father." I shake my head smiling. "It's not your fault, Steve."

Him and I just look at each other and just talked. It felt great because I don't really get that from other people. He told me about his love Peggy, and his best friend Bucky.

"So, you mention seeing Bucky again?" Steve and I at this point are sitting next to each other. He looks at me and smiles.

"We found out he is still out there." I smile. "Well,that's good to hear. If you need any help tracking him let me know." Steve justlooks at me giving me a gentle smile.