Echo

Chapter 21

Quinn's POV

"Quinn, wait. I didn't mean it like that." Calling out for her to stop, Steve rushed over to them just as the elevator doors began to close. She shakes her head no letting Steve know she doesn't want to get into it right now. Besides, she doesn't want either of them to say something they might regret later. So Quinn doesn't say anything to him as they all ride down to the garage.

She doesn't want to be mad because of the vision she had, but it was hard not to be and to top it off he was being all jealous even after he'd been told nothing had ever happened between her and Wade. Of course Quinn had slept with other people before Steve. He knew this obviously. She'd hoped that since she was with him he'd let it go, but here he was being a... a possessive jerk.

Quinn couldn't help being pissed off, Steve should believe her when she tells him nothing happened with her and Wade. She mentally scoffs because she would never have slept with Wade. She shivered at the mere thought. It would literally be like incest. Wade was like her older brother. Absolutely no sexual interest for either of them, ever! Fuming with anger and mild disgust she clenched her jaw as she folded her arms under her breasts and tried to not go off on the man to her right.

"Awwk-waard." Wade says in a sing-song voice as the elevator gets almost to the garage. Quinn can't help, but chuckle at him.

Steve looks down at her hoping she'll say something, anything to him. But she doesn't, making him sigh. The doors open and she heads straight for her baby. "It's probably best if we ride separately." She tells Steve who gives her his puppy dog eyes. Forcing herself to not give in to the eyes, she walked away from him and got in her car. "Wade, let's go."

Starting her car Quinn blasts Platypus by Green Day. Barely giving Wade time to get in before she peeled out of the garage leaving Steve to find his own way there.

"So, that was dramatic." Wade side eyes her as he turns the music down making her glance over at him in annoyance. Not at him, but at Steve. Letting out a muffled frustrated scream Quinn sags a little as she makes her way through Midtown to get to the highway north.

"He's still not over the fact I was sleeping with Bucky." She explains when Wade gives her his full attention letting her know he was gonna try to be serious for as long as he could manage it. "Well, really he's not over the fact I've slept with anyone else before him. It's a sticking point I don't think he'll ever get over." She sigh with frustration as she weaves in and out of traffic trying to get them out of the city and onto the highway as quickly as she can, but people were being slow and dumb as hell today apparently. "I can't help that I'm not from his era where women were expected to save themselves for marriage. He knew I wasn't a virgin when we got together. I love him. I really do, but he needs to get over it already." She huffs out feeling a little better now, but not by much.

Wade turns so he can face her better trying to match the name with who he had been told he was. "Bucky, that's Steve's bestie. The Winter Soldier right?"

Furious on behalf of her other best friend Quinn glares over at him, surprising Wade by how fiercely defends the other man. "Don't call him that!"

Wade smirks at her and she could already see his brain thinking up ways to tease Bucky like he did her or Tony or anyone else really. Glaring over at him harder for a second before she looks back at the road. "I mean it, Wade. Don't. Bucky isn't like us. He might be one of the toughest and sometimes scariest men I've ever met, but he's a sensitive soul. He was made into the Winter Soldier, he wasn't given a choice. He's not like you and me who walked into the Weapon X program. Granted we didn't know what we signed up for, but we signed up, he didn't. So don't fuck with my friend and we'll still be cool."