Those Ocean Eyes and That Charming Smile

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Tony and the rest of the team come into the room after a half hour and gain the attention from the trainees who all stop what they are doing immediately and start to file in a line out of habit, showing they don't need to be told more than once to know what The Avengers want. I go to stand up slowly after I still feel the pain in my lower abdomen throbbing and fluttering and I only make it about halfway up when Bucky's hand comes down on my thigh to push me back down beside him. A spark of pain shoots up into my uterus and feels like a period cramp so it's easier to control my grimace but I still wince and whip my head towards him with furrowed eyebrows and lips pressed together.

"A warning would've been nice." I sneer and Bucky chuckles while he squeezes my thigh, rubbing up and down slightly. Sam sees the gesture and just looks away, not fazed by it at all since he basically caught us having sex in the weapons room but Steve on the other hand, tries to look away and does a double take when he sees us smile and looking in each other's eyes with Bucky's hand high on my thigh

"Sorry, doll." Bucky apologizes. "You don't have to get up is all."

"You guys don't have to get into a line for this part." Tony then speaks, echoing Bucky's words

Tony stands somewhat in the middle of where everyone is scattered so he can see everyone after they stop and either drop down to the floor to sit down or they stand with their arms crossed over their chests. My thigh turns cold when Bucky's metal hand leaves my leg and back onto of his own lap which did not go unnoticed by Natasha but I am just going to ignore her smirk right now. That's the safer option, to act like I didn't see her green eyes look me up and down.

"Alright, these are the final scores of today." Tony announces a little impatient to just get to the end of this

The glass wall that overlooks all of New York in front of Steve, Sam, Bucky, and I flickers on a screen and presents everyone's names that pop up one by one. The names have changed order and now sit score wise from highest to lowest with my name at the top and Zak's just below. We are the only ones with threes all across the board, earning me proud smile and thumbs up from Zak who is still across the room and I gladly return his congrats. The third person is someone named Emmet who only has one two matching Noah who sits in fourth place. Ethan's name is sitting at fifth place with two three's and one two matching Emmet and Noah and I have to admit, it's a little satisfying seeing his name so low. The rest of the names have a combination of one's and two's with the lowest being two one's and one two. It's a little embarrassing in my opinion, if I was that person, I would want the world to cave in and swallow me up with no way out.

"The scores below the fifth are a waste of my time so, I will be skipping those." Tony continues bluntly and swipes the names below Ethan's away

"Wow." I whisper in shock. "He's brutal."

"Tell me about it." Steve whispers back with an eye roll and I shake my head, still loving this side of Steve and totally missing it from when he came to the bookstore over a week ago

"Moving on and getting to the fun part." Tony says once he has everyone's names cleared except for the first five. "This was the easiest and most difficult decision, I will not lie. There were a lot of different opinions."

I press my lips into a line in an awkward smile when people start sending glances of jealousy and almost hatred towards me. The nerves in my stomach start to rise but is easily overpowered by anger and annoyance when I'm so sick of people giving me dirty looks just because I have a higher score. I clench my jaw and throw my leg over my knee to rest my chin on my hand, completely impatient at this point to find out if I got it or not.

"Because this was a hard decision, we decided to offer the second place winner a spot in SHIELD." Tony says with a smile. "You will be hired in the higher up, tactical division and will even go on missions with the team from time to time." He explains. "Fury has also offered each and every one of you who will not make it, an automatic place in our SHIELD Rookie Camp as I call it, so you can audition to become apart of SHIELD. You can enter as many times as you want until you give up or you are accepted. That is our gift you you ten being the best of the best." He says and everyone's eyes go wide at the new opportunity given