Ophelia's Daughter (Steve X OC)

Chapter 6 - Truth

It's been weeks. Tony has told me about some Hydra movement on my old hide outs.  I got scared...He kept his promise too, I haven't gone on any missions, no matter how much Steve has tried to make me his official partner. The Bucky arm fiasco has subsided, thankfully. I was getting tired of people waving at me or starring daggers into me.

I was in training for the millionth time. This time Bucky wanted to spar with me. 

"So, you ready for the party?" Steve asked from the side.

"No, I don't do parties...people...I can't" I get flustered at the thought. I had slightly turned to face him, forgetting about Bucky.

"You'll be fine, I'll help you with a dress" Nat interrupted. Since the day I broke Bucky's arm she has been joining us to watch. She wanted to be a witness to more shenanigans I guess.

"I don't know Nat..." Before I could notice, Bucky had sent out a punch with his metal arm towards me. I didn't have time to think and do the right thing. My fight or flight immediately kicked in and made me do something.....stupid...

I quickly grabbed his punch, twirling under it giving him a roundhouse kick to the chest, sending him flying back a few feet almost to the wall behind him. When I finally noticed what I did I was in full panic mode. He was coughing, clutching his chest with one hand, and digging into the floor with his metal hand. He was looking up at me like I was a monster, his previous suspicions about me proven. Steve looked confused and Nat looked freaked out grasping at her gun on her holster. 

"I...I'm..sorry..I'm.." I ran out. I ran as fast as I could to Tony at the lab.

"TONY, TONY.." I screamed breathless and losing all my shit. The electronics in the lab began to spark..if I didn't calm down this whole room would blow up, there were too many flammable items.

"What happened?" He rushed over to me and held me in his arms.

"The training...Bucky surprised me..I wasn't paying attention. I used my full force Tony..they know" I start to cry, this didn't make anything better. The crying made it harder to breath and relax.

"Aspen, you are about to electrocute us, well me. You need to take deep breaths. Come on." He stroked my hair to try to calm me.

"What the hell?" I heard Steve come in. I pulled away from Tony and backed away from both of them. I was scared. What if they send me to the raft with my father?

"Steve not now, if she doesn't calm down this whole place can blow" Tony put his arm up to stop Steve from talking.

His eyes were on me though. He ran to me ignoring Tony and held me against his chest. "Listen to the heartbeat, just listen and breath with me okay." He began taking deep slow breaths forcing me to follow. His heartbeat was slow and rhythmic, like soft Jazz music. When I finally started to calm down, I could feel the electricity in the air go back to normal. I held onto him then..letting out all the tears I was holding in.

When I finally pulled away, he smiled at me and tucked a loose strand of hair behind my ear. I looked to Tony to notice he was relieved, but surrounded by Bucky and Nat who looked furious.

"Explain...now" Bucky demanded.

"We will explain, this was my idea. Call everyone to the conference room. We need to talk." Tony looked over at me and gave me a nod. Steve was still holding me making sure I was okay. I couldn't get my eyes off of Bucky and how mad he was. I slowly pulled away from Steve already feeling cold without his touch. I walked over to Tony who put his arm around me and walked me to the conference room.

We were the first ones there. He had given me a seat in front of the room next to him. We waited for everyone that was here to trickle in. Everyone looked confused. Steve was the last one in, as always making sure everyone made it. I couldn't even look at him.