Ophelia's Daughter (Steve X OC)

Chapter 5 - Night mission

The next few days of training were nice..sort of. Steve made me laugh. He started holding my gaze between attacks. He even lingered his touch on my skin. I had to keep telling myself that this can't happen. I have too many secrets. If he found out who I really was he wouldn't want me anymore. So to be safe, I never returned his attentions, even though I wanted to so badly.

"You're getting better" Steve breaths out heavily smiling in my direction. I had knocked him back a few feet with a move he taught me. I actually didn't know this one. It was fun to use.

"It's only been a few days Steve.." I try to get him to concentrate on the training, he was eyeing my chest slightly and trying to give me praise when it was unnecessary. I tried to hide my frustration but he's gotten good at reading me.

"Yea, and in that time you learned a lot of moves." He sighs deeply seeing my frustration. He places his hands on his hips and looks to the floor. "Alright, I know you prefer the lab so. Go, you're done for today." I nod heading to my bag that Natasha got me for training.

"Why are you such a pain in the ass to Steve? He's just trying to help." Bucky walks next to me. He's been more open with talking to me after he was told my parents died.

"I'm not, I just...I rather be in the lab." I try to grab the bag before Steve or Bucky grab it. Like they always do. "You know by now I'm not fond of fighting." He nods trying to take my bag. I pull it away from him quickly heading out the door. I want to avoid this conversation as much as possible. I want to avoid them.

When I get to the elevator Steve walks up with his bag tossed over his shoulder. He glances sideways at me for a moment. I keep my eyes forward. He sighs and grabs my bag from me by force. "Hey.."

"I won't hear the end of it if your hands are too tired for lab work" He uses his Captain voice so I won't argue. I learned recently when he uses that voice to keep my mouth shut and agree like everyone else.

The elevator arrives, he let's me walk in first. He turns on his heel by the buttons and presses our floor. The ride was awkwardly silent. I wanted to say something but I was never good at small talk.

"Aspen.." He breaks the silence with a smooth deep voice, different from earlier. "I like training you, uh...it's...nice to hang out with you." He almost whispers the last part. I hope to god he doesn't hear my heart thumping party songs out my chest. I like hanging with him too. He was sweet, polite, funny. I've never met a man quite like him.

"Yea...yea me too" I force myself to say. I don't want him feeling bad if I didn't respond.

"Then..why are you always frustrated?" He sounded sad. I didn't know my frustrations would effect him in any way. I thank the lord the elevator opens. I head straight to my room and realize he has my fucking bag. He waits halfway down the hall holding my bag with a smile. This is why he took it..fucker.

"Can I have my bag?" I ask from my door looking at him from the side.

"If you answer me" His eyes making wholes into my body. I had to change positions because I noticed he had a great view of my ass the way I was.

"You say nice things, every time I do something. Even if I don't do it properly. I'm...not...I'm not used to that, it feels weird...kinda knocks me off my game." Okay it was true but..it was more than that.

He takes in a deep breath slowly walking over and dropping my bag next to me by my door. "I'm sorry, you were so nervous the first day, I thought being kind would help. I guess I took it too far." He was sincere. Dammit Steve can you just be a dick for a minute. I soften my face and my words.

"I didn't know that's why...it's okay, now that I know..I ...I guess I've just been overreacting." I look up at him fixing my glasses to get a better look into his amazing eyes. His eyes were searching for something. I look away and grab my bag. "I'll see you for training tomorrow" I open my door and walk in. If I stayed there any longer I would do something super stupid. Like kissing his perfect fucking face.