Secrets 🖤

Chapter 5

Maggie entered the kitchen to hear Tony complaining that someone left the strawberries out all night. She locked eyes with Steve as she blushed. He stood up, "sorry. That was me. I must have forgot to put them away last night." Maggie laughed as she grabbed food, sitting next to Steve. She felt him rub his leg against hers as someone asked him where Sharon was.

He shrugged, "I'm not her keeper."

Maggie giggled as she noticed some of them looking at her sitting next to Steve.

Sam came into the room and stopped for a moment watching them. He pointed between them, "so are you two done hating each other?"

Maggie looked at Steve and shrugged, "I guess so. Are we Steve?"

He nudged her shoulder, "we are."

"Thank god." It was Tony this time. "We thought sending you on the mission together would help but it only seemed to make it worse."

Maggie set her fork down, "wait. Have you guys been trying to get us together? The mission. The party."

Natasha and Tony looked at each other and shrugged, "maybe. We were tired of the animosity and fighting."

"Ugh." Maggie left her food on the table, storming out of the kitchen.

She heard Steve follow her out to the roof. She groaned as she turned to face him, "can we not? Not right now."

"What's the matter?"

She threw her arms in the air, "I don't like being manipulated Steve."

"Only into being alone with me. Not into anything else. I was manipulated too." He grabbed her arm, "Margaret. Please."

Before she could say anything she saw Thor enter behind Steve. She turned to Steve, "can you leave us Steve. Please."

He looks back to see Thor. He sighs and nods at her, "sure."

Maggie waited until she was sure Steve was gone before she turned to Thor. "Thor. I'm sorry. I never would have kissed you if I knew you had feelings for me."

He put his hand up, "no. It's fine little one. What's going with you and Steve?"

She groaned. "I honestly don't really know." Thor didn't say anything as he wrapped her in a hug as she started to cry. She pulled away from him. "Ugh. I'm here complaining about being manipulated and I manipulated your feelings for me."

"No no little one." He pulled her back to him, "you didn't know. I'm okay. I'm happy just being friends."

"I feel awful Thor."

"I know. I'm fine. Really." He pulled away so he could look at her. He tucked a piece of hair behind her head. "If I had said something sooner, might I have had a chance?"

She looked up at him, placing her hand on his cheek, "I honestly don't know." Before she could think, he leaned down to kiss her. He moaned as she moved her hand to his hair, pulling him closer to her. She pulled away, still looking at him. "Ugh. Thor. I'm confused."

She turned away from him as they were interrupted by Natasha. "There's a meeting. Come on."

Maggie followed Thor and Natasha to the conference room, sitting next to Steve. He placed his hand on her thigh, silently asking her if she was okay. She smiled, looking back at Natasha.

"We were finally able to decipher most of the intel Maggie and Steve were able to get. So we have some locations of Hydra bases. We're going to split up.
Bucky, you go with Sam, Maggie, and Tony. Steve, you get me, Wanda and Clint. Let's go."

After changing quickly, Maggie hung back until it was only her and Steve left in the locker room. She grabbed his hand, "Steve. Please be careful."

He shook his head, placing his hand on her cheek, "I'll be fine. You be careful. And I promise, when we get back I'll tell you everything. Okay?"

She only nodded as he started to walk away. "Wait!" She ran into his arms as he lifted her, kissing her urgently before setting her down.

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Both missions were completed by the separate teams and they landed back in the hangar at the same time. Maggie stumbled out of the jet holding her ribs. She saw Steve with a gun shot in his shoulder, and cuts and scrapes everywhere. "Steve! Are you okay?"

He shook his head as he saw her clutching her ribs, "I'm fine. Are you?"

"I think I broke some ribs. It's fine." She smiled up at him, "help each other to Bruce and Dr. Cho?"

Steve laughed, "sure." He put his arm around her waist and helped her to the lab.

As they made it to the lab, Maggie looked up at him, "Steve. I don't feel so good." Steve barely managed to help her onto the table before she passed out.

Dr. Cho pushed him out of the way, "we need to get this uniform off of her."

"Let me help."

"No Steve. Get out." Natasha pushed him out of the lab before turning back to help Dr. Cho undress Maggie. She had a giant bruise on her abdomen.

"She has internal bleeding. We're going to have to do surgery and quickly."

Natasha paced nervously as she watched them cut her open. She walked out to the hallway to find everyone waiting for an update. Steve was in shorts, being looked after by a nurse. They all looked up at her when they saw her.

"She has some broken ribs. Apparently one of them splintered, nicking her spleen. They're doing surgery now to stop the bleeding and remove her spleen."
She sighed and sat next to Steve as they waited for Dr. Cho to finish surgery. This was never the life she had wanted for Maggie. She wanted her to have a normal life. Marriage. Kids.