whatever it takes

Chapter 21: Whatever It Takes

*Song: Whatever It Takes by Imagine Dragons* 

So fun fact this is the song that the book is actually titled after and this chapter I have known exactly how I want it to go since before I even started writing so enjoy please! 

The car came to a stretching halt as we pulled up outside the avengers compound. Tony started talking to Steve about wanting peace and honestly, I just ignored him and walked into the compound but not before giving Steve a quick hug, since we had a lot of work to do. 

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While everyone went off in different directions to find the rest of the team, Tony, Steve, and I stayed back working on the new suits and trying them out. Tony had created wrist bands that will basically work as a GPS. It will make sure we move through time instead of time moving through us. 

The simulations kept working but the suit would get warped every time, meaning it wasn't safe. We were so close that it was frustrating every single time. The tears were barely poking through my eyelids as a watched another failure come up on the screen. 

This meant everything to me. I know it did to everyone but to me, it meant my future. It meant being able to go back and see him. I threw the cup that was in front of me at the wall and I watched as the pieces exploded everywhere. 

Tony came up to me, saying nothing but placing a comforting hand on my shoulder. 

Steve on the other hand decided today was the day he wanted to be a dick. 

"That was unnecessary, Ophelia. We are all frustrated but you don't need to destroy what's in front of you..." he paused then added, "maybe all those moments with him changed you."

He didn't have to say the name to know who he was talking about. The thing was Steve was happy for me until about a month ago when I had a breakdown and he found out Ben was what you considered a 'villain'. I knew that wasn't true, well not entirely, but that's how he saw it. And ever since then he would passive-aggressively leave comments. 

Tony said with a warning tone, "Steve" 

But you were pissed. Just the other day I talked to him and were so happy about his love life why did he have to go all high moral grounds and make comments about mine. 

You were so angry you didn't even register you were moving forward until you were standing face to face with him, "Steve let me ask you something. If it was between saving me, Peggy or hell even Nat and the world who would you save?" 

"The world. That is always a priority," he said without even a second thought. 

"See this is how a hero thinks. I know if I asked Kylo that he would not hesitate to save me. Even with our last fight I would pick him. Especially now. Maybe not in the past but definitely now. Because you see he is the villain but he's really not. He just puts his life and love before anything else. He saw me as his queen, as his empress and I'm the idiot who walked away from it because I lost as a hero. I was too blind to fight for what I still had. So yes I am frustrated and I let my anger go and took it out on the cup but that's because this needs to work. I need all my pain to be worth something."