The Black Knightress (Back up for fulls)

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April 15-Macy's Dressing Room-Sarah's POV

I feel Steve's grip on my hand tighten in a way that feels like anger.

"Are you mad at me?" I ask nervously

"No, no, I can't be mad at you. I'm infuriated with them."

"Why? I let them hurt me."

I see Natasha's hands clench into fists, my body reacts to her hands and Steve waves her off to stop.

"I know for a fact you didn't let them hurt you, they forced it." Steve says as he rubs my clothed knee with his thumb

"What do you care?" I ask as I look down

"I care because they took my little girl and hurt her with no regret of what they did."

"Katherine's your little girl." I correct

"She is technically, but you're my little little girl because you're my youngest girl."

"Hmm." I hum as a fake happy sound

"You feeling any better?"

I shrug, leaning my elbow on my knee and my chin on my free hand.

"I'm proud of you for trusting us so far." he says softly

"You've been doing a lot better than Steve's buddy mentioned, i'm sure he'll be happy to hear how good you've been doing." Sam says through the door

In my mind I smile at the thought of Mr. James' potential reaction to seeing me after all of this calms down.

"I should try the rest of these on." I tell them

"Okay, Nat come on in here." Steve instructs

She walks through the doorway as Steve begins to pull his hand away, I wince at the fact that I found comfort in him even though he might be taken from me again.

"I'll be out there just like I was earlier." Steve says as he walks to the door

"See you in a little bit, Knighty." Sam says from where I can't see him before shutting the door

Natasha locks it and kneels down beside me, reaching her hands out. I grab them and she helps me get off of the floor, once i'm up she puts her arm around me to help me stabilize myself.

"You ready to finish this?" she asks

"Desperately, it's quite overwhelming."

She grabs a shirt and hands it to me so that I can put it on, we decide to buy it and put it on the "yes" pile. After we do this with the rest of the clothing, Natasha grabs half of the "yes", pile and helps me to gather half of the "no" pile before we walk out for the first trip.

Steve looks relieved to see me carrying these to the worker at the dressing room counter, who takes them from me with a smile. After we set those down, Natasha and I go back into the dressing room to grab the rest. Once that's done, I get led over to the bath section that has body wash and shower gel?

"Pick what you like." Natasha gestures

"What is all this?" I asked as we walk around

"What are you used to?" Sam questions

"Bar soap, but Mr. James bought us body wash when we were living together for the past few months." I answer

"Do you like baths?" Natasha questions