Till the End of Time-

Chapter 9: Collision

Once I reach his room I don't even bother to knock. I don't want to give him the chance to turn me away, so I walk straight in there.  Except that he's not there.

Shit! Where is he?

As I turn to leave, I hear movement in the bathroom and a second later Steve comes walking out in a white tank top and jeans.

He pauses in the doorway when he sees me.

"What do you want Rosaleen?", he says as he throws his towel into a basket.

"I need your help it's important", I respond walking towards him.

"My help? Why don't you just ask Thor? You two seem very cozy together now", he says walking past me.

I grab his arm and pull him back to face me, anger now coursing through me quickly.

"What's your problem? Ever since I got here you've been hot and cold with me. And all you've done today is snap at me and give me the brush off. If you have a problem with me than say it! But stop beating around the fucking bush!".

"I'm angry because you don't take your training seriously. Maybe if you stopped fooling around trying to show off or flirting with every guy you see you could concentrate more", he argues back.

"That's rich. Flirting with every guy I see? What guys besides Thor have I "supposedly" been flirting with?".

He stares at me for a moment before quietly saying, "Don't act like you haven't been flirting with me since we met. Now you're doing the same with Thor. You don't stay long on one guy do you?".

I open my mouth shocked at what he just said, "Throwing myself at you? How have I been throwing myself at you? You were the one that wanted to train me! I can't help but be around you because you arranged it that way!".

"I guess I made a mistake in wanting to train you. And if you are so unhappy with me being in charge of you I'm sure Thor would be more than happy to take over. Then you could flirt with him and have him on top of you as much as you like until the next guy comes around", he says sourly.

Okay what the fuck! I can understand him being upset with Thor being on top of me because I'm not too sure how much time passed when I got my premonition so we may have been that way for a while. But I can't believe the audacity Steve has in telling me that I flirt one guy and then move on to the next!

Unless... is he jealous? Does he think that I don't mean what I do and that I'm moving on to someone else?

It's still not an excuse to what he said to me but it would explain it...

I can't help but laugh, surprised at my realization.

"Oh my god. You're jealous. You are actually jealous of Thor because you think I like him".

He scoffs and turns away from me.

Yeah I'm not letting this one go Cap.

"Admit it. You're jealous. That's why you are acting this way and are so angry about me being around Thor and him falling on top of me", I move to stand in front of him again.

He glares at me for a second before closing the gap between us, "You want me to admit that I'm jealous? Fine! I am. I hated seeing him flirt with you and even worse I hated you flirting back with him".

He pauses before saying more gently, "I hate that ever since I first saw you 5 months ago, I haven't been able to stop thinking about you and I've been waiting this entire time to meet you".