Marvel Women One Shots

It's Always Been You - Kate Bishop

Warnings: maybe some curse words

Hi, I'm alive. Apologies that it's been a little while since I've posted. I've been busy with finals week and then moving out and some family things. Life's crazy but writing helps me calm down. So I see this as an absolute win.

This was a request, made by @Angel09172010

Hopefully this lives up to your expectations! Also, sorry again that this took a while to get published. I wanted to give it the attention it deserved and needed to get done with finals to do that properly.

Thank you for the request, hope you enjoy :)

Today was the day. Kate and I were hanging out today and I was finally going to tell her how I felt about her. We had been best friends since childhood since both our parents were friends and business partners. We had grown up together, going to all the rich parties and events that our parents would drag us to. We would do everything together, get in trouble together, cause chaos together, give our parents headaches together. It was a fun time and I couldn't ask for a better friend in Kate Bishop.

    I had developed feelings for her about two years ago when we started college together. We were attending the same school and would always hang out every chance we got. I loved her as a friend, but I wanted us to be more.

When I first figured out my feelings for her, I got scared because I knew she could never feel the same way for me. But it had been two excruciating years of me living with these feelings and trying to push them aside. It never worked, in fact it made the feelings stronger. Eventually, I came to terms with them and lived with the fact that Kate would never feel the same way.

But recently, Kate and I had fallen into this routine of acting like we were more than friends. She would become extremely flirty with me and I would often flirt back. We would tease each other, which always gave me butterflies. But then she would back off like nothing happened, giving me mixed signals. I couldn't take it anymore, I needed to tell her how I felt about her and maybe she would tell me how she felt. I wasn't expecting her to reciprocate the same feelings, but I couldn't help but get my hopes up.

Kate and I had come back to New York for summer break, taking up residence at our old apartments we had rented during the last summer. Today, we were planning on having a chill day full of movies and food over at Kate's apartment. I was looking forward to it after several long months of hard school work.

Standing outside of her apartment door, I smoothed out my shirt and adjusted my hair, wanting it to look good. Then I took a deep breath and knocked. A moment later, the door swung open and there she was. Her long black hair was down and free flowing like always. She had on minimal makeup, letting her natural beauty shine through. She wore a pair of loose fitting jeans with rips at the thighs and knees with a baggy band t-shirt. She was dressed extremely casually and comfortably, but she still looked beautiful.

"Hey, y/n!" she half squealed, pulling me into a tight hug, which I returned. "Come on in. Pizza is on its way. We can pick out movies in the meantime." Kate moved out of the way and let me in, then shut the door behind her.

I kicked off my shoes by the door and plopped down on Kate's couch and was quickly joined by her. She picked up the TV remote and we began making a list of movies to watch today. We had all day to be lazy, so we made a long list. A few minutes later, the pizza was delivered and we began our movie marathon.

During the first few hours, I didn't focus much on the movies. Kate was sitting so close to me that it was distracting. I kept trying to figure out how to tell Kate. I didn't want to keep going on like this, me secretly pining after her while she was completely oblivious. It was getting painful and almost unbearable.