shadows from the past {a marvel fanfic}

Chapter 22: Relationship drama

*Stephany's pov*

the next morning you feel better and get up out of bed and walk to the kitchen. it was still early so you hoped to be alone. you grabbed some breakfast when you see Morgan sitting on the couch in the Livingroom, she looked sad. "hey" you said as you walked up to her. "oh hey, how are you feeling" she said, not really paying attention to you. "i'm fine" you said back. "okay" she said still not looking at you. "what's wrong, are you okay?" you ask her. she was always so happy but now she wasn't, something was bothering her. "why didn't you tell me?" she asked vaguely. "why didn't i tell you what?" you ask her confused. "why didn't you tell me you saw my dad" she says only now looking at you with a mixture of sadness and anger in her eyes. "you know i couldn't" you say back. "no fuck your excuses Steph! i'm so done with you never telling me anything!" she yells at you now really mad. "mor i" you want to say but she won't let you. "no Steph, this is why i left. i want to help" she says. "i don't nee-" before you can finish she interrupts again. "i know you think you don't need help! you know how hard it is seeing you walk in with bruises and cuts and........." she swallows hard before she continues. "i don't wanna find you dead laying somewhere, because i fucking love you okay. but i can't do this anymore. you need to let me in!" she yells frustrated. "i can't" you say almost in a whisper. 

you see tear well in Morgan's eyes, probably not expecting that answer from you. "i really can't Morgan" you say looking down. she stands up and storms out "mor!" you yell behind her but she's already gone. "well good morning to you too" Steve says, standing in the door opening. "seriously you have the worst fucking timing" you say, but in a more normal tone. "are you okay?" he asked a little worry in his tone, like he still cared. "what did you hear?" you ask him. "enough" he says softly, sounding sorry for you, which you hated, but you were too tired to argue with him now. "trouble in paradise?" he asked, not in his mocking tone, like you expected, but sounding more genuine. you sigh "yeah" you didn't know why you were talking to him, but you just needed someone to talk to right now. "what happened?" he asked you. 

you sigh loudly before you speak. "i didn't tell her what i do for work" you tell him. "why didn't you?" he asked. "because it can put her in danger. if she doesn't know then she doesn't get hurt" you say. "i don't think it works that way" he says. "yes it does" you say a little irritated now. "no it doesn't, if your work is dangerous, she deserves to know" he says. you look at him irritated "well anyway" you said continuing "i told her what i did for work, because otherwise she would have broken up with me. but it seems that after i told her she only had more questions" you say looking down. "how long have you 2 been dating?" he asked you. "5 years" you tell him. "5 YEARS!" he says shocked "and she didn't know what you did for work for 5 years!?". "as you might have experienced, i'm not an open book" you say almost jokingly. "yeah, you have the toughest walls around you" he says laughing. 

"what happened to make you that way, why don't you let people in?" he asked you after a moment of silence. you look at him, with an telling look. "hey i'm great at breaking walls" he says jokingly. you smile softly, he was right. from all the people you know, in one way or another, he was quite quick to see thru your hard shell. of course he still didn't know a lot about you, but he saw your vulnerable side. only 2 other people had seen that side of you and that were your dad and Morgan. "life made me" you say softly. "what?" he asked. "life made me" you say louder "i had to have these walls to protect myself and the people i loved". "well if you want people to love you, you have to let those walls down, at least with them" he says calmly. "no i can't" you say. "why not?" he asked confused. "because they will hate me" you tell him. "if they really love you they can't hate you" he says. "yes they can" you say before you get up and walk out.