Fire of Fate ⭐

5

I was still off work and had no plans so I was just cleaning up and organizing around the house. I was standing in my kitchen trying to decide what to have for lunch when my phone rang.

"Hello?" I answered.

"So I'm sitting here thinking about what to eat for lunch and how lonely I actually am so I wondered if you wanted to join me for lunch." I heard a voice asked and was super confused.

"Sam?" I questioned thinking I knew the voice.

"Of course it's Sam, who else would it be?" We both laughed.

"I wasn't sure. Anyways yes I would love to join you for lunch, where at?" I questioned.

"That's the fun part, come to the fire station. I'm on duty right now and want you to join me for lunch." Sam said and I smiled heading towards the front door.

"Sounds great I will be there soon." I said and hung up. I then started to text Rebekah.

GEMMA: Logan just invited me to the fire station to have lunch with him.

I slipped on my shoes and grabbed my stuff heading out of the door. I was so excited to go meet with Sam especially with how he left things after the banquet.

NAT: That's super exciting. Let me know how it goes.

I drove to the fire house completely nervous of meeting Sam again. I was thankful even with organizing around my house I still had my hair and make-up done. I pulled into a parking space where I knew I could park since I have been here before with Bucky and Nat. I walked around to the main door where the trucks come out of since it was open and just walked in. I saw Bucky and another guy going through inventory on a truck.

"Hey Buck." I said smiling at him.

"Hey what are you doing here?" Bucky asked confused.

"Sam invited me for lunch, do you know where he is?" I questioned.

"Uh probably in the kitchen, he is on kitchen duty today." Bucky said and I half nodded.

"Okay great, thanks." I said and smiled at Bucky. He then looked at the guy standing with him.

"Oh yeah sorry, Steve this is Gemma. Gemma this is Steve Rogers a fellow firefighter, also a good friend. We went through the training and academy together." Bucky introduced and I shook Steve's hand.

"Nice to meet you." I said and he nodded.

"Same here." Steve said.

"Well I better go find Sam before he thinks I stood him up. Bye guys." I said and walked away. Once I was out of ear shot Steve looked at Bucky.

"Dude she is dating Sam?" Steve asked. Bucky slightly nodded with a sigh.

"Yeah Nat thought it would be a good fit for her and him." Bucky said.

"But Sam...-" Steve started off to say and Bucky held up his hand to stop him.

"I know but there was nothing I could do. Let's just hope he tells Gemma soon before she gets in too deep." Bucky said and Steve nodded.

"Let's hope." Steve said.

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Lunch was finished and I was introduced to everyone as Sam and I went outside to sit at the table out there to have privacy.

"This was a great lunch date, thanks for calling." I said smiling and he smiled back.

"No problem. I wanted you to meet everyone. I plan on having you around a lot and felt like it would be less awkward if you knew everyone." Sam said, I felt butterflies instantly.

"You want to have me around a lot?" I questioned.

"Of course, why wouldn't I?" Sam asked.

"Well after the way our date ended the other night the I wasn't sure you had a good time like I did." I said, Sam shook his head and huffed a laugh.

"Gemma why would you think that?" Sam asked.

"Because you just walked me to my door, told me good night and left, what was a girl supposed to think?" I questioned. Sam just smiled and shook his head.

"Gemma, I'm not the guy to kiss on the first night I meet someone and first dates like that that are always set up are slightly awkward when you take the person home anyways. Trust me, I like you and I want to get to know you." Sam explained and I knew he had a point.

"Okay, I was worried it was something I did or said." I said.

"No of course not and maybe....-" Sam started to say until the alarm inside started going off indicating a fire somewhere. "I gotta go." Sam said practically jumping up and running inside. A couple minutes later I saw the fire truck pull out of the firehouse. I sat there for a minute knowing I should probably leave but I starting thinking about my dream I had many nights ago and how it involved another firefighter. I called Nat as I sat there.

"Hey, how is lunch going?" Nat asked.

"Good until a fire happened, hey can I come over? I need to talk to you." I said and I tried not sounding concerned.

"Yeah sure, come on over." Nat said and we both hung up. I cleaned up our mess from lunch, threw everything away since we had finished and headed to mycar.