No Regrets (A Steve Rogers x OC Oneshot)

Steve Rogers watched as a tall woman with dark purple hair wearing black framed dark sunglasses got out of the taxi nearby, her eyes immediately going up to peer as far as she could at the tower in front of her.

"Celestia Franklin?"

The woman turned her attention towards Steve at his mention of her name, her eyes going momentarily wide before nodding. "That's me!"

He approached her and held his hand out to shake hers. "Steve Rogers. Welcome to the newly reclaimed Avengers Tower." He said, motioning towards the building.

"Thanks... it's, umm, a little... ostentatious isn't it?"

Steve laughed. "Built by Tony Stark, what do you expect?"

"How is he?"

"Tony? He's managing... back from the brink of death and determined to give us trouble, even from his hospital bed. Keeping Pepper on her toes."

"So news reports weren't wrong, he almost died?"

"Yeah, it was touch and go there for a while." Steve said as they continued to gaze up at the building a moment before he shook himself of the memory and grabbed her bag from the sidewalk. "I'm being a bad host, I'm supposed to show you to your guest quarters before we begin your assessment."

"I can carry my own bag, Captain."

"You might be the next Avenger... call me Steve... and the least I can do for a future teammate is carry her bag for a bit."

"Hopefully..."

"Hmm?" He questioned her comment as he led the way into the lobby, waving at the security guard before approaching the elevator.

"You said future teammate... I still have to make it thru these assessments. You might decide otherwise."

"When Maria Hill calls and says there's someone we need to meet... we listen, Mrs. Franklin. She wouldn't have recommended this meeting if she didn't think you deserved to be here."

"Still not sure how I ended up on her radar..." she mumbled before finally slipping off her sunglasses and  turning to him as the elevator dinged and doors opened back up at their destination floor. "And if I'm calling you Steve, call me Celestia."

Steve couldn't help but gaze at her deep purple eye color. "Alright Celestia... here are your guest quarters. Actually they'll be your permanent quarters if all goes well, so I hope you like them."

She stepped out and her jaw dropped. "Wait... I get a whole floor?"

"Like we said... Tony does things a bit... over the top."

"This is too much."

"I know it feels like that. But you'll get used to it."

"Can just anyone walk off the elevator into my room?"

Steve chuckled. "No. Friday is programmed to let only you and anyone you allow to stop at your floor, if they stop and want to request entrance, she'll notify you."

"Friday?"

"Oh, my apologies, I neglected to introduce you. Good afternoon, Friday," Steve called out.

"Good afternoon, Captain Rogers. Welcome to Avengers Tower, Miss Franklin."

"Um, thanks?" Celestia said as she looked around the room.

Steve grinned. "Something else to get used to. Friday is the AI developed by Tony. She keeps this place running. You have any questions, you can ask Friday. If she doesn't know the answers, she'll tell you who does. You can talk to her anywhere in the Tower, and once you complete your assessments and everything is official you'll be given a watch, phone, and laptop which will also have connection to Friday and her network."