S.H.I.E.L.D ACADEMY

32. Truth or Dare

"Tonyyyyyy, no!" you shouted playfully over at him.

"Ah c'mon cupcake, it's just for fun, we all know who you'd be kissing all night anyway," Tony shouted back, nodding his head towards Grant.

Grant laughed as he wrapped his hands around your whole body, hugging you tight. You laughed. Okay. Maybe you could do this. You just had to try to focus, which is so easy to do with Ste-Grant here. You giggled. They began the game, going playfully among themselves. At some point you were pretty sure you saw Natasha kiss both Bucky and Carol, but you might also see illusions at this point.

"Y/n, truth or dare" Sam suddenly asked you.

"Truth," you laughed.

Look at you Y/n, choosing the safer choice. You were proud of yourself. Drunk and thinking about safety, you had really grown. At any normal party, you would've picked dare. In your opinion, truth was for the weak. In this situation you didn't mind admitting you were weak. You could feel everyone's eyes on you, but most importantly – You could feel Steve's eyes on you.

"From a scale from 1-10, how awful of a mentor is Steve?" Sam giggled as he clapped Steve on his back.

You laughed as you looked over at Steve. You would take any excuse to look at him. Steve was laughing at Sam, but seconds after, your eyes locked. Truth is, Steve wasn't that bad of a mentor. He was strict, but he had his reasons to be. Fuck, maybe you were looking at Steve with rose coloured glasses? You bet your underlip.

"He gets a 6," You answered, playfully.

Steve looked over at you 'offended'. Truly he wasn't but he wanted to talk to you.

"What the hell have I done wrong?" Steve said waving his hands, both Sam and Bucky were patting him on his back, laughing.

"I just think that you have your strength, like physically your very good, but you know... in here" You pointed at your head.

"Could have some improvement," You finished. Everyone began to belly laugh.

"Are you saying I'm dumb?" He pointed his finger at you.

Jesus, Steve was so dramatic.

"You are also very strict!" You shouted in defence.

Steve threw up his arms, acting dramatic just for the sake of it. You were adorable. Steve really didn't mind looking like an idiot, if it made you smile. Steve gave you a comforting nod, making sure you understood that everything was okay. You gave him a nod back, before you looked around in the room.

"Bucky, truth or dare?" You asked, as you noticed that no one had asked him yet.

"Dare, cause I'm not afraid like you," he teased back, looking over at Steve.

Bucky were glad you asked him. Not because he cared to deeply for the game, but because it gave him a chance to ask after. You see, Bucky had finally begun to connect the dots. Steve and you were fucking. You might think you were hiding, but it was clear as a day. Bucky had noticed how his friend, grump Steve had been way less, how can we describe it? Grumpy. He had been smiling, a lot more than before. This smiling thing began the same day that you showed up at a mission full of love bites and dysfunctional legs. Bucky hadn't fucked you, and he had only seen one other man have that effect on women... Steve. Not only that, but tonight Bucky had seen how the two of you stared at each other. It was more tension between the two of you, than with boring agent Ward.