I woke up the next morning and reached for my phone, it said 8:30 am. Five more minutes I thought as I rolled over and closed my eyes. A minute after I shot opened my eyes back up when I saw the back of Steve. Shit!, why did I sleep with him..I quietly got up threw my clothes on and snuck back to my room. I had a shower in my ensuite bathroom and got dressing into a pair of leggings, an oversized black t-shirt that hug of one shoulder. I needed to clear my head before I see Steve. I made my way to the front door, and started walking around the quite streets. Last night was a mistake.. It shouldn't have happened and will never happen again, I was sad and he confused me 'Why do I always end up in these situations' I thought to myself.
I looked down at my phone I had been walking for an hour, I decided to turn around and decided to walk back. As I arrived back at the house I noticed Tony and Clint sat around the breakfast bar. Tony was keeping his head down. I guess he was embarrassed about the way he behaved.
"Morning" Clint said.
"Morning.. Where's Steve?" I replied grabbing an apple from the large fruit bowl.
"Still in bed I think." Tony said with a mouthful of cereal. I started walking towards the kitchen when Tony stood up. "Look April I'm really sorry about last night, I got carried away and I shouldn't have said them things."
"It's fine Tony, just learn when to stop because you really pissed Steve off aswell" he nodded and sat back down.
"where's Natasha?" I added, I really wanted to speak to someone about all this, and no one knew better then natasha.
"She's nipped into the town to get some food." Clint replied, I walked back up to my room.
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I was at in my bed with my head phones and was bopping away to Nicki Minaj whilst I was playing a stupid game on my phone. From the corner of my eye I noticed my door start opening, I looked up from my phone and saw Steve walking in, he shut the door behind him. As he walked over to me I took my head phones out and put my phone down. He sat on the bed next to me and smiled. I could feel myself getting annoyed with him, I had no idea why.
"What's wrong?" He said as the smile grained from his face and he frowned,
"Nothing" I replied and flashed a smiled, by the tone of my voice he would know I was annoyed. He rolled his eyes and ran his hands through his hair,
"Is this because of last night?" He asked kind of annoyed. Great I annoyed him, again! I nodded and looked down.
"Look Steve I don't want to keep doing this with you, it's not good for either of us" I sighed and stood up from the bed to put my phone on charge. He leant forward and rested his elbows on his knees.
"Are you serious? We are going to do this again?... I'm so sick of this stupid convasasi on April" he looked over at me
"You sick of it... I'm sick of you seducing me and treating me like your girlfriend one minute and my friend the next" I really didn't want this turning into an argument so I tried to remain calm.
"Like you aren't just as bad" he replied angrily and stood up.
"Maybe I am but I need this to stop now" I was determined to put this to an end.
"What if I don't want it to.... What if I want more with you" he walked closer to me and I stepped back.
"No Steve"
"Why not!" He shouted.
"Because what happened when one of us gets hurt, or what happens when you want to settle down.... I can't do that... I can't have children and I'm immortal, I will never be older then 21" I shouted back, he was so mad I could see it in his eyes.
"Stop making excuses" he yelled.
"I'm not it's the truth... We can't be together" I could feel my eyes tearing up but I didn't let them fall. I did want to be with Steve but with all the shield stuff going on and with everything I just told him, it wouldn't work. He nodded and did a pissed of chuckle.
"You know what... Tony was right about you... I see it know, you just use me" I felt a wave of anger come over me, I picked the first thing I could find which was a hard back book and threw it at him it bounced of his shoulder and landed on the floor.
"Bitch!" He yelled
"Get out" I screamed. I can't believe he has just said that, it really hurt me. I can't believe he thinks I use him.
"Me and you are done April... You need to grow up and realise what's right in front of you" with that he slammed the door. I fell to the floor and started crying, I can't believe he has just been so hurtful.
I heard my phone ring, it was SHIELD. I whipped my face and calmed myself down before answering.
"Hello?" My voice still shaky.
"Hey it's Sam."
"Why are you phoning me from SHIELD"i questioned.
"We need you and Cap back at base." I paused for a minute trying to cry and took a deep breath.
"Ok be there soon." I sighed, I wasn't going to tell him about what happened with Steve.
"Ok.... See you both soon" with that he hung up. I stayed sat in the floor for a minute before I stood back up, I packed my stuff up put my white converse on. I put my large sunglasses on so no one would see I had been crying.
I decided I wasn't going to tell Steve, I made my way downstairs, no one was about so I felt a note saying I had to go back to shield.
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When I arrived back at camp I got changed into my uniform and out my hair up before going to meet Sam.
"Where's Rodgers?" Sam asked as I walked into the conference room.
"Long story but he isn't coming.... I doesn't even know I've left" Sam sighed and nodded, I think he had a pretty good idea what was going on.
"What does Fury want us to do?" I asked Sam to change the subject. He shrugged "I have no idea" he added. I took a seat in the conference room as Fury walked in. "Where the hell is captain Rodgers?"
"He's not coming sir" Sam replied looking at me with a comforting looking.
"Well we will have to do this without him..... Sorry to interrupt your vacation time, but we have a lead that is going to help us with Ronan... There is a man... He goes by the name Peter Quill however he likes to call himself Star-Lord.... He was taken from Earth in 1988 and apparently he is some kind of outcast.....He has dealt with Ronan before and I think if we could get him to cooperate he could really help us to stop Ronan." He slid a file over to me and Sam to look at, I started reading through it. "So where is he?" I asked.
"He is on a planet called Xandar"
How are we going to get there" Sam questioned.
"Stark made a prototype ship awhile back, after what happened in New York, it's worth having just incase.... You will be using that, it should take you a day together there and a day to come back....I don't know how cooperative he will be" Fury added
"When do we leave?" April asked. "About an hour, so if I was you, I would get packed straight away and get your self on that ship." With that he left. Sam turned in his chair to me.
"So what happened." He asked raising an eyebrow. I told him the whole story, from Tony being an idiot, to us nearly kissing on the beach, then me and Steve spending the night together and this mornings argument. He sighed and shook his head. I sat back in my chair and started biting my thumb nail.
"Maybe some time apart is what you both need" he reassured me.
"It's not just a little argument Sam, he's really gone this time..... This was it for us" my voice started to get crocks and a tear fell down my face. Sam stood up and walked over to me, I stood up and he pulled me into a hug.
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Once we landed on Xandar, we got off the ship and looked around. There was another ship it was blue and orange and it was slightly smaller then ours. "Is this his ship?" I asked pointing it out. "I'm guessing so" Sam said.
We made are way to the ship, Sam tired the door but it was locked so we looked around from the window. It was empty. "where the hell is he?" I said.
I looked around, I noticed a ruined cave like building "hey Sam! What about that cave over there." I said pointing to the cave. He shrugged "Let's go check it out " He said walking towards it.
Shortly we arrived at the cave, it was damp, cold, full of stone and sand. We started exploring the cave but after a while we were getting fed up "April can you use your power to see if you can pick up his thoughts." Sam asked,
"I can try" I focused to see if I could pick anything up on him. After trying a couple of times I was starting to pick up whispers.
"He's over here I think" I said pointed to a large wall, we started walking towards it, the wall was covered in what looked to be drawings but as time has gone on they have failed. As we shuffled through a small gap in the wall we could hear singing. Me and Sam looked at each other in confusion but shrugged it off when we saw him, he saw us and froze
"Mr quill?" I asked. We moved closer towards him. He removed his headphones. "Who's asking?" he said as he was reaching for his weapon on his belt. "I'm agent Barton and this is falcon.....We work with SHIELD, our boss director Fury sent us, he thinks there maybe something you can help us with" he moved his hand away from his belt.
"And what might that be?" He asked. I noticed.
"I don't think here is the best place, could we talk somewhere more private" Sam asked. He took a minute before replying.
"Ok... Follow me?". We all followed him to his ship, he opened the door and we all walked in.
"Take a seat" he gestured to the table, we all sat around the table and we explained everything in more detail about was happening with Ronan and about my powers.
"Thats why director fury would like you to come back to SHIELD with us" Sam asked. He took a few minutes to
"So your saying we didn't kill him?" He asked sounding shocked,
"Unfortunately not" I added. He sighed and rubbed the back of his neck. "Ronan isn't someone you can defeat easily... You have to be ahead of him at all time...... I will help you with whatever I can"
This was easier then we thought, All of a sudden we heard a long bang. We rushed outside to see what had happened, there were about 10 alien things, they were a sliver gravy colour and had red eyes. "Shit it's Ronans minions" Peter said. Steve pulled his shield out.
They charged towards us and we started taking them out one by one, I kicked on in the stomach before I shot him with my pistol. Another one shot me with a ray type gun. I screamed in pain, and fell over this hurt more then being shot by a normal gun, "You ok Barton?" Sam shouted. "Yea I'm fine it will heal soon, just cover me" Sam came near me and took a couple of guys out. Peter took out the last of them out with an electric weapo.
I stood up and straightened my uniform out. "Everyone ok" Sam asked. "I think so" I lifted my top up slightly to see where I was hit had healed. "Let's get out of here" Sam said, out of breath. We all agreed and walked onto the ship.
The ride home felt like for ever, but before much longer we arrived back.
"Well done agents... Star-Lord.... It's a pleasure to have you with us" Fury greeted us as we stepped of the ship.
"Agent Wilson show Mr Quill to his room" I smile.
"Ok... Follow me" Sam added and walked off with Petter
