i forgive you (y/ns pov)

Chapter 18: New office

 „I heard you finally got cleared to go on missions again."

Barnes leaned against the door frame to his room.

I smiled.

One day earlier Bruce and my physiotherapist had me work through multiple tests to evaluate the progress I made in my shot wound recovery. Luckily I passed. Although I had just gotten used to the daily training and therapy sessions, I was relieved that my body was finally doing better.

„So I'm back to normal?", I asked to make sure I wasn't getting my hopes up for nothing.

„Yes", Bruce said with a big grin on his face. „And you're actually in a much better shape than ever, might I add."

He took his file to document everything. As he closed the folder, he also added:
„I'm gonna let Fury know to clear you for your next missions."

I had just woken up, when JARVIS called in:
„Good morning, Miss y/l/n. Your presence is expected in workshop room number four."

Since Sam told me S.H.I.E.L.D. had been keeping our original mission blocked for Barnes and me, my mind had been circling around the case. When JARVIS called me down to the workshop rooms, I got excited. As I opened my door, Barnes was already waiting outside of his room.

„I heard you finally got cleared to go on missions again."

He leaned against the door frame to his room.

„Haven't seen you in a while", I said as I closed the door behind me.

Three months to be exact. At the night of the panic attack. After that night it was almost like Barnes had vanished.

„Wasn't that what you told me? To back the fuck off", he said jokingly.

„Guess I'm just not used to you actually listening to me."

It was just a few random sentences we exchanged but somehow this felt like the first real and genuine small talk we had. It made me feel a little insecure.

"Where you're heading?", he asked.

I never noticed how soft the sound of his voice actually was.

"JARVIS called me to come to workshop room number four", I told him.

"Guess they're not wasting anymore time then", he said.

After giving him a questioning look, he told me he had also just gotten ordered to the same room. This really was about the mission then. As they didn't waste any time to call us in for another mission, we didn't waste any ourselves and immediately went ahead.

Surprised we entered a fully furnished office space.

The wall on the left was painted dark and completely empty. A few steps away from it, still facing the wall, was a huge desk with computer screens on both ends of the desk, two chairs in front of it as well as a few file cabinets. On the right side there was a smaller area behind a built in glass wall that almost looked like a living room area with a few somewhat comfortable looking couches and armchairs around a coffee table. In front of the glass wall stood yet another big sofa with a tray placed on it. The tray held a glass carafe filled with water and two drinking glasses. The center of the room was a huge conference table.

"What is this", I asked.

"This is your new office, Agent y/l/n and Sergeant Barnes", JARVIS informed us.