❝𝐓𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐌𝐘 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒 𝐈 𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐈 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐌𝐄❞
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--- 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 Howard Stark starts to fall for Marie Barnes. Despite their burning hatred for one another.
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HOWARD WAS EXAMINING a mineral that Steve had held onto from Hydra. Philips put Marie and Howard to conduct an examination and experiment. To try to decipher what exactly the small object was
The nearly microscopic orb had a glowing blue hue as it illuminated Howard, and the space around him. It was nearly blinding in-fact, and Marie kept squinting her eyes when looking directly at it.
Howard was using a machine since he was unsure if he could touch it, as he sat behind glass and he attempted his best to figure out what this mysterious object was.
Lord only knows what it could be coming from Hydra.
Marie stood next to him clipboard in hand as she scribbled down notes. Or really whatever Howard called out to her.
"Emission signature is un usual" Howard told Marie as she wrote it down quickly. The sound of her pen scribbling was the only thing that was really heard. "Alpha and beta ray neutral" he added as Marie nodded her head and peaked her head to look at the small blue glowing orb.
The cerulean light illuminated her soft features as her eyes trained on it. She truly hadn't known what it was, and if Howard didnt.
If the two smartest brains in the SSR didn't know what an object was. Would anybody?
"Though I doubt Rogers picked up on that" Howard mumbled to Marie who let out a small laugh. He quickly glanced to her quickly with a light smirk.
Marie chewed on the end of her pen, she had pinned her brunette hair up as she examined the odd mineral. And somehow from that quick glance his mind was over consumed of the image of her.
She was merely doing her job, and somehow she looked so gorgeous doing it. He tried to focus on the task at hand. But Marie still plagued his brain. And he hated her for how she could make him completely forget about anything important.
Simply catching a glimpse of her sent him into over drive.
"Seems harmless enough" Howard concluded to Marie as she leaned back and wrote that down that down quickly. "Hard to see what all the fuss is about" Howard jinxed himself as he tried to take it into the other claw.
A small beam of blue light, and Howard was sent back flying through the air. Landing hard on his back. Glass shards flew everywhere as Marie flew back into the brick wall behind her. She rubbed the back of her head as one of the scientists came rushing over to Howard.
"So thats what all the fuss was about" Marie winced as the back of her head throbbed, which got the most force from the explosion. Her hand outstretched as she reached for her clipboard. "Write that down Barnes!" Howard called out leaned back onto his elbows as he looked over to her still leaning against the wall.
"Will do!" She called out as her head rested back down. "If i ever get up" she mumbled to herself after as glanced down to her palm that had a shard of glass in it. She groaned and pulled it out, as crimson liquid seeped through the wound.
Howard got up from the uncomfortable position of lying on his back, with help from one of the scientists. He walked over to Marie as he outstretched his palm. Both of her hands clung onto his forearm, and she felt his hand rest on her waist to steady her.
She felt her cheeks grow pink at the showing of affection from Howard. And she hated that a man especially Howard could get her so flustered.
"Are you okay?" Howard asked as he saw a small cut on her cheek.
Her red painted lips parted slightly as his eyes examined her face. She swallowed quickly and nodded her head. "Im fine thank you." The words spewed from her mouth quickly as she saw his perfectly combed hair now in disarray. And a cut from glass going through his eyebrow.
"You have a cut on your cheek Marie, and your forehead." Howard countered to her as she rolled her eyes. "Im fine Howard" She assured and waved him off as she wrote down in her notes how it was somehow set off and sent a reaction of exploding.
"You look quite rough though yourself." Marie joked as her hand flicked some glass off of his shoulder. His brown eyes watched the actions of her hands as she quickly retreated it back to her side.
He cleared his throat as she wanted to smack herself for showing one ounce of kindness towards Howard. Especially her conveying such empathy. Why did she care about the glass on his shoulder?
She wish she knew herself.
"I should go inform Colonel about this" Marie quickly spoke and speeded past him. She wanted to quickly forget the encounter just as quickly as it happened.
Howard watched her figure rapidly walk away and walk out the door. His breathing felt heightened as he felt his heart rate rise.
He finally came to the realization that he cared about Marie, and he always has. But instead of ever showing it; he disguised it as hatred and distaste.
But everyone knew deep down Howard Stark was falling harder as the days sped by.
