What Timeline Is This?! (Avengers soulmate au)

32 - Projecting

NO HEADER DRAWINGS till Tikki gets her shit together.
Thank you for your time, moving onnn!

Pov - Steve

"I have an idea but it's more money"

"What?"

Ayana and Tony had another one of their video meetings, I shamelessly listened in while putting the fresh, dry laundry in a basket for Ayana to fold later.

"What if I had designated cameras that would document what I see, and since I can project what I see, once I can do it in a bigger range the cams can just stay in shield hq and film with me,-"

I don't get the point of that-

"I could kiss you right now!"

No, you couldn't.

"Ew, no-" that's my girl "-I was thinking that other agents would be able to watch and record everything in real-time-" ohhh that's why "-and point out things I would look at without registering, switch between different sensors and show details when needed, and-"

"We should find a way for you to feed data to the computer directly"

"I'm not strong enough, I'm not even lethal to vampires yet"

"You might not have to be if you tap into your technopathic potential"

"No fucking way!!" she sounded awestruck by the idea.

"I'll teach you how to do it once you can get that precise and detailed with your power-"

"I know you lyin-!"

"-but it might take up to a year... Why lie, it's a waste of time. And I wanna be there when you pitch that idea to Fury"

"Hahaha, Why?"

"He might propose"

He will Fucking not!

"Prepose what?" she asked, tilting her head. I blessed her innocent 'not jumping to conclusions' habit, It was too cute.

They spent the last two weeks texting and emailing each other, documenting and making leaps in Ayana's progress. Ayana was making an effort, albeit a sometimes unfocused one, to optimize her abilities to help people, I couldn't be more proud.

I was warming up to Tony being a part of our lives and I appreciated Ayana's sense of humor and how she doesn't feel the need to tease me for my jealousy.

She got confused about that once and I made the mistake of telling her that Bucky would not have shut up about me getting so possessive - wrong - and used that as an excuse to punish me. He would pretend to jump to conclusions just to get me flustered and... uhh...

Well, Ayana filled in the blanks and laughed, practically rolling on the floor for several minutes wishing she was there to watch. And then she looked at me raising her eyebrows, signaling something and I remembered it could still happen because he might still be out there.

𖤓*⁺⭒࿐ ࿔*:･

Everyone at Shield headquarters, with the exception of Agent Rumlow, was excited - and frankly a bit too smug - about my decision to rejoin them as an active field agent.

I updated my rank after another, long round of extremely important and necessary and unavoidable evaluations, and learned everything new there was about spying from Agents Hall and Coulson in the week since Ayana opened my eyes to the organization's situation. I was nervous about the whole ordeal, especially the aspect of all the Hyds in plain sight, but that feeling wasn't enough to dim my motivation.