Royalty Overdrive

chapter 15

My heart dropped and my gaze landed on the floor. James and Steve pulled me into a hug as hot tears ran down my face. I collected my emotions and wiped my face plastering a smile on it again. “Well, I guess I need to be caught up on the new tech.” I spoke half heartedly. Steve and James chuckled. “Let’s start with this.” Steve said handing me the book from before. It was my small sketchbook. “I was looking at it in the room when everything happened. I kept it with me and it’s what had kept me going in more times than I can count.” His words melted away as I flipped through the pages that I drew on, however I noticed that there were some amazing sktches that I hadn’t done. They were Steve’s. James started walking toward the fire and gestured for us to follow him. We all sat down by the fire and James extended his metal arm closer to it.

“So how about we start with what happened to your arm?” I looked to James. He covered his arm as if he were ashamed of it. “I fell off of a train…” He muttered staring at the floor. “Yeah, I think I’m gonna need a better explanation than that.” “We were hanging off of a train on the side of a cliff and I couldn’t get to Bucky before he fell.” Steve stepped in and broke the sullen tension. “Hydra took me in and made me a killing machine. I became a monster.” James’ voice was quiet unlike usual. “And I became captain america, I fought Bucky and I brought him back.”

“And I sat in a block of ice for years on end. Doing nothing. Helping no one.” I internally glared at myself. “Hey, why don’t we go get some food.” Steve said. “Yeah, Wanda said she and Vision would be done soon.” Bucky supported. As if on cue, Pietro ran in and smirked, “Okay, lovebirds Wanda says it’s time to eat.” Pietro came over and helped me up before the others had a chance. I could feel steve and James Glaring at him from behind me. We all went to the kitchen and got some food.
“Tony” had sat in James’ seat. He picked up the seat with him sitting in it and dropped it in another room hearing a loud “Ouch” From the other room. Bucky came back out and I couldn’t help but make a joke. “That wasn’t very princely, James.” The whole room looked at me for a moment.

“Prince?” Tony spoke from the other room. Tony walked out of the other room and walked over to James who looked like he was about to knock Tony out. “Did I say something I wasn’t supposed to?” I almost felt guilty for saying it. Even though it was the truth I suddenly felt like I should have just kept quiet. Steve sighed and pushed Tony back into the room and shut the door behind him. I felt myself shrink into the corner. Bruce, Natasha, Clint, Sam, Rhodey, Thor, and Loki were still lost but dismissed the situation for the food. Wanda let Tony out of the room on the condition that he wouldn’t cause any trouble, ask any questions, and that he’d just generally shut up. We sat and ate talking about general stuff that’s happened in the last 60 some years.

We finished eating, so Wanda, Vision, and I did the dishes, cleaned up the food, and wiped off the counters. Afterward we sat down and watched a some TV. A commercial came on and it made a joke saying, “You haven’t heard of this? What? Have you been living under a rock for the past 40 years?” Wanda paused the TV and looked at me slowly. “More like 65 years.” I muttered under my breath. Wanda nearly died laughing while Vision just sat next to me and smiled.

We cracked jokes for a while before James came in to ask what was going on. I said bye to Wanda and Vision not long after telling a few more jokes. James and I went to his room. He let me admire his metal arm for about an hour with minor chit chat until he pulled me into a tight hug. His heartbeat was soft and calming. We lay on his bed for a few minutes until I heard the door open and close. I went to turn around to see who it was until I felt someone join James and I leaving me in the middle. Just by the way he was laying I could tell it was Steve. He and Bucky were fast asleep in minutes while I lay wedged between them imagining things that I really shouldn’t in this moment.

For about the next two hours I sat overheating and thinking about what would happen if I ever got the chance to get into a relationship with either of them. Steve woke up and could tell I was still awake. He leaned in and kissed the back of my neck. I felt myself blush and he whispered in my ear, “You know if you really can’t calm down you could just get out.” My face was definitely as red as a lobster’s. “I guess I could if I wasn’t being held by the two of you.” I chuckled nervously. My heart was pounding and suddenly I felt James pull me in closer and tuck his head into my neck. His breath made my heart pound even more.