Promises

Chapter 5

Steve was miserable without Y/N. The mission she had missed had gone well, but Steve had found that he wasn't in the best head game and the rest of the team was still mad at him. And they were even madder at him for taking some, according to them, unnecessary risks with his life on the line. This made him try and avoid the rest of the team as much as possible. He wished Y/N would come back soon, but it had only been 5 days, and she had asked for 1-2 weeks free time. But he would not be surprised if she was away longer time. Steve knew from what Wanda had shared with him that Y/N was at her childhood best friend Wyatt. A friend that Steve hoped to get to meet one day. Steve knew a bit more about Y/N childhood and life before the Avengers then the rest of the team, but he had a feeling that the reason behind that was that he had found her crying in the gym in the middle of the night, this was the night before mother's day. Y/N had told him about how her mother had tried getting her institutionalized when her ability's started manifesting themselves. But Y/N's father had stood by her side and refused that. In the end, her father had won and her mother left them. Steve knew that Wyatt and his family had been an escape for her and that they had supported her and accepted her ability's. Y/N had eventually ended up at Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngster, where she had got the help to control her abilities. Then Fury, who was a kind of friend of her father, had offered her a place at Coulson's team. Then she had been introduced into the Avenger team, two years earlier, after the Accord and while everyone was still dead after the snap. She had been a big part of defeating Thanos and getting everyone back to life. Everyone in the team loved her. She fitted in with everyone on the team and she always made sure that everyone was doing okay. Y/N had made sure that everyone came out from their rooms after the big takedown. That they talked about their feelings and all the fighting that had happened between the team. She had made the Avengers into the Avengers again. Made the team whole and happy again. She had also encouraged Peter to go to university, to take some time off from saving the world. She had said that he should get a degree and be a normal university student, or at least as normal as he could be. One of the things Y/N had done was to make sure that the team had at least one big family dinner a week. She got everyone involved and they had a great time. They were a family again. Bucky and Tony even started getting closer and friendlier after Y/N had talked to Tony. Steve had no idea what had been said, but whatever she had said to Tony had really made a difference. Now that she wasn't at the compound it felt colder and less bright. Y/N always brought the laughter into every room she was in. Steve knew that she had a lot of secrets about her life. One time he had asked her about her past and she had answered that she didn't live in her past, she lived in the now. She had never told him about why she always kept her promises, but now he knew. He wishes he would have known earlier. Then he would not have fucked everything up as much as he did. Steve stood looking out the window in his bedroom thinking about Y/N and what he would say when she got back. He needed to be brutally honest with her about his feelings. Just put it all one the line for her and hope she gave him a chance. He just hoped she thought he deserved a chance.

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"Are we going to talk about it," Wyatt said on your sixth day with him."About what?" You asked looking away, eyes focusing on the bookshelf to your left.
"Don't even try with me," he said and you pull a hand through your hair. "I have known you since you were 6 years old. Do you think I can't see when something is wrong with you?" This was a conversation you knew that you could not push off any longer.
"Okay," you said and pulled him to the living room and the couch. Then you told him everything that had happened with Steve.
"I know that you have had your feelings played with before," Wyatt says putting an arm around you hugging you to his chest. "But I think you need to acknowledge the fact that Steve has little knowledge about women. He made a mistake." You nod at this. It was something you had been thinking about the last couple of days. You site quiet for a while. Your head is spinning with your feelings and thoughts on Steve and the whole situation.
"What are you planning on doing?" Wyatt asked after a couple of minute's silence.
 "I honestly don't know," you exhale. "I mean, I still have feelings for him. Even if I want them to be gone, I know in my heart that he is a man that woke up in the wrong era and that he has no idea what he should do. I heard that he listen to Bucky and that is when it all got fucked up. I just don't know what I want or what I want to do."
"Well, you can't hide here for the rest of your life," Wyatt teased you. You push him in his chest."Are you getting tired of me already?" you sass.
"No, absolutely not," Wyatt admits. "But you have a life. I mean, you are a fucking hero saving the world. As I always knew you would. You need to go back home and figure all of this out." You nodded. Wyatt had always been there for you. Not thinking you were a freak. He had always supported you in all you had ever done.
"I am staying a couple of days more. I want to see your father get out of the hospital. I promised him that I would cook him food one time before going back," You say after a while. Wyatt nodded and left it at that.