See Me--An Avengers Fanfiction

Chapter 10

A knock on her door interrupted her petting of the cat that had now been named Una. There were so many nickname options it was ridiculous, Tony had, had his fun with that.

Imrie yelled at the door that they could come in and she was surprised and a little annoyed when Harley came in.

"Hey," he said softly.

"Hey."

He awkwardly stood by the door, his hands in his pockets.

"LookIjustcametosaysorryaboutbeinganasstoyou."

She shook her head in confusion. "What?"

Harley sighed. "I'm sorry for being an ass to you."

"Tony didn't put you up to this?"

"No I-I... I'm sorry. I wouldn't want to be treated that way then I go and do it to you so, yeah I am genuinely really sorry."

She smiled at him. "You're forgiven."

Later at dinner she was a little late because she had just found the cutest thing in the entire freaking universe.

She came running into the kitchen and sat down, she was a bit out of breath.

Pietro slung an arm over her shoulder. "What's up Rie?"

She looked at everybody who were waiting expectantly. That's when she started talking in a high-pitched voice to convey her happiness.

"Oh my gosh! I just watched this adorable video of a baby flying fox who was eating a banana, but its teeth are so small, so it was really hard for it to eat and it was wrapped up in a towel and it was literally the cutest freaking thing ever!! Oh my gosh it was just so-"

"Can you stop talking in that voice," Steve chastised her.

She deflated a little at that.

"Yeah," she said softly.

A couple people sent a small glare Steve's way. Sam and Bucky looked like they were ready to fight but the conversation soon flowed along to other subjects. Wanda rubbed her back gently, making sure she was alright. She just smiled back tightly.

Later, she decided to go to town with the punching bags, anything to get the anger out she guessed.

"Imrie?"

She paused and looked to see Natasha a few yards away from her.

"Hey," Imrie said.

"You want to spar?"

She snapped her head up to look at her. Natasha Romanoff was asking her to spar.

"Uh, sure."

They got on the mat, in their positions, and faced each other.

It was Natasha who attacked first and Imrie easily ducked her swing. Imrie played defensive as Natasha through punches and kicks her way. It seemed as if Natasha would do anything to get her to trip up. But Imrie knew that she needed to get Natasha tired out if she wanted to win, so, she blocked and jumped and maneuvered her way through the fight.

It was only when she noticed the sweat beading up on Natasha's forehead, or the slight hitch of her breath, or even the clumsiness that was starting to make its way into her swings and movements that she realized that she was definitely getting tired.

So, Imrie went into offensive. She threw a kick at her side and was surprised when Natasha caught it and twisted her, so she was on the ground. Imrie recovered quickly though and got up only to have to duck another one of Natasha's kicks. She changed her tactics and decided to copy Natasha's previous movements by catching Natasha's foot and dropping her onto the mat. She held her so she couldn't get up and she heard a sound of surprise from somewhere in the room, that brief distraction allowed Natasha slip from her grip and flip her onto the mat. Her leg held her body down and she lay somewhat on her side to hold her arms.

When Imrie realized she was stuck she sighed and patted the mat to show she was done.

Natasha got off her and helped her up. She was surprised to see the other Avengers watching with looks of astonishment on their faces. When did they get here?

"That was really good. And that tiring tactic would have worked if I wasn't as trained as I am. And you learned something. You copied my movement and got me down. You might've even beat me if you hadn't gotten distracted."

Sam gave her a thumbs up and she smiled this was good.

It was much later when Steve approached her.

"Imrie?"

She looked up from her book to see Steve.

"Yeah?"

"I just wanted to apologize for dinner. I know it's no excuse, but habits die hard. Um I'm really going to try to be a better person to you and I just am stressed, and it came out wrong. Can you forgive me?"

"I get it, you were stressed, and I probably wasn't helping. I forgive you."

She's been forgiving a lot of people today.

A/N: Sorry I'm late! Sophomore year is really kicking my ass. Next update: 10/3