Fractured Point

You've never made things easy for Steve Rogers.

Soft-hearted but battle-born, brave enough to run into danger but guarded enough to never let anyone too close-you're a contradiction he's never been able to figure out.
Your cold exterior frustrates him.
Your stubbornness challenges him.
Your quiet strength draws him in more than he'd ever admit.

And the twelve years between you?
That's the line he refuses to cross.

But everything shatters the day an explosion traps you and Steve beneath the rubble of a collapsing facility. In the pitch-black silence-injured, pressed together, breaths mingling-your walls and his rules begin to crack. A confession almost slips out. A truth almost escapes.

Hours later, once the team drags you both into the light, nothing between you feels the same.

Now Steve is keeping his distance.
You're trying to pretend your heart didn't stutter in the dark.
And that unspoken moment sits between you like a live wire-fragile, scorching, impossible to forget.

You were enemies, rivals, opposites.
But one fracture point changed everything.

And now you're both trying desperately not to fall through it.