As I reach central park the sun was just rising over the tops of the trees, the park was empty all apart from me and two other runners. The two runners were far in the distant so I doubted I would need to pass by them. I continue running along the path taking in the scenery, central park was at its most beautiful during this time. I look ahead again and see the taller of the two men wasn't there anymore, he must have gotten tired and gone home. as I continue on my path I hear the fast footsteps approaching me from behind, suddenly a large man comes racing past me "on your left" he calls as he flies past. I raise my eyebrows in surprise, geez that guy is fast, I watch as he approaches the other man playfully hitting him on the shoulder as he passes. The first man raises his hands in disbelief and annoyance as he tries to catch up to his friend. Later on in the morning the fast man had passed me so many times I had lost count, as I ran along a path I noticed a large flock of birds that refused to move from the right of the path so I had to quickly move to the left. Just as I do so I feel something crash into me from behind, I put my arms out to catch myself but I feel myself fall not onto the ground but onto someone. "are you okay?" the man asks, I turn to look at him and realise how close our faces were. I struggle to form words as I push myself off of him "I am so sorry" I mutter cheeks flushing red, "no it's my fault I ran into you" he says brushing off some of the gravel. I then notice a large graze on his arm "oh my god you're hurt!" I say taking a better look at it, he glances down at his arm only just noticing it "oh it's nothing I heal pretty quick" he says with a side smirk. I look up at him properly and notice his gorgeous bright blue eyes that just seem to twinkle in the sunlight, "uh okay, that's good, I'm (Y/N) by the way" I say holding out my hand. "Steve rogers" he smiles shaking my hand with a friendly squeeze, "I recognise that name somewhere, have we met before?" I ask trying to work out where I knew him from. "no, I think I would remember if I did, you probably recognise my team mates though" he says rubbing the back of his neck, "team mates?" I ask slightly confused, "the avengers" he explains. My eyes widen in realisation as to who he was, I was currently talking to the captain America, "yeah I get that a lot" he chuckles at me realisation. "haha yeah sorry, guess you cant go a lot of places without being recognised" I chuckle awkwardly "surprisingly so, hey er look I feel real bad about bumping into you and knocking you down is there anything I could do to repay you?" he asks with a genuine smile. "uh how about just a coffee? We can talk a little bit longer then" I suggest hopefully, he smiles back down at me "sounds great I know this great little place" he smiles pointing in the direction of the shop "sounds amazing, what about your friend though?" I ask suddenly remembering his running partner. "oh Sam, yeah he went back a while ago so we don't have to worry about him" he smiles as we continue walking out of the park.
We were just approaching the door of the coffee shop when Steve's phone goes on in his pocket, "sorry excuse me" he apologies pulling it out to take a quick look. I see his smile faulted slightly, sighing as he put his phone away "I'm really sorry but I've been called in for an emergency meeting" he explains looking down at me apologetically. I nod in understanding "that's okay we can do this another time right? Look uh here, sorry can I borrow that pen?" I say asking a waitress that passed us, "here is my number when you're next free give me a call and we can arrange something" I smile writing my number down on his hand. He smile back at me "that sounds amazing, um where abouts do you live because I can walk you back home if you would like?" he suggests, "sounds lovely, it's about a 20 minute walk from here" I smile as we walk back towards my house. "so I bet your childhood was a lot more fun than mine" I say trying to start a conversation up, he looks at me slightly confused "what makes you say that?" he asks, "well you didn't have all this technology you guys went out and played used your imagination, I mean I did too but I guess it wasn't the same" I say thinking back to when I was a child playing in the backyard of the family home. "uh yeah, I was in and out of hospital though because of the amount of illnesses I had but I had my friend Bucky with me all the time" he tells me smiling to himself in reminiscent thought "yeah I heard about you and Bucky, I'm glad you have him back, it's terrible what happened to him, it wasn't his fault" I say remembering all the bad press that surrounded him. Steve looks at me almost in admiration "yeah, I'm glad to have him back too" he smiles. We continue walking until I reach the street where I lived, I lived in a converted house in one of the quieter neighbourhoods of new York. I was on the bottom floor and it was only a 2 bedroom as we really kinda small but it was good enough for me, "this is me" I smile as we pause outside my door "it looks nice" Steve says looking up at the house "yeah only about 4 of us live here, each floor being its own little house in a way, thanks for walking me back, you won't be late for your meeting will you?" I ask pulling my key from my pocket. "no it's fine, I can just grab a cab, but I'll call you soon and we'll set up that coffee date" he smiles, I smile back to especially at the word date "sounds great, thanks again, I'll see you soon bye Steve" I smile walking up the steps to the door. "bye (Y/N)" he replies waving as I open the door.
I smile to myself as I enter my apartment, did I really just meet captain America and agree to have coffee with him? As I walk into the kitchen I think over the last hour or so, meeting him and just talking to him. It was nice finding out more about Steve rather than captain America, as I grab myself a bottle of water and toss away the cap. My eyes fall on my little plant that I had on the side, it was beginning to welter from lack or water. I wave my hand slightly cause a small cloud to appear above it and begin raining gently on it until it had enough water, I place my half empty bottle down on the side to grab something to eat out of the cupboard. As I look though I remove a couple of things to get a better look accidently knocking over my bottle of water causing it to go down the sides and over me slightly. "damn it" I sigh looking down at my now wet leggings, I make my body heat up enough to make the water evaporate but not enough to burst into flames while also manipulating the water on the side to collect into a ball and into the sink. Happy with my work I continue making myself a snack before relaxing for the rest of the day, waiting for Steve to call me to set up out date.
It had been a week and I didn't hear a thing from Steve at all, I hadn't heard anything on the news either to suggest that he was on a mission or anything. I was starting to believe he had never wanted my number and didn't want to go for a coffee, needless to say I did sulk a bit as I went back to my boring life of trying to find a new job. I had left my last one as a PA for a major CEO but he was horrid and I couldn't stand working with him at all, so I just got up and left. I felt good about it in the moment since I was standing up for myself, I however did not stop to think that without the job I would have no money and not be able to pay for all my bills as well as food. So I needed a job fast, I was beginning to give up on finding another PA job and just work in a café for a while but I was still holding on for something. I had just returned from another run when I heard the door go, when I open the door I see someone I wasn't expecting to see "Steve?" I ask looking at him not quite believing he was back. " I'm really sorry but I need your help" he says hopefully, I glance behind him to see his running mate struggling to hold up another man who's long hair was blocking his face. "yeah come in, is he okay?" I ask pointing to the man he was now helping to carry into my apartment "uh where can I put him?" he asks glancing round, "uh just on the couch, what happened?" I ask as he puts down his friend. "haven't you seen the news this morning?" his friend asks as he stretches his back, "no, I've been out running like normal" I explain "sorry who are you?" I ask. "Sam Wilson aka the Falcon, but what happened is that we were on a mission and Bucky took a sudden turn almost like his winter soldier self, we had to knock him out but we weren't able to stop him before the news arrived" Sam explains as he introduces himself. I look at the 3 men now noticing how dirty they were, none of them were wearing their suits "why didn't you go back to the tower" I ask confused as to why they would be here. "because of the protests outside" Steve explains trying not to meet my eye, I nod my head in understanding "well there's a shower in my room and on down the hall of you guys want to use them" I say pointing in the direction of the bathrooms. "thank you, cap you go get a shower I'll stay here with Bucky in case he wakes up and panics" Sam says pointing to the still out cold soldier on my couch, "I'll grab you a spare towel, just use the soaps and stuff that's in there" I say moving out of the room to grab a towel. Steve nods in agreement before quickly checking on Bucky.
While Steve was out of the room I started making some food for everyone since they would probably be hungry after everything, "so what's your name I didn't catch it" Sam says leaning on the side. "Uh (Y/N), (Y/N) (Y/L/N)" I say introducing myself, Sam nods in recognition "ah yeah I heard of you, Steve told me about you" he says, I raise my brows in surprise "really? Like what?" I ask turning to face him. He begins to say something but we hear a groan from the couch "looks like the soldier is awake" he says moving towards the couch leaving me to wonder what Steve could have possibly had said about me. just as I think that Steve reappears now only wearing his jeans and tank top which just showed off all of his muscles, "you go get a shower Sam, I can watch him now" he says taking Sam's place next to Bucky. Sam nods in agreement heading off towards the bathroom, "here I made you something" I say passing Steve a sandwich he smiles up at me "thank you, for all this, I didn't think you would help" he says glancing over at Bucky who seemed to still be asleep. "why because you didn't call?" I smirk, Steve chuckles slightly "yeah, I'm sorry about that but as soon as I got back to the tower I got put straight onto a mission and the number rubbed of my hand before I got a chance to call or text you to explain". I smile and nod my head "it's okay, I mean you still owe me a coffee so you can just make it up to me" I say making him laugh, it was such a nice laugh, "well after not calling you for a week I think I owe you more than just a coffee now" he smiles. I raise a brow in question "oh really like what? I ask, Steve shrugs his shoulders "maybe a dinner? I know I really nice place" he says, I nod my head with a smile "sounds amazing, I prefer food over coffee anyway" I smirk making him laugh. "how about next week at 7pm I'll pick you up, considering all of this has blown over of course" he smiles, "next week at 7" I agree. Bucky then groans on the couch "you weren't lying about that girl then" he says, making my chuckle slightly "thanks buck" Steve says shaking his head.
I was stood in the kitchen making some more drinks, watching as the 3 boys were sat discussing what to do next. I heard snippets of the conversation and kind of knew the situation, they had been after this large hydra thug and almost had him until Bucky had a relapse and he got away. Apparently the guy they had been after had experimented on himself which meant he was now 'enhanced' I turn so I had my back to them and brought a small flame to life in the palm of my hands, I watched it dance as I thought of what to do. I could help them, from what I heard this guy was tough to beat with just force, maybe they needed a bit of enhanced on their side. But what would Steve say, would he be freaked out by it, would he even let me come? I put out the flame and look out of the window to see people just walking past, I see a group of men cat call a woman as they walk past, annoyed I make a small ledge form in front of them causing them to all fall. I smirk to myself I turn round to watch the boys again, Sam was talking animatedly with large hand gestures while Steve nodded along a serious expression across his face. He then looks up and meets my gaze and smile slightly before returning his attention back to the boys "buck you okay to go back out there?" he asks, Bucky nods his head "yeah, get back on the horse right?" he says. The boys then get up "okay lets suit up, see if we can get the guy" Steve says, I move out of the kitchen and pass Sam and Bucky who move to get suited up "Steve?" I ask stopping him in his tracks. "yeah (Y/N)?" he asks with a smile "I want to come along" I say coming straight out with it "what no, I can't let you, you could get hurt or worse" he says worry crossing his face immediately. "I won't I promise, I have certain skills that could come in handy" I reason, he furrows his brows slightly "like what?" he asks, I shake my head slightly "it's a long thing to explain, you just have to trust me okay? You trust me right" I say hopefully. He sighs and looks away in thought "of course I do, you just have to stay safe okay?" he says "we still have our date to go on" he adds with a smile.
Between the 4 of us we had tracked the Hydra agent down to a small abandoned shack in the high peaks wilderness. "Sam and Bucky go round the back, (Y/N) stay close to me" Steve says "wait Bucky, give (Y/N) a spare gun" Steve adds just before the two boys headed off. Bucky passes over a small handgun to me "you know how to use it right?" he asks, I take the gun and test my grip on it "just point and shoot right" I say. Bucky smirks at me "there's a bit more to it, but that's the basics" he chuckles, Steve looks warily over at me "are you sure about this, all of it?" I give him a reassuring smile "I'm sure". Steve looks around and nods to himself slightly, "okay lets go" he says and we take our positions. We creep up to the door Steve in front holding his shield to cover the both of us, "ready?" Steve whispers, I nod my head and hold up the gun. "Steve we're ready back here" Sam says through the comms "okay we're heading in" Steve replies before he kicks in the door. Heading in it seemed empty "front room clear" Steve says lowering his shield slightly "kitchen and back of the house is clear" Sam says as they walk into front room. "you two check upstairs" Steve says glancing up the stairs, Bucky and Sam nod as they silently head upstairs. Me and Steve wait downstairs until we hear that the entire house was clear, Steve sighs in annoyance "another trail gone cold" he mutters dropping his shield by his side. The boys join us downstairs also looking annoyed "he couldn't have gotten too far" Sam says "we should probably start scouting the woods" Bucky shakes his head "no point we don't know which way he went, we should wait until we get another hit" he argues. The boys then start arguing what to do, I decide to slip out and head upstairs see if there was anything I could spot. I silently head up the stairs and into a bedroom, the floor was all dusty and the sun was shining in through the window. As I wander around I turn back round on myself and notice a disturbance in the dust from where there were wet footprints that had dried and there was no longer any dust. I follow the footprints and see that they lead to the window, I glance outside to see an awning roof that could easily be used to get outside on. I go to open the window and it opens easily suggesting it had been recently used, I climb out and hop down to the ground where I then notice the bushes had been previously disturbed. I look around and notice some shallow footprints heading in a straight line out into the woods before fading. "that's where he went" I mutter before heading back through the front door, as I open it I spook the boys causing them to aim at me "(Y/N) how the hell did you get out there" Sam asks lowering his guns. "I found out where he went" I say looking at the boys who were suddenly intrigued. I show them what they found and which way the guy went, "I'll go into the skies see if I can see him" Sam says jumping off the roof and into the skies. Steve turns to me "let's hope we can catch him" Bucky says gazing out the window, "guys I've found him, only a couple miles out" Sam informs us. "don't engage alone, we're coming" Steve orders "lets head out".
When we finally caught up to him, he had paused and was glancing around. the 3 or us were hiding waiting to see what he would do, Sam landed silently behind us "I could swoop in and take him out" he whispers. "no we need him alive, so we can find out if hydra have any more things planned" Steve sighs, I rest my hand on Steve arm getting his attention "let me try something" I say. He furrows his brow at me "what are you going to do?" he asks, I glance over the large fallen tree we were hiding behind "this" I mutter climbing over despite Steve' objections. I was creeping up to the agent "(Y/N)?!" Steve whispers harshly "what are you doing get back here", I turn and motion for him to shut up before turning back to the agent and concentrate on what I need to do. I focus on the roots of the tree's around us and make them grow towards the agent, they slowly brake the surface and grew around the agent's feet. The roots had worked their way above his ankles and up his leg when he noticed, "the hell?" he glances up and over and sees me. he stares angrily at me before summoning a blast of ice in his hands, he fires it over at me "(Y/N)!" Steve yells jumping over the tree to help. I raise my hands of cover myself and wait for the impact, but it doesn't come, I open my eyes to see my hands steaming "(Y/N)?" Steve mutters. I glance around to see the 3 boys looking at me in shock, I turn back round to the agent who looked at me equally shocked. He however gets over it really quickly and begins to fire more ice blasts at me but I cancel them all out with fire, "stop it!" he growls firing a more intense blast at me. I fire a strong blast back and it meets in the middle "this is new" I mutter as I keep firing back at him, I then notice Steve had crept round and behind the guy. I pull back slightly and the agent smiles to himself thinking he was now winning, I nod to Steve and he slam his shield on the back of the agents head knocking him out. We all stop and gather round the agent "that's was easy" Sam smiles "Bucky do you have the handcuff?" he asks, Bucky furrows his brows "I thought you had them" he says confused. "wait to neither of you have them?" Steve asks, Sam and Bucky shake their heads "okay do we have string or something?" Steve asks, "let me deal with this" I sigh making roots grow around the agents wrists. "there sorted" I smile looking up at the boys who just stared at the roots not knowing what to say. "how long have you been able to do that?" Steve asks picking up the agent "since forever" I reply moving out of the way Bucky who moved to help Steve drag the guy. "let's get this guy behind bars" Steve says "(Y/N) is it alright if we bring you to the compound, I want you to meet the others" he asks, I smile slightly "uh yeah sure".
When we arrived back at the compound Steve waits out by the car until Bucky and Sam went inside, "so your powers?" he starts glancing up from the floor to look at me "my powers" I smirk. Steve chuckles "so what exactly are they?" he asks, "elements, so fire, water, air and earth" I explain he nods his head "that's pretty cool, you seem pretty in control of them" he smiles. I nod my head "yeah, I mean I've had them for so long I've had to learn to control them" I sigh, Steve smiles "they are pretty impressive, and I'm sorry I doubted you earlier" he apologies. I shake my head "no it's okay, you just owe me a really impressive date now" I smirk, Steve laughs "I can do that, although you did scare me when you just walked out from cover" he smiles. I raise a brow at him "okay so what do I owe you?" I ask with a smile, "join the team?" Steve asks sheepishly. I raise by brows in surprise "what? Join the team? I can't I'm not like the rest of you guys" I say shaking my head, Steve places a hand on my shoulder "you're not" he says simply, "uh thanks?" I ask. "no wait, I mean none of us are like the others but that's what makes us a team, a team that needs someone like you" he smiles, I glance up at him and meet his gaze he looked at me so hopefully I couldn't say no " okay fine, how could I say no" I smile. He smiles back with pure joy "that's great, I think you'll really love it here, now thinking of that date how about we push it forward slightly and I meet you at 5?" he suggests, I glance at the time "that only gives us an hour though" I say slightly confused. "that's a long time for the right things" he smirks "so how about I introduce you to the team while I get our date sorted?" he asks holding out his hand, I smile taking it "let's go". Steve leads me to the elevator and up to the communal floor, "guys this is (Y/N), she's joining the team she has powers over the elements" he says introducing me. the team pause what they were doing to look over at me, admittedly I felt a bit embarrassed at the gazes, "is this the girl that?" tony starts, Steve glares at him "stark, don't, now could you guys make her feel at home while I go do something" Steve asks glancing round at them team. They all nod and the two girls comes over "hi I'm Nat and this is Wanda, its nice to have another girl around" Nat introduces herself, "hey (Y/N) I'll see you in a bit okay?" Steve smiles, "yeah" I smile watching as he left towards the elevator again.
Exactly an hour later Steve reappeared, I was sat on the couch with Nat and Wanda chatting and laughing. "hey (Y/N) you ready to go?" he asks leaning over the back of the couch, "yeah where we going?" I ask standing up. Steve shakes his head "that is a surprise, we just have to hope the weather holds up" he smiles taking my hand again "well an advantage of element control is that I can blow away any rain cloud" I smirk waving my free hand. "that's great, so lets go" Steve smiles leading me to the elevator "wait are you guys going on a date?" Nat ask moving to lean over the couch, "I owe her something" Steve smirks before turning his back to the girls and leading me out. Steve leads me out of the compound and towards the lake, "okay now I'm slightly confused" I laugh, "we're almost there" Steve smiles pointing to a tree which branches hanged over the edge of the lake. When we sat down I gazed around "this is so beautiful" I smile, Steve nods his head "yeah I found it when I moved in, it's a nice place just to relax" he smiles grabbing a basket and placing it out in front of us. "where did you have that hiding?" I laugh, "well stark came up with pockets that are endless, no I'm joking it was just round there" he smirks. He begins to pull out all of the food that was packed "what a strawberry?" he asks, I smile grabbing one "thanks, so what do you do when you come out here? I'm guessing you don't just have a picnic for one" I ask taking a bite of the strawberry. "no I don't, I actually draw" he says blushing slightly, "that's really cool, I would love to see them sometime, I mean if you don't mind" I smile, Steve smiles much more confidently now "I'd be happy to, maybe after this?" I nod my head in answer "sounds great". We continue talking and just hanging out, at one point we had moved closer together and I was leaning up against him and he had his arm around me. it was getting to the point where the sun was beginning to set, " (Y/N)?" Steve asks looking down at me "hm?" I ask glancing up slightly " I just want to say, and I'm sorry if it seems forward but I think I really like you" Steve says. I look up at him with a smile "I think I really like you too" I say softly, he smiles back at me and tilts his head slightly as in question "what?" I ask. "nothing, you just look really beautiful" Steve smiles making me blush "you are though" he adds, I shake my head and look down at the floor. He places a hand on my cheek and lifts it so I was looking into his eyes, "you are though" he repeats, we gaze into each other's eyes and I notice his gaze flicker to my lips. We slowly lean in until our lips finally meet and instantly meld together and move as one, it probably didn't seem long in real time but it felt like the perfect infinity in our time. When we broke away Steve rested his forehead against mine "I think we're even now" I mutter making Steve chuckle "good, we should defiantly do it again soon" he smiles.
4 years later
"And to conclude ladies and gentlemen, Steve meets the best people while out running me and his now wife (Y/N)" Sam toasts, I turn to Steve who smiles widely back at me "I love you" he whispers leaning in. "I love you too" I smile closing the distance laughing into the kiss when the guest begin to aww.
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