If I Had the Chance
By: Hogwarts Wonderland
Type: Avengers, One shot
Pairing: Steve/oc if you squint really hard
Hi readers. I just saw the avengers and it was totally EPIC. It actually sparked two new ideas for stories. This is one of them. I have not decided if this is going to be a one-shot or not but right now I am going to say that it is. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it! Please, please, please send reviews or pm me. Thanks!
When Julia Hanson woke up on the Tuesday morning in her small studio apartment, she thought her day was going to be completely normal.
She thought that she would get up, go to her creative writing class at NYU at eight, leave class at ten o'clock and go straight to work at a Hal's Diner in Midtown, New York. And she did. But it wasn't until the middle of her shift that things started turning for the worst.
"Hi, my name is Julia and I will be your server today. Can I start you off with a drink?" Julia asked a group of women in office entire most likely on break.
"Yes. I would like a-" the woman in a smart looking blue business suit started to order before stopping, looking up as if she had seen a ghost.
Julia and every other person outside the café followed her gaze. What they saw was the catalyst for the wide spread panic and fear that caused people to freak out. What they saw could be described as other worldly. There was a massive portal in the cloudy blue sky that showed a contrast of a black starry abyss. But that wasn't the most terrifying part. It was the massive mechanic, worm like space craft that was most likely carrying more of the vile looking creatures with dirty grey shell like skin, slanted eyes that looked to be on the side of their faces and a horse type mouth with a set of jagged teeth. They were riding on hovercrafts and into our world.
The sight of them alone made Julia freeze in fear. She couldn't move from her spot because she was numb with fear. Julia only snapped out of her trance when she realized that a large swarm of the creatures where coming her way.
"Everyone needs to get inside!" she yelled in hopes of preventing the customers and anyone else from being harmed. They all followed her advice immediately. But unfortunately for some of the people as well as herself, they couldn't reach the safety of the diner. A sudden blast of blue energy erupted from one of the aliens knocked Julia right off her feet. Everyone else was in full panic mode and was running amuck in terror. Julia was struggling to get back onto her feet when another blue blast was released in her direction. She didn't have the time to react. She just closed her blue eyes and awaited her impending doom. But it never came. Instead a tall, muscular man sporting a blue, red and white costume jumped in front of her and shielded them both with a patriotic colored shield with a white star in the middle. He then proceeded to throw the shield at the creatures as if it was a boomerang. It knocked them out and then returned to its handsome owner. The mysterious man turned around to look at her in concern with baby blue eyes.
"Are you alright Miss?" asked Julia's savior.
Julia nodded her head, too shocked at the recent events to speak. The man guided her up into standing position and led her to the door of the restaurant.
"Please take cover in here Miss," he said before running off into the midst of the battle.
Julia scrambled into the diner as she was told. Her boss, Hank, and a friend and fellow waitress, Nina, expressed their relief of Julia being safe then proceeded to ask question of what happened. Julia couldn't even tell them because she was still wrapping her mind around the events. What had just happened? That man came out of nowhere… and he sounded very familiar. Whoever he was, Julia would be forever grateful for him saving her life. Julia wandered over to the window to look at what was happening, and if she was being truthful, hoping to catch a glimpse of the man clad in patriotic colors.
She couldn't find him. Julia sighed. 'If I ever see him again," Julia promises herself, "I will tell him thank you."
It was only a couple of hours after the war and there were/ mass amounts of news crews, people looking for lost friends and family, and groups of clean up crews were milling around the ruins of New York city like ants on an ant hill. The television crews were interviewing various survivors on there take of what happened. One news crew actually found out from Julia's friend that she was saved by the man called Captain America and was currently interviewing her. Julia, who was still shaken up from the events was still dressed in her mustard yellow, old style diner dress and had a blanket wrapped around her figure. The news anchor asked Julia of her opinion of the group now called the 'Avengers'.
"They are heroes. Captain America saved my life and wherever he is, I just want to have the chance to say, thank you."