They had been dating for four months exactly, they knew each other for five, and Rose knew Steve was struggling to keep his secret. Sometimes it looked like he was going to tell her and sometimes it seemed like he wanted to leave in some heroic attempt to save her from being targeted. Both actions left Rose confused because she didn't know what she felt.

Rose had fought hard to become as normal as possible and prove that she was as average as any normal functioning human. If Steve did tell her who she was she would be a super hero's girlfriend and it would be the same story as home all over again. If he left, well Rose might just break the Statue of Secrecy and hex the man silly for even thinking that she was a fragile flower.

But the thought of Steve leaving her brought something else up, the fact that she was a witch. She had not told him of her abilities so he had no reason to believe that she was simply a vulnerable civilian. But she couldn't tell him, at least not yet. It was too early in the relationship and there were too many factors.

Telling him was only the tip of the ice berg. Steve was only part of the equation. Rose above all things was not stupid. She knew that S.H.E.I.L.D. (or any government sector really) would try and recruit her if her secret was found out. She knew she would endanger the entire wizarding population. Her wand would be snapped for exposing their secret society and the thought of losing her wand shook Rose to her core.

Yes, she left the wizarding world and moved to the States to live as an average muggle but magic was a part of her. Magic shaped and defined her very being. How else could you explain Hogwarts? Magic penetrated everything and influenced your life and Rose Weasley was scared of losing something that was so intimately close to her.

Rose saw that truth, even when she tried to deny it. Magic was a huge part of her and while she kept it a secret she was hindering her relationship with Steve. She was hiding a huge part of herself from him and she knew that their relationship would never go beyond much is she wasn't honest with him. He had a secret too and with both of them not sharing details they were living a lie.

She wanted a full relationship. She wanted to have that special bond her parents shared. She knew that Steve could very easily be the ONE but the thought scared her. She had only had one serious relationship before and even then she never felt as strong for him as she does for Steve. They were comfortable.

And it was then that Rose saw the reality, the one she had wanted to avoid at all costs. She loved him. He saw her as Rose, not daughter of Ron and Hermione Weasley. Not a part of the next generation of wonderful Weasleys. Not even as Hogwarts student extraordinaire. He saw her as Rose in the simplest terms and like her like that. And there laid the problem.

He liked her as she presented herself as a muggle and maybe magic would change that. He had super powers from a serum but he didn't hide his personality from her but rather hid his super powers. Rose hid a lot more. She hid her love for magical medicine. She didn't talk about things she did in school. She did even tell him she had a younger brother or how she admired her dad above all else. Steve shared aspects of his life even when he omitted things that in the end didn't really matter too much. Her secret was bigger and it would require all her Gryffindor courage to tell him the truth.

More than that Rose didn't know what she wanted more, Steve or magic. She couldn't decide and it was with that last thought that she bitterly decided to leave her flat.

The Sorting Hat had been wrong before.

A/N: Okay, I know this is short and a complete 180 degree turn from the Average one-shot but it's important. Steve and Rose may have had an easy start but it couldn't stay easy forever they have some issues to work out. This is going to be longer than just a one-shot but probably no more than 5 chapters. I want to finish this around Christmas since I also have a Lucy/Dr. Banner one-shot planned and partly written out.

So any comments are welcomed. From outrage to approval, to comments on hoe short this it.