Ok, so this is my first Captain/OC fanfic so I'd really like to have some feedback if you guys could! I think it's a bit dull at parts and I really tried to keep them to a minimum! Hope you like it!

Looking down at her phone she let a small frown mar her lips. How hard was it to find a huge building in the middle of New York? Apparently harder than she thought. She had placed the address into her phone and it had brought her to the wrong place. Frustrated she shook her phone as if that would help, when it didn't she took in a deep sigh. "I guess I could always ask for directions…" She murmured to herself. She walked by a couple of stores finally deciding to go into one and ask. She felt like she stood out in the store as it blared some quick paced rap song from the speakers. As she made her way to the counter she grabbed the attention of the woman behind the counter. She greeted her with a smile and leaned in so she could hear what each other was saying.

"What can I do you for honey?" She asked, her New York accent fitting in that was the norm.

"Oh, yes please I think I'm a bit lost…" Her British accent stood out even more so, she almost felt that the music seemed to quiet so everyone could listen to the abnormality. "I'm looking for Stark Tower? I think my phone had a hissy fit and brought me to the wrong place."

"Oh sweetie, you are on the wrong side of town! Let me call you a cab and we will get you going to the right place." She reached for the phone behind the desk.

"No, I think I'll just call my cousin… I should have taken up her offer to pick me up in the first place." She looked down at her luggage bag that had been her carry on. They airline had lost the rest of it. "Could you tell me where I am at so I can let her know?"

The woman smiled again and wrote down the address quickly for her so she could stand out and talk with ease. "Here you go dear. Hope you get ahold of your sister."

"Cousin and thank you!" She picked up the paper and rushed out feeling silly as a couple of the customers watched her go with a laugh. She quickly found her cousin's number and hit her name as the number flashed upon the screen with her cousin's picture. It rang a few times before she answered.

"Skye! I was starting to think you got lost! Are you here?"

"Hey Pepper, no I uh, eheheh, I did get lost… Could you come pick me up?" Skye felt her face redden a bit she felt very silly to have gotten lost like this.

"Of course I can, where are you at?" Skye rattled off the address and described her surroundings. "Oh that's easy; Tony has a friend living close by there! Hey, he is actually supposed to be on his way over, I'll just give him a call and he can swing by and pick you up! I'll call you right back!" And before Skye could respond Pepper hung up.

Skye stood by the building as the sun had started to set a bit and it made her nervous, her phone rang with Pepper's ring tone making her jump. "Pep?"

"Yeah, Steve is going to come get you, he should be there in like five minutes. I will see you as soon as you both get here!" She hung up again. Skye looked down at her phone, she would have preferred that Pepper stay on the phone with her, but she wasn't going to make her just because she felt a little scared.

The street lamps had come on when a motorcycle pulled up in front of where she stood, a handsome looking man with blonde hair got off and looked around before his eyes met hers and he walked over to her. "Are you Skye?" He seemed a bit nervous about approaching a stranger.

"Yes, are you Steve? Pepper told me you'd be coming; I honestly couldn't thank you enough. I hope it wasn't too much of a bother." Skye reached out her hand and shook his.

"Not at all." He seemed a bit surprised by her accent, it was apparent he had been expecting someone with an American accent like his. He looked down at the dress she had been wearing; it was a tea length black with lime green polka dot dress and lime green two inch high open toed heels she had a light sweater that was zipped all the way up covering her arms and torso. "I think I brought the wrong transportation."

Skye smiled, "I'll be alright, not my first rodeo." She followed him back to the motorcycle, he took the only bag she had and strapped it down. Getting on he watched as she helped herself ignoring the friendly hand he held out to help her on. She settled herself behind him side saddled tucking most of her dress under her bottom to prevent it from getting dirty or catching. It exposed more of her legs which he was surprised were covered with tattoos but it was a bit too dark to tell what they were of. If she saw him looking at them she didn't let on, she simply waited till he remembered where they were supposed to be heading and kicked the motorcycle to life. Her hands wrapped around his waist, resting gently on his stomach. Her hands were manicured with a sea green polish that seemed to match perfectly with her own light green eyes; and her fingers held no rings.

"You're going to want to hold on tight ma'am." He said over the sound of the engine. She said nothing but her grip held a little tighter as they started off towards Stark Tower. After about twenty minutes Steve stopped, the cooler New York air had stung a bit at her face and a little after they had started Skye had buried her face in Steve's shoulders. As Steve got off he heard Pepper squeal behind him and watched as Skye went to jump off of his bike. She seemed to put too much oomph in her jump because instead of landing on her feet she fell face first into the pavement.

"Skye!" Pepper had given a squeak of surprise and rushed forward to help her cousin up, but Steve was closer and took her by the arm carefully lifting her up setting her on her feet, but Skye still gave a small twinge as though he had hurt her. Pepper dusted the gravel and dirt off of her face and arms. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine Pep, really." She gave Pepper a smile to reassure her but it didn't work Pepper still continued to dust her off. "Thank you again by the way, for the ride and for helping me up." She gave him a bit of a bigger smile than she had her cousin and he felt himself grow a bit red in the cheeks.

"Not a problem ma'am." He said giving her a bit of a nervous smile.

"Oh, I should formally introduce you two." Pepper smiled. "Steve this is my cousin Skye Phoenix, Skye this is Tony's friend Steve Rogers."

Skye smiled and shook Steve's hand. "Mrs. Phoenix." Steve said as he let go of her hand.

"It's Miss, and please just call me Skye. No ma'am, no Miss, just Skye. It makes me feel silly otherwise."

Steve nodded, "Of course Mis- I mean Skye." He flushed a bit at his almost mistake, thankfully for him Tony had come out at that moment.

"Hey Capsicle." Tony smirked clapping him on the back. "Skye," He moved from Steve to Skye giving her a quick hug and kiss on the cheek. "Good to see you again."

"It's wonderful to be back. Are you sure I'm not bothering you two? I really can find my own place; the hotels aren't too bad around here from what I remember."

"Nonsense, I couldn't live with myself if something happened." Pepper interjected. "No, you're much safer with us."

Skye flushed a bit with embarrassment, "Thanks Pep…"

"We were just getting ready to go out for dinner, when did you last eat?" Pepper asked.

"Before the flight, and even then I only snacked. I was too nervous."

"Well come on, I know this amazing place you will just love." As she turned to take Skye towards the waiting limo she stopped and turned towards Steve. "You should come too; I want to thank you for picking Skye up for me. It's the least I could do."

"Of course he'll come." Tony said not waiting for Steve to answer for himself pushing the man along behind Skye and Pepper as they crawled into the limo. Tony had set him next to Skye while he and Pepper sat across from them.

"So what brings you to New York?" Steve asked trying to ignore the looks Tony was giving him. "Besides Pepper I mean."

Skye was quiet for a moment; he almost thought he had offended her until she spoke. "I just needed a new start. Some space and hopefully a new life, I just hope my old one doesn't try to follow…" She looked from her feet to out the window Tony was the one to break the silence.

"I'd like to see him try to come here; I'll knock his ass into next year." Tony murmured and Steve looked to his friend for a moment surprised at the sudden hostility.

"I just still can't believe you never told me Skye. All these years all you would have had to say is one word and it would have been over with a long time ago." Pepper said leaning forward and placing her hand on Skye's knee. Her body seemed to give an involuntary jerk or twitch.

"You know there was never a moment between the two of us where I could have. I would have just gotten myself into more trouble and probably you too." Her voice was soft and quiet and even though he was sitting right next to her he had to lean towards her to hear what she was saying. "But it's done with now, nothing else I can do and he's gone for good." Her smile was suddenly back and Steve noticed it almost seemed to light up the back of the limo. "No use in thinking about the past when they future looks so bright."

Steve felt she was being vague on purpose, he had a hunch what was going on but he wasn't 100% sure. She left, uprooted her life for some reason, a job, maybe a boss who she didn't get along with, maybe she had a stalker? He wasn't sure, but he was sure he was quite glad to see her smiling again the frown that had marred her face didn't suit her at all.

A couple minutes later they arrived outside of a small Italian place that Steve had rode by a couple times on his small adventures around the city. He was last to exit as he waited for Skye to get out first behind Tony and Pepper. They followed the couple inside suddenly feeling a bit underdressed in his jeans and plain white shirt with his leather coat. Although Skye was Pepper's cousin she stood close by Steve as they made their way to the table, Steve almost reached out and placed his hand on her waist a few times, once he almost thought Tony had seen. They slid into the booth Tony and Pepper on one side, Steve and Skye on the other again Steve had let Skye in first.

They didn't have a chance to talk because suddenly their waiter appeared handing out menus. "And what would the happy couples like to drink?" He asked looking around at the four of them, Steve flushed and Skye corrected him.

"Sorry, only couple here is them. And I'll have a coke please." She smiled not bothering to look up from her menu as she glanced threw it. If she noticed the grin Tony kept throwing Steve she hid it very well.

"Coke for me too." Steve said looking through the menu, most of it was in French and he spoke very little and read even less. As Pepper and Tony ordered their drinks, some wine, Skye must have caught the look on Steve's face and leaned over to help him.

She pointed to a few things, "From here to here are just different versions of steak." Her hand brushed against his forearm and he felt himself have some goose bumps. "And over here is chicken, and seafood, and salads, and this stuff over here is mostly vegetarian items."

"You speak French?" Steve asked a bit impressed.

Skye giggled and flipped his menu around, "No, the English version is on the back." Steve defiantly went red. "It's okay, I didn't know that either until I flipped it around myself." Her hand rested on his arm for a moment before she pulled it back towards her and sat it in her lap setting her menu down her face was a bit flushed as was his at the contact.

"So were you able to get out of the house without a problem?" Pepper asked as she set her menu down as well.

"If only, no there was another err, incident, but that was to be expected, but it doesn't matter anymore, I'm here and he isn't and that's what matters now." She looked away from her cousin watching a couple a few table over being a bit overly romantic.

"You really shouldn't lock it up Skye, you need to let it out I'm sure it will make you feel better." Pepper reached across and rested her hand on Skye's which was dancing around her cutlery trying to keep her hands busy, it was apparent she didn't want to talk about it right now or possibly ever.

"I know what will make me feel better Pepper." Skye said a bit harsher than she meant to. She realized this and let out a sigh, "I'm sorry Pep… I just, really don't want to think about him or what happened right now… I have enough stress with making sure the move is going to go smoothly and get my own place and set up an office. If I can just find a nice place to sit down and get back to writing I'll feel better." She gave her cousin a quick squeeze of the hand. "He's had far too much control for far too long, I just think it's time I took some of it back. If I ever feel like talking about it you'll be the first person I call. I promise."

Pepper nodded seeming to drop the subject changing it to what Skye was going to do for clothes seeing as how the airline has lost all her other bags that were her clothes. "Even if you get them back you'll need something until then."

Skye shrugged it off. "I have enough to survive the night I can go shopping tomorrow." Steve was a bit surprised at how little she cared about the missing clothes, most women now a days were always quite upset by the lost or the desecration of their belongings she was defiantly different from most of the women he met these days.

As their waiter came back and took their orders Skye's phone could be heard vibrating, but with her wearing a dress Steve wasn't sure where she could be keeping a phone. She seemed to be trying with all her might to ignore it but when Pepper asked she couldn't ignore it any longer. Dipping her hand into the cup of her dress, Steve looked away at this embarrassed for knowing; she pulled it out and glanced down. "It's him, ugh. How did he get my new number? I even switched carriers!" She dropped her phone onto the table; well it was more of a toss. It landed almost in front of Steve as he glanced down a number was showing up on it as it vibrated in front of him. He suddenly got a very strange idea and reached down picking it up and sliding his hand across the answer button he put it to his ear and spoke.

"Hello?"

"Where is that little bitch?" A gruff voice responded with an accent similar to Skye's he noticed Skye was almost trying to curl into a ball and disappear.

"I'm sorry; I think you have a wrong number." He tried to keep his voice pleasant, which wasn't easy as he wasn't thrilled with hearing him refer to a woman in such a disrespectful tone.

"How long have to had this number mate?" His gruffness seemed to dissipate a bit but Steve could still hear the curiousness in his voice.

"Since I've had this phone, sorry." And he hung up handing it back to Skye without a word.

She looked down at the phone in his hand and carefully took muttering a soft 'Thanks' as she placed it back into a pocket she had built into the dress. Steve didn't get a chance to look away but was glad to see it wasn't in the bra itself. "You didn't have to do that." She said not looking over at him.

"It's not a problem." He didn't look at her either. He didn't know why he did it to be honest he was just hoped that it would stop whoever it was from calling her, for now. He also tried to ignore the smirk Tony was sending his way. Thankfully their food showed up shortly and their attention was diverted to the food in front of them.

Dinner was a mostly quiet affair as the four chewed their food. Pepper and Tony spoke about work and Skye watched the people around them and Steve watched Skye. Only Tony saw this though, and he filed it away to give Steve a hard time about it later.

Steve couldn't help but be intrigued with Skye. She let her facial expressions give her thoughts away, she smirked and seemed to laugh to herself when someone did something amusing to her and when she wasn't grinning at something amusing she seemed to have an almost serine look on her face.

"So Capsicle," Tony said suddenly making both Steve and Skye jump. "How goes the dating world? Anything good so far?"

Steve cleared his throat picking at his food a bit seeming to think about what he was going to say. It was true he had gone on a few dates, but all of the women were too infatuated with the fact he was Captain America instead of a man looking for an actual relationship. "It's going." He finally said, not understanding why Tony was suddenly asking him.

"Find Mrs. Right yet?"

"Not yet." Steve felt like he was aiming at something, as Tony normally was. "Why?"

"Just wondering." He smirked; Steve didn't have to be a mind reader to know he wasn't telling him. "You know, they say that normally you end up with the person you least expect to end up with. That you normally meet threw friends."

"Are you trying to say something Stark?"

"Not at all, just saying that love is found is the strangest places." He gave him a wink and Steve rolled his eyes. Tony had been the one to set him up on most of the dates he had gone all of which had been disastrous.

As the waiter came Tony paid the bill without a second glance and everyone stood up, Skye's phone had gone off again and she took it out and answered it. "Phoenix." She waiting as the person on the other end spoke she let out a deep breath pinched the bridge of her nose. "No, it's the other way around… they were supposed to be brought to the address in New York, not the one in London." She sighed and listened to the person some more. "Yeah thanks…" She hung up. "For nothing," she looked at Pepper, "They sent everything back to the flat in London, so he's going to get all my clothes and even some of my projects…"

"Well, you have backups for those don't you?" Pepper asked rubbing her back carefully almost as if she was afraid she'd hurt her.

"Yeah… but I'm pretty sure those had the new address in them… I was going to mail them to the company once I landed because I didn't exactly have the chance to before I left." Her body seemed to tense up a bit. "What if he finds them?" Her arms seemed to grip onto each other so hard Steve was surprised she wasn't in pain.

"Shh," Pepper rubbed her back pulling her into a hug. "I told you, we can take care of anything if he does show up. I promised you I wouldn't let anything happen and I won't. Tony and I have this awesome alarm device and well you already know about the suit." She gave her a smile. "You're as safe as safe could be."

Skye let out a breath she had been holding in and nodded, "You're right… and there is a chance he won't see them. He probably won't even go through my things." Her words were positive, but her voice held none of it. And Steve noticed she still seemed very nervous.

As they made their way back to the limo Steve stood a bit closer to Skye feeling the fear seem to sweep off of her in waves. As they pulled in front of Stark Tower to drop Steve back off by his bike Tony got out with Steve giving Pepper and Skye a smile telling them he'd be right back as he got out of the limo shutting the door behind him.

"So." Tony said falling into step with Steve. "Skye seems nice doesn't she?"

Steve looked at him from the corner of his eyes for a moment, "Yeah she seems to be very nice."

"You figure it out yet?" Tony stepped in front of Steve stopping the both of them, his friendly smile now gone.

"Figure what out?"

"Skye, I know you're wondering why someone like her would come to the States. She has a good reason you know."

"I wouldn't doubt that she has, what are you trying to tell me Stark?"

"I've seen the way you've been watching her all night. You're interested in her aren't you?" The smirk was back.

"She doesn't seem like she's ready for a relationship Stark." Steve said avoiding the question.

"Well not yet, she has to move on eventually. And Pepper says she's been emotionally out of it for a few years now."

"So you're telling me this… why?"

"I'm telling you because I don't want you to hurt her." Tony's face was completely serious Steve was taken aback at that. "Just be careful, alright? She's been through enough." His smile was back again as he patted him on the arm. "Thanks for picking her up for me. Oh and here," He slipped a piece of paper into Steve's hand. "See you around Capsicle." He turned on his heel and jogged back towards the limo.

Steve looked down at the paper in his hands then back to the limo. He shook his head a bit and stuffed the paper into his jeans pocket before hopping onto his bike and taking off.