Just a thought that popped into my head for one reason or another. Hope you guys enjoy!

The List

Wanda was curious.

That wasn't a new occurrence for her. She had been curious about everything when she had first come to the Avengers facility. Curious about the organization that she now worked for. Curious about the extent of her powers when she was training. Curious about how exactly she was going to live life without her brother.

But most of all, she was curious about the people she now called teammates.

After a few weeks working with them, she now knew her fair share, although there was still much to discover. She knew Stark was an arrogant asshole, but he wasn't the demon she had always pictured him as. She knew Falcon was a loyal and honest man, who wanted to prove that he belonged among the gods that made up the Avengers. She knew that Black Widow was not exactly a heartless assassin, as Wanda had initially thought she was. She knew that Vision was not Ultron, and that he took great offense to anyone who even so much as implied that. She knew that Captain America was simultaneously the most open and most guarded person she had ever known.

And that made her very curious.

So when she saw him sitting at a table in the corner of the cafeteria, scribbling in a mysterious notepad, she wasted no time in investigating, her curiosity swallowing up her apprehension at approaching the leader of the Avengers.

"Miss Maximoff." He greeted as she sat down at his table across from him, barely looking up as he continued writing something down. Off duty, he was dressed in a simple gray t-shirt and a worn pair of jeans, a simple look that suited him, Wanda decided. Although, it wasn't like he made anything look particularly bad, what with that incredibly sculpted body and his wonderfully chiseled features, she thought with a slight blush, quickly trying to reroute her thoughts towards her initial reason for approaching him.

"What is that?" She asked bluntly, catching him by surprise as she quickly reached over and plucked the notepad from his hands. Having grown up on the streets of Sokovia with limited supplies, she had quickly learned to simply take things when she needed them. Even with the seemingly limitless resources of the Avengers facility provided to her, it was a habit that was hard to outgrow.

"It's a list." He said awkwardly as she read through the things he had written down, her brow furrowing in confusion as she tired to make sense of what was on the page.

"Steve Jobs, Disco, Thai food, Star Wars?" She read aloud, with most of the words sounding familiar to her, although all of them were still rather foreign concepts to her.

He nodded, "It's a list of things that I need to catch up on, so I can get up to speed with everything that's happened in the last 70 years."

"You have a lot on this list." Wanda observed, flipping to the next page, and the next, and the next. It seemed to go on for quite a while. Clearly, the super soldier had been working on it for some time.

Steve rubbed his neck sheepishly, "Yeah, I haven't really found the time to do most of the things on that."

As Wanda read more and more unfamiliar terms, she quickly found her curiosity piqued. She wanted to learn about these things as much as he did, perhaps even more so. Before she knew it, the words came tumbling out of her mouth.

"Do you want help with it?"

Wanda covered her mouth as soon as she finished speaking, hoping that he didn't hear her, but the slightly surprised expression he had on his face told her otherwise. She hung her head. It had been presumptuous of her to assume that he would want to do something with her. She had been his enemy not so long ago, and she had been the one who had unleashed Ultron and all of the chaos onto him. She knew the other Avengers didn't really trust her yet, and she wasn't sure that they ever would, after what she had done…

"Um, sure."

…Wait, what?

She jerked her head up to look at him, to see if he had been joking. But she saw no hint of malice or deceit in those incredibly blue eyes of his that she swore must have been enhanced by the serum.

"It'll be nice to have someone to help me out." He added, flashing her a soft smile as her heart fluttered.

"Okay." She managed, failing to quell the smile that spread across her lips at his answer. She really couldn't help herself, especially with the way he actually seemed excited at the prospect of being around her. It was a welcome change from most of the reactions she usually received around the facility.

The two smiled at each other for a minute, not really sure where to go from there, but neither one really minding the silence.

"What's with all of the awkward silence and staring?" Natasha asked as she sat down next to Steve with a tray of salad and a bottle of water, causing both of them to quickly break off their eye contact.

"Uh, Wanda's going to help me with my list." He explained, as Wanda realized that she still had the notepad in her hands. She quickly reached across the table, returning it to Steve, who slipped it into his pocket.

"Oh really?" Natasha said, cocking an eyebrow and turning an amused gaze to Wanda, who felt extremely exposed with the eyes of the Black Widow seemingly studying every inch of her face.

"Well, feel free to text me if you need someone else to join you guys…unless the two of you would rather do it alone?" She asked with a wicked smile that did little to hide her great joy at teasing the two of them.

"Oh, well, I mean…" Steve sputtered, while Natasha chuckled a bit at watching him squirm and seeing the blush that scorched Wanda's cheeks.

"I'm just joking with you." She said, putting Steve out of his misery and allowing Wanda to release a breath that she didn't know she had been holding, "But seriously, text me if you need someone to join in. I don't want to miss the look on your face when you watch Rocky for the first time."

And with that, Natasha picked up her tray and walked off, leaving a string of flushed cheeks and stammering in her wake.

Do you guys want to see more? I'm not really sure how much of a role romance will play if I keep this going, but I figured that Wanda would be a perfect companion for Steve as he tries to check things off his list, since they both have a lot of things that they've missed out on experiencing in their lives due to circumstances.

Please leave any thoughts you guys have in a PM or review. Thanks for reading!