Chapter 1: The First meeting.

The punching of the bag resounded through the gym. Thud, thud, thud. Steve rested his forehead against the bag, and let out a sigh, before continuing to throw punches at it once more. "Having fun, Rogers?" The snarky tone called, as a familiar face appeared at the door, that ever present smirk gracing his face. Steve let off a growl in his direction. "Of course, Stark." This made Tony smirk evermore. "Come on pretty boy, Fury wants us in. Apparently he has someone for us to meet." Steve raised and questioning eyebrow at Tony before going to pack up his belongings lying on a nearby bench, carefully picking up his cell phone trying not to crush the small phone in his large hand. "Let's go then, Stark." Tony only raised an eyebrow and began to follow Steve out of the small gymnasium specially equipped for Steve.

All silently waiting for the arrival of Nick Fury the Avengers quietly chatted amongst themselves, wondering what Fury wanted them for. The most interested was Steve Rogers. Always willing to find out new things about this new world he was still accustoming to. After an hour's long wait Nick Fury came through the door with two girls, one in her twenties and the other in her thirties, but none of them could tell. Natasha was shocked as soon as she saw both girls walking into the room behind Nick, not only did she know one of them, well in this case well, one of them happened to be her sister. "Okay Avengers, this is Tessa Stone and Shannon Romanoff, Yes Shannon is Agent Romanoff's sister, save the questions for later kids." Nick Fury watched the Avengers staring at awe towards the two girls, Shannon was nervously shifting her weight from one foot to another, while Tessa stood there with a cocky smile on her face, quietly eyeing up Tony Stark.

Meanwhile round the dinner table in Stark tower where all the Avengers where currently residing, a thick tension was brewing in the air. The only people apart from Tessa that Shannon had said two words to were her sister, Natasha and Clint, not fully trusting anyone yet. But Tessa seemed to be fitting in just fine, having a discussion with Tony about many different topics. The sexual tension between the pair was clearly evident and everyone but them could see. Ever since Steve had laid eyes on Shannon, he had been completely smitten, if only he had the guts he thought to himself. Letting out a quiet sigh that only Steve heard, Shannon excused herself from the table her dinner untouched, she had to get out of the room and the building and doing the thing she knows how to do best. She ran, ran as fast as her legs could take her, not caring who she bumped into or knocked over.

Utterly out of breath Shannon slumped down an alley wall, completely no idea where she was, she was lost. She hadn't even brought along her cell phone. A cold and flat voice brought her out of her panicking thoughts. "Well, well, well what's a pretty lady like you doing in an alley like this, huh? Anything could happen to you down here gorgeous." The smirk was clearly evident on his face as he edged towards her. "Is that really any of your business? No well I must be going now." Shannon got up ready to walk past the man, until his thick burly arm stopped her. "I don't know where you think you're going; you're with me now, babe." His burly arms reached out to grab her, Shannon was completely disorientated and not being able to see a thing is this dark alley, she felt the man's arms wrap tightly around her upper half of her body, the strong stench of alcohol stung her nose as she struggled to get free, her feet weren't even toughing the floor at this point he had lifted her up, now trying to stuff a dirty rag in her mouth until she was knocked out of his arms, by what looked like a metal shield.

Falling to the floor with a sickening thud, effectively cracking more than one rib. Shannon let out a loud yelp as soon as she dropped to the floor, her mind shutting off. Drifting off to a rather weird sleep, Shannon vaguely heard the low grunting of men fighting, yet her eyes wouldn't open to see what was going on. After what seemed like an eternity she felt a pair of strong and muscular arms wrap around her and pick her up, she began pancaking thinking it was the man again, until a semi-familiar voice spoke out. "Shannon, its fine calm down its me Steve." His sweet voice filled her ears and her eyes slowly fluttered open, to see him smiling down at her. "You followed me?" She raised a questioning eyebrow at him before letting out a slight giggle, Steve's smile was wide, almost as wide as it could get. Shannon looked at him through her long lashes quietly taking in all his features, silently wishing he was hers, she quickly shook her head. What was she thinking? She barely knew him, never mind going out with him. They were team mates, wasn't a love like this forbidden?

Steve silently wondered what he would say to her, he had hardly any practice speaking to women before now. Women weren't practically lining up to see him, until he had the super solider serum injected into him. That's when all the women took an interest in him; he was broken out his thoughts by Shannon quietly asking to be set on her feet. Steve set her firmly on the ground, feeling sad. He kept his feelings to himself; she would never go for him, ever. They both walked back to Stark tower, a silenced filled them both but in this case it wasn't awkward. They were both grateful for the silence. As soon as they reached the inside of Stark tower, Shannon got an earful from Natasha and Tessa. It ranged from, where have you been to what happened to you? Shannon simply smiled and waved them off, telling them she went for a walk and Steve found her. She looked to Steve silently pleading with him not to tell anyone what went on while they were in the alley way. "Alright people, I think everyone should go to sleep now. We have a long day ahead of us." Tony smirked at his remark, directing it mostly to Tessa who was currently glaring at him with a hatful vengeance. "Were having a party to welcome Shannon and Tessa" He hesitated slightly before saying Tessa's name; Shannon giggled slightly at both of them. The immaturity was showing them both up. Slowly everyone retreated to their rooms to get some rest, but Shannon and Steve still remained standing there, this time in an awkward silence. "Uh, Steve?" He looked up to her at the mention of his name, her voice sounded like bells to him. "Yes, Shannon?" She smiled slightly before walking over to him, enveloping him in a hug. "Thank you for saving me, I have no idea what he would have done to me." She gave him a quick peck on the keep before quickly running off, Steve stood there shocked and rubbing the spot she kissed. Now he was determined to make her his.