The living space that Mr. Stark had fixed up for her was...well amazing. Everything from the furniture to the paint on the walls had been painstakingly chosen specifically with her in mind. And it was all, lovely. However it just wasn't quite...her.

Everything was too expensive. Too lavish. Too...nice.

Honestly simply walking over to the bed had nearly made her cringe. Still she had done so, and then taken a few pics of the area and sent them to her friends and Toshinori in a couple of texts. Which were predictably answered in various ways by each of them. Katsuki told her to grab her shit and run.

Which was sort of a stupid and pointless bit of advice for him to give her since she didn't know whether or not Mr. Stark would hunt her down or not and drag her back to the tower. And then there were the men that she had been matched with. What would they do if she just grabbed her things and up and disappeared?

Would they hunt her down too? Or be re matched to someone else?

Shoto and Froppy both told her to stay put.

Iida was on the fence.

And Toshinori texted her from the nearest bus stop, he was on his way. Which wasn't going to end well since she was going to have to run out of the tower and go hunt him down later on when he sent her some random text at four a.m. because he didn't know where the hell he was or how to get home anymore. And maybe because someone had mugged him and taken his sneakers, and his feet were really, really cold.

Sadly weirder things have happened to her poor former teacher since he had moved home. Hell, weirder things had happened to her too. Though her shoes usually stayed on her feet unless she removed them herself.

Absently noting the time after texting Toshinori to go home and stay there because she didn't feel like running around New York later when it was supposed to start raining. She then put her phone away and then decided to go see if she could find Mr. Stark and see if dinner was ready yet.

She was kind of hungry after her long day of packing and emotional upheaval.

Moving across her room towards the door, she started to step through when she heard two male voices speak from the other side of the door. Both sounded...frustrated. And maybe a little bit angry as well.

Curious, she placed her hand on the door and tilted her head to the side a little bit and listened hard.

"I can't believe that we went on a wild goose chase!" The first one said in a angry growl.

"Across the country at that. I mean, who does that?" Came the more subdued tone of the second.

"Shield," The word was spat before the tone lightened some. "Obviously."

"Yeah. Obviously."

Izuku stayed quiet as she tracked the sounds of their heavy foot falls until they seemed to fade and did her best to calm herself. There was no way that those guys had been two of the ones that she had been matched too. And even if they were...well, she just wasn't ready to meet them face to face just yet.

Once she was sure that the coast was clear, she opened the door and slowly started to peek out into the hallway and thought that she was in the clear when she caught a sudden blur of movement out of the corner of her eye and quickly moved herself out of the way just in time for a bionic arm to slam into the door frame where her head had previously been, breaking part of it away.

While another blur, this time a tall, muscular blond moved in and grabbed her before she could so much as react or get into a fighting stance and slammed her into the wall and held her in place by her throat as he and his friend both glared at her for a moment before he growled out, "Who the hell are you?"

She made a choking sound as his fingers dug into her neck, slowly squeezing the life out of her when his friend said something to the blond that had him quickly dropping her and saying in an almost nervous manner, "Please tell me that you aren't a new intern or that you aren't the girl that Bucky, Bruce and I were matched with."

She coughed a few times and slowly rubbed at her sore throat for a moment before then rasping out roughly in between taking deep, wheezing breaths, "Okay. I won't tell you." To which both men paled a little bit and started freaking out.

Oh sure now they freak out, Izuku thought almost bitterly. They couldn't simply have freaked out first. It certainly would have saved her a sore throat and some serious swelling and bruising if they had.

Stupid boys. She thought as the brunette knelt down and gently removed her hand from her neck and started to check it over as the blond stood by with a shell shocked sort of expression on his face. The man had totally checked out for the moment. Wonderful. If she ever had the man's children- she'd be kicking his ass regularly for freezing up and being totally useless while she was in labor or something.

"Dammit Steve, you really messed up her throat. I doubt that she'll be able to speak for a few days if not longer."

"Well it wasn't like I meant too!" The man snapped. "I thought that she could have been a spy or something. Not some..." The blond guy motioned towards her with his hands and then did this weird sign with his hands as his friend rolled his eyes at him and pipped in.

"Match? Dame? Possible employee of Stark?"

"Yes!" The blond practically shouted at them before going still and then saying in a scandalized tone, "Oh my god, what if she's a fan? What if she's a fan that broke in wanting a little memento or something and she stole a pair of our boxers or something?"

The brunette snorted at the absurdity of his friend's pesky thought before saying in a cheeky manner. "Well, she'd have a hard time getting any of those from me- I don't wear underwear."

"Well I do. And I'm worried. Quick, search her while she's down!" The big guy said in a frantic tone.

"Oh for Pete's sake Steve knock it off and leave the poor gal alone!" The brunette shouted at the other guy as he started to move in as if he actually intended to search her, causing him to freeze up again as Izuku finally shook herself out of her stupor and with a mental sigh and quietly pushed herself up to her feet, not caring a bit if these guys were watching her like a pair of hawks or not and then turned and walked back into her room and closed the door as best as she could and disappeared into her bedroom.

The moment that the dame was out of sight and earshot Steve dropped the comedy act and gave Bucky a strange look before asking softly, "Do you think that I hurt her too much?"

"Depends on what you were going for. Bruise chic or corpsy chic."

Steve made a loud growling sound as he covered his face with his hands. His only thoughts at the moment were something along the lines of, Dammit, dammit, dammit! He really hoped that this incident didn't ruin everything with her otherwise he and Bucky would not only spend the rest of their days alone and without the family and stability that they both desperately needed. But Bruce would suffer for their mistake too.

Not only that but Tony and Fury would be riding his ass from now till doomsday.

After all the gal that they had been matched with was supposed to be theirs. And contrary to what had just happened, they had been looking forward to formally meeting Izuku Midoriya. If not for the fact that neither of them had known that she was already in the tower, they wouldn't have attacked her as if she were one of Hydra's operatives or something.

The two, the moment that they had caught wind of being matched to someone- had snuck around Tony and his security and pilfered as many files as they could get their hands on about their chosen so that they could get to know her some before meeting her.

And her record was beyond impressive.

Staggeringly so.

At age thirteen she had been involved in a mutant attack and take down. And barely a year in a half later, during her high school years- she had taken down villains more devious and dangerous than Steve and the rest of the Avengers had come up against everyday.

The worst of whom was a mutant with the ability to touch someone and cause them to slowly decay into ash. They had even found video's of some of the incidents that she had taken part in and had seen how she calculated and executed specific attacks, and defenses.

To say that they had both been impressed would be an understatement.

Not only that but Izuku Midoriya was intelligent, and so damned beautiful that it almost hurt to look at her. Seriously the second that Bucky had seen her photo he had got this weird goofy little grin on his face and giggled. Actually giggled. Almost like a little kid.

Steve had thought the reaction adorable, and had even decided on locking the two together in the same room at least once or twice to see how Bucky reacted then. Though Steve certainly didn't think that the former Winter Soldier would be beating down any walls to get away from the green eyed goddess.

And Steve, well his reaction to her picture was somewhat more subtle, but there nevertheless.

His entire bedroom was plastered with sketches and paintings of the dame. Some of them were whimsical and innocent. While others were of Izuku in a wedding dress, naked, pregnant- the list sort of went on. But anyone would get the point.

Sighing the blond asked his childhood friend in a small voice, "She's...going to be scared of us after this, isn't she?"

Bucky looked back at the door and then at Steve with a sad expression on his face before muttering bitterly, "Yeah." Leaving Steve with just one thought.

Then we'll both have to work hard to make that fear go away.