Chapter rewritten, 2017

Make You Feel My Love ~Book I~

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~ Chapter 7 ~
Loki Detected

The jet landed on a ship large enough to have an entire fleet of jets land on it simultaneously. Maria briefly wondered how many people were on the ship as the doors of the jet they were still in, opened for them to step outside. Phil was behind them, watching them both stare at everything with amazed eyes. There were agents going for a run, there were agents in suits walking around with quick steps and there were multiple jets taking off and landing on the landing area. It all amazed Maria and she couldn't even begin to imagine how amazed Steve must feel about this entire ordeal as he hadn't even heard about computers a few weeks ago.

"Agent Romanoff," said Phil from behind Steve and Maria, making them both snap back to reality, both gazes landing on a beautiful woman walking over to them. "This is Captain Rogers and Miss Dalton."

"Ah, yes. My partner's new pupil," said Natasha, eyeing her up and down. "Sorry for the bad start of your supervision period."

"Yeah… sucks," said Maria, feeling intimidated by the gorgeous and strong woman standing in front of her.

"At least your S.O. isn't a creep," said Natasha, smirking slightly before diverting her eyes to Steve.

"Ma'am," greeted Steve.

"Hi," said Natasha simply before diverting her eyes back to Phil. "They need you on the bridge."

"See you there," said Phil as he walked past Steve, Maria and Natasha.

"There was quite the buzz around here, finding you in the ice," said Natasha as the three of them started to walk away from the jet, Maria clasping her bag close to her. "Thought Coulson was gonna swoon."

Maria smirked at her words though her humor wasn't making her more at ease with her which she hated. Her entire life, women had intimidated her. Maybe it was because she herself didn't feel as beautiful as the rest, or maybe it had something to do with the fact that the school she went to wasn't a school with the kindest of girls in it and something inside of her never really had let it go. Or perhaps… it was her mother.

"Did he ask you to sign his Captain America trading cards yet?" asked Natasha, making Steve look at her, bewildered.

"Trading cards?" asked Steve, a slightly amused tone being heard in his voice.

"They're vintage. He's very proud," said Natasha before she stopped walking as she nodded towards a man in front of them.

The man was standing by one of the jets that had landed after Maria and Steve, looking very confused as he kept turning around on the spot. He was dressed in a dark, greyish, suit with a purple shirt underneath, glasses on his nose and shiny shoes.

"Doctor Banner," greeted Steve, making the man look at them.

Once again, Maria mentally slapped herself at the fact that she hadn't recognized the man. Something told her that she had to start working on her memory a little bit. At least when it came to face recognition. Though, the complete truth was that there weren't many pictures of Bruce himself. Instead, the Hulk was often shown more than the person behind the beast. She briefly wondered if that was because people only wanted the Hulk to be a part of the team. Though Maria doubted it as Bruce had a lot of potential to help as well.

"Oh, yeah, hi," said Bruce, shaking Steve's hand. "They told me you'd be coming."

"Word is you can find the cube," said Steve, letting go of the man. Although there would've been a very awkward atmosphere between them, since Bruce became that beast because of Steve in a way, Steve waved the atmosphere off by smiling friendly towards him.

"Is that the only word of me?" asked Bruce, earning a nod from Steve.

"The only word I care about," said Steve, earning a soft smile from Bruce before he turned his gaze over to Maria.

"Miss Dalton, I presume?"

"Yes, that's me but please, call me Maria," said Maria as she offered his hand to him.

"Nice meeting you, Maria. I've heard a lot about you," said Bruce, shaking her hand. It felt oddly soft compared to what she had thought and it seemed as though he didn't really use all his strength in the handshake either, but it felt warm and kind either way.

"You read the file, I suppose?" asked Maria, letting go of his hand and looking down at the ground.

"Yes. But I also read the papers," said Bruce, taking off his glasses while Maria's gaze was diverted up to him. "The mystery woman and the man in the black mask? Not so mysterious to me anymore."

Maria smiled at him, thanking him for not caring about her past, not openly towards her anyway.

"I suppose we're not allowed to know who the man in the mask is?" asked Bruce, Steve looking between them with confused eyes. Of course, the man in the mask hadn't been in her file since SHIELD didn't have anything on Matt yet. Hopefully, if Matt got his way, they never would either.

"Sorry. That's between me and him," said Maria, earning a smile from Bruce.

"Must be strange for the both of you, all of this. Especially for you, Steve," said Bruce as Maria shrugged, looking over at Steve expectantly.

"Actually," said Steve, his eyes looking over at a pair of trainees that were jogging, their trainer running along with them. "This is kind of familiar."

The three of them started walking towards the edge of the ship while Natasha walked behind them, talking into her ear piece.

"Gentleman, lady, you may wanna step inside in a minute. It's gonna get a little hard to breathe," said Natasha, earning confused looks from Maria, Bruce and Steve.

Quickly, Maria jogged over to the edge, double checking to make sure that this indeed was a ship as the sound of metal clanking was heard along with orders being barked all over to the agents about them having to secure the deck.

Maria gasped as she saw the water beside the boat suddenly start to move.

"Is this a submarine?" asked Steve as he and Bruce walked over to stand next to Maria.

"Really? They want me in a submerged, pressurized, metal container?" asked Bruce, both men now standing on either side of Maria.

"No, it's not a submarine," said Maria, pointing downwards towards the water surface where now two huge and round propellers had appeared, slowly beginning to start working which caused water to splash up towards the three of them.

When the "ship" started to lift up from the water surface, the ground beneath their feet shook and Maria grabbed a hold of Steve's leather jacket absentmindedly as there was no railing to hold on to.

"Oh no, this is much worse," said Bruce sarcastically as wind started to blow against their faces, causing them to back away from the edge.

"Shall we go inside then?" offered Natasha with a smirk playing on her lips before she turned around, walking towards the other side of the landing area.

"A helicarrier?" asked Maria when the three of them followed Natasha. "I didn't even know SHIELD had these kind of things!"

"I have a feeling there's a lot we don't know about SHIELD," said Bruce.

Suddenly, Maria noticed her fingers starting to hurt in her left hand and she quickly looked down only to find her fingers still grasping Steve's leather jacket tightly. She let go the moment she noticed this and blushed deeply, looking up at Steve's face and seeing that he wasn't showing any kind of emotions against it. He didn't even look at her. Maybe he hadn't noticed or maybe, he didn't care. Either way, Maria cursed herself quietly for doing so.


The room that she had for the time she spent on the helicarrier was nothing special. Most likely, it looked just like the rest of the rooms with a simple bed in it, a desk and a wardrobe. There was a PAD placed on the desk and a pen with some paper placed next to it. But apart from the lamp on the wall and on her bedside table, there was no other decoration. There wasn't even a window though she understood why since her room was placed on one of the bottom levels which meant it was right underneath the propellers and it would most likely be very hard to isolate the room from sound with a window in it. After all, no one wanted to hear the noise form the helicarrier while they were trying to sleep, right?

She unpacked her things, placing the extra shirt and extra underwear she had brought with her in the wardrobe along with her suit and sword. Her dagger, however, she placed inside of her boot, not risking going anywhere without some form of weapon and since she was very bad at aiming a gun, she stuck to knives. With a last look in the mirror, she walked outside, knowing that Steve and Bruce were going to be on the bridge as they hadn't decided to go to their rooms yet. Instead, they had followed Natasha while Maria insisted on unpacking the very few things she had, before joining them.

She made her way over to the bridge quickly, only having to ask for directions once which she was very proud off.

"Miss Dalton," greeted Fury as she entered the bridge, smiling at her amazed look as she looked around. The bridge was almost as amazingly high tech as the rest of the helicarrier, apart from her room, and she couldn't help but look all around herself with wide eyes.

"How are you feeling?" asked Fury, earning a confused look from Maria. "Your back and arm were burned by Loki, remember?"

Maria's entire world felt like it was about to crumble over her. She had completely forgotten about that and yet, she wasn't feeling any kind of pain or uneasy feelings on her back.

"I…"

"You don't feel it, do you?" asked Fury, narrowing his eyes.

"I can't even see it. It's just gone… I mean, I took a shower before I came here but… I didn't even see…" said Maria, furrowing her brow. "Must have been some kind of illusion, the pain that is."

This time, Fury furrowed his brow, staring at her with his eye for a long time before he simply nodded and walked away from her, leaving her there puzzled. However, she soon found two familiar faces which made her walk over to them.

"… I mean, if it's not too much trouble," said Phil as he mirrored Steve's posture, arms crossed over his chest and looking out over the working agents.

"No, no, it's fine," said Steve, glancing at Maria and frowning slightly before returning his gaze towards Phil.

"It's a vintage set," said Phil, causing Maria to smile as she stopped next to Steve, clasping her hands behind her back. "Took me a couple of years to collect them all. Near mint. Slight miscol-"

"Sir, we got a hit!" said an agent, Sitwell, close by as he turned to Fury, causing Phil, Steve and Maria to look over at him. "67 percent match. Wait, cross match, 79 percent."

"Location?" asked Phil as he walked oved to the agent.

"Stuttgart, Germany," said Sitwell. "28th Königstrasse. He's not exactly hiding."

"Captain. Miss," said Fury, making Maria and Steve look back at the director. "You're up."

Maria sighed quietly, her heart beating faster as she realized that their mission was beginning. They had to stop Loki and his mind controlled followers before they did something bad, which they most certainly were going to do since Loki believed that freedom was when freedom was not there. Something that still confused Maria as to why someone would even believe that.

Quickly, they both exited the bridge, walking with a swift pace towards the corridor where their rooms were.

"You alright?" asked Steve as they walked together, quickly nearing Maria's room which was right next to Steve's.

"Yes. Why?" asked Maria, confused by his question.

"Whatever Fury told you made you look worried," said Steve as they stopped in front of Maria's door.

"It's nothing," said Maria, smiling a warm smile at him and hoping he'd let it go. After all, he had his own problems which were much worse than hers to worry about and she didn't want him to worry about her. Although, it was sweet of him to think about her. "Just… nervous for my first mission."

"Don't be," said Steve, placing a hand on Maria's shoulder as he smiled warmly at her. "You'll do fine."

"I hope so… I don't have much to offer though… except my sword," said Maria, shrugging as she tried to calm herself down even though Steve was touching her willingly.

"And I have a shield," said Steve before chuckling which made Maria smile. "We're both equally useless."

"No, don't say that," said Maria, placing her hand over his on her shoulder. "You're an actual superhero. Me, I'm just someone who doesn't have anything better to do with their life."

"It's a brave thing to do, getting yourself out there like that. You could get hurt. Most people would search for a job," said Steve, his fingers suddenly intertwining with hers as she moved his hand towards her neck, squeezing it comfortingly and resting her chin against it.

"Thanks…" she said quietly before letting go of his hand. "Now, go change. We can't come late to our first mission as a team."

Steve smiled before nodding his head and turning around, not noticing Maria lean against her door as she took several deep breaths in order to not faint from the swoony feeling he created inside of her.

That man, was going to steal her heart whether he wanted to or not.

Or maybe he already had stolen her heart.


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