Raven was in the kitchen cooking a huge meal when Steve walked in, "Smells good. What are you making?"
"Dinner." She answered. "I'm starving."
"Is…is this all for you?" He looked at the massive amount of food, mashed potatoes, veggies, three chicken breasts.
"Yes." She looked up at him with a raised eyebrow, "Increased metabolism, remember."
"Yeah, I do. I have one too." He told her. A sweet smile formed on his face, "So how about you share?"
"How about you learn to cook more than spaghetti?" She looked back at him, "It's not the forties anymore, men can cook now."
"I know, I never said they could." He put his hands up in defense, a laugh in his voice, "I'm just saying you already have so much made and I'm also hungry…"
Raven squinted her eyes at him, "You think you can just flash those pearly whites and I'm just going to roll over?"
"Depends. Is it working?" He smirked.
"You can have one third of the food. If you're still hungry after you deal with that on your own." She pointed the spatula at him.
"How do you do it?" Wanda's voice cut through their banter looking at Raven.
"What? Cook?" Raven looked at her confused.
"No. The voice it's so loud. So demanding." Wanda spoke and Ravens smile fell slightly, "It screams for you to kill him. Kill Steve Rogers."
Steve looked down at her, "You still hear it?"
"Yeah." She turned back to the food, flipping a chicken breast, "I've gotten so used to it that I don't even know it's there sometimes."
"But it's so loud." Wanda walked further into the room.
"I just deal with the urges by starving him apparently." Raven joked and Steve didn't laugh.
"We should run some tests, see if there's something we can do." He looked down at her.
She sighed, "What's the point? I haven't tried to kill you in a very long time and even when I was, I wasn't successful." She then smiled sweetly at him, "Or maybe I'm just playing the long game now and getting you to trust me implicitly, so I don't have an issue getting to you when the opportunity arises."
"We're running tests." He put his hand on her shoulder, a smile breaking through on his face, "Because the last thing I want to happen is to wake up to you holding a knife over me."
"Well that's no fun." She muttered, pulling the food off the stove, "What else would you rather wake up to me doing."
His face went red and Raven tried to hold back her laugh at him. "I don't think I'm hungry anymore, now."
"Okay, cool." She turned to Wanda, "You hungry? I made plenty."
"Yes, it smells delicious." The girl went to grab a plate.
"Hey wait a minute!" Steve looked between them.
"What? You said you weren't hungry." Raven shrugged, "I shouldn't let it go to waste."
Steve just watched her as she and Wanda took all of the food over to the table and sat down eating. He wasn't sure whether to be offended or amused by it.
Wanda and Raven were outside working on ways to be able to combine their abilities. As Wanda put up a barrier Raven hit it with fire and the two collided, creating a wall of flames shooting out from both sides. She stopped her fire and smirked, "Well Steve and Thor have the hammer and shield, we have a wall of fire."
"I think ours can do more damage." Wanda smiled.
"Of course it can." Raven smirked.
"It's not as loud now. Why is that?" Wanda asked.
"You mean the voice? My order?" Raven clarified and Wanda nodded, "It's because Steve isn't around. The closer he is, the louder it gets."
"Does that not make things hard for you with how close the two of you are?"
"A little." Raven smirked, "But it's alright."
"I…I could try to get rid of it." Wanda suggested, "I know you were immune to my visions, but perhaps I could do something about the voice."
"It's fine." Raven told her, "It's a good reminder."
Wanda quirked her head slightly, "Reminder of what?"
"When you've done the things that I've done…and you're trying to be a better person." Ravens gaze went over to where Steve was training with Sam, "Sometimes it's good to have a constant reminder, so you don't do those things again."
"I think you already have that." Wanda looked behind her to see the two men together.
"Yeah, he tells me it all the time." Raven laughed.
"That's not what I mean." The girl looked back at her, "You care for him."
"Yeah, he helped me out when he could have locked me back up." Raven said.
"That's not what I mean." Wanda smiled, "You have feelings for him."
"What?" Raven scoffed out a laugh, "No. Steve still has Peggy and I made my bed a long time ago with relationships. When it comes to him, much like Thors hammer, I'd never be worthy."
"But you are." Wanda told her. She didn't think it would be right to tell Raven the things she heard Steve think about her sometimes. It wasn't her thoughts to tell. But she felt bad for them, both thinking the other didn't feel the same way about them. They had helped her so much, she wanted to help them.
Raven half laughed before looking at the ground, "Sure. We should keep going before Nat accuses us of taking a break."
"Alright, there is something I've been wanting to try." Wanda stepped away from her.
"What is it?"
"Just shoot your fire at me."
Raven's brow creased, "Okay."
She lifted her hands up and aimed for Wanda. Counting to three to let the girl know when she was going to fire, she started a stream and watched as Wanda encased her fire into her energy fields. She kept shooting but looked up as the fire went up into the sky, creating a spiral. It moved like a waterspout, flames licking out of it and Wanda began to turn it and Raven followed her path, both of them moving together. The tornado moved across the empty field, catching the attention of everyone outside. When Wanda called for her to stop, she did and she looked at the girl putting a hand on her back, "You okay?"
"Yeah, just didn't expect it to be that hard to contain." Wanda smiled at her.
"What the hell was that?" Steve and Sam ran over to them.
"A fire tornado?" Sam followed up with.
"It was something that would have been very useful in Sokovia." Raven smiled, "Might be useful again at some point."
"Tony's not going to be happy about the lawn." Sam looked back at the scorch marks on the Earth.
"Hey, he told us to get innovative." Raven smirked.
Steve was walking through the complex when he heard the TV on. Heading for the req room, he leaned on the door frame seeing Raven sitting in the dark, a bowl of popcorn on her lap and a movie on the screen. "Didn't know you were staying for the weekend."
She turned to look at him, "Everyone else was leaving to take a break, thought it'd be wrong to leave you here by yourself…with Vision."
He laughed coming into the room, then looked at the screen. It sounded like it was in Korean as a man walked through a train, walkie talkie in his hand. He motioned, "What are you watching?"
"Train to Busan. Ever seen it?" She asked popping a piece of popcorn in her mouth.
"No." He shook his head then watched as teens played on the train before a woman limped through with another woman on her back, "What's happening?"
"Just watch." She smirked.
Keeping his eyes on the screen he moved to the couch sitting down. The woman limping fell and his eyes got wide as the other woman was tearing into her neck. The woman eating the other woman then jumped up and started biting on one of the teenagers, "Seriously, what the hell is happening?"
"Oh, the language." She laughed at him and he gave her an unamused look before she paused the movie, "It's a zombie movie. Have you not seen one yet?"
"The zombie movies weren't like this back in my day." He tore his eyes from the screen to her, "How do they get out?"
"How about I start the movie over." She clicked the menu button on the remote.
"Hold on, I'm going to make us more popcorn." He got up from the couch.
"Grab some drinks too!" She called after him.
Steve came back with four bags of popcorn for them to share and plenty to wash it down with and she restarted the movie. They sat there watching the movie and at parts Steve gripped her knee and she couldn't help but chuckle at him, wondering how much more immersive movies are now then they were back in his day. Although it was one of her favorites, she ended up watching Steve more than the movie.
When it was done, he leaned back on the couch and stared at the credits, "That was…really good."
"That's why I was watching it." She put the empty bowl of popcorn on the table.
"Thanks for letting me join." He smiled at her. "And thanks for staying to keep me company."
He went to put his hand down at his side, but it ended up landing on top of her hand. Slowly, his fingers curled around it. Hers curled back. They looked at each other for a moment before Raven swallowed hard. "I should probably put the dishes up."
"Yeah." Their hands separated, "I was on my way to -uh- doing something before the movie, so I should get back to it."
"Alright, cool." She grabbed the bowls and empty bottles. "I'll see you tomorrow."
"Yeah, tomorrow." He answered.
A/N: Don't forget to let me know what you think :) More to come soon!