10. Closer
I love all you followers, thanks for all the reviews, I appreciate them all but dang is it hard to write a story that pleases all of you haha. With that said, Dita and Steve do what it says in the title, they get "closer" so I hope you enjoy, and as always, follow, favourite and review. I own nothing but Dita.
Dita felt a tear trickle down her face as she walked briskly through the halls of the mansion, angry about her dispute with Director Fury. She wiped the tear away, not sure of what it was. She didn't like it, it felt like it was just something she wasn't in control of.
Not being in control of her feelings for Steve was fine, it was more than fine, it was wonderful, nothing about it felt like it shouldn't have been happening, but Fury had made her feel like her and Steve dating was wrong and not allowed in the rules. She wiped more tears away and when she was sure that she had found a part of the mansion that was utterly quiet, she slumped against the wall.
She fell hard and buried her head in her hands as more tears fell. After a few moments alone she felt a gentle hand stroke her hair. She looked up to see Steve kneeling down in-front of her, a sympathetic look in his eyes.
"You ok?" he asked.
"Yes I'm fine, just this water running from my eyes is very distracting, I can't see properly, that's why I sat down instead" Dita lied, trying to cover up her real feelings.
Steve chuckled quietly at her stubbornness. "That, argument with Fury, it wasn't just over us was it?" he asked.
She wiped her tears away and looked at him. "Your people made me like you, but they expect me to just follow their rules with no questions asked, like a robot. I don't understand, the avengers work to stop people like Osborn because they don't want to be ruled by someone else, so how can they do the same to me?"
Steve ran a hand through his hair slowly, thinking of an answer, a valid explanation, but there was none. "I don't know Dita. They can't boss you around. They shouldn't. You have proved your trustworthy enough".
Dita frowned. "That's the point Steve, I shouldn't have had to prove myself. I was born into this life but everywhere I look, people seem to make their own choices. Finally, I choose something I want myself, you, and I'm being punished for it."
Steve stood up and held his hand out for her. "I'll talk to Fury about us. Maybe it's just because we announced it so fast. Why don't we go slower, get to know each other a little more. If we continue to train, keep on track of what's going on in New York, there isn't any reason as to why we can't have both".
Dita took his hand and stood up. "Alright, fine, but believe me when I say if I can't have a say in this, in my own future, I will walk out of this mansion myself and never turn back. I will not be dictated to Steve, not by anyone".
Steve nodded and together they went to the kitchen to have breakfast, seeing as the argument with Fury had caused them both to rush off without having anything to eat at all. Steve made them both scrambled eggs and then sat down opposite her on the small dining table.
"Ninety years old and you can still only rustle up some eggs for breakfast, should I be disappointed Mr Rogers?"
Steve furrowed his brow. "At least I know how to cook something without burning it".
She raised an eyebrow "I spend all my time either training or with you. You can't expect me to learn how to cook as well, I'm not going to be able to do everything in this life".
Steve noticed a newspaper on one of the kitchen counters and brought it to Dita. "Look, you are a headline".
Dita read the article.
BENEFIT BLOWN TO PIECES
Last night marked the fifth benefit for the Chansely's children's hospital in New York, with a flood of celebrity guests arriving to mark the occasion, everything was set to be a dazzling night. Tony Stark, also known as the Ironman arrived in style alongside Steve Rogers, AKA captain America.
Rogers was only fairly recently found frozen and brought back to "life" as some would say. He had kept a low profile since waking up in current day New York. However at the benefit he arrived with a head turning date known as Dita Smith. Not much is known about the captain's new girl, but guests seemed to greet her with enthusiasm.
The benefit took a disastrous turn for the evening when an unknown man was killed suddenly with a rare kind of poison. Police say the attack was very much planned as the fire alarms were set off to ensure everyone left the premise before the body was discovered.
There is no further information known about the attack, guest Desmond Hayes had this to say. "It's awful news, sad that an event that worked only to help innocent children of New York turned into a crime scene. I hope they find who was responsible and nothing like this ever happens again. On the bright side we still managed to raise a lot of money for the children".
Police are still questioning witnesses on the crime and have asked anybody present at the benefit to give any information on the evening's tragic events if they can.
Dita smiled as she finished the article and Steve frowned. "What are you so happy about?"
She shrugged. "I killed the assassin, I was successful with the mission. How could I not be happy?"
Steve took a sip of coffee. "Don't you feel a little guilty about killing someone?" he asked her after taking a drink.
"I killed one to save another innocent man, isn't that better?"
Steve knew she was right, after all, he had killed few to save many during the war, but that never took away the guilt he felt when he first took someone's life away.
"Yeah Dita but killing someone isn't an easy thing to do, don't you feel, any remorse?"
She had already eaten half her eggs, for such a delicate looking woman, she sure ate enough.
"Steve, humans are killers, besides, the avengers kill to save the entire human race if it comes to it, I was just, being one of the team".
Steve clicked his tongue against his teeth before shaking his head. "The avengers don't kill unless we have to. We just try to stop the bad guys. We shouldn't be natural killers, otherwise there would be chaos".
Dita finished her food and just stared at Steve for a moment, unsure of how to respond.
"Look, can I show you something in my room? Something that I think will help you understand more about humans" he asked.
She nodded and Steve finished his breakfast quickly before leading Dita back to his room. She sat on the bed as Steve rummaged through the drawers in his room. He finally uncovered a large book and heaved it onto the bed in-front of Dita.
The book was tattered, it seemed ancient, and like it had been looked through countless times. He opened it to the first page to reveal a picture of a young woman holding a baby. The picture was black and white and fading, it was blurry and Dita could just about make out the images. The woman seemed like the happiest person in the world.
Dita couldn't help but smile even just seeing how joyful the woman seemed. Steve pointed at the baby. "Know who that is?"
Dita shook her head.
"That's me, when I was a baby" Steve answered.
Dita's jaw dropped and her eyes widened, her eyes whipping from the baby picture of Steve to the Steve there in-front of her.
"You, you were so cute, and chubby".
They giggled together and he pushed her playfully. "Hey, my mom didn't know when to stop feeding me ok, it wasn't my fault. I went skinny anyway, you wouldn't have wanted me all soft and squishy."
Dita ran a hand over his abs and firm stomach. "Of course I would have loved you all soft. You could have been my overstuffed teddy bear".
He turned the page to show more baby photos and then came to one where Steve was a plucky eighteen year old, standing next to some of his school friends.
Once again Dita widened her eyes. "This is you? All skinny and small? You looked like you were smaller than me".
Steve nodded. "Yep, me before the serum, shocking right. I still stood up to those bullies though, even if I was half their size. Aren't you glad I bulked up?"
Dita shook her head and kissed him gently. "You have such little faith in me. You really think I wouldn't have liked you when you were small or skinny. Steve I like you, a lot, more than a lot and every part of you as well."
He panicked silently. "She hasn't had the chance to like all of me yet" he thought.
They went through more photos, of Steve with friends and growing up, participating in sport events and going to funfairs and going to school dances without dates. They came across a family photo, where a young pregnant woman stood near the front of the line, her hands resting on her full belly.
Dita ran her fingertips over the picture slowly and looked at Steve. "What's wrong with her stomach?"
Steve laughed gently. "She's pregnant. She has a baby inside of her, and when the baby reaches nine months it's born and grows up to be like you and me".
Dita scrunched her face up. "Is that how you were born? That happy woman in the first photo, she gave birth to you?"
He nodded. "Yeah, that's how most people are born".
He stopped talking, he could see Dita was getting upset. Everyone was born that way, apart from her. Nobody carried her from a tiny embryo, she had no mother or father or brothers or sisters.
"Steve, I don't, have a family do I?"
He held her close and as she looked up at him, he kissed her gently. "Yeah you do, I'm your family. The avengers are your family, not a conventional family granted but, we are still there for you. My point of showing you these photos was to show you that human instinct, killing, hunting and training, that isn't all there is to life. Compassion for others and learning new things, making new friends, learning to love. They are things to live for as well".
Dita nodded, beginning to understand what Steve meant about putting too much focus on fighting.
"Steve who's Peggy? I heard Stark talk about her to Hawkeye when they were talking about you".
Steve was taking back slightly by Dita's question, with all the time he had spent with Dita he had almost forgotten about Peggy.
"She, she was one of the first people to really believe in me, and Captain America. The first woman I ever truly cared about. We kissed, once but I went down in the ice and was frozen before I could go on my first date with her. She died a couple of years ago apparently, but she had a good life. Good husband, kids, she wasn't alone".
Dita nodded and held his hand. "I'm sorry about Peggy Steve. I'm sorry you cared for her and couldn't go on your date with her. Sorry you couldn't get, more than kissing".
Steve couldn't help but giggle at that last comment, but he was certain Dita was being perfectly genuine. He kissed her again gently but she stopped him before they could deepen their kiss.
"Oh Steve, I am so sorry, I just remembered that I promised to meet Tony to talk about something, can I, see you later? Later tonight? I'll come and knock on your door at around nine, ok?"
She planted a small kiss on Steve's nose before running off to find Stark, leaving Steve speechless at Dita's sudden departure.
Tony was in his lab, working on his suit yet again but he smiled up at Dita as she walked in to visit him.
"Hey kid, what's up?"
"Lab rat, I'm lab rat not kid, right?"
Tony smiled. "Ok, your call lab rat, you ok?"
"I was wondering if you could give me some advice, on dating?" Dita asked.
Tony sighed and turned off his machines as he crossed his arms. "I am not showing you positions if that's what you mean".
Dita blushed, she was as uncomfortable about asking Tony this as he was.
"Steve says that there is more than just kissing, and I don't know what he means. I want to, I want to go further, I just, don't know what that is. Steve is too much of a gentleman to embarrass me by telling me or asking me how much I know. I thought maybe, you could help?"
Tony chuckled. "You want the sex talk?"
"Sex?" Dita asked.
"Well, most people prefer the term making love. You want to know about that huh?"
Dita nodded eagerly.
Tony proceeded to tell Dita about the birds and the bees, but she wasn't fully convinced.
"Oh god, alright, I have some videos that you can't tell anyone about. Watch them in your room and making love is like that, only less, forceful. Just imagine doing all of that stuff, slower and more romantically with Steve. That being said you now owe me big time because that image of you, and Steve together, can never be erased from my head".
Dita nodded again and Tony handed her some DVD's. She hugged him quickly. "Thank you Tony, thank you so much" she smiled before running back to her room.
Before she put one of DVD's on, she looked at the titles of them. "Another nine and a half weeks", "lover's guide to everything" and "naughty nannies volume five".
After a few painful minutes of watching "naughty nannies" she hoped desperately that the way Steve and her would be intimate would be nothing like the characters in that film. Everything seemed so rushed and mechanical. Watching the other two films made a lot more sense to Dita, it explained why she always had a desire to touch Steve, be closer to him, because ultimately, she wanted to be one with him.
Tony had told her that a lot of things would just come naturally to her, the closer her and Steve got to each other. After a few viewings of both films and after remembering the advice Tony had given her, she decided to try going "further" with Steve.
At nine o'clock sharp Dita knocked on Steve's door. He opened it promptly, wearing only his grey boxers and tight white t-shirt.
"Hey come in, why are you wearing a coat?" He asked her as he closed the door behind her. She turned to face him and slipped the coat off. She was wearing lacy black underwear that didn't leave much to the imagination.
"Oh, that's why" he whispered.
She stepped closer to him, a sultry look on her face and she ran her hands over his chest.
"I did some research, on love making and relationships and I, wanted to try going further with you, tonight, not all the way, just further" she whispered in his ear.
She felt his hardness press against her, it made her smile. "I know what that is now" she grinned. She kissed his neck, running her tongue along his throat, across his Adam's apple gently, feeling him get harder against her as she did so.
"Oh, that's good then" he whispered, already so turned on he could barely string a sentence together.
She smiled and nodded. "So, I know what to do about it too" she purred in his ear before kissing him, weaving her tongue in and out of his mouth against his own slowly. She reached up and tried to pull his t-shirt off, he helped her do it and reached down to claim her mouth in another kiss quickly.
"Lie back on the bed Steve" she whispered.
She had to push him back onto the bed, he could barely perform basic human functions hearing her speak seductively in his ear.
She straddled him and kissed him again, as she moved to kiss his chest he found his voice again. "Dita, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do you know".
She looked up at him. "I know, I want to do this much, for you tonight".
He rolled his head back as she kissed his stomach and pulled his boxers down, letting his full erection loose. She kissed the head softly causing Steve to moan quietly. Dita could see he wouldn't hold out for long.
She teased him, licking the underside of his shaft slowly making him reach down to bury his fingers in her hair, trying to hold on longer.
She finally knew he couldn't take the teasing and took him into her mouth, running her tongue along him as she sucked. As Dita quickly increased the pace Steve moaned even louder.
"Dita, I can't hold on, I'm gonna, I'm gonna.."
His warm seed spilled into her mouth and she lapped it up, licking the head for every last drop of him. She wiped her mouth and looked up at him as she smiled.
Steve had to wipe the sweat of his brow, he had never felt anything so amazing in his entire life. She reached up to lie next to him and he kissed her again, still trying to catch his breath.
"That was so, so amazing, I don't even know what to say to that" Steve breathed huskily.
"You're welcome" she grinned.
Steve leaned on one side to face her. "You know, I have to make it up to you somehow" he winked.
He trailed a hand over one of her breasts, cupping it gently. She arched her back so he could undo her bra and as she took it off his mouth latched on to one of her breasts, sucking one of the hardened nipples greedily. She groaned loudly, arching her back further into his mouth.
Steve trailed the other hand down to her panties, which were already soaking wet. He moved his hand down them slowly and traced a finger over her clit. He kissed her as she moaned into his mouth and he slid a finger inside of her as his thumb continued to move over her clit. Steve continued his movements until he drove her over the edge, feeling her close in around his finger.
She pulled him into a long, deep kiss and then moved to cuddle him. He held her close and watched her as she tried to catch her breath.
"That was amazing Steve, I'm sorry we didn't go, all the way tonight. I just wanted to take things slow, like you suggested before" she said quietly.
"Yeah, yeah I agree. That was perfect, and I think taking it slow was a good idea, but I'm not sure how long I can hold back from you completely" he replied.
"I know, I don't think it will be too long, I don't think I can wait too long either" she grinned.
Aww so finally Steve and Dita went a little bit "further". Sorry it took a while for me to update guys, I was busy this weekend, got my results on Thursday last week, I got an A, a B and a C which means I am off to university! I am so excited! So I was out this weekend celebrating with my dad, because I'm cool like that. Please excuse any typos, I rushed to finish it tonight, I didn't want you guys waiting any longer. Until next time