10 ~ Doctor and Captain

The next morning during her training session ('at the gym' - Nora still couldn't believe that actually came out of her mouth) her trainer, Angela, tells her she's distracted, and she gets knocked on her ass more than once. A lot, in fact. Yes, she was distracted, she wasn't about to deny it. She had a a certain blonde captain to thank for that, one who had made her instantly smitten and then almost beheaded her with a photon blast. Talk about a first meeting! Not to mention she had a fair bit of anxiety during that training session over her own powers erupting and destroying the gym and/or hurting anyone there.

Thankfully and luckily though, she'd been fairly lucky with them, her powers, having little-to-no trouble keeping them at bay so far, in the few days she had had them. No recurring incidents like the first, thank goodness. Of course, she had no idea what they, her powers, meant or where they had come from, and now on top of her parents' disappearance and mysterious work with S.H.I.E.L.D., she was trying to figure that out as well.

They, her strange powers, were like glowing fuchsia fluid, swirling around her hands and up her arms. At night she would lie in bed, arms held up above her, staring at the soft glow they gave off. It was beautiful, whatever it was.

Her life had done a full turn in the span of a week. Her parents disappeared while doing secretive work for an intelligence agency, she suddenly had special powers, and now she was working with a woman from space.

Speaking of... The following morning, she was awoken by a banging coming from downstairs - someone was pounding on the front door.

Groggy, Nora stumbled and grumbled out of bed and threw on a robe - judging by the pale light coming in through the curtains, it was early morning.

The pounding carried on and she paused before continuing, now cautiously approaching the door.

Why would someone be pounding on her door in the early morning? Although it didn't sound aggressive, just urgent. And well, she had a weapon on her at all times now if need be.

As soon as she opened the door she was blinded by the early-morning sunlight, so much so that she didn't see who was on her front porch.

"Rise and shine, sunshine!" Her question was soon answered though by an high-energy voice.

Nora's eyes instantly grew wide, one, when she recognized the voice belonging to none other than Carol Danvers herself, and two, when she saw what Carol was dressed in. Certainly not as casual as the other night at the pub.

"What are you wearing?" Nora's eyes scanned the red and blue suit of armour, interlaced with gold designs, including a star on the chest-plate. "Is that your space suit?"

"My super-suit." Carol struck a pose, hands on her hips and head held high. "Now, come on, we've got a full day ahead of us! We've got a lot of work to do."

"What?" Nora was still waking up. "Did Fury send you?"

"Well he asked me to help you with your powers, remember? Come on, you didn't drink too much the other night," Carol joked. "I'm going to train you."

"Train me?"

"Yeah."

"In what?"

"Well, I'm kinda using 'training' as a broad term for helping you with your powers. Code name, if you will."

"But we don't even know what's wrong with me."

Carol raised her eyebrows. "Hey, there's nothing wrong with you. And training will help you to understand whatever it is."

"But you don't know what it is. I don't even know. No one knows."

"Then we'll learn together."

Nora asked her the same question she had asked Fury. "Why are you helping me?"

"Cause I know what it's like to feel lost and unsure and alone. Trust me on that. Do you trust me?"

"Uh, yeah, I guess. I mean, as much as I could, still not knowing you very well."

"In my experience, trusting people you don't know very well can lead to strong relationships." Carol then tossed something at Nora who fumbled but managed to catch it. It was another suit, red, blue, and gold too, just less gold. "What's this?"

"My old suit. Put it on."

"Oh - oh, okay..." Nora fumbled with the piece of clothing in her hands, holding it up to examine it. "You want me to wear this?"

"Uh huh."

"I-I don't know... It doesn't look like it would be very comfortable, to be honest-"

"Oh it is, actually. That's 100% Kree armour. From Hala. In space. Go change, meet me out here." She made a shooing motion with her gloved hand. "Go on, chop chop, Dr. Bane. Captain's orders."

Nora wasn't about to correct her in calling her 'Dr.'

"Alright, I'm going, Captain." Nora gave a little salute.

"Now you're just being a smart-ass." Carol was smirking again. "Now go!"

"Okay, I'm going!" Nora turned to head back inside, but then stopped. "Would you like to come in? Or I can leave you standing on the doorstep in your space outfit."

"I don't mind."

"Aren't you worried someone might see you?"

Carol merely shrugged. "Nope."

Some minutes later, Nora had managed to wiggle her way into the suit. But it quickly became clear that it was too big for her. Carol was taller so the suit was not fitted for someone with Nora's more petite stature.

Embarrassed, she headed back downstairs to find Carol gone. "Carol?"

"Up here, Doc."

Nora jumped when she turned and saw Carol levitating a ways above her. "Oh, so you fly too?"

"Yup!"

"So when you said you fly, you actually meant you yourself fly."

"I can fly planes too, but yes, I do in fact fly."

"Oh, cool..." Seriously, that's the best you can come up with?! It's bloody brilliant is what it is! Bloody hell, Nora...

"Nice suit, by the way." Carol grinned, coming back to ground level.

Nora scoffed. "I look ridiculous. I feel ridiculous."

"Arm." It took a moment for Nora to realize Carol wanted her to extend her arm out towards her. Nora did so, and Carol poked at the gauntlet, which turned out to not only be armour, but also a little screen. Carol tapped her finger against the screen a few times and Nora felt the suit getting tighter - shrinking. Suddenly, the boots fit, and the arms and legs weren't so long.

"Whoa - that was awesome!"

"That's not all it can do. You can change the colour too-" Carol began swirling her finger across the screen, and Nora watched in amazement as the suit began swirling along with it, changing to every colour and colour combination imaginable.

"You can play around with it later, but now, it's training time!"

"Alright, so where are we going?"

"Up-" Carol held out her hand, meaning for Nora to take it.

"Up?"

"Yeah, I gotta fly us to our destination."

"Oh. And you're going to - carry me?"

"If you don't mind. You afraid of heights?"

"No, I don't mind. And no, I'm not. But you're really going to carry me all the way there?"

"It's just up there." Carol pointed directly above them. Looking up, Nora found nothing, only sky.

"But-"

Carol smirked yet again. "Cloaking device. Now come on-" She stretched out her already extended hand. "Trust me?"

"You're really trying to get me to buy into this whole trust thing, aren't you?"

"Is it working?" Carol smirked.

"Yeah." Nora took Carol's hand.

Just a sweet and flirty chapter ;) the training will come next!

So my updating schedule fell apart with studying for exams - but I'm officially done school now! :) Hopefully I'll update one more chapter before 'Endgame' before starting my story for that movie - in which Nora will play a big role!

Thank you so much for reading and I hope you enjoyed!