Chapter 21

The group all packed up their beach stuff and then walked up the beach. Tony and Pepper led the way. Scarlett saw it before everyone else.

"Oh my god," Scarlett mumbled and everyone looked were she was looking. Tony and Pepper both smirked at each other, hand in hand as they walked in front of everyone. "Are we staying in them?" Scarlett asked and both Tony and Pepper nodded. They walked up some wooden stairs and onto a peer type thing. They were six large beach houses made out of wood running along the peer over the ocean. They were all separate not joining with each other. The group looked at Tony and he looked smug.

"The end one is mine and Pepper's. You can decide yourselves who has which house," Tony said before him and Pepper walked along the peer to their house. The peer was long and ran horizontal instead of a normal peer that ran out into the ocean. Scarlett grabbed Steve's hand and pulled him to the one next to Pepper and Tony's It was the second biggest out of the six, Tony and Pepper's house being the biggest. The roofs were made out of straw type material as Scarlett came to a stop in front of the door. She then opened it up and smirked.

"This is going to be so fun," Scarlett said and Steve hummed in agreement as they walked into the house. It was only one floor, being held up by pillars over the ocean. Once you walked in there was a door to the left of them that led to the bedroom. You walked a couple of steps before walking down four steps to were the room was set up to be a living room. There was a sofa that faces away from the door towards the double glass doors were there was a large wooden balcony that had two large soft chairs on and a hot tub on it. The living room had a sofa facing the balcony and then a two arm chairs facing each other on either side of the sofa a little forward from it. There was a bar to the left of the room and a TV on the wall, with the furniture matching the beach type theme. The bathroom was to the right when you come down the four steps.

Scarlett popped her head around from the bedroom door as Steve had walked down the steps to look around.

"The bedroom is amazing," she said walking out and down two steps, before jumping onto Steve's back. He caught her and smiled.

"We have a hot tub," Steve stated and Scarlett smirked.

"Oh this is going to be great," Scarlett said as Steve carried her over to the double glass doors. Scarlett opened them and then Steve walked out onto the balcony. He placed her back down on the wooden floor and walked over to edge of the balcony, placing his hands on the balcony to look out into the ocean. The sun was going down and Scarlett pulled off her sarong and placed it on one of two large soft chairs. She then walked to the left of the balcony to the hot tub. She smirked as she pressed some buttons and the light's turned on, with the bubbles setting on. Scarlett turned around to look at Steve to make him come over to the hot tub but he already was. He was still in his swimming trunks and was smiling at Scarlett. He wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her up to kissing him. She pressed her body against his, returning the kiss. They broke apart.

"You want to get in the hot tub?" Scarlett asked.

"You have to be careful of your arm," Steve said, nodding to her bandaged up arm.

"I'll keep it out of the water," she said and turned, climbing up the two steps and then stepping into the hot tub, right foot first. Steve followed and then sat down next to her into her water. The hot tube was made out of cream bricks all lined neatly to make the hot tub.

Tony and Pepper were already in their hot tub after the long day at the beach. They had glasses of champagne out and were drinking and laughing. Before Scarlett could complain saying she wanted alcohol and food their was a knock at the front door. Scarlett lead forward over the edge of the hot tub and watched as the door opened and female walked across the room and out onto the balcony. She smiled as she placed a two tray's on the table next to the hot tub.

"Thank you," Scarlett said and the blonde women nodded with a smile before leaving. One tray had a bottle of champagne in a bucket of ice with two champagne glasses on it, while the other had chocolate covered strawberries on it. Scarlett smirked and grabbed on of the strawberries eating it and then placed Steve the bottle of champagne.

"You ever opened one of these?" Scarlett asked and Steve smiled.

"Yes I have," Steve said, standing up in the hot tub and then opening the bottle of champagne. The corkscrew flow out into the ocean and the champagne bubbled. Steve quickly held it over the side of the hot tub, then pouring out two glasses of champagne. He placed the bottle back on the table and picked up both glasses handing Scarlett one and sitting down next to her. She took a sip of the champagne and then leaned back into the hot tub not leaning on any of the jets not wanting to hurt her back after what happened today. She kept her arm out of the hot tub, her other hand holding the glass of champagne.

"Have you ever been this relaxed in your life?" Scarlett said looking up into the sky as the sun set and stars started to shine bright down on them.

"Don't you just think that the stars a amazing," Scarlett said as she leaned into Steve's side. She lifted up her left arm and pointed at three stars in a line.

"That's Orion's belt," she stated. "And that there..." Scarlett said pointing at a star and drawing a triangle with two other stars. "...Is called the Summer Triangle." Scarlett said and leaned her head back against Steve's arm that was outstretched along the edge of the hot tub. Steve turned his head away from the sky and towards Scarlett.

"I never knew you liked astronomy," Steve said to her, his breath hitting her neck. She smiled and turned her head away from the night sky, looking at Steve.

"There are many things you don't know about me," she said with a flirtatious leaned towards her and kissed Scarlett on the lips. She placed her right hand on the back of Steve's neck pulling her closer to her body. She smiled a little as she turned her body and then lifting her left leg over Steve's lap to sit on his lap facing him. She pulled back, looking at him both kissing Steve on the lips again. He wrapped his arms around her waist under the water. The jets from the hot tub was the only sound around them. It was peaceful. Scarlett pulled back again to look at Steve. His skin was a nice brown tan from being in the hot sun all day. His body looked nice under the hot tub water and Steve could tell that Scarlett was checking him out, making him smile and then laugh. He then pulled her back into a soft kissed before moving her to sit back next to him.

Steve walked out of the shower in his white boxer pants as Scarlett was laying on the bed in her light green lace bra. Her clothes she had wore to the beach were in a pile next to Steve's clothes on the chair next to the fancy dressing table. He walked over to the king size bed, that had a memory foam mattress and large soft sheets. Scarlett was asleep laying on her right side because of her cuts on her left arm and back. Steve slowly lifted the soft covers and climbed into the bed to lay next to Scarlett. Steve turned to lay on his back and closed his eyes.

His mind won't rest though. He kept thinking about what had happened today. His mind replaying Clint shouting Scarlett was drowning and then when Scarlett wasn't breathing. He replayed the conversation he had had with Pepper word for word, over and over until he finally decided. He opened his eyes and then turned his head to look at Scarlett. Her body rising and falling slowly, showing she was breathing.

"Hey Scarlett," Steve whispered just in case Scarlett was asleep. He couldn't really tell with her dark brown wavy hair in the way of her face. He slowly moved the brown wavy hair with his fingers to look at her face. He waited for a response and finally got one.

"Humm," was all Scarlett said, her eyebrows moving up a little but her eyes stayed closed.

"After today I just wanted to say that…" Steve began and Scarlett opened her eyes to look at Steve when he didn't say anything else. She smiled lightly.

"Go on," Scarlett muttered, looking up at Steve sleepily.

"I love you," Steve said a bit louder this time to her. Scarlett blinked up at him and looked into his bright blue eyes. She didn't really expect that Steve would have said that. He looked into her eyes, hoping she would reply. Suddenly a smile broke across her face and Steve saw warmth and happiness in her eyes.

"I love you too," Scarlett said back to him and kissed Steve on the lips. "I love everything about you...I really thought I had lost you today," Scarlett told him.

"I… I thought I had lost you today too... You really scared me back there," Steve told her and leaned down to kiss her again.

"Don't worry, you can't get rid of me that easily Steve," Scarlett told him.

"I don't want to get rid of you anyway," Steve told her and Scarlett stared up at him.

"You really mean that?" Scarlett asked him in a quiet voice, and he nodded.

"Oh course I do," Steve told her as she lightly smiled up at him, her eyes sparkling. Scarlett leaned up and gently kissed Steve on the lips again. Steve pulled away, smiling as he rested back into the soft pillows. Scarlett turning her body again to get comfy.

The curtain's were closed half way, leaving a little gap for the moonlight to shine into the room. They could see the ocean as the moonlight reflected off of it. Scarlett closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

"Night," Scarlett whispered.

"Night. Love you," Steve whispered back to her.

"I love you too," Scarlett whispered back to him, falling asleep with a smile on her face.

The rest of the group could tell that something had happened in Steve's and Scarlett's relationship last night because the couple was acting extra cuddly and loving around each other. Steve and Scarlett sat next to each other at breakfast on the wooden peer, as the morning sun shone down on them. They sat hand in hand, as Steve feed Scarlett some of his breakfast telling her to try some.

"So, come on tells us. Did you have sex last night or something?" Clint came out after watching the couple closely. Steve coughed on his drink of orange juice as Scarlett smirked and looked at Clint. "You seem too happy and lovey dovey with each other."

"And what's it to you?" She asked Clint, raising an eyebrow at him. Clint smirked.

"So you did have sex?" Clint asked turning back to them and Natasha kicked him under the table even though she wanted to know what happened too.

"Could we not talk about this?" Tony asked from the other end of the table. "Not really interested in my daughter's sex life guys." He stated as Scarlett glanced at Steve.

"We didn't," Steve reassured everyone. "We didn't have sex last night."

"I wish we had but no, we just said that we love each other instead," Scarlett said happily as she lead back in her chair eating a bit of her toast. Pepper smiled looking at Steve, catching his eye as breakfast went on.

They spent the first part of the day on the beach before heading back to the airport and climbing onto the plane. Steve and Scarlett watched the last part of Fools Gold before the plane landed and the group headed back to Stark Tower.

Here is the next chapter, hope you guys liked it. Reviews would be great, terribly sorry for the delay.