Chapter 39

The past 2 days have felt like a dream from being attacked, to almost being killed, finding out that I have been spied on for over a year and Steve coming back into my life. I never thought my life would turn out this way. I have no idea what's going to happen now, I don't think Steve does either. Until Sam and Natasha come we just have to lay low here in this small, cold cabin.

I have not left this cabin since Steve brought me here, except going on a few short distance walks, he didn't want to take any chances and have someone notice me. He could disguise himself much better then I could so he has left a few times to get supplies and do who knows what else. And until he, Natasha and Sam took all of Hydra down I had to stay here, sure that sucked but after what happened at my apartment I was going to listen to them. Not only could they find and come after me again but were still trying to capture Steve to turn him into something he's not and that terrified me more than anything. Tonight Steve hasn't let me leave the bedroom for the last 2 hours, I have no idea why, he won't tell me. He soon comes in, makes me turn around and puts something over my eyes.

"What are you doing?" I ask with a smile.

"You'll see." He says as he leads me out of the room by my hand.

He soon has me sit down, he takes the blindfold off and I see that he made a beautiful dinner, the only light in the cabin was the fireplace.

"Steve, what is this for?" I asked completely stunned.

"Well, I know it hasn't been easy being stuck here and I thought you deserved a good night." He says behind me, I turn my head to smile at him. He then puts flowers in front of me that he obviously plucked from outside, I smell them, "They're beautiful."

He sits across from me and I can't stop smiling. "Also...I don't know...this past year..." He's trying to say.

"I know..." I can only say back as I take his hand and smile at him, "This looks delicious, thank you." I finish as we both lean forward to plant a small kiss.

"I wish I had something better on then jeans and a t-shirt."

"No...you look beautiful just the way you are." He tells me, we smile at each other, "Oh, I almost forgot." He says as he stand up and turns on the radio, music starts to play, "much better." He sits back down, the song playing is Everything I do by Bryan Adams.

"God, I haven't heard this song forever." I sigh.

"And I've never heard it." He says with a little chuckle.

"This song was everywhere, a big hit at all the dances." I tell him.

"You went to dances?" He asked me looking a little shocked.

"Yes...I never went with anybody or danced..."

"Why go then? It sounds lonely."

"I don't know...I guess inside I wanted to but...I was so guarded and...terrified." I say, "I've never danced...I mean I guess with my girlfriends I have but not a slow song with a man, every time I tell people that they can't believe it."

"I know what you mean" He replied.

"You never danced either?" I asked.

"...No...Girls didn't wanted to dance with the guy they could step on." He tells me as I make a little pout face, that's just so sad! "But I never really tried very hard either...I guess I was terrified too...it's just so..."

"Intimate..." I finish his sentence, "I guess we really do have a lot more in common then we thought." After a few minutes he takes my hand and has me stand up.

"Where are you taking me now?" I ask him.

"We're going to dance for the first time." He says, I just smile, "I've already had a lot firsts with you and I want this to be one of them."

"What else was a first?" I ask him confused.

"...Sex..."

"You never had sex before me...how is that possible?"

"Well...I barely even talked to women before and after...I was fighting a war, being frozen and then immediately fought aliens." He explained.

"No, I mean your amazing! How is it that your so good?" I asked stunned.

"Because it's with you..." He says softly, "Come on, dance with me." I smile at him.

He leads me right by the fireplace. He puts his hand on my waist and the other on my hand and pulls me close, I put my free hand on his shoulder. Even though we have been sexual several times we both were nervous, this was an act that both of us have never done before. But before we start to sway we hear something outside. Steve acts quickly and he leads me into the kitchen behind the counter, "Stay down." He whispers as he has me duck down so I am hidden. He takes his gun out and goes to the front door and opens it slowly.

"Whoa it's just us." Natasha says putting her hands up. Sam soon came in after Natasha and they look at the nice setting Steve made for us. "Were we interrupting something?" Sam asked.

"...Sort of." Steve answered softly, I had to put my hand in front of my mouth from chuckling, seeing Steve get frustrated was very amusing to me.

"Sorry." Natasha replied, Luna comes running in the cabin.

"Luna!" I speak out excited to see my girl, I missed her. She licks my face and makes me giggle. Luna looked back and noticed Steve and wagged her tail as fast as she could as she went to him and jumped on his legs.

"Hey Luna, I missed you too." He spoke in a soft voice, watching him pet and massage her ears made me remember how much Luna missed Steve too the past year, she was just as miserable as I was. When he went onto one knee Luna licked his face, "Yuck, not the mouth." He spit, I couldn't help but put my hand over my mouth from laughter.

"Did anyone follow you after the split up?" Steve asked both of them as he stood up from petting Luna.

"Yep, just like you said they would, they never even glanced at you guys." Natasha said with a smile as Steve nodded his head.

"We lost them an hour later." Sam spoke out.

"Have you heard from Wanda?" Steve asked.

"Yeah, she and Vision are still doing fine. They haven't had much luck finding anything that could help us." Sam replied sounding disappointed.

"But we got in contact with Maria and she may have found something in France." Natasha chimed in, "We better go as soon as we can."

"Right. Now are you sure you weren't followed?" Steve replied.

"Positive." Natasha answered as Steve nodded his head, Steve went into the other room and put his uniform on, he looked ready for a fight.

"Did you bring it?" He asked as Sam handed him a box, Steve brought me into the bedroom so we could have some alone time, he shut the door. "Iris we have to go to France, I'm sorry to ruin our special night.

"It's okay..." I replied trying to sound understanding as possible but inside I really was so disappointed but I also knew he had to go.

"I'm not sure how long we'll be gone. You'll be safer here, I am not taking the chance for someone to see you, so please stay here and don't go into town, okay?" He said taking my hand, "I got you plenty of supplies, you should be all set until I get back."

"Yeah...but..."

"You'll be fine, I would stay but sometimes these places can have a lot of men and are heavily guarded." He explained, "But, I'm going to give you this." He hands me a phone, "It's a burn phone. If you need anything, if your in trouble you just press 1 and it will call me and if you press 2 it will call Maria and she said she's ready to be on stand by. Now if you do need to call either of us, only have the line go for 10 seconds then hang up and don't say anything."

"Okay...are you sure we're safe here?" I asked getting a little worried.

"Yes, no one knows about this place." He answered, I looked at him and gave him a smile.

"So, I shouldn't use this phone for anything else?" I ask him.

"Well, surely don't call the girls, they most likely have them tracked too"

"God, I didn't even think of that...do you think Amber and Renee are in danger? What if they come after them?" I realized.

"Don't worry they're fine."

"How do you know?"

"Because I've checked on them a few times, they are living their lives as normal." He reassured me.

"Wait...you checked on them? Is that what your doing when you leave?" I asked.

"Well...I don't only just do that but yes." He answered, "I mean I hated the thought of them in danger too because of me."

I didn't even know what to say, the fact that he would be concerned about my friends...even before I did. He just keeps surprising me over and over again. All I could do was rise up on my tiptoes, put my arms around his neck and give him a passionate kiss. He wrapped his arms around me and lifted me up so my feet weren't touching the floor and also kissed with all the passion he had.

I am trying to stall him as much as I can, I didn't want to him to leave. I was worried that something bad would happen to him in France, I hated the thought of him getting hurt just to protect me. We hear a knock at the door, he sets me down and we put our foreheads together.

"I don't want you to go." I confess.

"I know...you'll be fine." He reassures me.

"No, I'm worried about you...what if something happens to you." I reply trying not to get upset too much, I don't want him to feel guilty but I couldn't help it.

"Everything will be fine." He speaks softly, "But just remember I will always come back for you." He kisses my forehead then puts his hands on my face and to bring my lips to his for a sweet kiss, I put my arms back around his neck.

"I love you." I whisper as a few tears go down my cheek.

"I love you too." He whips my tears with his thumbs, "We'll get through this and hopefully soon this will be all over and we won't have to hide...and we will finish that dance."

"I know." I was going to kiss him again but the door knocks again.

"Steve, quit making out, we gotta get moving." Natasha spoke outside the door as Steve rolled his eyes, it made me giggle.

"We better head out there before they get mad." He said with a giggle.

We walk out and the guys took a few things to the car. I went next to Natasha, "Hey, I didn't get a chance to say thank you...you know from stopping me from making a big mistake with Steve." I speak softly.

"Your welcome, I know I was a bit harsh but..." She was starting to explain.

"No, that's exactly what I needed...you were right about everything."

"Well good. I am glad everything worked out" She said with a smile.

"Please watch out for him...I mean you guys are probably going to have to leave a lot until you find something...just make sure he doesn't do anything stupid. I mean we both know when he's passionate about something he tends to sometimes not think straight." I request.

"You got it." She replied with another smile.

The guys came back in and Sam signaled to Natasha to leave the cabin. They both leave and I walk up to Steve who was at the doorway. He leans down and pets Luna, "Protect her." He tells her.

"I also want you to have this." He pulls out a gun behind his back, "Do you know how to use it?" He asks me.

"No." I say, I was a little intimidated.

"Well, it's simple you just focus on your target and keep your hand still. Make sure you put it somewhere you can easily get it but also hidden." He tells me.

"Okay." I take it from him.

"This releases the safety, there's already 6 bullets in it." He continues you say, "I'll be back and hopefully we're successful this time."

"I know you will." I say as I carefully put down the gun and kiss him again.

He walks out and goes to the car where they are all driving together. Before he gets in he turns and waves at me one last time before they drive off. I watch them drive away and don't close the door until I can no longer see the car from the street, I look down and pet Luna. "He'll be back."

Hopefully they don't sound too dramatic but I wanted to show the danger that they both were still in and that they knew anything could happen and Iris especially was not going to take that lightly.