"Wait, are you really asking me what I think you're asking me?" Cassidy asked Tony, raising an eyebrow at him. He called her down to the lab a couple days after the Halloween party and he had a cheesy grin on his face the whole time.

"Sure am." He told her.

"Isn't Steve the one who handles things like this?" She asked. Tony shrugged and looked back down at his tablet, and when she shot a glance over to Bruce, he did the same.

"Technically he is the Captain, but I pay for everything and you all live in my tower, so I'm calling the shots right now." Tony told her. She smiled at him, running up to him and giving him a hug.

"Then I accept. Thank you, Tony." She told him.

"Anytime, now skedaddle, I got works to do."

Cassidy rode the elevator to the gym, where she assumed Steve was. Sure enough, she found him with a punching bag n the corner of the room. He spotted her and smiled, stopping what he was doing to lean down and hug her.

"Hey sweetheart, how are you doing?"

She smiled, leaning up to kiss him. "I feel pretty good. Great actually. Tony just offered me a spot on the team and I accepted. You're looking at the newest Avenger." She said, putting up finger guns.

"No." He told her.

She frowned and furrowed her eyebrows. "No? What do you mean no?"

"I mean no. It's to dangerous. I don't want you out there with us. And besides Tony cant offer you a spot, technically I'm the leader."

Cassidy was pissed.

"Technically you were the leader when Shield was in place and now it's gone, so you're not the leader of anything." Steve's mouth dropped open.

"On another note. You don't get to tell me what to do. I know we're soulmates but I'm my own person. If you had maybe wanted to talk about it together, we could have but you cant just tell me no. It doesn't work like that."

"It's dangerous." Steve repeated.

"Then you better bench Nat and Clint, cause they're just as human as I am!" She yelled, spinning on her heel and leaving the gym, Steve confused as to what the hell just happened.

Cassidy was fuming on the ride up to her floor. How dare he. How dare he tell her no. This wasn't the forties; she wasn't some dame that was going to wait for him to come home. She was just as deadly as Nat or Clint.

"Jarvis, please deny Captain Rogers access to my floor." She said when she walked into her floor.

"Are you sure that's a good idea miss?" The AI asked her.

"No but right now I'm so mad I'll say something I'll regret." She said, flopping down on the couch, pulling out her phone and dialing Nat's number.

"Yes, my love." Nat's voice rang out.

"You'll never guess what Steve just did."

"Oh no, what now."

"Tony offered me a spot on the team and I accepted, but then Steve basically banned me from doing so." Cassidy heard a loud cackling in the background, no doubt Clint's, Nat probably had her on speaker.

"He's so screwed!" Clint yelled from across the room.

Cassidy heard a thud and a yelp, which probably meant that Nat threw something at him.

"Sorry about that, had to take care of the child. What was his reason?"

"That it was dangerous." Cassidy told her.

"What does that make Clint and I? Collateral damage?" Now Nat sounded angry.

"That's pretty much what I said!"

"Do you need me to come over and take care of it?" Nat asked and Cassidy wasn't sure if that was a good or bad thing.

"No, I can handle it, I cut off access to my floor and I'm also cutting him off from sex."

"Wait, you two had sex!" Nat shrieked, and she hoped none of the kids were around.

"Yeah a couple days ago after the Halloween party. It was amazing, which suck cause now he's pissed me off." She told Nat.

They chatted a little while longer and Nat told her how Laura and the kids were doing and that she was pregnant which made Cassidy happy. Laura was such a sweet woman and had let Nat and Cassidy stay at the farm after missions on more than one occasion.

The elevator dinged and Tony came up after she got off the phone, with some takeout.

"So, I take it telling Spangles you're on the team didn't go so well?" He asked, sitting down at the kitchen table, taking the boxes out of the bags.

"Not really. When I told him that I accepted, he told me no." Tony stopped pulling out the fortune cookies and just looked at her.

"He what?"

Cassidy nodded, opening her box of food. "Told me that it was dangerous and that he was the Captain."

"What did you say?" Tony asked.

"Told him he wasn't Captain of shit and that if I'm not allowed out there then neither is Nat or Clint. Then I denied him access to my floor." Tony nearly choked on his food when she said that.

"Wait, how did you know it went badly?" Cassidy asked him.

"Let's just say I have to develop a stronger punching bag." Cassidy rolled her eyes. He has to audacity to be mad? Fine. Two can play at that game. Tony could see the wheels turning in her head and came up with an idea.

"Maybe I can help." He told her, giving her a smirk.

Days went by without talking to Steve. He tried calling her but she wouldn't pick up and she had her physical therapist come to her floor. Was she being dramatic? Maybe. Did Steve deserve it? Abso-fucking-lutely. Cassidy didn't care at this point.

It was day four when she finally picked up the phone, getting tired of hearing it ring.

"What do you want Steve?" She asked in an exhausted tone. There was a few moments of silence before he spoke.

"I'm sorry." He mumbled.

"What was that?" Cassidy asked, knowing damn well she heard him the first time,

"I'm sorry okay? I realize now that I had no right to tell you that you couldn't be a part of the team. You've been on missions long before you and I met and I shouldn't think that you cant handle it." Cassidy was floored. She hadn't expected him to apologize. Then it hit her. He wouldn't be apologizing on his own, not like this. He was too stubborn.

"Nat called you didn't she." More silence.

"Maybe. Look I really am sorry and I would really like to see you, can you please let me in? I'm outside your door."

She sighed and told Jarvis to let him in as she got up to stand in the middle of the room. Steve shuffled in and stood a few feet in front of her, looking at the floor like a toddler. He didn't say anything, and kicked an imaginary rock on the floor, and Cassidy had to hold back a laugh.

"So, are you just going to stand there? Or are we going to talk?" She asked him. He looked up at her and she noticed the tear marks under his eyes.

"Steve…" She started, feeling bad now for how she had acted, even though she knew she had every right to.

She took a step toward him but when she reached him, she reached her hand out but it never connected because Steve dropped to his knees in front of her, wrapping his arms around her waist.

"I'm so sorry. I really am. I just love you so much and I'm afraid to lose you." He whispered.

"Steve, get up." She told him. He stood and looked down to her.

"I realize that maybe I could have talked to you about it first because it is a big decision, But Steve you have to let me make these decisions." She told him.

He nodded, looking back at the ground. Damn. He really did have the kicked puppy look going for him.

"Are we okay?" He asked.

Cassidy sighed. "We're getting there. I'm still mad at you." She held out a hand for him and pulled him close to her, wrap her arms around her waist.

"I love you Cassidy."

"I love you too Steve."

Unfortunately, they didn't get much time to talk after that because they got word that Baron Strucker had gotten ahold of Loki's staff and had it at his base in Sokovia. Nat and Clint took a jet as soon as they heard and Thor landed down about twenty minutes ago.

Cassidy put her suit on and attached her weapons, heading out to the jet after Nat and Clint. Steve was the only one that hadn't boarded yet, and Cassidy threw a glance at Tony, raising her eyebrow. He nodded his head toward the ramp where Steve was making his way to the jet.

"Jarvis, initiate Senor Citizen Protocol." Tony said.

In a split-second Steve convulsed and fell flat on his face on the ramp.

"Tony what did you do?" Cassidy asked.

"Mild electric shock, he'll be fine in like five minutes."

Clint started howling, leaning over on his knees trying to breathe. Nat shook her head and headed for the pilot's seat. Tony had a smug look on his face and Bruce was pinching the bridge of his nose, sighing heavily.

"I do not understand. What has happened?" Thor asked, a confused look on his face.