Disclaimer: I do not own Captain America, The Avengers or any other movie that has to do with Marvel or their plots/characters. I do however own MY plot and MY OCs.
Guest (on chap 2): I actually bring up Disney again later on.
Guest (different from above): Yep, no angst here. I plan on this being a mostly feel good story that will make readers smile and feel happy. (Maybe later on things will change a bit but I don't intend for any tears of sadness to be shed while reading this ^_^)
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Steve knocked on Skylar's door with his hands behind his back, a few minutes she opened it and he smiled at her; even in sweats and an overly large T-shirt with her hair up in a messy bun she was still pretty.
"Hey," Skylar said before opening the door more to let him in. He walked in but turned so he kept facing her. "Do you have something behind your back?" Skylar asked as she tilted her head to the side. Steve only smirked and walked backwards as Skylar closed her door. "What is it?" she walked over to him with a smile.
"I got these," Steve took one hand from behind his back to show a small newborn size hat with bunny ears and a small onesie that said 'mommy's little bunny' on it. Both of which made Skylar's face light up as she gasped. "for the baby."
"Oh my god!" she squealed as she took them and hugged them to her chest while giving Steve a giant smile.
"And these," he took something from the hand still behind his back still to show a paper bag with a bakery logo on it – inside was a mocha chocolate chip muffin, Skylar's favorite – and a chocolate bar. "is for yo-woah!" Steve chuckled as Skylar threw her arms around him and hugged him. "Careful there." He said putting his arm around her but moving back a bit, afraid of hurting the baby.
"Oh, they wanna hug you too." Skylar said before going on her toes and kissing his cheek, she was able to reach since her had leaned down slightly to hug her back. She pulled away and looked up at him, smiling more when she noticed the pink hue to his cheeks. "And to think, that day I met you I had thought about going shopping another day."
"Well, I'm glad you didn't." Steve said with a smile. "I also got you this." He brought his other hand from behind his back to show a baby monitor.
"Steve, the baby will be in my room, I won't need a monitor." Skylar said shaking her head slightly.
"It's not really for you, it's more for me," he said making Skylar tilt her head. "So when your maternity leave is up I'll know that their safe or if they need something. Or if you ever have to go to the store or you know… I mean I'm sure you'll get a babysitter but…" he trailed off as she smiled up at him before pulling him into another hug. After a moment she pulled back enough to look up at him again.
"Hang on a minute…Did you go into a baby store?" she asked with an amused smirk as he looked away. "Captain America going into a baby store… I would've paid to see that." She added with a small laugh before going into the kitchen.
"Actually I had a… friend order them from the internet." He said. "I mentioned you liked bunnies and she found them."
"Ooo 'she'?" Skylar asked as her smirk grew.
"Just a co-worker." Steve said.
"Sure." Skylar said as she poured something Steve couldn't see into a mug.
"You're starting to sound like her." Steve muttered as he sat at the kitchen bar. Skylar put a mug of coffee in front of him. "You made coffee? Isn't that bad for the baby?"
"I didn't make it for me, silly." Skylar said.
"How'd you know I was coming over?"
"I just figured you would." Skylar said with a smile. Steve chuckled and smiled back.
"Well, thank you." he said as he picked up the mug.
"No problem." She said. "Still it would've been funny if you had gone in a baby store. You'll have to come with me next time I need to get more clothes for them. I'm sure we can come up with a disguise for you."
"Uhh…" Steve's eyebrows shot up which made Skylar burst out laughing.
"I was kidding, Steve."
"Right." Steve said with a chuckle.
…
"What are you doing?" Steve asked as he leaned against the doorway of Skylar's room.
"I was organizing my closet and the stupid hormones reared their ugly head." Skylar said as she held a dress up to herself and looked in the long mirror on the door of her closet. "I can't wait until I can wear jeans and skirts; I wanna look pretty again."Steve stepped into the room.
"You're beautiful." he said as he stood behind her.
"You're just saying that cause you know I'll cry otherwise." Skylar said with a pout. "I wanna wear a dress without feeling fat and worrying that I'll look like a blue hippo." Skylar said glaring at the blue dress. Steve chuckled and put his hands on her upper arms gently.
"I'm sure you'd look stunning." He said. "You always do." He added quietly. She smiled at him as he cleared his throat and tried to ignore his blush. "The prettiest hippo ever."
"And you lost it." Skylar said with a laugh. Steve smiled at her in the mirror.
"It got you to laugh, didn't it?" Skylar turned to smile up at him. She motioned him to lean down and kissed his cheek.
A week later Steve helped Skylar baby-proof the apartment, 'helped' meaning he insisted that she relaxed while he took care of it. He put covers in all the outlets, cabinet locks on the bottom cabinets in the kitchen as well as the bathroom, foam corner cushions on the points of the side table by the couch as well as the kitchen counters – even though Skylar assured Steve that the baby wouldn't even be able to reach those heights for a while.
"You know what we should do…" Skylar said to him. "We should watch some of my favorite old tv shows."
"How old are we talking?" Steve asked.
"Well it was on in the 50s."
"That's not too far ahead; what's it called?"
"I Love Lucy." Skylar said with a grin. "They re-mastered it in colour but we can watch the black and white version." Steve nodded. "Then maybe we could watch some documentaries." Steve raised an eyebrow.
"You mean I'll watch them and you'll take a nap."
"What can I say; your arm is very comfortable." Skylar said with a smile. Steve chuckled and shook his head. "We should make like a list of things you have to learn about still."
"I've been trying to learn everything I've missed for a few years now." He said. "There's still… a lot I haven't learned."
"Don't worry; we'll get you caught up in no time." Skylar said as she walked into the living area and got something off a book shelf. "I mean there can't be that much you still have to learn about. It'll be like history class… only with the material being the last 70 years or so…" She came back with a pen and small booklet and wrote one thing down before she slid the booklet to him along with the pen. "I'll just start listing off things and if you don't recognize them then write them down. I already added I Love Lucy." She said with a smile. Steve smiled and nodded.
"Alright."
"Okay, let's see… well you know about things that happened after the war?" Steve nodded. "Do you know about the Cold War?"
"Yeah, between the Soviet bloc countries and US-led Western powers." Steve said. "19 45 to 1990."
"Yep." Skylar nodded. "Okay what about the space race." Steve's eyebrows went up. "Moon landing?" Steve shook his head and wrote it down.
"Sit, I made sandwiches." Skylar said as Steve entered her apartment using his key.
"Hello to you to." Steve said with a chuckle as he walked over and sat at the kitchen bar.
"Hello." Skylar said with a smile as she put the plate in front of him. "We are going to have a Star Wars marathon, three a day, starting tomorrow since I have the next two days of."
"How many are there again?" Steve asked as he raised his eyebrows.
"Only six." Skylar said. "I, being the nerd I am, have all six on DVD." Steve chuckled.
"You're not a nerd." He said. Skylar turned to him. "More of a dork." Skylar playfully smacked his arm as he laughed.
"You didn't even know what a dork was until I explained it to you." Skylar said as she rolled her eyes.
"Is there anything else you need?" Steve asked. It was about two weeks from Skylar's due date and Steve was become more and more nervous as the date grew closer.
"We've got everything, Steve." Skylar assured him as she put a hand on his arm. "We've got the bottles, baby powder, clothes, pump, blankets, everything is baby-proofed and put together and you picked up the diapers incognito yesterday." She said with a laugh. Steve cleared his throat as he tried to ignore the colour that came to his face. "You're more jumpy about this than I am."
"I've never done this before…" Steve said. "Well I mean I have with Bucky's mom when she was having his younger sister but Bucky's father and my mother were there to help."
"Hey, I've never done this before either." Skylar said with a laugh. Steve gave her a sheepish smile. "All you have to do is get me to the hospital when my water breaks and be prepared for me holding your hand very tightly." Skylar said. "We still have a couple weeks. It'll be fine."
"Alright. I just want to make sure you'll be okay."
"I'll be fine as long as you're there." Skylar said putting a hand over his making Steve smile.
…
Skylar put a plate of grilled cheese in front of Steve who sat at the kitchen bar. Her belly had grown even larger and she looked ready to pop any day now; her due day was within the week.
"So anything exciting happen yesterday that you can tell me about?" Steve closed his eyes and grimaced, he had asked her the morning before if she wanted to have dinner with him but he wasn't expecting a night mission to come up before he got back and had completely forgotten to call her when he'd gotten back to SHIELD Headquarters that morning.
"I forgot. I'm sorry. I was called in to…work." Steve said.
"It's okay." Skylar said with a smile and a small laugh. "I didn't really feel like cooking anyways."
"I would've cooked." Steve said. "How about tonight then? I'll order pizza."
"Sounds great."
"Thank you for lunch." Steve said before taking a bite out of his sandwich.
"No problem, Steve." She said with a smile as she started to clean up before starting on her own sandwich.
"I met with a guy I met while I was running yesterday." Steve said.
"Oh?"
"Sam Wilson, he was part of the Armed Forces. He helps veterans suffering from PTSD."
"That's nice." Skylar said with a smile.
"Yeah." Steve said with a nod. "So, what kind of pizza would you like?"
…
That night, minutes after Steve left Skylar's apartment, Skylar heard gunshots and the sound of glass breaking come from above her. She rushed to her window to see a dark figure on the roof of the next building over then saw Steve crash through the window of another building with his shield. After a few minutes of nothing Skylar grabbed her phone and sent him a quick text.
R u ok?
She waited a few minutes before she got a reply.
I'm ok. Stay home. I'll come see you when things calm down.
Ok
Don't have that baby without me.
I'll try.
She didn't hear from him again over the next two days.
So I couldn't think of any more scene before movie events start….so yeah movie events have started. There's nowhere in the actual movie I can add Skylar besides the tiniest bit I did just now so we're skipping to the end of the movie in the next chapter.(which is only skipping about 2 days) I wish I could've thought of more things to add for the weeks before the 9 month mark but oh well. There will be time for cute scenes later.
Just a reminder that this doesn't take place in 2016 so there's no 7th Star Wars movie for them yet.