"Nina, I wanted to talk to you," She stopped and waited for him to decide what he was going to say. He looked even more weirded out than she felt, which was pretty impressive. "I just wanted to make sure that you were," He cleared his throat. "Um, responsible," Nina couldn't help but smile. Olivia was right about him. So innocent.

"Ye-" Nina suddenly closed her mouth. "Um," She couldn't believe it. Until now the thought of protection hadn't even crossed her mind. She couldn't believe she could be so stupid.

"Well, if you need anything..." Steve awkwardly trailed off.

"It won't happen again. I mean, it wasn't supposed to happen in the first place. I just...needed...something, I guess. Everything that's going on is really overwhelming and I just let it get to me, I think," Steve relaxed as she rambled. He knew very well what it was like to be thrown into a world you don't understand and imagined the comfort of intimacy with another human being must have been very tempting. He couldn't blame her for what she had done.

Nina was nervous to meet Bucky for combat training, and she most certainly should have been. Three minutes into 'sparring' she realized whatever anger he had felt earlier was nowhere near gone. She tried to be fast and concentrate at the same time. Every time her defense fell, which was too often, he would tap her on the jaw with his fist. Not enough to hurt, but enough the scare her. Every chance he got, he restrained her or she found herself on the floor, her lungs free of oxygen. It became very clear that he had no intention of showing her anything constructive.

With a huff, she pushed herself up from the floor again. Before she had a chance to recover he was lunging at her. She didn't try to put up a fight. There was no way she could have stopped him, so why bother? He quickly released her from the hold he had her in and took a step back.

"You're not trying," He pointed out, to which Nina let out a bitter laugh.

"Well, no," She raised her arms and let them fall back to her sides with a slap. "I don't know what I'm doing and you're not giving me any direction. It feels like you're just trying to put me on my ass as much as possible," She complained.

Suddenly, she didn't feel ashamed anymore. So she slept with Thor. It was a good time and she wasn't going to pretend it wasn't. And, no, she shouldn't have done it. He obviously had a thing for her and she took advantage of that so she could remember what relief felt like. That was between the two of them. If Bucky was going to be angry about it, so be it. However, if he were going to be so bitter he couldn't train her properly she wanted nothing to do with the situation.

"If you were paying attention you wouldn't feel that way," He insisted, getting back into a fighting stance. Nina ran her tongue across her teeth and raised her eyebrows. She was a gentle person. She really, really was. But she wanted nothing more than to hit him hard enough for him to feel it.

No matter how hard she tried to evade him it was only seconds before she was trapped again. Her back was pressed against him, one of his arms trapping hers and the other nearly choking her. She let out a growl of frustration and jerked in a futile struggle.

"Calm down," She clenched her fists and turned her hot gaze on him. For someone who left his last Stark Expo with a girl on each arm, he sure didn't know how to deal with women.

"Let me go," Nina spoke through her teeth, her voice low and venomous. He did as she asked, air flowing back into her lungs once she was free.

"This is pointless," She said, rubbing a hand over her throat.

"No it isn't-"

"Yes! It is. Why are you so mad anyway?" Everyone turned to look when Nina raised her voice. It had lowered almost immediately, and they hadn't heard what came next. Olivia and Thor stopped sparring long enough to watch as Nina stepped closer to Bucky, a fierce look in her eyes.

"Oh, shit. Get 'em, girl," Olivia silently cheered her on.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Bucky insisted.

"Oh, you don't?" Nina wasn't having any of it. He could see that. She wasn't stupid. "Okay, well, in that case I'll leave you to fume alone and go do something productive," When she walked away from him, still looking like she could kill the next person to cross her path, the sway of her hips caught his attention.