Chapter 6 everyone! So as I was writing chapter 5 I realized that I went way too long on it. So I cut it in half and basically two chapters were formed. That's why they are both is Steve's POV.
*Steve POV*
Everyone except for Bucky took a step back.
"Aww man!" Bucky said, "Why do you have to feed me to the shark!"
I started to crack up and Natasha turned to stare at me, "Your next Captain."
At that I felt myself pale and stood stiff as a board.
It was a quick match to say the least and Bucky knew that. There were a few punches here, couple of kicks there, and almost a loss for Natasha when she stepped and Bucky leg swept her. They were sparing for a while and were pretty evenly matched until one wrong punch gave Natasha the opening to flip him over and pin him to the mat. Bucky groaned from hitting the mat so hard.
"Do you yield?" Natasha asked.
"Yes," Bucky gritted out.
With a smirk Natasha got off of him and lent a hand to help him up.
"You're up Cap," she said turning towards me.
"No fair!" I said, "You were my SO. You were the one who trained me and it would be unfair because you know all the moves that are coming."
"True," she said pondering it for a minute, "But you will have to fight me sometime. Same goes to you Skye, I might have somewhat trained you but you will have to fight me someday."
"We fight all the time while training," Skye complained.
"Doesn't mean you won't need to fight me one day," Natasha said glancing over to Clint.
I knew what she was talking about. After Clint brought her to SHIELD and made her an agent with him, he trained her in other ways to fight besides killing. He was her SO until she was in the clear with SHIELD. Then when we first were forming, she had to fight him when he was under the mind control of Loki. She won, but it was hard since he was the one who taught her moves that she incorporated into her fighting style.
"Wasn't my fault that Loki mind controlled me," Clint said scratching the back of his head.
"It was when you let yourself get caught," Natasha retorted back, "Now get over here."
Clint winced and I felt sympathy towards him. Too many times when sparing with Natasha did I end up being put on the mats. They were both pretty evenly matched and the fight was more of a stalemate. It kept going back and forth between Natasha getting the upper hand to Clint getting it. Finally with a kick to the gut and foot sweep later, Clint was pinned.
"I yield," Clint stated out of breath, "again."
Natasha smirked and got up, "Well done Barton, I think that's the longest you stayed up with me."
"Ha, ha, ha," Clint said walking off the mats.
"Now Cap and Skye," Natasha said walking off the mats too.
"Wait," I said, "You want me and Skye to spar?
"Isn't that what I just said?" Natasha asked me while raising an eyebrow.
"Um yeah," I said walking onto the mat with Skye following behind, "I guess so."
"Steve no shield and Skye no powers," Natasha said before starting the match, "I want to see how my two students spar together."
We started out by slowly circling each other. When I got near to where the SSR agents were I heard whispers with my enhanced hearing about how I was fighting a girl and placing bets that I was going to win. With my moment of distraction, Skye took the opportunity to get close to me and she gets a quick flurry of punches in and retreats before I can get a hit in. That's when the real fighting began. It was a constant barrage of fists and feet being exchanged. I was trying not to use my full strength because I didn't want to hurt her. She seemed to notice this and backed away.
"Don't hold back," she said putting her arms up getting ready to fight again.
"Skye," I said, "I don't want to hurt-"
"Don't hold back," she repeated charging right for me.
This time when I attacked I didn't hold back. I kicked and it hit its mark on her stomach sending her flying into a wall and crumpling to the ground.
"Skye!" I yelled rushing over to her.
She laid un-moving when I reached her. I turned her over only to be met with a punch to the face which definitely broke my nose. I stumbled back and she swept my legs from under me and I landed hard on the ground. Skye pinned me and held up a fist ready to punch me again.
"Do you yield?"
"Nope," I said flipping us over and pining her down, "Do you yield though?"
She fought to the best of her ability but she told me not to hold back to I kept a firm grip on her.
She huffed, "Yes, I yield."
There were a couple of woops from the SSR agents and from Clint which were quickly silenced when Natasha and Peggy turned to glare at them. I got up and help Skye up as well. Before my nose could heal I quickly snapped it back into place so it did not heal incorrectly and turned back towards Skye.
"Are you alright?" I asked her wanting to make sure I didn't hurt her too badly.
"Perfectly fine," she stated checking out my nose, "I learned how to manipulate waves in walls and floors to make them like a pillow when I hit them. So when I hit the wall, it was like I was flying into a bed. And I am sorry about your nose."
"Well I know Natasha would say that it is my fault for letting my guard down," I said glancing at Natasha who was wiping up my blood from the floor.
I looked over to where the SSR agents were celebrating my win and being able to see Captain America in action. Then I saw Peggy, who was staring at where Natasha was cleaning up my blood.
"I'm going to go clean this up," gesturing to the blood trail from my nose.
Skye nodded and I headed over to Peggy.
"Peggy you alright?" I asked since she was still staring at the spot where my blood was.
She seemed to not hear me so I placed a hand on her shoulder which seemed to draw her back to reality.
"Yes," she said turning around and walking out, "I think I just need a moment."
As I watched her walk out I couldn't help but notice her stare at the spot with my blood again.
So the new semester just started and I have a class at 8…in the morning…and its computer science. I'm already done with this semester.
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