Alex woke up to knocking on the door. She got up and threw her robe on and rushed to it "Hello…" She said opening the door to find Clint "Oh hey sorry… I guess I slept in… What time is it…"
"It's seven…" He replied looking at his watch.
Her eyes went big "Holy hell…"
"Sorry I was just on my way I figured I'd see if you were up… I can always come back later if you want." He suggested "Sorry to wake you though.
She smiled "No worries. I hate mornings but it's okay. I'll just go put a t shirt and some sweat pants on… You can wait in here if you want." After that she walked towards her closet. She pulled out her favorite grey PINK sweatpants and threw on her favorite t-shirt. I was black and had a Picture of Audrey Hepburn on it. It always made her smile. After slipping into her tennis shoe next she headed back to her living room.
"Ready?" He asked standing back up. Alex just nodded and followed him out. They went down to the basement and down a few halls and stepped into a all white hug shooting range. "I figured you could use this…" He said handing her a smaller less technical bow than his.
She smiled "Perfect… Yours looks a bit scary to me." He just laughed amused by her. "So is my brother joining…"
"Doubt it. I think he was just trying to keep you away from Steve." He said letting out a laugh "But you actually seemed interested and I don't mind teaching you. I know you must feel a little out of place at this point."
Laughing she said "Me out of place at the home of the Avengers? Na… I'm right at home with all my skills…" She joked "But yeah… Living here is pretty… intimidating… Even Pepper knows how to use the Suit… I'm a little use less…"
"You've never tried the suit…" Clint asked looking over.
Alex chuckled "God no…. That's a bit much for me."
"I could understand that. Wearing an entire suit like that can be scary unless you know how to work everything before hand and something tells me Tony isn't much of a teacher type… So you ready to learn the proper stance and all…" He asked handing her the bow.
"He's not. At all… But yeah! Pretty excited." She said taking the bow.
After hours of practicing and small talk Alex finally hit the target at a twenty foot distance. She was so excited not to be fumbling the arrows anymore that she disregarded that she was nowhere even close to the bull's eye. She just saw the arrow hit the wall and stick and that was enough to satisfy her for the day.
"Thank you so much! I had a ton of fun. I really wanna keep learning if you don't mind." Alex said helping him pack up his stuff.
He nodded "Yeah you're actually picking it up faster than I though. We need to work on that aim though…" He said looking over to her arrow and chuckling to himself as he shook his head in amusment. "And sorry I had to cut it short I promised I would help Natasha with some training today.
"Call it early… It's almost one… We've been here for five hours. How long do you normally stay?" She asked curious.
He shrugged "Usually four or so…I will never expect you to train for that long so don't worry about that." He sighed "I just like being in here. So I tend to lose track of the time."
"I understand that…" She said nodding "You seem very at home and comfortable in here." He looked around the room "Yeah… Its what I knew most of my life and what I'm good at. Guess everyone has their thing." He said grabbing and throwing his bag over his shoulder a they started walking out. As they walked out of the room they ran into her brother "Tony…" Clint said nodding.
He smiled "So what trouble are you getting into now sis…"
"I'd be carful Tony she might put an arrow in you." He said with a playful grin.
He nodded "Really… Her?"
"She's picking it up pretty quick. She may just be a natural." He said shrugging "But I need to goo I will see you two later. Alex just let me know when you wanna practice again I'm there everyday pretty much…"
She smiled "Okay thank you Clint…"
He then walked away and Tony turned back to her "So from Captain to a Hawk… You do know him and Natasha have a kinda thing together they won't admit it but its definitely there so I'd watch out…"
"Tony don't be an ass. You know it's not like that." She barked back annoyed at his comment. "So are you spying on me again…"
Tony laughed "No. I was just in my lab… Sorry about that. Now can you make sure you let Pepper know I apologized… Just you know though it in there in your next chit chats…"
"No." She said rolling her eyes "I will when you actually mean it."
Frowning he said "That will never happen. How did you know I was even following you? I was using every trick in the book and it's the first time you ever caught me."
"Steve's a super solider. I figure he's pretty good at picking up on that kinda stuff… And wait! What do you mean the first time?" She said getting mad. "You've spied on me before? You're unbelievable… I need to get away from you." She said starting to walk away.
"Where are you going?" Tony yelled out as she continued walking.
She sighed and continued walking and just yelled out "You know the usual Sex and drugs and maybe break some shit because obviously I'm that out of control sister brothers have to spy on." Without looking back at him. Tony just stayed quite after that.
She went back upstairs and to the kitchen to fix some lunch. It was about one twenty and she was starved. She pulled out some fruit and stuff for a sandwich and began making a Fruit salad. Just then Pepper walked in "Oh hey sweetheart. How are you doing… Tony told me about the fight last night…"
"I'm… Fine I guess. Just wish he would start treating me like an adult." She said sighing.
Pepper nodded "I agree… And I told him he was completely uncontrollably out of line last night. I'm sorry about that. Really I am. I never thought he would actually do that. But I should have known better I guess…"
"It's not your fault…" Alex said shrugging "Nobody can control Tony I would never expect you to stop him or blame you for his behavior… Do you wanna have lunch together? I have plenty and can fix you some…"
She just shook her head "No actually me and Tony are eating by the pool… So…" She said smiling "I will be keeping Tony occupied this afternoon maybe you can make Steve and you some lunch? I just walked past the training room like ten minutes ago he should still be in there. I bet he'd love to see you…"
"Uh… Actually that's not a bad idea…" She said smiling back at Pepper.
Pepper then patted her hand "I'll help you make a few sandwiches… He has a bigger appetite then most." She said grinning. She then helped Alex make a few sandwiches, a salad along with the fruit salad and then threw a box of cookies in with everything else in the bag. She handed it to Alex and smiled "One more thing before you go… Did you run into Tony?"
"Yeah…" She said confused.
Holding out her hand suddenly she said "Give me your shoes…" Alex did as she said confused. She looked at the bottom "Just as I expected…" She said pointing to the little silver attachment. He was working on this project that you drop on the floor near the person of interest and it attaches it's self to their shoe… So I'm gonna go put these by your door so Tony doesn't hunt you down. You want my shoes?"
"Uh… No. I'm good. I'm not going outside or anything so I should be fine… But thank you. I never would have thought of that." She said trying not to reveal her annoyance with her brother.
Pepper shrugged "Not a problem. But you owe me details and girl talk later. Got it?"
"Promise. Scots honor." She said as she left the kitchen with the bag. She headed toward the basement and wondered the halls till she found a familiar route and finally got to the training room. She looked thru the window and saw Steve at the punching bag. He stopped for a second and took a breath and Alex remembered how handsome her was and in the same moment she panicked remembering what she was wearing and the fact she had no makeup on and her hair was in a messy bun on her head. Flustered she went to go change before knocking and having lunch with him but before she could get far Steve opened the door "Alex…" He called. She had only got about five feet away.
She had no other choice but to turn back to him "Hey… I uh.. I brought lunch but you looked busy… Didn't wanna bug you." She lied.
"You would be bothering me… I just though I saw you at the window… Do you wanna come in? There are chairs and tables in here. I'd love to have lunch with you…" He said smiling. Alex nodded still feeling a little embarrassed by the way she looked until she walked by him and he just smiled and said "You look beautiful…" Making her blush.
"Thank you… I thought I looked a mess. Clint came to my door at seven and I went down to learn how to shoot an arrow with him…" She said setting the food down as they approached the table.
He just smiled "Well you look great… And well maybe Archery is your calling. How did you enjoy it?"
"It was fun. I know this is gonna sound ridiculous especially saying it to a supper solider but I felt like a total bad ass…" She said with a smile taking the food out and placing it all on the table. Steve just laughed "What? Don't laugh! I did!" She said laughing "I finally didn't feel so pathetically helpless."
He smiled "I'm sure you're not as helpless as you think…Did you make all this? You shouldn't have gone through all this trouble…"
"It wasn't a problem. Pepper helped me also…" She said smiling. "Now let's eat I'm starving I didn't have time to even eat breakfast today…" She said handing him his sandwiches and a fork for the salads.
They both quickly ate and Steve put away all of his food with no problem and seemed as if he could go for even more. They went back and forth on all kinds of topics and even poked fun until they were finished eating "I can't believe you've never seen singing in the rain!" Alex blurted putting her fork down "Well I can… You were kinda asleep I guess." She said with a small laugh. "Gene Kelly… Was brilliant."
"Well I guess I will have to watch it then. Maybe one of these days you can catch me up on all the movies I've been missing out on while I was out. I did always enjoy the pictures." He said placing his hand onto hers.
Alex blushed but then smiled "I'd be more than happy to…" She leaned over and kissed his cheek and then got up and walked over to the punching bag. She placed her hand on it "I saw you punching this like it was nothing…" She gently tried to push it and it did nothing.
"I like to use it to vent… Good way to get all that built up tension and anger out…" He said getting up and walking over towards her.
Letting out a big sigh "I could use one of these than…"
"Everything okay?" He asked worried.
Nodding she said "Yeah… It's just my brother… He's being ridiculous… Like the stunt he pulled last night was so out of line and then he waited in my room to scold me like some child… and to top it all off he put a tracking device on my shoe today…" She took a deep breath "I love him and all I just wish he would let me live my life and just be my brother…"
"Well he is in his own way. Stark is…. Tony is very protective of the things he loves most. Sure he hides it behind a smart ass sense of humor but he is… Maybe you two just need to vent and try and compromise… Wouldn't hurt to try." He said putting a hand on her shoulder to try and reassure her "But for now maybe you should give the punching bag a hit.
She looked at the bag "I don't know. I think it would be an embarrassing effort…"
"Nah… Just do it and I promise you will feel a little better?" He said patting her on the back "Now go.
Alex then swung her arm back a little and hit the bag as hard as she could and did it one more time with her other arm. The punching bag didn't move in the slightest way but he was right, she did feel better. She took a deep breath "Thank you…"
"Feel better…" He asked smiling.
She nodded "Much… Except my hand hurts a pretty good bit…"
"Sorry didn't think you were gonna try and hit it as hard as you did…" He said laughing. "But I'm gonna get back to training your welcome to stay…"
She then yawned "Actually I think I wanna get a nap in… I'll see you at dinner right?"
"Wouldn't miss it…Maybe Pepper and Tony can join us?" He suggested.
She frowned "I don't really wanna be around my brother right now…"
"That's fine. Just us then" He then leaned down and kissed her forehead "Enjoy your nap."
Alex smiled "Oh I will. This nap is long over do…" She joked "I'll see you at dinner…" She then caught Steve off guard by giving him a kiss. "Have fun… She then said with a smile before walking away trying to hold back her second coming yawn.
Alex woke up feeling well rested and so much better. It amazed her what a little sleep could do. She got up and started to get ready for dinner till she saw what time it was It was past twelve. "Shit…" She mumbled realizing she had slept pas dinner and stood Steve up. She threw on some slippers and put a hoodie on and glanced at the map real quick and headed out the door.
She finally approached his door and heard music or a television playing softly and hoped he was awake. She gently knocked on the door knowing her brothers room was right across the hall. She waited for what seemed like forever but was actually just a brief thirty seconds. "Hello…" Steve said opening the door "Oh hey… You missed dinner."
"I know I'm so sorry. I slept right thru it. I guess I was a little more tired then I realized but I'm going to make it up to you…" She said with a smile. "Me and you are gonna go make some popcorn and get ridiculous amounts of snacks and watch as many movie as we can fit in one night in the amazing home theater we have here… That is if you think you can handle that." She said still holding her smile.
Steve just smiled "Well I think that sounds perfect." He then grabbed the hoodie next to his door and shut it "Lead the way Miss. Stark."