A/N: Thanks for reading the last chapter! Let's get right into this drama, break-up, filled chapter! haha Enjoy!
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Steve's POV - Sorry
I walked inside the diner call the police. These poor people are probably tired and want answers from the strange ships that keep appearing in the sky, causing us to come, and then a huge fire to erupt.
"Police, what is your emergency?" The police man asked on the other end of the line.
I was surprised forgetting I was on the phone, "Yes, my name is St-Captain America and I-"
"Is this another call for those flying ships?" The police man sounded exhausted.
"Yes, sir," I replied. "I am sorry about all these."
"Do you know what is going on, Captain?" He asked.
I sighed, "I don't know much more than you do at this point."
"You superheroes need to figure out what is going on." The police man replied shortly.
"I know that, we are working as fast as we can." I replied, feeling arms around my waist, and thinking it was Ashley I grabbed her hand and held on to it.
"Well, I will send out an ambulance, fire truck, and men to help calm the fire." The police man said reluctantly.
"Thank you sir." I replied.
"Yep." He said and then the line clicked off.
I sighed again, we were going to have to figure out where these ships keep coming from. Ashley's fingers started to trace the waist band of my belt. I shivered, turning around in her arms to see that it was not Ashley, but Rachel; the waitress who worked in the small diner.
"Rachel?" I stuttered, carefully removing her arms from around me.
"Hello, Captain America." She purred, kissing my chest.
I jumped out of her arms, "Wait, Rachel. I have a girlfriend."
"But she doesn't please you does she?" Rachel asked, strutting towards me.
"Of course she does," I replied instantly, "and she will literally kill you if you don't stop."
"Do you want me to stop?" Rachel asked, wrapping her arms around me again.
Before I could answer, her lips were attached to mine, her hand in my hair; forcing me to her. I wrapped my arms around her back in an effort to pull her off of me.
"Just enjoy me," Rachel whispered against my lips.
"No, this is wrong." I tried to pull my head away.
She had a tight hold on my hair, however, and prevented me from going anywhere as her lips returned to mine aggressively. What do I do? Ashley is going to kill me and Rachel. I tried pull her off of me by her back, but she didn't budge, and I refused to raise my hand to a lady.
That is when I heard the front door open, foot steps, and then the foot steps stop, pause, and then running out the door; the lights flickered and the door shattered as the feet ran out of the diner. Ashley... she had seen me.
With solider serum speed, I launched myself out of Rachel's arms and out the door. It was no use, because all I could see of Ashley was a faint outline of her on the board, flying far away from here; away from me.
"Nick, where is she?" I asked intensely, running after her flying form.
"We don't know, she just tore out her earpiece and threw it into the ocean." Nick replied. "Tony; see if you can find her. Cap, I think you should come back here; Ashley will not be in the mood to talk to you."
Faintly in the background, I could hear Tony's suit building around him and him flying out of Stark Tower. I had just cheated on Ashley, she deserves better than me, I just cheated on her with a waitress that I don't even care about.
Ashley's POV
For hours, I sat on my board; trying to stop my crying. Why are you crying, Ashley? He is not worth it. He cheated on you. Steve just cheated on you; don't cry. I kept telling myself, but the tears kept coming.
"Ashley?" A voice called from behind me. I looked up to see Tony in his Iron Man suit, floating beside my board.
"Go away." My voice cracked out at him.
"Ashley," Tony came closer to me, "he was kissed by Rachel. He didn't kiss her."
"Don't talk to me about him." I hissed.
"All right fine, please come back to Stark Tower." Tony paused. "Please, come home."
"No. He is there." I replied with utter loathing attached to my voice.
"Ashley come on," He stepped onto the board in front of me as we almost tipped over, "you are better than this. You are Ashley Potter. You defeated Voldemort, won the triwizard tournament, defeated a basilisk, and overcame your parents and Sirius's deaths. You are so much stronger than this."
"Tony," I looked up at him, "I don't want to hear about what I have done in the past. The present, this is what I am living with now."
"You don't need to sit around crying, please come home." Tony pleaded, crouching down to get at eye-level with me.
"Do you think I didn't cry?" I was suddenly yelling, "Do you think I didn't cry when Sirius were killed? Do you think I didn't cry when my parents were killed? I am only human, Tony!"
"Ashley, you are extraordinary. You save the world ever day. You are the glue, Ash." He admitted. "You keep us all together."
"Have you ever been cheated on, Tony?" I screamed at him. "You haven't have you. Then you don't know the gaping hole that is in my chest right now, I am bleeding Tony leave me alone to heal."
"If you're bleeding you need to be patched up, that is where your family come in." Tony replied with a shrug.
Suddenly, another ship came out of nowhere and started to fire missiles at us.
"I am so not in the mood for this!" I yelled at the ship before pulling out my wand, not caring what Nick Fury thought, "Deletrius!" I pointed my wand at the ship and instantly it vanished.
Tony looked between me and where the ship had been and the laughed, "What did you do to it?"
"Deletrius is the spell that makes things vanish; I sent them back where they came from." I shrugged before flying away from him.
Tony followed me, "Are you coming home?" He asked hesitantly.
I looked back at him, "Nick wants to know not me." Tony said quickly.
I chuckled lightly, "Are you going to make me?"
"If it comes to that." He nodded. "Although, I thought this would be my day off."
"Well I don't want you to do what all superheroes, have to do." I rolled my eyes and started flying back to Stark Tower; reluctantly.
As we entered the building, we heard yelling. Thor and him seemed to be in a fight.
"I can't believe you have done this to Ashley!" Thor screamed. Tony glanced at me then at the stairs, but I shook my head; not wanting to see them fighting.
"I know I am so deeply sorry! I just want her safe here at her home!" The cheater yelled back.
"With you?" Thor paused, "No, you don't deserve her!"
"Funny, I thought Thor was over you." Tony whispered, staring at the ceiling.
"That is what I was thinking." I replied quietly.
Then there were sounds of grunts and heavy footsteps, and suddenly a loud whack! Tony and I ran upstairs and we saw Thor standing in front of a Captain America thrown into a metal wall and it was dented to his body. Thor must have punched him.
Tony ran in the middle of them, "Stop it, she is right there!" He whispered intensely.
Well thanks a lot, Tony! I yelled in my head, glaring at him.
Thor ran over to me and hugged me, "Go downstairs, Ashley. I don't want you to see this." He said in my ear. "I will beat him for you."
I pushed him away from me, "Why would I let you do that for me?"
Steve groaned, seeming to come back from unconsciousness. "Ashley…" He whispered, not knowing I was right here.
"How dare you speak her name!" Thor yelled at him.
Steve looked up at him dizzily, but seemed to notice me, "Ashley… I am so sorry." He started to walk towards me.
Slap! Kick!
On any other day I would feel bad for causing Steve so much pain, but today would be the exception. Steve was stunned when I slapped him, and then I came right back and kicked him in the stomach; sending him on his back.
Steve groaned again, "Okay. I deserved that." He nodded, getting back up.
As soon as Steve stood up, Nick, Bruce, Hawk, Pepper, and Bucky ran in the room.
"I cannot believe you, and to think you have been a solider!" Pepper yelled at Steve.
Steve hung his head, "You are a sorry excuse for a gentleman!" Hawk yelled.
Bruce started to shake, "Hawk, let's take Ashley out of here." He suggested.
Hawk ignored him, "Nick, what do you think about this?"
"Look, as much as I love the honeymooners, I am on Steve side in this." Nick shrugged.
My mouth fell open, "Can I ask why?"
"You are not giving him a chance to explain, Ashley!" Nick replied loudly.
"I don't care what he has to say, Nick, he cheated on me!" I yelled at him.
"Ashley," Bucky interrupted us, "I have obviously known Steve for a long time and I know that he would never cheat on a girl, ever." Bucky shrugged. "He was too much of a nerd to get a girl before the serum, and now that he has… or had you Steve would never leave you and defiantly not cheat on you."
"He is right, Ashley," Steve said quietly, "I don't want to lose you and I know you don't want to lose me."
I glared at him, "I didn't just lose you; I lost my respect for you; because you do the right thing simply because it is the right thing to do. You would help anyone, you would stay with someone while they were dying, and you would let anyone cry on your shoulder. You do the right thing when no one is looking, unlike Tony who just does it for the camera! I thought you would be the one person I got close to that wouldn't hurt me... But now all of my respect for you is just gone."
"But I won't hurt you, please." Steve whispered.
I felt tears come to my eyes, "You have already hurt me."
After that, I apparated from the room not knowing where I was going but I just had to be away from all of them. I cried and cried and cried. After an hour or so, I stood up to see where I was. When I realized, words failed me.
I was at Hogwarts; my real home.
I stood up and saw that I was in the Great Hall; the four tables were empty in the large room, the enchanted ceiling showed a dark stormy night and the podium where Albus Dumbeldore used to stand was mocking me with the people I had lost.
Walking through the eerily quiet castle, I let my mind reminisce. I let myself remember my best friends; Fred and George Weasley and all of their shenanigans; I let myself remember the rest of the Weasley's and their kindness, I remembered my Professors how I hated homework, and finally, I let myself remember the people I had lost; which triggered more tears.
However, I didn't cry for long because there was suddenly a loud sound; sounding like a gunshot or a powerful spell, coming from out of the castle. I dashed to the outside of the castle pulling out my wand to face whatever tried to reach my home.
I saw Hagrid's hut lit up in flames, the whipping willow was hit with a cannon sized hole, and several holes and fire in the ground. I stopped the fires and helped the tree before I looked up at the sky; about fifteen wizards on brooms were trying to attack Hogwarts.
"Potter! It's Potter!" The one above the whipping willow cried.
"She is here!" The worried voice of Draco Malfoy screamed.
"Leave her to me!" The voice of Lucius Malfoy yelled.
Lucius jumped off of his broom and onto the ground with me.
"Are you trying to be the next Voldemort, Malfoy?" I smirked at him.
"In the means of killing you, yes." Lucius replied, raising his wand. "Crucio!"
"Protego!" I yelled him, "Stupefy! Confundo! Imobulus!" I yelled at all of the others that tried to get into the school, after about five minutes there were only Draco and Lucius left conscious.
"Avada Kedavra!" Lucius yelled as the green light sped towards me, instantly I moved to dodge it.
"Conjunctivitis!" I yelled Lucius was thrown on his back with his eyesight messed up.
"Dad!" Draco called in worry.
Suddenly, the men who I had stunned, confused, and immobilized started to get up. But, Hagrid burst out of his hut with burn marks all over and started to beat people with one of his giant pans.
"Students, stay inside! Students, stay in!" An old woman's voice beside me yelled; Professor McGonagall along with Flitwick, Slughorn, and Neville Longbottom came out of the front of the school. They all smiled at me.
"Draco, Lucius, maybe you should all go home now and take your friends with you?" Slughorn suggested calmly.
Lucius started to get back up, "Not until she is dead. That is all the dark lord wanted!" He pointed at me angrily.
"If you do not want to leave then the professors and I will have to make you leave." Professor McGonagall reminded them.
Lucius laughed, "Come and get us."
"So be it." McGonagall nodded and then another war broke out.
"Expelliarmus!" I yelled at the five people I was fighting, and then I started to fight them without a wand; with high flying kicks and punches.
After that, I ran after Draco who was trying to run away.
"Stupefy!" I yelled at him.
Draco turned around, "Round two?"
"I haven't been keeping track." I replied.
"Crucio!" Draco yelled.
"Protego!"
"Sectumsempra!"
"Expelliarmus!" The battle raged on.
After another ten minutes of this, Draco and I were both exhausted, but we kept on. Mostly, I would run around the area when he would fire the killing curse, Cruciatus curse, or Sectumsempra; which would cause my right leg to start hurting. I pushed the pain away though, as I tried to overcome Draco.
Another ten minutes and another, both of us refused to be defeated.
"Stupefy!" I finally yelled that threw him on his back.
Then, I got side tracked as another man's arms came around me from behind. I kicked him in the head and sent another kick to his stomach.
Pop!
"Ahhhh!" I screamed coming down hard on my right leg. "Ouch! Ow! Ahhhh!" I yelled as a sharp pain ran from my knee to the rest of my leg and throughout my leg.
Lucius laughed evilly, "I suppose this is the end, Ashley Potter, the girl who lived." He raised his wand about to say the killing curse.
A growl, trees falling down, and an enormous muscular green man came roaring out of the trees near Hogwarts. The Hulk.
All of the men ran in different directions, Draco and Lucius apparated away. Hulk ran after the men who hadn't apparated and threw them in different directions.
Then jet plane with three figures jumped out, one shooting arrows, the other summoning lighting, and the last was flying in an iron suit. The whole time I was still screaming my heart out.
"Don't move, Ashley. It will make it hurt more." Hawkeye said calmly, coming to my side.
"What is wrong with her?" Neville asked worriedly. "It is not a magical injury."
"Reparo." Professor McGonagall tried over my leg; it helped a little, but not much.
"Move aside, let me see her." Tony examined me, straightening my leg, trying to bend it; but my screams told him to stop.
"What is it?" Hawk asked, grabbing my hand. I squeezed his.
Tony thought, "Dislocated knee, broken leg, maybe. I fear that it could be a tear in her ACL though."
"Is she going to be okay?" Neville took my other hand.
"I don't know yet, son." Tony replied looking at Neville. "I will have to examine her more in the lab; I could really use Dr. Banner right now." He looked longingly at the Hulk.
"Dr. Banner?" Neville stuttered, "You mean that thing, is a real person?"
"That hulk yes." Tony kept trying to move my leg.
"Yes, a great man at that." Hawkeye replied easily.
"Ashley," Neville looked down at me, "Why have I met these people before? I'm Neville Longbottom, Herbology teacher here at Hogwarts, nice to meet you." He replied to Hawk and Tony, holding out a hand to shake there's. Tony laughed silently, probably at Neville's last name.
"Nice to meet you, Neville, my name is Clint Barton; but everyone calls me Hawkeye." Hawk shook his hand over my body. Tony shook Neville's hand as well and introduced himself.
"Excuse me, I need some medical attention here!" I yelled at them.
"Oh, stop trying to get attention," Tony waved me off, "Besides we are going to have to wait for Dr. Banner anyways." He shrugged.
Hawk looked around at Hulk, who was still trying to find Draco and Lucius, then he placed a hand on his ear; to the earpiece, "Nick, what should we do about Hulk and Ashley?" Hawk listened intensely, nodding a few times. "Alright we will be waiting." He took his finger off of the earpiece.
"What did he say?" I asked gritting my teeth through the pain.
Hawk smiled and then turned Thor, who was talking to Hagrid, "Hey Thor! You get your dream of carrying Ashley to the ship!"
Thor laughed deeply before running over to me, "May I?" He asked crouching down and holding his arms out.
I looked up at him, then over at Tony, Hawk, and Neville. Couldn't they carry me? Tony was laughing at my expression, Hawk had an apologetic smile, and Neville looked up at the god of thunder.
"May you what?" Neville asked.
Thor looked around at all of us, "May I carry Ashley to the ship, because she cannot stand on her leg?"
Neville looked down at me, and then picked me up bridal style, "No, I can do this. I believe you have a 'hulk' to take care of."
"When did you get strong Neville?" I laughed.
Neville situated me so that I was like a piece of wood in his arms, my legs straight, and laughed, "Thanks a lot, Ashley."
"I'm kidding, thank you." I thanked him sincerely.
Neville shrugged, "I just had the feeling you wouldn't like that man carrying you."
I looked back at the superheroes stunned faces and then pointed to Hulk so that Thor wouldn't come running after Neville.
"So is it true that you are a telepath in the muggle world?" Neville asked.
I laughed, "Yes that is the word around town."
"Well good luck with that." Neville laughed as we approached the jet.
"When did you become a teacher at Hogwarts?" I asked quickly.
Neville glared at me, "Actually, I was in the middle of my interview when you showed up."
"Oh," I blushed, "Sorry. Good luck!"
Neville laughed loudly, "Thanks a heap, Ashley." He set me down in the opened long doorway; I noticed idly that this was not a jet or plane, because it had large propellers on the top of it.
Nick ran to greet us, "Thank you. I'm Nick Fury." He extended a hand to Neville.
"Neville Longbottom, you're welcome, great to meet you." Neville replied.
"I suppose the plans have changed guys, Thor, Iron, and Hawk maybe you should take care of Hulk." Nick said placing a finger to his earpiece.
"Thank you, Neville. It was really sweet of you." I smiled at him.
"You're welcome, Ash. Anything for the DA's founding member," Neville winked at me, "Listen, if you are ever in London look me up."
I nodded, "I will. I'm sorry about your interview, honestly, and I know you will get the job."
Neville hugged me, "It was great to see you, Ashley."
"Great to see you too." I hugged him back.
Neville then walked away to the front of the castle, waving at me before he went inside.
"Was he asking me out on a date?" I asked Nick; who was the only person I knew in the room.
Nick looked around, looking for someone else probably, "Don't ask me, I don't know. I am not a girl."
I shrugged and watched Thor, Hawk, and Tony try to calm down Hulk, "I thought since you were a guy you would know."
Nick sighed, shaking his head, before lifting me to a bench inside the circular propeller thing. He then placed some ice on my right leg, at my knee.
He sighed again, "I fear that you have a tear in your ACL."
"Why do you think that?" I asked.
Nick lifted my jeans up so they were over my knee, "Swelling, redness, did you hear a pop?"
"A loud one." I replied, looking down at my knee's he was right, one was much more puffy and red than the other.
Nick shook his head, "You should've been more careful."
I didn't want to fight with someone else today, "Sorry."
Nick looked shocked but didn't say anything. Then, a normal colored Bruce Banner came in the room with a pair of ripped up, to big pants on as clothes.
"Let me see." Bruce examined me, feeling all around my knee. "Tell me when it hurts, Ashley." I complied and told him everywhere he pushed. He started to think.
"What do you think?" Nick asked.
"ACL tear," Bruce sighed, "I will have to examine her fully with an x-ray, but with all this swelling, redness, did you hear a loud popping sound?" He asked me.
I nodded, "It was very loud."
Bruce sighed again, "Yes, I believe this is an ACL tear for sure, then."
I shook my head, "Just what I needed. This is so not my day."
"That reminds me, don't apparate when you don't have an earpiece on," Nick scolded me, "this is what happens."
After that, we flew home and I found out that the flying machine we were in was a helicopter. Nick was still mad at me about leaving and said he only found me because the SHIELD bracelet I had on had a tracking device in it.
We flew home and immediately Bruce and Tony took me into the x-ray room. The scans came out clear that I had a torn ACL and, in-between Nick's cursing and scolding me, momentarily I was happy when I realized that I finally got a break from working.
Bruce and Tony took me into surgery that night.
A/N: Thanks for reading! Bad day for Ashley, right? I can't imagine! My dog has a torn ACL right now, so that is where I got that idea. There will be a short chapter coming soon!