Irene lay down on her bed very stiffly as she gazed up at the ceiling. It was one of those days when the truth comes out; it hurts more than like hell. She was trapped. As she always has been throughout her whole life.

A knock came in the distance, making Irene blink and look down the hall. Her sister had left 16 minutes ago on some emergency meeting. Irene rolled her eyes and moved off of her bed to answer the door.

"Of course you would leave something behind. Steve!" Irene screamed out once she opened the door.

Steve Rogers smiled at her from the doorway with his hands behind his back like as if he was still in the military. Irene didn't know what to do but stand in front of him and leave her mouth hanging open.

"What are you doing here? How did you find out that I was at Maria's? Did you hack into the SHIELD's system? Because that's kind of illegal and would send you down onto death row. Even though, I am kind of jealous about that" Irene babbled on.

"Irene" Steve only said.

"What?" She could only ask.

He nodded down the hall to the elevator, "Do you want to go out with me?"

A fire burned throughout her chest, reaching up to the back of her neck and also set her lips feeling like they were burning bright right in front of him.

"But I'm not dressed" Irene let out.

He looked down to her clothes and noticed that she wasn't dressed up as how she was earlier that day. She was in yoga pants, a huge sweater and her hair was tied up in a damp ponytail. Irene self-consciously rubbed the back of her neck as she looked back down onto the ground. Steve couldn't help but wish he could take a picture of her to show her how adorable she really looked.

Irene tugged on the ends of her sweater as she awkwardly stood in the way of his path. What was she doing right now? The hottest guy she knew was offering to go on a date and she basically said no!

Irene opened her mouth to say something to make him stay, but she noticed that Steve didn't look rejected. In fact, he seemed to have looked more confident than she thought he would be.

"Irene?" he asked.

Irene teased, "Steve?"

"If I gave you a few minutes to get ready, would you still go out with me?" Steve finally asked.

Irene let her smile beam throughout her face as she quickly turned around and ran off over to her room.

"I'll be out in a minute!" Irene called before slamming the door.

Steve let out a low chuckle as he walked into the home and closed the door. He turned around and started to explore Maria Hill's apartment. For one, he wasn't really surprised to see that it was really neat; it looked like it came out of a catalog. But one thing that surprised him the most was how many pictures there were of Maria, Irene, and who he presumed to be their eldest sister, Elizabeth.

He picked one up of Elizabeth's wedding day, for she was in all white and in the middle of her sisters. Standing side by side, he could tell they had the same smile and were so close in age that they could've passed off as triplets. Steve's eyes cast over to the left where Irene was standing, leaning into her sister, if he looked closely, he could tell that she was crying a little while earlier from the reception.

As he walked around the room, he realized that the only people he would see in all of the picture frames were only Elizabeth and Irene. Almost like as if nothing else in the world mattered to Maria besides her sisters.

Steve almost instantly felt like he found out Irene's dark secret as he stopped wandering around.

"So what do you want to do?" Steve asked, "The night is young! We could go out to eat right now? What do you think? Maybe we can watch some movies. I don't really know what's out right now. I haven't really turned on the TV lately. In fact, I don't even know what could be out there. I don't usually go outside all that often"

Irene listened to Steve's options as she played around with her hair, trying to figure out what she should do with it. Her nerves weren't settling down as she wished that they really could. How was she supposed to let things be normal between them if her feelings were working against her body? She took in a shaky breath as she went to put on her make-up.

"Hey, where's your sister?" Steve asked.

Irene stiffened up as she remembered the fight she had with her before Maria was paged in. Now that it had been sometime between then and now, she felt guilty. Irene made a mental note to apologize to her sister when she came back.

"It doesn't really matter" Steve went on, "I'm actually kind of glad she isn't here. I was preparing myself for her asking how I got her address. It really wasn't that easy, let me tell you that. But, I had to pull a few strings. There is this agent who collected a lot of trading cards about me back in the day. He wanted to know how to help me out and so I asked. Hopefully, he doesn't let Maria know. That would be awkward. Do you think he will be at the meeting tonight?"

"So you basically broke the law?"

"No, I merely asked for a favor"

"I'm ready" Irene got out of her room and went over to Steve who smiled at her.

Steve moved his arm over to her and nodded to the do, "Shall we?"