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Later the night, Steve walked past the recreation room of Stark Tower. The door was opened but there was only Mia in the room. She had a sketch pad on her lap. She seemed to be lost in her own world. She moved her pencil up to survey the image. She smiled; before her phone started to go off. Steve went to walk away from the room leaving her alone to answer the phone. He was not far from the room when he heard a cash of something hitting a wall followed by the sound of someone sobbing come from where he just left. Steve turned and walked back to the room. He saw Mia curled up in a ball on one of the sofa. Her phone was on the other side of room in pieces.
"Are you alright?"
"I'm fine" Mia said as her voice cracked because of her crying.
Steve walked farther into the room until he was right next to her. She looked up at him with tears pour down her face.
"You don't seem fine."
Mia bowed her head before shaking it and started to cry harder. Steve sat down next to her; he placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. Mia looked back at him with a very sad and pain filled look in her eyes.
"You are in pain… I just want to make it better."
"This type pain only time can heal."
Mia bowed her head; a curl fell across her face. Steve reached over and moved the curl behind her ear. She looked at him, tears still present in eyes, with awe expression on her face. Steve gave her a tiny smile.
"It will get better."
Mia blushed and smiled at him. He made her feel special in way she had not felt in long while. Steve leaned down and picked up the sketch pad that fallen on the floor. He flipped through a couple of pages. They were all faces of the Avengers and Pepper. He stopped at picture she had drawn of him. Mia blushed even brighter when he stopped at the picture of him; she bit her bottom lip before trying to reach for the pad back.
"They are just sketches"
"They are very good."
"Thank you"
Steve handed her the pad back. She hugged it to her chest; before blushing and looking down. Mia shyly looked up at him; before she started to giggle at his expression. The sound of her laughter was like music to Steve compared to the mess of tears that he found just minutes before.
"So, Mia what do you do? Do you work for Stark Industries?"
"As if, no. I don't understand half of what Tony says when tells me about what going on in the company. I started a fashion design line with my once friends."
"Once?"
"Clare, Jeremy and I had huge falling out less than forty-eight hours ago."
"I'm sure you still work it out with them."
"I doubt it. It is hard to work out the fact that Jeremy, who was my boyfriend at the time, was sleeping with my best friend, in my house behind my back."
"Let me guess who called you," Steve said with chuckle in his voice.
He gestured to her now destroy phone. Mia laughed and blushed; nodding her head. Steve watched the smile seemed to fill her eyes with laugher. He brought his hands to the armrest of the sofa. There was silence between the two of them. Steve caught Mia looking at him with wonder filled look before she blushed and turned away.
"So Mia what do you plan to do with the rest of your stay here?"
"With Happy glued to my side, most likely stay here and read, sketch." Mia started. She looked over to Steve. He gave her a look. Before, she bowed her head again hugging the sketch pad closer. "It's not what I really want to do but I can't do it with Happy on my case"
"He is Tony's bodyguard right?"
"Yes"
"Then he put up with Tony stunts why not yours?"
"The press know who Happy is which means they will be looking for Tony when they can't find Tony they started to looking at me and how long is it before it's all over the news with my face front and center."
"I can see your point. What do you want to do anyway?"
"Coney Island, central park, a Broadway show or two, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, stuff like that. Why?"
Steve thought about thing on her list. Most of them sounded like something he would like to do. Steve looked over to Mia. She was tilted her head at him giving him a questioning look. He gave her a boyish smile.
"I could take you"
"What?"
"I could go with you, as friends. This way you get to see the sight and your face will not be on the news with some headline like. Tony Stark's latest fling"
Mia started to really laugh at Steve last comment. He started to laugh as well. She placed her hand on his shoulder as happy tears started to fall from her eyes. Steve reached over to remove a tear from her face. She blushed and then looked away.
"You don't have to do this"
"I want to"
"I don't know, what would Tony think?"
"Tony knows I will not let anything happen to you"
"If you really want to do this…" Mia started. Steve nodded his head. "Alright" Mia finished.
"How about tomorrow we go to Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art."
"That sounds fun."
"It will be fun"
"So Steve, do you like art?"
"A long time ago I use to be artist before…"
"Before, the war and before, you were Captain America"
"Yes, do you mind?"
Steve looked at her sketch pad. Mia gave him an odd look before handing it to him along with pencil she had in her hands. Steve flipped to clean page after the picture of him; he looked up at her, giving her a shy smile. Before started to sketch, Mia and Steve sat there in the silence for couple minutes. Before, Steve was done drawing what he was. He handed the sketch pad back to her. She opened the book and flipped to the picture that he drew. It was her; with all the wonder in her eyes that she was looking at him, the curls that framed her face. She reached up and touched the curls that were around her face. Before, she gave him a dazzling smile.
"You are amazing."
"So are you"
Steve and Mia started to get lost in each other company. They were talking about anything and everything. It was not until Mia yawned but in a desperate attempt to cover up that fact. Did they realize what time it was? Steve looked at his watch. It was past midnight, closer to one o'clock.
"Come on let get you back to your room"
"I'm not tired."
Mia yawned again. Steve gave her a little smile as he helped her to her feet. He placed his arm around her to glide her. Mia followed him through the halls of Stark Tower. Steve paused on by her apartment door; he rubbed the back of his neck and shifted nervously. Mia opened the apartment door; before turning back to look at Steve.
"Good Night, Mia"
"Night Steve… I can't wait for tomorrow"
"Me either."
Mia bowed her head and blushed; before she leaned up and kissed his cheek. Steve watched as Mia walked into the room and shut the door. Steve stood there stunned for a moment. He brought his hand to the cheek that she kissed before heading back to his room. Unknown to Steve or Mia, Natasha was coming back from the gym and saw them.