Numerous weeks had passed, Bruce and Aida's relationship remained in a state of silly remarks and flirtatious banter. Bruce still hadn't decided on whether or not he wanted to act on their relationship or not. Aida had no problem with this, for she understood.
One night the Avengers, plus Aida and Pepper, all sat around the living area they had repaired about a month previous eating take out they had ordered. Steve, Captain America, had been awfully quiet as he ate his food. He seemed pretty lost in thought.
Aida looked over at him, eye brow raised in curiosity, "What's up, Cap? Something on your mind?"
Before Steve had opportunity to answer, Tony did so. "Fury came in today telling him he was getting a tudor."
Steve shot Tony a look before looking back to Aida in a much kinder manner, he rubbed the back of his neck lightly. "Fury's finally sending someone in to get me back in the world. The gal they found is related to someone I used to know."
It was Aida's turn to raise her eyebrows, nodding in excitement. She swallowed a bite of one of her cheese wontons, "Nice!"
The Captain let out a quick, short laugh, "I hope so. If she's anything like the man I knew, I'm in for a rough next couple months."
After swallowing, Aida laughed. Smiling, she patted Steve on the shoulder. "Relax, Rogers. You never know, she could end up being the girl of your dreams." Her response made the 92 year old man blush.
"I mean I jus' don't undastand, sweetie. You're a bright, beautiful young lady. You should have every eligible young bachelor eatin' outta the palm a your hand. I mean, ya certainly not gettin' any younga."
The following afternoon, it took everything within Aida's power not to roll her eyes every time her mother opened her mouth. Not only was her mother's voice fairly nasally, but it was thick with a Boston accent. Aida's father was from Louisiana, but he knew how to speak properly. Her mother was dame from Boston's North End, who could care less about what people thought of the way she spoke. Over the years Aida discovered few traits she and her mother had in common - they were both stubborn and neither of them cared what the people thought when they spoke.
For years, Aida's mother had been on the 'you need a man in your life' kick. Aida disagreed, though as of late she would've agreed with her mother in the slightest bit, she still disagreed.
"Ma, I'm not worried about relationships right now. I don't need to be one."
Her mother pursed her red lips and raised a dark eyebrow at her daughter. Aida barely resembled either of her parents. Sure, she had her father's nose and her mother's legs and eyes, but the three of them were also all very different. Her father was a tall man, once blonde hair, broad shoulders. Her mother was a dainty woman who barely aged a day over 30, considering her age was actually somewhere in its mid to late 50s. She had a curly head of long, thick, honey brown hair and eyes much like her daughter's. Aida was a redhead. Her facial structure barely resembled that of her mother's. She was positive whatever intellectual capacity Aida was capable of she could thank her father for. According to pictures of her grandmother though, Aida took more after her than she had her own parents.
Swallowing a sip of her drink her mother, whose name was Leah, looked to her, "Whateva happened to that one boy you were seein'? The real handsome one?" Aida gave her mother a semi-sideways look, her eyebrows furrowing in confusion. Oy vey, this woman has such a way with words. Her mother sighed, "He was tall, he had reddish hair, he was a Marine? What was his name," Lead held her cheek as she thought about it, "Flynn?...Finnick...? Fifield-"
Aida blinked, "Are you talking about Fin, Ma?" Her mother had been talking about her last 'serious' boyfriend, Griffin Phillips.
Leah smiled and nodded, "Yeah, that one! He was a sweet boy, knew how to treat a lady. You were still seein' him last time I checked, weren't you sweetie?"
Aida shook her head slowly, "Uh, no Ma... I haven't been in a relationship with Griffin in, like, three years..." Though she wasn't particularly lying. She had definitely seen the man since the break up, but they hadn't gotten back into a relationship. The whole thing ended when he was getting activated and she got the job with Tony. The whole long distance thing didn't really work out for them. Then again, prior to being long distance they had been in a generally on again/off again relationship that oddly enough worked well for them.
"That's a shame. You two were real cute together. Not to mention he's a Boston boy." She told her daughter, slightly lifting a slender dark eyebrow in suggestion.
Aida rolled her eyes, "Maaa," she groaned, dragging out the word. Her mother really only liked the guy because they had spent time together as neighbors when Aida was younger, before her parents divorced. Not because he was handsome, funny, or fighting for the country or anything.
Her mother let out a laugh, "Y'know, Hillary's got this real sweet nephew I think you'd really like. His name is Ezra-"
"Mom, I'm seeing someone." She couldn't help it. The words just fell out. If she told her mother she was seeing someone, maybe she wouldn't have to go on a date with some lady from her mother's synagogue's nephew. Leah's eyes lit up and she leaned forward.
"Aida, sweetie that's wonderfuuuul! What's his name?" Her mother propped her chin against one of her hands and she listened intently to her daughter.
"His name's Bruce."
"Ooh, what's he do for a living?"
"He's got a PhD in physics."
Leah squealed, excitedly tapping her only daughter's arm. "Oooh! He's a doctah!" Her mother had been raised by a stereotypical Jewish woman, who only wanted her daughters to date doctors or lawyers, or anyone similar to those standards. Aida got a kick out of it whenever her mom got excited about things like any male prospect with a doctorate. She was definitely amused by it, but at the same time she wasn't sure if she should be okay with the fact that her mother made all of those stereotypes so true and funny?
After the exhausting lunch with her mother, Aida made her way back to the Stark Tower. She had taken the day off due to lunch with her mom, but after that she seriously needed to make something explode. She had surprisingly gotten a text from Thor that day, he somehow managed to always type in capitol letters, which made her laugh. It was something she always read in his loud, booming voice.
To make her day much, much better, as she walked into the building she came across one of her favorite people.
Nick Fury.
For ninety-ninth time that day, Aida resisted the urge to roll her eyes into the back of her head and hope for the worst. Instead she put on the best smile she could muster.
"Hello Director Fury." This would be third time Aida had actually spoken to Fury, The first time had been when he had told Aida she got the job with SHIELD, the second time being when he told her her assignment and her telling him she wasn't going to have any part in it.
The two stopped in front of one another. Fury nodded at her in greeting, "Dr Agar."
"I trust everything with Captain Rogers is going well?" The bald man nodded again. He adjusted his footing.
"You know, Dr Agar... It's been brought to my attention that you have been working very closely with Dr Banner. Our offer still stands if you're-"
"I'm not." Aida didn't want what he was selling. "I'm sorry Nick, but I absolutely refuse to be a part of something like that. It actually kind of offends me that you think I would even want to consider doing such a thing when you know the consequences yourself."
Fury let out a heavy sigh, he was being to get irritated. "Dr Agar, the point of that project was not to create a weap-"
"No. Don't give me that bullshit. That's exactly what you wanted me to do. You may be the spy, but it doesn't take a genius to know what your intentions are." Taking a deep breath herself, Aida put on another smile. "Now I'm very sorry, but I'm going to have to decline your offer once again. Have a nice day, Director." With that, Aida made her way past the large man and toward the elevator.
When Bruce returned to the lab after getting himself a cup of tea, he found a familiar redhead sitting at a counter with a pair of purple rubber gloves on and aviator style safety glasses. In front of her was a corked glass round bottom flash with what appeared to be a small bit of sand and a yellowish gas inside of it. Bruce watched her as she took a long, thin glass tube and placed a fragment of something on the end of it before placing it through the cork on the flask.
"May I ask what you're doing, Dr Agar?"
Aida looked back at Bruce and smiled before she continued to stick a thinner metal rod down the glass tube so that the fragment was in the sand. "You should be relatively familiar with this. Sodium and Chlorine plus water."
Bruce looked confused, "Why are you trying to make things explode?"
Aida pouted lightly as she grabbed an eye drop, squeezing a single drop of water down the glass tube for it to land on the piece of sodium she had placed in the flask. Without really thinking about it, Bruce grabbed the back of Aida's swivel chair and pulled back a bit. It didn't take long for the piece of sodium to catch fire and cause a small explosion within the flask. The young girl smiled and took a swig from a bottle that definitely didn't contain water.
"And drinking?" Bruce grinned and shook his head, "Getting a little risky, huh Aida?"
Aida grinned, "Drunk science is the best science." She placed the bottle down, "Nah, I'm too busy making things explode to be drunk." Bruce took her bottle and placed it elsewhere along with his cup of tea. He placed his hands on her shoulders, squeezing lightly, causing Aida to close her eyes.
"Don't you have the day off?"
Aida whimpered, "Yeah, but I needed science to happen to me feel better."
"I see, what happened?" He asked her out of curiosity, half hoping it wasn't going to bite him in the ass.
"Well lets start at the most recent event. I bumped into Nick Fury about 15 minutes ago."
Bruce was confused, "Do you have a problem with Fury?"
Aida nodded, "Oh yeah. Before I had a job here, I had a job with SHIELD." Bruce took his hands off of her shoulders, moving to lean himself against the counter to look at her.
"Doing what?" This was the part that was going to bite him the ass. The minute he asked he immediately regretted it.
"You're not going to like it." He was gripping the edge of the counter now.
"It's probably best if you just tell me now and get it out of the way..." He told her, his jaw tightened a bit. Bruce felt angry and he had no idea why. Maybe the big guy was angry because Aida hadn't told him this sooner, why was she keeping secrets? Why didn't she think she could tell him? Why were all of these thoughts racing through his head?
Aida sighed, tilted her head back against the chair. "Well," She bit her lip before starting, "SHIELD contacted me about the gamma bomb shortly after you 'slipped' their sight."
Bruce looked at her, brows furrowed, "What do you mean?" The gamma bomb had been Bruce's creation. The gamma bomb had created the other guy. Why did SHIELD contact Aida of all people?
She shrugged, "They wanted me to make another." There it was again. That little bit of anger bubbling up inside of him. Aida didn't even seem phased by what was happening.
"But why you?" His words were almost hissed out through a tightened jaw and ground teeth.
Aida looked at him, "Well, it was a number of reasons," Of all the times this woman decides to beat around the bush. He thought, growing more agitated. "One; my dad knows Fury. Two; I'm a kind of a genius, and I needed a job. Three; I kind of followed your work like it going out of style for a while and-"
"Just get to the point, Aida!" He shouted, unintentionally breaking a small piece of the counter's ledge. As soon as he snapped, Aida was both on her feet and in Bruce's face. She stared him in the eyes, her brow furrowed and merely inches away from his face, her earthy hazel staring harshly into his brown ones. She wasn't going to be yelled at - Bruce or Hulk - she wasn't having it.
"They wanted me to see if I could've modified your original design to make it more stable, more controlled. They wanted to use tetranitratoxycarbon to see if they could possibly use that to either store it or make it more powerful. I wasn't about to put that many people at risk because I know both what that bomb did to you and that molecule shouldn't contain that kind of energy. Now, I may be willing to test the shit out of anything but if it's testing that fucking molecule and gamma rays I am not fucking doin' it." Aida didn't raise her voice at all, but the anger in her eyes flashed as Bruce's own brown ones relaxed. Just because his eyes went all soft didn't mean Aida wasn't upset with him anymore. She raised an eyebrow, "What and just like that you're not gonna bitch at me anymo-" The redhead was cut off by the physicist's lips crashing down onto her own. She was shocked at first, but she reacted quickly by closing her eyes and returning the kiss with the same amount of force.
Bruce had no idea what came over him - well, he had some idea, but he wasn't sure if it was because of the other guy, how close she was or maybe even the fact that her eyes some how got even more green when she was angry. Whatever it was, this was one thing he didn't regret doing at the moment.
He turned them around, gently pressing against Aida back toward the counter before lifting her enough to sit her on the edge. Aida's hands had managed to find their way into Bruce's thick mat of hair, crossing her ankles around Bruce. He slid his hands down from her hips to her thighs, squeezing them lightly. Just as Aida's tongue lightly ghosted over his bottom lip he realized what he was doing and quickly pulled back. His eyes wide with panic. He could feel his heart racing and the blood rushing to his cheeks, he shouldn't have been doing that.
"I'm so sorry, I don't know what came over me, I just, I don't, and you-" Bruce stepped back as Aida's legs loosened from around him. He stumbled back into Aida's chair, holding his head, breathing pretty heavily.
Aida sat there on the counter awkwardly, face flushed and biting her lip. She tucked a piece of hair behind her ear, "Well, um, that just happened." She said softly to herself, it was meant as more of a thought but it came out in the form of verbal word.
Bruce looked at her, still panic ridden, "Aida, I'm so sor-" She pointed at him.
"Don't you say sorry one more time, Bruce Banner. If you're even thinking about apologizing for putting my ass up on this counter, get rid of that thought right now." Bruce laughed softly and shook his head sinking down in the chair, he looked to her once more with those worried almost puppy like brown eyes.
"Didn't you have something else to tell me?" He asked, hoping to change the subject.
Making a face, Aida scratched the back of her neck, "Yeah about that," She put on a small smile as she raised her shoulders up, "My mom sorta thinks we're together? So if you ever meet my mother and she gets really excited and starts welcoming you to the family, she thinks you're my boyfriend. Just a warning."
Bruce's expression didn't get any better, if anything he looked more concerned. He didn't mind that Aida had told her mom they were together, but he wasn't good at meeting parents. Jasper was different, Jasper was a fellow man of science. "Is she anything like your dad?" He asked, hopeful.
Aida's shoulders slumped and she slouched a bit, pouting, "Oh Bruce, I wish. They're total opposites." Bruce just drug his hands through his hair before letting them slide down his face.
As if Aida's day couldn't get any better, after their little encounter Bruce had felt extremely uncomfortable, constantly checking his pulse and just acting very skittish.
"Bruce, calm down." She placed a hand on his shoulder and turned him to look at her
"I'm so-" He stopped himself from apologizing and looked at her in the eyes, "I'm trying. I don't normally do things that impulsive, I-I-" Aida cut him off by placing her lips against his, though she pulled back and smiled.
"We're even now, okay?" Bruce laughed and nodded, though she could tell he still felt at uneasy. "I'm sorry about everything with my mom. I had to get her off my back, she's been trying to find me a boyfriend since I've been here. She was about to set me up with someone from her synagogue's son or something."
Bruce shook his head, "Oh no, I don't mind." He was about to add more, but he was interrupted by Jarvis.
"Dr Banner, Mr Stark would like to inform you that dinner is to be in fifteen minutes."
Bruce blinked, "We're eating together?"
"Captain Rogers' 'teacher', if you will, will be joining us this evening." Jarvis was such a good artificial butler.
"Oh." He muttered. Aida smiled, she knew Bruce wasn't very good at socializing right off the bat. Letting out a small laugh, Aida lightly patted Bruce on the shoulder before heading toward the door. "C'mon Banner, lets go get some food."
The elevator ride was pleasant, they made jokes about her mother. Bruce even made a joke about telling her that they had eloped within the time Aida had told her mother of him and the time where he would actually meet her mother. That idea made her laugh, her mom would've exploded at the thought of not being at her only daughter's wedding. They settled down and exited the elevator exchanging friendly words.
Tony blinked seeing his employee, "What are you doing here, Harvard, I thought you had the day off?" Tony grinned wildly, "And with Bruce! You sly dog, I had no idea!" Aida did her best to keep herself calm.
"Psh, please! I can only handle my mother for so long, Tony, I had to do something." The redhead looked over at Steve and his new found friend, a small copper-haired girl with bright cobalt blue eyes. Seeing the girl, her own hazel eyes widened. "Molly!" Would you look at that. Aida known this girl for quiet sometime. As a matter of fact, she even dated her older brother, Griffin, who she and her mother where discussing earlier that evening. During one of the rough patches between the two of them, Griffin had asked Aida if Molly could stay with Aida in her home in Philadelphia while attending college. Despite their then current differences, Aida happily agreed. Molly was a good kid. When she was given a job with SHIELD, Aida left Philadelphia and gave Molly her home.
Molly laughed and ran up and hugged the young woman before her. "Aida! How have you been!" Molly pulled away from the hug, "What are you doing here?" The last time Molly had actually seen Aida had been before Molly was even finished with school, but they kept in touch. Aida had kept Molly informed on things, like she had been given a job developing medical supplies in Manhattan, though it failed her to mention she was employed by Stark Industries.
"Uh, I could ask you the same question, I work for that wonderful piece of narcissism over there." Aida gestured over Tony, earned a snicker from Clint on the couch.
Tony completely ignored her comment, "Aida? Thats how you say your name, like aid a friend? Not like IDAho potatoes?" He asked, putting an emphasis on aid and IDA as he spoke.
Aida rolled her eyes, "Yes, Tony. I've even told you that before, back when I first started working for you." She put her attention back on Molly, "Now seriously, what are you doing here, Molly?"
"Um, I work for SHIELD now." The copper haired young woman in front of her replied, obviously nervous about her response.
Aida made a face, her nose scrunching up and her eye brows knitting together, "Ew, really?" Her reaction earned a stifled laugh from Tony, and looks from both Natasha and Clint. "Hey now, nothing against you two, but Fury's a dick." After her encounter with him this morning her feelings definitely didn't change.
Clint thought about it and nodded, looking over at Natasha, "We can't really fight her on that one." Natasha just shrugged. Aida knew she always liked Clint.
"I'm not like a field agent or anything, I'm not like those two, I'm just here to help Steve out." Molly told her, as if that would make things any better.
"Oh okay, cool," Aida started, shrugging her shoulders, "so SHIELD's taking little girls away from what they should be doing, like making differences and higher education or things like that, and they're telling them to give history lessons to the world's favorite all American freeze pop?" She looked over at Steve apologetically, "I'm sorry Steve, no offense to you." Aida felt pretty bad, she liked Steve he was a nice guy, he didn't deserve to made fun of like that. She also caught a frown on Tony's face and felt a little proud. She knew he wished he had come up with that line.
Steve only nodded curtly, "None taken, ma'am, I understand." Such a gentleman. She would have to tell him not to call her ma'am again though.
Molly just looked at Aida with a look that made her feel like "You're really gonna do this right now, Addy?" She asked, her voice dropping down to a whisper.
Out of the corner of her eye, Aida saw Bruce check his pulse next to her like he had been doing throughout the day. She took a deep breath and just looked at Molly, "No, but I wish you had told me about it sooner." She replied, her getting softer as well. Molly smiled hugging the young but older than her woman again, Aida hugged back before pushing her away lightly. "Don't think you're off the hook, I'm still gonna lecture you about this another day." She meant it, too.
During dinner, which was actually just a few boxes of pizza that Tony had ordered from a few blocks over, the group just had light conversation.
"Where's Thor?" Aida asked, taking a swig of her drink. She had heard from him earlier and was under the impression he was going to visit.
"He had business to take care of in Asgard, he said he'd come back when he could." Natasha replied. Aida nodded.
Tony sat there eyeing up Molly and Aida with a great amount of curiosity. "So, how do you two know each other?"
Molly and Aida looked at each other, Molly just shrugged, letting Aida know she could give the response. Molly probably would've let everyone know she dated her brother, which was something Bruce didn't need to know today. Aida took a sip from her drink before starting, "When I was little I lived next door to them for a while, I made friends with her brother and sister. Moved away, came back for my senior year of high school, did the whole college at Harvard thing. When it was time for Molly here to go college, I let her live with me since I lived a few minutes away from where she would be going."
"So basically you're like the family friend type deal?" Clint asked, swallowing his piece of pizza.
The two nodded, "Yup, she's kinda like the little sister I never knew I wanted I guess you could say."
"Aww, Harvard, I didn't know you were such a softy."
"Don't ruin my dinner, Tony, I already had my lunch ruined by my mom wondering why I don't have a husband yet."
"Just tell her you're bumping uglies with Bruce." Aida twitched.
The whole table went silent, aside from the sound of Molly almost losing her drink. Bruce sat there awkwardly, deciding to take a sip of his own drink, a faint shade of red creeping to his cheeks. Aida's face was already red as she sat there giving Tony a look that would've made Loki cry. "What?" Molly practically shouted. That was when chaos let loose.
Bruce received a congratulations from Clint, and asked how he managed to do it. Molly sat there rambling off at Aida about what the hell Tony was talking about. Pepper was yelling at Tony for saying such things. The only relatively calm conversation going on at that table was the one Steve initiated with Natasha, asking what 'bumping uglies' meant, only to receive an explanation that made him, too, turn a faint shade of pink.
Aida sat there rubbing her temples for a moment before she rose from her seat, throwing her hands in the hair. "For crying out loud! I am NOT sleeping with Bruce! Tony you're lucky I'm not ripping out your damn arc reactor. Stop starting trouble before I show you trouble!"
"Fiery redhead, aren't you?" At Tony's comment, Aida just let out a loud 'ugh' and dropped back into her seat.
"Whose idea was it to get four redheads together at a table, anyway?" Clint asked, earning himself a smack to the back of his head from Natasha. Aida couldn't help but laugh. The thought of the four redheads working together was very amusing to her. They would probably make a good comic.
After dinner, Natasha helped Pepper clean up while Clint and Tony, along with Aida and Bruce, went to the living room. Steve and Molly stayed at the kitchen table, talking back and forth once again about a few things just to get to know one another before they began their actual lessons. Aida looked at the time and realized it was a relatively late hour.
In the living room, Aida stood up and stretched, "Alright guys, it was great seeing you but I think I'm gonna head back down to the lab get myself ready to head home." She said, waving a good bye as she made her way toward the elevator. Bruce stood and followed, "I'll go help you out."
"Is that what they call it nowadays?" Tony called after them. Aida felt the anger bubbling up in the pit of her stomach once again.
"Shut up, Stark!" Aida shouted, flipping him off as the elevator door closed. "I hate him so damn much sometimes." She grumbled, Bruce just smiled and shook his head.
"He means well."
"He's gonna get hit." Bruce stifled a small chuckled. Bruce wasn't all too bothered by Tony's words, in the short time the pair had known each other Bruce had learned to let the things Tony said just slide right off. Aida, on the other hand, was very angry, and it was actually kind of charming, as opposed to how she had been somewhat intimidating earlier. They spent the rest of the elevator ride in silence.
Back down in the lab, Aida gathered laptop and few notes she had taken earlier and stuffed them into her backpack.
"That was quite a fit you threw earlier..." Bruce mentioned, handing her a few files to work on at home.
"Yeah, well, Tony shouldn't go spreading rumors." Aida practically snapped as she grabbed the folder from Bruce. With her temper, she was surprised Tony let her work with Bruce. Though today was the first day her temper ever really made an appearance, with Bruce at least. Tony had seen it many a time.
"I'm talking about the one before that. What was that about, anyway?"
Aida sighed, turning around to face Bruce. "Molly is one of the smartest girls I know and she wants nothing more than to help people and prove herself to her family. She comes from a family where literally everyone is in the military except for her, because of this she thinks she needs to prove herself by being 'part' of something." Molly was a sweetheart. Molly never said it, but Aida knew that Molly felt as though she wasn't living up to her family's non-existent military tradition. Anyone in the Phillips family that joined the military did so because they wanted to, not because they felt as though they had to. Working with Captain America was something Molly had only dreamed about though, so Aida was happy that Molly had that opportunity.
Bruce nodded, rolling a pen around in his fingers, "And you think she's making a bad decision." What sounded as though it could have been a question was more like a statement.
"Close. I think she's making a terrible decision working for SHIELD, Bruce." Aida sighed, pulling herself up onto one of the tables in the lab. "I've met Nick the dick Fury all of three times, Bruce, and I don't like him. The first time Molly does something against his wishes or not in the 'How to be Asshole' by Nick Fury hand guide, he's going to get rid of her!" Aida wasn't holding back, she was very frustrated and distressed, and it showed. Bruce hadn't seen her this, in her words, 'frazzled' since the night they met.
"Why is that your problem...?" He asked, taking a few steps forward.
"I told you, Molly is one of the smartest girls I know, not to mention she's like my baby sister. She graduated summa cum laude from Villanova with degrees in both History and Psychology, and she's, like, the sweetest girl on the planet. She remembers everything and she's just-she's just a good person, and it just sucks to know that she thinks she has to work for SHIELD to help Steve out." She stopped, running a hand through her hair. When she thought about it, Tony probably could have given her the same job. "I'm not upset that she's helping Steve, she's always wanted to meet him, her grandpa wouldn't shut up about him. It's just... I don't want her to get hurt..." Aida sighed, leaning forward to put her elbows on her knees and rest her head against her hands. She couldn't help but feel like something was going to go wrong with this whole job Molly had going on. It seemed too good to be true.
Bruce put a hand on Aida's shoulder hesitantly, causing her to look up at him, he put on a small smile, "I...I'm sure everything will work out." He told her. Bruce wasn't good at this whole consoling thing, he had no idea what to say to make her feel better. He was trying though, and it was the thought that mattered. Aida just smiled back before hopping off the table and grabbing her backpack and heading toward the elevator.
She looked back at Bruce as she stepped on the contraption to leave the tower. "Get some sleep, Banner...and thanks for the help." Bruce just smiled and waved good bye to her.
Bruce was probably right.
Everything would probably be fine.
A/N: I'm so sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out, guys! I was really busy with work and had a lot going on with trying to get funds for school. Thank you so much for all of your positive reviews, I hope you enjoyed the chapter! The next one will come out faster, I promise :)