Yay, so after a few nights of cramming for my big test I finally had time to sit down and write this chapter. I am greatly thankful for your guises input on this and a really enjoy reading it.
On a side note OMG I JUST WATCHED THE IRON MAN 3 TRAILER TODAY AND HAD A FULL BLOWN NERDGASM! This is going to be an epic movie! Ya I squealed like a sissy before I remembered I was at my schools Library and hastily made my escape before I had anyone kick me out. But MY GOD it was sooooooooo good. I am already making plans with a bunch of my friends to see the midnight premier.
So ya now that I have had my spaztastic adorably eccentric moment, SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE , I am super excited for you to read this next chapter, so enjoy!
I do not own the Avengers team they belong to marvel and Stan Lee (God bless him)
"So…what where you both up to out there." Susan asked as they all ate their tuna sandwiches.
"Not much. Tyler was being annoying but that's nothing new." Alisha said with a faint teasing smile on her lips.
"Oh ouch, I wasn't that bad, considering." Ty said, softly smiling.
"Considering what?" Susan asked looking at them both. They had sat next to each other without even looking or thinking.
"Nothing" They both said together and then winked at each other.
"Ever feel like you have missed something" Susan asked Steve in a hushed voice as Tyler and Alisha bantered back and forth.
"All the time honey. Welcome to my world. I get nervous if it doesn't happen at least once a day" Steve said, finishing his sandwich and then kissing Susan on the cheek. "Thank you for the lunch Su."
She smiled and went back to cleaning the kitchen. Her ruffled apron covered with older stains.
"Well, all I know is that I am finished tinkering for the next week" Alisha sighed out.
"WHAT?! You, Alisha Stark, are finished with tinkering? Oh, that is music to my ears" Tyler joked with a goofy smile on his face.
"Which isn't much since, you know, you are tone deaf" Alisha smiled.
"Ouch that hurt. I can play music and sing" Tyler defended.
"Tyler you couldn't carry a tune in a bucket with a lid on." Alisha retorted back.
"Well, when you put it that way. I guess your right" Tyler said graciously giving her the win.
"As I should be" she said, taking her plates. Tyler followed her up to her room. He leaned on the door frame, silently.
"Hey, since you are finished with the, you know, tinkering. I was wondering if you would like to take me up on my offer for a late night horseback ride tonight?" Tyler asked in a small voice, not making eye contact with her.
"Well, I don't know Tyler. I am still irked at you for sending us back to the past without a way to come back to this time" She said, letting it hang in the air. She was still a bit angry at him, but she had completely forgiven him. It was after all an accident. She just really liked to mess with him.
"Hey, I said I was sorry! Many times" He mumbled.
"What was that? I couldn't hear you" She said, turning to face him head on and placing a hand behind her ear.
"I'm sorry." He said.
"For?"
"For sending us back in time."
"And?"
"And for interrupting you while you were working."
"And?" Alisha smiled.
"You are milking this for all it's worth aren't you" Ty glared.
"Well, considering what I have had to endure, yes." She stated simply.
He sighed. "And I am sorry for being a jerk 'today'. Are we cool?"
"Well I still don't know" She said with a joking smile.
"Ok I know you are just messing with me. Come on, are you in?" Tyler asked
"I still don't know; what time would we meet for the late night trail ride?"
Tyler's face brightened a bit. "About an hour before the sun sets; and bring a change of clothes."
"A change of clothes? Why?" She asked suspiciously.
"It's a surprise. You still in?"
Alisha had to think about it. She still didn't 100% trust him because of their past. Just because she had spent a week here with him being nice didn't fully mean that he had entirely changed. She looked at him and felt her heart skip a beat. His eyes where pleading for her to say yes, yearning for her to go with the plan. Of all the looks she had built immunity for, this was one she thought she would never be able to deny. "Yes I am still in." she sighed, giving into his pleading face.
"Perfect, I will knock on your door when it is time."He said, rushing down the stairs. She instantly heard the clattering of pots and pans and was left to think about what she had signed herself up for.
Alisha smiled and walked down to see what he was up to. She peeked around the corner and saw he had a pan in the oven before he closed it. He was also wearing a 'kiss the cook' apron with ruffles around the edges. His Mother's apron. She stifled her laughter with some effort. Him, in a frilly apron was just too good to pass up. She took out her camera and shot a picture of him strait on. She then slid out. "Sooooooooo, is this like a date?"
Tyler fumbled with a metal bowl he was holding before it came crashing to the ground. "You can't be down here while I do this Alisha!" He yelled, hastily taking off the apron and striding over to her, blocking her view of the kitchen.
"So is it?"
"Is it what?" He asked, pushing her up the stairs.
"Is it a date?" She asked with a smile.
He slipped on the steps and crashed down at the last word. "Date? A well…it's…we are just….." He fumbled over the words before he heard the timer going off. "Oh, yah I need to get that, you just go back to your room and I will get you when it's time" He hastily said before rushing back downstairs.
He was rather cute when flustered. "You never answered my question!" She yelled down from the hallway.
"Get back into your room Alisha" He retorted back defiantly.
Alisha smiled and went into her room, only to see Mira sitting on her bed. "Hey little squirt. How are you doing? Excited about summer break?" she said, walking over and sitting next to the little girl.
"Do you like my brother?"
"….define like."
"Do you like like him. Like my Mom and Dad like each other."
"Well, that's a hard question to answer Mira. There are many stages two people have to go through before they end up where Steve and Susan are. Me and your brother haven't gotten anywhere near that stage." She said, trying to describe being in any type of relationship to a child.
"You mean like having sex?"
"Now where did you hear that?" Alisha asked, staring down at Mira.
"From Tyler about 2 years ago. He was watching some type of movie" Mira said, innocently.
Alisha slowly placed her hand over her mouth, hiding the broad smile she had and said in a high voice "Is that right."
"Yah, I came downstairs for something to drink when I heard him say something in a groggy voice, almost like he was growling."
Alisha snorted, trying not to burst out laughing.
Mira continued, uninterrupted. "So I asked him about it. He just stared at me and harshly told me to go to bed. I asked him about the movie again and he said they were having sex. Is that a stage someone has to go through to like each other like my Mom and Dad?"
Alisha held up her hand, placed her face in the pillow and burst out laughing. Mira had caught her brother masturbating to a porn movie. This was just too much for Alisha to hold in. At least if she needed to reel Ty back in, she had perfect blackmail.
"Well Mira" She said, after calming herself down. She would not be able to look at Tyler without laughing for a while now. "Sometimes yes, but that's not a great stage to take if you are not already liking the guy. That is a few stages skipped which you should not do unless necessary."
"Oh" Mira said, looking a little more confused than before.
"My point being, your brother and I do like each other, for once, but we still have a long way to go before we are like your Mom and Dad. It is a possibility but something could happen to ether one of us to stop that. Understand a bit now?"
"Yah I think I do." Mira said with a smile.
"Good, and what you don't understand you will learn as you grow up. Or you could ask your parents."
"Ask them what?"
"Questions you may have. Don't worry about it now." Alisha said with a smile. They both talked about Mira's school for a bit before Mira had to go and finish her homework.
"I love little siblings. You never know what they are going to say or do" Susan said from the hallway.
"So you heard all that?" Alisha smiled.
"Oh yes, and thank you for answering the way you did. And by the way" She smiled and pulled out a video recorder.
Alisha smiled. "Are you going to show this to the family?"
"Only if you and Tyler like each other like me and Steve." She said, putting it away.
"So you are hoping?"
"That's for me to know and you to find out. I just hope he cleaned up after himself."
"Did you have any suspicions during that time about leeks?"
"No."
"Then he cleaned up after himself." Alisha said with a smile and went over to her computer. "I am not allowed downstairs until this evening."
"Is that so? Well have fun" Susan said brightly before she disappeared down the stairs.
Alisha smiled to herself and logged into her Facebook. She took out her camera and posted the picture to her status with the title 'Kiss the Man Cook". She instantly got a like from her Father and a comment saying 'Stark Approved'. The after about 10 more minutes she got simultaneous comments from Bruce, Lance, and Tera all saying about the same thing. 'What in the world is he doing?' Then Tyler made a comment saying 'Hey, I make some good food, might as well look the part.' Her Mother liked it and Susan commented saying that he had better wash the apron. Her little family all in one place online.
After an hour on the computer she went over and picked up sketch book/note book, intending to doodle. She began to draw a new suit, and new Iron Maiden suit. Something to do because in real life, what she was drawing would never be possible. She was nearly finished when there was a knock at the door. She went over and opened it.
"Ready to go?" Tyler asked. He was dressed in a long sleeved stylish black jacket with a white t-shirt underneath. He had even styled his hair back with gel. He had weather beaten jeans that where patched up here and there and yet still looked good. Man the guy could clean up. Unfortunately she had changed into her sweats when she had gotten into her room.
"Um, not really. I need to get changed. Doodling can make you forget about time" She said with a smile and then closed the door, rushing to get something on. She slapped on a pair of loose shaded jeans with a green mini skirt. She threw on a white and black striped T-shirt and a green, opened, long sleeved blouse like jacket and then put on her bandana. She grabbed her fingerless leather gloves and looked at herself in the mirror. She then opened the door and smiled. "Ok ready."
"Um, I think you forgot the shoes." Ty said, looking at her Thick brown sox.
"No I didn't, they are at the back door." She smiled, walked past him, and then down the stairs. The sun was just touching the horizon when she got her boots on. She then thought about something. "How are we going to see when the sun is gone?"
"We will wait till our eyes adjust and then press on. Well, I will" He said, passing her and heading for the barn.
From the far window on the right of the house, Steve and Susan where watching them go.
"Are you sure they are going to be ok?" Steve asked, sounding more like a worried Mother then Susan.
"Steve, they will be fine. Tyler knows the way."
"That's what I am afraid of. His past doesn't really help him in this matter" He said to Susan as he watched his son and Alisha walk into the barn.
"Steve" She said firmly, closing the book she had been reading. "He has been nothing but gracious to her this entire time. I can't help that somehow they went through something without us knowing and have become closer because of it."
"Yah you are probably right. Doesn't really help calm my nerves though."
"Personally I think he is much more smooth then you. You kind of bumbled like an idiot when you came to see my Grandmother. And you stumbled and slipped a lot. It was adorable in a pathetic way" She said, getting up and walking up behind him to rest her cheek on his back, stroking his shoulders with her thumbs. She felt him easily relax into her touch.
"Yah, thanks for reminding me." He sighed and closed the curtains, seeing Tyler coming out on Sly, followed by Alisha and Holmes.
"Ready to go?" Tyler asked, making sure his stirrups where the proper length.
"Almost. Holmes held his breath when I put his saddle on." She said, swinging her leg over and dropping to the ground.
Holmes's shoulders where right at her eye's, how she could get up there without help was impressive to him. Tyler watched her tighten her saddle, wait for Holmes to exhale, then tighten it some more.
"Ok, that should be good" She said, tasting it before smoothly jumping back on. She placed her feet in the stirrups and gave him the thumbs up. They had packed water proof jackets just in case. Tyler had put Sly's traveling saddle on, and the pockets where all full of stuff she couldn't see. It made her a bit nerves but she didn't comment on it
Tyler nudged Sly forward at a brisk trot before letting him kantar when they hit the opened field. Alisha was right next to him, urging Holmes to pick up the pace a little at a time before they were at a full run. The wind blowing their hair and the horses mains in the wind. Alisha was laughing as she moved with Holmes's movements, letting him loose. Once the hit the tree line they slowed down to a walk.
"Show off" Tyler said looking behind him at her.
"Well you rose to the bait. You just had to prove yourself" She said in a superior voice.
"And so I did, by winning" He said with a smile.
The sun had already gone below the horizon when they made their first stop. It was a small little meadow in the middle of thick woods. Some deer where already grazing there before they took off at Alisha and Tyler's arrival. They both slipped off the horses and walked around a little bit, letting their eyes adjust to the dark. Tyler had brought a flashlight just in case the stars where covered by clouds, but the night was clear and out in the middle of the country where there was no light pollution, you could still see very clearly even just by the star light.
After an hour and a half, they both got back on their horses and departed, Tyler leading the way.
"So where are we going?" Alisha asked.
"It's a surprise. Don't worry. It's not going to jump out at you are kill you in any way. I….well I." Tyler said, trying to find the right words.
"Are you trying to make up for my birthday? Because if you are I can tell you that I have already let it go. You don't have to make up for it." Alisha stated. It was true. She had entirely forgiven him. She had never really been one to hold grudges for very long and considering how much he had done in the past, it was a wonder why she wasn't still angry at him for everything.
"No it's not just your birthday. Its other things. You will understand when we get there."
"And where is there?"
Tyler pointed to a high ledge above them, overlooking the forest below. "There is there." He said and turned Sly to a small path.
"Are you sure it's safe?" She said fallowing him.
"Yes, I use to come up here and do a bit of thinking. Tia and Tera both wanted to talk to me so I showed them that place. It's like a confession ledge. You get the feeling like it's privet up there. Like no one can hear you but the people you are with. And it has a beautiful view when the sun rises behind it and shined onto the forest below." He said, following the trail up a steep slope.
Alisha followed him. "And what did you guys talk about?"
"Can't say, what happened on the ledge, stays on the ledge. It's not that long of a clime." He said as the path did a few switch backs against the rocky ledge.
17 minutes later they were just leveling out when Tyler stopped Sly and slid off. Alisha did the same and tied Holmes up on a long piece of rope near some grass.
"Ok, this part you need to be blindfolded" He said, pulling out a black piece of cloth.
She looked at it, then back at him, a little apprehensive. "I don't know about that part."
"It's ok. I am not going to do anything and if you get to uncomfortable you can take it off." He said, offering her the cloth.
She sighed, took it, and put it on. It was strange being blindfolded. She extended her hands out in front of her, not sure what to do before Tyler took her hands in his, slowly. They were so warm and rough. Worker hands, her Mother would have called them. He placed on of her hands on his shoulder and slowly walked forward. He warned her if he saw a ditch or a rock or stump coming out of the ground. Just a few seconds of walked and he stopped. "Can I take it off now?"
"Only if you feel uncomfortable. But it's not entirely ready yet." he said, walking in front of her. "All you have to do is wait right there until I say to take off the blindfold."
She took a deep breath in, fighting against the urge to get suspicious of him. "Ok I will wait." She sighed.
She could hear him smile before he brought her down to sit. After that there was much back and forth going from the horses to where the place was. She was slowly getting a bit panicked and asked him every few minutes if he was ready.
"Can I take it off?"
"Yes you can" He said.
She hooked the bottom of the cloth with her thumbs and brought them up, her eyes opened. When she saw what he had done, she gasped.
A cliff hanger Muahahahahahahahahahahahahah ahaha *Gasps for air* Hahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaa aaaaaa, had lost of fun writing this after my test because I could just let my creativity flow right out. What did she gasp at? Tune in next time to find out, I'm Wolveyaon signing off!. Please review, it helps with creativity!
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