Warning for this book. It's Rated M for 18 and up only due to content such as language and sexual descriptions and situations and violence.

Also, I don't own anything from the MCU. I only own my characters and this plotline.

Italics = Romanian language

Alla Berger as Kya Hank (24 years old)

"Love without trust does not exist. Love is a strength of trust. Trust is the test of love. When you love, you trust each other. When you don't, you don't. Don't camouflage the word "love" and not trust each other."

― Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Chapter Two: I Trust You

I sometimes wonder what life would be like if I was truly normal, if I didn't have to keep secrets from anyone. If I didn't need to keep secrets from him. I just, I'm scared of what he'll say or do. I don't know if he'll still have feelings for me or just run off screaming. I don't really picture him screaming, but I do picture him freaking out. I mean, how many people besides the Avengers do you hear that has powers they were born with? I don't even know if I'm truly human. Maybe I'm alien or something weird. I don't really know, but it's terrifying to tell anyone. I told my parents once and they... locked me in a closet while they figured out what to do. Then, I had to not use my powers or anything while under their roof. Which I did in secret, but it's yeah.

I was currently standing in the market when I looked up to see James at a apple market, asking how much for one. I sigh as I look around before biting my bottom lip and start to walk away. I smiled as I saw little Ollie walking with his new mother and sighed before I heard familiar boots walk near me. I look over my shoulder and smile as I see James carrying a small bag of apples and he smiles at me. I wave before he walks up to me and leans down, giving me a peck. I giggle as he does and he chuckles. "Still surprised by my greetings?" He teases and I roll my eyes, blushing red as I punch his shoulder.

"Shut up," I reply, laughing as he gives me another peck. We've been on two more dates since my first kiss and... it's been wonderful. Now I'm just second guessing everything because everything is going perfect, except he doesn't know my secret. He knows about my parents and most of my past that doesn't revolve around my secret. But I just... yeah.

"Come on," He says, smiling as we start to walk down the street, hands linked together. I smile down at our hands as we walk, waving at people as we pass them. I smile and giggle as we walk when he twirls me around before landing a kiss on my lips. Which has been intoxicating for me ever since we started to kiss each other basically. Everything about him is intoxicating to me.

I look ahead as we walk, feeling like I need to tell him my secret because it's eating me up inside. I'm just terrified of the unknown and maybe it's best if I tell him no before I... Before I fall completely in love with him. I don't want to get attached and he ends up breaking my soul in two when he inevitably finds out. I stop walking towards our apartment building, making him stop as he turns around with a furrowed brow and asks, "What's wrong?" after only seeing the dreaded look I'm giving him. If I tell him, it either all ends or... I don't know. I just know nothing good of lying to him will come forth if I don't tell him.

"I... I need to show you something."

After about twenty minutes of walking/riding his motorcycle, with the first he was asking me a few different questions after we got off his bike as I just... I just didn't know what to tell him til we got to the woods. I was scared and I couldn't speak as I just held onto his hand tighter. I was afraid of letting him go. But I don't want to lie to him or keep this from him. I sigh as we near the lake and let go of his hand. "Kya, you're worrying me," James said as I walked over to the lake and fiddle with my hands.

"I'm sorry... But I can't keep lying to you, James," I say, my voice shaky as I turn around to face him and his worried expression increases. "I-I've been hiding this part of myself... For a long time. Remember my parents?" I asked, trying to gather my courage.

"Yes, they were abusive assholes," He says, eyebrows furrowing as he crosses his arms over his chest.

"Do you remember what they did?" I asked, taking off my gloves as he stands still.

"Yes." He looks in pain as I nod my head, sniffing as a few tears come out. "Dollface, you're scaring me," He says, taking a step towards me and I throw out my hand, halting his steps.

"Please, stay back and... I'll show you. Please, don't run away," I say, sniffing and trying to be strong for myself. James pauses before he nods his head and I sniff, nodding my head. I shut my eyes and feel that familiar surge of energy come forth. I shut my eyes for a moment before I shoot up my fist and open my burning eyes. Suddenly, my fist is on fire and I avoid his eyes as I look down, moving my now opened hand with the flames before the flames turn to steam as it disappears. Then a bubble of water slowly engulfs my hand and I throw it towards the water before facing the giant boulder next to me and slamming my fist down to break the boulder into a fist size rock that I twist my left hand to break away the rocks. After I drop the rock, I jump in the air and a gush of air keeps me afloat in mid air, making me glad I didn't wear a dress or skirt today. I look over to see that James wasn't running away or gone.

Just gaping at me with pure shock.

I let go of the air and land on the ground, fiddling with my hands as I look at the ground. "I'm sorry... I didn't know how to word it or tell you," I say, trying to gather whatever courage I might have as I stare at the ground with tears in my eyes.

"I'm almost a hundred years old."

I snap my head up as I look at his saddening face. My eyes widening as he slowly took off the glove of his left hand and showed a metal hand. Then, he sighed as he took off his jacket and just showed his t-shirt, showing that his whole left arm was complete metal with a red star on the shoulder. I instantly felt sad as he sighed, looking defeated as he says, "I was an assassin for HYDRA, a secret agency trying to basically control the world. I was their puppet for seventy years. I killed innocent people. I destroyed lives... I don't deserve you."

"No," I say, feeling heartbroken as I walk over to him with tears in my eyes. I sniff, ignoring as the tears just came down and walked over to him. "No, I'm not leaving you."

"Kya... I've killed-" He starts, his voice cracking as he pauses and hakes his head at me.

"No, you didn't." He was about to speak again as his eyes were tearing up and I immediately planted my hand over his mouth. "You didn't want to kill them, right?" He nods his head as my hand is still on his mouth so he can't speak. "You said in your words that you were their puppet, but not anymore... I don't want to lose you," I said, letting go of him before sniffing as I hug him to me, my head resting on his chest. "I'm scared because of what my parents did and I'm sorry your scared because of what HYDRA did to you. But please don't leave me unless it's because you're scared of me."

After a few minutes of me crying into his chest and him holding me, he pulls me back a bit to look up at him. He gives me a small smile as he brushes some of my bangs back and says, "How could I leave my sweetheart behind like that?"

Then, he leans down and softly lands a kiss upon my lips. He goes to retreat, when I run my hands up to his neck and pull him towards me, smashing our lips together. I smile as he does and our burning flames collide.