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We’ll Be There For You, Part: 5

Based on the Episode: The One Where Ross Finds Out

Word Count: 2201

Steve Rogers x Reader

Warnings: Arguments, angst, kissing, talks of sex.

Series Summary: Based on the television show Friends. Y/N Y/L/N comes to the city after running out on her wedding. She reunited with some old friends from high school and meets some new ones. Slowly she learns the troubles of living independently for the first time, working life, dating and complicated social lives. Used to leading the rich, spoiled life, how will Y/N cope with new love interests and judgmental families.

OCs in this Chapter: Isabel, Leon

Sam was sitting in pain as him and Nat finished training for the day. She had gone back to her apartment whilst Bucky was with him, and Y/N was working. It has been a few weeks since Steve started dating Isabel and Y/N still wasn’t taking it too well, trying to shut Isabel out many times. Wanda came in as Y/N served Bucky and Sam.

“So… how was your date last night?” Y/N asked suggestively.

“Oh, um, it was nice. We went to a romantic restaurant, ordered champagne. It was nice.” Wanda spoke. However, she seemed upset.

“They still won’t put out huh?” Bucky asked.

“Nope, nothing. Zilch.” They all looked sympathetically towards Wanda. “I don’t mind taking it slow, I like them a lot, y’know and he’s really interesting, and sweet and why won’t they give it up?” Nobody really knew what to say.

Just then Nat came back in telling Sam that they’re going to be playing Racquetball.

“Bucky be a pal. Lift my arm up and smack her with it.” Sam asked obviously not wanting to go. Before anyone could say anything, Wanda piped up.

“Ooh, oh Y/N don’t look.” Wanda was looking out the window to where Steve and Isabel were kissing.

“What?” Y/N looked straight away but quickly feigned indifference. “C’mon you guys, I don’t care, I have a date tonight.”

“Woah, wait, you have a date?” Bucky questioned.

“Yeah, Nat set me up.”

“But, uh what about Steve and the uh…?”

“Oh what, my whole insane jealousy thing.” Y/N said referring to how she has been feeling over the past few weeks. “Well, as much fun as that was, I have opted for sanity.”

“So, you’re really okay with this?”

“Oh, c’mon, yeah. I’m moving on. He can press her up against that window as much as he wants.” Her façade then began to slip. “For all I care, he can throw her through the damn thing.” Y/n walks away just as Steve and Isabel walk through the door.

“Hey!” Steve greets cheerfully earning a ‘hey back.’

“Oh Nat, do you still have Fluffy’s cat toys that I lent you years ago?” Steve asked.

“Only if you say his full name.” Nat smiled, knowing the name that Steve had called his childhood cat.

“Can I please get Fluffy Meowington’s cat toys?” Steve said reluctantly, going red in the face. Nat nodded as Bucky asked if Steve was getting a cat.

“Actually, we are getting a cat” Steve said as he gestured to him and Isabel.

“Together?” Y/N questioned as she came back into the conversation.

“Uh huh.” Steve answered.

“Both of you?”

“Yep”

“Together.” Y/N was struggling to wrap her head around it.

Isabel, not picking up on Y/N distraught started to speak. “Yeah, we figured that half the time it’ll live with Steve and half the time, it’ll live with me.”

“Well, isn’t that lovely. That’s something you will be able to enjoy for a really, really, really, really, really, long time.” Y/N’s voice was strained.

“Hopefully.” Steve said completely oblivious.

Y/N looks at her watch and then begins to rush around. “Well, look at that! I gotta go, I gotta date. With a man, Um, okay, you guys have a really good night.” Y/N said directing it at Bucky, Sam, Nat, and Wanda before turning to Steve and Isabel. “And you guys have a really good cat.” Y/N leaves the coffee house with the tray she is holding. She then rushed back inside placing the tray down before walking out again. Leaving Steve and Isabel with a confused look on their face and everyone else sympathetically looking at each other.

Y/N arrived at the restaurant and met her date, Leon.

“So, I don’t know if Nat told you but, this is my first date since my divorce so if I seem nervous, it’s because I am.” Leon spoke. Y/N however was completely distracted and wasn’t really listening.

“How long do cats live?”

“I’m Sorry?”

“Cats, how long do they live? Y’know if you don’t throw them under a bus or anything?”

“Um, maybe around 15-16 years.” Leon answered thoroughly confused.

“That’s just great.” Y/N started gulping down her champagne. They sat in an awkward silence for a minute before Leon spoke up.

“Nat told you I was cuter than this didn’t she?”

“Oh, no, Leon, it’s not you. I’m sorry it’s just, it’s this thing. It’s probably not as bad as it sounds but this friend of mine is, is getting a cat with his girlfriend.”

“Oh, that does sound… Ahh.”

“I mean he just started dating her.”

“Is this guy, uhh, an old boyfriend?”

“Ah, hah-hah-hah-ho, he wishes. Oh, I’m sorry, look at me.” Y/N sighs feeling like a mess. Leon seems like someone she would date if she weren’t so hung up on Steve and she feel guilty for not even giving him a proper chance.

“Alright.”

“So, did you ever get a pet with a girlfriend?”

A few hours later, Y/N was now officially drunk and had finished a whole bottle of champagne on her own.

“I mean, it’s a cat, y’know, it’s a cat. “Y/N’s words were slurred. “Why can’t they get one of those bugs, y’know, one of those fruit flies. Those things that live for like a day or something. what are they called? What are they called?”

“Fruit flies?”

“Yes! Thank you.”

“Would you like any dessert?” The waiter asked.

“No! No dessert please, just the check.” Leon said eagerly wanting to get away from the disaster date.

“You’re not having fun, are you?” Y/N asked sensing Leon’s urge to get away from her. Even in her drunk state she can tell.

“No, no I am, but only because I have been playing my favorite movie in my head for the last hour and a half.”

“Oh, look at me, I on a date with this really great guy and all I can think about is Steve and his cat… and his Isabel. I just wanna get over him, why can’t I do that?”

“Okay, look, I’ve been through a divorce and trust me, you’re gonna be fine. You just can’t see it now because you haven’t had any closure.”

“Closure. Yeah! Closure. That’s what I need. God you’re brilliant, why didn’t I think of that? How do I get it?”

“Well, there’s not just one way but its whatever it takes so that you can say ‘I’m over you’.” Y/N nods at what Leon is saying before she looks around for her phone.

She picks it up dialing Steve’s number. She looks at Leon and starts commentating on what’s happening.

“Steve, hi, it’s Y/N. I’m just calling to say that um, everything's fine and I'm really happy for you and your cat who, by the way, I think you should name Leon.” Y/N looked at Leon and smiled. “And, you know, ya see there I'm thinking of names so obviously, I am over you. I am over you and that, my friend, is what they call closure.” Y/N then tosses her phone back on the table quite hard. Leon looking around for a way of the situation.

The next morning Nat left early to go train with Sam, leaving Y/N to deal with her hangover and the remaining embarrassment from the night before, not that she could remember much. Just as she was taking some aspirin. Just then Steve entered the apartment causing Y/N to slightly wince at the sound of the front door.

“Morning Y/N” Steve greeted, and Y/N winced again. “How was the date?”

“Um, I think there was a restaurant… I know there was alcohol.”

“Wow um okay… well Isabel is downstairs getting a cab, I just need to pick up the cat toy. Did Nat say… What? Why are you looking at me like that?” Steve noticed Y/N’s confused look as if she was trying to work something out.

“I don’t know, I feel like I had a dream about you last night, but I don’t remember.”

“Oh, okay.” Steve shrugged in response no thinking much of it.

“Did we speak on the phone last night? Did you call me?” Y/N asked.

“No, I stayed at Isabel’s last night.” Steve replied. “Oh, actually I haven’t even been home yet, let me check my phone” Y/N walked away into her bedroom to get dressed when Steve called through. “Y/N/N there’s a message from you. Who’s Leon?”

Y/N suddenly remembered leaving the message and what she said on it.

“Oh my God. Oh my God Steve, no, hang up the phone, give me the phone Steve, give me the phone, give me the phone, give me the…” Y/N then jumped onto Steve’s back as he continued to listen to the message. Y/N finally managed to get the phone but form the confused look on Steve’s face, he had already heard the message.

“You’re over me?”

“Ohhhhhhhhhhhh God.” Y/N slid off of Steve’s back.

“Wha… you’re over me?”

“Ohhhhhh”

“When, when were you… uh under me? Y/N/N. Y/N do you, I mean, were you, uh… What?”

“Oh, okay, okay, okay, well, basically, lately, I’ve sort of had… feelings for you.”

“You’ve had feelings for me?”

“Yeah, what, so? You had feelings for me first.” Y/N started to get defensive.

“Woah, huh, You know about my… I mean… you know I had… y’know?”

“Sam told me.”

“Sam told you? When did he… when did he… when did he?”

“When you went to China.”

“China.”

“Meeting Isabel.”

“Isabel.” At this point Steve was just copying key words from your sentences. “Isabel. Oh God Isabel, right. Okay, I need to lie down. No y’know, I’m gonna stand, I’m gonna stand, I’m gonna walk, I’m walking and I’m standing. Okay so you uh, and now what… and now, now, now you’re over me?”

“Are you over me?” Before Steve could answer the buzzer in the building went off.

“That’s, that’s Isabel, Isabel.” Steve pressed the intercom. “Hi Isabel.”

“Hi honey, I’ve got a cab waiting.” You could hear Isabel’s sweet voice filter through.

“I’ll be right down.” Steve faked enthusiasm.

“Wait, so, you’re going?” Y/N interjected when Steve released the button.

“Well, I uh, I have to. I can’t deal with this right now. I mean, I’ve uh, y’know, I’ve got a cab, I’ve got a girlfriend, I’m… I’m gonna go get a cat.”

“Okay, Okay.”

“Cat.” With that Steve leaves the apartment and a humiliated and defeated Y/N behind.

Later that evening Y/N is just finishing at the coffee house before locking up when Steve comes in. He looks confused and annoyed. Y/N jumps as she notices him by the door.

“Hi” Y/N greets.

“I didn’t get a cat.”

“Oh, that’s um, interesting.”

“No, no its not interesting. Okay, it is very, very not interesting. In fact, it is actually 100 percent completely the opposite of interesting.

“Alright I get it Steve.”

“You had no right to tell me you ever had feelings for me.” Hurt flashed across Y/N’s face as Steve spoke.

“What?”

“I was doing great with Isabel before I found out about you.”

“Hey, I was doing great before I found out about you. Do you think it was easy for me to see you with Isabel?”

“Then you should have said something before I met her.” Steve countered.

“I didn’t know then. And how come you never said anything to me.”

“There was never a good time.”

“Right, you only has a year. We only hung out every night.”

“Not, not, not every night. You know, and… and it’s not like I didn’t try Y/N. Like ex-fiancés or swearing off men, or, or, or ex-fiancés.”

“Hey, there was only one ex-fiancé okay, and do you even have a point?” Y/N was starting to become frustrated with Steve.

“The point is I… I don’t need this right now, okay. It’s too late, I’m with somebody else, I’m happy. This ship has sailed.”

“Yeah, what are you saying? You just sort of put away feelings or whatever the hell it is you had for me?”

“I’ve been doing it since we were young, I’ve gotten pretty damn good at it.”

“Alright, fine you do that Steven. You go ahead and do that.” Y/N yelled at him.

“Fine.”

“’Cause I don’t need your stupid ship.”

“Good.” Steve moves over to the door and Y/N yells ‘good’ at him as he walks out. She then opens the door again and leans her head out.

“And y’know what? Now I’ve got closure.” She slams the door shut and locks it. Moving over to the couch they normally sit on in the coffee house Y/N sits down and starts to cry. Little did she know Steve is now standing at the window.

Eventually Y/N stands back up and straightens her apron out before getting back to finish closing. She turns and sees Steve now at the door of the coffee house. She rushes to the door to open it and after Steve prompts her, she finally opens the door. Steve quickly moves forward to capture her lips in his. Kissing her with such passion that his strong arms are the only things keeping her standing

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