Not So Innocent (Captain America FF book 1)

Chapter 12:

Changed book name to 'Not so Innocent'. Hope you like, vote, and comment. And if anyone could tell me how to post pictures with chapters is would be Awesome. Please DM me if you know how.

Jade Quill

"Mom, why are you guys going to Jupiter? There is nothing profitable there besides their hemispheric gas and hitchhiker's. Why can't we come?" I ask as dad enters Terran's atmosphere and puts it on autopilot. "Yeah." Spencer chimes in. Dad turns around in the pilot seat and pulls the two of us into his lap "It'll be okay. I promise we'll be back and we'll go visit Nova on Xander. And I promise we won't bring back a hitchhiker." Me, being a fourteen year old knew everything would be fine, so I believed him.

I nod and get off dads lap so he could go back to piloting the ship. Mom hugs me and places a kiss on my forehead "We promise we'll be back baby. And then I promise you and Rockett can build Spencer a blaster. Okay?" Excitedly I jump up and down. Running off to find Rockett I yell "Thanks mom." I run into the main deck and find Rockett building a long range blaster.

"Rockett!!! Mom says when you come back from Jupiter we can build Spencer a blaster!!!" I say excitedly. Rockett looks up from his work and gives me a raccoon smile "You don't need my help kid. You could build blasters for the entire galaxy without my help." I flip my blackish blonde hair over my shoulder and joke "Well I am amazing." Rockett rolls his eyes "You're as crazy as you're dad, I swear."

I smile and run off again to find Groot and Drax. I found them in below with Spencer. Spencer's brownish blonde hair was peeking up from behind Groot's shoulder of branches. "Spencer I can see you. Come on. Grab your stuff. We're about to land." Spencer sighed and came out from behind Groot.

Groot patted Spencer's head and said "I am Groot." What he meant was 'Good try buddy.' Spencer and I understood what Groot meant unlike everyone but Rockett. Spencer and I grabbed our ventilation helmets and extra clothes before heading back to the main deck where everyone was gathered.

For an assassin, mom looked pretty emotional right now. She stroked my hair as dad talked to spencer. "We'll be back baby. Take care of Spencer for me. Be a big girl. You're a brave girl Jade. A powerful one. Not because of your powers. Because of your heart." She hugged me one last time before dad talked to me and Spencer talked to mom.

"My baby girl is all grown up. Next thing I know you'll be breaking boys hearts." I giggle and roll my eyes "You know guys are to afraid to talk to me." Dad smiles and strokes my hair "Because you're too beautiful." I give him a look and rephrase "Their afraid because you're my dad." He smiles cockily "That too." His demeanor turns serious "Take care of Spencer please. He's still little. I love you. And stay out of trouble." I shrug and joke "No promises. But please hurry back."

Dad smiles and sticks his pinky out "I pinky promise I'll be back." I lock my thin pinky with his bag one and smile. "Promise." But I never saw him again. Any of them.

"Quill? Quill? Jade? Are you even trying?" I snap out of my daze and realize I'm in the training room with Rogers, sparring absent mindedly. My gut twisted and turned as I thought of my past. "He promised." I whisper to myself as I fall to my hands and knees. Rogers kneels in front of me "What's wrong? Are you hurt?" I take deep breaths and stare at the floor "Not physically."

Rogers knew I wasn't going to look up at him, so he laid on his back and slid his head where I was staring at the floor. "What's wrong mentally then?" I moved so he wasn't under me and wave it off "Nothing. Why would you care anyway?" Rogers props himself up "I don't think it's good to bottle your feelings up inside. It's good to get things off your chest."