This is how it all started. It started with two sorcerers, one super soldier and one girl. Well, it ultimately began with friendship and misdirection, and then followed by competition. The two sorcerers liked this girl; everything she was, her beauty, her personality, and her ability to walk into a room and make everyone feel elated and relaxed.

It was almost as if a weight lifted off everyone's shoulders and their minds. The sorcerers thought she might be interested in one of them, so they competed to win her heart. They both craved this girl with the ink black hair, eyes that were as blue as the sky, the small stature of her body that was not to be underestimated.

They loved the fairness of her skin, the way her hips swayed to music with a good beat; they loved how she didn't judge anyone, how she accepted everyone into her heart and the way she made people feel at ease.

Despite spending every moment they could with this girl, they failed to notice her heart was set on another, the super soldier. He loved her too, ever since one fateful night had brought them closer in friendship and would lead them to a deeper passionate love. She always invited him to events others couldn't or wouldn't attend with her. He became the one she could count on; the more time they spent with each other, the more it became apparent they were falling in love.

Apparent to all, except the two sorcerers. Their friends had to point it out because these two were always arguing, never actually "seeing" a different relationship play out in front of them. The hilarious thing was that the super soldier and this girl hadn't realized a competition was taking place. They always thought the two were arguing about something else not related to them; they only had eyes for each other, which made them blind to the competition itself.

The girl didn't think it was possible for two men – especially two handsome men – to battle each other over her. She didn't even think a man like her super soldier could love her. She considered herself someone men would cast aside and not even give a second thought to; she thought she'd end up alone.

A lot of her friends had left her before she met newer ones; ones she decided were her family. The super soldier she always liked; she wanted him but she never had the courage to tell him. The relationship just ended up melting together when they confessed their feelings at the same time.

The two sorcerers, she had only thought of them as friends, never straying past the thought. Of course, they were shocked when they found out her true feelings for them. How could they have missed the signs? Especially when they kept being persistent in the quest to seduce her. He was always there, consistently by her side. How could they have been so blind?

They mistook her kindness for something else when all it happened to be was friendship on her end. She had always been like that, except she gave more attention to her super soldier. Their connection had been a special one.

He never imagined a sweet girl like her could love him. He thought he had become a different man from the one he had been before. She treated him differently than most people. She was gentle with him, but always close; sometimes she became a shoulder to cry on, other times she was his rock; strong and never budging. Most times she became someone to snuggle with when he was feeling particularly…frightened of his own mind.

He had his best friend and then he had her. She walked into his life and he knew. He knew she was the one for him, the only one for him, and his soul mate. So, when she invited him out the first time, he agreed to go, to begin courting her in a way that would capture her heart. He never competed, but he didn't have to. She always had her heart out for him to grab onto. There was no one else she would've given it to.

This is how it all started. A competition between two sorcerers, who were mislead with their own thoughts. A super soldier who only had to be himself to win her heart and the girl who got caught in the middle of everything; who fell for the love of her life, with the super soldier. Want to know their names?

The two sorcerers were known as Doctor Stephen Strange – Sorcerer Supreme and Master of the Mystic Arts – and Loki – the God of Mischief, Lies and a trickster. The super soldier was no other than the Winter Soldier himself, James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes. The girl's name was Nina Hartley and she was the subject of all three of their hearts.