The corner is slightly lifted.

Slowly making my way down the ladder I notice the sound of pages flipping.

Turning invisible I walk into the room to find Winter, Stark, Captain, Falcon and Widow looking through my files.

"Stark you found my files. Congrats."

Since I am still invisible everyone jumps.
"Technically I found it Silver."
"Really Widow? Stark was saying that he was going to find this room. No matter what."
"Well I did have help from Winter."
"Winter. Of course, what did you do?"

Winter starts glaring at Widow before answering. "I remembered how you used to like hiding stuff in corners and how you set up a few things in a base we were in once."
"Ah. The base in northern Russia that's in the one mountain. That place was really cold, and we were only there for a few months. Any ways, what did you all find? And how mad are you that you found it?"

Everyone starts talking at once.

"ONE AT A TIME!" Now since they are quiet I can speak normally "who would like to go first? Hands up."
Since everyone puts I hand up I ask Falcon first.
"I found a file on me. How'd you find these things out?"
"Hacked  S.H.E.I.L.D and watched what was going on in DC a few years back. When Winter first made an appearance."
"Okay. But these pictures are from civilian cameras how'd you come to get them?"
"I was in DC a few days after. Went to the Smithsonian did some checking up on Winter from afar. Hurt like hell not to go talk to him, pinged some phones from people who were under the carriers when they went down and found there phones, cameras and things like that. Down loaded them to my laptop and continued to keep my distance from anyone that might have seen me on missions."
"You knew where Bucky was after the helicarrier?"
"I knew where everyone that was in or on a carrier was. You, Captain, Winter even the Hill girl."
"Yo-you didn't talk to me? You didn't want to see me then?"

Turning visible so Winter could see that I was sincere,
"I didn't want you to be scared of me Winter. I thought that if I went to talk to you, you might think I was a HYDRA agent coming to collect you and take you back to Pierce. I didn't want you to be scared of me."
"I wouldn't have been scared of you."
"Yes you would have been. I still had Silver dye on the ends my hair, and I wore contacts that changed my eyes to black when I was in DC area. You would have recognized me and wanted to kill me. It's what you were trained to do Winter. But what did you find?"
He is silent for a few moments before answering.
"You put my file under James B. Barnes. Not Winter Soldier. Why?"
"Because you were James to me when I started collecting intel on you. You have been James to me since I read your HYDRA file and found out your real name."
"Thank you."
"Anything on your file that needs changing?"
"No. I think it's okay."
"Alright.
Widow what have you found?"
"Well, you are definitely a good hacker. You hacked S.H.E.I.L.D. and HYDRA. You trained under Winter and in the Black Widow program. What I'm curious about is why is your file so thin compared to others?"
I'm surprised "So you looked me up instead of yourself?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"It makes sense to. You know so much about us yet we know so little about you. I wanted to know more."
"Did you look for Silver Death or Jessica Rice?"
"Jessica. You put everyone else under their real names so I looked for yours."
She has a valid reason to wanting to know more about me. Sighing I walk over to the HYDRA cabinets I look through the S section.
Silver Death
Pulling out the file I have on myself I hand it to Widow. "Here's my file. I am Silver, and that's what I call myself unless I am in public. The file on Jessica Rice is practically just a missing persons file, and who her parents were.

Everyone looked at me funny when I told them and retrieved the file.

"Captain what have you found?"
"A file that was open on top of the cabinets."
"What would that be?"
"Peggy's file. Why were you looking at her file?"
"You and Widow were talking about her. I was curious about who she was. I suppose I forgot to put it away."
"You have a lot on her."
"S.H.E.I.L.D was very helpful when I was making files. She had intel on her in the system so I copied it. She is a very impressive woman."

Steve doesn't say anything after, so Stark buds in.

"Why do you have a file on Pepper?"
"She has relations with all of you. I watched and made sure no one hurt her while you all were fighting amongst yourselves. It was a stupid fight in my opinion. You tried killing your friends because of an incident years before. It's not very smart for someone who is of your intellect."
"I don't know if that's a compliment or a really rude statement."
"How about this: if I were to pick sides during that fight I would fight with the Captain. His argument made sense."
"How so?"
"You were the one to make a killer robot and almost have your girlfriend killed. Winter may have killed you parents but that was not James. It's the exact same as Hawkeye being controlled by Loki. He wouldn't have unless forced."
"How many of you see it that way?"
Captain, Falcon, James and even Widow put up their hands.

"I feel like I'm alone on this argument."
"You basically are."
"Basically?"
"The spider boy would agree with you just to make the father figure in his life proud."
"His father figure?"
"Yes. He has no dad and no uncle. He has an Aunt May but you Stark are now his father figure. He wants to make you proud."
"I need to get in touch with him. Make sure he's okay."
"I will get an email set up to him. Make sure to keep it 20 words or shorter."

Turning and leaving the file room I climb the ladder and call back down
"We will be heading to the river to fish in 15 minutes. Make sure your ground level by that time."

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