Exception to the rules // Steve Rogers // (1)

~ One last moment of you~

The anger coursed through me, I arrived at the bunker, a mask of no emotion was placed upon my face, everyone was surprised to see me here especially Steve.

"Dotty What are you doing here" his voice held nothing but concern and worry.

"I believe we have a meeting today about what to do with hydra" I replied.

"Yes but, are you going to be okay, last night-"

"Last night I was a mess as I had been for days before that but this morning I woke up and I felt....better almost, not okay, I don't think I'll ever feel a hundred per cent okay again but I felt better and all I could think about was getting rid of every hydra soldier off the face of this planet and then maybe hopefully it will give me some sort of closure. Are you with me?"

"Till the end of the line" he planet a kiss on my forehead, Steve had never shown any kind of affection like that before and I liked it.

"Come on captain" I grabbed his hand and led him to the part of the bunker with the meeting table which was in front of a map. Steve sat at the head directly opposite the map with me on his left, the rest of the howling commandoes in both sides and finally Peggy at the other end of the table.

"Johann Schmidt belongs in a bug house. He thinks he's a God. He's willing to blow up half the world to prove it, starting with the USA" Colonel Phillips said.

"Schmidt's working with powers beyond our capabilities" Howard said coming to sit down opposite me "he gets across the Atlantic, he will wipe out the entire eastern seaboard in an hour."

Steve placed the file he was looking at down "how much time we got?" I asked.

"According to my new best friend, under twenty-four hours" the colonel replied.

"Where is he now?" Jaques asked.

"Hydra's last base is here" the colonel held up a picture and pointed to the base "in the Alps. Five hundred feet below the surface."

So, what are we supposed to do? I mean, it's not like we can just knock on the front door" Jim said.

"Why not?" We all turned to Steve. "That's exactly what we're gonna do."

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Armed with a gun each, Peggy and I with almost two hundred other soldiers, including colonel Philips stormed hydras alps base. Hydra soldiers run for us but we're quickly taken out, I ran down a corridor once hearing noises and saw a Hydra agent fully armed and with flame throwers, I rolled my eyes, aimed and took the man out, the flame ceasing. I ran forward just as Steve did.

'You're late" he said, he was extremely close to me, I wasn't uncomfortable in the slightest.

"Yeah, well, Erm, went you about too-"

"Right" he ran to the end of the corridor grabbing his shield that was loaded into the door.

"Barnes, carter you two with me" Philips yelled, with a last look at the door, I ran in the opposite direction joining Peggy and the colonel. We ran to where a very expensive looking car was "get in." Peggy and I got in the back and the colonel got in the driver's seat. He didn't even wait for us to sit down before he sped off and only stopped when we reached Steve, the colonel told him to get in and when he did we sped off. The car was going so much faster than any other car I had ever known, when we got close enough to Schmidt's plane Steve stood up.

"Keep it steady" he yelled.

"Wait" something overtook me, I knew if I didn't do what I was planning to do now I never would, I stood up as well, grabbed Steve by the arm and placed a soft kiss on his lips. "Go get em but make sure you come back to me."

"I'm not kissing you" the colonel exclaimed.

Steve secured his shield on his back and edged forward, the plane's propellers cut the side of the car and caused Steve to duck down. Both car and plane kept going forward until we were no longer under the cover of the warehouse, Steve jumped up onto the wheels of the plane just as it started to ascend, the colonel sharply turned the car and slammed on the breaks trying to avoid us from flying off the end of the runway. The car stopped with only the back wheel slightly over the edge. I quickly stood up to look behind me to watch the plane fly off.

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The colonel managed to get the car back on the runway and just as quickly got us back to the base, the car hadn't even completely stopped when I jumped out and ran to control room, if Steve had gotten control of the plane and tried to speak to us this is where I needed to be "anything yet?" I asked slightly out of breath, the men all shook their heads.

After five anxious minutes of pacing in which time both Peggy had entered, suddenly a voice could be heard over the radio "Come in. This is Captain Rogers. Do you read me?"

"Captain Rogers, what is your-"

"Steve, is that you? Are you alright?" I took Jim's place at the radio, accidentally pushing Jim away.

"Dotty. Schmidt's dead" he replied.

"What about the plane?" I asked.

"That's a little bit tougher to explain."

"Give me your coordinates, I'll find you a safe landing site."

"There's not going to be a safe landing. But I can try and force it down."

Panic started to rise within me, I had just lost James I couldn't lose Steve as well "I'll get Howard on the line, he'll know what to do."

"There's not enough time. This thing's moving too fast and it's heading for New York" he paused for a moment thinking "I gotta put her in the water."

"No, you can't" I cried out "don't do this please Steve. We have time. We can work it out."

"Right now I'm in the middle of nowhere. If I wait any longer a lot of people are gonna die. Dotty, this is my choice" Oh god I couldn't lose him but I too in order to save everyone else "Dotty?"

"I'm here" I sniffled "I'm not leaving you."

"I'm gonna need a rain check on that dance."

I took a breath wanting to steady my voice before I spoke again "alright. A week, next Saturday, even though I'll probably see you before then. At the Stork Club okay?"

"You got it."

"Eight o'clock on the dot. Don't you dare be late. Understand? Otherwise, buck won't, Oh well he wouldn't have been impressed."

"You know, I still don't know how to dance."

I chuckled sadly "I can teach you just like I promised and if you're really that bad at it then we can just eat sweets and watch the sunset, just be there. Please."

"That sounds great, but we'll have the band play somethin' slow. I'd hate to step on your-" his voice was cut off and replaced with static.

"Steve, Steve" I cried "please Steve not you as well, you said you wouldn't leave me. Steve. Please."