~Steve's POV~
It's been about a week since I've been on my own since Serena had to go back to work, and I've learned mostly everything about the modern world. Although I am still working on knowing how to actually do certain things. Like how to work Facebook, and Twitter, and those social sites. I've also been working out everyday since I have woken up and rebuilt my muscles, and it seems like I gained some more as well. As the time went on, my feelings for Serena seem to have grown while my feelings for Peggy diminish.
"Hey Serena," I spoke up, drawing her attention away from the TV, "I'm going to go to the gym to let off a little steam." "Mhmmtay," she replied cutely, rubbing her eyes a bit, "I think I might go to bed, I'm so tired from work." "Really? What'd you even do?" I asked, getting up and getting her a glass of water because her voice sounded a little hoarse. "Thank you," she smiled when I handed her the glass of water, "How'd you know I needed some water? Unless you read my mind some how and knew that I was going to get a glass before I went to bed." She giggled and drank the water. "Your voice sounded scratchy so I figured that your throat was dried." I said, running my hand through my hair. "Well you figured right," she giggled as her cheeks gained a rosy tint to them. "Wanna talk about your day? Pretty sure it's more interesting than mine." I sat back down next to her on the couch. "I don't want to bore you." She said, finishing the rest of the water. "I don't think it's possible for you to bore me." I chuckled, leaning back. "You sure?" I asked, looking at me cutely. "Yes, I am fairly sure." I assured her with a smile.
"Mhmm well the morning was slow so all I did was documenting, but then after lunch," she paused for a bit and chuckled while shaking her head, "It was crazy after lunch. A group of 20 returned from a mission and all were injured, and there was only five doctors -including me- working. But two were surgeons so that left three of us along with a handful of nurses to bounce between all the patients. We were all over a place, just darting back and forth, all you could see were blurs of white and blue." Serena yawned and looked at me cutely again. "Sounds like it was chaotic over there." I chuckled, earning a soft giggle from her. "Hopefully it won't be to crazy tomorrow." She giggled, yawning once more. "Go to bed Serena. You're yawning a lot and I don't want to catch it." Serena nodded and waved her hand dismissively as she stood up. "Good night Steve, take care when you're out." She said, giving me a quick hug, in which I awkwardly returned, before taking off to her room.
As I was punching the punching bag, I started to think back about the day I crashed the plane. I could feel myself getting more riled up as the memory flooded my mind. The more riled up I got, the harder I punched the punching bag. It wasn't long until it broke open and flew off the chain. "Trouble sleeping?" I look over and see Fury. "I slept for seventy years, sir. I think I've had my fill." I replied to him, picking up another punching bag and mounting it and punching it again. "Then you should be out, celebrating, seeing the world." He said as he approached me. I let out a heavy breath and go over to the bench and unwrap my knuckled before sitting down, "I went under, the world was at war, I wake up, they say we won. They didn't say what we lost." "We've made some mistakes along the way. Some very recently." Nick was now standing next to me, with a folder in his hands. "You here with a mission, sir?" I asked, looking up at him. "I am." He bluntly replied. "Trying to get me back in the world?" I slightly mused. "Trying to save it." Fury responded, handing me the folder.
I opened the folder and look over its contents. Seeing all the things about the blue cube that they called the tesseract. "Hydra's secret weapon," the thought slipped my mouth. "Howard Stark fished that out of the ocean when he was looking for you. He thought, what we think, the Tesseract could be the key to unlimited sustainable energy. That's something the world sorely needs." Nick said. "Who took it from you?" I asked, standing up. "He's called Loki. He's not from around here. There's a lot we'll have to bring you up to speed on if you're in. The world has gotten even stranger than you already know." Fury told me. "At this point, I doubt anything would surprise me." I said, picking up my gym bag and walking over to the punching bags.
"Ten bucks says you're wrong. There's a debriefing package waiting for you back at your apartment. Serena is holding onto it." Nick told me as I picked up a punching bag and walking away. "Is there anything you can tell us about the Tesseract that we ought to know now?" He asked me, making me chuckle slightly while shaking my head at his question. "You should have left it in the ocean." I replied to him before putting the bag down and exiting the gym.
As I was making my way home, I notice a black blur speed past me along with some girl that had a bow and mask. She was dressed in a short, and somewhat revealing, white dress. I watched as she chased after him. And of course, me being me, I had to go after them. I followed them into an alleyway and hid behind a dumpster, watching them, but I couldn't help but notice the angel wing tattoo/mark on the girl's upper back.
"He's going to reward me so well when I tell him where you reside." The man chuckled. "Who said I was going to let you walk out of this alive?" The girl tilted her head. 'Her voice sounds familiar...' I thought as I watched the two. "You're no match for me." The man laughed maniacally. "Oh?" The girl's tone sounded like an amused one. In a blink of an eye, the girl had the man, who was standing at least 10 feet away from her, against the wall by his neck. 'Whoa, she's fast.' "I am more than a match for a mere quarter blood." I heard the girl hissed, releasing the man and pulling the string of her bow back. A nocked arrow appeared on the bow, and the man's face paled as he scrambled to get away, only to be shot in the back three times by the girl. "You are going to hell for those people you murdered." The girl said as her bow disappeared.
I watched as the man's body turned to ashes. "I know you are there, come out from behind the dumpster." I heard the girl say. I cautiously stepped out from behind the dumpster and into the middle of the alleyway. "You have nothing to fear. I am not your enemy. I am an ally." She assured, me, turning around and looking at me. I couldn't help but stare into her eyes, her light icy blue eyes that seem almost to familiar. "You work for or with SHIELD?" I asked, relaxing a bit. "No, they know nothing about me, and I intend on keeping it that way. But, I have a feeling that that is all going to change soon." She said, leaning to one side. "Why'd you kill that guy?" I asked, gesturing to the pile of ashes. "Because, he is no longer a man, but a beast. If I had let him go then your life and that girl Serena's would have been in jeopardy. He was the one that has been killing around town. You best not get into this mess Captain, for I fear it might not end well for you or the girl." And with that, the girl turned around and I saw the wings on her back budge out of her skin and into a pair of pure white angel wings. "I will see you again soon Captain." Then, she flew off.
So many thoughts were going through my mind as I continued my way home, like what she meant by that guy not being a man, or how my life along with Serena's could be in danger, and how she knew me. But what scared me the most was the thought of Serena being in danger. I don't know why, but just the thought of her getting hurt made me hurt in a a way. I'm so protective over her.
"Hey Serena, you still up?" I asked after I walked into the house and locked the door. "Huh? Oh yeah. Why?" I heard her reply. I walked into the living room and see her on the couch all wrapped up in a blanket. "Thought you were going to bed." I said, going to the kitchen and getting myself a glass of water. "Yeah I slept for about 3 hours, woke up, oh," she pulled her hand out of the blanket, holding out a packet and a small black rectangular box, "This is for you. I've read over it already. Don't worry, they gave me permission." I sat down next to her and took of the file and box from her. "What's the box?" I asked, holding it up. It was about half an inch thick and half the size of my palm. "It's a tablet, here," she scooted closer to me, "You push this button here," her finger pointed at the button at the side of the cube, "Push it Steve." I did what she told me and the cube broke up into four pieces and formed like a screen about the size of a piece of paper. "Now here," she pointed to a box on the screen that had the word A on it, "Are the profiles of your team members. This," She pointed to another box that had M on it, "Is where you get your missions and the details for it and such. This," she pointed to the third box that had an L on it, "Is where you will log things like mission progress and such. Lastly, this," she pointed at the box in the lower right corner marked C, "Is just like a chat room, contact anyone you want and shoot them like a message and such."
After she was done explaining, I let the information set into my mind. I started exploring the tablet after a little while to get a better understanding of it as the memory of what happened in the alleyway lingered in my mind. 'Maybe Serena would know something...' "Hey Ser-" I stopped myself when I looked down and saw that she was asleep. I blushed a bit when I realized that she had fallen asleep on my shoulder. Guess I was to busy with my thoughts to feel her head on my shoulder.
I decided to look through SHIELD files to see if there was anything on the angel that I saw in the alleyway, but nothing came up. 'How can she allude Shield? And for how long...'
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I'll try my best to do switch between my char's POV and Cap's