𝙉𝙊𝙏 𝘼𝙉𝙊𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍 𝙏𝙀𝙀𝙉 𝙈𝙊𝙑𝙄𝙀.
(CA: THE WINTER SOLDIER)
𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐍𝐄: EGO.
"WHAT ABOUT THE NURSE WHO LIVES ACROSS THE HALL FROM YOU? SHE SEEMS KINDA NICE. ISN'T SHE THE SISTER OF THE KID YOU BABYSIT ALL THE TIME? BARBERSHOP QUARTET IS DEAD, SO YOU MOVE ONTO THE PRESCHOOL PLAYGROUND FOR FRIENDS, STEVE?"
LIZZIE CARTER got more than she bargained for when she was approached by Nicholas J. Fury himself to help assist her older sister, Sharon, in an undercover surveillance mission for the super-secret-spy-organization S.H.I.E.L.D. And maybe she thought it was super cool in the beginning that she was the first recently-turned thirteen-year-old that they thought of to help. Even if she was the famous Peggy Carter's great niece. And maybe she agreed because she was supposed to become friends with her HERO CAPTAIN AMERICA! because why wouldn't she want to teach him how the twenty-first century works? But maybe she never expected to discover that CAPTAIN AMERICA! was actually just her Neighbor Steve, and she happened to find him a bit more heroic than the Avenger she'd looked up to from the moment she was born.
alternatively known as . . .
"You're telling me that you got Captain America—the War Hero, Steve Rogers—to become best friends with a thirteen-year-old kid? What, is this supposed to slowly introduce him to how irritating Generation Z is? Project Training Wheels or something?"
"She became an associate of SHIELD, made effective in October, and has been helping us out. We just happened to make her Rogers' neighbor, too. I thought that he might trust a kid more than any adult. She'll help him out―show him the world he woke up to better than anyone else. Help us make sure he's trustworthy. Agent Thirteen has agreed to this―"
"Oh, my God, Nick! You made Steve Rogers a babysitter to Peggy Carter's niece?!"
"I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT, HERE AND NOW, THAT MARGARET ELIZABETH CARTER WOULD NOT APPROVE OF THIS. . . NO, ACTUALLY, YOU'RE RIGHT. SHE DEFINITELY WOULD WANT THEM TO KNOW EACH OTHER. DOESN'T THIS, TECHNICALLY, MAKE LIZZIE HIS. . . GREAT-NIECE IN AN ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE? THEY'RE TECHNICALLY RELATED. LIKE, NOT REALLY, BUT REALLY REALLY."
PART ONE: COMPLETE.
Dedicated to: @volbeats for the best cover in the world!