Author's Note

So I thought I should just say that this story will be following the general plot of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the current timeline will be then but this story heavily relies on flashbacks, half the story happens in them. So I'll always specify what year it is and try and be as in order as I can be. But these first two chapters happen mostly around a month before Avengers. If anyone wants to know I have put a link to a picture of what Evie sort of looks like on my profile. And I will also put a link to the story on AO3 and tumblr when I get the chance.

Chapter One - Finding Evie

"I love you, James"

"Oh yeah? How much?"

"To the moon…"

"And back again?"

"Yeah"

"Me too, Evie"

1945

"Evie?" She heard Howard question behind her as he laid his arm around her shoulders trying to give her warmth as it was below freezing. There was also water splashing up against the sides of the moderately sized boat that Howard and accommodated for their venture out to sea. Their mission? To look for the body of Evie's dead brother, Steve so that she could bury him beside their dead parents and brother. Not to mention the grave of her husband and the love of Evie's life, James Buchanan Barnes, though that wasn't ever going to be filled with anything more than dirt and an empty coffin. "You should come inside now Evie, it's too cold out here" he said softly but commanding, which was something Howard was good at it seemed.

Evie nodded in agreement and walked inside with him and below deck to sit near the lone heater with a blanket that Howard had just draped across her shoulders. She silently thanked him with a smile and quickly turned her head back to the map of area that we had been exploring for the past two days. Evie had to keep busy and she certainly couldn't talk to anyone too much or she felt like she might just explode. Though Howard was different he never made her feel sad for herself or like she was alone. And he was the only friend she had left, most died in the war or she hadn't seen them in over two years.

Both she and Howard sat quietly below deck, the only sounds around us were the water crashing against the side of the boat and the hum of the heater. Until Howard spoke quietly "I think when we get back to the dock we should leave the searching for Steve to Col. Keller" his back had been facing me though once he finished he turned to me to gage my reaction.

Her first reaction to his words was anger. He's giving up on trying to find my brother? After all he did for us. For everyone. But then she remember how determined he was to find him. It was then that the realization at what he really meant slapped her in the face.

Her head fell and she looked down at her feet in defeat "You know don't you" she had stated softly, finally acknowledging her sickness brought a large lump to her throat. When she didn't hear him reply she added on "That I'm sick" her voice breaking half way through, tears fell silently from her eyes.

Evie's body started to shake from the sobs plaguing her body, it wasn't more than a moment later that she felt Howard arms wrap around her body. His presence comforting her in a way she didn't think possible any more. Not since everyone she loved had died. He continued to hold her for a while and she continued to cry, something she had become quite accustomed to in the last two months. Is that how long it has been since Bucky died? It feels like a life time ago, she thought. "I don't…" She stopped as another sob was let out of her mouth uncontrollably "want… to die, Howard"

There was a long moment of her cries the only thing that was heard around the room "I didn't… think that… I would feel this way. I can't imagine life… on Earth without… my family. I haven't got anyone left. My parents, my brothers and my husband are all gone. And I thought nothing would be worse than losing them, and that's true but... I'm still scared"

Howard let out a sigh, pulling his arms away from her, then resting his palms against her cheeks. He looked straight into Evie's eyes with a look of determination "You are not going to die Evie" she shot him look of confusion through her teary eyes, though that was beginning to slow down at his declaration "You can be treated for it"

She immediately replied "I'm pretty sure that is there was a treatment for Tuberculosis that could help at my stage I would have heard about it"

He nodded in defeat "Okay there's not a treatment, but there will be. I have a plan"

"And what is that?" the words barely escaped her lips, though now she could taste her own tears on her lips.

"Cryogenics" he said with a completely straight face though she felt like slapping him for making a joke at this particular moment in time. She could feel her face crinkle in anger, which he realised soon then held his hands out in front of him in defence then continued to say "I'm not joking Evie, it's real. We can do it. I know we can"

Evie pushed him away from her, her anger subsiding knowing that he wasn't teasing her but still angry that he was stupid enough to think that it might work, which it wouldn't. "Don't be stupid Howard, there has never been a real breakthrough in cryogenics" She got up from her seat and moved away from him and stood in the far corner of the small room. "Besides what does that have to do with curing Tuberculosis?"

He shot up from his seat "It won't cure it but it will stop it" her eyebrows furrowed in confusion, taking this as a sign that he should continue "I know of a few different people working on a treatment, and they are making some incredible breakthroughs. I swear it's only a few years away now, and I know there's no guarantee but it's better than nothing. So I thought that if we were able to use cryogenics we could basically stop the disease and when there was finally something we could do to stop it, I would wake you up"

For a moment his words sounded convincing, Howard had a knack for that but reality was her greatest enemy at the moment. She sighed and said "Cryogenics isn't real, or at the very least quite a few decades away"

All of a sudden his face lit up with one of his trade mark smirks and said "When we took down those HYDRA Bases we managed to salvage a lot of their technology that they had been developing, one of them was cryogenics"

Shock ran through her body "Why would they be developing that?" Hope also found its way into Evie's thoughts, maybe he's right, and he is Howard Stark after all. If anyone knew how to do this it'd be him.

"For many different reasons, some members of the organization wanted it for themselves, for some of their more important soldiers that they didn't want to lose to old age. Cryogenics can be used for a lot of different reasons"

It wasn't until a thought occurred to her that she saw the bad side of any of this "But if I were to do this who knows how long exactly it would take. You say a few years but what is it's more than that Howard? I wouldn't know anybody and I'd be clueless to everything else in the world. A lot can happen in just a year or two Howard"

He shook his head determined "No you wouldn't. You'd have me. When you wake up I'll make sure that you are taken care of. Besides I won't be that old. I can show you everything that had happened in between the time you go to sleep and when you wake up" he said confident, which is mostly what he sounds like anyway.

He continued to explain the basic idea of cryogenics and how it wouldn't take him more than a week to actually do. Everything he said fit in with everything else that we knew about HYDRA so she believed it, believed in him. For a while she let herself believe that maybe she wouldn't die, that she would have time eventually to find a way to live again, without the unending sorrow the she's felt for so long.

She walked up to him with a bit more of a bounce in her step, momentarily forgetting that she was searching for her dead brother and in her happiness that she now had a real chance of surviving, she threw her arms around Howards shoulders and laughed in delight. She felt his arms snaked around her waist and she heard herself say "Okay, we'll do it"

2012

"Hey Pepper wait!" Evie yelled from across the room of the large foyer of STARK Industries, the heels of her shoes clicking loudly against the marble floor, much more so than the rest of the noises in the foyer. Once she had reached Pepper she let out a sigh of relief in catching her in time as she spun around to face her, with a welcoming smile on her face.

"Hey Evie, what's up?" Pepper asked, placing her hand onto her shoulder in a friendly gesture.

"Oh nothing much" Evie waved her hand dismissively, "I just was wondering where exactly is Tony?" she asked gently up until she had said Tony's name, though he was a great friend. He had the ability to annoy Evie to no end. "It's just that he had been helping me with my project and had told me to try finish it up as much as I could and then he would check over it before I did my test run so I didn't accidently blow up STARK Tower before it was even finished. And I haven't seen him in a few days which is weird considering that he's spent every waking moment recently trying to get this place finished"

Pepper frowned at her words "I thought Tony had told you SHIELD called and asked for Tony to come in for a consult. I thought he would have told you"

Evie groaned at his decision not to tell her, or the possibility that he just completely forgot about her. She couldn't tell which one was worse. "No he didn't" she said, slightly peeved at Tony, "Well thank you anyway Pepper. I'll see you tomorrow". Pepper also quickly uttered goodbye and walked outside and into a fancy black car that had been obviously waiting for her.

Evie walked outside too, along with a few others that were also leaving. Once outside she got a good look at the vast amount of people that lived in New York City, which she had only recently gotten used to. She had been born here in New York 90 years ago and lived in for almost 22 years until the war started. It still surprised her how much had changed, it was almost 70 years ago but still. Everything was so much… bigger, was the only way she could describe it. She walked briskly to the subway station that was only five minutes from STARK Tower, though before she could go home she had to stop and pick up her son from day care.

Which was just another thing that Evie had to be thankful for to Tony and Pepper. Pepper had found the amazing day care and Tony paid. Evie wouldn't normally take money or let him help out like anymore but it really was a remarkable day care and there was no way Evie could have afforded it on the pay she got.

Tony had always been helpful to Evie, ever since he found her in one of Howards labs he felt responsible for her. Because she had been asleep for so long and hadn't had anyone to care about her he automatically took up the role. It probably also had something to do with the fact that she was found in one of his father's labs, that had been abandoned for two decades before Pepper had discovered it in some of Howard's old records. Pepper made Tony go and check it out, but once he got there the first thing he found was Evie. Evie could barely remember that day but Tony had told her what happened eventually.

2009

"I don't see why I have to do this" Tony said irritated through the phone, an equally irritated Pepper on the other side of the phone call.

"Because Tony, it's one of your father's old labs, who knows what down there. You don't want other people poking around down there. Look I had to go and re-organise your schedule after you skipped your meeting with General Hewitt last Friday. I'll talk to you when you get back"

Pepper hung up the phone on her side before Tony could get another word in. Tony scoffed and continued to grumble about having to come all the way to New York himself. He had better things to do in his mind but Pepper had been adamant that he do it himself.

Three days ago Pepper had discovered this place in some of Howard's old records, at first it wasn't too surprising. It happens from time to time but this place was different. Unlike all the other labs they'd found this one was still using energy, and lot it looked like from the reports.

Using the key that had been left inside the records of the lab Tony twisted the key inside the lock and heard the clicking noise that told him that it had been unlocked. Though when he went to push the door open it didn't budge. He spread his feet on the ground and leaned up against the door with his shoulder pressing into it and used his legs to force the door to open.

Using all of his strength Tony managed to push the door open and stumbled in when it quickly gave way. The room was pitch black and smelt like… well dust. Tony spun on his heels and felt around the wall next to the door, looking for a light switch. His fingers finally found what he had been looking for and light up the room.

His eyes trying to adjust to the sudden change of light made him squint, though it was more close to completely closing his eyes. Tony opened his eyes after a moment and looked around the room. It wasn't a large room, it was actually sort of small. Which was strange considering how much power it had taken up. The room was in the shape of a rectangle, with a long bench across the right side of the lab. Long lost equipment of Tony's father still lying there.

He crossed the room and his fingers traced some of the objects. Though they stopped on a particular piece of paper that was sitting atop a large pile of papers and book. What had caught his eye though was the blue prints to what looked like to Tony some sort of cryogenics machine. Tony was thoroughly confused. They didn't have this kind of technology back then. We don't even have it now, he thought.

He swivelled around to get a better look at the rest of the room, and saw on the other side of the room was what sort of looked like long rectangle tube, it completely covered there was no window or anything to be able to see inside. Tony had a pretty good idea what might inside there, with all the power being used and the designs he found on the desk. He crossed the room with only a few steps and paused in front of the machine. He could hear the slight hum coming from the machine now that he was closer.

He glanced around the room to see if he could see some sort of clue to figure out what was going on. But Tony only saw one way to really know what was really going on. Shit, I'm going to have to open it, he thought begrudgingly.

Tony forced his hesitancy and worry out of his mind and placed his hands on the handle. It took Tony a few seconds to figure out which way to turn the handle, though finally he turned it to the left and pulled up.

A great surge of cold fog burst out of the long tube, a hissing sound echoed around the small lab. Goosebumps rose on Tony's arms, either from the cold emanating from the tube or maybe the noise. "That's creepy" he said to himself.

Tony waved his hands around in the mist trying to clear it from his vision. Peeking through the vapour was a young woman. She looked to be around 23 or 24, faint laughing lines at the edge of her eyes. Her face was oval shaped, the curves of her face were gentle and without harsh edges. Her skin was light and soft, remarkably delicate looking and without marks or scars, however very pale. Her hair was light blonde and pull aside in a plat, though her fringe went straight across her forehead and fell just above her eyes. Her lips appeared soft and supple, the top and bottom of her lips were both full and seemed as though they were slightly blue. She was beautiful, Tony came to the conclusion after studying her.

Though a small number of seconds passed by and she still hadn't moved, her whole body stiff. Tony looked down her body and noticed she was wearing a seemingly soft and light blue nightdress, it didn't have sleeves only slightly thick straps at the top, the hem reaching just above her knees.

Instantly and without warning the woman jerked forward and up into a sitting position, the only sounded in the room was of her trying to find air. Her hands reached out trying to find something to steady herself, the world shook around the woman and a wave of nausea hit her though before she threw up she found the side of the bed she realised she was in, and put her head over the side.

Her hands quickly found something to get a hold on, but something else also had a hold on her. Feeling warms hands clutch around her shoulder and forearm caused panic to grow inside her. "Hey, you okay?"

Do I look okay to you?, she wanted to say but her alarm at the situation stopped her from uttering her sarcastic thoughts. She ripped her hands away from the man standing in front of her like touching him was poison. Her hand went to her side and pushed herself further back on the bed and away from this stranger, and his hands fell from her shoulder and arm.

"I'm not going to hurt you" she could hear him say, his voice gentle and soothing.

She eventually lifted her head to look at the man that stood in front of her, shock tore through her body, "Howard?"

A confused expression flashed across his face. "Uh no, I'm Tony" he said his voice unsure, he then realizes what she had said "Wait did you just say Howard, as in Stark?"

No, that's not Howard. He looks different…but so… the same as well. She was feeling so many different emotions that she didn't think that she could pinpoint just one. "Wh-where's Howard?" she stuttered out. Her arms crossing around her upper body and bringing her legs up, bent in front of her, a defensive display.

God, I'm so cold, she thought as a sudden shiver racked her body, then again, and again. Her teeth chattering out of control made Tony realize that she was cold. He scanned is gaze around the room, looking for a blanket or anything but couldn't find anything. While damning the room's inadequate amount of supplies he hastily shrugged off his jacket.

He held out the jacket for her to grab in front of her, but she made no move. He groaned silently and laid it down in front of her instead and backed away from her. She was obviously scared of him. And for some reason called him 'Howard'. Of course she did. He was the one who put her in there, he thought.

"Hey look I'm not going to hurt you" he said calmly and stretched his hands out in front of him to indicate he wasn't trying to harm her.

This gave her the courage to grasp the jacket and shakily pull it around her shoulders, clutching at the sides trying to pull them completely around her. What the hell is going on, her thoughts panicked.

Hurriedly eyeing the room the girl couldn't find anything familiar, the only thing remotely familiar was the man, Tony apparently, standing in front of her, and that was only because he looked so much like Howard. Her shaking diminished after a minute or so with Tony's jacket wrapped around her.

She sat there trying to understand what she was doing here but then it came back to her. She's sick and Howard put her to sleep for god knows how long.

"Who are you? Where's Howard?" she repeated her earlier question that he still hadn't answered. Tony lowered his hands down to his sides after she became a little more at ease with him there.

Tony had thought about lying to her, obviously she knew him maybe they were friends and he had no way of knowing exactly how long she had been in there at least since Howard died, which was 18 years ago. "He's uh… he died"

Shock hit her like a train, heat rose to her face and her heart started beating twice the speed it had been before. Tears sprung to her eyes and she asked "What? When?" in disbelief and softly.

"He died in a car accident 18 years ago"

She tried to take the information in but she just couldn't believe it. I've been asleep for at least 18 years who knows who many more. "Who are you?"

"I'm Tony"

She rolled her eyes and said "You already told me that"

An irritated look flashed across his features "Okay. I'm Tony Stark, Howard was my dad"

What? "What?" her voice echoed her thoughts. God this can't be happening, what is happening? Her thoughts were distressing. This man is at least… 34 or 35. That's how old Howard is.

"That's not possible, you're Howards age" she had to stop as another shiver ran up her spine, whether from the cold or conversation, she didn't know but she continued anyway "Even if he had you right after I was… you know, you'd be only young still. Mid 20s or something"

The look on his face gave it all away. I've been asleep a lot longer than 18 years, she thought sullenly. "What year is it?" She asked suddenly while looking down at her hands. Not really wanting this man to see her reaction. She hated it when people saw her cry, when she was young she was picked on so often that she'd cry in front of her tormenters or sometimes just bystanders. And every single time it was humiliating, like she was trying to get some special treatment or because she wanted pity. She promised herself she'd never cry in front of someone again, unless it was someone she really trusted and she didn't know this man from a bar of soap.

He sighed defeated, he knew he had to tell her. Of course he didn't know exactly how long she'd been in there but from what she had already said he knew that it's probably a lot longer than what she'd like. "2009" he said firmly but quietly, he was sort of hoping she wouldn't hear him.

She froze in place, her body felt so cold but at the same time hot skin caused her to sweat. "Oh god" came out as a moan of despair. "Oh god" she repeated, nothing else to say. Her tears fell freely and hot, a contrast to the coldness she felt on the inside. She didn't know what to think, it was just too much. She quietly tried to figure out how long she'd been in there when Tony spoke up.

"How long have you been in there?"

It was like he read her mind, though it was a fair assumption that that's what was on her mind after the way she reacted. She cleared her throat and wiped away her tears "64 years" her voice strangely calm and firm.

She could hear a faint swear come from the man, he left her in peace for a moment until he spoke again "What's your name?"

Without looking up or moving at all she just spoke very clearly and almost without emotion "Evelyn Barnes"

2012

Evie's always considered that to be the day I was born again, a reset is another way of putting it. At first she had been angry that Howard had left her in there, even though Tony had explained that he died only a year or two before the treatment for Tuberculosis had been found so he never had a chance to get her out. But then she really considered it, after Steve had died she really didn't have anyone else left, she was all alone for real. So for a while she had considered leaving and going somewhere else and live, try and start over again. Maybe Spain, or Scotland, and she'd always wanted to go to Australia. Though she only had a little under two weeks or think about it. Her plan had been that once she'd been treated for her disease she'd go and live somewhere else, somewhere she wouldn't see reminders of her life everywhere she went. She just didn't want to be anywhere that she'd be reminded of Bucky or Steve.

But she'd realized not too long after she'd been woken up by Tony that she had been given the perfect opportunity to forget everyone and try and move on with her life. That was of course up until Jamie, her son, came along. A perfect little reminder of her life before the war, before Bucky and Steve had died, before everything really. But even though he reminded her of Bucky every single day, she could deal with it because he was all that mattered to her now. Even if he was the spitting image of his father.

Going around a corner Evie was greeted with the sight of the now familiar front doors of Jamie's day care that he spent most days in while she worked STARK Tower. About ten months ago Tony had offered her a job at STARK Tower, which had only just started construction, then four months later they had built up enough of it for people to start working in the lower levels.

Evie hadn't wanted to go back for the pure and simple reason of reminders, but the world had changed a lot and it was a very good job and a very nice apartment, which Pepper found for her after Evie originally turned down the job offer.

Evie reasoned that New York would have changed enough so that it wouldn't be a constant reminder of her life. Like Jamison Park wouldn't remind her of playing tag with Steve, Bucky and Rebecca, Bucky's younger sister. Or Tommy's Dinner would make her remember that in Steve and Bucky's last year of school we'd all go and hang out there every single day, their friends and my own would join us most days. Evie thought that it would all be different. So she said yes and moved there. Yes, a lot was completely different, or sort of different and then sometimes the exact same place as 70 years ago.

But Jamison Park hadn't really changed at all, except the different seats and play equipment, it was still the same old park. Tommy's Dinner was the same, she went in there once to just have a peak and was confronted with the exactly same shop she spent so many days in. So Evie promised herself that she'd never go back there even if people said they still have the best milkshakes in New York. According to Tony who had accompanied her there.

She pushed through the glass doors of the day care and held it open as a middle aged man with a young girl, his daughter she presumed, walked through. He gave her a small nod and a smile, she reciprocated the gesture.

She strode over to the front desk smiling at Jenna, the young and brunette receptionist, "Hi Jenna, how's your day been?"

Jenna smiled back as she saw Evie and replied "Hey Mrs Barnes. It's been okay, kind of boring though"

Jenna pressed a button on her desk allowing Evie to get through the security that were in place to stop random people walking in.

Evie pressed against the door and walked inside the actual day care. It was on the smaller side but that was overall better because then the day care workers could actually see all the kids. On the right side of the room there was a long row of small table and chairs, most of the kids were sat down over there, more than likely drawing.

His always messy brown locks of hair that reached just to his ears were easy to single out. He never gives me anytime to brush it, always jumping from here to there, she thought irritated yet content and glad that he was her son.

She walked over to Cassie, the woman who owned the day care with her wife Julia. Cassie was around 30 and completely beautiful. She was as tall as a model giving her amazing legs, and was curved in all the places all women wanted. Her skin was dark toned and had long brown curvy hair that she usually pulled back into a pony tail.

As Evie closed in on the table where Cassie was sitting and Jamie just on the other side, Evie spoke up "Hey Cassie"

Cassie turned her head around and looked up at Evie, "Oh, hi Evie" Cassie smiled and then turned to Jamie who had been too busy still drawing to hear his mother's voice "Jamie, your mum's here"

Jamie's head quickly snapped up, his big baby blue eyes landed straight on his mother, even if his fringe impaired his vision with hit being so long. I don't care what he does or says, he's getting a haircut first thing Saturday, Evie thought exasperated. A quick smile spread across his face, one of his front teeth had fallen out earlier that week so his smile was a bit holey, for a lack of a better word. His face was patterned with freckles across his cheeks. Evie often thought of Jamie as the cutest kid on the planet, and he kind of was.

His face a huge smile "Mummy!" he screamed, the noise slightly grating on the ears. He scurried quickly over to his mother, wrapping his arms around her waist, squeezing as tightly as he could with his arms.

"Hi baby" she chuckled out, lightly hugging him back "C'mon let's get your bag and go home"

Jamie was quick with fetching her bag as Cassie passed Evie some of the paintings that Jamie had made that day. Evie was proud to admit she'd kept almost all of them, they were in a large tub in her closet.

Jamie quickly said goodbye to his friends and Cassie, as Evie did the same. It only took Evie and Jamie 30 minutes until they walked through their front door. Jamie flung his bag into a corner of the living room and leaped over to the lounge grabbing the remote off the coffee table. "Hey, Jamie! Come pick up your bag and put it on the kitchen bench please" Evie said with her most authoritative tone she could muster up.

She could hear him groan as she walked into the small kitchen that was connected to the living room by a small area where a dining table sat. She laid down her bag on the counter and pulled off her knee length coat, laying it on the counter next to her bag.

He trotted into the kitchen and reached up and tossed his bag up next to hers. Looking up at her with his big blue eyes he said "Can I go watch TV?"

"Yeah sure, but in about ten minutes you're getting in the bath so don't get too comfortable" She said as she walked over to the fridge and grabbed the container that held a premade lasagne that she planned to put in the oven to cook while she put Jamie in the bath.

Sounds of displeasure radiated from Jamie "What? But I had one last night!"

Chuckling she replied "Jamie I know you know that you have to have a bath every night, you get all dirty through the day and then smelly. If you don't wash you'll smell and then none of your friends will want to play with you. Okay?"

"Okay" he huffed before walking out into the living room, noises from cartoons quickly filled the otherwise silent apartment.

It only took Evie half an hour to get Jamie in the bath, washed and redressed in his Iron Man pyjamas, Tony's gift, when there was a loud knock on the door. Jamie currently sitting on the lounge while Evie was about to pull the now cooked lasagne out of the oven. With her hands full she wasn't able to stop Jamie when he went running to the front door to greet whoever was knocking, "No, Jamie! Don't open it, you don't know who's there" she said irritated.

Before she had set the lasagne down on the bench Jamie had already opened the door and yelled out "Mr Phil's here!" A moment later he spoke again "Hi, Mr Phil!" his voice was high and undeniably adorable.

"Hey, Jamie. Is your mother there?" He said kindly and in a soft voice.

Surprise washed over Evie. What's Phil doing here? She quickly straightened her dress, making sure she looked presentable, she walked over to the front door where Jamie was standing at the door and staring up at Phil. Jamie had always liked Phil, even though he'd only met him a few times, though Phil had been there when Jamie was born. "Jamie, could you please not open the front door without me there. You have no idea who could have been outside"

He slightly deflated and said "Yes mum"

Looking away from Jamie, Evie turned her head towards Phil as smiled pleasantly at her "Hi Evie. Could I come in for a moment?"

Nodding her head "Hey, yeah sure. Come in" she stepped aside as Phil walked in, Jamie had already retreated back to the TV when something interesting happened on the show.

"Got something cooking?" Phil questioned after smelling the delicious scent originating from the kitchen.

"Yeah. I made lasagne. Well when I say made, I do mean bought a premade one and heated it up essentially" Evie closed the front door, making sure to lock it.

"That counts as cooking. At least that's what I tell myself" Phil joked.

Evie came to stand in front of Phil facing him when she said "So what is that warranted a visit?"

Phil shifted his weight but still looking in her eyes when he replied "I have some news"

Dread fell upon Evie like a massive weight. Tony was doing something for SHIELD. Oh god, something's happened to him.

Phil reacting to the expression on her face quickly spoke up again "It's not bad news" relief quickly pushed away her previous emotion, Phil continued on "It's actually really amazing news. But you might want to sit down before I tell you" he motioned his hand to the stool that was seated on the other side of the kitchen counter.

"Um why?"

Phil simply smiled "Please?" he said kindly.

Evie complied, walking over to the stool closest to her "Okay care to share the not-bad news?"

Phil moved to stand in front of her while she sat down on the stool when he started talking "Two days ago a Russian oil team found the Red Skull's crashed jet, The Valkyrie, frozen in the ice. Inside the jet we were able to find your brother"

Pain crushed Evie, she always knew her brother died but to be told that they'd found his body made it all the more real. It sort of bittersweet thought. At least I know now. And can properly burry him.

Phil must've noticed the crestfallen look her face took when he walked close enough to her to put a hand on her shoulder "When they found him we were called in and when we arrived and extracted him from the ice we were able to revive him. His enhanced abilities must've kept him alive. He's alive Evie"