AN: Hello everyone. This is my first time writing a story on Captain America so I hope I did okay. I've always wondered who organized the search party for finding Steve. Howard Stark is really the only one who really kept looking for him, so I imagine that when he died, the search for Steve died with him. So I've always wondered why they all of a sudden started looking for him again. It doesn't seem likely that they just happened to find him, given the location where they found him. So this is an idea that has been floating around in my head for a while. Obviously it won't be completely accurate since I'm adding my on character in it. There will be some differences in this story. For one, there is my OC character. Some other changes is that there will be a different time period in which they find Steve, i.e instead of finding him a couple of months before the Avengers takes place, this time it will take place a year before the Avengers takes place. Since I haven't read that many Captain America comics, most of the information and events will be from the movies. Other than that I hope you enjoy. Reviews are of course, very much welcomed.

Disclaimer: I do not own Captain America

July 4, 1990

Location: Captain America Museum Exhibit, Washington D.C

As soon as she stepped out of the van all thoughts of boredom flew out of her mind. Looking up at the massive building in front of her, her mouth dropped open in awe. Streams of people crowded in and out of the building. Some were with children around her age and older, and some with just adults. Suddenly she was reminded of where she was when she felt a nudge at her side. Looking up she saw her mother looking down at her with an eyebrow raised. Smiling, she quickly grabbed her mother's outstretched hand, and moved to the side so that way her grandma and little brother could come out of the van. Once everybody was out of the van and ready to go, they walked up the steps leading to the building. When they got inside, her parents looked around, trying to find a good place to start. While her parents looked for a place to start, she took in everything around her. The ceiling stood high above her. All around her, facts and pictures, both black and white and with color, lined the walls, all telling the story of the person whom she had been told stories of almost every night before bed. Paintings of Captain America as well as other people she didn't recognize lined along parts of the walls that didn't have anything on it.

After a couple of minutes her parents finally decided on a place to start, and they started making their way through the crowds of people. When they finally got to the wall, she found herself staring at a black and white picture of Captain America as well as a couple of WWII soldiers, all holding a gun aiming at some unknown target. The headline read Captain America and Comrades. Next to her, she heard her father, who was carrying her little brother, read the words out loud.

"'Captain America and Comrades: Captain America started out as an advertiser of war bonds for the war effort. Videos were made of Captain America and other war soldiers fighting in the war, hoping to get people to buy bonds for the military. After Captain America became the main advertiser for the war, the amount of bonds sold sky rocketed. In the picture above, shows a screen shot of one of the videos made during the war.' So he started out being an advertiser interesting."

"Of course, how do you think they got their money for the war?" Her grandma knew all about Captain America. She was the main person who told her stories about him. Her grandma had been born not to long before the start of WWII, so she had spent her younger years hearing all about him and she knew what it was like to grow up during the war.

Moving on to the next ones, they spent some time looking at the pictures and reading what the plaques said. After an hour and a half, they all split up. Her little brother went with her parents, and she went with her grandma. They agreed to meet up in an hour to have lunch. While looking around, she saw more pictures of Captain America, as well as a couple other soldiers. After a bit she noticed that a few of the same soldiers were found next to Captain America. When she asked her grandma who they were, she explained that those men were a group called the Howling Commandos. She explained how they were often seen with Captain America and how they accompanied him on many missions. They also came across a picture of a young woman, in her early 20's, in an army uniform. Her grandma explained to her that that was Margaret "Peggy" Carter, Captain America's lover and fellow comrade. They'd both been deeply in love with each other after spending lots of time together during the war. Unfortunately, before they could really become anything, Captain America had went missing. It made her sad to think that they never got to be together. After looking a bit further they discovered a video of Peggy talking about her time with Captain America. As they were walking a bit more, she noticed that there was a section in the museum that no one was really looking at. Curious, she let go of her grandma's hand, who was busy reading one of the plaques, and made her way over there. When she got there, she realized it was a picture a young man. The man was really skinny, like he didn't eat well or he was sick. His hair was parted and put in the style that most men wore during that time. He was wearing a plain white shirt, and grey pants (though she knew it wasn't grey and that it was the photo that made it look grey). She couldn't quite tell what was in the background. She couldn't read what it said but she thought it read Steven Rogers: Pre-serum. Below it were words that she couldn't read at all. She didn't understand what they meant by pre-serum nor did she know who Steven Rogers was.

"Lisa!" Hearing her name, she turned around and saw her grandma walking towards her. She looked relieved, though she didn't know why. "There you are! Don't you dare run off like that again do you hear me?" Not wanting to make her mad she quickly nodded. Turing back to the picture that she was looking, she asked who Steven Rogers was and what pre-serum meant.

"Steven Rogers is his real name and that would be Captain America before they gave him the serum that made him the way we know today. It's been a while since I've seen a picture of what he used to look like" her grandma said.

"How come people aren't looking at this picture?" she asked her.

"Because people see him as big and strong. Here he looks normal, or rather weaker than normal. Besides people don't like hearing about what they consider boring. They'd much rather hear about his time during the war, when he was Captain America. They forget that he was just like everyone else."

"Why does he look ill?"

"Because he was sick most of his life. You know, people used to pick on him because of his illnesses."

"But why would they pick on him? Why didn't they help him?" Her grandma sighed.

"People had high expectations of men back then, and since he didn't meet those expectations people didn't like him, and so they were mean to him. Besides they had just gotten over WWI so people didn't have much money or resources to spare."

Hearing about how he was picked on for being different made her upset because it reminded her of how she was always picked on by the other kids because she was different. Not even the teachers liked her. They always ignored her, and when they saw the other kids picking on her, they would just tell them to sit in the corner for a couple of minutes, and then they would ignore them when they continued to pick on her. It made her at least feel a bit better knowing that she wasn't the only being picked on for being different. Seeing Steve become loved by everyone, made her feel hopeful.

"Well I like him like this! I don't think he's weak at all. If everyone else isn't going to like his old self, then I will!" she said. Behind her she heard her grandma give a laugh.

"I'm sure he would appreciate it very much. Now come on, let's see if we can look at a few more things before we go back and meet your parents okay?" Nodding her head she let herself be pulled away from the stand, though she looked back one more time at the picture. When she and her grandma meet up with her parents a bit later, she told her parents all she had learned about Steve Rogers. After having lunch they went sightseeing and took tours around Washington D.C. With all the sites and all the excitement she soon forgot all about the museum. What she didn't know then, was that later on in her life Steve Rogers would end up being the most important person in her life.

AN: How was it good? Bad? Okay? All criticism is welcome, anything that could help me improve and make this story even better is always helpful.

Edit: I had previously posted this two weeks ago, but I decided to do some editing again, since I missed somethings last time. Thanks for reading and I hope you liked it. I should be updating later on today. On that note how was everyone's Thanksgiving? I know it's a bit late but Happy Thanksgiving!